DID YOU KNOW a cola company got us Santa Claus look? | Facts about Santa's suit? | Christmas Special

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The LEGO® Movie 2 - International Trailer - Warner Bros. UK

The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, “The LEGO® Movie 2” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. The battle to defeat them and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are......

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD | Kit Harington and Toothless’ Lost Audition Tapes

Attention Vikings! Kit Harington and Toothless’ long-lost audition tapes have been found. Watch now. In Cinemas February 1 Genre: Epic Animated-Adventure Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harington, Craig Ferguson, F. Murray Abraham Written and Directed by: Dean DeBlois Based on the Books of: Cressida Cowell Produced by: Brad Lewis, Bonnie Arnold .............

'Ben Is Back' Team on Addiction Drama's Personal Connections

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"It's hard to find a family in America that's not touched by [the opioid] epidemic in one way or another," producer Nina Jacobson told The Hollywood Reporter about the movie following a family whose recovering son leaves rehab to spend Christmas at home.

Addiction drama Ben is Back tells the story of one family dealing with the opioid crisis ravaging America, as the eponymous recovering addict son Ben (Lucas Hedges) leaves rehab to spend Christmas at home and finds himself facing familiar dangers and challenges.

But the filmmakers hope the movie, which also stars Julia Roberts as Ben's mother will have broad appeal despite its smaller scale.

"It's hard to find a family in America that's not touched by this epidemic in one way or another," producer Nina Jacobson told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the New York premiere of Ben is Back earlier this month. "And yet it's very hard to talk about it all at once and what you wanted was a story like what Peter wrote which was emotional and a page turner and an emotional thriller in a way that has a watchability about it and still has enormous compassion and complexity in how it looks at this struggle."......
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Stuntwomen for Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly & More | Women of Action | THR

Stuntwomen for Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly, Sarah Michelle Geller and Candice Paton talk a changing industry. Get to know Renae Moneymaker, Heidi Moneymaker, C.C. Ice, Ingrid Kleinig, Rochelle Okoye, Zoe Bell and Sydney Olson, the real women of action!

Netflix Picks Up Paramount Horror Film 'Eli'

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Director Ciaran Foy ('Sinister 2') is behind the feature, which is set in a secluded clinic.

Netflix has picked up the horror film Eli from Paramount.

The pic was originally slated for a Jan. 4 release and was set to be the sophomore feature from studio label Paramount Players.

Eli, from director Ciaran Foy (Sinister 2), tells the story of a secluded clinic where a boy with a rare disease is being treated. Soon, the clinic becomes a haunted prison without a way out. David Chirchirillo penned the script, which made the 2015 Black List............
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Official Trailer 2 - In Theaters May 31

Following the global success of “Godzilla” and “Kong: Skull Island” comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic MonsterVerse, an epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history.
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra,
Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.

Fox Family Movie Challenge | Dinosaurs vs Dragons | Fox Family Entertainment

Would you rather have a Dinosaur or a Dragon as a pet? Find out who makes the cut with Fox Family Entertainment! Featuring: Ed Speleers (Eragon),Sienna Guillory (Eragon), Jeremy Irons (Eragon), Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), Skandar Keynes (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Brandon T. Jackson (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Ray Romano (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Queen Latifah (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Ben Stiller (Night At The Museum), Owen Wilson (Night at the Museum), Robin Williams (Night at the Museum), Eddie Murphy (Doctor Dolittle), Peter Boyle (Doctor Dolittle), Ossie Davis (Doctor Dolittle)

Aquaman - Behind the Scenes with James Wan and Sideshow Collectibles

Check out this exclusive behind the scenes Aquaman interview with James Wan featuring insights into the design of Atlantis, a sneak peek at some of the film's monsters and an up-close look at Sideshow's new Aquaman Premium Format Figure.

'Los Reyes': Film Review | IDFA 2018

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Football and Chola in 'Los Reyes.'

The latest collaboration between Chilean directors Ivan Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut won the runner-up prize when premiering at the Dutch documentary giant.

It's a case of four wheels good, four legs even better in Los Reyes, Chilean duo Ivan Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut's appealing study of stray dogs and skateboarders sharing a downtown Santiago park. Built four-square around the considerable screen presence of inseparable best-pal canine co-leads Chola and Football, the German co-production is low on incidents but high on atmosphere and unassuming charm.

