#Sony Pictures Quarterly Profit Drops to 5M

#Sony Pictures Quarterly Profit Drops to $115M

Sony Pictures saw its fiscal first-quarter bottom line drop to a profit of $115 million (16 billion yen), down 68 percent from the $394 million (50.7 billion yen) profit it reported during the same period in 2022. While theatrical sales were up, revenue from new TV series and streaming licensing were down. Promotional costs also…

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#National security adviser: Biden ‘has expressed confidence’ at G7 that US won’t default

#National security adviser: Biden ‘has expressed confidence’ at G7 that US won’t default

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that while the debt limit talks have been a subject of interest at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit, President Biden has “expressed confidence” to world leaders in avoiding a default.  “It is definitely a subject of interest,” Sullivan told reporters during a Saturday morning press conference in Japan. “Here at…

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#‘Monster’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda Measures the Weight of Bullying on Childhood Friendship in Tender But Diffuse Drama

#‘Monster’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda Measures the Weight of Bullying on Childhood Friendship in Tender But Diffuse Drama

After making The Truth in France and Broker in South Korea, Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to a Japanese-language project for the first time since his justly lauded Shoplifters five years ago, working with another writer’s script for the first time since his head-turning 1995 debut, Maborosi. Many of the peerless humanist’s frequent themes figure in Monster…

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