Movies

Hollywood's awards season kicks off Sunday with the Golden Globes

7:13am January 05, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

The ceremony will air on CBS after a few years of controversy. The hit movie Barbie leads the Golden Globes nominations, including best director and best picture musical or comedy.

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As 2023's strikes catch up with Hollywood, box office revenue is expected to drop

5:13pm January 03, 2024

by Bob Mondello

After three consecutive years of box office gains, the film industry expects revenues to be sharply down in 2024. The reason: aftereffects of the strikes by writers and actors.

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Arts

Remembering 'Full Monty' actor Tom Wilkinson

1:38pm January 03, 2024

by Dave Davies

The British actor, who died Dec. 30, appeared with Helen Mirren in the series Prime Suspect and later earned Oscar nominations for In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton. Originally broadcast in 2005.

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British actor Alex Cox, Mexican actress Blanca Guerra and Ana Ofelia Murguía (center), Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein and Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola pose as part of the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Murguía died Sunday.

Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90

6:00pm January 02, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Murguía was a lauded actor with a decades-long career in film, television and theater. She's best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch in Coco.

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Hollywood loves to churn out 'great man' movies. This year stands out, critic says

5:27pm January 02, 2024

The year 2023 saw quite a few movies about "Great Men": Oppenheimer, Napoleon, Maestro, Ferrari. How did these films play into or subvert expectations around those kinds of stories?

The year that broke the movie mold

4:13pm January 02, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Superhero fatigue, Barbenheimer, Taylor Swift — 2023 was a year when Hollywood's rulebook flew out the window.

Bradley Cooper plays composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro.

To become the 'Maestro,' Bradley Cooper learned to live the music

2:56pm January 02, 2024

by Terry Gross

In his new biopic Maestro, Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernstein. Instead, the actor worked with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to find his own rhythm.

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The original 1928 script for Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon to star Mickey Mouse.

Arts

'Steamboat Willie' is now in the public domain. What does that mean for Mickey Mouse?

5:12am January 01, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

A 1928 movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse enters public domain on Jan. 1. But creative and commercial access to the character is complicated by both copyright and trademark law.

English actor Tom Wilkinson poses for photographers on the red carpet ahead of the Royal and World Premiere of the film The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in London on Feb. 17, 2015.

Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for 'The Full Monty' and 'Michael Clayton,' dies at 75

3:55pm December 30, 2023

by Juliana Kim

Wilkinson died suddenly at home on Saturday, his family confirmed. His wife and family were with him, they said in a statement.

Maurice Hines, seen in 2005, appeared alongside his younger brother Gregory Hines during the first part of his career.

Arts

Broadway actor, dancer and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

2:29pm December 30, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Maurice Hines, who started tap dancing at the age of five, starred alongside his late brother Gregory Hines in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club.