In the 1920s, British officer Percy Fawcett led an expedition deep into the forests of the Amazon to find an indigenous lost city where a civilization once flourished in the mid 1700s. The city was thought to have contained large statues and a temple with hieroglyphics. Fawcett called it the Lost City of Z.

His first attempt to find the city failed, as Fawcett had to return after getting a fever in the jungle. For his second attempt, in 1925, he took along his son, Jack, and the two were never seen again.

Since then, hundreds of explorers and scientists have died or disappeared after going out to the Amazon to find traces of Fawcett's expedition or the lost city.

Fawcett's remarkable story was the basis of the 2009 best-selling book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon," and now Amazon Studios has made it into a movie.

"The Lost City of Z," directed by James Gray ("The Yards," The Immigrant") and starring Charlie Hunnam ("Sons of Anarchy") as Fawcett, along with Tom Holland as Fawcett's son Jack and Robert Pattinson, retells Fawcett's journey. And by the looks of the trailer, the film is going to be a visually lush and thrilling look at the legend.

With glimpses of Fawcett and his team battling natives as well as the elements, if the movie is as intense as the footage in the trailer, Amazon has another hit on its hands.

"The Lost City of Z" opens in theaters April 14 in New York and Los Angeles, April 21 nationwide through Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street. Watch the trailer below:

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The INSIDER Summary:

•The Marvel Cinematic Universe is made up of many memorable characters. 
•The characters within the world of Marvel are constantly evolving. 
•Iron Man, Loki, and Kingpin are on top of the list of best characters in Marvel movies.

The landscape of television and film looked very different back in 2008, when Marvel took a chance on a certain Golden Avenger. Iron Man began to slowly lay the groundwork, beginning a series of intricate steps made by the fledgling Marvel Studios and launching Phase One of their brilliant plan. By the time The Avengers was released in 2012, any doubts about the MCU had been assuaged.

Marvel Studios has come a long way since then. Phase Three has almost double the amount of films as the previous two phases and Marvel has also taken Netflix by storm with their ambitious five-show plan. Not to mention Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, which is blowing through an awesome fourth season, and The Inhumans, set to premiere in IMAX September 26th, 2017.

The MCU has become its own separate entity, drawing inspiration from its source material while continually expanding its own rich mythology. A large part of what ties this universe together is the way the characters within its framework are constantly evolving. The combination of inventive writing and spot-on casting has given us some truly memorable characters. Here are the 20 Best Characters In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ranked.

20. Thor

After introducing us to a billionaire with some serious tech and reacquainting us with Marvel’s own Dr. Jekyll, the next step of Marvel’s Phase One was to present us with its most mythical character yet: an Asgardian prince named Thor. Thor was an important test for Marvel Studios. The Incredible Hulk wasn’t nearly as well received as Iron Man and Iron Man 2 remains the worst film in Marvel’s catalogue. Luckily, Thor was a considerable improvement. The film not only made the magical realm of Asgard believable, but also created a world in which Thor could exist alongside the characters already introduced.

Much of the success of Thor hinged on Chris Hemsworth’s perfect portrayal of the Norse legend. He completely embodied the God of Thunder, not only because he looked the part, but because it was easy to buy that this guy was a god among mere mortals. One of the main aspects of Thor’s journey that makes him stand out is his need to learn humility in order to become the hero he was meant to be. However, while Thor managed to be larger than life onscreen, his characterization just can’t compete with some of his MCU counterparts, which is why he gets the bottom slot here.

19. Ant-Man

Due to Ant-Man’s troubled production, the film’s success was a bit surprising. It was also very welcome after Avengers: Age of Ultron failed to live up to expectations. In a post-Guardians of the Galaxy world, people no longer questioned Marvel Studios’ capability of introducing any character, no matter how offbeat. Using Scott Lang as our main hero over Hank Pym and casting none other than the most likable guy in Hollywood to play him? Now that was a stroke of genius.

Much like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Scott Lang isn’t your typical archetype for a hero. He’s kind of a loser, but Paul Rudd is so effortlessly charming that, regardless of Lang’s flaws, the audience can’t help but immediately embrace him. On top of that, Lang’s motivation is his daughter, which makes it all the more difficult to chastise his poor life choices.

While Hank Pym – played by Michael Douglas nonetheless – would’ve made a fine central character for Ant-Man, Lang is just more interesting. He not only brought much needed levity to the MCU, but also continued to explore what it really means to be a hero.

