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New Museum Opens Its Fall Season With Arthur Jafa's Largest Survey
The New Museum reopens September 24 with Arthur Jafa's largest survey, Diego Marcon's first New York museum solo and a wider season of talks, screenings and community programs.
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Gustavo Dudamel Begins New York Philharmonic Era After 17 Seasons in LA
Gustavo Dudamel has begun his tenure as music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic after 17 seasons leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Reboot Opens With a New Survivor Story
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opens in theaters with Austin Abrams leading an original survival story inside the long-running horror universe.
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MoMA Opens a Career-Spanning Yuen Woo-ping Martial-Arts Film Retrospective
MoMA's new Yuen Woo-ping retrospective opens with Blades of the Guardians and traces five decades of action choreography and filmmaking.
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Cleveland's Silent Film Festival Revives John Ford's ‘3 Bad Men’ With Live Piano
The Cleveland Museum of Art screens John Ford's 1926 western ‘3 Bad Men’ tonight with an improvised live score by pianist Jackie Warren.
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John Legend and Pharrell Williams Build a Full-Album Collaboration on ‘Muse’
John Legend is turning a longtime creative relationship with Pharrell Williams into a complete album. Legend has announced Muse, a 16-track project produced in full by Williams and scheduled for release October 23 through Republic Records. The collaboration gives the album a clear artistic...
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Lucas Museum Countdown Puts Popular Art and Film History Under One Roof
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens September 22 in Los Angeles with 30-plus galleries, film screenings, a research library and a 13-acre campus.
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Being Heumann Opens TIFF With a Disability-Rights Story Built for the Big Screen
Siân Heder’s Being Heumann opened TIFF with Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann. The film brings the 1977 disability-rights protest to a new audience.
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Tyler Perry Reopens the Marriage Question for a New Generation on Netflix
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Again? reunites the original couples around a new wedding, using a legacy franchise to examine how relationships echo across generations.
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Star Trek Turns 60 With Restored Films, Global Events and a Los Angeles Celebration
Star Trek marks 60 years with restored theatrical screenings, an outdoor Los Angeles event, worldwide fan activities and a record-attempt Vulcan salute.
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Location Managers Guild Honors the Places Behind 2026’s Biggest Films
The 2026 Location Managers Guild International Awards put the physical world of film and television at center stage, honoring the teams that find, secure and manage the places viewers often remember as vividly as the performers. The ceremony, held in Santa Monica on August 22, recognized work across feature films, episodic television, commercials and the public agencies that help productions operate on location. Feature-film honors were divided between One Battle After Anothe
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Venice’s 2026 Film Lineup Sets the Stage for an Unusually Global Awards Season
The Venice International Film Festival has published the films for its 83rd edition, sharpening the picture of an unusually international fall movie season. The festival runs from September 2 through September 12 on the Lido, with a program that brings established auteurs, emerging filmmakers, documentaries and immersive work into one of cinema’s most influential launchpads. The competition includes new work from directors such as Danny Boyle, Werner Herzog, Hirokazu Kore-eda
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Richard Linklater’s Los Angeles Tribute Puts Boyhood, Waking Life and Dazed and Confused Back on the Big Screen
The American Cinematheque will honor Linklater with a two-night Aero Theatre series and an in-person Boyhood conversation.
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Titus Kaphar’s ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Moves From Screen to Museum
The Minneapolis Institute of Art will unite nine paintings made for Titus Kaphar’s film in the project’s first museum exhibition.
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A Christmas Story Actress Tedde Moore Dies at 79
10 August 2026 Tedde Moore, the Canadian actress best remembered for playing Ralphie Parker’s teacher Miss Shields in the beloved holiday film “A Christmas Story,” has died at the age of 79. Moore died in Huntsville, Muskoka, surrounded by her family, according to a statement shared on her Facebook page. The actress had been living with multiple sclerosis since being diagnosed in 2009, but continued working and remained closely connected to the acting community and the enduri
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Dukes of Hazzard Actor and Former Congressman Ben Jones Dies at 84
09 August 2026 Ben Jones, the actor who became a television favorite as mechanic Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard” before embarking on an unexpected career in politics, has died at the age of 84. Jones died at his home on August 9 after suffering a massive heart attack, according to his wife, Alma Viator. She shared the news publicly, remembering her husband as a deeply loved partner who lived a remarkably full life. Jones reportedly died peacefully while preparing t
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Ignites Fierce Debate Among Leading Literary Scholars
06 August 2026 Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become more than a box office spectacle. The filmmaker’s ambitious adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic has sparked an unusually heated intellectual debate, with prominent classicists, writers and scholars clashing over whether Nolan successfully reimagined one of literature’s most influential stories or stripped away too much of what made the original endure. At the center of the controversy is Emily Wilson, the celebr
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Molly Ringwald Reveals a Difficult Co-Worker Made One Television Role Her Worst Acting Experience
05 August 2026 Molly Ringwald has spent decades building a career filled with memorable films and television roles, but one project stands out for reasons she would rather forget. The actress recently revealed that her time working on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” ranks as the worst professional experience of her acting career, largely because of one unnamed person whose behavior made the production particularly difficult. Ringwald, 58, made the revelation during
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Samantha Morton Opens Up About the Challenges of Finding Work at 49
04 August 2026 Samantha Morton may be earning some of the strongest reviews of her career for her performance in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster The Odyssey, but the acclaimed actress says critical praise has not translated into new opportunities. In a candid interview, Morton revealed that she has not worked for more than a year since completing the film, attributing the slowdown to ageism within the entertainment industry. Her comments have reignited conversations about the
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Spider Man No Way Home Actress Mary Rivera Remembered After Her Passing at 82
03 August 2026 Mary Rivera may have appeared on screen for only a few minutes, but her heartfelt performance in Spider Man: No Way Home left an unforgettable impression on millions of moviegoers around the world. The actress, who portrayed Ned Leeds' beloved Filipino grandmother in the blockbuster Marvel film, has died at the age of 82. Although her acting career included just one credited film role, Rivera's warmth, authenticity, and memorable screen presence earned her a sp
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