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Based on the groundbreaking novel byAldous Huxley, the Peacock original seriesBrave New Worldshows that the reality of a utopian society of peace and stability isn’t always the harmonious vision that it would appear to be. In New London, monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself are prohibited, but to find balance, all of the citizens partake in a drug called Soma to help them achieve the happiness that they’re expected to eternally experience....

It may have been way too long of a wait forKaryn Kusamato return to film after her criminally overlooked horror gemJennifer’s Body, but since she found her way back to the big screen with the critically celebrated micro-budget psychological horrorThe Invitation, the director has been keeping busy. Not just on TV, with directorial stints on Halt and Catch Fire, Billions, and The Man in the High Castle; Kusama is about to debut her next film, the dark cop dramaDestroyer, and today brings the first look at her transformed leading ladyNicole Kidman....

We editors at Collider.com could have written about some of the scariest kids movies, or the saddest kids movies, but thanks to a casual Slack conversation that ended up plumbing the depths of our childhood horror, we decided to go for a more personal take: what movies reallyfreaked us out? Because most of them weren’t intended to have that effect. Adults often forget that for little kids, something that appears seemingly innocuous can end up beingterrifying....

WhenEddie Redmaynewas in the running for an Oscar for his performance inTheory of Everything, some wondered if his chances would be hindered by his performance in another movie that came out just as Oscar voting was underway:Jupiter Ascending. The original sci-fi film fromThe Wachowskiswas an ambitious, bold epic that showcased averyambitious,verybold performance from Redmayne as Balem Abrasax, an emperor who controls the wealthiest business empire in the known universe. Redmayne’s performance as Abrasax isout there, complete with a voice that modulates between a whisper and a scream over the course of a single sentence....

Warner Bros. has unveiled a brand new trailer for the highly anticipated adaptationFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Based onJ.K. Rowling’s ancillaryHarry Potterencyclopedia/Hogwarts textbook of the same name, the film takes place in 1926 and starsEddie Redmayneas Newt Scamander, a magizoologist whose briefcase of fantastical creatures comes loose while in New York City, setting into motion a series of events that threaten the Wizarding World community. Rowling makes her screenwriting debut on the picture, withHarry Potter and the Deathly HallowsfilmmakerDavid Yatesdirecting, and one can clearly see Yates' stylistic fingerprints all over this sucker, which is for the better at the end of the day....

One of the most highly anticipated parts of the upcoming season ofFargoisEwan McGregor’s duel role as brothers Ray and Emmitt Stussy. The key point is, of course, that they arenottwins. McGregor is practically unrecognizable as Ray, the younger brother whose often called a “loser,” sporting a receding hairline, a hefty dose of extra weight, and an outdated style. While McGregor did tell us that he put on some real weight to film a scene in the first episode where he’s shirtless, as the season wore on he ended up losing that and using padding, as well as a prosthetic double chin and a nose piece....

It came as a surprise when it was revealed how many linesAnya Taylor-Joyhas inFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga. Playing the title character, one of the most beloved ones in theMad Maxsaga,she has only around 30 lines of dialogue in the whole movie. This is nothing new to the franchise, however, considering that Max Rockatansky himself is a famously laconic protagonist in his movies, with very few dialogue lines in both his versions, played byMel GibsonandTom Hardy....

“I think one of the things we’re all proud of with the filmHannais it was probably the first prototype that came before films likeHunger GamesandDivergent,” saysDavid Farr, writer of the 2011 film and creator of Amazon’s upcoming reboot series. Yet, as he spoke of the story’s female-first theme with a select group of press on a conference call during a trip to the show’s Budapest, Hungary set back in Mary of 2018, it quickly became clear that the TV show will expand on the movie’s original coming-of-age story — and take things in a whole new direction....

Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker inThe Dark Knightis one of the all-time greats. I rewatched the film just a couple weeks ago and it’s as mesmerizing and electric as ever. He completing owns every frame he’s in and dominates the picture to the point where Batman almost becomes a supporting character in his own movie. Ledger’s death following production has added an unnecessary mystique to the performance, providing a bizarre mythology that Ledger got in too deep and that it cost him his life....

HBO and BBC One have announced that production on the third and final season ofHis Dark Materialshas officially begun. The news was confirmed alongside an image of series starsDafne KeenandAmir Wilsonholding the slate for the first day of shooting on Season 3, which also reveals that the story will follow the third book inPhilip Pullman’s trilogy on which the show is adapted from,The Amber Spyglass. Production will take place at stages at Wolf Studios in Wales and on location throughout Wales and England....

Birth charts and moon signs have been all the rage over the past few years with friends gathering together to talk about why their sun in cancer makes them cry all day (I’m a cancer, so no shots fired!) and why mercury being in retrograde caused them to lose the apartment they were hoping for. But things surrounding the zodiac are about to take a sinister turn with the announcement of the leading call sheet forAnna HalbergandSpenser Cohen’sHorrorscope....

While the absolute truth of events that took place during Lady Diana Spencer’s time as the Princess of Wales in the 1980s and ‘90s are in fact shrouded in privacy laws and secrecy, the large media attention her life and death continue to receive has nonetheless inspired a number of works of fiction: there’s a reasonThe Crownbecame one of Netflix’s highest-rated original series, after all. But it’s Diana’s fairy tale gone wrong that continues to mystify both fans and critics of the royals, pop culture junkies, and anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock in the last three decades....

Digitally de-aging actors is becoming more and more commonplace, especially as the technology continues to improve. Marvel used the technique quite well earlier this year while takingSamuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury back to the 90s inCaptain Marvel, and come the fall, we’ll get to seeMartin Scorsese’s extensive use of visual effects inThe Irishmanwhere hereportedlyde-ages cast members includingRobert De NiroandAl Pacinofor the first half of the movie. This latest case of de-aging, however, is a little different;It Chapter Twowill de-age its younger cast members....