Movies
Hollywood’s inclusion problems still run deep, study finds
In the most popular films of 2019, protagonists were more diverse than ever, and there were more women behind the camera.
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Inconceivable! ‘Princess Bride’ fan Ted Cruz criticizes cast support for Democrats
Several cast members including Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal and others will reunite for a live-streamed script reading and a question-and-answer session.
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Chadwick Boseman honored as hometown hero in native South Carolina
A viewing of “Black Panther” was held at an outdoor amphitheater where people practiced social distancing.
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Philly grieves death of Chadwick Boseman — Black superhero on screen and in life
Boseman’s death left Philadelphians grieving the loss of a beloved Black icon.
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Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer
As his Hollywood career boomed, though, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, according to a family statement.
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New Jersey movie theaters will remain closed, federal judge says
The decision upholds Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order that kept theaters closed even as other public places were allowed to reopen.
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Fairmount Park gets a drive-in showing free movies outside the Mann
The pop-up theater will run for six weeks, and there’ll be food trucks on site.
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BlackStar Film Festival finds a new home at Philly’s Annenberg Center
Festival creator Maori Karmael Holmes has been hired to bring cinema back to the Annenberg Performing Arts Center.
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Drive-ins are making a comeback
Drive-ins are making a comeback as the COVID-19 era's socially distant entertainment venue. It turns out their origin story has a big chapter here in 1930s Camden, N.J.
Air Date: August 3, 2020
Listen 18:19Is a ‘floating cinema’ popup coming to Philly with social distancing boats? Yeah, probably not
News reports promise the same event in half a dozen cities. Local officials haven’t heard anything about it.
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Movies may not be real — but in a lot of ways, they’re real to us. Great films help us understand the world, history, and one another ...
Air Date: July 3, 2020
Listen 49:07Brandywine Museum and Colonial Theatre raise the curtain on reopening
The Brandywine and Colonial are the first Philly-area museum and theatre to reopen since COVID-19 shut everything down.
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Listen 2:53AMC pushes back movie theater reopening by 2 weeks
The company said Monday that it would open approximately 450 U.S. locations on July 30 and the remaining 150 the following week.
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AMC Theaters reverses course on masks after backlash
The chain changed its position on mask-wearing less than a day after the company became a target on social media for saying it would defer to local governments on the issue.
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Hollywood says Black Lives Matter, but more diversity needed
Hollywood's record in diversity and inclusion has improved in recent years, but it still lags behind the population — particularly in its executive ranks.
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