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Super Bowl Ads Adopt a Play-It-Safe Game Plan for Polarizing Times | Analysis
A sharply partisan political environment has made advertisers skittish about the risks of tackling issues
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Muslims’ Pivotal Hollywood Moment: Trump, Karla Sofía Gascón and a TV Landscape Defying Invisibility | Guest Column
For the first time on American television, three series centering Muslim communities will premiere within the first quarter of 2025
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With ‘Emilia Pérez’s Oscar Campaign in Crisis, the Hollywood Finger-Pointing Has Begun
Oscar campaigns are “warfare,” says one insider
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Low Sales. No Standouts. Slow Sundance. Where Does Independent Film Go From Here?
The weakness of independent film has a knock-on effect – and not a good one – on the entire entertainment ecosystem
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Trump’s View of Hollywood Pines for a Past ‘Bathed in Amber’ | Analysis
Mirroring his MAGA slogan, the president clings to an image of movies and TV rooted in an earlier era
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‘I Took the Photo’: Stunning Sundance Doc Challenges Authorship of Famous Napalm Girl War Photo
Sundance 2025: The AP has attributed the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo to Nick Ut since 1972
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Report From Sundance
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The Super Bowl Is TV’s Biggest Event – but for Movie Ads, It’s Not the Only Game in Town
As studios gear up to market this year’s blockbusters, opportunities loom to reach big audiences without a ‘super’ price tag
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I Still Love LA: In Reverie With a Veteran Fire Survivor | Guest Column
With eight evacuations in her rearview, A.L. Bardach knows that wherever you go in SoCal, the one thing you can’t escape is fire
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Still Outnumbered, Hollywood Conservatives Wave Their Flags a Little Higher as Trump 2.0 Begins | Analysis
The start of a second Trump Administration appears to have encouraged his entertainment-industry supporters, while tech CEOs and billionaires still occupy center stage
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Hollywood & Politics
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Will Your AI Agent Be Your Friend or Lover Too? | Commentary
Instead of an assistant that feels like a travel agent, maybe a friend (or romantic partner) is the most likely experience.
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Will Trump’s Attacks on Comedians — and Their Bosses — Send a Chill Through Late Night? | Analysis
NBC’s Seth Meyers and Comcast are the latest targets of the president-elect’s criticism
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The Remains of Malibu: Ashes and Embers in the Sand
A photo essay, WaxWord visits Malibu days after the ferocious Palisades Fire
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Pacific Palisades Is Gone. Up Close and on the Ground It’s Even Worse
A photo essay covering the gut-wrenching devastation of flattened neighborhoods and charred storefronts
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Truthbombs of 2024: Media Is Over, Antisemitism Is Cool, DEI Is Kaput
The shifting landscape of 2025 follows reversals of 2024
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Blake Lively Bombshell Turns Hollywood Against Justin Baldoni, Raises PR Questions
“This is not a traditional crisis plan,” said a PR executive. “This is on another level”
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