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Long Shot
Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is one of the most influential women in the world, a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into Charlotte, he soon realizes that she was his former baby sitter and childhood crush. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter, much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.

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Serenity
Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain who leads tours off of the tranquil enclave of Plymouth Island. His peaceful life is soon shattered when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down. Desperate for help, Karen begs Baker to save her, and their young son, from her abusive husband. She wants him to take the brute out for a fishing excursion, then throw him overboard to the sharks. Thrust back into a life that he wanted to forget, Baker now finds himself struggling to choose between right and wrong.
 

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Brenda Walsh is headed back to Beverly Hills. Shannen Doherty will rejoin her Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars in Fox's reboot that's set to premiere in the summer. The six-episode "event series," with a truncated title of BH90210, is something of a meta-reboot: Doherty, Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling are all playing "heightened versions of themselves," as Fox describes it, as the cast decides to attempt to mount a reboot of the iconic teen soap.

The third season of Netflix's Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant led zombie comedy Santa Clarita Diet will be its last. The streaming giant has opted to cancel the series from showrunner Victor Fresco. The decision comes as a bit of a surprise given the star power attached to the wacky comedy about a married couple in suburbia and and the fact that the series is owned and produced in-house at Netflix.

After days of dropping hints to something new was on the horizon, Taylor Swift dropped her newest song ME! which features Panic at the Disco's Brendon Urie. Swift says ME! was about "embracing your individuality and really celebrating it and owning it...I think that with a pop song, we have the ability to get a song stuck in people's heads, and I just want it to be one that makes them feel better about themselves". ME! is full of vibrant pastel spring colors with a hint of Disney like flavor of magic.

A North Bergen, NJ high school play depicting the classic sci-fi film Alien got a surprise visit Friday from the star of the original film, Sigourney Weaver. Appearing at an encore performance of Alien: The Play at North Bergen High School, Weaver took the stage for some brief remarks, according to the North Jersey Record. Weaver played the character Ellen Ripley in the 1979 film.

Mark Hamill is in hot water with some Star Wars fans after re-posting a fan-made image with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and himself photoshopped into it, with the hashtag “Missed Opportunities.” Some prickly fans saw it as a diss of the current Star Wars universe and took issue with his attempt at humor. Hamill had lobbied to reunited the original Star Wars trilogy cast for The Force Awakens, but it never happened.

Will Smith thinks a fan-made YouTube reinterpretation of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is “brilliant.” The nearly four minute clip titled Bel-Air was created by cinematographer Morgan Cooper and recreates the beloved Smith-starring sitcom as an indie drama.

Avengers: Endgame is on its way to a record-breaking debut with an estimated $345 million from 4,662 North American locations. The final installment in the Avengers saga landed an enormous $156.7 million on Friday after a stunning international debut, which included a $107 million opening day in China.

As has been the case with a number of high-profile blockbusters in recent years, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix found itself undergoing extensive reshoots, which resulted in the mutant superhero adventure being pushed back from its original November 2nd 2018 date to February and then June of 2019.