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Now You See Me 2 follows up on the hugely successful Now You See Me (2013) and reunites most of the original cast with the addition of Daniel Radcliffe as high tech prodigy Walter Mabry who has cryptic designs on The Horsemen. The HFPA’s Ramzi Malouki was at the premiere and talked to Jesse Eisenberg and Dave Franco about rebooting the magic-crime-caper story.

Seth Rogen and creative partner/childhood buddy Evan Goldberg have been collaborating for the better part of a decade now, delivering edgy adult comedies like Knocked Up, Pineapple Express and This is the End.  Including The Interview whose irreverent portrayal of strongman Kim Jong Un landed Sony into a diplomatic incident with North Korea, provoking, by all accounts, the infamous Sony hack.

Given the proliferation of cooking channels, food travelogues and generally the general rise of foodie ethos in the culture, times seem certainly ripe for a kitchen-based TV drama. Enter Feed the Beast, AMC’s new restaurant themed series.

Adapted from Jojo Moyes’ romantic novel of the same name, Me Before You tells of the budding love story between a young caretaker and the paraplegic man in her care. On a lark, Louise (Emilia Clarke) takes the job as companion to Will (Sam Claflin) who has been paralyzed in a motorcycle accident.

Actor-director-screenwriter-producer Rebecca Miller, daughter of acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller, wrote and directed Maggie’s Plan a “modern comedy in the template of classic screwball” as she told the HFPA. Golden Globe nominated Greta Gerwig plays the titular single Manhattanite who falls for and eventually pries John (Ethan Hawke) from his wife, Georgette (Julianne Moore).

All the Way started out as a play commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012. Two years later the play was on Broadway with Bryan Cranston taking over the character of president Lyndon Johnson (created originally by Jack Willis) and winning a Tony Award for it.

Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman’s free adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Lady Susan, has been widely praised on the festival circuit as a witty and original version that infuses the text with contemporary sensibilities. The novel, which was written by Austen in the form of letter correspondence, is transposed as a narrative with Kate Beckinsale as the titular heroine.

Over the years Nordic Noir has given us The Killing, The Bridge and of course The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Scandinavian crime thrillers have introduced a dark, brooding quality to the genre that has captivated audiences worldwide, both in the original versions and in the English adaptations.

Like his movie of the same title, Steven Soderbergh’s series for Starz, The Girlfriend Experience, pushes the emotional envelope with its portrayal of a seemingly amoral call girl. Riley Keogh portrays Christine a law student who casually falls into extracurricular work for an agency that provides high-class girls to high-powered clients.

Comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have been garnering a cult following for years, first at Chicago’s famed comedy troupe Second City, then as part of the Mad TV ensemble and for the past five years with their own Comedy Central show, Key & Peele. Coming of age in the Obama era, the bi-racial comedians have come to embody the cultural zeitgeist of “post-racial” America with uproarious sketches in which they turn cultural and ethnic stereotypes on their ear.