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Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August

Read full article: Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August

Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with Friday's release Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*.”.

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Inside the Oscars: What you didn’t see on the broadcast

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What you see on the television broadcast is only part of the story at the Oscars.

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The Sundance Film Festival goes online this week. Here’s how to watch the films

Read full article: The Sundance Film Festival goes online this week. Here’s how to watch the films

Access to the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t require a trip to Park City, Utah anymore; Just an internet connection.

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For documentaries at Sundance, Oscar nominations (and wins) often follow

Read full article: For documentaries at Sundance, Oscar nominations (and wins) often follow

The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent film showcase in Park City, Utah.

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Marlee Matlin, a trailblazer for deaf actors, opens up in a new documentary

Read full article: Marlee Matlin, a trailblazer for deaf actors, opens up in a new documentary

Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.”.

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Everything you need to know about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Read full article: Everything you need to know about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

The annual Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah.

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Jurors leave Sundance premiere over closed captioning glitch

Read full article: Jurors leave Sundance premiere over closed captioning glitch

Marlee Matlin, Jeremy O.

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Nazanin Boniadi spotlights Iranian women at academy event

Read full article: Nazanin Boniadi spotlights Iranian women at academy event

“Rings of Power” star Nazanin Boniadi has delivered a powerful plea to prominent Hollywood creatives to support female protesters in Iran at an event Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles.

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Selena Gomez honored for mental health advocacy work

Read full article: Selena Gomez honored for mental health advocacy work

Pop star and actor Selena Gomez is being honored for her work as an advocate for mental health awareness.

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Oscars org adds Marlee Matlin, Jason Reitman to board

Read full article: Oscars org adds Marlee Matlin, Jason Reitman to board

Actor Marlee Matlin, director Jason Reitman and producer Jason Blum are joining the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Oscar wins for 'CODA' bring tears, elation to Deaf community

Read full article: Oscar wins for 'CODA' bring tears, elation to Deaf community

The three Oscar wins for the film “CODA” have provided an unprecedented feeling of affirmation to people in the Deaf community.

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Oscar Moments: The night emotion won, for better and worse

Read full article: Oscar Moments: The night emotion won, for better and worse

Every Oscar show has its big moments, but Will Smith’s slap heard ’round the world overshadowed them all this year.

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Deaf actor Kotsur wins Oscar for supporting role in 'CODA'

Read full article: Deaf actor Kotsur wins Oscar for supporting role in 'CODA'

Troy Kotsur, the first deaf male actor nominated for an Oscar, won best supporting honors for his role in “CODA” at the Academy Awards.

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Troy Kotsur's road to making history at the Oscars

Read full article: Troy Kotsur's road to making history at the Oscars

Troy Kotsur is just the second actor who’s deaf to be nominated for an Academy Award.

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'CODA' to be adapted to the stage by Deaf West Theatre

Read full article: 'CODA' to be adapted to the stage by Deaf West Theatre

“CODA,” the Oscar-nominated film about a singing teenage daughter in a deaf family, is being developed as a stage musical by the Los Angeles-based Deaf West Theatre.

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Oscar Preview: Five big questions ahead of Sunday's awards

Read full article: Oscar Preview: Five big questions ahead of Sunday's awards

The Academy Awards have always loved a comeback story.

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'CODA' gains Oscar momentum with top prize at PGA Awards

Read full article: 'CODA' gains Oscar momentum with top prize at PGA Awards

“CODA” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, giving momentum to the possibility that the small film could have a big night at next week’s Oscars.

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From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards

Read full article: From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards

From Bradley Cooper to Steven Spielberg, some of Hollywood’s brightest stars came together to relax and sip wine in a fancy ballroom where everyone ended up walking away a winner at the American Film Institute Awards on Friday.

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‘Lost Daughter’ wins top prizes at Independent Spirit Awards

Read full article: ‘Lost Daughter’ wins top prizes at Independent Spirit Awards

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” “Drive My Car” and “Summer of Soul” were among the big winners at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday.

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'CODA' takes top honors at SAG Awards, Will Smith wins

Read full article: 'CODA' takes top honors at SAG Awards, Will Smith wins

In an upset, the deaf family drama “CODA” has won top honors at a very unpredictable 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards that also saw wins for the leads of “Squid Game,” the cast of “Ted Lasso” and Will Smith.

