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In the final days of a criminally close campaign cycle, a pair of political ads stirred up so much controversy among conservatives that former President Donald Trump jumped in to have his voice heard by taking a jab at none other than Julia Roberts.

“I’m so disappointed at Julia Roberts…she’s going to look back at that and cringe. Did I really say that?” Trump said to the Fox & Friends hosts over the weekend in reference to the viral ad Your Vote, Your Choice narrated by the Oscar winner. It features two women standing opposite one another at the voting booth while they check boxes for Kamala Harris, seemingly against the wishes of their waiting husbands. “What happens in the booth, stays in the booth,” Roberts says in the spot from left leaning voter advocacy and education group Vote Common Good.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Introduces ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Youth Theater Music Video

Netflix released a music video of students from performing arts public high schools in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas and New York performing “Louder than Words” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical of the same name.

The four participating public high schools and one non-profit youth theater include the Baltimore School for the Arts, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts in Dallas, the Chicago School for the Arts, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (Lachsa) and Tada! Youth Theater in New York.

“I got my start in my school’s performing arts program,” said Miranda. “These programs are vital, not only to the entertainment industry but to our culture. It’s important for us to celebrate the next generation of actors, singers, and performers. So,...

"An American Carol" is coming to a theater near you, whether you like it or not.

A zany comedy that promises to offend Hollywood's liberal sensibilities -- coming just one month before the presidential election -- there's more riding on "Carol" than one might expect.

For one, it's the first wide release distributed by Vivendi Entertainment, which launched as a theatrical distribution company in March. Vivendi will open "Carol" on 2,000 screens Oct. 3.

And "Carol" is the first theatrical production from Mpower Pictures, the studio co-founded by Mel Gibson's longtime producing partner Steve McEveety.

It's loosely based on "A Christmas Carol," only instead of Ebenezer Scrooge learning an appreciation for Christmas, a Michael Moore-type filmmaker who is visited by the ghosts of George Washington, George Patton and President Kennedy must learn to appreciate the USA.

"Carol" isn't the only politically charged film set for wide release before voters head to the polls Nov.

NEW YORK -- In the latest sale from the Tribeca Film Festival, Colin K. Gray and Megan Raney Aarons' docu Freedom's Fury, from exec producers Lucy Liu and Quentin Tarantino, has garnered a Hungarian distribution deal with Best Hollywood. The film, narrated by Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz, chronicles the 1956 Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union set against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution. The event often is referred to as "the bloodiest game in Olympic history." "We've been working on it for five years," Liu said. "It's about the idea of students struggling for freedom, and it's a passion project for all of us. We're thrilled to secure such a wide theatrical release in Hungary this fall, which will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution."...