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This Week's Headlines:

• Nikki Glaser will host the next Golden Globes Awards, scheduled for Sunday, January 5, 2025 on CBS, and will stream on Paramount+ as well. The Globes have suffered, both critically and ratings-wise, since 2021, the last time Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted. Glaser was effusive in her praise of the Awards show. Glaser said: "This is truly a dream job. Plus, I no longer have to feel guilty about every TV show and movie I've binged over the last year." 

• Horror grows up as Blumhouse and Atomic Monster announced they are developing Soulm8te, an erotic thriller to be released in 2026. If the peculiar spelling of the title seems familiar, it should. This movie is the next installment in the M3GAN universe. A man grieving over his recently deceased wife acquires an AI android companion to help him cope with his loss. What could possibly go wrong? Kate Dolan will direct.

• The summer season is starting out poorly at the movie box office but even worse for the iconic drafthouse chain, Alamo Cinema. One of their largest franchisees just declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and closed six locations, five in the Dallas area and one in Minnesota. After the closings, 35 locations remain open, including 15 owned by other franchisees.
  

• The big-screen Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds was a major flop, but that hasn't stopped DC Studios from developing new projects for the popular comic superhero. The latest version will be entitled Lanterns and will feature both popular embodiments of the superhero, Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, will headline a production team that includes Chris Mundy, the showrunner of Netflix's Ozark, and veteran comic author Tom King.

• Director Sean Baker's Anora won the Palme d'Or award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, beating out some heavy hitters like Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Yorogos Lanthimos, and Paul Schrader in the process. Anora has been described as a modern-day Cinderella story. The film stars Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. When his parents learn about the wedding, they go to America to get the marriage annulled. 

• It's Christmas season, and Santa Claus came to town in a big way in this week's box office leader, Red One, starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, but the film's $32 million take was somewhat disappointing, considering the film's budget. Venom: The Last Dance continued its solid streak in a distant second place at $7 million, while a more traditional holiday movie, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, was third at $5 million.