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Pre-opening domestic estimates hover around $15 million, but there’s no other new wide releases and this property still retains interest decades later. Add Jordan Peele as co-producer and -writer, positive reviews (its 73 Metacritic score leads “Black Widow,” “Suicide Squad,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” even “A Quiet Place Part II”) — along with his commitment to topicality and originality — and the response could be bigger. “Candyman” could reinforce a new reality of moviegoing: As 2021 domestic grosses close in on $2 billion, more than $400 million of that — over 20 percent — came from horror movies....

Set in the near future, “Chaos Walking” stars as Tom Holland as Todd Hewitt, a young man living on the distant planet of New World. Todd is raised to believe that a pathogen has killed all the world’s female population and unleashed a special ability called Noise that allows people to hear the minds of humans and animals. Todd is thrust into an adventure after he stumbles upon a patch of silence and meets Viola Eade (Ridley), a woman without Noise who is the key to unlocking secrets for the New World....

The iconic actress, who previously collaborated with director Guadagnino for HBO series “We Are Who We Are,” told IndieWire at the New York Film Festival premiere of “Bones and All” that she was ravenous to work with the Italian auteur again — even if for a cannibal movie with no lines. “There was already a built-in trust after going through shooting ‘We Are Who We Are,’” Sevigny said of working with the “Call Me By Your Name” helmer....

The filing for “Chungking Express 2020” includes this cryptic plot synopsis: ““In ’90s Hong Kong, broken-hearted Policeman 223 encounters a blonde female assassin, and they spend a short time together overnight. Policeman 663, who also is getting over heartbreak, sees his life gradually changed by the intrusions of the ‘person of his dreams.’ In 2036, young Xiao Qian and May are unwilling to be held back by genetic partnering, and insist on finding their own ‘destiny....

And Steve James was there. Before the GOP’s attack on voting, including inflated claims of voter fraud and the outright theft of people’s ballots, delegates for Chicago mayoral candidates sat around a computer and made knowingly false claims to try to boot their opponents from the ballot entirely. Lawyers cited mistakes on pages that didn’t exist, and signatures were challenged despite the signatory sitting right next to the challenger; not one but two candidates had signatures ruled illegitimate that were given by their own mothers....

The film tells the story of the Badri family, who live on a lush self-sufficient homestead on the outskirts of Beirut. Opening with a pointedly vague title card — “Lebanon, in a near future” — a newscast informs us that Beirut is in the midst of a waste crisis. It’s been happening since 2015, with ongoing protests over corruption and government inefficiency filling the city’s streets daily. On the Badri family compound, however, life is beautifully simple....

Cruz originally dissed Rey as part of his reaction to Disney’s firing of Gina Carano from “The Mandalorian.” The studio parted ways with Carano over controversial social media posts, including one that compared the current U.S. political divide to Nazi Germany. Carano and Cruz are both Republicans from Texas, and Cruz decided to blast Disney in the aftermath of Carano’s forced removal from the “Star Wars” franchise. “Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the ‘Star Wars’ universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi,” Cruz wrote on Twitter....