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"Test Pattern" filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford's ambitious sophomore feature is both an intimate exploration of identity and a rallying cry for a new kind of world.

Video game adaptations have become big business for movie studios, and the CEO and founder of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, has plans for a new Cinematic Universe. Borderlands hits theaters this August with an all-star cast (Jamie Lee Curtis, Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and more), bringing the hit video game franchise to life in live-action.

Will Anne Hathaway be making bubble gum from scratch? Maybe. According to Deadline, Hathaway will star in and produce an upcoming "trad wife" thriller based on Cairo Claire Burke's forthcoming novel, Yesteryear. After a battle for its rights, Amazon MGM Studios secured the rights to turn the genre-bending novel into a film.

In Hollywood, everyone is forced to get used to missed opportunities, especially when one has been deep in the trenches trying to get a project made. There are many stories of actors and directors who were marginally close to landing a film before something fell apart ahead of production and things unfortunately didn't work out.

23 years ago, Hollywood was in a much more awkward place regarding racial representation in film. Actor Kal Penn is proof of that. In an interview with Rolling Stone marking the 20th anniversary of the classic comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn discussed the challenges he faced as an Indian actor in Hollywood, and how an audition for his breakout role in National Lampoon's Van Wilder had him competing against a guy in brownface.

Matt Damon has revealed that he really wants to make a sequel to his 1998 movie, Rounders. Even when a film isn't a huge success upon release, there is still a chance that it can find an audience several years later - especially now thanks to streaming. There are many examples of box office under-performers that have gone on to become cult classics and 1998's Rounders is a shining example of this.