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- Gwyneth Paltrow isn't sure how Pepper Potts has been keeping busy since *Avengers: Endgame*.

- The actress says, "I haven't seen any of" the Marvel movies for "story context for what she's doing."

- Paltrow also isn't sure if Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark is alive or dead: "I don't know. I can't keep track."

Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't know what Pepper Potts has been doing these days.

The *Shakespeare in Love* star shares her thoughts on her Marvel Cinematic Universe character's whereabouts in a recent conversation with host Gerrad Hall on* The Awardist* podcast.

"To be honest, I think I would've had to see all the *Avengers* movies to get some story context for what she's doing," Paltrow said of her character, who was first introduced in 2008's *Iron Man* and last appeared in 2019's *Avengers: Endgame*. "I haven't seen any of them, so I don't know."

Gwyneth Paltrow in Los Angeles on Nov. 16, 2025.

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After working as a personal assistant for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and subsequently becoming the CEO of his company Stark Industries, Pepper began a romantic relationship with her former boss at the end of *Iron Man 2*. They remained a couple in all of Paltrow's subsequent MCU appearances — *The Avengers*, *Iron Man 3*, *Spider-Man: Homecoming*, *Avengers: Infinity War*, and *Avengers: Endgame* — and welcomed a daughter together before Tony died at the conclusion of that last film.

(She also got Extremis superpowers in *Iron Man 3* and her own high-tech suit of armor in *Endgame*, though neither of those threads has been addressed in subsequent MCU projects.)

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Paltrow considers how Pepper has lived on in Tony's absence. "She's been raising a kid and doing spreadsheets," she says. "Maybe she's on some boards and doing some advisory work, and maybe she's dating."

That last point prompts some confusion. "Or did they bring Robert back to life?" she asks of her former costar. "I don't know. I can't keep track."

Gwyneth Paltrow in 'Iron Man 3'.

Downey is returning to the MCU in 2026's *Avengers: Doomsday*, though he's set to play the villainous Victor Von Doom rather than the Tony Stark we know and love. It's possible that Downey's Doom will be a multiversal variant of Tony from an alternate reality, but the character's background has yet to be disclosed by the actor or the filmmakers. And there's no indication that the original Tony will return in any capacity. All that is to say: we can't keep track, either.

Paltrow can currently be seen in Josh Safdie's *Marty Supreme*, a ping-pong dramedy that also stars Timothée Chalamet, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma (a.k.a. Tyler, the Creator), Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. The film marks Paltrow's first film performance since *Endgame*, and her first non-MCU film since 2015's *Mortdecai*.

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New year, new you… but that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. Why not carve out some "me time" and get lost in a few hours of nail-biting suspense on Netflix?

The streamer is starting 2026 strong with a fresh lineup of thrillers that will keep you guessing the whole way through. From the violent and disturbing moments of Fox's *The Following *to the unpredictable chaos of films like *Wild Things *and *Green Room*, these titles (and more) will keep you hooked from start to finish.

If you're up for some nonstop twists and turns, here's your cheat sheet for the best thriller movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this January.

Green Room (2015)

Anton Yelchin as Pat in 'Green Room'.

**Available to stream: Jan. 1**

A24's *Green Room* is a high-voltage thriller that never lets up. What starts as a typical gig for the punk band the Ain't Rights quickly descends into pure terror after a show at an isolated neo-Nazi bar takes a deadly turn. With no escape, the young band members (played by Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner) are forced into a vicious fight for survival against merciless extremists, led by Patrick Stewart's sinister Darcy Banker.

**Director:** Jeremy Saulnier

**Cast:** Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Joe Cole, Mark Webber, Eric Edelstein, Kai Lennox, Macon Blair, David W. Thompson

Man on Fire (2004)

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**Available to stream: Jan. 1**

Denzel Washington brings undeniable force to *Man on Fire*, anchoring the film with a performance that turns an ordinary revenge story into something brutal and emotional. The two-time Oscar winner stars as John Creasy, a broken former CIA operative drowning in regret and alcohol, now working as a bodyguard. When the young girl (Dakota Fanning) he's sworn to protect is abducted, Creasy unleashes a relentless campaign of vengeance to get her back.

