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Linda Yaccarino’s Unmerry X Mess: My (Highly Opinionated) View • The former NBCUniversal ad sales chief thought she could manage the mercurial Elon Musk. Her former colleagues and partners are baffled at the result: ‘She let her ego get the best of her’

From Twitter to X: A Devolution

The (Lucrative) Rise of AI-Powered Stars • Meta and YouTube write big checks to A-listers for their ‘digital twins’ — flawed guardrails and all

Early Holiday Box Office Unwraps Lump of Coal • Disney’s Wish to rule the Thanksgiving banquet didn’t come true as overall moviegoing dimmed chances of 2024 Hollywood revenue hitting $9 billion

Thanksgiving Box Office: Not Exactly a Feast

’Tis the Season: The Oscar Race Revs Up • THR’s executive editor of awards coverage mulls the impact of a flurry of activity around the Thanksgiving break BY SCOTT FEINBERG

A Scary Time for Scream • The firing of Melissa Barrera and exit of Jenna Ortega beg the question of whether the next Spyglass horror sequel gets delayed further

Broadcast TV’s Thanksgiving Banquet • Broadcasters are really grateful. The Macy’s parade hit a high while the NFL claimed its second-most-watched regular-season game ever.

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Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal

Chewing Chicken, Spilling Tea • Amelia Dimoldenberg, intrepid interviewer, on the rise of her YouTube chat series Chicken Shop Date — and if she actually eats all that poultry

A Korean Master Gets His Due at the Academy Museum • Starting Dec. 7, the museum will present a retrospective of 14 Song Kang-ho films, along with conversations with the star, who tells THR how he defines ‘the tipping point between good and bad acting’

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

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After All Those Twisty Thrillers, Sam Esmail Just Wants to Make a Rom-Com • The man behind Mr. Robot on turning America’s sweetheart, Julia Roberts, into a complete Karen in Leave the World Behind, combating his creative control issues and still feeling like a Hollywood outsider

Crashing the Boys’ Club With ‘the Boys’ • Catherine Marks produced and engineered boygenius’ the record and could achieve a milestone as the rare female producer to win the Grammy for album of the year

‘A Giant Fuck-You to Netflix’ • As the streamers lean more into celebrity-produced vanity projects, their documentary titles are being shunned by awards groups considered Oscar bellwethers: ‘Our sense is that we did not get as strong an intake of major studio films this year’

Making That ’70s Movie • The Holdovers DP Eigil Bryld on how he pulled off Alexander Payne’s directive that the movie, set at a New England boarding school, needed to be more than set in that era — it had to look, feel and sound as if it were actually made then

Peking Puck: Wolfgang’s Groundbreaking Chinois on Main Celebrates Its 40th Birthday • In 1983, the celebrity-packed, ‘Asian inspired’ sequel to Spago introduced fusion cuisine to Santa Monica, and turned the brash young chef into a global foodie phenomenon

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Easy Riders: Rough It Out in Trailers Tricked-Out for Stars • In Austin, five enormous celebrity recreational vehicles owned by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith and Simon Cowell have...