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In “Verity,” it’s hard to know who to trust. There’s Anne Hathaway’s titular character, a wildly popular novelist who is unable to speak or move after a car accident, but whose secret, and disturbing, autobiography speaks volumes. There’s Dakota Johnson’s struggling author, Lowen, who has been hired to finish Verity’s remaining novels and who finds herself living in Verity’s home and fantasizing about her more successful counterpart’s life, and husband. And then there’s Josh Hartnett, as said husband, who is caring and responsible but perhaps a bit quick to suggest that Lowen borrow one of Verity’s dresses for their night out on the town.

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Jodie Foster claimed that Brad Pitt's blockbuster F1 was 'made by AI' during an appearance at Aspen Ideas Festival this week. 

Colleen Hoover, author of the 2016 novel that inspired the 2024 film starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, has said she would support another movie if the studio decides to move forward with one.

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 Supergirl has flopped at the box office despite being pegged as one of the big releases of the year and costing $170million to produce.

After building excitement with her brief cameo in Superman, Milly's take on the famous heroine earned a mixed reception, with one critic even calling the film 'a dispiriting girl power disappointment.' 

The film's disappointing release is a huge setback for Warner Bros revamped DC film operations, which had a hopeful beginning last summer when Superman became the highest-grossing superhero movie of the year.

However, it follows a pattern of underwhelming sales for films of the same genre, after The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney, Lucasfilm) and Masters of the Universe (Mattel Films) also suffered a similar fate.

Supergirl was no match for Toy Story 5 after it opened with a near-record debut for an animated movie and remained at No.1 at the box office this week with $70m in domestic ticket sales and another $89.1m overseas, according to studio estimates.

The Walt Disney Co. release has in two weeks quickly amassed $585 million globally, making it one of the biggest hits of the year.

Supergirl, however, failed to lift off. It opened with $38 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters. It added $30 million in overseas markets.

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Kids these days might prefer tech to toys, but Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie still got it. “Toy Story 5” ruled over the box office with $160 million from 4,425 North America theaters, landing on the higher end of expectations while securing the biggest domestic debut of the year over Universal’s “Super Mario Galaxy Movie” ($131.7 million). The animated sequel also marks the largest start in Disney and Pixar’s beloved “Toy Story” franchise, surpassing the record set by 2019’s “Toy Story 4” with $120 million. It also scored the second largest animated opening weekend in history, behind only 2018’s “Incredibles 2” with $182.7 million.

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“The Odyssey” continued to exert a mighty hold on moviegoers in its second weekend in North American theaters, with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That’s only a 30% drop from its first weekend, an incredibly modest slide for a blockbuster. It’s also filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s best second weekend ever, not accounting for inflation. In 2008, “The Dark Knight” earned $75.2 million in weekend two.

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Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are officially reuniting on screen as Apple TV has unveiled the first look at their upcoming comedy series Brothers, which is scheduled to premiere on September 23. The eight episode series brings the longtime friends and former True Detective co stars together once again, this time playing fictionalized versions of themselves in a story that blends comedy, family drama and celebrity culture.