What does it take to pursue one’s happiness? Four women find themselves on various paths to contentment in “Emilia Perez.” The musical comedy sees a lawyer set on several unique tasks by a cartel boss. Years later, she discovers the connection to her former client is far more complicated. ‘Perez’ hails from director Jacques Audiard. Its cast includes Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Edgar Ramírez.

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Can a recently recruited operative help the Lioness program? The upcoming season of “Lioness” sees the team facing a mysterious threat. Their new member is tasked with a dangerous mission, as Joe (Zoe Saldaña), Kaitlyn (Nicole Kidman), and Byron (Michael Kelly) provide much-needed support. Meanwhile, Joe faces difficulties in colliding with her personal and professional interests. 

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Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, and Nicole Kidman once again star in the Paramount+ series.

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It may not have won the Palme d’Or, but Jacques Audriard‘s “Emilia Perez” was the talk of the Cannes Film Festival this year. And after its female ensemble shared the festival’s Best Actress award, it’s easily one of this Fall’s most anticipated new releases. But while Audriard’s genre/gender-bending hits theaters next month in his native France, US audiences won’t see “Emilia Perez” until it hits Netflix this November.  

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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival may be winding down, but the Cannes market is still heating up.  IndieWire reports that Netflix currently has the splashiest deals of this week so far, with the streamer picking up the US and UK rights for Jacques Audriard‘s Palme d’Or favorite, “Emilia Pérez.”  And that’s not the only thing Netflix snagged today. The streaming giant also acquired John Lee Hancock‘s legal thriller “Monsanto,” which has Glen Powell, Laura Dern, and Anthony Mackie attached to star.

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CANNES – You have to give Jacques Audiard credit. The famed French filmmaker has proven time and time again he isn’t afraid to take big swings. And with “Emilia Perez,” he’s attempting to hit one all the way across the Atlantic. Debuting at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in competition, “Perez” is a Mexican-set musical melodrama with a narrative that seemingly knows no bounds. And yet, even at its most unwieldy, Audiard’s cinematic skill and Zoe Saldana‘s at times dazzling performance make it hard to ignore.

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In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo crosses into unfamiliar territory to discuss “The Absence of Eden” with star Zoe Saldana (“Avatar,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”) and her husband and first-time director Marco Perego-Saldana. The film follows multiple characters from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border and revolves around the dilemmas faced in dealing with the many hardships brought on by immigration laws and the enforcement of those laws.

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As we mentioned yesterday, Zoe Saldana’s next movie is the gripping immigration drama, “The Absence of Eden,” Directed by Marco Perego, in the film, Garrett Hedlund plays an ICE Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security, and Saldana stars as an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel (Adria Arjona co-stars). In the film, the two characters eventually cross paths and work together to save an innocent girl’s life (see the trailer below).

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Due in theaters April 12, Zoe Saldana’s next movie is the harrowing immigration drama, “The Absence of Eden,” directed by Marco Perego and starring opposite Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona. In the film, Hedlund plays an ICE Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security, and Saldana stars as an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel. In the drama, they eventually cross paths and work together to save an innocent girl’s life (see the trailer below)

Saldana will appear in an upcoming episode of our The Discourse podcast, and we’ll have more from that interview about “The Absence Of Eden” soon.

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Obviously, Taylor Sheridan is the king of Paramount+. The creator of “Yellowstone” and seemingly a dozen other shows, Sheridan, was an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (“Sicario,” “Hell Or High Water”), but soon began growing by leaps and bounds, directing “Wind River” in 2017 and then was essentially given the keys to TV on Paramount as a writer, director, showrunner, producer and THE man who runs things there.

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It’s easy to forget now, given the wild success of the franchise since, but remember the context of the time: filmmaker James Gunn did the unthinkable and overcame incredible odds with 2014’s “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 1.” Moreso than almost any other Marvel characters that led their own movies in the last 20+ years, the Guardians were mostly unknown C-list characters, and many skeptical pundits were expecting a bomb because audiences would be unfamiliar.

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Phase 5 of the MCU is about to kick off with “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” but not long after that comes “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.” While the Guardians had supporting roles in Taika Waititi‘s “Thor: Love And Thunder,” and turned up recently in “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,” this final edition of the franchise—at least the final installment for writer/director James Gunn—promises to be a big epic finale which will reunite the Guardians with Zoe Saldaña as Gamora, who’s been missing in action since “Avengers: Endgame.”

James Gunn’s tweets about it promise a story he “has been cooking up for years,” and in the past, he’s described it as “so big and dark.”

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Over the course of 2022, a Nicole Kidman-narrated ad for AMC Theatres has evolved from a campy meme into something of a communal prayer offered at the secular chapel of the movie theater. The fragments she incants evocatively describe the power of cinema when wielded at its maximalist best: “we go somewhere we’ve never been before,” “dazzling images on a huge silver screen,” “sound I can feel.” The year ends for audiences with a movie that genuinely deserves to follow such a paean: James Cameron’s long-delayed, much-anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water.”

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The specious claims that the original “Avatar” had no cultural impact evaporate all but instantly when Cameron plunges viewers back into the realm of Pandora.