18. Mockingbird

When Bobbi Morse made her first appearance on Agents of S.HI.E.L.D., fans rejoiced. Although the ABC show has given us many lovable characters, Morse, aka Mockingbird, became the first full-fledged member of the team with comic book roots. (This was before the revelation of Skye’s own true identity.)

Morse, played to perfection by Adrianne Palicki (John Wick), proved herself a badass from the moment she was first seen brandishing her trademark batons. She could even hold her own against the Cavalry herself: Agent Melinda May. Not only did Palicki have excellent chemistry with the rest of the already established team, but with on-again-off-again love interest Lance Hunter (Nick Blood) as well. After two awesome seasons during which Mockingbird had proven herself an integral member of S.H.I.E.L.D., she and Hunter were written off in order to star in spinoff, Marvel’s Most Wanted. Unfortunately, ABC never picked up the series and with Palicki landing a part in Seth MacFarlane’s new project, it would seem that Agent Morse won’t be suiting up anytime soon.

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The INSIDER Summary:

• "My Life as a Zucchini" was nominated for an Oscar this year.
• It's about orphans, not vegetables.
• It's a sweet, short movie and you should check it out.

Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced "My Life as a Zucchini" was nominated for the best animated feature category, alongside "Zootopia" and "Moana" and beating out "Finding Dory."

While you may be familiar with the Disney films, you may be wondering what on Earth is "My Life as a Zucchini"?

The movie, also released under the title "My Life as a Courgette," is a Swiss-French stop-motion animated film about an orphaned boy who tries to make a new family for himself. ("Courgette" is another word for "Zucchini," and also refers to a type of vegetable that's used early in its growth period.)

And no, the movie is not a "VeggieTales" spin-off. None of the characters are vegetables; "Zucchini" is just the main character's name.

The movie is made for kids in mind, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get dark. At the beginning of the film, Zucchini is living with his mother, an alcoholic. As she moves to beat him for making too much noise, she falls down the stairs and dies.

From there, a police officer takes Zucchini to an orphanage where he's bullied and, later, becomes friends with everyone. The movie gets into each child's specific parental situation, and how different people react to the circumstances of their upbringing.

Over the course of the film, the kids in the orphanage form an ad-hoc family of their own. "My Life as a Zucchini" is a sweet, moving movie. And at only an hour long, it's a quick watch (an animated feature film needs to be only 40 minutes long at minimum for nomination consideration, according to the Academy). The English-language voice cast is great, too, with Ellen Page, Nick Offerman, Will Forte, and Amy Sedaris.

Oh yeah, and there's a mid-credits scene, so be sure to stick around for it. "My Life as a Zucchini"will be in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on February 24, and more widely available later in the year.

Watch the French trailer for "My Life as a Zucchini" below:

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The Super Bowl is coming Sunday, February 5 and while many across the country are getting ready for the big game, it will also be a big night for movies.

Movie studios take the opportunity to unveil new trailers for some of the year's most anticipated hits and Paramount just unveiled its Super Bowl spot for the next "Transformers" movie.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, the fifth movie in the Michael Bay franchise will have humans fighting against some of their old Transformer friends, including Optimus Prime. 

Check out the Super Bowl trailer now below:

Here's the official synopsis from Paramount:

The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.

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• Contortionist Bonnie Morgan plays Samara in "The Ring Two" and "Rings."
• She's been a contortionist for years.
• Many of the crew never knew what she looked like since she was always in makeup on set.

"Rings," Paramount's update to the horror-thriller franchise, comes to theaters February 3. The third movie in the franchise reunites fans with Samara, the creepy well-dwelling girl who promises to kill anyone who watches a haunted tape a week after they view it. 

While Samara herself may give you the spooks, the person underneath the wig and scaly skin is the complete opposite. You probably didn't realize that the person playing the "Rings" creepster is actually a comedian and contortionist with vibrant red hair.

Meet Bonnie Morgan:

It's not just you doing a double take. Morgan tells INSIDER that even at the wrap party for "Rings," many didn't recognize her with curly hair in a panda dress.

"Oftentimes the actors, actually the crew, never see me out of makeup because I show up at 4 a.m. with my team," said Morgan. "I’ll come around, they usually catch the voice, 'Like, hey guys, what’s going on?' They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, is that you?'"

While filming, Morgan is usually in a trailer for over six hours getting transformed into the iconic "Rings" character. By the time most people get to set, she's usually in the midst of getting made up. 

"They’ll see me at like various parts in and out of the makeup, but no one really knows what I look like on set half the time," she said.