Having its world premiere in the main competition at Amsterdam's IDFA, the pair's eighth directorial collaboration took the runner-up special jury award and ranked high among the most viewed titles in the industry videotheque, the latter a reliable harbinger of a busy festival career. Art house play in receptive territories is also potentially in the cards, though bookers and patrons should be made aware that the measured style of Los Reyes — no music, no voiceover, no explanatory title-cards — veers toward the austere.....
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China Box Office: 'Venom' Gets Release Extension, 'Bumblebee' Locks Down Date

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'Venom'

Some 26 days into its release, Sony's Spider-Man spinoff continues to earn more than $1 million per day, building on its $265 million China total.

Sony's Venom has been granted a somewhat rare 30-day release extension in China, where it continues to build on its already-heroic $265 million box-office total.......
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10 Hidden Details You Missed In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second film in the Harry Potter prequel series. Set in 1927 in Paris, it follows the rise of Johnny Depp’s Grindelwald and how the forces of good are trying to stop him. This movie is packed to the brim with plot points, characters and setups that you may have missed a lot of the smaller and nuanced moments. For instance, a lot of fans and critics were crying foul about how Jacob came back and that his explanation felt a little weak. But a line in the first film actually backs up his statement! J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books and these prequel films, actually revealed in 2016 that Grindelwald is a shapeshifter and that Colin Farrell’s Percival Graves never existed, which was a little tease for the opening of the second film! At one point,
Grindelwald mentions the phrase “for the greater good” and only book fans will understand that reference. It’ll definitely make you look at Dumbledore in a different light! There are two names in the film, Rosier and Travers, that will also sound familiar to those familiar with all the minor characters in the Potterverse. We have our first canonical look at the philosopher’s stone in Paris and reveal the truth about who Flamel really was. We see the Blood Oath scene, which tells us why Albus can’t fight Grindelwald and the actors in that scene may be familiar to some. Grindelwald gets a peek into the future and shows his followers the second world war. But the war has another important meaning to Grindelwald himself. We get an easter egg nod to the Black family and see the Ministry of Magic using more traditional forms of letter delivery. Finally, was J.K. Rowling teasing the Aurelius reveal two years ago?? Maybe! Featuring: Entry 1 POSITIVE MEMORIES Entry 2 SHAPESHIFTER Entry 3 FOR THE GREATER GOOD Entry 4 ROSIER AND TRAVERS Entry 5 THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE Entry 6 BLOOD OATH Entry 7 1945 Entry 8 NIGELLUS Entry 9 MINISTRY OWLS
Entry 10 AURELIUS

Live at the Mary Poppins Returns World Premiere – Presented by HSN

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‘Killing’: A modern take on a samurai staple

Screening in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, “Killing” is veteran provocateur Shinya Tsukamoto’s first venture into the samurai genre. Made, like most of Tsukamoto’s films, on a tiny budget and tight schedule, it does not attempt the scale of classics like “Seven Samurai” (1954) or “Yojimbo” (1961).

Instead, Tsukamoto’s camera moves in close to capture the weight of the swords, the razor lethality of the blades and the swirling chaos of the action. Some of the fight scenes, with their slowly gathering menace and swift death, recall Akira Kurosawa’s afore-mentioned masterpieces, but Tsukamoto’s overall approach is more intimate and less heroic. As he has said in interviews, the film is the antithesis of the classic samurai movie, in which good battles .....

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Aquaman - World Premiere in London + trailer

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'Robin Hood' and Making a War Movie Out of a Folk Hero

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'Robin Hood'

The film takes a page from 'American Sniper' — to its detriment.

[This story contains spoilers for Lionsgate/Summit's Robin Hood.]

If you feel compelled to yank Robin Hood, English folk hero of yore, out of the past and into the present, you can try one of two tacks. First, you can treat him as a distant cousin to Oliver Queen or perhaps Clint Barton. Second, you can remake him as an analogue to late Navy SEAL sniper and Chris Kyle. Director Otto Bathurst’s new adaptation of Robin Hood’s legend, simply titled Robin Hood, hews closer to the former approach, in keeping with the growing trend of making super those heroes who aren’t, but begins by functioning like a war movie.