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Deaf musicians part of Super Bowl halftime show for 1st time

Read full article: Deaf musicians part of Super Bowl halftime show for 1st time

The Super Bowl will include a spectacular halftime show, as usual.

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Couples, deaf actors, and an unlikely singer mark Oscar noms

Read full article: Couples, deaf actors, and an unlikely singer mark Oscar noms

This year's Oscar nominations brought double acknowledgment for two sets of couples.

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Actors, comedians and president react to Betty White's death

Read full article: Actors, comedians and president react to Betty White's death

Tributes from fellow actors and comedians poured in on social media Friday in reaction to the death of Betty White.

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NBA All-Star Kevin Love honored for mental health advocacy

Read full article: NBA All-Star Kevin Love honored for mental health advocacy

Five-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love is being honored by a Boston foundation for his work on and off the court to take the stigma out of mental health struggles.

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'Free Guy' gives box office a lift, opening with $28.4M

Read full article: 'Free Guy' gives box office a lift, opening with $28.4M

“Free Guy,” an action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a background character in a videogame, opened better than expected over the weekend.

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'CODA': A landmark crowd-pleaser for a year light on crowds

Read full article: 'CODA': A landmark crowd-pleaser for a year light on crowds

The coming-of-age story about the only hearing member in a deaf family “CODA” is poised to be something that’s been hard to find in a year light on crowds: a bona fide, heart-bursting, tell-everyone-about-it crowd-pleaser.

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New this week: 'CODA,' Chance the Rapper film and 'Heels'

Read full article: New this week: 'CODA,' Chance the Rapper film and 'Heels'

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Lizzo and Ben Platt and an animated series on Disney+ that features a bevy of heroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in reimagined events called “What If.

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Academy Awards television audience plummets to 9.85 million

Read full article: Academy Awards television audience plummets to 9.85 million

The Nielsen company says its preliminary estimate shows the Oscars audience on ABC dipped to slightly under 10 million viewers.

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Disabled nominees hope their Oscar moment becomes a movement

Read full article: Disabled nominees hope their Oscar moment becomes a movement

Disabled performers and filmmakers have a moment in the Oscar spotlight that they hope becomes a movement.

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Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt join Oscars starry presenting cast

Read full article: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt join Oscars starry presenting cast

The Oscars are aiming to be more like a movie than a television show and enlisting A-list stars like Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon to help.

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One Good Thing: Special Olympian spreads message of love

Read full article: One Good Thing: Special Olympian spreads message of love

(Gary Schottle via AP)Gary Schottle arrived in time to see the other kids in line hitting and jumping on his young son. Special Olympics changed everything. Special Olympics has since branched out to more than 170 countries, empowering more than 5 million athletes who had often been cast aside. In 20 years of Special Olympics competition, Tank's confidence has soared, his leadership spreading across playing fields, the Houston area and beyond. Once one of the bullied, he has become a living embodiment of the Special Olympics message.

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Sundance Film Festival unveils slate for 1st virtual edition

Read full article: Sundance Film Festival unveils slate for 1st virtual edition

The film will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP)Sundance Institute programs. Organizers on Tuesday unveiled a robust and diverse slate for the festival, which will be largely virtual due to the pandemic. Yutani said that the Sesame Street documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street” is likely to be a crowd favorite. “We all are so excited about the possibility of encountering people who’ve never been to the festival," Jackson said.

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'Empire' star Taraji P. Henson hailed for mental health work

Read full article: 'Empire' star Taraji P. Henson hailed for mental health work

“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson has enjoyed wealth, celebrity, a Golden Globe win and an Academy Award nomination. “It’s OK to not be OK," Henson, the latest recipient of the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion, told The Associated Press via email. In 2018, the Washington, D.C., native started the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to stop those with mental illness from being stigmatized — especially Blacks, who she says are less likely to seek treatment. This year, with the coronavirus pandemic complicating people's mental health struggles, Henson's foundation has been helping African Americans — who've been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 — access free online therapy. “We need more people like Taraji to continue to eliminate the stigma around mental health across all our communities in America.”___Follow AP New England editor Bill Kole on Twitter at http://twitter.com/billkole.

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