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Send in the clowns. The 76th Venice Film Festival wrapped up this weekend on the Lido, and the awards were handed out. The top prize at Venice is a Golden Lion (in honor of the iconic lion that is the symbol of the city) and it's one of the greatest achievements in cinema, along with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This year's big winner is Joker, the dark, gnarly, unlike-anything-before-it audacious comic book movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as the green-haired Gotham City villain.

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Gillian Anderson joins The Crown season 4 as Margaret Thatcher
Netflix has found another A-list star to join its acclaimed period drama The Crown in the form of The X-Files and American Gods alum Gillian Anderson, who is joining the cast as the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, which the streaming service announced via Twitter.
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Quentin Tarantino considering a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood streaming miniseries
Quentin Tarantino is mulling over the idea of turning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood into a streaming miniseries with more content. The iconic director did the same to The Hateful Eight on Netflix, which added more scenes and essentially recut the film to fit a four-part miniseries format. After Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s critical and commercial success, it’s probably fair to say a

Will Smith to star in adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s novel Brilliance
According to Deadline, Will Smith has signed up for Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s novel Brilliance. The film reunites Smith with Oscar-winning writer Avika Goldsman, who worked with the actor on I Am Legend and I, Robot.
The Brilliance trilogy is set in a future world where “brilliants” — the rare 1% born gifted with superior mental abilities — are carefully

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Hayley Atwell joins Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7!
Marvel actress Hayley Atwell is trading in Captain America for Tom Cruise! The actress has signed on for the next Mission: Impossible feature, and joins a returning cast that includes Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson (Doctor Sleep), Simon Pegg (Ready Player One) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction). Director Christopher McQuarrie confirmed the news via his Instagram account, which you can see below, to which Atwell replied, “Missi

Ten movies canceled before release
Comingsoon.net is taking a look at the calendar to find the ten movies canceled before they hit theaters. Check out our selections in the gallery below!
Over the course of the past decade or so, Blumhouse has quickly become one of the most notable studios currently in the game. From the films of Jordan Peele to countless horror franchises like Paranormal Activity and The Purge, the studio led by Jason Blum works so well by utilizing limited budgets to make max

How much of the art world is bullshit? All of it? None of it? Some of it? At the beginning of the year, we had the funky art world satire Velvet Buzzsaw to make us wonder about the validity of art, and now at the end of the year we have The Burnt Orange Heresy. This film is much more serious, not at all a satire, with only a few drops of levity and much more drama. Along with heaps of philosophical discussion about art and what really matters and whether any of it is real, or if it's all just a

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CS Interview: Writer Grady Hendrix Talks Satanic Panic
RLJE Films provided ComingSoon.net with the chance to speak with screenwriter and novelist Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, Paperbacks From Hell) about the new horror comedy Satanic Panic, which opens in theaters and on Digital HD today! Click here to watch Satanic Panic on Digital HD!
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