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With the arrival of Captain Marvel on screen, the first solo female superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney is asserting her considerable power by creating a vibrant origin story and establishing the Captain's position as one of the most powerful Avengers - her return in the upcoming Avengers: Endgame is already certainGolden Globe winner Brie Larson, better known for her nuanced performances in independent cinema - like the Golden Globe-nominated Room - plays Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel). The movie introduces a feisty, sarcastic, and physical Danvers who is trying to not only unlock the secrets of her past but harness the superhero powers she has.

It’s hard to understand that such a seminal event as Billie Jean King, the number one Women’s Tennis player at the time, taking on a man and beating him at the height of the woman’s movement, has faded from popular culture to such an extent that many young women are unaware who this iconic figure is. Battle of the Sexes, a new movie about King's life at that time should put her and the event back into the public zeitgeist.

It has become the most succesful September release ever, winning its second weekend box office with $60 million for a worlwide total of $371. 3 million.

The trans actress keeps pushing boundaries with a starring role in Fox’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's do the Time Warp AgainThere is likely no film phenomenon quite like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 cult film by Jim Sharman based on the Richard O’Brian stage production has become a staple of midnight screenings where fans dress up as the characters, perform and shout back at the screen. Fox TV has now tread on hallowed ground with a small-screen remake of the beloved camp classic.

When the HFPA visited the set of Woody Allen’s first ever TV project in New York last spring it was still without title. Now Crisis in Six Scenes is streaming on Amazon.

The upcoming Baywatch movie, starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Zack Efron, currently shooting on Tybee Island, Savannah, Georgia, where the HFPA recently interviewed the cast, is a reboot of the former TV series made famous by David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson. David Hasselhoff, 63, primarily known for his leading roles in the TV series Knight Rider (from 1975 to 1982) and Baywatch (from 1990 to 2001), has also joined the ranks of the headliner of such shows as The Simple Life, Gene Simmons: Family Jewels, Keeping up with the Kardashians and, of course, I Am Cait.

Mark Wahlberg is in a Boston state of mind. The Golden Globe nominated actor and producer (Best Supporting Actor for The Departed, in 2007 and Best Actor Drama for The Fighter in 2011), is back in his New England hometown shooting the Peter Berg helmed Patriots Day, which chronicles the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the citywide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.

The overarching theme of Downton Abbey was in a sense always the inexorable passage of time, and the end of the gilded Edwardian era. So it is as fitting as it is inevitable that the hugely successful and multiple Golden Globe nominated series itself would come to an end.

Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series American Crime Story has become must see TV with its take on the best-known celebrity trial ever. As a singularly unifying moment, the “OJ trial” stands alongside 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination as one of the defining “I remember where I was” moments in American popular culture.

Wagner Moura is a bona fide star in his native Brazil having worked in film, television and theater. He has acted in numerous telenovelas, a wildly popular genre in his home country, and gained worldwide notoriety after playing Captain Roberto Nascimento in José Padilha’s police drama Elite Squad.