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Hall & Oates Legal Battle
Hall & Oates are embroiled in a confidential legal battle that has led to Daryl Hall getting a restraining order against his former music partner John Oates.
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A Fired ‘Scream’ Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel
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Congressman Joaquin Castro Urges Hollywood to Give Latino Films a ‘Fair Chance’
Dear Hollywood, As the Thanksgiving holiday dawns, I urge you to include Latino films and performances on your winter watch list and give Hollywood Latinos and their projects a…
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Box Office: ‘Napoleon’ Makes $3 Million in Previews, ‘Wish’ Follows With $2.3 Million
Disney is wishing upon a box office star this Thanksgiving, as its latest animated movie “Wish” takes on Apple and Sony’s historical drama “Napoleon.” “Wish” is expected to come…
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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Review
Netflix's "Squid Game" reality show can't escape the dark, dystopian fact of its own existence: a treatise invited into exactly what it was meant to critique.
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‘Napoleon’
Ridley Scott ricochets between the battlefield and the bedroom in this bloated take on the French despot.
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‘Wish’
Disney has become a company so focused on itself that it has now produced a kind of fairy-tale signifier of its own brand.
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‘Saltburn’
Big on style but thin on substance, Emerald Fennell's second feature gives Barry Keoghan an overdue starring turn.
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‘Trolls Band Together’
The third installment of DreamWorks's animated franchise reunites an NSYNC-like group (and NSYNC itself) for self-deprecating fun.
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‘The Buccaneers’
"The Buccaneers" Is a frenzied, feminist and bold reimagining of London's 19th-century marriage market.
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‘The Gilded Age’
Season 2 tries to have its cake and eat it, too.
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'Fellow Travelers'
Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey entwines an erotic love affair with a sharp historical epic.
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‘Neon’
Netflix's reggaeton series finds its rhythm amid a glossy Miami landscape.
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‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
Taylor Swift's new vault tracks bridge the gap between 2014 and the "Midnights" era.
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‘For All the Dogs’
Drake's latest launches with an uncharacteristically weak batch of songs and buries its clearest highlights in the second half.
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‘Scarlet’
Doja Cat, always underestimated, has the last laugh on this fiery album.
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‘Guts’
Olivia Rodrigo sends teendom off with a bang in a sophomore album that is just as much brash fun as 'Sour.'
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‘Purlie Victorious’
This revival of the Ossie Davis satire is a delightful romp centering Black joy and the absurdity of racism.
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‘Rebecca’
The musical's English-language debut is a remarkable debacle.
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‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’
If pratfalls piling up is wrong, this Ahmanson production doesn't want to be right.
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‘Back to the Future’
The car is the star in this underwhelming screen-to-stage duplication.
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Why Hollywood Should Pursue TikTok Content With Extreme Caution
A new original series hints at ambitions for the video app, but the industry must walk a fine line to succeed on the app
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‘The Color Purple’: Could Fantasia Barrino Be the Second ‘American Idol’ Star to Win an Oscar?
Barrino is no stranger to playing Celie — she reprises the role she inhabited on Broadway in a 2007 musical adaptation of Alice Walker's beloved 1982 book
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What Did We Learn? Hollywood Is Back in Biz, but Ripple Effects of Strike and Streaming Shakeout Are Just Starting
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What Did We Learn? Hollywood Is Back in Biz, but Ripple Effects of Strike and Streaming Shakeout Are Just Starting
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Christopher Nolan on Turning ‘Oppenheimer’ Into a Near-$1 Billion Hit — And What’s Next
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Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed
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