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Deadline reports today that the 1978 film will soon receive a modern-day remake courtesy of journeyman director Anthony Cohen.

After a neck-and-neck race last weekend, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has officially stepped aside to let Hidden Figures reign supreme. The crowd-pleasing drama about the black female mathematicians who assisted NASA in its early days topped the box office, leading a weekend that was otherwise all about films bursting out of limited release. The bulk of the new releases were not so fortunate.

Back in the day, like way back in 2010, I would anxiously check my mailbox when I got home from work to see what DVD Netflix had sent my way. These days I just open Netflex on my Amazon Fire Stick and stream movies, like most folks. Well, Netflix has rolled out a new app for 2017 called "DVD Netflix". Yep, it's for going old school to get your DVDs through the mail, and here's why.

When it comes to making “true story” movies, there’s always a certain sense of pressure on everyone involved to be as true to the real events as the movie allows. That’s what Mark Wahlberg and co. were most concerned with when it came to making Patriots Day, but it appears their attempt to “do it right” still left some people in the dust. Now, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow Katherine Russell says that the movie’s portrayal of her is unjust and “unfair.”

John Williams, probably the most recognizable name of modern Hollywood film scores, has given us the iconic soundtracks to little indie pictures such as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones, E.T., and, of course, Star Wars. The music is at once timeless and nostalgic, allowing us all to sink cozily back into the days when Amblin ruled our childhoods as we listen through each score over and over. All of us, that is, except John Williams.

According to most people (on the internet, which is where most people live now), 2016 was horrific. It was a year in which we lost some of our best and brightest artists, a year in which we elected a president who will, according to Kate McKinnon’s Hilary Clinton, “kill us all,” and it was a year in which many blockbusters fulfilled the “bust” end of that promise. Despite all of this, 2016 delivered some truly remarkable films; because of all of this, we needed them.

Everyone knew that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story wasn’t going to match the opening weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That film had hype on its side, drawing off the power of a lengthy dry spell for fans and the presence of the original trilogy’s cast members. It’s unlikely that any Star Wars movie will match it ever again. With all of that said, the opening weekend of Rogue One should still be considered an enormous success, especially since these numbers would be nothing short of indisputably incredible if Star Wars wasn’t in the title.

Consider this the calm before the storm. Next weekend, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will open and dominate both the box office and every headline, drowning out each and every other movie currently screening in theaters. In the meantime, Moana took advantage of this quiet window to win one more strong weekend while Office Christmas Party got off to a pretty good start.

Movie extras and interns are needed to work on a low-budget film being directed by Ethan Hawke in the Baton Rouge area.

One real estate website did the calculating and tabulating and figured out how much it would cost to power the lights on the Griswald home.

While die-hard fans of the Harry Potter universe probably would have been happy if Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them simply gave some screen time to characters from the franchise’s vast lore, it turns out that author J.K. Rowling had something bigger in mind for her latest film. Fantastic Beasts retroactively raises the stakes by quite a bit, introducing a powerful enemy of wizards everywhere and hinting that the story of Newt Scamander and his companions had just begun.

Like any new Marvel Studios movie, Doctor Strange was destined to take the number one spot at the box office  —  it was really just a question of how much it would make. Ultimately, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme surpassed expectations, topping the charts with an exceptional $84 million. But this was a strong weekend in general, with Trolls and Hacksaw Ridge performing well in second and third place.

Happy Halloween! Along with all of the costumes and candy come horror movies. I've watched the "Friday The 13th" movies so many times I can't even count. Even though, I just came across this video about things people don't know about the horror classic, and I learned a few things.

Did anyone want a third Robert Langdon thriller? While The Da Vinci Code was a gigantic hit back in 2006, Angels and Demons made significantly less on both the domestic and international charts. And now, Inferno looks to answer that question with a painful whimper. No, nobody wanted a third Robert Langdon movie, and the film’s opening weekend makes that abundantly clear.

It's the season for Horror movies! With Halloween just a few days away, folks all over South Louisiana will be bingeing on a steady diet of scary movies to get into the Halloween spirit. But, what horror movie scares Louisianians the most? The answer, according to a recent survey, may surprise you.

Do you consider "The Nightmare Before Christmas" to be a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? My thought is that it's perfect for each, but I do consider it to be more of a Halloween movie. It's been 20 years since the movie came out, and there still might be some things about this classic that you might not know.

Have you ever wondered why bad guys in Star Wars only use red lightsabers, and good guys get all the other colors? The secret has finally been revealed after almost 40 years!

Just in time for your Halloween viewing - here are the Top 20 Scariest Movies of All Time. Boo!

Deepwater Horizon finished second in the weekend box office report. Many people who saw the movie said the film makers were able to tell the story of that tragedy without exploiting the lives that were lost in the actual event.

Just when you thought September was going to be a slow month at the box office, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks show up with Sully and make things interesting all over again. The feature film adaptation of the “Miracle on the Hudson” opened with huge numbers, benefiting from the pedigree of the talent involved and the lack of direct competition in the middle of a not-so-busy month.