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Here are the best new movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBO, and more

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2 years ago

July 12, 2022

Neha Kamble

Hustle

Genre: US Movies, Comedies, Dramas, Sports Movies, Sports Dramas

Stars: Adam Sandler, Robert Duvall, Ben Foster

Directed by: Jeremiah Zagar

This movie is: Inspiring, Feel-Good

Adam Sandler keeps on doing basically anything he desires with his Netflix bargain. In any case, this time, crowds get a decent one. In Hustle, Sandler plays Stanley Sugarman, a down-on-his-karma ball scout who is frantically attempting to track down a way back to the NBA. At the point when he finds a generational player in a road game in Spain, Sugarman becomes acquainted with Bo Cruz (Juancho Hernangomez) and the rough past that has held him back from arriving at his true capacity. In any case, not entirely set in stone to get Cruz to the NBA, hitching his own goals to Cruz’s success.

Official Trailer of Hustle:

Fire Island

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Stars: Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho

Directed by: Andrew Ahn

A modern twist on Pride and Prejudice, this proudly LGBT romantic comedy happens in the iconic gay paradise, Pines Fire Island. The different, multicultural story focuses on two dearest companions (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) who set off to have the best summer experience ever with assistance from a lot of cheap rosé and a diverse gathering of friends.

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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

Genre: Documentary

Stars: Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev

Directed by: James Jones

HBO revitalized interest in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster with its 2020 miniseries, and presently, the network goes significantly more profound into the story because of a discovered cache of dramatic footage filmed at the plant during the disaster. Emmy-winning director and Russian-speaker James Jones utilizes the recording and personal interviews to remake a horrifying portrait of the Cold War-hastened carelessness and dread that prompted perhaps of the most horrendously terrible atomic mishap ever.

Official Trailer of Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action

Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen

Directed by: David Yates

Get back to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in this prequel that follows Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) as he hunts the strong Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen). Dumbledore realizes he can’t stop Grindelwald alone. That is the reason he enrolls the assistance of Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead a team to undermine Grindelwald’s developing legion of devotees.

Official Trailer of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Stars: Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Burghardt

Directed by: Cooper Raiff

The debut of writer and director Cooper Raiff was released at Sundance to much recognition. Crisp out of college, 22-year-old Andrew (Raiff) gets back to his family home in New Jersey without bearing. All he truly knows how to do is kick a party off, which is the one expertise he wants to find a new line of work as an inspirational artist at the bar and bat mitzvahs of his more youthful sibling’s cohorts. This new gig drives him to a kinship with neighborhood mother, Domino (Dakota Johnson), putting him on a way to the future he never considered.

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Rise

Genre: Drama

Stars: Uche Agada, Dayo Okeniyi, Yetide Badaki

Directed by: Akin Omotoso

Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the most notable NBA superstars today, yet the “Greek Freak” (and his two NBA player siblings) took a tumultuous road to basketball’s biggest stage. Subsequent to emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo (Yetida Badaki and Dayo Okeniyi) live under the steady danger of extradition while attempting to accommodate their five kids. However, on account of their coarseness, vision, and confidence, they gradually cut out a chance for their kids to seek after their fantasies on the hardwood.

Official Trailer of Rise:

The Sky Is Everywhere

Genre: Drama, Romance, Music

Stars: Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colimon

Directed by: Josephine Decker

This collaboration with A24 follows 17-year-old musical prodigy Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) living somewhere down in the Redwood forest of Northern California. At the point when Lennie’s sister suddenly dies, Lennie struggles deeply with the loss. The battle develops more muddled as she ends up progressively attracted to both her sister’s crushed sweetheart, Toby, and the charismatic new person at school, Joe.