**Director:** Tony Scott

**Cast:** Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Mickey Rourke, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Rachel Ticotin

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Wild Things (1998)

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**Available to stream: Jan. 1**

Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon, and Denise Richards lead the way in *Wild Things*, a seductive flick that's more than just its steamy scenes. It's a twisting, backstabbing thriller where no one can be trusted. Everyone has an agenda, loyalties change on a dime, and just when you think you've got it all figured out, * *reminds us that "*Wild Things* never stops pulling the rug out from under you."

**Director: **John McNaughton

**Cast: **Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Theresa Russell, Carrie Snodgress, Robert Wagner, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bill Murray, Jeff Perry

The Following (2013–2015)

Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy on 'The Following'.

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**Available to stream: Jan. 3**

On Fox's hit crime thriller *The Following*, danger lurks in every corner. Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) is a brilliant deadly serial killer, and his devoted cult will go to any lengths to carry out his twisted plans. The only one who can stop him is Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), the former FBI agent who thought he put a stop to Joe's reign of terror years ago. But as Joe's web of violence continues, Ryan is stuck chasing a notorious killer who's always one step ahead.

**Creator:** Kevin Williamson

**Cast:** Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Connie Nielsen, Natalie Zea, Nico Tortorella, Valorie Curry, Jessica Stroup, Sam Underwood, Annie Parisse, Kyle Catlett

James Franco as Jake Epping on '11.22.63'.

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**Available to stream: Jan. 7**

Based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, Hulu's *11.22.63 *is a heart-pounding thriller that throws James Franco into a race against time. He plays Jake Epping, a high school teacher who finds a portal to 1960 and takes on the daring mission of stopping John F. Kennedy's assassination. The past refuses to be changed, and every move Jake makes could have serious consequences.

**Creator:** Bridget Carpenter

**Cast: **James Franco, Sarah Gadon, Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, Cherry Jones, George MacKay, Lucy Fry

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A Disney World cast member was injured after a massive prop dislodged from its track during the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! show.

The moment was captured and uploaded to TikTok on Dec. 30. During the stunt show, which takes place at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a worker stepped in front of a 400-lb prop boulder that came rolling toward the audience.

The video shows the cast member pushing the rubber boulder to stop it from reaching the seated visitors. He is seen falling backward after stopping the ball and has a bloody gash on his head when he stands back up.

Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.

A Disney World representative confirmed that the cast member was injured after a prop moved off its track.

"We're focused on supporting our cast member, who is recovering," a spokesperson said in an email. "Safety is at the heart of what we do, and that element of the show will be modified as our safety team completes a review of what happened."

The Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! features Indy, played by a stunt actor, cracking his whip, dodging spikes, and escaping that iconic boulder. Actors prepare for "dozens of contingencies" because every performance may play out differently, according to the Disney Parks blog.

"The performers form a backup plan for just about every possible scenario — and even learn how to improvise while staying in character," the blog continued.

A Disney World spokesperson said the cast member is 'recovering'.

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While this likely wasn't a scenario anyone was expecting, spectators at the event could be heard expressing their gratitude toward the cast member in videos uploaded to social media.

"That guy literally saved our lives," the man behind the camera of one viral TikTok said.

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Miami shocks Ohio State in Cotton bowl: Reactions to Miami's upset win in Cotton Bowl John Leuzzi, USA TODAY NETWORK January 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM 0 Miami shocks Ohio State in Cotton bowl: Reactions to Miami's upset win in Cotton Bowl The Cardiac Canes continue on in the College Football Playoff. Behind a dominant first half effort from Carson Beck, Akheem Mesidor and Rueben Bain Jr. and Co., the 10thseeded Hurricanes were able to upset No. 2 seed Ohio State 2414 in the CFP Cotton Bowl quarterfinals on Wednesday, Dec.

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The Cardiac Canes continue on in the College Football Playoff.

