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Adam Sandler in South Philly filming a movie
Arts & Entertainment

Rocking Philly gear, Adam Sandler plays ‘a local with good taste’ in Netflix basketball movie

Keep a lookout for a South Fellini “Wawa Jawn” t-shirt.

5 years ago

Some 40,000 Regal theater employees are now facing a furlough across the U.S., after the movie chain announced it's closing all locations due to the coronavirus.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Regal movie chain will close all 536 US theaters on Thursday

Some 40,000 Regal theater employees are now facing a furlough across the U.S., after the movie chain announced it's closing all locations due to the coronavirus.

5 years ago

André Robert Lee, director and producer of
Arts & Entertainment

How my time at an elite Philly private school inspired my film about isolation

Filmmaker André Robert Lee, the brainchild behind “The Prep School Negro,” writes about isolation, racism and identity.

5 years ago

This image released by Universal Pictures shows a scene from Jordan Peele's film,
Arts & Entertainment

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.

5 years ago

Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, Carol Kane and Billy Crystal attend the 25th anniversary screening and cast reunion of The Princess Bride in 2012. Several cast members are reuniting for a virtual fundraiser on Sept. 13 to support Wisconsin Democrats. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

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.

5 years ago

Mason Wilkes, 4, of South Carolina, poses for his father in a Black Panther costume, in front of a paining during a Chadwick Boseman Tribute on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, in Anderson, S.C. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Community

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.

5 years ago

Chadwick Boseman arriving for the 90th annual Academy Awards
Community

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.

5 years ago

(Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

5 years ago

AMC
Community

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.

5 years ago

Mann Center exterior
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

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.

5 years ago

Maori Karmael Holmes, founder and executive director of BlackStar Film Festival
Arts & Entertainment

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.

5 years ago

People and cars gathered at a parking lot turned into a drive-in during the coronavirus pandemic
The Why
Arts & Entertainment

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

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Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Is 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.

5 years ago

Watching movies
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Science

How Movies Move Us

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

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Ken Metzner, executive director of the Colonial Theatre
Arts & Entertainment

Brandywine 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.

5 years ago

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