Specifically, the pic functions like an Iraq War film, at least to start. That reference to Kyle isn’t an offhanded joke: Robin Hood’s first chapter reads as a folkloric remake of American Sniper, long before Bathurst returns us from the frontlines of the Crusades back to not-so-merry old England, where Robin Hood’s primary plot unfolds. Frankly, the folklore is absent from this stretch of the movie, replaced by grit, washed-out color schemes and costume design that’s really obviously meant to mimic desert fatigues. It’s distracting. Most of all, it’s just straight-up bizarre......

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The Lion King Official Teaser Trailer

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Alita: Battle Angel | Official Trailer – Battle Ready [HD] | 20th Century FOX

From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY), comes ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment. 
When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. 
As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. 
But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past – she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she’s grown to love.

In Theaters February 14, 2019

Directed by: Robert Rodriguez

Screenplay by: James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis

Based on the Graphic Novel ("Manga") Series: "Gunnm" By Yukito Kishiro

Produced by: James Cameron and Jon Landau

Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson

POKÉMON Detective Pikachu - Official Trailer #1

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Weekend Box Office: 'The Grinch' Wins With $66M; 'Overlord,' 'Girl in the Spider's Web' Snubbed

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'The Grinch'

The massive Woolsey Fire results in the Los Angeles area being slightly down in terms of box-office revenue; overseas, Sony's 'Venom' opens to a massive $111 million in China.

Hollywood's obsession with reviving dormant film franchises was met with mixed messages at the weekend box office.

Christmas came early for Illumination and Universal as The Grinch, the second big-screen adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss holiday tale after Ron Howard's 2000 film, opened to a pleasing $66 million from 4,414 North American theaters despite mediocre reviews (it fared better with audiences, earning an A- CinemaScore). Voiced this time out by Benedict Cumberbatch, the CG-animated pic is the first family event film of the year-end corridor.

On the other hand, The Girl in the Spider's Web, starring Claire Foy, opened to a disappointing $8 million from 2,929 locations in a blow to Sony, MGM and New Regency's attempt to reboot the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. The $43 million film, dismissed by many critics, is currently tied withA Star Is Born, now in its sixth weekend, for fifth place. The order won't be decided until Monday morning.

Directed by Fede Alvarez, Girl in the Spider's Web is likewise struggling overseas, where it took in $6.2 million from 49 markets for an early foreign total of $8.2 million and $16.3 million globally.

In 2011, Sony released the English-language adaptation of the first novel in the Millennium series, directed by David Fincher and starring Rooney Mara as Salander opposite Daniel Craig. The film debuted domestically to $12.7 million in December 2011 on its way to earning $230 million globally, not adjusted for inflation. The original Millennium trilogy of films was adapted for the screen by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev and starred Noomi Rapace as Salander in a breakout role. The first film was released in February 2009, with sequels in September and November of the same year, both directed by Daniel Alfredsson......

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Magic Continues - Warner Bros. UK

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the second of five all new adventures in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World™. At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). 
But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, 
Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world. The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Poppy Corby-Tuech, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp. “Fantastic Beasts: 
The Crimes of Grindelwald” is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen serve as executive producers. 
The film reunites the behind-the-scenes creative team from the first “Fantastic Beasts” film, including Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (“The English Patient,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Gandhi,” the “Harry Potter” films), four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” 
“Alice in Wonderland,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), and Yates’ longtime editor Mark Day (the last four “Harry Potter” films). The music is by eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard (“Defiance,” “Michael Clayton,” “The Hunger Games” films). Slated for release beginning November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.



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China Box Office: 'Nutcracker' Opens to $12 Million During Another Downbeat Weekend

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'The Nutcracker and The Four Realms'

The biggest Chinese release during the frame, Donnie Yen's 'Frozen Hero 2' flopped with $3.6 million, prompting an ugly war of words between the production company and actor on social media.

Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms topped China's box office over the weekend with a decidedly less-than-festive $10.9 million opening haul.

The downbeat performance from the pricey Disney holiday title wasn't nearly enough to pull the Chinese film market out of its ongoing fall-season funk.........

