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On August 6, 2003, Buena Vista unveiled Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, in theaters. The comedy went on to gross $160 million globally and get a sequel two decades later. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:

For an old warhorse, Freaky Friday looks darn cute. Disney made the original film, based on Mary Rodgers’ novel, in 1977. It starred Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as a mom and daughter who magically switch bodies and must go through a day in each other’s skin. The property was remade for TV in 1995 and, in reality, the concept stretches from 1948’s Vice Versa to 1988’s Big. Thanks to a script by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, the new Freaky plays the obvious gags in ways both surprising and imaginative. And Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan appear to be having a blast playing each other’s characters for more than half the film.

Does 28 Days Later Have A Higher Critics Rating Than A Quiet Place Or Vice Versa?(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, the third installment of the 28 Days Later film series, is playing in theatres worldwide. Like its predecessors, the movie has earned rave reviews from critics and is being admired by many cinephiles and longtime fans of the franchise. Similarly, the A Quiet Place trilogy also received critical acclaim and holds a special place among horror genre enthusiasts. Now, the big question is: Which horror trilogy holds a better average critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes? Let’s find out.

28 Days Later Trilogy: Average Rotten Tomatoes Score

The three acclaimed films of the trilogy—28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and the most recent one, 28 Years Later (2025)—have received Rotten Tomatoes critics’ scores of 87%, 73%, and 89%, respectively. So, the average Rotten Tomatoes score of the trilogy is 83%, which is quite good.

They say that one of the best things a fiction writer can do is read and watch as much fiction as they can, to learn from what other artists in the field are doing. This is good advice 99.9% of the time, but Charlie Brooker's relationship with "Severance" might be that rare exception. Brooker is the creator and ongoing showrunner of "Black Mirror," a TV show that's long explored some very "Severance"-esque concepts. He's spoken in a recent interview about his refusal to watch the hit Apple TV+ series:

"There's certainly a show I haven't watched that's made me jealous. People keep telling me to watch 'Severance,' and I haven't let myself do it because they also say to me, 'Oh, you'll love it. It's a bit 'Black Mirror'-y, but it's much better.'"

It's easy to see Brooker's reasoning. Not only is "Severance" a similar show,...

With a legacy spanning decases, it's still inconceivable that anyone could dislike "The Princess Bride." Released in 1987, the fantasy romantic comedy was written by William Goldman (already a two-time Academy Award-winner for his work on "All the President's Men" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), directed by Rob Reiner (then best known for directing "Stand By Me" the year prior), and featured a miraculously stacked cast. Though it did just okay at the box office, the film has since become a cult classic that -- in large part through the continued success of this cast -- retroactively vindicates those who were early champions of its brilliance.

Whether senior actor or child star, veteran of the screen or relative newcomer, everyone with a role in the core ensemble of "The Princess Bride" brings something wildly unexpected to their individual role no matter how small. Incidentally, the vast majority of these...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Iron Man (2024)

Iron Man has had almost everything he holds dear taken away from him; although he gained it back with great effort, he's about to be deprived of control of his company once more. During the Fall of X, Tony Stark lost his company in a hostile corporate takeover, led by members of mutant-hating organization Orchis. Now, Stark Unlimited is being usurped once more, this time by the Roxxon Corporation.

Iron Man #3 – written by Spencer Ackerman, with art by Julius Ohta – is the final installment of the “Stark-Roxxon War.” Since regaining Stark Unlimited, Tony has been combating the company board’s decision to merge his company with Roxxon and A.I.M.

Despite the many years of villainy that have defined both Roxxon and A.I.M., the board agrees to go through with the sale. Soon, all three companies will be unified, cornering the world’s energy and weapons markets,...

Popular comedian and equine therapy slanderer John Mulaney is currently starring in the Broadway show All In, penned by his friend, former Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich. To promote the play, which is made up of short stories all about romance, Mulaney and Rich have been giving several interviews. And a not insignificant number of them have been about scrapped SNL material.

The pair told The New York Times that when they first met at SNL, they wrote a sketch together called “Cash for Silver,” a parody of cash-for-gold commercials that made it to dress rehearsal, but was ultimately cut from the show.

Mulaney and Rich went into more detail about the sketch during their appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, describing how it began as a traditional ad with Bill Hader asking viewers to send in their silver. But Hader’s character becomes increasingly desperate until it...

