We've rounded up all the key culture releases for the week ahead, from film to music.

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Mark Rylance is mourning the loss of his wife, Claire van Kampen, who died of cancer at age 71 on Saturday, January 18 — his 65th birthday.

“Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance, has died this morning, Saturday the 18th of January at 11:47, in the ancient town of Kassel, Germany, surrounded by her family,” Rylance and their daughter Juliet announced in a statement.

“Claire has died of cancer on Mark Rylance’s 65th Birthday. Her youngest daughter having died in 2012, she leaves her eldest daughter, Juliet Rylance, her two husbands, and countless beloved friends in England and America.”

Claire — a British theatre director and composer who was the first female musical director at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre — was described by her family as “one of the funniest and inspiring women we have ever known.”

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“We thank her for imbuing our lives with her magic, music, laughter, and love,” they added.

Rylance married Claire in December 1989, and became stepfather to her children with ex-husband Chris van Kampen: Juliet, 45, and Nataasha, who died suddenly in 2012 at 28 after suffering a brain hemorrhage on board a flight from New York to London.

“It’s uncharted ground if something tragic like this happens to you. You become aware it has happened to a lot of people. You make your own decisions about how you get through it,” Rylance told The Sunday Times in 2016.

After Nataasha’s death, Rylance went on to be nominated for an Emmy and win a BAFTA for his role as Thomas Cromwell, advisor to Henry VIII and a grieving father and widower, in the TV series Wolf Hall. He also won the Best Supporting actor Oscar in 2015 for his role in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

Claire was diagnosed with cancer prior to her passing. Born in London in 1953, she eventually trained at the Royal College of Music, studying piano and music theory, according to BBC News. She then embarked on a theatre career, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 and, a year later, the Royal National Theatre where she met Rylance. She later became an artistic associate to Rylance at the Globe Theatre, where she worked for 20 years.

She composed original scores for Broadway productions including True West, Boeing-Boeing and La Bete, as well as adaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III.

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“Claire completely changed my life … She introduced me to that world of classical and modern music, and it was very much around music that we fell in love,” Rylance said of Claire in 2023, according to The Guardian.

“Claire came to me with two children whom I raised with her and Chris, but we never had children of our own so, to some degree, our projects have been our children. They are incredible,” he continued, adding Claire was “the rock of my life.”

Justin Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman fired back at Blake Lively’s response to the director’s $400 million lawsuit.

“After my clients filed a comprehensive lawsuit packed with almost 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence which crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing doctored communications to The New York Times, Blake and her legal team have just one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the revoltingly false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni,” Freedman told Deadline in a Saturday, January 18, statement.

Baldoni, 40, sued Lively, 37, earlier this week, seeking $400 million in damages. In the filing obtained by Us, Baldoni’s legal team claimed that Lively was “determined to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to conceal her alleged “tone-deaf” promotion of their film It Ends With Us.

Baldoni directed and starred in the 2024 adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel about an abusive relationship. Lively portrayed protagonist Lily Bloom on screen and also served as an executive producer. Baldoni played Lily’s husband, Ryle Kincaid.

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Months after the movie’s August 2024 premiere, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and fostering a “hostile work environment.” She also claimed in her December 2024 lawsuit that Baldoni attempted to coordinate a concentrated campaign to ruin her reputation. (Freedman, on behalf of Baldoni, denied the allegations at the time.)

Shortly after Baldoni sued Lively last week — also naming her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and their team of publicists in the suit — she denied the accusations.

“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook. This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim,” Lively’s lawyers told Us in a statement. “This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender. Wayfarer has opted to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliation against sexual harassment allegations.”

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The publicists named in the suit also issued a statement.

“It is devastating that we are forced to answer this viciously selfish ongoing litigation littered with documented and provable lies in the midst of the tragedy impacting California where we reside,” the statement shared with Us reads. “Five months ago Ms. Lively chose to promote a film about domestic violence in a way that caused instant negative and organic backlash due to her own highly publicized actions. Instead of accepting responsibility, she decided to cruelly blame us. This malicious attack on private individuals by Ms. Lively and her team in which they chose to spoon-feed The New York Times with doctored, out of context and edited text messages in an effort to paint herself as a victim set off a chain of events that has been harmful beyond measure.”