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French film 'Amanda' takes top prize at Tokyo International Film Festival

French director Mikhael Hers’ family drama, “Amanda,” was awarded the Grand Prix at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival on Friday.

Edoardo De Angelis, meanwhile, took top directing honors for his emotional Italian drama “The Vice of Hope,” a film that also won his wife, Pina Turco, an award for best actress. In the last of the top prizes, Jesper Christensen picked up the best actor award for his portrayal of the proud but poor patriarch of a 19th-century farming family in the Danish film “Before the Frost.”

Although all winners attended the festival’s opening on Oct. 25, many recipients were absent from the closing ceremony, which was held at Ex Theater Roppongi, and had to convey their appreciation via video feed from their respective home countries. The Grand Prix was accepted on behalf of director Hers by French Ambassador Laurent Pic, who has been tasked with sending it back to Paris..........

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Bollywood Star Akshay Kumar Lines Up Three-Film Deal With India's Fox Star Studios

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The partnership will kick off with space film 'Mission Mangal' and all three titles will be distributed worldwide by Fox Star Studios.

India's Fox Star Studios (FSS) is beefing up its Bollywood slate via a three-picture partnership with leading man Akshay Kumar.

FSS and Kumar's production company Cape of Good Films will kick off the alliance with space filmMission Mangal, which is a collaboration with filmmaker R. Balki who directed Sony Pictures India's female hygiene drama PadMan that also starred Kumar.........

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Wonder Park (2019) - Official Teaser Trailer - Paramount Pictures

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Asian presence dominates Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet

The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a notable dearth of Hollywood stars, namely the two who star in the opening movie.

Despite Lady Gaga’s professed love of Japan, the American singer didn’t show up as had been rumored to promote “A Star Is Born,” and neither did her co-star and the film’s director, Bradley Cooper.

The lack of high-profile Hollywood names who usually populate the red carpets of major film festivals, however, left more time and attention for Asian guests.

Despite the evening gowns, tuxedos and Mercedes-Benz limousines, a casual atmosphere prevailed at the three-hour ceremony. TIFF ambassador Mayu Matsuoka noted the event was taking place at Roppongi Hills, a venue “that’s usually a shopping area,” but this mall included a zombie horde, a nervous black-and-white cat, two sets of robots and Kumamoto Prefecture mascot Kumamon — though he was dressed to the nines....

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD | Official Trailer 2

From DreamWorks Animation comes a surprising tale about growing up, finding the courage to face the unknown…and how nothing can ever train you to let go. What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic adventure spanning their lives. Welcome to the most astonishing chapter of one of the most beloved animated franchises in film history: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. 

Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.

For How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, series director Dean DeBlois returns alongside the all-star cast. The film is produced by Brad Lewis (Ratatouille, ANTZ) and Bonnie Arnold (Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon,How to Train Your Dragon 2).

Claire Foy on 'The Girl in the Spider's Web,' Ryan Gosling First Impression on & More | THR

Claire Foy graces this week's cover of The Hollywood Reporter and joins THR for a round of 'Fishing for Answers.' She shares her first impression of Ryan Gosling while working on 'First Man,' the best thing about working with Matt Smith, compares Queen Elizabeth II to her character Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl in the Spider's Web,' and more!

‘Every Day a Good Day’: The wonder of tea with Kirin Kiki 『日日是好日』予告編

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I attended my first tea ceremony decades ago, as part of a company orientation. Kneeling on the floor, I sat in the formal seiza position, stumbled through the motions and sipped the thick green tea. Just as the pain in my legs was reaching a crescendo, I bowed to my host and hobbled out. I had next to no idea what it all meant. A box ticked off in the Japanese cultural experiences list?

Based on a collection of essays by Noriko Morishita, Tatsushi Omori’s “Every Day a Good Day” knowledgeably and gorgeously shows how tea ceremony is far more than a feudal-era relic trotted out for bemused observers. For the heroine and her fellow followers of sadō (the way of tea), it is a shining embodiment of mindfulness — the philosophy and practice of living in the moment that is both timeless and trendy. Also, instead of going through the prescribed motions by rote, they use all five senses to experience beauty to the fullest at every seasonal turn. And the matcha that is the end product of their labors looks delicious. (Though as a fan of matcha in just about anything, I may be prejudiced.)........

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