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While they might have gone toe-to-toe against one another in some pretty contentious wizard duels throughout the Harry Potter films, there’s nothing but love between Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe in real life. Felton, who recently released a memoir titled Beyond the Wand, explained that the pair have a “fantastic” relationship with one another despite playing bitter rivals Draco Malfoy (Felton) and Harry Potter (Radcliffe) for all eight installments of the blockbuster film franchise. “I love the man dearly,” Felton told CBS Mornings. “I don’t see him as much as I’d like to — that’s the same for all of us, really — but I consider him a brother, definitely.…

Entertainment Weekly is headed down to Georgia for the annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival — and we’re bringing a quintet of actors with us. As part of our partnership with the Savannah College of Art and Design, our executive editor Clarissa Cruz will moderate EW’s Breaking Big panel on Friday, Oct. 28. This year’s honorees include Anna Diop (Nanny, Titans), Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time), Madelyn Cline (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, OuterBanks), Ty Simpkins (The Whale), and Vanessa Burghardt (Cha Cha Real Smooth). A key stop on the Academy Awards festival circuit, the annual event is the largest university-run film festival in the U.S., honoring both professional and student…

The name’s Heughan. Sam Heughan. And it was almost James Bond. In his new memoir, Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, the Outlander star tells the story of his life, including his acting misadventures before landing the career-making role of Jamie Fraser on the Starz series, framed around his experiences walking the legendary West Highland Way in Scotland. The memoir (out Oct. 25) contains many insights into Heughan’s life, from his relationship with his late estranged father to his early days in the theater, but he also packs it with Hollywood near-misses, including the time he auditioned for James Bond (the part that, as we know now, ended up going…

Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang will face off against Jonathan Majors’ Kang in third chapter of Ant-Man saga. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania director Peyton Reed tweeted earlier today that Marvel true believers should “fasten their seatbelts” and now we know why. Marvel just posted the trailer for Reed’s film and it looks like the third movie to put the cinematic microscope on Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang will be very big news indeed. In addition to Rudd, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stars Evangeline Lilly as Hope, Kathryn Newton as Cassie, and Jonathan Majors as Kang, the MCU’s new big bad who was introduced last year in Loki. “We were…

Business software maker SAP (SAPG.DE) reported faster than expected revenue growth for the third quarter, though its profit declined due to lower contribution from software licenses revenue as well as investments in growth. Total revenue grew by 5% in currency-adjusted terms to 7.84 billion euros, SAP said on Tuesday, beating analyst consensus for a jump to 7.62 billion. Non-IFRS operating profit came to 2.09 billion euros ($2.07 billion) in the three months through September, an 8% drop at constant currencies. Earnings per share of 1.12 euros fell short of consensus for 1.25 euros. SAP stuck with a forecast for full-year operating profit…

U.S. upstream oil companies are expected to bank 68% higher free cash flows per barrel produced in 2022 as surging prices fuel profits, while output growth lingers at 4.5% year to date, Deloitte consultancy said on Monday. The study illustrates the clash between the White House and oil companies over how skyrocketing profits from high energy prices should be allocated. Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N) are expected to post strong upstream quarterly results on Friday, with some analyst expecting a new round of increase in dividends and buybacks. U.S. President Joe Biden has been calling on producers to stop returning cash to shareholders and to…

European stocks rose on Tuesday after a slew of better-than-expected earnings reports helped offset worries about fast rising interest rates and a slowing euro zone economy. The pan-European STOXX 600 index (.STOXX) rose 0.5% by 0717 GMT, with media (.SXMP) and technology (.SX8P) stocks countering losses in chemical firms (.SX4P). SAP (SAPG.DE) gained 3.9% after the German business software maker reported faster-than-expected revenue growth for the third quarter, while Logitech International (LOGN.S) rose 4.8% after the computer peripherals maker reaffirmed its full-year forecast. UBS (UBSG.S) climbed 3.5% after the Swiss bank beat market expectations for quarterly profit due to a rise in new money inflows. read more Among decliners, German chemicals maker Covestro (1COV.DE) fell 1.9%…

UBS (UBSG.S) logged a smaller-than-expected 24% slide in third-quarter net profit with robust client inflows and lower costs helping to ameliorate the impact of turbulent financial markets. The Swiss bank attracted $17 billion in net new fee generating assets in wealth management and $18 billion of net new money in asset management, with strong performances from all major regions. “The focus in the results should fall on the very positive net new money in Wealth Management, said analysts at ZKB. Shares in UBS surged 4.9% in early trade. Net profit attributable to shareholders fell to $1.73 billion, ahead of $1.53 billion forecast…

HSBC (HSBA.L) named Georges Elhedery as its new chief financial officer on Tuesday in a surprise shift that puts the former head of its investment bank in pole position to eventually succeed Noel Quinn as chief executive. The change came as HSBC reported a 42% slide in third quarter profit, hit by loan losses and charges from the sale of its French business as it seeks to placate investors including its largest, China’s Ping An Insurance Group (601318.SS). HSBC’s shares fell 5% in London, after a 2.5% drop in its Hong Kong stock despite a firm broader market (.HSI), as investors digested the sudden…

According toParler, Kanye West, the controversial entertainer and supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has agreed in principle to purchase the crypto-friendly social media platform Parler. Kayne is no stranger to Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, as in October 2020, during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, he praised the technology. In that appearance, Kayne said that the bitcoin guys have a perspective on what the true liberation of America and humanity will be. Kayne, who is also known as Ye, wore a Satoshi Nakamoto hat, whose photo rounds on social media. Kayne’s move to purchase Parler comes in the…