Official Trailer of The Sky Is Everywhere:

Sneakerella

Genre: Comedy, Family

Stars: Chosen Jacobs, Lexi Underwood, Kolton Stewart

Directed by: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

A film only for sneakerheads? What difference would it make. El (Chosen Jacobs) is a hopeful tennis shoe originator functioning as a stock kid in his late mother’s Queens shoe store. His aspiration and ability, nonetheless, are choked by his overburdened stepfather and two dastardly stepbrothers who ruin any open door El gets. Be that as it may, when El meets Kira King, the little girl of amazing b-ball player and tennis shoe investor Darius King, the two bond over their common love of tennis shoes. With a push from his dearest companion and a little beat of Fairy Godfather enchantment, El before long tracks down the boldness to pursue his dream for the last time.

Official Trailer of Sneakerella:

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Genre: Comedy, Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, KiKi Layne

Directed by: Akiva Schaffer

After an extended rest, the special one courageous chipmunks are back in real life in this current update that sees Chip and Dale living in a cross breed animation human Los Angeles. The chipmunks are more established now, distant from their fruitful TV series, and they’ve become separated. Chip is a protection sales rep living in suburbs. Dale has had CGI surgery and works the wistfulness show circuit, frantically expecting to remember the greatness days. Their kinship might be broken, yet when a previous castmate strangely vanishes, the Rescue Rangers will rejoin back to track down their friend.

Official Trailer of Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers:

The Sea Beast

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris

Directed by: Chris Williams

Karl Urban (The Boys) voices the lead character Jacob Holland in this animated adventure film. He’s an ocean beast tracker who is unbelievable for his abilities. Yet, when a little girl named Maisie hides away on his boat and becomes companions with a perilous beast, the pair go on a legendary experience together that changes Jacob for eternity. In light of early auditorium surveys, the film, which started streaming this week, has gotten general praise. The gifted voice cast additionally incorporates Jared Harris (Chernobyl), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Blindspot, Homecoming), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), and Kathy Burke (Absolutely Fabulous).

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Wicked Box Office Hits Global Milestone, Poised to Surpass Kung Fu Panda 4 and Godzilla x Kong

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7 days ago

December 16, 2024

Archana Suryawanshi

The box office for Wicked hits a significant milestone worldwide as it gets ready to surpass Godzilla x Kong and Kung Fu Panda 4.

Wicked is still doing well despite recent box office releases that have caused significant disappointment. The most recent Wizard of Oz musical was too good for the Spider-Man villain and the Tolkien adaption to compete with Kraven the Hunter and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in the same week. Wicked has already exceeded its $145 million budget following a record-breaking first weekend that raked in over $160 million globally.

It has achieved even more success this past weekend. Variety said that after making $359 million domestically, the musical adaption made over $524 million internationally. It is currently on track to surpass Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, which brought in $547.6 million and $571.1 million, respectively. Having significantly outperformed Grease’s $188.62 million total, it is also officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaption in domestic box office history.

What the Box Office Success of Wicked Means

Musicals and animated blockbusters are regaining their position at the box office after ten years of action film supremacy. Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 have taken first and third place for the entire year, while Moana 2 and Wicked are the top films this weekend. With a $1.3 billion box office total, Deadpool & Wolverine is still in second place, but it’s probably the only action film to stay in the top five globally. Dune: Part Two may lose its position when Mufasa: The Lion King is released the following week:

Title	Domestic	Worldwide
Inside Out 2	$653 million	$1.7 billion
Deadpool & Wolverine	$637 million	$1.3 billion
Despicable Me 4	$360 million	$970 million
Moana 2	$338 million	$717 million
Dune: Part Two	$282 million	$714 million

This pattern is probably due to the fact that, other from Deadpool & Wolverine, neither DC nor Marvel have released any successful films this year. With Joker: Folie à Deux, DC tried to duplicate its $1 billion triumph, but it only made $200 million globally. With the exception of Wicked, every film in the top 10 global releases for 2024 has been a sequel, creating a distinct market. Based on a Broadway musical and The Wizard of Oz, Wicked is not a completely original film, but its box office performance does demonstrate that non-sequels may be successful in theaters in today IP-driven landscape.