Behind a dominant first half effort from Carson Beck, Akheem Mesidor and Rueben Bain Jr. and Co., the 10th-seeded Hurricanes were able to upset No. 2 seed Ohio State 24-14 in the CFP Cotton Bowl quarterfinals on Wednesday, Dec. 31 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for their second upset of the postseason.

The loss for Ohio State drops teams that earned a first-round bye to 0-5 across two 12-team playoff iterations, with three more games to be played on Jan. 1.

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After Ohio State made it a one-possession game off a 14-yard touchdown pass from Julian Sayin to Jeremiah Smith in the third quarter, the Hurricanes secured their spot in the CFP semifinals with a defensive stop, a 5-yard rushing touchdown from CharMar Brown and an interception from Jakobe Thomas, all in the final six minutes of the fourth quarter.

Given the overall performance from the Hurricanes and the defending national champions being knocked out in just one game, college football social media didn't hold back from reacting to the outcome of the CFP Cotton Bowl quarterfinal.

Here's a snippet of those reactions:

College football reacts to Miami upsetting Ohio State in CFP Cotton Bowl:

Here's a look at social media after Miami's win over Ohio State in the CFP Cotton Bowl quarterfinal:

MIAMI HOLDS OFF OHIO STATE TO ADVANCE TO THE CFP SEMIS 🔥 pic.twitter.com/QILh6mky37

— ESPN (@espn) January 1, 2026

Gutsy play-calling from Shannon Dawson tonight

— Matt Fortuna (@Matt_Fortuna) January 1, 2026

#GoCanes pic.twitter.com/9581SZevfz

— Miami Hurricanes Football (@CanesFootball) January 1, 2026

What a performance for Carson Beck, too. Has made so many great decisions tonight.

— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) January 1, 2026

MIAMI TAKES DOWN DEFENDING CHAMP OHIO STATE 24-14 TO ADVANCE TO THE CFP SEMIS 🌀The Hurricanes' quest for their first national championship since 2001 continues 🏆 pic.twitter.com/b91T08AlTz

— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) January 1, 2026

MIAMI PICKS OFF JULIAN SAYIN TO SECURE THE CFP DUB‼️ pic.twitter.com/yPy4tTQATb

— ESPN (@espn) January 1, 2026

pic.twitter.com/4i3QAf0MS1

— Matt Hayes (@MattHayesCFB) January 1, 2026

When Ohio State loses, America Wins.

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Mike Vrabel responds to Stefon Diggs, Christian Barmore charges Ayrton Ostly, USA TODAY December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM 3 Mike Vrabel responds to Stefon Diggs, Christian Barmore charges Two New England Patriots players have been charged with assault in the last 36 hours. Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing felony strangulation or suffocation charge as well as misdemeanor assault as of Dec. 30. Defensive lineman Christian Barmore is facing assault and battery charges as of Dec. 31. Coach Mike Vrabel has the team at 133 and fighting for the No. 1 seed in the AFC in his first year in New England.

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Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing felony strangulation or suffocation charge as well as misdemeanor assault as of Dec. 30. Defensive lineman Christian Barmore is facing assault and battery charges as of Dec. 31.

Coach Mike Vrabel has the team at 13-3 and fighting for the No. 1 seed in the AFC in his first year in New England. He was asked today about the charges against Diggs and Barmore as the team prepares for Week 18.

"We've been aware of these allegations," Vrabel said. "Yesterday and today isn't the first that we've heard about them. [We] try to do everything in accordance with the league policy and making sure that the league, that we're in compliance with the league."

Vrabel shot down any fears that Diggs and Barmore's legal proceedings would be a distraction for the other players.

"I'm 50 years old, going to be 51, I'm not afraid," Vrabel said. "I love coaching this football team."

The team put out a statement about both players and said the franchise is aware of reports regarding both Diggs and Barmore. The statements did not include comments because both are "ongoing legal matters," a stance Vrabel reiterated through much of his news conference today.

"There's ongoing legal matters," he said. "We've made a statement, we take these allegations seriously and what comes of that, then we'll have another discussion. I don't think we have to jump to any sort of conclusions right now and let the process take its toll."

