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Exclusive: Costa Ronin (For all mankind, The American) Has been cast as a recurring guest start on Prime Video’s The Terminal List For Season 2, Starring and Executive Produced by Chris Pratt.

Created by David Digilio, The Series Follows James Reece after his Entire Platoon of Navy Seals is Ambushed During a High-Stakes Covert Mission. He returns home to his family with conflicting memory of the event and quests about his culpability. But as new evidence comes to light, reece discovers dark forces Working against Him, enderening not only only his life, but the lives of those loves.

Ronin Will Play Billionaire and Media Mogul, Vasili Adrenov.

Season 1 was based on Jack Carr’s Novel of the Same Name, and Season 2 Is Drawing from Carr’s Book TRUE Believer.

Season 2 of The Terminal List is Executive Produced by Pratt Through Indivisible Productions, Digilio, Antoine and Kat Samick Through Hill District Media, Author Carr, Army Ranger Max Adams, and Former Navy Seal Jared Shaw. The Terminal List is a co-production from Amazon MgM Studios and Civic Center Media, in Association with MRC.

Ronin Recently Wrapped on Season 5 of the Apple TV+ Series For all mankind and season 4 of The Morning Show, Also from the Streamer. Additional Credits Include The Netflix Series ObliteratedThe NBC Series Endgamedirectly by Justin Lin, The American on FX Network, and Homeland for showtime.

On the comedy side, ronin was a regular opposite jenna fischer in the abc half-hour single-name comedy Splitting Up Together.

In film, he can be seen starring in the Independent Feature ISSOpposite Chris Messina, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. Other recent film Credits Include Once uppon a time in Hollywood, Directed by Quentin Tarantino Opposite Leonardo Dicaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, As Well As Brighton Beach Starring Opposite FKA Twigs. Ronin Is Repped by Link Entertainment.

Once Again, French Director Julia Ducournau tutes US Into the Lower depths. Four Years after Winning The Palme D’Ot Her Extraordinary Titania – In which Humans and Cars FUSED WITH GRABINGING, CRunching erotic energy – She returning to the Cannes Film Festival Competition with Alphaa movie just as Likely as Titania To divide audiences between the dazzled and disgusted.

Once Again, Ducournau Sets Herself on a Collision Course with the Human Body, Its Hungers, Wounds and Weaknesses. A heroin addict writes in agonies of withdrawal; a tattoo keeps gushing blood; Most Significantly, a virus is circulating that gradually turns People into Brittle statues, the parts that have Become CERMUMIC CRumbling into Shards while Bodily Fluids Out of the Cracks That Still Hold.

In Color SO datesurated that the world appears in shades of Blue-Black, Ducournau taxi us to an underworld of clubs Filled with Multiply Pierced Human Wrecks, Living it up while while waiting to die. It is the Kind of Apocalyptic SpectaCle We Might Expect from HER. What is more confronting is that the central character is a girl of 13 who has just been strength tattooed by a classmate with a dirty hypodermic. Nor the eponymous alpha says to her mother as she sis next to her prostrate uncle, Charged by Him with finally die of an overdose, she is too you are to deal with this. I SOMESTEMES FELT A BIT YOUNG FOR IT MYSELF.

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The Framework of Alpha Owes less to Genre, Howver, than it does to family drama. Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is the Only Child of a Young Woman Doctor (Goleshifteh Farahani) Working in a Closed Hospital Ward with Suffers of the Virus, with Many More of the Sick Gathered Her Hospital, Beatting on the Doors. Alpha is Also A Handful, Her Waywardness Sometimes Childish – CLIMBING OUT OF HER WINDOW ON TO THE RICKTY SCAFFOLDING THAT CLOAKS THEIR BUILDING, FOR EXAMPLE – KIND OF ADTERING MADNESS THAT TO SEX, DRUGS AND VIEWS. Convinced her daughter is now infected, mother keeps testing her. Farahani, impressive always, is a force of natural. Boros’ Alpha, Given to Drifting Into Reveries like so many teenage girls, is immediately recognizable; we fear for her.

Mother has reason to worry About Alpha. Her Brother Amin (Tahar Rahim) is an abject junkie, his arms cover in the sloppy holes by repeat use. Rahim, with Strikingly Little Dialogue, Giives the Physical Performance of A LifeMet, His Ravaged Body as Expressive As A Dancer’s. Mother is Letting Him Stay, Sleeping On Alpha’s Bedroom Floor, Because – As Says – She Won’t Give Up on Him. She must Look after Everyone; Everyone Needs HER, SHOP IF THEY DON’T WANT HER. “Too much love,” Amin observes to his niece, “Makes you crazy.” Although spreads not as Crazy as Their Berber Grandmother, Who Puts Both His Additionion and the Virus Down to the Red Wind, A Kind of Demonic Possession.