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Danny Ramirez on Joaquin Phoenix Leaving the Gay Romance Film Directed by Todd Haynes

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2 months ago

October 21, 2024

Archana Suryawanshi

Todd Haynes was planning to cast Danny Ramirez and Joaquin Phoenix in a gay romance movie. However, Phoenix left the untitled production five days before Guadalajara, Mexico, filming got underway.

At the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles, Ramirez told Variety’s Marc Malkin, “It’s definitely disappointing.” “If anything,” he continued, “If anything, it just gave me more inspiration to keep driving, keep pushing, and knowing that I’m on the right path and approaching the work the right way. So that’s what I’m excited about.”

The movie, which depended on Phoenix’s casting, was in danger after it was revealed in August that he had quit the production, according to sources. Two guys in love in the 1930s who escape Los Angeles and travel to Mexico were the main subject of the NC-17-rated movie.

“It’s definitely a very complicated situation,” Ramirez stated. “The audition process was extensive, and so what I walked away with that was just the artistic validation of throwing down opposite of [Phoenix] in this chemistry read… There was a moment that I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve arrived as a performer.’”

“The most recent update is ‘hopefully.’” Ramirez said in response to a question about whether the movie is still in development with filmmaker Haynes.

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David Schwimmer Remembers Rejecting “Men in Black”: ‘That Would Have Made Me a Hollywood Star’

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3 months ago

September 18, 2024

Archana Suryawanshi

Although David Schwimmer admits his “career would have taken a very different trajectory” if he had been the lead in the 1997 movie, he doesn’t regret declining Men in Black.

The actor said, “That’s not why I turned it down,” in response to a question on a recent episode of the podcast Origins With Cush Jumbo regarding whether he rejected down the successful franchise because it conflicted with his Friends filming schedule. Rather, he decided to become a feature film director.

Schwimmer said, “[It] was a brutal decision.” the actor chuckles. “I had just finished filming The Pallbearer, my first film with Gwyneth Paltrow, and there were high expectations of that, which didn’t come true (Laughs). It was kind of a bomb, but there were high expectations, and the studio, which was Miramax, wanted to lock me into a three-picture deal at a fixed price, and I said I would do that if I got to direct my first movie.”

After months of talks, the intelligence actor said that they had come to an agreement whereby he “would act in three more movies for them” in exchange for allowing him to “direct my entire theater company in the first film,” Since You’ve Been Gone from 1998. The film was told through the perspective of a doctor who was severely beaten up by a fellow graduate on graduation day, humiliating him and setting the stage for a ten-year class reunion.

“All these unknown actors but I was going to put them on the map, basically. I was going to let everyone discover the talent of this amazing company,” Schwimmer said, “We found this amazing script, and we were developing it. We started pre-production. All my best friends in the world in my theater company quit their jobs so they could be in this film over the summer, which was going to be a six-week shoot in Chicago.”

However, Schwimmer had to make a tough decision about his career because the production for his directing debut happened to coincide with the filming of Men in Black.

The Six Days Seven Nights actor recalls, “We’re in pre-production, hired the whole crew, everything’s going and that’s when I was offered Men in Black.” “It was a direct conflict with this. My summer window from Friends was four months. I had a four-month hiatus and Men in Black was going to shoot exactly when I was going to direct this film with my company. And of course, it was an amazing opportunity. However, my theater company and that relationship with all those people would probably have ended. I don’t think it would have recovered.”

Schwimmer stated that he is unsure if “he made the right choice,” but he firmly feels that in these kinds of circumstances “you have to follow your gut, you have to follow your heart.”

“Look, I’m really aware, whatever 20 years later maybe more, [Men in Black] would have made me a movie star,” he continued. “If you look at the success of that film and that franchise, my career would have taken a very different trajectory.”

In the end, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith played the key parts in the Men in Black franchise.