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c. US$9-billion. The figure was up US$2-billion from 2022 thanks to blockbusters like Barbie, Oppenheimer and Wonka, but still fell short of pre-pandemic norms.
b. Jo Koy. Stand-up comedian Koy, who also recently starred in Easter Sunday, will host this year’s awards. Fey, Poehler and Meyers have all hosted the ceremony in the past, while Kimmel will host this year’s Oscars.
a. 1959. Kogawa’s first poem was published in the Toronto-based church magazine, Presbyterian Record. Many of the poems in the latest collection are dedicated to friends, family and public figures: her daughter Deidre, late poet Roy Kiyooka, Olivia Chow and Jack Layton.
c. Strangers. The tale of grief and generational pain, critic Barry Hertz writes, is the season’s great tearjerker – “but this isn’t a movie that should be measured in tears.”
Paul Mescal stars in All of Us Strangers alongside Andrew Scott.
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c. Ethan Cohen. The film stars Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan, with Matt Damon, Colman Domingo, and Pedro Pascal among the supporting cast.