Grandma May Have a Point. Clouds of Red Dust Swirl Through the film repeatedly, a roaring Wind surging on the soundtrack. Blasts of Wind, Rolling Surf, Fissing Earth: These Elemental Threats Appear and Disappear Like Signs from the Heavens, Harbingers of the End Times. Music Pounds Through the Film, Each Song Going Over the Top of the Soundscape’s Trenches like an army going into battle. In the opening Scene we see 5 -ear-op alpha with a felt pen, jaining the dots on her uncle’s arm. “That Looks Prettier,” She Sayys, As Beth Gibbons’ Soaring Soprano on Portishead’s’ Roads’ seems about lift the movie into orbit.

At home, Alpha has uncle amin jack -nifing with cramps on her floor, then slipping out of the family eid dinner to score. At School, Word is Out About Her Potential Infection. Ducournau is at her uncompromising best we dealing with the bullies, fears and betrayals of her friends; A scnene in which a classmate trieste to drown her in the school pool, shot far -so at Water Level, Is a Tour de Force. She Fights Back, Partly Out of Ignorance; She thinks she can’t infect her tyometime boyfriend Adrien (Louai El Amrousy) Because they Already Know Each Other. All the Wrong-Headed Guessses and Paranoia That Surrounded AIDS in the ’80s, Revived from their Temporary Lull by the Recent Pandemic, Are Thrown Into Relief by Microcosm of High School. Mother is aghast when the head teacher expans alpha. Alpha Herself just wants to get out the kids kill her.

Less overwhelming than Titania, Alpha May have a tighter grip on the real world. Its Muddle of Timescales, Which Mean That Alpha Can 5 and Then 11 in the Same Skene, or in Two Scenes that Mirror Each Other, or that SEEM to From Other but May Also Be Separated by Years, is Frustration: The Crises in Alpha. Cyclically, like the Coming of a desert Wind, but these repetitions smack of confusion for it Own Sake. The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too. Those three performance, on the other hand, are indelible triumphs. Along with the power of ducournau’s cinematic vision, of courte, which carries all the ordure in the world before it.

Title: Alpha
Festival: Cannes (Competition)
Distributor: Neon
Director-Screenwriter: Julia Ducournau
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Goleshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Louai El Amrousy
TIME RUNNING: 2 HR 8 MINS

Exclusive: We have more on the race to replace charlotte moore as the bbc’s continent supremo.

AFTER revealing earlier this month that there are three top condenders for the Most Powerful Creative Job in British Television, Audio, and Streaming, Deadline Hears One of the Trio Not in the Running.

Industry Sources and BBC Insider Said Patrick Holland, Banijay Uk’s Executive Chairman, is staying Put at the French Production Giant.

Holland was consider to be the leading external candidate, this to though he told Colleagues that was happy to remain at Banijay uk, where he has been Since 2022.

BBC Sources Speculated That Salar Has Been A Decisive Factor for Some External Candidates, As the Corporation Struggles to Compete with Deep-Pocketed Commercial Counterparts. Moore is paid £ 468,000 ($ 628,000).

The Holland Development, as Well Netflix Uk Chief Anne Mensah Ruling Hersself Out, has Cemented Kate Phillips’ position as the Candidate to Beat.

Phillips, the bbc’s unsripped boss and interim chief continent officer, has the Support of Many Colleages at the Corporation, while a number of powerful production are pulling for her to get the job.

Sources Said Phillips is Skillfully Caretaking in the Content Chief Role As Moore Prepass to Leave the BBC’s New Broadcasting House Headquarters Next Week.

BBC Studios Productions CEO ZAI BENNETT WAS THOUGHT TO BE THE THIRD STRONT CONTENT FOR THE JOB. Others Linked Include Tom McDonald, The New York-Baised Executive Vice President of Nat Geo, and Dan McGolpin, The Director of Iplayer and Channels.

Others have rued themeslves out. This Includes Jay Hunt, Apple TV+’s Boss in Europe, and Channel 4’s Content Supremo Ian Katz. SAID SAID Apple Executive Alison Kirkham was consider, but is said to be happy in her current role. Liam Keelan, Disney’s Former Emea Originals Chief, is not in the Running.

