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🎧 Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle
Monoculture is alive in July! Plus: Emmy noms’ winners and losers
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How to Say ‘Box Office Bummer’ in Minionese
The latest sequel underwhelmed over July 4, but Universal’s low-budget franchise math still adds up
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19 Riveting Reads for a Long Weekend
Rats, cigarettes and reckonings: our best (so far) of 2026
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🎧 The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer
100 notables tell us what’s in their luggage — and on their nightstands
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100 Notables’ Summer Book Picks: Kathy Kennedy, Neal Mohan, Zohran Mamdani, Triple H & More
Stars, creators, politicos and power players reveal what they’re reading
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🎧 What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk
Janice Min & Natalie Jarvey unpack France’s ad dollar smackdown; plus, YouTube’s Mary Ellen Coe & Brittany Broski
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‘Supergirl’ Is ‘Cooked’: Sean McNulty & Ben Fritz on DC’s Flop
An autopsy on what went wrong with Warner Bros.’ superhero flop: ‘It didn’t have stars. It didn’t have big IP’
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🎧 The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine
What Telemundo and Peacock’s ratings success means — and why the broadcast rights deal was a GOOOOOOAL for Fox
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🎧 Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal — and Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars
At Cannes Lions, the exec makes his first public remarks to Janice Min on the mash-up set to reorder the streaming wars
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Sonny Bunch & Sean McNulty: ‘Toy Story’ Is a Franchise Like No Other
Thirty-one years after its start, the Disney and Pixar juggernaut hits a high-water mark. Sean and The Bulwark’s culture editor go inside the numbers