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Apple TV+ will offer shows from women’s rights advocate Malala Yousafzai

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Apple is using International Women's Day to expand its slate of influential TV+ programming. The company has struck a "multiyear" deal with female education rights advocate and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to produce original content...

Netflix leads the pack at the SAG Awards with 30 nominations

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Netflix is far ahead of the pack so far this awards season. Much like it did at the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday, the streaming giant racked up the most nods of any company at the Screen Actors Guild Awards with 30 overall. With Da 5 Bloods...

Apple just paid a record $25 million to buy a Sundance movie

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Apple hasn’t been shy about spending lots of money to make TV+ a success, and that’s true even in an era when it can’t negotiate deals in person. Deadline and Variety report that Apple has bought Siân Heder’s coming-of-age tale CODA (“Children of Dea...

Apple will produce Ridley Scott’s upcoming Napoleon biopic

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Apple is determined to land more big-name movies as it grows its TV+ service. Deadline has learned that Apple will back and produce Kitbag, a Ridley Scott-directed movie starring Joaquin Phoenix of Joker fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. The movie will doc...

Recommended Reading: Ted Lasso and the American decline

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The new comedy of American declineMegan Garber, The AtlanticThe so-called American decline isn’t a myth. One study found that well over half of Americans think the US is on the downward slope. Fortunately, even as America’s exceptionalism has been la...