Headhunters Grace Blue and Ibison have Helped Steer the BBC Recruitment Process, with Director General Tim Davie Taching a Personal Interest.

Moore is stepping down as chief continent officer after four years to join left bank Pictures as CEO. She will Also Oversee International Creative Output for Sony Pictures Television.

U2 Frontman and Rock Legend Bond JUST ROCKED THE PALAIS WITH DOCUMARY BONO: Stories of SurrenderReceiving a 6½-minute ovation. At the five-minute mark, he unbuttted to unbutton his shirt to keep the applause going.

AFTER STARTING HIS SPEECH WITH A LITTLE FRANCH FOR THE HOMETOWN COWD, BONO SAID: “I’m not a french man. I’m an irish man. And i’m not a self-made.” Pointing to his way Ali and THEN HIS 45-YEAR U2 BANDMATES, He Added: “You wrote this story. The Edge Wrote this story. Adam (Clayton) and Larry (Mullen Jr.) Wrote This Story. IT, Paul.

He Also Acknowledged Several Others As Co-Writers, in the name of love.

A rep for director Andrew Dominik, Howver, Said the movie “is unfortunately working right now and coulud not make it to cannes.”

A man was critically Wounded in a Shooting Early Sunday in River North.

Officers responded to a person Shot AROUND 12:40 am in the 300 block of the west ontario street and foot a 39 -ear-op man Shot Multiple in the body, chicago police said.

The man was taken to the northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was in critical condition, Police Said.

No One was in custody.

President Donald Trump Says HIS Tariffs Will Reshore US Manufacturing, Yet Food Businesses, Including Those In Illinois, Ares Especilly Hit by HIS WAR SINCE SUPPLY Chains to Local Agricultural Conditions and Can’t Easily Beted and Say Officials.

Produce Such As Bananas, Pineapple, Mangoes, Lemons and Oranges Grow in Certain Cllimates and Seasons, Said Peter Testa, CEO of Testa Produce, A Chicago Food Distributor Founded in 1912. Wisconsin and Indiana.

Tests Produse’s Massive Warehouse in the Back of the Yards NeighBorhood Stores and Distributes from Across the US and Around the World, Including Fresh Produce, Dairy, Canned and Dry Goods and Frozen Foods. Shelves in Its 91,300-Square-Foot Facility Are Stacked High With Boxes of Pineapple, Oranges, Cantaloupe, Apple, Coconut Water, Hominy, Refried Beans, Pasta and More.

Produce from Warm Climates Can’t Be Reshored to the US For Year-Round Consumption, Like Some Industrial and Consumer Goods. Perishables Also Can’t Be Stockpiled.

“We’re not going to grown bananas in the us or coffee. But it feels like it is a weapon,” US Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-ill., WHO REPRESENTS The 8th congressional District, Said Last Month, During Visits to Illinois Food Businesses, Including Tests Produce. “It shouldn’t be used as a weapon, especially when everybody needs it.”

“Fresh Produce Trade is Uniquely Complex, SHAPED BY SEASONAL AND REGIONAL FACTORS THAT A WELL-FUNCTIONING MARKET FOR YEAR-Round Avilality,” The International Fresh Produce Last Month in A Stasement. Broad Application of Tariffs AS A “BLUNT TOL DISUPTS Markets, Raises Consumer Costs and Places Unnecessary Strain on Growers and Producers Across the Supply Chain,” the Association Added.

On April 2, Trump Announched Tariffs on About 60 Countries But That’s Paused Say for 90 Days AFTER GLOBAL FINANCIAL PLUNGED markets. Despite the reprieve, Most Imports from Those Countries to the US Face A 10% Tariff. After the pause lifts in july, tariffs on the Other Countries Could Soar Again.

In April, Trump exempted MANY Goods Under the US-Mexico-Canada Aggrement from Tariffs. But tests Produce Sources Food from Other Countries That Face Tariffs, Including Costa Rice, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil and Venezuela, As Well As Asian Nations.

FOOD BUYERS SUCH AS Tests Produce are unure whether to buy or wait, in case Trump Rolls Back His Tariffs. Thats Makes Planning and Budgeting Very Difficult, Testa Said During Krishnamoorth’s Visit to the Food Distributor.

“Mary Customers Are Wondering How Will All End. “There’s Mass Confusion.”

In April, Trump ORDED 145% Tariffs on Goods From China. But on Monday, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer Said the US Agreed to Drop the tariffs to 30%, while china aggreed to lowers on us goods from 125%to 10%.