In the world of entertainment and Hollywood, there is a very thin line that separates fact from fiction, real from reel, and knockoff or a tribute. In Superman & Lois‘s case, it might be both from Henry Cavill’s film.

Tyler Hoechlin in a still from Superman & Lois | Credits: DC Entertainment

The scene in question was featured in the final episode of the iconic CW show Superman & Lois, and fans were very quick to spot the similarities. Whether it is a tribute or a knockoff of Henry Cavill’s entry from Zack Snyder’s Justice League, remains another question.

The Tribute That May Have Been a Knockoff (or Vice Versa)

It was the year 2021 when the world decided to have a mini rebellion and bully Warner Bros. into releasing the Snyder Cut. The film, which was called Zack Snyder’s Justice League, featured Henry Cavill’s Superman wearing a black suit.

William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic The Exorcist is often thought of as a cursed film. The hysteria sparked at screenings, the rumors of disturbing behind-the-scenes events, and the exploitation of religious anxiety all combined into a reputation for real evil. This notoriety was amplified when the three-film Exorcist franchise drew fans such as the Zodiac Killer, the Gainesville Ripper, and Jeffrey Dahmer; stranger still, a real-life killer had a bit part in the first film.

Historically, horror has been a convenient scapegoat for public crises. After all, it is easier to ban a movie than to address the real causes of violence in society. However, when a storied franchise like The Exorcist attracts such infamous admirers, it becomes impossible not to take notice and the killers in question have also been linked to Scream, Cruising, and American Horror Story: NYC. There is no reason to believe that their crimes were inspired by these films,...

This article contains spoilers for "It's What's Inside."

As fantastical as the concept seems, the first body swap movie dates all the way back to 1916 with the British fantasy flick "Vice Versa," where a young schoolboy magically swaps bodies with his overbearing father. It's based on the even older 1882 novel of the same name and would mark the start of one of the most evergreen cinematic tropes that exists beyond the confines of genre. Body swap movies are most prominent in family-friendly comedy flicks like the "Freaky Friday" franchise or the criminally underrated "Wish Upon a Star" with Danielle Harris and a young Katherine Heigl, or even action films like John Woo's "Face/Off." Science-fiction films usually explore body swapping as some sort of technological advancement, comic books boast plenty of body swap stories (so it's only a matter of time before we see one in live-action), and even horror...

Young and the Restless (Y&r) fall spoilers hint that it may not be “happily ever after” for Devon Hamilton-Winters (Bryton James) and Abby Newman-Abbott (Melissa Ordway) come November. The two are planning a wedding for Sweeps month and fans can sense drama on the horizon.

In addition, fall teasers reveal that Dabby will face an unexpected obstacle as they plan their nuptials together. Sounds like a perfect storm for disaster.

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – November 13 Will Be A Big Day

Y&r spoilers state the show will be celebrating a major milestone on November 13, which also happens to be the same day Dabby’s wedding is set to take place. This marks the soap’s 13,000th episode, so fans need to gear up for something major to happen. What could go wrong?

Y&R Spoilers – Dabby’s Wedding Downfall #1 – Hilary Curtis Returns

Y&r spoilers remind fans that this is a soap opera,...

Bodies Bodies Bodies' star Chase Sui Wonders may be returning to the horror genre to potentially take on Camilla Mendes' I Know What You Did Last Summer movie reboot role following the Riverdale star's exit. The upcoming movie is a return to the franchise first established with the 1997 slasher movie, which explored four teens stalked by a killer who claims to know of a horrible act they committed. The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise currently encompasses two theatrical movies, a direct-to-dvd sequel, and a single-season Prime Video series released in 2021.

Though Riverdale's Mendes has exited I Know What You Did Last Summer to enter Eternia in Travis Knight's Masters of the Universe reboot, another rising star may have been found for her role. According to Deadline, Wonders, known for her role as aspiring actor Emma in the 2022 horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies, is currently in talks to take on the role.

“There’s some whores in this house!” blasts from the speakers. The stage lights brighten, and the queens strut out onstage. In Jem Garrard’s camp classic Slay, a Tubi original that dropped earlier this year, four drag queens – Mama Sue Flay (Trinity the Tuck), Robin Banks (Heidi N Closet), Bella Da Boys (Crystal Methyd), and Olive Wood (Cara Melle) – descend upon a sleazy redneck dive to deliver the performance of their lives.

