Eagles in Hollywood

A few famous 精东影业 alumni have been quite busy recently.听

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Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler 鈥93 is back in movie theaters this spring with Inside Out 2, a sequel to the 2015 Pixar hit about human emotions. Poehler returns as the embodiment of joy, who lives inside a young girl鈥檚 head, along with anger, fear, sadness, and disgust. The first film saw Poehler鈥檚 character, Joy, struggle when Sadness becomes a stronger part of the girl鈥檚 emotional life as she begins to enter puberty, and the sequel takes the girl deeper into adolescence.

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Comedian and writer Gary Gulman 鈥93 ended 2023 strong, with the premiere of his latest comedy special, Born on Third Base. The show, which examines Gulman鈥檚 childhood growing up in poverty, is streaming on MAX and was called both 鈥渞adical鈥 and 鈥渢echnically impeccable鈥 in a rave review by New York magazine, which praised his ability to mine comedy from heavy subject matter. Gulman also recently published a memoir, Misfit, about growing up as an awkward kid in 1980s Boston.

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Writer and director Lulu Wang 鈥05 serves as the showrunner on the new Amazon Prime series Expats, which stars Nicole Kidman and follows the lives of a group of expatriates living in Hong Kong. Wang, who is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed film The Farewell, directed every episode of Expats, which is based on a novel by Janice Y. K. Lee about three women leading very disparate lives who find connection and community with each other while living abroad.听