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We've been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda's gloriously heartfelt "Shoplifters," about a makeshift clan of small-time thieves whose familial bonds run at least as deep as DNA. Bong Joon Ho's diabolical Oscar-winner, "Parasite," gave us a nuclear family of con artists who hatch their schemes from their subterranean dwelling. And now comes Miranda July's "Kajillionaire," a portrait of a father-mother-daughter team of Los Angeles scavengers who subsist mainly on coupons and contest entries.
There is a long, questionable and occasionally successful tradition of spinning off iconic literary and film characters through relatives distant and not from James Bond Jr. to John Shaft II and III. In other words, it's not out of bounds that someone would come along and invent a little sister for Sherlock Holmes and eventually make a movie out of it.
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Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Let's take a trip back in American history, but not too way back. To a time not that unfamiliar - the last presidential election. Do you remember all the stuff swirling around in 2016?
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.-brokered deal between the countries to normalize relations.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Regina King and Uzo Aduba used the come-as-you-are fashion edict for Sunday's virtual Emmy Awards to highlight the national struggle for social justice.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Partial list of winners at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. For the complete list, visit Emmys.com:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Latest from the Emmy Awards (all times PDT):
After picking up Venice's Golden Lion award, Chloé Zhao's " Nomadland " has won another prestigious honor: The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award. No film has ever won both.
About three quarters of the country's movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back in significant numbers in the COVID-era, even with new films coming into the marketplace weekly.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a virtual Emmys version of the wrong-winner Oscars gaffe, Ron Cephas Jones' guest actor award for "This Is Us" was announced for another nominee, Jason Bateman.
Carrie Coon so badly wanted the slow-burn familial drama "The Nest" to be made, she told its director that she'd step aside so that he could cast "someone more famous" in her role.
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) - Winston Groom, the writer whose novel "Forrest Gump" was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77.
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) - Winston Groom, the writer whose novel "Forrest Gump" was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77.
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) - Mayor, funeral home: Winston Groom, author of 'Forrest Gump' book that became pop movie sensation, has died in Alabama.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Democrats' fundraiser centered on a star-packed live reading of "The Princess Bride" script raised nearly $4.3 million to help Joe Biden's presidential campaign in the key battleground state, the party said Thursday.
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) - Christian Siriano, who turned his atelier into a mask-making machine, took to his Connecticut backyard Thursday for a cozy fashion show complete with picnic baskets for his small in-person crowd, masks on the faces of his models and a dip in his pool for pregnant muse Coco Rocha.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The remake of "Mulan" struck all the right chords to be a hit in the key Chinese market. Disney cast beloved actor Liu Yifei as Mulan and removed a dragon sidekick popular in the animated original to cater to Chinese tastes.
NEW YORK (AP) - What's it like to be an international film festival sensation without hardly leaving your home? Like most things during the pandemic, it's surreal.