Set to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Wap,” the salacious musical number bursts at the seams with the magic of queerness, drag performance, and community. As our dolled-up and dazzling quartet flits and flutters around the stage, the crowd looks on in both wonder and disgust. While country bumpkins like Travis (Daniel Janks) wrinkle their noses and scoff in between chugs of beer, bar regular Shiela (Robyn Scott) applauds the performance and even expresses her jealousy.

Tom Hanks was a television star in 1982 and, 42 years ago, if what you really wanted was to be a movie star, that was a problem.

Actors had made the transition from small-screen success to big-screen stardom before, but Hanks' claim to fame was as one-half of the cross-dressing duo living in an all-women's apartment building on the ABC sitcom "Bosom Buddies." Though the show was initially a hit, the gimmick quickly wore thin, and Hanks found himself back on the casting market.

Post-"Bosom Buddies," Hanks' sole film credit was in the 1980 slasher flick "He Knows You're Alone," and, to his credit, he was so charismatic that the filmmakers opted not to kill him off onscreen. Still, that's not much to hang your hat on, nor was, unfortunately, two years of mild television notoriety. The biggest sitcom stars of the 1970s roughly in Hanks' age range were getting star vehicle...

Vice Television is going through a shuffle at the top, with head exec Morgan Hertzan set to exit next week and Pete Gaffney replacing him on an interim basis.

The move was just announced internally by Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon in a memo to employees.

Hertzan plans to segue to another, unspecified opportunity after his last day at Vice on April 12. His move follows waves of staff departures and dramatic changes at Vice. The onetime media industry darling filed for bankruptcy last year and was acquired for $350 million (a fraction of its valuation a decade ago) by a consortium led by Fortress Investment Group. A+E Networks remains a stakeholder in Vice TV. On pay-tv, the network launched as Viceland in 2016 after taking over A+E’s H2 in a rebrand before later adopting the name Vice TV.

Trading Places, currently streaming on Netflix, is a romantic comedy portraying an estranged couple who get to know each other better after their bodies get swapped. These days, we do not get to see much of the body-swap comedies that were a hit during the 90s. Films like Vice Versa (1988), where a body-swap between the father-son duo occurs, have been missing from the list of comedies in current times. Will Mduduzi and Zenokuhle be able to understand each other’s emotions better after the swap? Will they decide to stick to each other or split up in the process? The movie is intriguing and will keep us seeking answers to many more similar questions.

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How Did Mduduzi And Zenokuhle Meet?

Mdu spotted Zeno standing outside a pub all by herself, waiting for her friend Azizwe to come, as she did not have the tickets to go to the concert.

‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ starts production (Photo Credit: Starz)

Filming has begun on Starz’s Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood which dives into the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen and Brian, and Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry. The network’s start of production announcement confirmed Harriet Slater (Pennyworth) will star as Ellen and Jamie Roy (Condor’s Nest) is playing Brian. Hermione Corfield (The Road Dance) is on board as Julia and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Henry.

“We’re thrilled to be telling the stories of these two couples. The origins of their relationships explore universal themes that transcend time periods, and we’re so excited for fans to discover and fall in love with these characters and their love stories the way they have with Claire and Jamie,” said Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner, executive producer, and writer on both series.

Season one will...

Back in 2016, “Your Name” established Makoto Shinkai as the ‘next Miyazaki', both in terms of quality and box office success, becoming the fifth highest grossing film of all time in the country – domestic or imported – and the second biggest domestic film ever, behind the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away”. It was also the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million at the Japanese box office.

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Mitsuha, a high school girl from the small town of Itomori, has a very complicated life. Her mother's family has been in charge of the local Shinto shrine for generations, and since her father abandoned them to become the mayor, the task has fallen on her and her sister, under the tutelage of their grandmother. Furthermore, she has started having some very peculiar and very vivid dreams, while she seems to exhibit some strange behaviors at school, which she remembers nothing about.

Exclusive: Actor Lior Ashkenazi has boarded Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory’s Mosolov’s Suitcase, exploring the life and legacy of Ukrainian, early Soviet era, avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov.

Ashkenazi, who is Israel’s biggest acting star, is known for his award-winning performances in Israeli features Late Marriage, Footnote, Foxtrot, Walk On Water and Karaoke as well as HBO series Our Boys.

He is currently appearing opposite Helen Mirren in Guy Nattiv’s Golda Meir bio-pic Golda.

