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Better yet, this is not part of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days, which means anyone can take advantage of the deals, whether or not you're a Prime member. What movies are on sale? Let’s take a look.

There’s something for everyone in this sale, whether you’re into timeless classics like All the President’s Men and The Wizard of Oz or action-packed thrillers like Twisters, Jurassic Park Rebirth, and Mission Impossible 6: Fallout. Waterworld is in here, too, if you want to see what an exceptionally expensive movie looked like in the ‘90s.

With Halloween coming up, it’s a good time to fill out the horror movie offerings in your collections. You can get movies like Smile, The Ring, It, and Friday the 13th on sale for $11 apiece in this sale. Shutter Island is a dark psychological thriller from Martin Scorsese that has plenty of spookiness as well.

To lighten the mood after watching a fright-fest, you can turn on a comedy like The 40-Year-Old Virgin or American Pie. Or classics like Eddy Murphy’s Coming to America or the SNL skit-inspired Wayne’s World. Beyond those are Watchmen and Warcraft, Hot Fuzz and Tár. Superman’s in there.

Again, whichever movies you want, grab them soon (here's the full sale again). You never know when Amazon will run out of stock and you’ll be stuck paying full price. If you want to see what upcoming physical releases for movies and TV shows are coming up, check out our freshly updated list of 4K Blu-ray release dates.

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These seasonal staples show up in our food as well as our drinks, but some bartenders are also experimenting with unexpected ingredients and fresh takes on classic fall flavors.

To find out which beverages are worth ordering this season and ones you may want to skip, Business Insider spoke with three bartenders about the trends they're seeing the most from behind the bar.

Savory and produce-forward cocktails are having a moment.

Jenneca Younger, a lead bartender at The Mothership in Milwaukee, said savory cocktails are still very much trending — especially if they're made with fresh produce.

"I love a savory cocktail. I feel like there's a big uptick in my social media on all of those tomato martinis," Younger told BI. Ordering a cocktail "dirty" (with olive brine) is in, too.

Additionally, she said, she's also seeing bartenders incorporate purées made from fresh produce, like shisito peppers or squash, into classics like margaritas and gimlets.

Darker days call for darker spirits.

As the weather gets colder in the fall, drinkers tend to gravitate toward more whiskey-based cocktails and darker spirits, Younger said.

In contrast to the lighter, crisper spirits that are popular in summer, Younger said whiskey-based cocktails tend to become more popular as temperatures cool.

Some examples include Manhattans (made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters) and Boulevardiers (often made with bourbon or whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Campari).

Tea-infusions can add unexpected flavors to fall cocktails.

Chris Hewes, beverage director and bartender at Coast Range in Solvang, California, said he's been especially loving tea cocktails lately.

He especially enjoys pairing Thai tea with whiskey, cognac, mezcal, or rum to really extract the tea's vanilla-like flavors.

Espresso martinis with a twist are hitting the spot.

Steve Bell, lead bartender at The Hitchcock in Nashville, said there's been growing interest in riffing on the classic espresso martini.

Customers are liking them with tequila or rum instead of the usual vodka, he said.

"You can get people wanting bourbon espresso martinis, which honestly doesn't sound very good to me, but some people like it," Bell added.

Hewes said he's also been experimenting with creams and toppers for coffee cocktails after being inspired by a drink topped with Chartreuse (an herbal liqueur) whipped cream.

Low-ABV and nonalcoholic cocktails are only getting more interesting.

Both Younger and Hewes said they're seeing bartenders find more and more ways to work low-ABV and nonalcoholic drinks into their menus.

For example, Hewes said, wine is being incorporated into certain cocktails to lower their overall alcohol content.

He said those looking to experiment with lower-ABV cocktails can also try ordering a mocktail or nonalcoholic drink as a flavorful base, then add a small amount of alcohol to it.

On the other hand, overly complicated cocktails may be on their way out.

Fat-washing, infusions, molecular gastronomy, and other fancy tricks have made their way into cocktails over the years, but Bell said people are moving away from overly complicated techniques and back toward something simpler.

