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Brooks Barnes

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Hollywood reporter for the NYT since 2007. Montanan in exile.

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"Timmy" is magnificent (imho), along with the always-great Edward Norton, but Monica Barbaro was also !! as Joan Baez. A star-making performance? "The big surprise among the leads is the group’s relative newcomer, Monica Barbaro." hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r… via @thr

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A lot of filmmakers took interesting risks this year šŸ‘ But the box office, for the most part, swung squarely back to the same-old, same-old šŸ‘Ž This is why studios take fewer and fewer chances on original movies: nytimes.com/2024/12/31/bus…

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Item: The Globes, long an ungodly mess, have seemingly pulled themselves together. Icky contretemps continue behind the scenes, however. nytimes.com/live/2025/01/0…

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Golden Globe voters did little to clear up a blurry awards picture in Hollywood on Sunday, giving little-seen films like ā€œThe Brutalistā€ and ā€œEmilia PĆ©rezā€ roughly equal treatment and snubbing some perceived Oscar front-runners, including "Anora." nytimes.com/2025/01/05/art…

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After two days closed for the fires, Universal Studios Hollywood was back in the business of manufactured reality on Friday. A quick dispatch: nytimes.com/live/2025/01/1…

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Hollywood finds itself in a surreal spot: reeling from personal loss with much of the business untouched At Disney alone, 64 employees lost their homes. But there was almost no moviemaking in LA to disrupt -- all shooting elsewhere nytimes.com/2025/01/14/bus…

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ā€œCan we help in setting up temporary schools? Can our Imagineers help design new town centers? Rebuilding is not just about money. It’s about ingenuity and determination.ā€ nytimes.com/live/2025/01/1…

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Alex Gibney sold his doc film company to Wendy Schmidt -- Google money -- and will expand into more progressive-issue topics. She told me she made an offer to buy Participant but Jeff Skoll decided he'd rather shut it down šŸ‘€ nytimes.com/2025/02/06/bus…

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ā€˜You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama nytimes.com/2025/02/13/mag…

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The British family that has steered the James Bond franchise for more than 60 years, zealously protecting the superspy from the indignities of Hollywood strip mining, has agreed to relinquish control to Amazon. nytimes.com/2025/02/20/bus…

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After spending two days at Epic Universe in Orlando, I can say: Believe the hype! The new megapark lives up to its name and then some. nytimes.com/2025/04/05/tra…