It's not just Morgan's role in "Rings" and 2005's "The Ring Two" that she's known for playing. If you're a horror junkie, you may have also seen Morgan contorting her body in 2012's "The Devil Inside."

She didn't always start out in horror movies though. You've probably seen her in a myriad of films and television shows without realizing it. The daughter of actor/stuntman and circus performer Gary Morgan, Bonnie started her career as a child actress with roles guest-starring on shows including "The Nanny" and "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman." Over the years, she has appeared in several big movies as well like "Men in Black II,""Seven Pounds," and "Minority Report."

Morgan first learned she could contort her body at age nine when she and her older sister were playing in the pool. 

"The first time we discovered it, I was hanging off the edge of a diving board and she was trying to peel me off of it by my ankles and she just kind of hooked in behind my neck and voila," she said. "It was more like, 'Dad, Bonnie’s being weird,' and Dad went, ‘Ooo, this is good. You can make a buck with that.’"

There are various kinds of contortionists. Backbenders and sidewinders are two Morgan lists off, among others. Morgan herself is a frontbender and dislocater, meaning she can dislocate all of her ball and socket joints and, in addition, do a bunch of forward-bending movements which allow her to turn into a human pretzel, for example.

While it may sound painful, Morgan insists it's a living. "Just a good stretch," she said. 

Among her talents, Morgan can warp her body to squeeze through tennis racquets and is small enough to fit inside boxes. She estimates the smallest-sized box she can fit inside is 15 x 19 x 13 inches.

"One of my favorite party gags is whenever we’re around town I’ll crawl into an empty LA Weekly box because those you don’t have to pay to get into," she said of fitting into newspaper vending boxes. "I pop an arm out and grab at people sometimes. [or] I’ll just knock on it, 'Hey, do you have a quarter to get me out of here?'"

There aren't any other contortionists in Morgan's family to her knowledge. Being able to contort her body opened up more opportunities for her career-wise. She was raised more or less in the stunt department because her dad was an actor and an acrobat who joined the stuntmen's association so she was often showing off her skills to them and going toe-to-toe with some of their sons. 

While her sister Molly is also an actress — you may have seen her on an episode of "The Big Bang Theory"— Morgan said there was one main difference between the two growing up.

"She was a crown princess and I was a clown princess," Morgan said of being raised as her father's son, going on fishing trips and being his ski buddy.

In 2005, she appeared in "The Ring" sequel as the well-crawling Samara, a transition Morgan said came naturally. 

"I have an excellent understanding of how to terrify people," she said. "From just being a big trickster as a kid and what not to do … comedy and horror are timing and a lot of it is understanding how to terrify your fellow actors."

That role helped pave the way for subsequent roles in "Bedeviled,""The Devil Inside," and Vin Diesel's "The Last Witch Hunter." It also helped that Morgan knew actors and producers along with stuntmen from her father, Gary. "The Ring Two" came about because the stunt coordinator, Keith Campbell, tracked her down asking whether Morgan was "still doing that crazy bendy stuff."

The film's director wanted to find a way to create Samara without using CG. Morgan came up with the iconic spider crawl for the character in her living room and it was exactly what they were looking for.

"CG monsters were becoming all the rage and everyone had one," she said. "[Director Hideo Nakata] wanted something that was real and real is always scarier."

In the new film, "Rings," Morgan will contort her way back onto the big screen as the troubled and vengeful Samara. You can see her climbing slowly out of a television toward an unlucky viewer in the film's previews.

After "Rings," you can see Morgan on season two of "Hap and Leonard," which returns to Sundance in March. She'll also be shooting overseas next month in a well-known sci-fi franchise that she wasn't able to reveal just yet.

While Morgan has worked with the likes of Spielberg and Vin Diesel ("The Last Witch Hunter"), there is one character she would love to play.

"I just want to be Pixie the X-Man," Morgan said excitedly. "[She's] a very funny little purple-haired thing."

Fox just ordered a pilot for an X-Men series. Maybe they'll be looking to add the fairy.

Though Morgan is currently offering up scares, at heart she sees herself as a funny woman first.

"I love doing comedy. I’m a goofball, but I love what I do. Scaring people amuses the hell out of me. I would prefer to be the monster than the maiden any day."

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February is always an awkward month for new movies. All of the Oscar darlings are already out along with the holiday blockbusters. And if you’re here, you’re probably looking for the best new movie to catch in theaters while you impatiently await the Oscars later this month. 

This week is a mixed bag, with some great documentaries and indie films in the mix of some not-so-hot-looking horror and romantic titles, because Valentine's Day is coming and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

Despite the duds, February 2017 is already looking like it won't be as bad as January.

