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The first trailer for director George Clooney’s Christmas Day release, The Boys in the Boat, dropped today. The Boys in the Boat is based on Daniel James Brown's #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics…

France's National Cinema Centre, Paris city hall's Mission Cinema and regional body Film Paris Region have unveiled location filming regulations for the period around and during the Olympic Games and Paralympics in the French capital in 2024. Mission Cinema has created a schedule for 2024, setting…

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics will be taking over daytime programming on NBC. NBCUniversal announced its coverage plans for the upcoming summer games on Thursday, which includes at least nine hours of daytime programming on the broadcast network — more than any previous Olympics. NBC plans to…

Despite all of the upheaval at Twitter under new owner Elon Musk in recent months, the social media firm and NBCUniversal say they have gotten their earliest start yet in ramping up their Olympic Games partnership. With more than a year to go before the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Twitter…

Al Michaels, who in March exited NBC’s flagship Sunday Night Football booth after 16 seasons to join the new Thursday Night Football franchise at Amazon, isn’t exiting his former home completely. NBC Sports said Tuesday that it has signed Michaels to an “emeritus role,” a deal that the network said will see him…

Comcast began 2022 on a strong note, reporting first-quarter results ahead of Wall Street expectations on Thursday with highlights including ad revenue from Super Bowl LVI and the Beijing Olympics. Total revenue climbed 14% from the year-earlier period to $31.01 billion, while earnings per share came in at 86 cents…

Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing in a stunning u-turn taken 24 hours after they were given the greenlight to compete, as the invasion of Ukraine enters its second week. Yesterday, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) said the nations could compete if they…

The international union that governs skating said Tuesday that it was following the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee in banning athletes from Russia and Belarus from its competitions across the sports of figure skating and speed skating. It becomes the latest organization in the sports world to…

The 2022 Beijing Olympics concluded Sunday with icy fanfare,  a spirited speech from International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach and an audience count that pales in comparison to previous Winter games. In overnight numbers, NBC’s Sunday primetime coverage of the closing ceremony gathered a 1.0 demo rating 6.57…

Despite the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics proved to be the athletes. Competing the past two weeks amidst rising international tensions, pandemic quarantines and with a heavy-handed host, the participants injected a bit…

Coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics wraps up Sunday with the Closing Ceremony, which will air live from Beijing National Stadium on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app beginning at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT. NBC and Peacock will rebroadcast the finale gala in an “enhanced primetime presentation” beginning…

"We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, the coming days," Joe Biden said unequivocally Friday for the first time after weeks of looming crisis in the former USSR. "We believe that they will target Ukraine's capital Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million…