"People want riffs on classics, not something that feels like Gordon Ramsay sitting in front of you telling you about all the crazy types of techniques," Bell said.

Let's give the Hugo Spritz a break.

Younger said she's over the Hugo Spritz — a popular summertime drink typically made with prosecco, elderflower liqueur, club soda, and mint.

"It just feels watered down to me," she said. It's time to replace the light, refreshing drink with something that packs more flavor.

For example, a "more flavorful" and timeless French 75 that uses prosecco and mixes it with lemon juice, gin, and simple syrup in a punchy way.

As an alternative, she also suggests Death in the Afternoon, a bubbly drink "with a little more punch" as it's typically made with chilled sparkling wine and absinthe.

Pumpkin spice is getting too predictable.

"I really just think the chai pumpkin stuff is not what people want," Hewes told BI.

Instead of relying on the usual pumpkin-spice flavors, Hewes is looking to seasonal ingredients and desserts for inspiration, including cranberry, rhubarb, sweet potato, and fruit cobblers.

Younger also said using stone fruit, cinnamon, clove, and pimento dram are other more creative ways to bring fall flavors into cocktails.

"Tiny tinis" can be cute, but they may not catch on everywhere.

Mini martinis, sometimes called "tiny tinis," are smaller versions of the classic cocktail, offering a cute presentation as well as a way to have alcohol in a more controlled portion.

Hewes said some bars are trying to make the smaller pours a trend, but he doesn't see the mini version of cocktails taking off in most places.

"I think people get more mad at seeing a small martini, to be honest," Hewes told BI. Those looking to cut back their alcohol consumption may just be better off ordering a lower-ABV drink.

Cucumber cocktails could use an upgrade.

Hewes said he's ready to move away from cucumber in cocktails and recommends swapping it for a more unexpected ingredient this fall.

He suggests arugula as one alternative, which can even take on a honeysuckle-like flavor when combined with honey. Arugula also pairs well with cranberries and strawberries, he said.

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“I’m not going to get into my job requirements or anything like that. But so here’s what I will say. Obviously, there was news this week,” he said, referring to Paramount streaming boss Cindy Holland announcing her departure. “And obviously there’s news across the board. I will say that the merger is not closed. I believe that David [Ellison] and the team want to announce their leadership structure, it’s not mine to announce. So I don’t have any news to confirm.”

At the same time, Bloys said that he’s had many conversations with Ellison, “and he is very excited, very respectful of what the HBO team has done, not just in my tenure, but the entire history of HBO. All of the owners that we have had, we have had people come in genuinely excited and wanting to maintain what we’ve done. And I really believe that he will do that.”

Bloys wouldn’t comment on how soon HBO Max and Paramount+ might merge, or if a bundle was in the immediate future. But he did note that “the HBO Max Disney bundle has been very successful” and a similar setup would make a lot of sense.

As for the question of whether HBO and Paramount+ programming will mesh, Bloys said: “I’ve had people say to me, ‘OK, so the Taylor Sheridan stuff and HBO,’ it’s a version of what people said to us about HBO and the Warner Bros. library. I go back to people who watch HBO tend to like television tend to be consumers of television, and that doesn’t just mean HBO. We had ‘South Park’ on our platform, one of the one of the big properties at Paramount+. It did so well, we sued them when they when they took it off.”

Bloys noted that he learned a lot when Warner Bros. and Discovery merged, and how it ultimately didn’t make sense to combine Discovery fare with HBO content.

“One of the things we found with Discovery was we’d say, “here’s HBO and the Warner Bros. Library and Pay One Movies, and here’s the Discovery content. And what we found out in the world, and what we found through research with current subscribers, potential subscribers, is they didn’t they didn’t want it. We have a strategy officer who has a good line, ‘you have to give subscribers what they want, not what you own.’ And so what we found very quickly in doing research on Max, subscribers said ‘we want movies, we want HBO, we want drama series, comedy series, documentaries,’ and they just weren’t feeling some of the other stuff. So you have to listen to that, and you have to evolve.”