Here are the best and worst movies out right now, as rated by critics on Metacritic:

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THE BEST: "I Am Not Your Negro"

Metacritic score: 96/100

Summary: This documentary uses author James Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to explore current racial tesnsions in the United States.

What they’re saying:“It is a searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten.” —The Hollywood Reporter

"Oklahoma City"

Metacritic score: 74/100

Summary: This documentary traces the events that led to the Oklahoma City bombing, the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. 

What they’re saying:“Oklahoma City suggests that conspiracy theories today have consequences for tomorrow — a message with terrifying implications in an age of fake news.” —The Los Angeles Times 

"Dark Night"

Metacritic score: 61/100 

Summary: The lives of six strangers intersect when a violent massacre occurs at a suburban cineplex.

Who’s in it: Anna Rose Hopkins, Robert Jumper, Karina Macias

What they’re saying:“At once a glib play on words and a sobering rumination on the mindset of a suburban America simultaneously obsessed with and plagued by gun violence.” —Variety

Actress Margot Robbie playing disgraced US figure skater Tonya Harding in the movie "I, Tonya" has been a talking point on the internet since news broke of the project's development last March.

The film follows Harding's rise in US figure skating in the early 1990s and the infamy that came after two men who were hired by Harding’s then-husband, Jeff Gillooly, attacked Harding's rival Nancy Kerrigan at a competition leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics. 

So far we've caught a glimpse of the "Suicide Squad" star dressed in her early-'90s best to play Harding:

And now we can see Robbie's moves on the ice. On Thursday, the Daily Mail posted video from the set of "I, Tonya," showing Robbie as Harding skating on ice.

It looks like Robbie is going all in for the role. 

"I, Tonya" currently doesn't have a release date.

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It's a little hard to remember, but M. Night Shyamalan was once supposed to be the Second Coming in Hollywood.

The writer and director, who's influenced as much by Alfred Hitchcock as Steven Spielberg, broke out young with his second feature in 1999, "The Sixth Sense," a box-office hit with a genuinely shocking twist ending that had everyone talking about it — and executives more than willing to bankroll his next creative whim.

After solid reception to "Unbreakable" and "Signs," Shyamalan hit rocky points, from the head-scratching response to modern fairy tale "Lady in the Water" to flat-out disdain for the gimmicks of "The Village" and "The Happening."

But his career has rebounded with relatively low-budget returns to the thriller territory that has been so fertile for him. After "The Visit" proved a horror hit in 2015, his new thriller "Split," starring James McAvoy as a troubled man with multiple personalities who kidnaps three girls, has turned into a box-office sensation of early 2017, staying at No. 1 for two weeks.

"Split" has already outdone the domestic box-office gross for several of Shyamalan's previous features, and is on its way to hitting numbers closer to his early blockbusters.

See the chart below to see how Shyamalan's movie career took off, nosedived, and made a comeback at the box office*:

*Note: Budgets for the movies vary significantly, so box-office revenue alone does not determine success, though it's a useful indicator.

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"La La Land" is forgettable. Yes, it will probably win best picture when the Oscars are handed out on February 26, because it's practically designed for the Academy Awards. It's a musical, it's cute, it's technically impressive, it flatters Hollywood. But I have yet to meet a fan of the movie (they are many and vocal, as "SNL" aptly parodied) who actually listens to the soundtrack, which when you think about it, opposes the entire logic of a musical.

It's also a movie that looks backward. The classics it incessantly references ("Singin' in the Rain,""The Umbrellas of Cherbourg") defined their genres. Gene Kelly perfected the art of singing and dancing on the big screen. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone can barely sing and soft-shoe better than you and I can, and their characters' conflicts (why aren't you pursuing your dream instead of playing in a successful pop-jazz band?) are lame if not puzzling. "La La Land" rewards viewers who recognize what's pretty and vintage, but it's skin-deep.

This wouldn't be the first time the Oscar best picture has gone to pat fluff ("Shakespeare in Love" comes to mind), but it comes at a critical time. "Moonlight," a smaller film, has a decent chance of stealing the award, and I hope it does, because it's a revolutionary movie in the middle of what might turn out to be a revolutionary moment in American history. Either way, it's the nominee that will prove to be timeless.

From the outside, it's easy to understand why "Moonlight" appeals to Oscar voters. The drama exposes the underbelly of an ignored and blighted corner of the US, and it demands that its extremely talented actors shout and cry a lot. It's also, as critics rightfully point out, in the tradition of movies about the degradations of black life, like "Precious" and "Monster's Ball." The worst parts of the movie indulge in movie-of-the-week cliches about crackheads (the addict mom seemingly transforms out of nowhere by the end to deliver a final redemptive note).

