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How Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli became an animation powerhouse

7:04pm July 15, 2023

Internationally famous animation artist Hayao Miyazaki's final film How Do You Live was released this week in Japan. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Susan Napier, author of Miyazaki World: A Life in Art.

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John Boyega and Juel Taylor talk new existential thriller 'They Cloned Tyrone'

4:13pm July 14, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to actor John Boyega and director Juel Taylor about the new Netflix movie They Cloned Tyrone.

SAG-AFTRA joins the biggest Hollywood strike in decades

4:13pm July 14, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Kim Masters, editor-at-large at The Hollywood Reporter, about the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike happening in tandem with a writer's strike for the first time since 1960.

Tom Cruise is back, and doing his own stunts, in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.

Arts

Tom Cruise hangs on for dear life to his 'Mission' to save the movies

1:40pm July 14, 2023

by Justin Chang

Film critic Justin Chang doesn't know if Cruise can save the movies but he never gets tired of watching him try. Cruise does his own outrageous stunts in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.

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The SAG-AFTRA building is seen during contract negotiations in Los Angeles on July 13, 2023.

Arts

Hollywood actors go on strike, say it's time for studio execs to 'wake up'

7:03pm July 13, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and performers, is on strike against major studios after negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Biggest Hollywood strike in decades: SAG-AFTRA walks out after negotiations collapse

4:57pm July 13, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive director and Chief Negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, about the decision by the actors' union to strike.

Looming actors strike reflects major tensions in Hollywood

5:46pm July 12, 2023

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing some of Hollywood's biggest stars, is set to go on strike Thursday. Barring a last-minute breakthrough in talks, it could be the latest strike to shake up Hollywood.

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Arts

'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning' is impossibly full of surprises

4:25pm July 12, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Tom Cruise, still doing his own stunts, which this time include riding a motorcycle off a cliff in the Alps, returns as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1.

Protesters wave flags and hold placards in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati, Metro Manila on July 12, 2023, during a demonstration held to mark the seventh anniversary of an international arbitral ruling that voided China's historical claims to the South China Sea, including the nine-dash line.

World News

After a review, 'Barbie' movie will show in the Philippines, after all

3:15pm July 12, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

The country's film regulator has decided that a map shown in the movie does not depict China's controversial nine-dash line.

Margot Robbie poses on the pink carpet at a Barbie event in Seoul on July 2.

Arts

'Barbie' is pretty in pink — but will she also be profitable?

1:29pm July 11, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Warner Bros. and Mattel set out to create a movie marketing machine — including more than 100 brand collabs and viral social media campaigns — to build excitement for the film's July 21 release.

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