Vrabel said Barmore likely will not be at practice today due to an illness. As of today, he considers both players available to play against the Miami Dolphins in Week 18.

"I haven't heard anything that would keep either player from the game," Vrabel said. "The NFL hasn't told me anything... I haven't had a call with the NFL."

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's… Henry Cavill wearing Christopher Reeve's original Superman suit.

*Justice League* director Zack Snyder has shared two early test photos of Cavill in the iconic cape and spandex that solidified the actor's run as the Man of the Steel.

"Henry Cavill. The original Superman suit," Snyder captioned an Instagram photo Thursday. "This photo. It was undeniable."

While sharing another, more close-up shot, Snyder added, "With the last image I shared, and this one we showed WB, everyone agreed: Henry Cavill was Superman. That's where the journey began."

Henry Cavill in 'Man of Steel'.

This isn't the first time Snyder has offered a glimpse of Cavill in Reeve's original suit. In 2017, the filmmaker posted a behind-the-scenes shot of Cavill in the costume sitting in a makeup chair on set. However, these new photos are more in character and out in the world, showing Cavill in all his Superman glory.

"First test with Henry," Snyder wrote in the caption of the first photo posted to his Vero account in 2017, of which a blurry version emerged online three years prior. "I knew right away he was my Superman."

Christopher Reeve in 'Superman'.

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As Snyder explained during a 2016 interview, "We didn't have the suit made when Henry was auditioning, so he wore the original Christopher Reeve suit. He put it on and when he came out of the trailer, everyone was like, 'Dang, you're Superman!'"

Cavill recalled feeling imposter syndrome in that moment when speaking to * *in 2011. "All I could think was, 'Oh, God, they're going to look at me and go, 'He's not Superman. Not a chance,''" Cavill said. "The actor inside me was going, 'You're not ready! You're not ready!'"

But Snyder revealed that "no one laughed" when Cavill first walked out wearing that suit.

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"Other actors put that suit on and it's a joke, even if they're great actors," Snyder added. "Henry put it on, and he exuded this kind of crazy-calm confidence that just made me go, 'Wow. Okay, this is Superman.'"

Reeve played Superman across four films between 1978 and 1987, paving the way for Cavill to debut as the beloved superhero (with his own modernized suit) in 2013's *Man of Steel*. Cavill continued wearing the cape in Snyder's follow-ups *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice *(2016) and * Justice League *(2017), and also made a cameo in 2022's *Black Adam*.

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Despite a promise of more to come as Superman, plans for Cavill to return to the character were scrapped after James Gunn and Peter Safran rebooted the onscreen DC Universe. David Corenswet took over the role, beginning in this year's *Superman*, opposite Nicholas Hoult and Rachel Brosnahan.

"It was really unfair to him and was a total bummer," Gunn previously said of the way Cavill found out about the recasting.**

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She's died a handful of times before in movies — stabbed to death in *Caligula*, shot in the head in *Shadowboxer*, strangled in *Excalibur* — but Helen Mirren "didn't like" how her character was going to meet her end, director Kate Winslet tells **, in *Goodbye June*.

"She did say quite early on, 'I don't really want to be doing this at all, but I'm doing it for you and I'm doing it to support you,'" Winslet, making her feature directorial debut with the movie in which she also stars as one of Mirren's daughters, recalls of their early conversations. "I felt so grateful, but also, I didn't want to be putting her through something."

In the movie (streaming now on Netflix) written by Winslet's now 22-year-old son Joe Anders, Mirren's character, the titular June, discovers her cancer has returned. This time, it's terminal, and doctors say she doesn't have much time to live...in fact, she probably won't make it until Christmas, which is just two weeks away. So her four adult children, two of whom — Winslet's Julia and Andrea Riseborough's Molly — have a fraught relationship, her grandchildren, and her husband, Bernie (Timothy Spall), gather to be with June in her final days.

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As June's health declines, though, Mirren — who Winslet says has a personal rule of not playing characters with dementia or cancer, but broke that rule for her director — preferred not to discuss the ins and outs of the illness.