But "Moonlight" is unique and life-affirming, even soul-cleansing, in a more fundamental way. This is a movie centered on a poor black man with gay desires that is not in any central way about being black, gay, or poor. The director and the writer of the play on which "Moonlight" is based — who are from the same housing projects in Liberty City, Miami, where it's set — deeply understand how circumstances shape their main character, as we see through the gorgeous on-location shooting. (Anyone from Miami or the surrounding area, like I am, will feel the heat just watching.) But the quiet, stunning revelation of the movie is that this poor black man with gay desires can't be pinned down to any of those things. We watch him define his own identity, on his own terms.

We're in the early days of a president who recently described the conditions of largely black urban centers as "terrible." Words like those have long been used to strip away the inherent humanity of black Americans. We've made a lot of racial progress in 2017, but we're also a country, as research shows, that increasingly self-sorts into communities of people who think and act like us, and who confirm our view of the world.

"Moonlight" scrambles that problem. It's audaciously and ingeniously structured in three parts, in which we see the main character in starkly different stages of his life (he's named Little, Chiron, and Black) that are still undeniably linked. The last chapter shows Black, after a traumatic childhood and having moved away, inhabiting the image of a hard black man we've come to accept from pop culture. But then we see more — the wonder of Little, the tenderness and insecurity of Chiron. We see how this man has gradually shuffled through identities to find which one is really his.

The ending of "Moonlight" hinges on Black's romantic reunion with a childhood friend that is and isn't what you expect based on a million Hollywood romances. They make awkward small talk, there's the gesture of intimacy in a hot meal, a soul song on the jukebox.

But we've never seen two black men reuniting like this in a major American movie before. That's not just tokenism. Their interaction is palpably real, and about much more than sex. It's the recognition of two people who know each other so well that they could never forget, no matter how many years they've been apart or how much they've superficially changed. They see each other for who they really are, when hardly anyone else does. It's one of the most remarkable things I've seen portrayed on a big screen.

And that recognition of one man's individual humanity and connection in "Moonlight" can help us understand how we look at each other, too. The movie resists the idea that we're defined by our color, sexuality, community, education, income, or even politics, even while those things determine so much about our lives. Its blissful lesson is that we're all just trying to find out who we are and understand each other — and perhaps we can, if we really try.

That's something worth celebrating in 2017 or any other year.

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You're probably more inclined to stay in and watch TV on weeknights and weekends in the winter. If you've watched everything on your Netflix and Amazon Prime queues, you might be looking for something new to hold your attention.

AMC Networks is responsible for some of television's biggest hits, like "Mad Men" and "The Walking Dead," and has recently entered the streaming space with two cool options: Sundance Now and Shudder.

While you can watch tons of great programs anytime and anywhere, Sundance Now and Shudder are different from the streaming programs you already use. Each one was created with a very specific audience in mind, so you can gain access to titles you actually want to watch.

Packed with hard-to-find old films, award-winning documentaries, and original series like "The Bureau," Sundance Now is a perfect option for anyone who has seen all the classics and wants to watch off-the-cusp films. Here, you can scroll through hundreds of lesser-known titles or browse the program's carefully curated playlists. Sundance Now even tapped accomplished filmmakers like "Silence of the Lamb's" Jonathan Demme to hand pick their favorite titles.

Or if you're more into spine-chilling movies, there's Shudder. Whether you're looking for a traditional horror movie, suspense thriller, or something darker, this service has plenty of scary movies from around the world. Similar to Sundance Now, Shudder has original movies, exclusive deals, and cult classics, so there's really something here for everyone.

Both services add new shows and movies each week, so you'll never run out of programs to watch. Sundance Now and Shudder cost $6.99 and $4.99 per month, respectively, but you can save some money when you sign up for an annual membership.

Whether you prefer independent films or scary movies, each program is well worth the investment.

Sundance Now Service, $6.99 per month (or $59.99 per year)

Shudder, $4.99 per month (or $49.99 per year)

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Another unimpressive crop of new releases showed up at the multiplex this weekend, so it's no surprise to folks in the industry to see that M. Night Shyamalan's latest low budget box office hit, "Split," is atop the box office once again. 

Marking the third consecutive weekend the James McAvoy split personality thriller sitting at number one, the movie took in an estimated $14.6 million this weekend, according to Deadline. That gives"Split" a domestic total of $98.7 million.

