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“Sunday Ticket is definitely the golden prize in sports streaming. It draws more than anything else…It does it in a way that follows the sort of migratory patterns that sports fans are increasingly following today,” Rachel Nichols, a sports broadcaster with Showtime and a longtime host at ESPN, told IndieWire. “The fact that YouTube got it says a lot about where they stand.” In Sunday Ticket, which allows fans to watch every out-of-network football game on Sunday afternoons, YouTube wins a huge influx of eyeballs that can bolster both YouTube TV as an add-on package and its newly launched subscription business Primetime Channels as soon as the 2023 NFL season kicks off....

In addition to the WWII submarine warfare film that earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Director, Petersen also directed 1984’s beloved family favorite “The NeverEnding Story,” “Enemy Mine” (1985), Clint Eastwood political thriller “In the Line of Fire” (1993), pandemic disaster movie “Outbreak” (1995), Harrison Ford presidential hijacking thriller “Air Force One” (1997), and swords-and-sandals tentpole “Troy” (2004). Petersen was born in Germany in 1941, and it was in Hamburg in the 1960s that he started directing plays before moving into TV movies for German television, eventually gaining notices for his 1974 psychological thriller debut “One or the Other of Us....

If anyone doubted the grim outlook for domestic theaters right now, look to this weekend, where all films barely took in $13 million total, smack dab in the middle of the extended Christmas period. And that’s with only around 40 percent of domestic theaters open at the moment, and the outcome representing 56 percent of the potential normal gross. But even if all theaters were open, that the total might have been $25 million shows how weak the result is....

The filmmaker joined Baldwin, whom he directed in “Blue Jasmine,” “To Rome With Love,” and “Alice,” for an Instagram live interview where they discussed Allen’s new book, a collection of humor essays called “Zero Gravity.” Allen revealed to Baldwin that he’s planning a movie that will shoot in Paris this fall or late summer, but that he’s overall disillusioned by the prospect of moviemaking and may end his career soon. “I’ll probably make at least one more movie....

Before being cast as Catwoman in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” Kravitz recalled being up against casting discrimination when attempting to audition for a small role in Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film — ultimately losing out on the chance at the part due to the color of her skin. “I don’t know if it came directly from Chris Nolan,” Kravitz said in The Guardian interview. “I think it was probably a casting director of some kind, or a casting director’s assistant....

But over the course of the eight-episode season — all of which are available now on Apple TV+ — one thing that stands out even more than the ambitions of scale is how the world of 50 years ago absorbed some of the enduring songs and albums that still reverberate through the present day. Anchored by a strong collection of live performances, “1971” is an archival treasure trove, a good portion of that coming in the form of TV show spots where bands and artists introduced their newest hits to a captive audience....

This was not your typical Emmy ceremony, save for all the ways it was exactly like a typical Emmy ceremony. Though there was no audience and shockingly few montages and despite comments from executive producers promising to reinvent the wheel of traditional awards shows, most things at the ceremony proceeded as one might expect. There were a few comedy bits. Plenty of topical humor about masks and pandemics. Awards were introduced, announced, and accepted....