"The way that she kind of managed herself, really, was that she didn't actually wanna talk about anything until we got there on the day. So she would get there, she would be prepared, but then she would just say to me, 'I don't like it today. I don't like, I don't like the gown and the wig and the thing. I don't want to get in the bed. Okay, right, I've got that off my chest. What shall I do?'" Winslet recalls. And I would say, 'Get in the bed. lie down, don't move your head. Okay, action.' And I just had to be very practical with her. What more do you offer someone like Helen Mirren who is going to instinctively respond to whatever's in front of her in brilliant ways?"

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Winslet went the extra step to create a set that was free of as many distractions as possible, "not by way of direction or things or words or clever tricks or s---, I didn't wanna do any of that 'cause she would've sniffed that out a mile off and become incredibly suspicious of it, as would I, and as I have done when directors have tried that with me," Winslet says. That meant making herself, the production equipment (cameras, lighting, microphones, etc.), and crew out of sight, however she could.

Johnny Flynn and Helen Mirren in 'Goodbye June'.

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"Film sets are really busy places, lots of coming and going and people and chaos and crew, and everyone's trying to do their job. So I worked very closely with our crew in finding ways to make the space as empty as possible. So we didn't have any overhead booms; we had hidden microphones everywhere, and everyone was radio mic'd," she explains. "So the boom operator who would normally hover in the corner and just catch that one line, that person wasn't there at all. The children were completely free and wandering, no one hitting marks, just playing and just being."

Winslet says she and the crew also used various hand signals with the adult actors to know they were rolling, so they could start naturally interacting with the children for the scenes — especially important for one particular sequence that comes at the end of the film, when they stage the Nativity play for June in the hospital.

Helen (Toni Collette) and her nieces and nephews perform the Nativity play in 'Goodbye June'.

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"I also was able to lock off our cameras at times and have nobody in the room at all. So the actors would show us how they wanted a scene to be, and we would set our camera, set our focus, and then I'd say to the actors, 'Okay, we'll leave you to it.' And they'd go, 'Where are you going?' And I would say, 'I'm gonna be just out there. You don't need us.' And we'd leave everyone. Everyone, camera operators included, would walk away, and these actors would be alone with cameras silently rolling, and no people in the space at all," she says. "It really made a difference to how they all felt. It gave that sense of realism and intimacy, and the smallness of it was really meaningful for them."

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While June's children spend their time by their mother's side, it's her husband who seems to be in denial about her condition — watching football on TV or going to the local pub rather than face the reality of the situation. But after his son yells at him for seemingly not caring, he realizes the depths of his heartbreak when he finds him singing Ray Charles' "Georgia" — one of the couple's favorite songs — at the local bar, but changing the lyrics to "Junie."

Kate Winslet and Timothy Spall on the set of 'Goodbye June'.

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"That was the only scene in editing when I just literally could not stop crying," Winslet admits, "because even though I'd seen it, and I was there on the day, and it was incredibly moving on the day, actually really shaping it and sculpting it in the edit, oh my God, it's just extraordinary.... How much that Bernie is hiding and concealing even from himself, existing in a state of denial and regret about his own life and the impact that that has on him, being able to just communicate on even a very basic level, it's completely heartbreaking."**

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From the return of the Avengers in *Doomsday* and the Hunger Games prequel, *Sunrise on the Reaping* to Tom Holland's latest adventure as Spider-Man and a new mission for Mando and Grogu, 2026 is shaping up to be a jam-packed year with big movies.

We're also getting the return of Miranda Priestly in *The Devil Wears Prada 2*, a new *Practical Magic* movie, a re-teaming of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in *The Rip*, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell's take on the literary classic *Wuthering Heights*, a new He-Man in the form of Nicholas Galitzine in *Masters of the Universe*, Christopher Nolan's latest theatrical *Odyssey*, and Jessie Buckley's version of *The Bride* of Frankenstein, among so many other movies hitting theaters and streaming.

