The ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise is one of the most popular of all time. However, that popularity seemingly didn’t help the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, as the spinoff films earned far less than the ‘HP’ films. And so much money was lost, it appears the franchise won’t get to finish its story, according to a couple of ‘Fantastic Beasts’ stars. 

Speaking to Variety, while promoting his upcoming film “The Order,” Jude Law was asked about the status of the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ films.

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As many cinephiles already know, the 1970s was a fantastic time for paranoid political thrillers (“The Parallax View,” “All The President’s Men”), assassin movies (“The American Friend”), and films based on the rising tide of terrorism (“Black Sunday”; in fact we devoted an entire feature to this genre several years ago). One film that covered all those bases and was pretty popular then was 1973’s “The Day Of The Jackal,” directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.

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It would be empty hyperbole to declare Eddie Redmayne our worst living actor; in all likelihood, the honor belongs to someone nobody’s ever heard of, so bad that they never became famous in the first place. But in Tobias Lindholm’s new drama “The Good Nurse,” Redmayne still makes a bold argument for some qualified version of the statement. 

During the early stretches that see him in one of his two settings as a performer – so anemic and withdrawn that he appears to be trying to stop existing – one might wonder whether he’s merely the worst of his Hollywood class.

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Nurses are supposed to make sure their patients are comfortable and well-taken care of. But what if that kindly nurse, who you expect to do what’s best, is actually trying to kill you? That’s the question that is asked in the new Netflix thriller, “The Good Nurse.”

As seen in the trailer for “The Good Nurse,” the film follows the astonishing true story of a nurse who is suspected of poisoning his patients, leading to their untimely deaths.

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Like so many true-crime tales, it’s a story too gruesome to believe. Over a 16-year career, a male nurse murders his patients by administering lethal doses of insulin and other drugs. He works at nine different hospitals and kills over 40 patients (and possibly up to 400) until a co-worker finally catches him. It’s crazy, but it’s all too real, and it’s the basis of “The Good Nurse,” coming to Netflix this Fall.

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“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” has not had the easiest journey. Based on a slender volume of in-universe lore, it was author J.K. Rowling’s attempt to expand the so-called Wizarding World by focusing, at least initially, on a character almost wholly unrelated to Harry Potter: Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), an awkward, fumbling zoologist who works for the Ministry of Magic and who collects wild magical animals.

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Since it started in 2016, critical praise for the “Fantastic Beasts” series hasn’t panned out exactly as Warner Bros. anticipated. Still, this is a “Harry Potter“-adjacent franchise, so it’s a cash cow, albeit not the biggest one in the studio’s pasture. The first in the series netted $816 million at the box office, and its 2018 sequel, “The Crimes Of Grindelwald,” $654 million, both on $200 million budgets.  

READ MORE: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Trailer: The Wizarding World Goes To War In April 

So, how will the third film in the series, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore,” fare with audiences after COVID-19 delayed its release a bit?

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More than five years after the film’s debut, there’s still quite a bit of controversy around the Oscar-winning feature, “The Danish Girl.” Well, there’s controversy around the fact that Eddie Redmayne was cast in the lead role as a trans woman. And with time to digest the problem of a cis-man taking on the role of a trans woman in a film, Redmayne has come to the conclusion that his role was a mistake.

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Back in 2014, Alicia Vikander broke out in a big way thanks to her incredible performance in “Ex Machina.” She followed that up with an Oscar-winning role in “The Danish Girl.” From there, she’s become one of the biggest names in Hollywood. But that latter role has been the subject of criticism since shortly after it was released due to Eddie Redmayne leading the cast as a trans woman.

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After the box office juggernaut “Avengers: Endgame,” The Russo Brothers have been keeping busy with the Tom Holland (“Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “The Impossible,” “The Heart of The Sea“) crime drama “Cherry” and are currently shooting the $200+ million budgeted Netflix spy action film “The Gray Man” led by Ryan Gosling (“Drive“) and Chris Evans (“Snowpiercer“). 

READ MORE: The Russo Brothers Directing Chris Evans & Ryan Gosling In Netflix’s Most Expensive Film To Date, ‘The Gray Man’

The sibling duo is also producing a heap of films via their production company AGBO Films, and one project is a political tech drama about the real-life company Cambridge Analytica. Collider is reporting that that untitled project is looking to add Oscar winners Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything,” “Trial of The Chicago 7“) and director Peter Farrelly (“Green Book“), which would quickly place the move into the festival circuit and possibly lead to multiple awards consideration. 

If you’re unfamiliar with the project or the company, Collider gives us a refresher, “Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that illegally harvested the personal data of 87 million Facebook users to influence Donald Trump‘s presidential victory and the Brexit vote.”

READ MORE: ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’: It’s Official, Mads Mikkelsen Will Replace Johnny Depp As Grindelwald

Eddie Redmayne is said to be wanted for the role of Canadian data consultant and whistleblower Christopher Wylie. The British actor recently wrapped on the Potterverse sequel “Fantastic Beasts 3” after multiple production hiccups alongside Mads Mikkelsen (“Another Round“), replacing Johnny Depp as the franchise villain.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Since we last met, a flurry of prestige new releases have hit the streaming services – awards season in full swing, it seems, even this peculiar, couch-bound version of it.

