6am Newscast September, 7, 2026

0:00As Hollywood finishes a possibly record breaking $4.7 billion dollar summer, NPR's Bob Mandello looks at how theaters are planning to keep audiences coming in during the fall and winter months. No superheroes until December, but what fall lacks in conventional blockbusters, it hopes to make up in variety and depth. Dramas include a social network follow-up called the social reckoning about Facebook, which was as big as the biggest country on Earth. We're not finding the Congress or post government. Please, please let me quote that. Action flicks from Godzilla minus zero to a hunger game sequel. Welcome to the second quarter quail. Biopix include Jimmy about Jimmy Stewart. I saw that in a movie. Oh my gosh, Donna really works. And the true underdog story behind Sylvester Stallone's underdog story. That's someone like Chuck Bronson, or we could do Eastwood. Good guys. I play rock. Not to mention animated films for kids from Dr. Tune. I'm the cat. The cat. To a strong, achieved mystery, the face of

1:00all before Thanksgiving, usher's in award season Bob Mandello and PR news. Gas prices are at a record high for the Labor Day period averaging four dollars, 14 cents a gallon nationwide. That's nearly a dollar more than a year ago and above the previous holiday record set in 2012. Prices of climbed amid the war with their run and disruptions affecting oil shipments through the state of hormones. These old prices hit another record high today at 590 per gallon. Wall Street is closed for the Labor Day holiday stocks resume trading on the exchange tomorrow. This is NPR News. Support for NPR comes from the Public Well Fair Foundation, committed to advancing a transformative approach to justice that is community led, restorative and racially just learn more at publicwellfair.org and the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation at Macbound.org.

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