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‘The Little Mermaid’ Star Halle Bailey Gets Advice From 1st Nonwhite Actress to Play Ariel: ‘Keep Your Head Up’
“I never had one kid in 300-something shows over the course of a year say, ‘Oh, you don’t look like Ariel,’” stage actress Diana Huey tells TheWrap
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Nicki Minaj Asked to Cancel Saudi Arabia Concert by Human Rights Foundation
“You will be in league with the people who respond to freedom of expression and thought with murder,” HRF CEO and president writes in open letter
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Writers Explain Why Hero’s ‘Spider Sense’ Is Now the ‘Peter Tingle’
“I assure you, we went around and around and tried all different kind of things,” co-screenwriter Erik Sommers tells TheWrap
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How AR Games Attract Moviegoers to Their Seats Early
“If they can get 5 million people to download their game app and play their trivia game and make a dollar a month per player…that’s meaningful,” Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter says
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Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake Casts Singer Halle Bailey as Ariel
“Grown-ish” actress is one half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle
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Black Filmmakers From the ’90s Call Out Hollywood Prejudice and Getting Stuck in ‘Director’s Jail’
“It’s like they set us up to fail — all they wanted was to be able to pat themselves on the back like they did something,” Darnell Martin tells The New York Times
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‘Toy Story 2’ Blooper Scene About Sexual Misconduct Edited Out of Re-Release (Video)
Post-credits scene from 1999 film is absent in new 4K and digital versions
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Has Biggest Tuesday Opening of All Time With $39.2 Million
Sony is projecting a $125 million 6-day weekend for the Marvel film
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‘Breaking Bad’ Movie Coming ‘Even Sooner’? Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Tease New Image (Photo)
At least that’s what Walter White and Jesse Pinkman say
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‘The Lion King’ Featurette: Hear Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner Sing ‘Hakuna Matata’ (Video)
Disney’s live-action remake opens July 19
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Jillian Bell to Join ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Cast
’22 Jump Street’ actress will star alongside Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in comedy sequel
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Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ Trailer: Chris Evans Tells His Family to ‘Eat S—‘ (Video)
Murder mystery starring Daniel Craig opens Nov. 27
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IFC Films Nabs SXSW Satire ‘The Day Shall Come’ With Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks
Latest from “Four Lions” director Christopher Morris will release theatrically and on demand Sept. 27
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‘Yesterday’: We Need to Talk About That Surprising, Divisive Reveal (Spoiler Alert)
“When we came to test the film, yes, there are some people that don’t like it at all. But other people like it enormously,” director Danny Boyle tells USA Today of the scene
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Nick Cannon, Annie Lennox and 16 Other Surprising New Academy Members
How were Oscar winners like Adele, Phil Lord and Chris Miller not invited sooner?
