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The subscriber growth at HBO and HBO Max helped AT&T exceed Wall Street’s financial expectations for the company’s Q2; AT&T’s revenue rose to $44 billion, a 7.6 percent increase that surpassed analyst expectations of $42.67 billion, according to Refinitiv data obtained by CNBC. The subscriber gains were similar to those reported during AT&T’s Q1 earnings report, when the company stated that HBO and HBO Max had gained 2.7 million subscribers, which indicated a strong surge in interest for HBO Max following the streamer’s shaky launch last year....

Just weeks before the “Elvis” actor jets off to Cannes for the premiere of the Baz Luhrmann historical epic, Butler revealed to Vogue that his Disney Channel roles still weigh on his mind. “I was sort of embarrassed about some of the things that I had to do,” Butler admitted. “But I had to cut my teeth somewhere, so I decided to treat each one of these jobs as a way to grow....

On “Avatar,” Cameron could shoot his actors in the volume like live action using Glenn Derry’s Simul-Cam virtual camera, observing low-res versions of their avatars in Pandoran environments on an LCD monitor in real-time. What Cameron saw spoke to him in the moment and changed how he moved the camera and blocked the action. Then it was up to the wizards of Weta Digital (now Wētā FX) to make it look real....

The awards ceremony is airing as of 3:00pm ET Sunday on a one-hour delay for U.S. viewers on Britbox, can you still tune in. And a note on the streamer says it will replay in full there at 7:00pm ET. “Dune” scored the most BAFTA nominations with 11, followed by “The Power of the Dog” with eight, and “Belfast” with six. “West Side Story,” “No Time to Die,” and “Licorice Pizza” followed with five each....

Case in point: “Pan Solo“, a new six-foot sculpture of Han Solo frozen in carbonite from the end of “Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” — made of bread — that was recently unveiled at One House Bakery in Benicia, California. The shot was recreated with meticulous detail, and a caption on the display reads “Our hero Pan Solo has been trapped in Levainite by the evil Java the Hut....

Carrigan has alopecia, a disease that causes severe hair loss. And in a new interview with People, the “Barry” star opened up about his struggles with the condition and the way it impacted his acting career. “There was a moment where my alopecia had progressed so much so that I had lost pretty much half [of] my scalp, both my eyebrows [and] all my eyelashes,” he said. “It really threw everyone that I was working with, and no one knew what to do with me....

In a turn of events that seems inevitable in hindsight, various right-wing trolls are speaking out against “Baymax!,” a new Disney+ series based on the inflatable robot from “Big Hero Six.” The spinoff follows the eponymous robot as he leaves his superhero life behind and returns to his normal job as a healthcare professional in San Fransokyo. Each of the six episodes sees him traveling to a different part of the city to help people with various ailments, providing plenty of life advice and companionship in the process....