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Savannah Guthrie makes offscreen visit to 'Today' show, first since her mother went missing

NEW YORK (AP) — Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance at offices of NBC's “Today” show, her first time back since her mother Nancy went missing from her Arizona home. Guthrie made the appearance Thursday morning. “Today” said Guthrie plans to return to the air eventually but remains focused now on supporting her family. Nancy Guthrie was last seen on Jan. 31 and reported missing the next day, in what authorities believe was an abduction. The Guthrie family has posted a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the 84-year-old matriarch. “Today” has been covering the story intently, and former anchor Hoda Kotb has returned to fill in for Guthrie.

VistaVision, a vintage format left for dead, is revived in 'One Battle After Another' and more

NEW YORK (AP) — VistaVision, the large-scale film format used largely in the 1950s, is enjoying a big-screen revival. At the Academy Awards on March 15, a movie made largely with decades-old antique film equipment is poised to win best picture. “One Battle After Another” is the first film in more than 60 years largely shot with and projected in VistaVision. Another best-picture nominee, “Bugonia,” was also shot on VistaVision. Even in 2026, when most films are shot digitally and AI has begun filtering into moviemaking, the films have showed that a vintage, analog film system can still astonish moviegoers.

Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But it’s alive, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal has set her sights on reimagining 1935’s “The Bride of Frankenstein.” But in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the shock-haired Bride is only on screen for a handful of minutes. Gyllenhaal has refashioned the story from the Bride’s perspective and concocted a protagonist of unfiltered feminist fury. As played by Jessie Buckley, she's both a victim of male control and a reanimated avenging angel.

War Child UK looks to 'Help' again with a new benefit album, 30 years after its first success

Thirty years after the success of its star-studded “Help” benefit compilation, War Child UK is releasing its follow-up called “Help(2)."  The project features Arctic Monkeys, Olivia Rodrigo, Wet Leg and others. The album, out Friday, is meant to raise money and attention for the charity's initiatives supporting children living through war. War Child UK’s Rich Clarke says the timing felt right because musicians now feel they need to act. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker said the band finished a long-stalled song for the album and even allowed children to film him in the studio for the companion documentary.

Denmark is set to explore if gastronomy can be recognized as an art form

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is debating whether top-level cooking counts as art, and the country’s most theatrical restaurants sit at the center of it. The culture ministry is exploring formal recognition for gastronomy. Some chefs say food can carry ideas, emotion, and social messages, like modern performance art. They also say art status could unlock public funding and private grants. But others say food has a different purpose which must be consumed. Art voices say chefs could start competing for the same cultural money.

The to-do list of Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo includes Othello and a memoir

LONDON (AP) — Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo has decades of performances on screen, stage and television under his belt. And he still has a to-do list with four roles he’d like to tackle. Lindo says he plans to make a film about the spirituality of Jamaica, as well as a project about his mom’s journey from the Caribbean to London. He’d also like to play a prominent Black activist, someone like Marcus Garvey. And to revisit Othello on film, after inhabiting the Shakespearean hero twice on stage.

The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!” into a big, wild studio film that reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein as a voice of rebellion. On Friday, the movie opens in theaters with a major rollout including IMAX screens. Gyllenhaal says she wanted to make something more epic than her first film, the Oscar nominated adaptation of Elena Ferrante's “The Lost Daughter.” She also says studio test screenings push her to make useful changes. Jessie Buckley leads the story across several identities, including the titular reanimated corpse. Christian Bale plays the lonely monster by her side.

'Brady Bunch' house, used in exterior shots for the popular sitcom, gets LA landmark status

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The LA city council has voted unanimously to designate the the so-called “Brady Bunch” house in the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument. The vote grants landmark protections to the house on Dilling Avenue that was used for exterior shots of the TV sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974. Interior scenes were shot on a soundstage, with sets that bore no resemblance to the property that become a photo-op magnet for “Brady Bunch” fans. The landmark status protects the home, built in 1959, from demolition or major renovations — but doesn’t prohibit them.

Stella McCartney lets horses steal the show — and makes her point in Paris without saying a word

PARIS (AP) — Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first. The models came second. That told you everything you needed to know about Stella McCartney’s priorities at Paris Fashion Week. The British-American designer staged her Winter 2026 show Wednesday inside a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne, marking the Lunar New Year of the Horse with what amounted to a quiet manifesto: fashion can celebrate animals rather than consume them. The horses, guided by equestrian artist Jean-François Pignon, moved in choreographed patterns around the oval ring as models walked its perimeter. Several were visibly moved during rehearsals, McCartney said.