Mosolov’s Suitcase is a joint production between Alvaro Fernandez at L.A.-based Monolithic Films; Gidi Avivi at Vice Versa Films in Tel Aviv, and Rubber Ring Films, the joint Santa Monica-based company of Mishory and Bradford L. Schlei.

The upcoming picture is described as a hybrid, black-and-white meditation on the titular’s subject’s controversial life, told through three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power.

In the first of three intersecting plotlines,...

Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms star in a new body-swapping comedy, Family Switch. This isn’t the first rodeo for Jennifer Garner, but Ed Helms is venturing into the sub-genre and quickly found out about the complexities of such a concept. The fun of comedies such as Freaky Friday, Vice Versa, Like Father, Like Son, The Change-Up and others are the identity crises that the characters faces when trying to fit in each others’ lives without rousing suspicion. It’s a classic comedy trope and every generational gap finds it hard to relate to each other or find a semblance of common ground.

The concept also lends itself to many situations where the characters are forced to act like the person whose body they’re inhabiting. Family Switch‘s plot involves the whole family swapping bodies, which will place the parents in the kids’ bodies and the kids in the...

Family Switch is a Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by McG, from a screenplay by Adam Sztykiel and Victoria Strouse. The Netflix film revolves around the Walker family, who don’t really get each other but Christmas works its magic and switches the souls of the kids and parents. Now, they only have 24 hours to find a solution or they get trapped in each other’s body for forever. Family Switch stars Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner as parents with Emma Myers and Brady Noon starring as the Walker kids. So, if you loved the Netflix film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

17 Again (Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.

Synopsis: A former high school basketball star gets a second shot at life when he’s miraculously transformed into a teenager and offered the opportunity to redefine his future. Back in 1989, Mike O’ Donnell (Matthew Perry) had...

The following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1097, "Ginny," by Eiichiro Oda, Stepyen Paul,nand Vanessa Satone, available now through Viz Media.

Fans thought Ginny would be Kuma's future wife and Bonney's mother, but Chapter 1097 reveals a more complicated story. Ginny's backstory has led fans to reconsider Bonney's origins and theories about Kuma and Ginny's relationship. It is unclear if Ginny is Bonney's mother, and fans speculate on alternative theories such as adoption or cloning.

The One Piece fandom thought they had Ginny's story figured out. Her relationship with Bartholomew Kuma, established in Chapter 1096, "Kumachi," led many to believe she would be the future Warlord's future wife. This, combined with her healthy appetite, would make her a shoo-in to become Jewelry Bonney's biological mother. However, Chapter 1097, "Ginny," makes the story a little more complicated than that. It suggests that these two neither wed nor conceived Bonney in the ideal time frame.

Warning: spoilers for Knight Terrors: Titans #2 ahead!The Titans are DC's closest team, but there's a member who has been with them since almost the start and yet never gets any love - or even a name. Thanks to DC's Knight Terrors event, the Titans are finally on speaking terms with their most underrated member, and even discover their name.

Andrew Constant, Scott Godlewski, Mike Norton, Ryan Cody, Hi-Fi, and Wes Abbott's Knight Terrors: Titans two-issue adventure begins with a mysterious woman clawing her way out of the floor of a haunted house. Guided by Raven's voice, she finds and frees each member of the Titans from their own personal nightmares that have trapped them as the worst versions of themselves. With everyone freed and the nightmare assault continuing, Raven reveals the mystery. The haunted house is actually the divided nightmare of Titans Tower itself: its past as...

Netflix needs to step up its investment in original content. This is a tall order however as data shows how the pace of growth in demand for Netflix’s originals has lagged its rivals, according to Parrot Analytics data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement.

Competitors are growing their originals slate at a faster rate, which means that Netflix’s global share of demand for streaming originals hit another record low of 37.9% in the first quarter. This is down from 55.7% in the first three months of 2020, when HBO Max, Peacock and Paramount+ had yet to make an appearance.

Historically, Netflix has held onto a lead over Hulu and HBO Max in audience demand for its content. Going forward, it will have to play catch-up to Max, a stark turnaround showing the growing competitive stakes in streaming.

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In this weekly data series powered by Parrot Analytics, we look at the top breakout shows of the past week. Breakout shows are the most in-demand series that have premiered in the past 100 days.

Where will “Rabbit Hole” peak? That’s the question for the Paramount+ spy thriller which has rocketed in audience interest since its March 26 premiere.

Demand for “Rabbit Hole” for the week of April 1-7 increased 11% to 21.5 times the average series demand in the U.S., pushing it from ninth to fifth place, according to Parrot Analytics’ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement.

