As for Elliot himself: He’s accepted that Mr. Robot is definitely still around and plotting to blow up E Corp’s records building, but he’s still playing the chess game, trying to thwart Stage 2 himself rather than tip off the F.B.I. The reason is he needs “to see where this …

A spokesman for Warner Bros. declined to comment. In addition to the cofinancing arrangement, Mr. Ratner will also remove himself from work on the studio’s adaptation of “The Goldfinch,” which he was set to produce. The New York Times spoke to several of the women interviewed by The Los Angeles …

China has made little progress on economic reform goals it laid out in 2013. Out of 10 areas, Beijing has only made progress in one: increasing innovation. China is not reducing its economic reliance on state-owned enterprises or improving wages for migrant laborers. That’s the finding of analysis using a …

Photo Daniel Gerroll and Robin Abramson in “Shadowlands.” Credit Jeremy Daniel When the public mood is a triple-strength cocktail of anxiety and alarm, there is something to be said for theater as comfort food. Heresy, I know — but it can be calming to sit for a while with a …

Photo Beyoncé, pictured in 2015, will play Nala in Disney’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King.” Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times Beyoncé — as close as any modern artist to royalty status in American pop music — will play the queen to be of the Pride Lands …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks during an event in Menlo Park, California. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that defending its 2 billion users from fake news, hate speech and other unwanted content may put a serious dent in …

Photo Mart Crowley, left, the author of “The Boys in the Band,” at a 2009 panel discussion with Laurence Luckinbill, who was in the original cast. Credit Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Mart Crowley’s “The Boys in the Band” is coming to Broadway for the first time next …

Mr. Avrich, 53, chronicled his quest to document Mr. Weinstein — and Mr. Weinstein’s aggressive attempts to thwart him — in a 2016 memoir, “Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business.” It was in that book that Mr. Avrich also claimed that IFC had watered down the …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com speaks during the DreamForce Conference in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2016. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff left a strong message for his 25,000 employees last month after seeing alcoholic drinks and kegs sitting in the office: take them …

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The silhouettes of pedestrians are seen passing in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Tesla shares fell nearly 5 percent in extended trading after the company posted mixed quarterly results. …