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For many Marvel fans, the worst news to come out if this year’s Comic-Con was James Gunn‘s confirmation that “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” would bring a close to the director’s trilogy of sci-fi hijinks. And while the first trailer for the film might have been a Comic-Con exclusive, here’s everything we saw – and what you can expect when the teaser finally drops online (we assume sometime in the next few weeks).

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After many years of incremental delays, director James Cameron finally looks ready to deliver the goods on his long-awaited sequel to “Avatar.” It’s been something of a running gag among film fans that the movie would simply never see the light of day, but the December 2022 release date seems to be locked in. And to dispel any lingering doubts, Cameron debuted a new trailer at this year’s Cinema-Con to prove the movie was real.

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“The Adam Project” is the latest Netflix film to come from the Ryan Reynolds Industrial Complex (after 2021’s gimmicky “Red Notice”), and it feels fair to applaud it for what it resists. It doesn’t cram movie pop culture references down the audience’s throat; it keeps the Reynolds character’s meta-like winks to a minimum; it lets Reynolds’ fast-talking, incorrigibly charismatic smart-ass ways seem based in a complicated humanity instead of a contractual obligation from the lead star’s power. Much of this restraint makes “The Adam Project” a welcome surprise from director Shawn Levy (who previously helmed Reynolds’ “Free Guy,” another Reynolds-overload vehicle), and allows its earnest emotional core to shine through.

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Writer/director/creator/showrunner Taylor Sheridan is practically a streaming service unto himself. Thanks to the success of his “Yellowstone” modern Western/family/crime series, which is the biggest hit on television right now and a massive boon to Paramount and its streaming service Paramount+ Sheridan can do whatever he wants. No, really. So far, that’s meant he’s been able to launch two more shows, the “Yellowstone” Western prequel “1883,” following the great grandparents of the main characters, and “The Mayor of Kingstown,” Michigan-based prison industrial complex series, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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We’ve all dreamt of going back in time to talk to our younger self, but what about going back in time to get help from our younger self? That’s the concept of “The Adam Project,” a high-concept popcorn movie by director Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things”) and Ryan Reynolds. The pair are becoming quite the team. After working together on “Free Guy,” they immediately went back at it with “The Adam Project,” a film about a man who travels back in time to get help from his younger self to confront their late father.

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A teenager’s fifteenth birthday is typically a time for celebration. Depending on where you are, perhaps you begin learning how to drive a car. Maybe your parents treat you more as an adult. And if you’re Maya from the Netflix series, “Maya and the Three,” it’s the time you team up with great warriors to take on the gods of the underworld to save everyone you love from certain doom.

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Animated films and TV series are no stranger to having star-studded casts. But there are few that have as many big names as the cast for “Maya and the Three.”

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As seen in the teaser for “Maya and the Three,” the animated series tells the story of a young warrior princess, Maya, who has to spend her fifteenth birthday fighting and defeating evil forces and saving her people.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda is everywhere these days. Following “In The Heights” this summer based on one of his plays and the “Tick, Tick Boom” musical starring Andrew Garfield arriving later this year, Miranda is practically ubiquitous. But there’s more. He’s also the lead voice and has written all the original songs to the Netflix animated film, “Vivo.”

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“Vivo” follows a musically gifted kinkajou who embarks on a journey of a lifetime to deliver a song to his cherished owner’s long-lost love.

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David O. Russell seems to have tapped most of Hollywood for his upcoming new feature film as Deadline reports a massive new wave of casting additions for the New Regency project. Plot details are been kept under wraps for the untitled movie, but it’s based on an original idea from David, which must have been compelling enough to bag this many top-shelf actors.

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David O. Russell is currently filming a new feature. And you know what that means when a new Russell film is underway—there’s always a stacked cast on board. And for this untitled feature, we already knew about Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington leading the way. But why not add a recent Oscar winner and a Marvel Studios star to the mix for good measure?

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You didn’t think Ryan Reynolds would surround himself with unknowns for his upcoming high-concept, action-adventure film, “The Adam Project,” did you? Of course not! So, it shouldn’t be all that surprising he’s snagged two big co-stars to join him in the new Netflix film.

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According to Deadline, Zoe Saldana and Jennifer Garner have been cast to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the forthcoming time-travel film, “The Adam Project,” which is directed by Shawn Levy.

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For years Zoe Saldana has been one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood. Despite having quite a few films under her belt, including appearances in the massive Marvel Cinematic Universe and “Avatar,” she has yet to find a project that allows her to fully shine as the star. Well, perhaps the upcoming film “Sabaya” will be the project that makes Saldana a true acting powerhouse in Hollywood.

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The term plot hole for movie criticism, generally fan criticism, is an extremely problematic, flawed terms. Plot holes have become a catch-all term for anything that someone doesn’t like or feels like didn’t make sense to them. It’s like “hipster” as a pejorative, a meaningless catch-all term that means dozens of things to dozens of people (people have even made video essays to explain you have no f*cking clue what you’re talking about when you’re complaining about what you think is a plot hole; most of the time anyhow).

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