Critics were mixed about 2018’s “The Book Club,” but audiences felt differently. The modestly budgeted film, about four women in a book club whose reading of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” becomes a life-changing experience, made over $100 million at the box office. Of course, in Hollywoodland, that’s grounds for a sequel, and that’s exactly what director Bill Holderman has cooked up.

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Enter “Book Club: The Next Chapter,” ready to hit theaters next month.

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Each summer, the film industry releases the biggest, most star-studded franchise films in hopes that these blockbusters will achieve massive financial success. Next May alone features “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Fast X,” and “The Little Mermaid.” But there’s another epic, globetrotting franchise film with an A-list cast looking to stake its claim to the summer movie pie in May 2023— “Book Club: The Next Chapter.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Book Club: The Next Chapter,” the potential blockbuster features the returning team of powerful women as they aim to take over Italy and fight the police in the process.

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Meryl Streep is Alice Hughes, a demanding well-renowned writer struggling to complete her newest manuscript. Karen (Gemma Chan) is her young new agent. Desperate to discover whether Alice is writing a sequel to her biggest bestseller, “You Always. You Never,” Karen engineers a cruise for the writer. See, Alice is being awarded the fictional Footling Prize. But the award ceremony takes place in the UK, and for reasons unknown, she can’t fly.

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Steven Soderbergh‘s latest film, “Let them All Talk,” will premiere this December on HBO Max, and it seems the filmmaker who already made two films on iPhones has a new trick — shooting an entirely improvised film in two weeks.

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In a recent Playlist interview with Soderbergh to discuss “Wireless,” a new innovative mobile-phone thriller on Quibi he executive–produced, the prodigious filmmaker teased the release of “Let Them All Talk,” for this December.

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Just last week, we broke the news that Steven Soderbergh had already begun filming his latest feature, “Let Them All Talk,” with Meryl Streep and Gemma Chan attached to star. And just a few days later, we get confirmation that it is definitely happening and the filmmaker has already lined up his distribution partner, the fledgling streaming service HBO Max.

Now, we not only know the full cast for Soderbergh’s comedy film, but also a plot and distributor.

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Yesterday, Disney moved up the release date of “Avengers: Infinity War” to April 27th, giving the blockbuster three clear weeks to dominate multiplexes before the arrival of “Deadpool 2.” But let’s be real, your parents (and grandparents) don’t care about all this superhero jazz. So, Paramount Pictures has a little piece of counter-programming called “Book Club,” which should keep the young people away based on its title alone.

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Sometimes you have to wonder how out of touch some people are in Hollywood. Nothing in this trailer for “Home Again” makes any sense (or is remotely funny or romantic), and yet somehow it got made.

Reese Witherspoon goes back to formula filmmaking in the debut from Nancy Meyers‘ (“Something’s Gotta Give,” “It’s Complicated,” “The Holiday“) daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer about a woman who turns 40, and somehow winds up with three, young, hunky directors living under her roof.

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Earlier this year, Reese Witherspoon had the role of her career, and the best reviews she’s received in a long time, with her terrific turn in “Big Little Lies” (which she also produced). The HBO series is going go down as one of the best things hit the small screen in 2017, but it seems that Witherspoon’s sense of adventurous and willingness to try something new doesn’t extend to the big screen.

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At 79 years old, directing his first film in nearly two decades, Warren Beatty has found in Howard Hughes a larger than life character that’s bigger than the Hollywood legend himself. And while Beatty has refuted the notion that “Rules Don’t Apply” is a film about Hughes specifically — a disclaimer opens the film making it clear that facts and dates are loosely adhered to — that’s not entirely true, and trying to contain the famed eccentric is one of the issues the enjoyable, sprawling picture attempts to overcome.

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While it might’ve seemed that Warren Beatty has taken a page from Howard Hughes himself over the last fifteen years since his last big screen appearance, that’s not quite true. He’s simply decided to focus on his family, stay out of the spotlight, and somewhere along the way, write and direct a new film. “Rules Don’t Apply” marks Beatty’s return not just behind the camera, but in front of it too, and his legendary status has enabled him to round up a huge ensemble for the effort.

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Warren Beatty hasn’t directed a film in eighteen years, but he knows that times have changed, and that the requirements of movie marketing have shifted as well. So at 2:30 PM EST today, the iconic writer/director will take part in a Reddit AMA. But first, here’s a more traditional promo with the new trailer for “Rules Don’t Apply.”

Led by Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins, with Beatty as Howard Hughes, and a rich supporting cast behind the trio including Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Steve Coogan, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen, the movie follows a young woman into Hollywood where she comes under the wing of the reclusive tycoon.

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Watch: Robin Williams Tries To Save The Holidays In Trailer For 'A Merry Friggin' Christmas'

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