Mark your calendars, and check back as we update this article throughout the year.**

**JAN. 2*****The Dutchman* - In theaters***The Plague *- In theaters (wide release)***We Bury the Dead* - In theaters**

**JAN. 9*****The Chronology of Water* - In theaters (wide release)***Dead Man's Wire* - In theaters (limited release)***Greenland 2: Migration* - In theaters***People We Meet on Vacation* - Netflix***Primate* - In theaters**

**JAN. 16*****28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* - In theaters***Dead Man's Wire* - In theaters (wide release)***Hamnet* - In theaters (wide release)***A Private Life* - In theaters (limited release)***The Rip* - Netflix**

**JAN. 23*****Clika* - In theaters***H Is for Hawk* - In theaters***Mercy* - In theaters***Return to Silent Hill* - In theaters**

**JAN. 28*****The Wrecking Crew* - Prime Video**

**JAN. 30*****The Moment* - In theaters***Send Help* - In theaters**

**FEB. 4*****Relationship Goals* - Prime Video**

**FEB. 6*****Dracula* - In theaters***Jimpa* - In theaters***Pillion* - In theaters (wide release)***The Strangers: Chapter 3* - In theaters**

**FEB. 13*****By Design* - In theaters***Crime 101* - In theaters***GOAT* - In theaters***Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die* - In theaters***Wuthering Heights* - In theaters**

**FEB. 19*****Girls Like Girls* - In theaters**

**FEB. 20*****Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert* (doc) - In IMAX theaters***How to Make a Killing* - In theaters***I Can Only Imagine 2* - In theaters***Midwinter Break* - In theaters***Protector* - In theaters***Psycho Killer* - In theaters**

**FEB. 27*****Dreams* - In theaters***Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert* (doc) - In theaters (wide release)***Scream 7* - In theaters

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**MARCH 6*****The Bride!* - In theaters***Hoppers* - In theaters***Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man* - In select theaters**

**MARCH 13*****The Breadwinner* - In theaters***Reminders of Him* - In theaters**

**MARCH 20*****Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour (Life in 3D)* - In theaters***Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man* - Netflix***Project Hail Mary* - In theaters**

**MARCH 26*****The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One* - In theaters

**MARCH 27*****Ready or Not 2: Here I Come* - In theaters**

**APRIL 3*****The Drama* - In theaters***The Super Mario Galaxy Movie* - In theaters**

**APRIL 10*****You, Me & Tuscany* - In theaters**

**APRIL 17*****Normal* - In theaters**Untitled NL/Atomic Monster/Blumhouse Horror Film - In theaters**

**APRIL 24*****Apex* - Netflix***Michael* - In theaters

**MAY 1*****Animal Farm* - In theaters***The Devil Wears Prada 2 *- In theaters***Hokum *- In theaters**

**MAY 6*****The Resurrection of the Christ: Part Two* - In theaters

**MAY 8*****The Sheep Detectives* - In theaters**

**MAY 15*****Mortal Kombat 2* - In theaters***Obsession* - In theaters***Poetic License* - In theaters**

**MAY 22*****I Love Boosters* - In theaters***The Mandalorian and Grogu* - In theaters

**JUNE 5*****Animal Friends* - In theaters***Masters of the Universe* - In theaters

**JUNE 12*****Disclosure Day* - In theaters***Scary Movie 6* - In theaters**

**JUNE 19*****Toy Story 5* - In theaters**

**JUNE 26*****Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow* - In theaters

**JULY 1*****Minions 3* - In theaters**

**JULY 3*****Shiver* - In theaters**

**JULY 10*****Moana* (live-action) - In theaters**

**JULY 17*****The Odyssey* - In theaters**

**JUY 24*****Evil Dead Burn *- In theaters**

**JULY 31*****Spider-Man: Brand New Day* - In theaters

**AUG. 7*****Super Troopers 3* - In theaters**

**AUG. 14*****Flowervale Street* - In theaters***Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie* - In theaters**