Not since Shyamalan's breakout hit "The Sixth Sense" has one of his movies topped the box office for three straight weeks.

On only a $9 million budget, the performance of "Split" is a true redemption story for Shyamalan, who reverted back to lower budget movies (his previous movie "The Visit" also found success) after the disastrous performance of 2013's big budget Will Smith movie, "After Earth."

Helping the performance of "Split" is the perfect release date Universal gave it. Opening in the end of January, where many of the studios are focused more on the campaigns for their Oscar-worthy movies, the movie has capitalized as being the best option in a crop of uninspiring titles for audiences.

This weekend was no different, as "Rings" didn't bring the scares like previous releases in "The Ring" franchise (it took in $13 million this weekend), "The Space Between Us" didn't excite the Millennials ($3.8 million), and Robert De Niro as an insult comic in "The Comedian" was not entertaining ($1.1 million).

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Disney and Marvel just dropped a new teaser for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" during the Super Bowl. If that tease wasn't enough of Baby Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Drax, and the rest of the gang for you, Marvel dropped an extended teaser for the film online with even more of Baby Groot.

The next installment of "Guardians of the Galaxy" will follow Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) on his quest to learn more about his father. Along the way, the crew will pick up some new members including former foe Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff). 

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" will be in theaters May 5.

Check out the extended Super Bowl trailer below:

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Disney unleashed the trailer for its fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie during the Super Bowl and it might be the franchise's most dazzling movie yet.

Javier Bardem joins the franchise as Captain Salazar, a ghost sailor who is determined to kill every pirate at sea, especially Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). Look for more new characters joining Depp, and some old favorites, including those played by Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom. 

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" opens May 26.

Watch the first trailer below:

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If you loved the box-office hit "Split," then the director of the movie has tweeted some news you need to know. 

M. Night Shyamalan, who has reclaimed the title of the modern-day master of suspense thanks to his latest thriller having now spent three straight weeks atop the box office, tweeted on Saturday that he might be walking around with the beginnings of a sequel to "Split."

If you haven't seen "Split" you shouldn't read any further.

A big reason why this tweet has excited fans is the surprising ending of "Split," in which Bruce Willis makes an appearance as his character from Shyamalan's 2000 movie "Unbreakable."

So it's looking pretty good that Shyamalan is devising another movie within the universe the two movies are in.

In fact, he gave a pretty good hint to Entertainment Weekly before "Split" opened in theaters that he was dong just that. 

“I hope so. The answer is yes,” he said of writing a movie that connects to "Split."“I’m just such a wimp sometimes. I don’t know what’s going to happen when I go off in my room, a week after this film opens, to write the script. But I’m going to start writing.”

He probably has a little more confidence writing at the moment. "Split," which was made for $9 million, has now made over $140 million worldwide.

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The Academy Awards are the end all be all for actors and actresses. Each year the creme de la creme flock to the award ceremony where they anxiously await the announcement of each winner. While the list of winners is constantly growing, it's still one of the most exclusive clubs to be a part of in Hollywood. 

The larger list, of course, is of those who have been nominated. It's a bit lengthier than the list of winners. Mixed into the mass are a few rare gems that have been honored with nominations several times over. 

Before the 89th Academy Awards air February 26, familiarize yourself with the actors who have the most Oscar nominations. 

Mallory Schlossberg contributed to a previous version of this story on Business Insider.

Meryl Streep, 20 nominations (3 wins)

Streep is up for another Oscar at the 2017 Academy Awards for her work in "Florence Foster Jenkins." She won her previous awards for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), "Sophie's Choice" (1982), and most recently, "The Iron Lady" (2011).

Katharine Hepburn, 12 (4 wins)

Hepburn won her awards for "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), and "On Golden Pond" (1981)

Jack Nicholson, 12 nominations (3 wins)

He won gold for "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Terms of Endearment" (1983), and "As Good as It Gets" (1997).

Netflix has an insane amount of content, but it's not always easy to find exactly what you want.

The categories that Netflix normally gives you access to while browsing are pretty broad, but below the surface Netflix actually splits movies and TV shows into hundreds (potentially thousands) of incredibly specific micro-categories.

All these categories are tagged with a number — for example, "Epics" is category No. 52858. If you know the code, all you have to do is type it into your address bar after "genre/," like this: http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/52858.

But it's annoying to try to find those codes, which is why engineer Deekshith Allamaneni decided to make a Chrome extension that makes it easy for you to find them.

