Having earned the right to be selective and turned into a fine director in her own right, Jodie Foster hasn’t appeared in a film in five years because at this stage in her life; she doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t damn well please. One then presumes something is compelling enough in writer/director Drew Pearce‘s “Hotel Artemis” screenplay to have coaxed the distinguished icon off her couch and back on the screen.

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There was never a curse against all-female led franchises; it’s just that, one of the first ones in our modern era, “Ghostbusters,” was rather awful and audiences rejected it (and yes, a subspecies of morons also retaliated against it hard). Thankfully, since man babies feel no special attachment to the “Ocean’s” films, and the Gary Ross-picture is pretty good, the new “Ocean‘s 8” film starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and more, did superb business at the box office this weekend.

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Global Road Entertainment (previously Open Road) – responsible for distributing the Miles Teller-leading “Bleed For This” in 2016 and the Chadwick Boseman-leading “Marshall” in 2017 – has another all-star cast on their hands with the upcoming futuristic thriller “Hotel Artemis.” The film, directed by Drew Pearce, stars Jodie Foster playing a nurse who runs an underground hospital for criminals.

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Many filmmakers have to start small with their directorial debuts. Normally, your first film is a little indie project, and you’re lucky to get one major star to sign on. For Drew Pearce, his debut film, “Hotel Artemis,” has one of the strongest casts you’ll see all year. Needless to say, he’s one lucky guy.

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In the first trailer for “Hotel Artemis,” we get to see an all-star cast, which is headlined by Jodie Foster, as guests in an off-the-books hospital for criminals called the Hotel Artemis.

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We’re just getting started with our look at the best in film and TV of 2017, but before we really got sucked into the retrospective, we wanted to take a minute to look forward to what’s to come in the next twelve months or so. Lord knows we need things to keep us going in the shitshow that has been the second half of the 2010s, and fortunately, cinema has provided.

After a slow start, 2017 turned out to be a pretty great year for movies, and 2018 looks to keep that up in a big way.

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The acting career of pop stars is always a fascinating thing to watch. For every David Bowie who makes a long and lasting side-career out of appearances in credible films, there’s a Madonna, who occasionally flirts with movies but has mostly abandoned them now, or a Britney Spears who only tries it once and never really goes back.

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Christina Aguilera is somewhere between those categories.

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Over the past few years, Jodie Foster hasn’t been seen all that much on the big screen, choosing instead to focus on her directorial career which has seen her helm the feature “Money Monster,” and episodes of “Orange Is The New Black” and “House Of Cards.” But acting is an itch that it seems she needs to scratch again, and Foster has lined up an intriguing new project.

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