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‘Swarm,’ ‘Daisy Jones’ and ‘The Consultant’ Are Giving Amazon a Moment on Top | Chart

It helped that the third episode, which debuted April 2, gave viewers a glimpse into the main character’s past and his career in corporate espionage. Expect interest to keep...

After a two-year gap, demand for the third season of “The Mandalorian” is lagging behind that of the first two seasons — according to Parrot Analytics‘ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. Rather, it likely reflects how the franchise and the industry have evolved since 2019.

“The Mandalorian” clearly accomplished what it was meant to do when Disney+ launched in 2019: It was a massive cultural phenomenon that made Disney+ a must-have streaming subscription and set the service on strong footing in its first few weeks of existence. The viral cuteness of Baby Yoda sent demand for the show skyrocketing in its first two weeks. It ultimately peaked at 145 times the average series demand at its finale.

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When AT&T decided to offload WarnerMedia on Discovery Communications, a big part of the deal’s premise was creating a “stronger competitor in global streaming.” Nearly two years after the deal was first announced and a year after the merger was completed, Warner Bros. Discovery is finally set to unveil details about a new service that combines HBO Max and Discovery+ on Wednesday.

Much has changed for the company and the industry in the intervening time since its creation. Where Wall Street once pressed companies to grow streaming subscribers, analysts and investors are now closely scrutinizing plans to turn direct-to-consumer businesses profitable.

Warner Bros. Discovery, which faces a heavy debt load, has been undergoing a major restructuring, one it expects to complete by the end of 2024. The company estimated in December that it would incur up to $5.3 billion in total pre-tax restructuring charges, including up to $3.5 billion in content impairment and development write-offs.

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, four Democratic lawmakers have called on the Department of Justice to investigate the company.

A letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Johanthan Kanter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) claims that the merger has appeared to have enabled the company to “adopt potentially anticompetitive practices that reduce consumer choice and harm workers in affected labor markets.”

Thousands of jobs cut, content creators harmed in unprecedented ways, less consumer choice. Mergers aren’t automatically good for business or people. (2/2)

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) April 7, 2023

Discovery closed its $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia in April 2022, which was ultimately not challenged by the DOJ after a review.

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It’s hard to overrstate just how big a hit “The Last of Us” was. The HBO show had 45.4 times more demand than the average title in the first quarter, making it more popular than 99.8% of other TV shows this year, according to Parrot Analytics’ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement.

Demand for apocalyptic titles, U.S., 2020-2023 (Parrot Analytics)

There’s a number of explanations for the show’s success, from its high production values to the existing fan base of the video game it was based on to the continued power of HBO’s Sunday night programming. But the most interesting aspect of its success may be the appetite it reawakened in audiences for timelines darker than our own.

The demand for apocalyptic shows grew impressively starting in the beginning of 2020, but stalled after September 2021. It’s possible the...

A few weeks into kicking off his "Saturno World Tour," Puerto Rican and Latin trap artist Rauw Alejandro made a show-stopping entrance to an audience of more than 15,000 people by literally zip-lining his way onto the stage - while he was fully decked out in an alien-like ensemble. On Friday, Mar. 31, the reggaetonero put on a truly extraterrestrial performance - one of two back-to-back sold-out shows at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Popsugar was in attendance.

If these flashy performances were any indication, 2023 is panning out to become quite significant for Rauw Alejandro. Born Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, the artist has been on top of his game these days. Last year, he claimed his fourth straight top 10 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart with his 2022 album "Saturno," which debuted at No. 2 on Nov. 26.

In this latest performance, Alejandro put on a show comparable...

Avengers: Secret Wars could face very serious issues if the X-Men make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut too soon. Coming on the heels of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the sixth Avengers film is set to wrap up the Multiverse Saga and Phase 6 of the MCU. Given the Multiversal antics of Phase 4, it seems highly likely that many Marvel superheroes will return in Secret Wars, including many pre-mcu characters like the cast of Fox's X-Men franchise. Yet this exciting premise could all fall apart if the McU's version of the X-Men has already been unveiled prior to Secret Wars hitting theaters in 2026.

While beloved, Fox's X-Men franchise had major problems in its later years, leaving its audience open to the idea of an MCU reboot by the time Disney acquired the rights to the characters in the 2019 Fox acquisition. Since then, the MCU has slowly worked a handful of mutants into its movies and Disney+ series,...