The extension, called "Netflix Categories," gives you a dropdown menu for the categories and a search bar. It lets you mark your favorites. Right now, the extension has more than 100 categories, and Allamaneni says more will be added.

This short video shows how it works:

If you're curious to see some of best secret categories, following is a list we put together of 18 of them:

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Wine and Beverage Appreciation (1458)

Sample: "Drinking Buddies" (2013). Complications ensue when Chicago brewery workmates Luke and Kate — the best friends on and off the clock — spend a weekend at a lakeside retreat.

More examples: "The Birth of Sake,""Three Stars,""A Yeah in Champagne"

Steamy British Independent Dramas (4170)

Sample: "The Look of Love" (2013). This bittersweet biopic chronicles the over-the-top life of Paul Raymond, England's Hugh Hefner, from nightclub to mind reader to burlesque impresario.

Other examples: "The Duke of Burgundy,""Perfect Sense,""The Comedian"

Movies for Ages 0 to 2 (6796)

Sample: "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas" (1999). Who stuffs your stocking with tales of holiday cheer? The one and only mouse with big, round ears!

Other examples:"The Very Hungry Caterpillar,""Three Little Pigs,""Piglet's Big Movie"

The evolution of Kathryn Hahn from the frumpy friend in romantic comedies like “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and “The Holiday” to the scene-stealing revelation in “Step Brothers” and “Bad Moms” has been a lot of fun to watch. But Hahn is about to take another big step as the lead in the latest Amazon series from the creator of “Transparent.”

The upcoming “I Love Dick,” based on the Chris Kraus book of the same name, is showrunner Jill Soloway’s latest envelope-pushing series to come to the streaming giant (it premieres May 12, but you can watch the pilot now for free). It follows Chris (Hahn) as she moves with her husband Sylvere (Griffin Dunne) from Manhattan to the mellow Marfa, Texas. There they meet the charismatic professor Dick (Kevin Bacon), who puts a fire in Chris and Sylvere’s relationship that was thought to be extinguished long ago.

As in “Transparent,” which also stars Hahn as Rabbi Raquel Fein, Soloway fills “I Love Dick” with risqué subject matter and unconventional storytelling that you’d never see on network TV (or most cable channels).

Hahn talked to Business Insider at the recent Sundance Film Festival, where the show was given a world premiere sneak peek, about how working with Soloway changed her career, why she wants another “Step Brothers” movie, and what to expect from the “Bad Moms” sequel, “Bad Mom’s Christmas.”

Jason Guerrasio: Were you familiar with the Chris Kraus novel before going into this?

Kathryn Hahn: No, I was not. Like so many of us, I had been horribly unaware of the brilliance of Chris Kraus and that book. Jill, I guess it was two summers ago, had mentioned a couple of books to me, one of which was this. I was immediately intrigued because of the title. I dug into that first and I was just blown away. I couldn't believe how bold and bombastic and fearless and sexy and vulnerable it was and I knew if anyone was going to be able to unwrap that and cut into it as a series it would be Soloway. I was so excited, I didn't even see a script before I said yes. It happened very fast and very organically. All the sudden we found ourselves in Marfa, Texas, like what?

Guerrasio: So you didn't worry that much about preparation it sounds like — you were in from the get-go.

Hahn: For sure. There's no other circus I would rather join than Soloway's. I had been in it for a while and I knew it was going to be the same people and the same process as “Transparent.” And I also knew it was going to be such a departure from Raquel, which I was excited by. 

Guerrasio: Has it been a revelation for you with what Jill and Amazon have been able to do? The material they have given to actors?

Hahn: Yeah, sometimes we would all look at each other and basically giggle because we couldn't believe we got to make this. And it wasn't like there was a team of executives behind the monitors and questioning it. They just let us do this crazy deep dive into this world.

Guerrasio: You've had such an incredible evolution in your career, going from being in romantic comedies playing the awkward friend or third wheel —

Hahn: HOW DARE YOU! No, I'm joking — [Laughs]

Guerrasio: But was there a moment where something clicked for you, or was it just grinding it out until you started getting better roles?

Hahn: I certainly feel that having kids did something, for sure. I was so grateful to be invited to the party for a while. I just could never imagine as a kid from Cleveland who loves theater more than anything and ensemble work to doing this. I was a theater nerd. So back then it was really always looking for that kind of feeling I had onstage. So there was a weird separation between the work I did onstage and the work I would be asked to do on camera. And so I think it was finding Jill and connecting with her for [Soloway’s 2013 debut feature] “Afternoon Delight” that I was able to find that feeling of creative risk that I had onstage. Those three weeks of making “Afternoon Delight” cracked that open for a lot of us. 