The message continued, “To be clear, Ms. Lively and her team initiated this smear campaign in the media for the sole intention of gaining undeserved public sympathy for her own missteps. Over the last month we have received death threats, abhorrent abuse and vile anti-semitic slurs hurled at us due to her decision to use us as scapegoats for her own choices promoting her film in which she made millions of dollars. With this filing, we lift our own curtain of what happens when the entitled weaponize power, fear and money to destroy, intimidate and bully those who get in their way.”

Baldoni, meanwhile, has been staying focused on his family in light of the situation.

“We’re grateful to be with the family, man,” he told photographers at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, January 17. “We have amazing friends and family and faith.”

Baldoni shares daughter Maiya, 9, and son Maxwell, 7, with his wife, Emily Baldoni.

TikTok has returned — at least partially — in the US following a nationwide ban, but other popular ByteDance-owned apps, such as the digital card game Marvel Snap, video editing app CapCut, and the social platform Lemon8, are still blocked. None of these apps, including TikTok, are currently available to download on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, either.

Though many users expected CapCut and Lemon8 to be affected by the law banning TikTok, Marvel Snap’s ban took some by surprise — including its own developer. On Sunday morning, the game studio Second Dinner said in a post on X, “This outage is a surprise to us and wasn’t planned. MARVEL SNAP isn’t going anywhere.” Marvel Snap is published by Nuverse, a game developer owned by ByteDance.

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Users trying to open Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8 will see a message similar to the one TikTok displayed when it went dark on Saturday night. “A law banning CapCut has been enacted in the U.S,” the pop-up inside CapCut reads. “Unfortunately, that means you can’t use CapCut for now. Rest assured, we’re working to restore our service in the U.S. Please stay tuned!”

TikTok, along with several other ByteDance-owned apps, shut down in the US just hours before the federal divest-or-ban law went into effect on January 19th. The ban also affects TikTok Studio, TikTok Shop Seller Center, Hypic, Lark - Team Collaboration, Lark - Rooms Display, Lark Rooms Controller, and Gauth: AI Study Companion.

Both Google and Apple display notices to users trying to search for ByteDance-owned apps. While the Play Store says, “Downloads for this app are paused due to current US legal requirements,” a banner on the App Store notes, “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available in the country or region you’re in.”

It’s still not clear when Marvel Snap, CapCut, or Lemon8 will start working again or when they’ll reappear in mobile app stores.

• Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters union have voted in favor of going on strike.
• The strike will start if no deal is reached by the January 31 deadline.
• Teamsters president Sean O'Brien has pledged to win "the strongest contract in Costco's history."

Costco workers are ready to strike.

Unionized warehouse employees affiliated with the Teamsters union have voted "overwhelmingly" in favor of going on strike, the union told Business Insider.

The vote came ahead of a January 31 contract expiration deadline. The contract covers over 18,000 workers across the United States, including the recently unionized warehouse in Norfolk, Virginia.

"Costco's greedy executives have less than two weeks to do the right thing," Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien said in a statement. "If they refuse, they'll have no one to blame but themselves when our members go on strike."

Representatives for Costco did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI on the vote. Costco CEO Ron Vachris addressed the negotiations during a quarterly earnings call in December, saying that the company is focused on a "fair and timely process" to reach an agreement.

"We have a 40-year track record of dealing fairly with the Teamsters union," he added. "And we're going to do everything we can to take care of those employees as we do all of our employees."

Last week, local chapters in New York, California, and Costco's home state of Washington held practice picket activities, carrying signs reading "Just Sampling" and "A taste of what's to come."

Of those who participated in the strike authorization vote, 85% voted in favor. The vote empowers the Teamsters bargaining committee to call for a strike once the contract has expired.

"We are the backbone of Costco," Bryan Fields, a Costco worker in Baltimore and member of Teamsters Local 570, said in a statement. "We drive its success and generate its profits."

O'Brien has pledged to win "the strongest contract in Costco's history," with a raft of proposals, including higher wages and expanded benefits.

Bargaining is set to resume on Monday.

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Commanders starting guard Sam Cosmi will miss the rest of the postseason with an ACL tear, coach Dan Quinn announced Sunday.

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