Laura Dern, right, and her mother Diane Ladd have adapted a series of their conversations into the new book Honey, Baby, Mine. They are pictured above in Los Angeles in 2015. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
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James Cameron walks in Purmamarca, Argentina, earlier this month. He's compared the OceanGate submersible tragedy to that of the Titanic itself. Javier Corbalan/AP hide caption
Jason Schwartzman and Tom Hanks in a scene from Asteroid City. Courtesy of Pop. 87 Productions hide caption
Ida and Isidor Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic in 1912. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Mamoudou Athie voices Wade and Leah Lewis voices Ember in the new Disney Pixar film Elemental. Disney/Pixar hide caption
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Two New Orleans-area residents wear 3D glasses for a Revenge of the Creature screening in February 1982. AP hide caption
A general view of atmosphere at the premiere of "The Flash" on Monday, June 12, 2023, at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles. Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
Every superhero has an origin story. So does every superhero's superfan. Here's mine.
Scarlett Johansson as Midge Campbell Pop. 87 Productions/Focus Features hide caption
Ezra Miller in The Flash. Warner Bros. Pictures & DC Comics hide caption
British actor Glenda Jackson in April, 1974. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Concept art for Disney and Pixar's Elemental by the director Peter Sohn. Pixar hide caption
Earth, air, fire, water — and family — are all 'Elemental' for Pixar's Peter Sohn
Barry Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller) is full of running gags. Warner Bros. hide caption
Melvin Gregg, Grace Byers, Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, Jermaine Fowler, Dewayne Perkins, and X Mayo in The Blackening. Glen Wilson/Lionsgate hide caption
In the horror spoof 'The Blackening,' it's survival of the Blackest
A myriad of workers rallied in downtown Los Angeles in support of striking writers, during an event called "The Unions Strike Back" on May 26, 2023. Mandalit del Barco/NPR hide caption
'It's gonna be a hot labor summer' — unionized workers show up for striking writers
In The Blackening, Lisa (Antoinette Robertson) and her friends try to survive a weekend getaway turned deadly. Glen Wilson/Lionsgate hide caption
Screenwriters around the world are organizing pickets and other actions on June 14 in support of the ongoing Writers Guide of America strike. Above, Writers Guild of America workers picket outside the Warner Brother studios, on May 2, 2023 in Burbank, Calif. Eric Thayer/Getty Images hide caption
Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of Second Act in New York on Dec. 12, 2018. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Peter Cullen voices Optimus Prime in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Paramount Pictures hide caption
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A scene from the Brazilian film "Nurses Facing Covid" ("Na Lihna de Frente"), one of the "Grand Prix" winners in this year's Health for All Film Festival. Klimt Publicidade and the institution Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, via World Health Organization hide caption