“This is a substantial deeschalation,“ Said Mark Williams, Chief Asia Economist at Capital Economics. But he warned, “There is no guarantee that the 90-day trinity will go Way to a Lasting Ceasefire.”

Dani Rodrik, An Economist at Harvard University, Said the Two Countries Had Stepped Back ‘From A Needless Trade War’ ‘But that US Tariffs on China High at 30% “and Will Mainly Hurt US Consumers.’ ‘

In General, Small Businesses Bear the Brunt of Tariffs and Their “Devasting Impact,” Elliot Richardson, President of Chicago-Based Small Business Advocacy, Said Last Month.

“Their Margins Will Be Smaller, or They Will Pass Costs on to Customers. Large Companies have the means to absorb Lower Margins. Small Businesses do not,” Said Richardson, WHO ALSO JONED KRSCORTHI. “I don’t want to see smalle businesses fail because of a trade.

Farmers in the Crossfire

Tariffs ALSO AFFECT US FARMERS WHENO OTHER COUNTRIES PLACE RETALItory TARIFFS ON THE CROPS THEY EXPORT. Illinois is the Nation’s Second-Leading Exporter of Both Soybeans and Feed Grains and Related Products, Acciting to the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

On Krishnamoorth’s Tour of Food Businesses Last Month, he Also visited Kindred Farms in Atlanta, About Two Hours South of Chicago. Owner ron Kindred is Busy Planting This Year’s Soybean Crop at his 1,700-acre farm. Krishnamoorthi Timed His Visits to Illinois Food Businesses Nearly Two Weeks Ahead of His May 7 Announcement to Run for the US Senate to Replace Sen. Dick Durbin.

Tariffs Create Extreme Uncetainty About the Price Soybeans Will Fetch Later This Year, Whether $ 10 per Bushel or $ 7, Kindred Said. Before Trump’s Trade War, Margins on Soybeans Were Shrinking. Market Price for Soybeans have Dropped From $ 16 for Bushel Two Years Ago to About $ 10 Now, He Added. “If it goes down to $ 8, there’s no way we can re-Coup Our Costs.” Soybean Farmers Might Not Break Eve at $ 10 per Bushel, he Said.

Last Fall, Kindred Fertilized About 850 Acres for Soybeans on His Farm, so it is too.

“We’re Just Out here, caught in the crossfire,” Said Kindred, who is also chairman of the Illinois Soybean Association.

Illinois Soybean Association

Across the US, Farmers Export 60% of their Soybeans and China is Their Larest Market, Kindred Said.

Meanwhile, Because of Uncetainty Created by the Trade War, Farmers Will Likely Pause on New Equipment and Other Investments, Said Kindred, Who Had Been Thinking New Tractors for HIS Farm.

Tariffs Also Raise Prices on Potash Fertilizer From Canada.

“They Drive the prices of Everything up,” Kindred Said.

China’s Retaliatory Tariffs on US Imports Particularly Hurt American Food Producers, The American Farm Bureau Federation Said.

“We know from Experience that farmers and rural communities will bear the brunt retaliation,The Washington, DC-Based Group Said in February.

Along 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village NeighBorhood, Monday Felt Like an Ordinary Day.

For Mary Residents, that the problem.

No Floats, No Parties, No Revelers Celebrating Cinco de Mayo, The Annual Mexican Tradition on May 5th.

“It ‘sad, iTi’s just sad,” Said Adriana Varona, who set up a little stand on the back of her trinity to sell Brown Eggs and honey to passserby on what was supposed to have ben a huge Celebration.

Little Village, Which Markets ITSELF AS The “Mexican Capital of the Midwest,” was to have held it annual cinco de Mayo parade, but it was Canceled Over Fears of Deportations.

“Twenty-Sixth Street is The Happy Street, the Most Beautiful in All of Chicago,” Varona Said in Spanish. “But it’s dead. There’s noiting. It”s Cinco de Mayo, a day that is usable very festive in a NeighBorhood that is very mexican.

Cinco de Mayo – Often confused with mexican Independence Day, which is Sept. 16 – Commemorates Mexico’s Victory Over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

The Holiday Has Become a Commercial Bonanza for Bars and Restaurants, Often offering Drink Specials to Mark the Occossion, Much Like St. Patrick’s Day.

But with ongoing immigration raids, parade organizers deciding against hosting a Big Celebration this year.

SINCE IMMIGRATION Raids Began AFTER Donald Trump Took Office in January, Foot Traffic in Predominantly Latino NeighBorhods Has Declined, and 26th Street Has Hard.

