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Will an Expiring Copyright Be Superman’s Kryptonite? • Hollywood braces for the DC Comics hero to leap to the public domain

IMITATION GAME • Iconic IP that has entered the public domain

A User’s Guide to the Near Future • Top execs, innovators and a TikTok star talk 2024 trends at Variety’s CES summit

You Can Sit With Us • How Paramount sold ‘Mean Girls’ to a new generation of moviegoers

NOTES ON FILM • Movie musical projects that will have Broadway buffs heading to the big screen

The Next Action Hero • At 94, June Squibb shows Tom Cruise how stunts are done

My Generation • In ‘Stress Positions,’ John Early and Theda Hammel create a comedy of millennial manners

Our Last, Best Guess • Final Oscar nomination predictions as a fiercely competitive awards season reaches a pivotal moment

EXPOSURE

BIGGER VS. BETTER • Shari Redstone, David Zaslav and other industry leaders face hard choices amid intensifying pressure to deliver more profits

And the Winners Are — • A delayed Emmys still brought the glamour and some surprises

The Winners

Expert Witnesses • Critics Alison Herman and Aramide Tinubu react to the Emmys — from the groundbreaking inclusion to the art of the theme song to the use of the word ‘impactful’ to describe 9/11 TV coverage

In Living Color • From vibrant gowns and sharp tuxedos on the silver carpet to after-party celebrations, television’s biggest event of the year was an evening to remember

Never Too Late • When the long-delayed 2023 Emmy Awards finally kicked off Jan. 15 at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, executives and power players added sparkle to the diamond-hued carpet rolled out to celebrate the 75th annual ceremony

It’s a ‘Barbenheimer’ Awards Season • The duo dominated guild awards nominations, much like they did the 2023 box office

Mean Girls

Death and Other Details

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Joel Kinnaman • “It was so fascinating to see how this strong all-American deals with the ultimate tragedy and how that broke him and how it changed him.”