With multiple songs and ambient interludes, Failure remained connected to their history while showing real growth as artists in the intervening years.
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Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
16 June 2026
There are interludes and narration provided by some big-name actors, Wild West sound effects mimicking galloping horses and stagecoaches, and a posse of guest vocalists.
Ocean Vashti Jude — A writer and director focused on dramas about rowdy characters, people on the downside of advantage, and the misadventures of having to work at life, Ocean is expanding into television directing.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
23 June 2026
In January, Mann entered a deal with Fox Entertainment to produce vertical dramas.
For Dreams of Violets, every image and person in the film is AI generated, but the dramatizations are based on journalistic reports, photographs and eyewitness accounts from which AI video models were used.
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Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
One of the most interesting additions is a batch of History Channel dramatizations of the lives of American presidents.
Unlike her debut, Booksmart, there’s a real sense of formalism at work here, and this update on dark relationship comedies that leave the participants wounded and weary but wiser suggests at a big leap forward.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 June 2026
The Invite has the elements of a lot of classic comedies, a genre that’s been in short supply theatrically.
The school commissions Broadway writers to pen musicals for students each year and recently has added in a new summer musical, where commercial producers can workshop and develop shows.
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Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
25 May 2026
Founded in 2007 by Gary and Erin Lewis, the company produces stage musicals year-round, as well as musical readings and youth drama education programs.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
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