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Exclusive: HBO Max has acquired streaming rights to the family film Brie‘s Bake Off Challenge, from writer-director Emily Aguilar, for release today.

The story follows Brie Hayes (Devyn Leah), an aspiring 12-year-old baker who does everything she can to win first place in her school’s annual Spring Bake Off Challenge. Brie and her Bffl Millie (Mallory Vertman) must practice and motivate each other in order to win. On top of the actual baking challenges, Brie faces her “archnemesis” and bully, Vanessa Weiler (Delaney Disque), who also wants to win first place. Pressures and tensions rise as the stakes get higher and Vanessa’s crush, Jody (Camden Zapf), is also competing to win. The winner of the Spring Bake Off Challenge will win a whopping 5,000 and tickets to Cosmo Land.

Emily’s Bake Off Challenge also stars Stefannie Smith, Pry’ce Jaymes, Isaiah Givens, Sandy Lisiewski, Tony Amante, Adam Cooley,...

Niki Koss, best known for co-starring on the Freeform series Famous in Love, will make her feature directorial debut with Night, Night, a psychological thriller about a woman who wakes up from a horrific car accident and must find a way to survive a recovery from hell. Descendants actress Brenna D’Amico is attached to star in the film which was written by Robert Johnson. Additional cast includes Tony Todd, Eric Roberts, Brooke Anne Smith, Adam Budron, Nick Marini, Matty Cardarople, and Neels Visser. Filming will commence this month in Corsicana, Texas. Koss, Johnson, Austin Seltzer, and Ryan DeLaney are producing while Amber McNutt will serve as executive producer. Koss is repped by Abrams Artists and Mckeon Myones.

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Producer and Green Book actor Mike Hatton has secured a seven-figure revolving fund for his production shingle, Ton of Hats, Inc., through The Magnolia Financial Group, LLC. The fund will go towards the...

Exclusive: Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr., who directed The Woman Who Wasn’t There about the woman who perpetrated the fraud as a 9/11 victim, rising up to the president of the survivors’ organization, has just directed another documentary. This one is another live-action with animation doc called Monolith and it’s getting a major marketing push today from Vimeo. It is executive produced by Andrea Smith, who used to work at William Morris and then Paradigm before going into…...

If you want to watch '80s comedies "Clue," "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," or "Annie," better hurry: They're leaving Netflix on April 1. And if you want to binge on "Friday The 13th," better do it before the end of the month as Jason and his many, many victims are also checking out on April 1.

Here's a complete list of the movies that Netflix is pulling from your streaming list. And, just so you're not left empty-handed, here's a list of what's new on Netflix in April 2015. (All titles and dates provided by Netflix and subject to change.)

Leaving April 1

"28 Hotel Rooms" (2012)

"Annie" (1982)

"Astonishing X-­Men: Dangerous"

"Astonishing X­-Men: Torn"

"Astonishing X­-Men: Unstoppable"

"Baby Genius: A Trip to The San Diego Zoo"

"Baby Genius: Animal Adventures"

"Chalet Girl" (2011)

"Clue" (1985)

"Color Splash Collection: Collection 1"

"Coneheads" (1993)

"Friday The 13​th" (1980)

"Friday The 13th: Part 2" (1981)

"Friday The 13th: Part 3" (1982)

"Friday The 13th...