Tom Holland is ready for a Peter Parker and Wolverine team-up movie. The Spider-Man: Far from Home star is out promoting the upcoming sequel, which hits theaters next week and he's been asked a lot of questions. However, the young actor has been having fun while out on the promotional tour and he had a pretty amazing idea for a new team-up movie with a new Marvel Studios acquisition.

Press tours can get a little bland while being asked the same questions over and over. Tom Holland and the rest of the Spider-Man: Far From Home cast are no strangers to this now, so their answers have been getting better to some of the more common questions. For instance, Tom Holland was asked about which Marvel character who has not been featured in the McU he'd like to share a scene with. Holland had this to say.

"I would like to do Spider-Man and Wolverine.

Long before America’s childhood bullying epidemic made headlines, Hollywood had taken the issue to heart, making it a standard ingredient of Ya films to condemn the mistreatment of misfits by mean girls, jocks, rich kids, and cool cliques. But the movies have largely ignored the reverse phenomenon, in which those who once identified as outcasts grow up to become perpetrators of an even worse kind of conduct when they get big. One need look no further than Silicon Valley to see how some personalities use whatever wealth and power they acquire as adults to avenge the abuse they endured in their early years.

Well, “Little” lets such bullies have it, addressing precisely that problem via the tried-and-true body-transformation genre — which has given us teens in adult bodies, adults in teen bodies, and parents and kids trading places, with seemingly infinite variations on the formula. Well, not exactly infinite: Until now,...

Marsai Martin, Issa Rae and Regina Hall are interviewed by DaniElle DeLaite for their new comedy movie Little. The bodyswap comedy is similar to Freaky Friday, Vice Versa and, of course, Big starring Tom Hanks. But this has a little something special.

In this series of interviews the actresses talk about the fun of making a big comedy film, with lots of improvisation and on-set physical comedy making it into the film. They talk about portraying outrageous characters in a relatable setting. Marsai Martin talks about making a bodyswap movie with, in her words, ‘black girl magic’. Martin is also the youngest executive producer in Hollywood history and the actresses talk about how the magic in her idea made it all the way to the big screen.

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Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart have fun in a video-game world in an amiable sequel-by-numbers with a body-swap twist

The 90s family adventure Jumanji was a fantasy romp about children being whooshed into the universe of a magical board game, where a former kid player played by Robin Williams had grown to adulthood, having been marooned there. The film seemed to be using the grammar and rhetoric of video-gaming, which is about getting from one level to another by not getting killed.

Now it has been upgraded for 2017 in a way that makes the gaming idea explicit, and yet also as quaint and antique as board games might have looked in 1995. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a big, brash, amiable entertainment with something of Indiana Jones, plus the body-swap comedy of Freaky Friday, or F Anstey’s Victorian classic Vice Versa. It features an endearing performance from Dwayne Johnson who,...

Kylie Jenner may be pregnant with her first child, but on Friday it was all about her Bff Jordyn Woods.

The 20-year-old reality star lead an over-the-top celebration for Woods’ birthday just hours after news broke of her pregnancy, surprising Woods with (among other things) a 2017 black metallic Mercedes-Benz Amg Gle 63 Coupe.

Woods, who turns 20 on Saturday, was seemingly pleased by the gift — saying “Oh my God” and crying over seeing the vehicle in videos posted to Jenner’s Snapchat account.

The two besties were out for a day of fun with their mutual friends that included everything from an...

Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods are taking some time apart.

On Sunday’s Life of Kylie season finale, the reality star supported her best friend when Woods said she wanted to distance herself in order to focus on her career. Before the besties went in separate directions, they declared their love for one another in a commitment ceremony. Still in Peru, where the cosmetics mogul was visiting children who benefitted from the donations of her Smile lip kit, the ladies donned all white and exchanged vows (which Kylie read off of her phone) in front of Kylie’s assistant Victoria...

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10 directors will be presented at Sydney Film Festival.

European Film Promotion (Efp) has announced the line-up for its second year of Europe! Voices of Women in Film at the Sydney Film Festival.

The selection includes both new and established female European directors, with the aim being to introduce them to Australian audiences, industry and the press.

Among those selected this year are Shahrbanoo Sadat, whose 2011 film Vice Versa One earned her a residence at Cinéfondation in Cannes 2011. She presents her feature debut Wolf And Sheep, which is among five features in this cohort.

