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Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Flies to Third-Biggest Second Weekend of All Time With $145 Million

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‘The Odyssey’ Makes History as Christopher Nolan’s Top-Grossing Movie Ever, Beating ‘Dark Knight Rises’

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Protest at the Locarno Film Festival Remembers 60,000 Names of the Dead of Gaza

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David Ellison Is Promising Theater Owners Contractual Guarantees for Paramount-Warner Bros. 30-Film Annual Slate. But What if Moviegoers Don’t Care?

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‘Down the Arm of God’: Caleb Landry Jones Project, Created With People Without Housing, Is a “Conversation Starter, Not an Advocacy Film”

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Locarno Sufi Trance Doc ‘As Light as Air’ Director Umair Bilal on Surrendering to a Pakistani Shrine Town: ‘I Became Part of Its Rhythm’

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John Carpenter Has Been to Hell and Back

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‘Our Time Will Come’ Review: Two Orphans Journey to Accra to Find Their Kin in an Emotionally Absorbing Ghanaian Drama

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James Gray Says Actors “Dictate the Style” of Films and Explains Why, When People Talk in a Cinema, “You Want to Kill Them”

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Luca Guadagnino Explains Why He Just Had to Produce Giovanni Tortorici’s Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Ketticè’ in a “Sterile” Italian Film Landscape

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In ‘Demons,’ Love and Betrayal Become a Metaphor for the Relationship Between Russia and Ukraine (Exclusive Trailer)

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‘Donkey Princess’ Review: A Princess Escapes the Kingdom, but Not the Patriarchy, in an Inventive, Shape-Shifting Fairytale

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Naseeruddin Shah, Gurvinder Singh Turn a Village’s Real Grief Into Locarno Competition Title ‘Rehmat’: ‘It’s Important That These Films Get Made’

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‘Objet a’ Explores Desire and Control in an Age When We “Touch Flat Screens More Than Our Lover’s Skin”

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Mahesh Babu’s Look in S.S. Rajamouli’s ‘Varanasi’ Unveiled

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Whitney Houston Gets Her Own Barbie, Recreating Iconic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Look

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Gina Prince-Bythewood Discusses the Worldbuilding of ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ and Praises Author Tomi Adeyemi as a ‘Genius’

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The ‘One Night Only’ Writer and Producer Have Seen Your Questions and Have (Some of) the Answers

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Is ‘Gutted’ on ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Closing Night: Producing on Broadway Is ‘Unsustainable’

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Warner Bros. Uses AI Dog Podcast to Promote ‘The End of Oak Street’: ‘Ewan McGregor Was Excellent With Treats’

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Perez Hilton ‘Will Require Surgery’ After Live Stream Incident, Family Demands Media ‘Cease Photographing Perez’s Children’

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‘Abbott Elementary’ Stars Sheryl Lee Ralph and Janelle James on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: ‘We’ve Lost Too Many People’

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Author Brushes Off Negativity Surrounding Season 2 Casting

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Monica Barbaro Teases Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI Film ‘Artificial,’ Addresses Timothée Chalamet’s Ballet Comments

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Morrissey Cancels Las Vegas Residency Days Before Showtime Due to ‘Unforeseen Logistical Issues’

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L.A. Jazz Festival, Which Was Supposed to Feature John Legend, Janelle Monáe and Hundreds More, Canceled at the Last Minute

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Barack Obama Pokes Fun at Tan Suit Controversy on Larry David’s HBO Show Finale

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Anthony Michael Hall Says John Hughes Wanted a ‘Breakfast Club’ Sequel Where the Original Cast Is ‘In Their 30s’

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‘Cookie Queens’ Review: A Doc About Girl Scout Cookies, Produced by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Is Too Much of a Reality-Show Ramble

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Bill Maher’s Joke About Ariana Grande’s Weight Draws Groans From ‘Real Time’ Audience

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Giovanni Tortorici on Working With Monica Bellucci Who Plays an ‘Eccentric’ Aristocratic Matron in His Luca Guadagnino-Produced Film ‘Ketticè’

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40 Years Ago, Rob Reiner Turned Stephen King’s Most Personal Story Into a Surprise Hit

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Olivia Wilde Says She’s Become ‘So Much More Romantic’ Because of ‘The Invite’: ‘It Melted the Cynic Out of Me’

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‘Tony’ Star Dominic Sessa on How Being a ‘Liar’ Helped Him Portray Anthony Bourdain and Why the Film Foreshadows His Later Struggles

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Atlanta-Based Liaison Pictures Joins France’s Because the Night Productions on Locarno Match Me! Title ‘Behemoth Ann Holds a Seance’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Olivia Wilde Says She Fought for ‘The Invite’ to Get a Cinema Release: “They Bribe You to Not Take Theatrical”

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Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Swings into Second Weekend With $43 Million on Friday

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Scores $145M for Third-Best Second Weekend Ever

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Yash’s ‘Toxic’ Trailer Unveils Dual-Role Father-Son Conflict at Core of Gangster Epic

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How ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s’ Climactic Fight Scene Secretly Evokes Jean Grey’s Phoenix

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‘Ketticè’ Review: An Amusing, Original Portrait of Adolescent Ennui Against a Backdrop of Adult Cluelessness

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Monica Bellucci Plays a Mother Who Yells and Is the “Victim of a Social Role” in Luca Guadagnino-Produced ‘Ketticè’

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Satyajit Ray’s ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ Making to be Chronicled in Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Maharaja Tomare Selam’

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‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming’ Review: An Affecting Trans Relationship Drama Brings Fresh Perspective to the War in Ukraine

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No, Brian Eno Is Not Behind the Film Soundtrack for ‘At Night.’ Experimental Musician Elvin Brandhi Is.

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‘Asphalt Guerrilla’ Blends Fact, Fiction, AI and a Story About Filmmaking to Hold Up a Mirror to Our Time

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Taylor Swift Song ‘August’ Removed From Trump TikTok Video

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Filmmaker Elham Ehsas Wants You to Know Afghanistan Sent a Man to Space in 1988

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Dwayne Johnson Addresses ‘Moana’ Mixed Reviews After Film Underperformed at Box Office

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Behind the Scenes of Obama’s Acting Cameo in ‘Life, Larry’: Blaming Larry David for His Tan Suit Debacle, Improvising Lines and Ranting About Ketchup

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