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
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Corky (Gina Gershon) and Violet (Jennifer Tilly) in Bound. AJ Pics/Alamy Stock Photo hide caption
Years before intimacy coordinators on Hollywood sets, there was the 1996 film Bound
Steve Carell voices Gru in Despicable Me 4. Universal Pictures hide caption
Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) and her cat Frodo try to avoid alien attack in A Quiet Place: Day One. Gareth Gatrell/Paramount Pictures hide caption
Jon Landau stands for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in February 2023 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on “Titanic" and the “Avatar” series, has died. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel in New York on March 7, 2006. Jim Cooper/AP hide caption
Leslie Bricusse's multicolored "Doctor Dolittle" calendar. Library of Congress hide caption
Mia Goth and Halsey in MaXXXine. Justin Lubin/A24 hide caption
Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel in New York on March 7, 2006. Jim Cooper/AP 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
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
Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
Mother and daughter Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) share a slow New England summer in Janet Planet. Courtesy of A24 hide caption
Lupita Nyong’o as as Samira in A Quiet Place: Day One. Gareth Gatrell/Paramount hide caption
Lilly Gladstone in Fancy Dance. Apple TV+ hide caption
Michelle Buteau arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 10. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: 'I better start living'
Striking Writers Guild members picket alongside SAG-AFTRA members outside Netflix studios in September 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
This image released by Disney/Pixar shows, from left, Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, Disgust, voiced by Liza Lapira, Fear, voiced by Tony Hale and Anger, voiced by Lewis Black, in a scene from Inside Out 2. Pixar/AP/Disney/Pixar hide caption
Jesse Plemons plays three different characters in Kinds of Kindness — an effort that won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'
June Squibb and Fred Hechinger in Thelma. Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Actor Donald Sutherland at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2017. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Pixar's new movie Inside Out 2 revisits the internal life of Riley, as she hits puberty and copes with a growing range of emotions. Pixar hide caption