Guerrasio: Is there a character you've already played that you would love to go back to explore? And before you answer, let me just say, please say Alice from "Step Brothers"—

Hahn: I was just about to say that! [Laughs] It’s funny, I did "Step Brothers" the same summer I did "Revolutionary Road," which are completely different. And Adam McKay, with that cast, though that was pre-Jill, that was another movie where I had like an "oh" moment. That working on a movie could feel creatively fun. I just didn't know on camera that we were allowed to just do those things. [Laughs] I always was just on my mark and say the line as written and make sure the script supervisor was happy and all that nonsense and that all was getting in the way of making something special on camera. 

Guerrasio: Adam McKay has always said that he would love to explore the characters from "Step Brothers" years from now and see what they are doing. Is that just one of those things that sounds cool or has it ever gotten back to you that he's serious about it?

Hahn: There was a rumor for a second of maybe revisiting it and then I think "Anchorman 2" happened. But I would love to do it. And I also just love those people and just want to hang out with Adam Scott — I'm sure his Derek character is in prison by now or something. Or Alice would be, who knows.

Guerrasio: Another character we have to bring up is Carla from "Bad Moms." What can you say about the sequel?

Hahn: We are looking to shoot in the spring and I know it's out there that it's a Christmas theme.

Guerrasio: Yes. 

Hahn: And when we all heard that, we were just like, “Of course!” Because there just doesn't seem like another time of the year that's more right for that. There's so much craziness. As a kid it's just the magic of Christmas but behind the scenes of course mom is trying to get breakfast together as you're ripping through the presents and then the family comes over. It's never magical for the mom. So we're excited about doing this.

Guerrasio: Have you gotten a script yet?

Hahn: No. But just ideas we've been told, we are very excited, and what I can say is they are right on board with the spirit of the first movie.

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Keanu Reeves has always had a love of action movies, but since “The Matrix” franchise, he's found himself in a lot of mediocre actioners that didn’t grab his fan base like the Neo character did.

(The one exception, though it wasn't widely seen enough, is “Man of Tai Chi,” which is also Reeves' only directing credit. Seek it out.)

Then in 2014 we got “John Wick,” in which Reeves plays an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to settle a score. On paper, it sounded as mediocre as the rest. But Reeves teamed with stuntmen-turned-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch to deliver a movie that showed Reeves is still an action star.

With a mix of comedic situations and eye-popping martial arts and gunplay known as gun fu, “John Wick” became a genre hit for Lionsgate, raking in over $86 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.

The inevitable sequel is now upon us. “John Wick: Chapter 2” (out in theaters on Friday) is a clever extension into the world we were teased with in the first — filled with gold bullions, luxury hotels for assassins, and lots of insane fighting.

This time around, it’s not John Wick’s dog that motivates him to become a killing machine, but his whole house getting blown up.

Tying up some loose ends from the first movie (the sequel opens with him finally getting his Mustang back), Wick is met by the man who got him out of the gangster game to begin with, Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio). But D'Antonio has come asking Wick to pay his debt by doing one more job.

Wick declines, which leads to D'Antonio blowing up his house. A persuasive tactic, as Wick comes around and agrees to doing the hit, which is on D'Antonio's sister.

This then leads to Wick traveling to Rome (when you make a hit movie, the sequel gets a budget for luxurious locations) to do the hit. Which has a few complications and a double cross. This leads to Wick going back into revenge mode, and he won’t stop until he has taken out D'Antonio.

But enough of the plot. What we learned from the first “John Wick” movie is that the action is 10 times more important.

Along with the sequel giving us a deeper glimpse inside the prep John Wick goes through to be a top-notch killer — only the best in weapons and bulletproof custom suits — Stahelski (Leitch was making another movie at the time the sequel was being filmed) delivers incredible action sequences that accomplish the unthinkable task of besting the original.

From a car chase that turns into a demolition derby and countless head shots during the gun fu battles to a really creative use of a pencil and an homage to the mirror scene in the Bruce Lee classic “Enter the Dragon,” “John Wick: Chapter 2” is an orgy of violence that can become mind-numbing at times, but by action-sequel standards it exceeds expectations.

Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Lance Reddick are some of the few survivors from the original who return along with newcomers Laurence Fishburne, Ruby Rose as a silent assassin, and Common as a hitman who has a particularly wild fight sequence with Reeves, which ends with them having a drinking together.

Welcome back to the world of “John Wick.”

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