Back before Donald Trump took the idea of political controversy and pumped it full of steroids, one of the most shocking scandals in politics involved Rob Ford, the then-Mayor of Toronto. And in the film “Run This Town,” the Rob Ford scandal gets put under the microscope through the point-of-views of a journalist and the Mayor’s right-hand man.

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As seen in the new trailer for “Run This Town,” the film follows a couple of different angles of the Rob Ford political scandal that involved the Mayor buying drugs and being recorded while he smoked them.

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One of the standouts from last year’s SXSW, the new film “Run This Town” is perhaps most notable, not for its awesome cast or the film’s content, but for the recent deal between film studio Oscilloscope and Twitter. For the first time ever, Twitter will now stream films, and the social media platform is beginning this quest with this new political thriller.

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Back in 2018, we were shocked when set pictures dropped of actor Damian Lewis under all sorts of prosthetics to play controversial Canadian political figure Rob Ford.

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No matter how you felt about Disney‘s live-action “Aladdin” remake, you probably walked away impressed by the film’s young stars. Mena Massoud has all the charisma you could want from everyone’s favorite lamp-stealing orphan, and Naomi Scott shines as Princess Jasmine. Even Billy Magnussen, a comedy regular in a small role, finds time to shine in the movie. Surely these actors would go on to do great things with their careers.

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Mena Massoud has done something in 2019 that not many other actors have done. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson hasn’t done it. Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ryan Reynolds didn’t either. Massoud can stand above all of those A-list male leads this year as the star of a film that earned more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

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With friends like these, who needs original ideas? Wait, that’s not how it goes. Though, with the Mouse House bent on remaking every animated movie they’ve ever made into a live-action vehicle, we might as well get in on “Aladdin,” right?

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After the tease of teases hit in October, Disney has given audiences a proper look at its lavish “Aladdin” live-action feature, complete with ample footage of Will Smith as the Genie, magic carpet rides with Aladdin (Mena Massoud) and Jasmine (Naomi Scott) and hints at the new music that en-vogue duo Pasek & Paul (“La La Land,” “The Greatest Showman“) has cooked up to mesh with what returning composer/legend Alan Menken has in store.

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