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‘Awards Chatter’ Live Pod: Zoe Saldaña on 25 Years in Biz, Showing Full Range in ‘Emilia Pérez’ and Willingness to Perform Song “El Mal” on Oscars

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Slovak State Film Grew Out of a Dark Place, Ji.hlava Festival Historian Says

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‘Agatha All Along’ Submits as Comedy Series for Awards Season, Hinting at More Seasons to Come (EXCLUSIVE)

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Dana Walden to Receive Milestone Award at 2025 Producers Guild Awards

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Cotton Malone TV Series Adaptation in the Works at Amazon From ‘Fate: The Winx Saga’ Creator (EXCLUSIVE)

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AFM: Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman to Star in Dark Comedy ‘Chili Finger’ (Exclusive)

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‘Orphan 3’ Officially Announced, Lionsgate Launching Horror Threequel at AFM (EXCLUSIVE)

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Gabriella Garcia Pardo on ‘Fenced,’ Named Most Promising U.S. Doc at Ji.hlava Film Festival: ‘There’s Something Funny About Human Obsession With Control’

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‘Thelma’ Star June Squibb On Potentially Being the Oldest Oscar Nominee, Threatening Ryan Reynolds and Admiring Adam Sandler

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Horror Comedy ‘Glue Trap’ Acquired by Gravitas Ventures (EXCLUSIVE)

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Comedians in Court as U.K. Trial Kicks Off Over Sitcom ‘Copied’ by Steve Coogan’s Production Company

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AFM Hits Las Vegas With New Attitude: There’s ‘Excitement’ and ‘Positivity’ for the Indie Film Event for the First Time in Years

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Viola Davis Narrates Kamala Harris’ ‘Mother’ Campaign Video

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Berlin Film Festival Quits Elon Musk’s X

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15 Best Samples of Quincy Jones’ Music, From Kanye West to the Weeknd to Harry Styles

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Apple Releases a New iPad Mini, Ahead of the Holidays

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‘The Substance’ Gets Streaming Release: Here’s How to Watch the Demi Moore Body-Horror Film Online

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FX Chairman John Landgraf to Keynote at Variety’s Business Managers Breakfast

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Celebrities Fan Out Across Swing States in Final Voting Push for Kamala Harris

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Daniel Craig Wants Netflix to Put ‘Knives Out 3’ in Theaters for More Than Just One Week: ‘Hopefully, They Will Push It Out a Bit’

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Cathy Tyson and Stephen Fry Join Female-Led Folk Horror ‘Black Samphire’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘I Lost My Body’ Director Jérémy Clapin on His Live-Action Debut ‘Meanwhile on Earth,’ Hitting U.S. Theaters This Friday

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‘Is the Sperm Still in There?’: Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on Making ‘Queer,’ the Year’s Most Audacious Love Story

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‘100 Yards’ Review: The Action’s Hot but the Drama’s Lukewarm in This Martial Arts Spectacle Set in 1920s Tianjin

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Sting, Jennifer Hudson Join ‘The Voice’ Season 26 as Mega Mentors

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The Genius of Quincy Jones in 15 Songs

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The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Film With Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan Lands at Lionsgate

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Amazon’s Prime Video Launches AI-Generated TV Show Recaps, Promises They’re ‘Spoiler Free’

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‘Spy Coast’ TV Series in Development at Amazon MGM Studios From Lilla & Nora Zuckerman, Will Graham’s Field Trip (EXCLUSIVE)

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Luke Hemsworth Cast as Crocodile Wrangler in Season 2 of Prime Video’s ‘Deadloch’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘Heretic’ Directors Used End Credits to Warn Hollywood About AI: ‘Let’s Bury It Underground With Nuclear Warheads, Cause It Might Kill Us All’

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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Receives $2 Million Gift for New Orchestral Works by Media Composers

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‘The Master and Margarita,’ Long-Awaited Adaptation of Mikhail Bugakov’s Iconic Russian Novel, Headed for AFM as Luminosity Pictures Reps Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

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Hollywood Bets on Thanksgiving Rebound: Will ‘Wicked,’ ‘Gladiator II’ and ‘Moana 2’ Revive the Sluggish Fall Box Office?

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Former Warner Bros. Executive Blair Rich Joins Legendary Entertainment as Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer

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Colman Domingo Honored With Spotlight Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival – Film News in Brief

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Blair Rich Joins Legendary as Chief Marketing Officer

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Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Danny Huston to Star in Gilded Age Murder Mystery ‘The Artist’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey’ Trailer Unearths Decades-Old Mystery

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Amazon MGM Studios Elevates Tom Lieber to Head of Scripted Series, U.K.

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AFM Buzz Titles: Indie Action Movies, Period Dramas and Genre Thrills Look to Lure Buyers at 2024 Market

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Viola Davis Narrates Kamala Harris Campaign Video: ‘It’s Time for a New Generation of Leadership’

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Robert Zemeckis Says Studio Keeps Asking for ‘Back to the Future 4’ but He’d Rather Direct the Musical Adaptation: ‘I Floated That to Universal. They Don’t Get It’

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Oprah’s Favorite Things of 2024: You Can’t Go Wrong Gifting One of These This Year

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Colman Domingo to Receive Actor Spotlight Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival (Exclusive)

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AFM: Middle East Buyers Shunning This Year’s Market Over Fears of Being Detained at U.S. Border Control

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‘Wild Robot,’ ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Transformers One’ Directors Talk Creating Authentic Animated Features at SCAD

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Robin Wright Rejects Claim That Jenny in ‘Forrest Gump’ Is ‘Kind of an Anti-Feminist Role’: ‘People Have Said She’s a Voldemort to Forrest’

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