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📚 Hot take: some sci-fi movies actually top their source novels. 🧵 We made the case for 8 of them — and the arguments are harder to argue with than you'd expect 👇

NBC is turning The Great Gatsby into a modern police procedural — and gender-swapping Nick Carraway into a female NYSP detective named Nicky. Writers behind CSI: Vegas and Elementary are running the show. Fitzgerald is spinning in his grave or would absolutely approve.

🏆 MAJOR WIN FOR A24’S NEW COMEDY HIT! 🎉 Olivia Wilde’s $60M hit The Invite, starring Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton, just landed the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival! 🎬 Have you streamed this #1 hit on HBO Max yet? Drop your thoughts below! 👇💬

Someone mashed up The Shawshank Redemption and The Thing into an R-rated horror-action-comedy… and it just landed a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. Ghost in the Cell is being called one of the best films of the year and it came out of nowhere.

Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars bombed at the box office ($39M against a $70M budget) but it's already the #3 movie on Apple TV Store just one day after hitting PVOD. Post-apocalyptic redemption arc incoming?

Peter Berg's The Mosquito Bowl is exactly what it sounds like: Friday Night Lights meets Band of Brothers — and it nails one half of that promise. Bill Skarsgård without the clown makeup is genuinely a movie star.