Hope Dickson Leach, one of Screen’s former Stars of Tomorrow, has also been selected with her feature debut The Levelling.

Amanda Kernell is also among the selection, her film Sami Blood having been shown at Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam.

The Sydney Film Festival takes place June 7-18, 2017.

Full Europe! Voices of Women 2017 selection:Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel, [link...

There have been a handful of “body switching” narratives that Hollywood has played around with over the years--Freaky Friday, The Hot Chick, Vice Versa, and the list goes on. These films always seem to fall under the atrocious--guilty pleasure category and don’t generally make that “Marvel” money. Despite the trend, Japanese director Makoto Shinkai, has taken his anime switching-places film, Your Name, and propelled it to become the second highest grossing Japanese title of all time! In fact, his picture is now in the running to be crowned the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.

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My Many Sons follows the inspirational true story of legendary basketball coach Don Meyer (Judge Reinhold), who, despite becoming wheelchair-bound after a nearly fatal car wreck, passed Bobby Knight to become the most winning basketball coach in Ncaa history. Produced by Brad Wilson (A Family Thing, Becoming Jesse Tate, Set Apart) and Casey Bond and directed by Ralph E. Portillo (The Last Great Ride, Big Brother Trouble), this inspirational motion picture is a story of character, relationships, and turning young boys into men.

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Producer Didier Brunner talks updating the Oscar-nominated animation into a TV series backed by Canal+ and France Television.

Veteran French producer Didier Brunner (The Triplets Of Belleville) has revealed further details about the TV spin off from his 2012 Oscar-Nominated animated feature, Ernestine & Celestine.

The 26-part series is expected to be ready in September of this year.

Speaking on an Annecy Film Festival panel ‘From Feature Film To TV Series (and Vice Versa)’, Brunner highlighted the challenges in transforming a hit feature into a small screen series.

“We didn’t just want to do Ernest & Celestine 2,” Brunner commented.

In order to make the TV series,...

Halfway through the Cannes Film Festival, buzz is hearing about “Jackie”, now in post-production, an account of the days of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, directed by Pablo Larraín whose Directors’ Fortnight contender “Neruda” is receiving raves here. Another hot Directors’ Fortnight film “Mean Dreams” with Bill Paxton is praised by one important film buyer as “Mud” meets “Cold in July” in a tense coming-of-age drama about a 15-year-old boy. And Sony Pictures Classics has snatched U.S. rights to the German Competition comedy, “Toni Erdmann”.

This year in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Competition Section, there are no first time film directors, only established masters, some praised and some panned. However, Cannes Official Un Certain Regard specifically shows emerging filmmakers who are considered to be the next generation of master auteurs of cinema. Out of its 17 films, seven were first features from Romania, France, Israel, USA, Argentina, Finland and the Netherlands. Three of the seven are by women: Stéphanie Di Giusto’s “La Danseuse” (“The Dancer”) is about Loïe Fuller, the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers.

Maha Haj From Israel debuted on the first day with “Personal Affairs”, about an old couple in Nazareth and their son and daughter who live on the other side of the border. Other first films are the much-anticipated “The Red Turtle”, a dialogue-free animated feature from Studio Ghibli but made in France and directed by Dutch-born, London-based animator Michael Dudok de Wit, the Finnish-German-Swedish “The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki” and Bogdan Mirica’s “Dogs”. The debut So. Korean film, “Train to Busan”, showed in the Official Midnight Screening section and featured a zombie-virus breaking out in South Korea, and a couple of passengers struggling to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan – enough to make me want to stop traveling.

“Fool Moon” by France’s Gregoire Leprinr-Foret had a Special Screening within the Official selection and received mixed reviews. In Critics Week, three of ten films selected and judged bycritics as the best films of the year thus far are first features: K. Rajapal’s drama “A Yellow Bird” from Singapore and France about a Singaporean Indian man trying to reconnect with his estranged family after he is released from prison, Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s “Albüm” from Turkey, France and Romania (See the trailer here) and Alessandro Comidin’s “Happy Times Will Come Soon” from Italy. The Acid sidebar of eight very independent features has two first films.

