The Mix

MONTREAL — Quebec is offering $4.6 million in grants to the province's struggling cinemas, which have been shut for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline (Ballantine) 2. “A Time for Mercy” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 4. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 5.

LOS ANGELES — Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who first donned a helmet, cape and jetpack to play Boba Fett in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died Thursday.

LONDON — A news and photography agency has agreed not to take pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son, Archie, the High Court in London was told at a hearing Friday.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — A man who sued his parents for getting rid of his pornography collection has won a lawsuit in western Michigan and can seek compensation. U.S.

NEW YORK — During this brutal news year, Lester Holt has concluded that telling stories isn't enough.

TORONTO — Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it. The Thunder Bay, Ont.

NEW YORK — The American Journalism Project said Thursday that it was awarding $2 million in grants to three non-profit newsrooms, including one based in New York City that targets the immigrant community.

DALLAS — A West Texas oilman's mural-sized print of an Ansel Adams photo has sold for nearly $1 million at an auction.

LE PECQ, France — A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears of joy” Thursday after the modeling agent was taken into cus