**AUG. 21****Untitled Insidious film - In theaters**

**AUG. 26*****Coyote vs. Acme* - In theaters**

**AUG. 28*****Cliffhanger* - In theaters

**SEPT. 11*****Clayface* - In theaters***Sense and Sensibility* - In theaters**

**SEPT. 18*****A Practical Magic Film* - In theaters***Resident Evil* - In theaters**

**SEPT. 25*****Charlie Harper* - In theaters

**OCT. 2*****Digger* - In theaters**

**OCT. 9*****The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender* - In theaters***The Social Reckoning* - In theaters**

**OCT. 16*****Street Fighter* - In theaters**

**OCT. 23*****Remain* - In theaters

**NOV. 6*****Archangel* - In theaters***The Cat in the Hat* - In theaters**

**NOV. 13*****Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol* - In theaters**

**NOV. 20*****The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping* - In theaters

**NOV. 25*****Focker In-Law* - In theaters***Hexed* - In theaters**

**DEC. 11*****Jumanji 3* - In theaters**

**DEC. 18*****Avengers: Doomsday* - In theaters***Dune: Part Three* - In theaters***Ice Age 6* - In theaters**

**DEC. 23*****The Angry Birds 3* - In theaters**

**DEC. 25****Werwulf - In theaters

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What should have been a crowning moment turned out to be one of the worst of Melissa Joan Hart's life.

The *Sabrina the Teenage Witch *star and millennial icon recently reflected on the highs and lows of her career — and one moment that encapsulated them both.

"Aw! Me and [Britney Spears]! This is at the premiere of *Drive Me Crazy *in New York," Hart recalled, while musing over a photo of herself with the legendary pop star, in which Spears is all smiles, yet Hart seems to strain to appear pleased.

Britney Spears and Melissa Joan Hart at the premiere of 'Drive Me Crazy'.

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"If you look at my eyes, they're very bloodshot because this was what I would consider, if you read my book, one of the worst days of my life at the time," she revealed.**

The 1999 romantic comedy costarred Hart and Adrian Grenier, and took its title from the song of the same name by Spears, released earlier that year.

"We did the press together, and then we went inside to watch the movie, but I was actually flying to Vancouver to shoot the movie *Scary Movie*," she explained. "I was supposed to be the small part in the beginning, that's like the Drew Barrymore knockoff part."

The first *Scary Movie *film parodied a panoply of recent horror releases, including *The Blair Witch Project*, *I Know What You Did Last Summer*, and *Scream*, which famously opens with the shocking murder of Barrymore's Casey Becker.

The satiric version of Casey was meant to be played by Hart, but the role eventually went to Carmen Electra.

"They decided when I did the fitting that I didn't have big enough boobs," Hart explained.****

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"I'm driving to the airport, and back in those days, you had the cell phone in the limo, and I got a call, and it was like, 'Turn around, go back to your premiere. You've been fired from the movie.' And I was like, all right, at least I get to hang out there," Hart reasoned.

The teen star had "just been crying" in anticipation of parting from her family, so when she returned to the *Drive Me Crazy *premiere, "my lawyer meets up with me first and says, 'Because of your cover of *Maxim *magazine, you're being fired from your show.'"

Hart could not believe she was about to lose out on the role that had made her a global star: the title role in the WB supernatural sitcom *Sabrina the Teenage Witch*. In fact, the *Maxim* scare proved to be just that, and she continued on with *Sabrina *for another four years.

But believing then it was all over, "I really start crying, and then my dad comes and hugs me. I don't see my dad often, so for him to hug me? I was like, 'Oh my God, my dad's hugging me.' It was just a dramatic night."******

Melissa Joan Hart in 'Drive Me Crazy' (1999).

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*Sabrina *went on as planned and *Drive Me Crazy *grossed nearly triple its budget. The end of the millennium was not unkind to Hart.

But she never made it into the *Scary Movie *franchise, which helped make stars out of Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and more.

In August, Faris and Hall revealed they signed on to return to the franchise, which has been dormant since 2013's *Scary Movie 5*. *Scary Movie 6 *will also see the return of original co-writer and star, Marlon Wayans, who teased to * *in September that the latest sequel will be "no holds barred" and aim to "make everybody laugh."**

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