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Snap, parent company of Snapchat, kept adding app users in the first three months of the year — reaching a new milestone in Q1 by surpassing 900 million monthly active users globally. The social media and messaging company also beat Wall Street estimates for Q1. However, Snap did not issue formal Q2 financial guidance citing […]

Roku has illegally collected personal information of children without the required notice and without obtaining parental consent, the Michigan attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. In a statement, Roku said it “strongly disagrees” with the “inaccurate claims” in the lawsuit. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed the lawsuit against Roku in the U.S. […]

Ulta Beauty has announced its official partnership with Beyoncé’s long-awaited “Cowboy Carter” tour, which kicked off on Monday with a sweeping three-hour show at L.A’s SoFi Stadium. The partnership will bring exclusive access to Beyoncé’s beauty brands, including the recently launched Cecred haircare, and curated looks inspired by the tour’s themes, at Ulta Beauty. On […]

In new Max series “Malditos,” leader of a Gypsy community Sara (Céline Sallette) in southern France is threatened with eviction by rising waters. To save her business and provide a future for her sons, she needs to form new alliances, and soon. Juan (Damien Bonnard) might be her best bet. Looks like the beginning of […]

Jensen Ackles and Eric Dane’s new action series, “Countdown,” has a set a June 25 date with a three-episode premiere on Amazon Prime Video Amazon has also released first look-photos from the series, which can be seen below. The official synopsis for the series created by Derek Haas reads: “When an officer with the Department […]

“When I moved to Nashville over 30 years ago, the landscape looked very different,” says Country Music Assn. CEO Sarah Trahern, one of Variety’s inaugural Power of Women Nashville honorees. “Today, it’s exciting to see real strides toward parity in leadership, whether that’s on the business side, in the writers’ room, or across artist teams, […]

The out of this world talented Stephen Root is joining “Resident Alien” Season 4 in a guest star role, Variety has learned exclusively. Root will play the father of Harry (Alan Tudyk). According to the official character description, Root’s character will appear to his son in human form and “push Harry to go back to […]

Vuelta Group’s international sales division, Playtime, has completed the full acquisition of sales house Film Constellation from Fabien Westerhoff, and integrated its operations with Global Screen, the German-based international sales outfit under Playtime. Together, these entities will form Global Constellation. Global Constellation will be part of the Playtime Group, which includes sales companies Playtime, Film […]

Trouble brews once again in Shadyside in the trailer for “Fear Street: Prom Queen,” Netflix’s newest addition to the “Fear Street” franchise. The film is adapted from author R.L. Stine’s 1992 novel “The Prom Queen.” Netflix previously released a trilogy of “Fear Street” films, directed by Leigh Janiak, in 2021: “Fear Street Part One: 1994,” […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Jeneva Rose’s novels “The Perfect Marriage” and “The Perfect Divorce.” Sarah Morgan has gotten away with it again: Jeneva Rose’s “The Perfect Divorce,” the sequel to 2017’s “The Perfect Marriage,” has hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list on both the hardcover and combined print/ebook lists […]