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Convicted murderer Lester Eubanks, whose escape from custody was detailed in the “Death Row Fugitive” episode of Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries Vol. 2,” may not be on the run for much longer.

Updated 1:01 p.m. PT: With 9.195 million total viewers, Game 1 of the 2020 World Series is officially the least-watched World Series game of all time. The Rays vs. Dodgers’ Tuesday opener on Fox drew a 2.4 rating among adults 18-49, according to final Nielsen numbers.

With less than two weeks until the election, Jim Carrey offered a blunt critique of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Sony has set the release dates for “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and the sequel to the 2016 horror film “Don’t Breathe” for the summer of 2021.

Jared Leto, who starred as The Joker in 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” will return to play the clown prince of crime in Zack Snyder’s cut of “Justice League,” according to an individual with knowledge of the project.

President Donald Trump tweeted about CBS News’ Lesley Stahl for a second day in a row Wednesday, posting photos of their “60 Minutes” interview with no caption or explanation.

Despite what Rudy Giuliani has said in the past, early reviews of the “Borat” sequel say the former mayor of New York City actually did become the victim of a Sacha Baron Cohen prank — and was caught with his “hand down his pants.”

Apple has acquired the rights to a new documentary film about the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground from director Todd Haynes, the studio announced Wednesday.

Director Wayne Wang made his name with films like “The Joy Luck Club,” “Eat a Bowl of Tea” and “Smoke,” intimate works in which he showed his adeptness at detailing the small rituals of life (particularly those having to do with food) and at creating a strong sense of place. “Coming Home Again,” which opens in theaters and virtual cinemas on Friday, does both of those things, and it’s one of the quietest and most restrained movies ever made by a director who’s never been one for overstatement.

Quibi, the struggling short-form streaming company founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is set to shut down just seven months after its launch, TheWrap has learned.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch stream of “Among Us” attracted 435,000 viewers — an impressive figure, especially for a first-time streamer. But how did those numbers stack up against top players like Shroud and Ninja?

If you look at the Oscar predictions that are floating around these days, this could be the oddest and most intriguing Oscars year ever. Among the contenders that are currently predicted to land Best Picture nominations by one pundit or another are several films that would normally be considered the likely province of the Film Independent Spirit Awards (“Minari,” “First Cow,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”) and others that you’d usually expect to be stronger contenders... Читать дальше...

Dick Wolf’s CBS series “FBI” is opening up its third season with a storyline centered on a mass shooting.

Sgt. Jon Mattingly, one of the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting, believes that the 26-year-old medical worker would still be alive if police had acted faster on the night of her death.

In reviewing “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” the sequel to the 2006 mega-comedy hit “Borat,” critics have had to grapple with the fact that America has changed drastically since the original came out and exposed Americans more racist, anti-Semitic tendencies. And they agree that while the new film isn’t “better” than the original, Sacha Baron Cohen’s character couldn’t be more relevant or necessary.

During an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of ‘The View,” Dr. Jill Biden addressed the personal attacks President Trump has made against her family, calling his tactics nothing but “distractions.”

USC students won a pair of gold medals at the 2020 Student Academy Awards to lead all schools in the 47th annual event, the Academy announced on Wednesday.

Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” will now open on Aug. 27, 2021, after having been previously moved to an unset date next year.

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With Election Day less than two weeks away, it seemed like an ideal time to talk to Alex Kantrowitz, publisher of the Big Technology newsletter, about how Facebook and Twitter are approaching Nov. 3 — and whether the social media giants are doing a better job of keeping foreign trolls off their massive platforms than they did in 2016.

The topic was one of several we discussed during TheWrap’s first “Tech Talk” conversation... Читать дальше...

Famed director Mel Brooks made his first-ever political video Wednesday, where he endorsed former vice president Joe Biden for president.

Poor Clare Crawley. Last week, the coronavirus-delayed debut of Crawley’s season of “The Bachelorette” faced a freak Tuesday night NFL football game, a make-up contest also caused by COVID-19. Last night, the ABC dating competition faced off with Game 1 of the 2020 World Series on Fox.

Fourteen years after “Borat,” Sacha Baron Cohen brings the Kazakhstani journalist back to the screen in the comedy sequel “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” but where the character once brought bracing laughs and provocative social commentary, the net effect of this new movie is to stoke pangs of nostalgia for an America that was slightly less awful than it is today.

David Gordon Green is developing a series adaptation of “Smokey and the Bandit” for UCP, the studio announced Wednesday.

We certainly didn’t need another take on Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel “The Witches” after the superlative 1990 screen adaptation from director Nicolas Roeg and screenwriter Allan Scott, but if Robert Zemeckis’ 2020 version doesn’t cast as powerful a spell as its predecessor, neither is it a foul brew.

Spectrum Originals’ new drama might be a little too real for some of its viewers. The cable provider handed out a straight-to-series order for “The Second Wave,” a six-episode series about a deadly second wave of COVID-19 in New York.