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Clockwise from top left: Inside Out 2, Thelma, Twisters, Hit Man, Fancy Dance and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Disney/Pixar, Magnolia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Apple TV+, Netflix hide caption
Clockwise from top left: Industry, My Lady Jane, The Bear, The Umbrella Academy, Clipped and House of the Dragon Nick Strasburg/HBO, Jonathan Prime/Prime Video, Chuck Hodes/FX, Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix, Kelsey McNeal/FX, Ollie Upton/HBO hide caption
Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel in New York on March 7, 2006. Jim Cooper/AP hide caption
"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney. Kenny McMillan/Penguin Random House hide caption
Jeremy Allen White in The Bear. FX/Hulu hide caption
Crystal Wilkinson's praisesong biscuits Felix Cruz hide caption
A rental DVD is dispensed from a Redbox at a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles in 2009. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the owner of Redbox, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Nicole Kidman as Brooke Harwood and Zac Efron as Chris Cole in A Family Affair. Aaron Epstein/Netflix hide caption
Contestants on Love is Blind live apart from one another and do not see each other before agreeing to be married. Netflix hide caption
Minnesota Lynx players lock arms during a moment of silence in honor of Breonna Taylor before a game in July 2020. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP hide caption
Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One. Gareth Gatrell/Paramount Pictures hide caption
Alicent (Olivia Cooke). Theo Whitman hide caption
Emergency Quarters Illustrations © 2024 by Gracey Zhang hide caption
'Emergency Quarters' are for pay phones (remember those?) in a new book by ‘90s kids
Pedestrians walk past the Fabulosa Books store in San Francisco's Castro District on Thursday. The bookstore is sending LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are censored to counter the rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries. Haven Daley/AP hide caption
Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A/Getty Images North America hide caption
'Wait Wait' for June 29, 2024: With Not My Job guest Christian Mcbride
A century-old wrestling competition in Chittagong, Bangladesh, known as Abdul Jabbar's Boli Kheladraws thousands of spectators annually. In this picture from April 24, 2023, two wrestlers go at it on a sandy stage in front of a street audience. Sanchayan Chowdhury hide caption
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A robot smiles with the help of mechanical actuators beneath a flexible layer of living skin, in an image released by University of Tokyo researchers. Takeuchi et al. CC-BY-ND hide caption
Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A hide caption
Martin Mull participates in "The Cool Kids" panel during the Fox Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton hotel on Aug. 2, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption
Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto. FX hide caption