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Penguin India dropped Sonia Gandhi's memoir

The Indian arm wanted cuts she refused. Knopf still has a November 10 date abroad.

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Practical Magic 2 premiered in London

Kidman and Bullock returned as the Owens sisters. The sequel opens wide on 11 September.

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Dolly Parton died at 80

She died peacefully in Nashville at Vanderbilt-Ingram. Imagination Library asks for donations instead of flowers.

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Taylor Swift released a Grammy Museum mashup of memory songs

The video went up Monday. It weaves All Too Well, August, and her Toy Story 5 track on the Eras piano.

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Spider-Man held the box office for a fourth weekend

Brand New Day took about $39 million in North America. In India it is now the highest-grossing Hollywood film on record.

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Odisha buried playback singer Pranab Kishore Patnaik

He was 88. With Akshaya Mohanty and Prafulla Kar he was the last of Odia film music's great trio.

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Abir Mukherjee's The Pinnacle is fast. The mystery is thinner.

Penguin's new Mukherjee leaves the Raj mysteries for a Mumbai murder. Outlook liked the pace more than the ending.

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Anurag Kashyap's Bandar lands on Zee5 on 28 August, after a theatrical run that barely cleared Rs 4 crore

Bobby Deol plays a fading TV actor accused of rape. The film premiered at Toronto last year and took about Rs 4.22 crore net in Indian cinemas.

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Advance bookings for Yash's Toxic open today, four years after KGF: Chapter 2

The Kannada-and-English gangster film, directed by Geetu Mohandas, lands in cinemas worldwide on 26 August.

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The producer of Kala Hiran has taken Salman Khan's personality-rights order to the Supreme Court

Delhi High Court told him to pull the teaser. He says the court never named the infringement.

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Robin Williams' children revived his Instagram to fight AI fakes of his voice and face

The account had been dormant since 2014. Zelda Williams said the deepfakes were maddening.

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Maharashtra's FDA has asked Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff to explain a Vimal Elaichi ad

The notices call it a possible surrogate for banned pan masala. The actors have 15 days.

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