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Paramount Skydance wins Warner Bros, Netflix backs out of deal

Netflix stated that a previous offer to buy Warner Bros Discovery's streaming and studio assets was no longer financially attracted after Paramount Skydance revised its offer.

A drone view shows the Netflix logo on one of the company's buildings in the Hollywood neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, US, January 20, 2026.
The Paramount logo is displayed above an entrance to Paramount Studios on February 23, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.

Warner Bros weighing revised bid from Paramount as bidding war escalates

ETHAN HAWKE and Margaret Qualley star in Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s drama about composer Lorenz Hart.

From Lorenz Hart to Mel Brooks: Two Jewish lives now available on Israeli screens

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Bette Midler, Sarah Paulson and Issa Rae star in HBO’s ‘Coastal Elites’

Dispatches from the hell of early 2020

Issa Rae has a Zoom conversation with a fellow boarding school graduate.

Bette Midler shines as an angry Jew in HBO’s ‘Coastal Elites’

Midler plays Miriam Nessler who is unapologetically Jewish, and also gets arrested for taking a red Make America Great Again hat off of a pedestrian on the street and running away with it.

Bette Midler stars in "Coastal Elite."

‘Lovecraft Country’ plot point resembles age-old antisemitic lie

Could “Lovecraft Country,” which deals so elegantly with the Black American experience, really have a blood libel embedded in its plot?

Hiram Epstein, center, is a character who appears as a ghost in the third episode of "Lovecraft Country."

Motown magic, Vietnam vets and moody Mason

The series starts on Cellcom TV, HOT VOD, Next TV, Yes VOD, Sting TV and HOT HBO on June 22 at 10 p.m. and on Yes Action on June 28 at 10 p.m.

SMOKEY ROBINSON (left) and Berry Gordy in the documentary  ‘Hitsville: The Making of the Motown Sound.’

'Gone with the Wind' ban in US gets mixed Israeli reaction

Movie lovers who adore the film and think that HBO’s action is political correctness at its worst squared off with those who feel its depiction of slaves is disturbingly racist.

Gone with the Wind.

'Gone with the Wind' pulled off HBO Max due to racist portrayals

"These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible."

Gone with the Wind.

Will US audiences warm to TV show about Netanyahu?

“Bibi,” the longtime Israeli prime minister’s ubiquitous nickname, will be based on the bestselling biography “The Netanyahu Years” written by veteran Israeli journalist Ben Caspit.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a speech at his Jerusalem office, regarding the new measures that will be taken to fight the coronavirus, March 14, 2020

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Can it happen here? HBO’s unsettling ‘The Plot Against America’ says yes

The Plot Against America is alt-history about what could have happened to a Jewish family in the early '40s if the antisemitic hero aviator Charles Lindbergh had beaten Roosevelt for the presidency.

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

‘Numb3rs’ star says his grandfather was Meyer Lansky’s driver, and a ‘bad dude’

“He was a bad dude, probably a murderer,” Krumholtz said. “Yeah, I come from a long line of tough Jews.”

David Krumholtz at the premiere of HBO's "The Plot Against America" in New York City, March 4, 2020.