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    Here’s a preview of this Sunday’s Calendar cover in the 🗞️ Director gave us a tour through the streets of Mexico where he grew up & filmed his deeply personal movie . 5 key takeaways from his time with ⬇️

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  2. “If you have a female director, you’re more likely to have female characters onscreen, females in the lead, females over 40 and above, more underrepresented characters and also more individuals working in other key behind the camera positions."

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  3. In the 75-year history of the , a woman has earned a nomination for best director 7 times — 2 of those 7 were second nominations, meaning that just 5 different women have ever been recognized

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  4. For tomorrow's , even the trophy got a makeover. The winners will be handed trophies that are bigger, heavier and more ergonomically sound than those from last year

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  5. Danai Gurira on : Marvel embraced that we came "with this other perspective & deep desire to say things in an African language. They allowed us to feel like collaborators. As a result we all feel a collective ownership—which is really special"

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  6. Review: "Surviving R. Kelly" explores decades of alleged sexual abuse by the singer and an industry's complicity

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  7. 3 ways Netflix could fix its cash-flow problem 💰

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  8. “If Hollywood wants to change [inclusion] overnight onscreen, hire underrepresented casting directors. A handful of people are perpetuating the exact same ecosystem and stories that we see.”

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  9. Another year, another increase to your monthly pay-TV bill

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  10. "Memory collides with forgetfulness in an image just ambiguous enough to pull viewers in and leave them hanging." "Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings" is on display at the now through early February

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  11. Fans flock to "Bird Box" house in Monrovia to pose in photos as craze over film soars

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    Some "Harry Potter" fans just learned Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms

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  13. Cuaron dedicates to the woman who raised him. “It was a whole reconsideration. Not only seeing all of these layers of her, but inevitably the immense pain that it gave me that I had never stopped to consider those things & and in someone that I love"

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  14. 5⃣ 's lead character, played by , is based on 's real-life nanny, an indigenous woman of Mixtec origin who lived with the family since he was an infant. “I'm talking about one of the humans that I love the most.”

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  15. 4⃣ Making required Cuaron not only to reconstruct the physical Mexico of the ’70s, but to reconstruct social & political circumstances that, as a white, middle-class man, he’d been privileged to ignore: classism, racism & the physical isolation of serving as live-in help

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  16. 3⃣ By the ’70s, the neighborhood was fraying in parts, referred to in jest as "Colonia Roña," remembers . "Like a scab.” The time frame of was a forbidding political period. “It was very claustrophobic. It was a feeling of fear."

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  17. 2⃣ was determined to shoot not on sets but in real architecture from the '70s. The interiors of the house he grew up in were remodeled so he settled for a similar home nearby & shot exteriors on the same block his family lived on

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  18. You can count on these stars taking the stage on Sunday: Kristen Bell, Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, Taron Egerton, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz are all set to present

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    ⚡️ “Hollywood hired more black directors but fewer women in 2018 (Study)” by

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  21. 1⃣ The Cine Metropolitan opened in Mexico City in 1943. started seeing movies there in the 1970s (and made it a mission to a watch a movie in every Mexico City movie theater). 📽️🍿 He returned here to shoot key scenes for .

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