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It’s no longer enough for a movie to have a memorable poster and a preview. It’s no longer enough to have an A-list cast do a few photo shoots and appear on late-night TV. Audiences want more, and the game book for celebrity press tours is now a game of attention-based hot potato. Casts not only subject themselves to relentless promotion but strive to generate their own story alongside their movie, oftentimes becoming a meme of their own making. 2025 capped off with the bizarre and bemusing press tour for Wicked, which drew upon Barbie’s culture jacking and unprecedented amount of “acting delulu,” perhaps inspiring a number of other celebrities to behave in all sorts of ways as they went out to plug their flicks throughout the year. Most of them did a good job. Some went above and beyond.
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“If anyone can survive, wait around, and weigh her options, it’s her.” |
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Vecna is trying to destroy the whole world, after all. |
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Depending on where you stand nine years into Stranger Things’s run, his big scene in “The Bridge” might’ve moved you to tears — or fallen entirely flat. |
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Creator Jacob Tierney wants a CRJ orig for season 2. |
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He played State Senator Clay Davis in all five seasons of the show. |
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Stanley Kubrick made only 13 features over the course of his career. Eleven of them are among the greatest pictures ever made. |
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A conceptual switcheroo, the Met’s Innocence, and a piano concerto by the movie-music king. |
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