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'Barbie' music producer Mark Ronson opens up about the film's 'bespoke' sound

1:58pm February 02, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Ronson spent a year creating Barbie's music, and co-wrote the song, "I'm Just Ken," which has been nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy. Originally broadcast Sept. 7, 2023.

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'The Teachers' Lounge' is a surprising look at a set of troubled faculty and students

4:40pm February 01, 2024

by Bob Mondello

"The Teachers' Lounge", Germany's Oscar nominee for Best International Feature, looks at tensions in a middle school while implicating wider social forces.

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Actors Susan Lawson-Reynolds, Beth Angus, Deborah Ayorinde, and Bethany Antonia in Hallmark's adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

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Hallmark recasts 'Sense and Sensibility' and debuts other Austen-inspired films

1:07pm February 01, 2024

by Carole V. Bell

This month, the network debuts Loveuary, a quartet of films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly Black lead cast.

Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico.

Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in fatal film set shooting

9:48pm January 31, 2024

by The Associated Press

A grand jury in Santa Fe indicted Baldwin in January after prosecutors received a new analysis of a gun the actor pointed at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during rehearsal for the film Rust.

Emma Stone has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Bella in Poor Things.

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How 'Poor Things' actor Emma Stone turns her anxiety into a 'superpower'

1:43pm January 31, 2024

by Terry Gross

The Oscar-winning actor experienced her first panic attack at age 7. But Stone says acting helps with her anxiety, because it draws on her "big feelings" and forces her to live in the moment.

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Why doesn't Martin Scorsese join crowds in theaters to watch his own films?

6:42am January 30, 2024

Scorsese, who has another Oscar nomination for best director, told Variety he doesn't watch in theaters mostly because he's short, and doesn't want to deal with someone taller sitting in front of him.

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How to win an Oscar

6:04pm January 27, 2024

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins, hosts of The Big Picture podcast, about the industry in Hollywood dedicated to campaigning for the Oscars.

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Billie Eilish at the 32nd Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards Gala in Los Angeles, Oct. 8 2022. The pop star is flanked by her mother Maggie Baird (left) and EMA CEO Debbie Levin.

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Hollywood has been giving out climate change-focused awards for 33 years. Who knew?

5:00am January 27, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

Now in its 33rd year, the Environmental Media Awards might be the most celebrity-studded awards ceremony you've never heard of.

Time Bomb Y2K looks back on the time when we thought civilization might collapse because computers wouldn't be able to handle the switch from the 1900s to the 2000s.

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and browsing

5:00pm January 26, 2024

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The movie Time Bomb Y2K, the show The Traitors, actor Richard E. Grant's Instagram and more.

Clockwise from top left: stills from Girls State, Exhibiting Forgiveness, A Different Man and My Old Ass.

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Sundance Festival breakthroughs of 2024: Here are 14 new films to look forward to

4:56pm January 26, 2024

by Aisha Harris

The 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival included a satisfying mix of independent film stalwarts like Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater — plus plenty of bold new voices, too.