Also noticeable this year is the high number of films co-financed by the Doha Film Institute. Asgaard Farhadi's " The Salesman" will have its world premiere in the Festival’s Official Competition where it competes for the coveted Palme d’Or. “The Salesman” is about a couple who is forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building. It is one of two Iranian films this year. The other, “Inversion” will play in Un Certain Regard.” Newly established Doha Film Institute lent financial support to two films showing in Un Certain Regard section – “Apprentice” (Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Qatar) written and directed by Boo Junfeng; and debut feature “Dogs” (Romania, France, Bulgaria, Qatar). Directors’ Fortnight is screens “Divines” (Morocco, France, Qatar) and three Dfi grantee films compete for top honors in the Critics Week: “Mimosas” (Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar) by Oliver Laxe; “Tramontane” (Lebanon, France, UAE, Qatar) by Vatche Boulghourjian; and “Diamond Island” (Cambodia, France, Germany, Qatar) by Davy Chou touted as poetic and beautiful, a part of what might be a Cambodian New Wave. This New Wave from Cambodia is being helped along by the Doha Film Institute whose CEO, Fatma Al Remaihi says:

“At the very core of Dfi’s film funding mandate is to contribute to World Cinema and ensure that great stories continue to be told. These projects will also inspire the young Qatari film professionals to create compelling content that will gain international acclaim.”

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s debut feature “Wolf and Sheep”, in Directors’ Fortnight, is about Sadat herself, who lives in Kabul and Denmark. It takes place in the isolated village in Central Afghanistan where she grew up and where young boys and girls are shepherds. International coproductions are the engine driving the film business today and this one, a Denmark-France-Sweden-Afghanistan coproduction is a prime example. Sadat was spotted previously when her 2011 short “Vice Versa One” screened at Directors’ Fortnight and was invited to develop “Wolf And Sheep” at Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010, which mentors emerging talent. Virginie Devesa of the international sales company Alpha Violet picked up the film here in Cannes. Alpha Violet is also selling ”A Yellow Bird” in Critics’ Week and is representing “Luxembourg”, the newest film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, whose first film “The Tribe” played in Sundance and other top fests.

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s debut feature, set in Afghanistan, will play in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has boarded Shahrbanoo Sadat’s debut feature Wolf And Sheep, which is selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Sadat, who lives in Kabul and Denmark, based the story on the isolated village in Central Afghanistan where she grew up.

The plot follows young boys and girls acting as shepherds in rural Afghanistan, where one 11-year-old girl is an outsider. The folktales of the community add touches of magical realism.

The film is a Denmark-France-Sweden-Afghanistan production produced by Copenhagen-based Katja Adomeit of Adomeit Film, who was a co-producer on Force Majeure and also a former Screen International Future Leader.

Co-producers are La Fabrica Nocturna Productions (France), Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan) and Zentropa Sweden.

Sadat previously showed her 2011 short Vice Versa One at Directors’ Fortnight. She developed Wolf And Sheep at Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010.

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India’s biggest celebration of music, The Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) has unveiled its most illustrious nominee list for the year. Only the most outstanding in the industry have the honor of receiving a GiMAnomination, with only the finest getting a chance to walk awaywith the most coveted music award in India- the GiMA award.

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Adding plenty of female flair to the recipe, Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss share the spotlight in the new Spring/Summer 2016 spread from Liu Joe.

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Kevin Spacey has played a wide range of roles in his time as a star of movies and television. From slimy senator to suspicious hood, from police negotiator to legendary crooner, he's made us laugh, cry, and wish we were never born. Yet his latest role in the film Nine Lives is something you have to see for yourself in order to truly believe it. Check it out below, and try to keep an open mind.   Just in case you're still a little shell shocked, this is a real trailer. Famed film company EuropaCorp, the folks behind such hit film franchises as The Transporter and Taken, released this trailer yesterday, and it's a real head-scratcher. Nine Lives is the type of story that films like Big, Vice Versa, and Freaky Friday have used to mill comedy gold for decades, as it tells the story of billionaire Tom Brand, and his...

"The Grinder" debuts tomorrow night at 8:30 on Fox as the most promising new network sitcom this fall. Some of that's just by default — as I've said, this is a poor freshman class — but some of it's the fun of watching Rob Lowe (playing a former TV legal drama star who returns home to Idaho to help out the family law practice) at his most cheerfully self-parodying, and much of it is the pleasure of having Fred Savage back in front of the camera in his first regular series role since the short-lived "Crumbs" back in 2006. Savage, like Ron Howard, was a natural child actor as both a little kid (in movies like "The Princess Bride" and "Vice Versa") and a teenager (growing up as the avatar of all things Baby Boomer on "The Wonder Years"), and seemed well-equipped to make the transition into adult acting once he graduated from Stanford.