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Jennifer Aniston's production company plans to reboot '9 to 5'

3:37pm April 26, 2024

The 1980 classic starred Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as three women seeking revenge against their sexist boss. It made more than $100 million at the box office.

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Art (Mike Faist), Tashi (Zendaya) and Patrick (Josh O'Connor) are embroiled in a love triangle in Challengers.

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Watch a tense romantic triangle play out on the tennis court in 'Challengers'

1:41pm April 26, 2024

by Justin Chang

Three superb actors — Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor — star in this sweaty, sexy, entertaining drama about tennis stars with a very complicated past.

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Three tennis players can't seem to quit each other in 'Challengers'

7:30pm April 25, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor star in Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, a romantic, tennis-centered screwball dramedy.

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How streaming, mergers and other major changes are upending Hollywood

2:38pm April 25, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the changes.

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Adam Moss allowed NPR into a space only two other people have seen: his painting studio.

In a collection of 40+ interviews, author Adam Moss tries to find the key to creation

5:00am April 24, 2024

Author Adam Moss interviewed more than 40 creative minds to find out how they went from a blank page to finished work of art.

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Judi Dench on a career and friendship forged by Shakespeare

4:04pm April 23, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Judi Dench and director Brendan O'Hea about their new book Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent and a career and friendship forged by the Bard.

Kevin Bacon visits 'Footloose' school before it's torn down — and in time for prom

4:34pm April 22, 2024

by Ciara Hulet

The Utah high school where Footloose was filmed invited Kevin Bacon to visit for their prom on the 40th anniversary of the film's release.

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A.I. and the movies

5:36pm April 20, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

A look at some of the news and controversies surrounding several uses of generative AI in the movie industry this week, including a trailer for a nonexistent James Bond film starring Margot Robbie.

Students carrying signs on April 18, 2024 on the campus of USC protest a canceled commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian who has publicly supported Palestinians.

USC cancels filmmaker's keynote amid controversy over canceled valedictorian speech

11:50am April 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

USC announced the cancellation of a keynote speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu just days after making the choice to keep the student valedictorian, who expressed support for Palestinians, from speaking.

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Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola

2:27pm April 19, 2024

by Terry Gross

Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.

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