It’s been seven years since “The Light Between Oceans” debuted and saw Alicia Vikander act opposite Michael Fassbender. Since then, the duo has married in real life, but they have yet to reconnect on screen. Thankfully, Korean filmmaker Na Hong-Jin is going to fix that with his new film, “Hope.”

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According to Deadline, Na Hong-Jin is set to direct a new film, “Hope,” which will star Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander.

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Putting together the 100 Most Anticipated Films list is a beast in any year. Still, in the new accelerated age of streaming with HBO Max, Apple TV+, Amazon, Netflix, and all the new players popping up every single day, it seems, the task becomes more and more daunting and nearly impossible (we could have easily gone to 200 this year).

So we’re post-COVID, but oops, not-yet post-COVID, but somehow movies have survived, even if the theatrical market becomes a more challenging and riskier gambit.

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Honestly, if someone would have said 10 years ago that Nicole Kidman would go from being an A-list film actress to become one of the most prolific TV actresses working today, you’d probably laugh. But this is the age of Peak TV and Kidman has clearly found her niche as the leading lady in prestige drama limited series. And that isn’t stopping anytime soon, as she has already lined up yet another series, titled “Hope.”

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According to THR, Kidman is continuing her newfound dominance of TV with a new series coming to Amazon Prime Video titled “Hope.” The show, which Kidman will also produce in addition to star in, is a TV adaptation of a recent Norwegian feature of the same name.

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I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. Aside from the election result, Trashfire 2020™ was a shitty year. And a weird and disorienting year thanks to COVID-19 and having to shelter-in-place, quarantine, and social distance from one another blah, blah, blah coronavirus f*cked us hard. Movies certainly took it in the teeth this year, and especially the theatrical industrial complex, which feels like it’s on its last legs. But regardless of what happens next for theaters, people are going to continue making and releasing movies.

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Academy snubs be damned, 2019 was a spectacular end to a decade of outstanding films directed by women. Joanna Hogg reinvented visual memoir with “The Souvenir,” Lulu Wang challenged American conceptions of family and death in “The Farewell,” and Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” adaptation upended one of the most iconic American novels by and about a woman.

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