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By Alexei Oreskovic, Liana B. Baker and Lisa Richwine REUTERS – Softbank Corp’s investment in a Hollywood movie studio represents the coming out party for two new players in the U.S. entertainment industry — the Japanese telecommunications company and Nikesh Arora, the former Google Inc executive running a new media and internet company. Two months after unexpectedly decamping from Google for SoftBank, Arora struck a $250 million deal for a minority stake in Legendary Entertainment, announced on Thursday. …

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) – Lindsay Lohan kept an opening night audience hanging on her every word, in part to see if she’d forget any, as she made her stage debut on Thursday night in a West End revival of “Speed-the-Plow”, David Mamet’s scathing satire of Hollywood. By the closing curtain, Lohan had proved she could hold her own with two top-notch male actors. Richard Schiff, best known as Toby Ziegler from “The West Wing”, played producer Bobby Gould. His buddy Charlie Fox was played by Nigel Lindsay, who had the title role in the West End staging of “Shrek the Musical”. …

NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Sandler has signed a deal with Netflix to star in and produce four films for the streaming service.

New Zealand-born, Australian-based actor Russell Crowe guarantees that the National Rugby League grand final between South Sydney and the Canterbury Bulldogs on Sunday will have a genuine Hollywood feel about it, at least in the VIP section.