One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio is worried about the future of cinema.

• Leonardo DiCaprio is worried about the film industry "changing at a lightning speed."
• The Titanic star wonders if "people still have the appetite" to see movies in theaters in the streaming era.
• DiCaprio also fears cinemas might become "silos — like jazz bars" for a more niche audience.
• Leonardo DiCaprio forced to miss his big moment at the Palm Springs International Film Festival due to travel restrictions enacted after the U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela. 
  

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• NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs. Opened in the early 1990s, the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC Brooklyn, currently houses about 1,300 inmates.
  It’s the routine landing spot for people awaiting trial in federal courts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, holding alleged gangsters and drug traffickers alongside some people accused of white collar crimes.
  A throng of Venezuelan expatriates, many draped in flags, gathered on the sidewalks outside the jail Saturday night to celebrate Maduro’s capture. The crowd cheered as the law enforcement motorcade believed to be carrying the deposed leader and his wife arrived at the jail.
  
  Maduro is not the first president of a country to be locked up there.
  Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, was imprisoned at MDC Brooklyn while he was on trial for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. Convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison, Hernández was pardoned and freed by President Donald Trump in December.