“In the time i’ve been here, i’ve never seen anything like it. This whole area, it’s very commercial,” Julian Andres Marin, who was selling frui along 26th street, said in his native Spanish.

Marin was hoping the Big Crowds Would Greet Him. Instead, just a few customers here and there. He Said it was all a Little Off-Putting.

“It ‘sad and a little scary,” he said.

On this day, there were were Still by selling women’s fashion, t-shirts, blankets and all kinds of Items to promote mexican culture.

Jose Rivera and HIS Wife Run a Fashion Store along 26th Street. He Said it’s understandable that People are afraid.

“Who Wauldn’t Be Afraid? Yes, Everyone Is Afraid,” Rivera Said. “But People have to live. If you know your rights, you should be afraid.”

The Little Village Chamber of Commerce is Still Planning to Host Its Annual Mexican Independence Day Parade on Sept. 14.

Michael Puente is a Reporter and Weekend Anchor at Wbez. Reach Him at [email protected].

Walgreens has aggreed to pay up to $ 350 million in a settlement with the US Department of Justice, Which Accused the Pharmacy of illegally Filling Millions of Prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substance.

The Nationwide Druugstore Chain Must Pay the Government at LEAST $ 300 Million and Will Owe another $ 50 million if the Company is SOLD, MERGED, OR TRANSFER BEFORE 2032, Acciting to the Settlement Reached Friday.

The Government’s Complaint, filad in January In the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that walgreens knowingly filled millions of Illegal Prescriptions for Controlled BetWeen August 2012 and March 2023. Significantly Early.

“We Strongly Disagree with the Government’s Legal Theory and Admit No Liability,” Walgreens Spokesperson Fraser Said in a Statement. “This Resolution Allows US to Close All Opioid Related Lithigation with Federal, State, and Local Governments and Provides us with favable terms from a cashflow perspective while we focus on Our turnaround strategy.”

Amid Slumping Store Visites and Shrinking Market Share, Walgreens Announched in October That It Was CLOING 1,200 STORES Around the Country. Rite Aid Filed for Bankruptcy at the end of 2023 as it was also Dealing with losses and opioid Lawsuit settlements. The US Department of Justice Filed a Similar Lawsuit Against CVS in december.

The Complaint Says Walgreens Pharmacists starting the prescriptions Despite Clear Red Flags that the Prescriptions were Highly Likely to Be Invalid, and the Company Pressure Its Pharmacists to Fill Quickly. The Government Alleges Walgreen’s Compliance Officials Ignored “Substantial Evidence” That Its Stoles Were Filling Unlawful Prescriptions and With Important Information on Opioid Prescribers from Its Pharmacists.

Walgreens THEN al The Saughtly Payment for Many of the Invalid Prescriptions Through Medicare and Other Federal Healthcare in Violation of the FALSE CLAIMS ACT, Acciting to the Government.

The US Justice Department has Moved to DisMiss Its Complaint in Light of Frieday’s Settlement.

“Pharmacies have a legal respectility to prescribe control substance in a safe and professional manner, not dispensation drugerous drugs for profit,” Said attorney General Pamela bondi in a staff. “This Department of Justice is Committed to Ending the Opioid Crisis and Holding Bad Actors Accountable for their Failure to Protect Patients from Additionion.”

Walgreen has also entered into an aggregement with the drung enforcement administration to improve it compliance with rules around dispensing substance, police police and procedures requiring pharmacists to confirm the validity of controlled substance prescritriptions, and maintin. Block Prescriptions from Prescribers that are producing illegitimate prescriptions.

With the US Department of Health and Human Services, walgreens has aggreded to escabish and maintain a compliance program that includes training, Board Oversight and Periodic Reporting to Agency Regarding the Pharmacy’s Dispensing Controlled Substances.

“In the midst of the opioid crisis that has been wounded, we relay on Pharmacies to prevent not facilitate the unlawful Distribution of these potentially harmful substance,” Said Norbert E. Vint, Deputy Inspector General of the US Office of Personnel Management.

The Settlement Resolves Four Cases Brought by Form Walgreens Employee Whistleblowers. In 2022, CVS and Walgreens Aggreed to Pay More than $ 10 Billion in a multi-state settlement of Lawsuits Brought against say over the toll of the opioid crisis.

Over the Last Eight Years, Drugmakers, Wholesalers and Pharmacies have aggregated to More than $ 50 Billion Worth of Settlements with Governments – With Money Required to Be Used To Fight the Opioid Crisis.