Asked how he reacted to the idea that Netflix might purchase Warner Bros. Discovery — and oversee HBO — Bloys said he wasn’t shocked at the time. “At this point you have to understand I’ve been through two mergers. In this business, which is clearly being disrupted, and having gone through two mergers I don’t think there’s any announcement that would have shocked me. There was a rumor at some point, somebody said to me, ‘I heard Walmart’s going to buy you guys, and I was like, oh.’ You kind of have to be open to whatever. So I was not shocked.”

Bloys said he still sees Netflix as formidable competitors: “They are obviously the leader in streaming,” he said. “They are so far ahead of everybody else from a technological point of view, and that really helps drive their business. When you talk about engagement or you talk about churn, the things you can do to mitigate it. A lot of them are product or technology related, and they have been in it so long, and they’re just far ahead of us. We’re all catching up. We’re all trying our best to catch up, but they have a real expertise.”

On the programming front, Netflix had its worst Emmys showing in several years; does Bloys think this is a blip or a drought for his rival? “They’ll be fine,” he said. “They’re a media company. They’re doing shows, and it’s very natural to have highs and lows. I don’t think there’s anything unusual about it. As has always been the case, one show, one hit changes the narrative.”

As for Apple TV dominating the Emmys this year, Bloys takes issue with pundits who call Apple “the new HBO.” “I take a long-term view,” he said. “When I first started in 2004, it was HBO versus Showtime, and Showtime was going to eat our lunch. And then for a minute it was Starz. AMC is the new HBO, FX is the new HBO, Netflix, ‘House of Cards’ is the new HBO, Amazon is the new HBO. Now Apple is the new HBO. So the only thing I bring up is the historical context of how many new HBOs there have been. I would like to reframe it a little bit to not, ‘is so and so the new HBO,’ but, ‘how does HBO continue to remain HBO?’ I think is the more relevant question.”

Bloys’ decision to still appear at Bloomberg Screentime and answer questions about the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger — including his still-not-announced role there — surprised some. “Most people in my position, given what’s going on, probably would have canceled on you,” Bloys told moderator Lucas Shaw at the start of the interview. %!s()

It was confirmed on Tuesday that an independent commission found City guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.

City have repeatedly denied guilt, and have signalled an intent to lodge an appeal by Friday.

The club were found to have artificially inflated revenue through "sham" sponsorship agreements with the help of their owners.

The independent commission which studied the case found City "utilised devices" to "disguise the true extent of certain club liabilities".

The Treasury Committee, which is responsible for overseeing policies and administration of HMRC, has therefore asked whether the government department has requested the redacted documents contained within the commission's report.

Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Treasury Committee, said she would "welcome reassurance from HMRC that you are seized of the importance of these issues and the public interest in this case".

The letter follows a report from the Tax Policy Associates, external which claims City failed to pay as much as £12m in unpaid tax because of a "sham" contract with former manager Roberto Mancini.

In addition to unpaid income tax and National Insurance, the report claims City could face a penalty charge that would take their liabilities to £24m.

Manchester City will claim as part of their appeal that key sponsorship deals were funded by the Abu Dhabi government, rather than the club's owners.

Owners Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) - a private investment company belonging to United Arab Emirates vice-president and deputy prime minister Sheikh Mansour - are said to have topped up the value of commercial deals as part of a "disguised funding scheme" to the scale of £830.69m.

This, it was argued, enabled the club to appear to comply with Premier League and Uefa financial rules.

However, as first reported by the Daily Mail and Times, sources have told BBC Sport that City are expected to tell an appeal board that they have evidence showing the money directed to sponsors came from the Abu Dhabi government, rather than from ADUG.

Premier League rules allow state-owned bodies to sponsor clubs.

The independent commission detailed how City had "denied there had ever been any disguised funding scheme of the type alleged by the Premier League. Its case was that [it] had misunderstood how Abu Dhabi sponsorship agreements had been funded... The reality was [the club contested] that Abu Dhabi sponsors had always been liable for all recorded sponsorship fees and all had in fact been paid to the club by Abu Dhabi sponsors from their own funds/resources.

