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In 2025, IP remains king. As the age of the superhero blockbuster appears to wane (unless Marvel truly can fix their ailing cinematic universe before it's too late) studios are turning to other existing properties to sell movie tickets, with video games looking like they could become the next major font of inspiration for Hollywood — although "Borderlands" becoming the biggest bomb of 2024 doesn't bode well. Still, if video games don't work out, you can bet studios will find something you already know and repackage it, even if that something is literally already a movie.

It would be patently silly to write off all projects based on existing IP as being inherently bad. But we are clearly in a golden age of repurposing things that really shouldn't be repurposed. Case in point: the Harry Potter reboot series which seemed like a tipping point for our nostalgia-obsessed monoculture when it was announced in...

Eugene’s (Finn Cole) father used to say about their Bismarck home, “This place is cursed.” It didn’t matter that it’s where he and his wife Olivia (Kerry Condon) settled with a bunch of other families. He simply never thought any good could come from trying to make a life there. So he left. Olivia and Eugene stayed. Dust storms swept through the land destroying crops, farms, and hope. And the banks arrived with foreclosure after foreclosure. Olivia Baker eventually became Olivia Evans, her new husband George (Travis Fimmel) became a deputy sheriff, and along came little Phoebe (Darby Camp) as they still struggled to survive. That’s all before a dangerous outlaw entered the frame with a $10,000 bounty that everyone saw as solution.

Could Allison Wells (Margot Robbie) be the person to change their lives? Could her capture inject enough money into their community to hold the...

This article marks Part 19 of the 21-part Gold Derby series analyzing Meryl Streep at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at Meryl Streep’s nominations, the performances that competed with her at the Academy Awards, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the contenders.

After scoring her 18th Oscar nomination with “August: Osage County” (2013), Meryl Streep lined up a trio of promising projects for the following year. That 19th nomination would, no doubt, be lurking around the corner.

First, there was “The Giver,” the long-awaited film adaptation of Lois Lowry‘s best-selling dystopian young adult novel. The project paired Streep with, for the first time, two Hollywood heavyweights – Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and Australian director Philip Noyce. A late summer release, “The Giver” mustered decent box office receipts but was resoundingly trashed by critics.

Garnering warm reviews but a chilly box office reception was Streep’s second 2014 release,...