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Eddie Redmayne, like many other A-list actors, has a platform that allows him to speak to millions of people, whether through his performances or even in public appearances and interviews. Yet, don’t expect Redmayne to use that platform to spread a political agenda. It’s not going to happen. In fact, the actor would also like fans to maybe chill out a little when it comes to the negative words being said about one of his ‘Fantastic Beasts’ collaborators, J.K.

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Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), Tommy Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), John Froines (Daniel Flaherty), and Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins) were the Chicago 7. Along with Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), co-founder of the Black Panther Party, these eight men captivated America from 1969-70 while on trial for inciting a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention — a bloody protest witnessing the Chicago Police Department viciously beating unarmed demonstrators, which culminated in Mayor Daley instituting his infamous shoot to kill order.

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Despite studios moving films such as Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake out of the calendar year and questions about whether some films will actually hit theaters, there are still new Oscar contenders being revealed for critics and AMPAS members alike. Over the past 48 hours, Netflix virtually screened Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” for select media, and A24 and Apple debuted Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks” at the 2020 New York Film Festival.

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Social reviews for Aaron Sorkin‘s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” broke last night on Twitter, and the word is mostly positive and good. People have praised the way Sorkin’s movie echoes our current age of protest, rage and dissent and the Sorkinese rat-at-tat patter.

READ MORE: 2020 Fall Film Preview: 40 Most Anticipated Films To Watch

The movie, back in 2007, was a Steven Spielberg project, even Paul Greengrass flirted with directing it too.

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Here’s Hollywood development for you: writer/director Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” back in 2007, Back then, Steven Spielberg had intended to direct the movie, and flirted with doing so for years, almost starting several times before becoming distracted with other projects (Paul Greengrass almost directed it as well). Cut to 13 years later and Sorkin, who in the ensuing years graduated from Oscar-winning screenwriter to director (his directorial debut was “Molly’s Game” in 2017 with Jessica Chastain), ends up directing the project himself.

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Ever since the all-star cast was announced for Netflix’s upcoming drama, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” which is written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film has become one of our most anticipated releases of 2020. And considering the streaming service is the distributor behind the affair, thankfully, the uncertainty of the theatrical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going to stop the film from being released this fall.

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It’s clear that many fans are upset with JK Rowling after her most recent transphobic tweets made headlines. (“Most recent” being the important part of that, considering she has a history of transphobic comments.) Yesterday, we saw that ‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe spoke out against the comments, showing his support for the trans community. And today, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ star Eddie Redmayne did the same.

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Considering the IMAX cameras and its Telluride Film Festival debut, Felicity Jones must have assumed her high adventure drama “The Aeronauts” would be in theaters right now. And, that was the original plan for both the UK and the United States. However, after the critical response wasn’t exactly enthusiastic enough, Amazon Studios decided to do a four-wall release in the United States before debuting it on Amazon Prime this weekend.

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After their acclaimed roles opposite each other in “The Theory of Everything,” actors Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne were destined to star with each other in the future. Their chemistry is undeniable in that film, which makes their roles in “The Aeronauts” so damn exciting.

And in honor of “The Aeronauts” arriving on Amazon Prime Video this week, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the film, featuring none other than Jones and Redmayne proving why they’re so good together.

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The Wright Brothers are the pioneers of air travel, having invented the first airplane. Well before that, hot air balloons were the only way to get above the ground, and “The Aeronauts” tells the gripping story of exploration and survival. Directed by Tom Harper, an Englishman who has led the likes of popular BBC series “Peaky Blinders” and 2009s “The Scouting Book For Boys,” comes a film inspired by real-life events which see a pilot and scientist take to the skies to discover more about the weather.

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When you have an acting duo like Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones tear it up on screen in an Oscar-winning film such as “The Theory of Everything” (where the former won the Oscar and the latter was nominated), then you do whatever you can to put them back on screen together. And sadly, since a sequel to ‘Everything’ doesn’t seem to be in the cards, Amazon Studios did the next best thing — put the two folks in a hot air balloon in the new film “The Aeronauts.”

As seen in the UK trailer for “The Aeronauts,” Redmayne plays a 19th-century meteorologist that has the crazy idea that if you study the atmosphere, you might actually be able to predict the weather.

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TELLURIDE – Despite her 5’3 frame there is a fire in Felicity Jones that has helped propel her into becoming one of the toughest actresses working in mainstream film. Over the past three years, she’s battled an evil Empire a galaxy far, far away and portrayed the iconic Ruth Bader Ginsberg (name a character braver than the Notorious R.B.G.). In her latest endeavor, Tom Harper’s “The Aeronauts,” which debuted at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival this weekend,  she’ll legitimately have you afraid for her personal safety as she dangles from a balloon thousands of feet in the air.

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It’s been five years since Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones took awards season by storm in their Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything,” which netted the former an Oscar and the latter a nomination. The two reunite five years later for “The Aeronauts,” a British drama from Amazon Studios and rising indie director Tom Harper (whose pretty great 2019 music dramedy “Wild Rose” is worth seeking out).

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Best Picture will be tough, but there is no category that’s more competitive than Best Actor.  “Marriage Story’s” Adam Driver and “Joker’s” Joaquin Phoenix are in theory in (although anything could happen). The rest?  Not one, not two, not three, but at least four major performances are going to get the snub.  Any other year Christian Bale (“Ford v. Ferrari”) Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”) and Taron Edgerton (“Rocketman”) would be easy nominees.

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