"No part of any recorded sponsorship fee had been paid by ADUG or from using ADUG funds. Abu Dhabi sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the Abu Dhabi government toward their liability to pay the recorded sponsorship fees - such applications had been granted…"

The independent commission rejected this submission as "untrue", saying: "We concluded that it was an 'explanation' that the club had concocted well after the event in an attempt to obscure and conceal the realities of the disguised funding scheme."

City's argument is likely to lead to renewed debate over the extent to which City's ownership is separate from the Abu Dhabi state, and over the ramifications of club ownership with state connections.

Mansour is a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, and the brother of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Since the takeover in 2008, City have insisted the club is a completely private enterprise, and not state-owned. However, some critics have questioned the distinction, with human rights campaigners claiming the ownership of City has been used to "sportswash" the UAE.

On Saturday, City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak referred to "irrefutable evidence" that he claimed supports the club's claims of innocence. City have claimed the commission's decision contained "clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe".

It has emerged that Al Mubarak, who was appointed chairman of City following the takeover in 2008, is named as an Emirati diplomat on the UK government's current directory of all foreign representatives.

Representatives of foreign states and their diplomatic staff "enjoy privileges and immunities under the Diplomatic Privileges Act (1964)", giving diplomats immunity from prosecution under criminal, civil and administrative laws.

City's principal sponsor Etihad Airways has said it is considering legal action against the Premier League, claiming the release of the commission findings had "damaging implications… despite the airline not being named in the redacted published findings".

The UAE's state-owned national airline said it "categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication that suggests the airline has ever been involved in improper commercial arrangements".

Etihad is owned by sovereign wealth fund L'Imad which is chaired by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the son of the UAE president.

The Premier League declined to comment when contacted by BBC Sport.

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Several school principals were injured, harassed or assaulted during blockades at high schools on Thursday, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives.

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Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycees, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France.

At Marseille’s Victor Hugo high school, the teachers were inadvertently splashed as a student attempted to throw petrol into a rubbish bin, local authorities said. Earlier, the prosecutor’s office had ⁠said the teachers had been assaulted and “doused in petrol”.

At another school in the city, Saint-Exupery high school, hundreds of young people surrounded a firetruck that had arrived to put out a blaze in the morning, police said. The attackers forced the firefighters to flee the vehicle, then set it alight.

In Nantes, firefighters extinguished a fire at a high school entrance following what regional education officials called a gathering “marked by violence towards staff”. In Strasbourg, trams were halted to “restrict the movements of rioters and demonstrators”, and students burned barriers on tram tracks, authorities said.

“There are 35 of us per classroom. With 35 degrees Celsius [95 degrees Fahrenheit] in summer, it’s unbearable. There aren’t enough toilets, and there are water leaks in some rooms,” Raphael, a 17-year-old who withheld his surname for fear of reprisals, told the AFP news agency outside a protest in Strasbourg.

“The building is falling apart, the cafeteria is too small. There’s zero budget, zero resources, not enough supervisors.”

His frustration echoes a wave of student anger that has spread across France since last week, as high school pupils protest and grievances snowball into nationwide unrest.

Some 340 demonstrations were under way outside high schools by mid-morning on Thursday, with more than 160 schools shut down as a result, police said.

University students joined in, blocking access to about 30 campuses, including in Paris and Marseille, according to a student union.

Authorities have reported many dozens of injuries – some from thrown objects, others reportedly from police riot-control projectiles.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police have opened internal investigations into brutality allegations involving three students.

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu convened a crisis meeting and asked ministers to cancel upcoming official travel so authorities could focus on the demonstrations, his office said.

French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said that he would successively meet representative staff unions and parent and student associations on Friday.

The unrest has become entangled in the race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron next May. The government has accused the far-left France Unbowed party of encouraging the protests. Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon said Wednesday that his party “called for nonviolent methods of struggle” and criticised the government’s response as repressive.