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Mackenzie can't wait to get older. The thirty-something woman is already tired of the busy rush of youth and wishes she could fast forward her life so she can relax and enjoy her golden years. When Mackenzie is struck by lightning at Coachella, she wakes up as the seventy-year-old Rita. She soon realizes old age is not as whimsical as she thought. Starring Elizabeth Lail, Diane Keaton, Taylour Paige, and Simon Rex.

William Brent Bell directs the prequel to the 2009 horror film Orphan. Returning character Esther contrives an elaborate plan that allows her to escape an Estonian psychiatric hospital. After doing so, she travels to America, posing as a wealthy family's missing daughter. But her facade slowly begins to unravel. As a result, she finds herself pitted against a mother who will do anything to protect her family.

Seen on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, this $12-million production is the only musical Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote for television. The CBS-TV original, with 21-year-old Julie Andrews in the title role and Edie Adams as the Fairy Godmother, played on live television March 31, 1957 to TV's largest audience ever to that date (107-million viewers). That historic production, captured on kinescope, can still be seen today on library monitors at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York and Los Angeles. Hammerstein died in 1960 and did not get to see 18-year-old Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella in the February 22, 1965 restaged production, repeated annually on CBS until 1977 and later made available on videotape from CBS/Fox Video and Facets Multimedia. Added to the 1965 show was "Loneliness of Evening", a song actually written for South Pacific but cut before the Broadway opening. Running a half-hour longer, this third interpretation premiered November 2, 1997. Filmed over a 28-day period, it stars Brandy Norwood as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother, with Bernadette Peters as the Stepmother, Whoopi Goldberg as the Queen (wearing $60 million worth of borrowed Harry Winston jewelry), Paolo Montalban as the Prince, and Jason Alexander as the Prince's steward, Lionel. Scripter Robert L. Freedman provided a rewrite of the original Oscar Hammerstein book, and three other Richard Rodgers songs were added to the existing score: "There's Music in You" (from the 1953 movie musical Main Street to Broadway), "The Sweetest Sounds" (a Brandy/Montalban duet), and "Falling in Love with Love". Originally set in motion as a follow-up to the highly successful TV Gypsy (1993) with Bette Midler, this 1997 multicultural version (sometimes referred to as the "rainbow Cinderella") was years in the making, since it was initiated in 1994 when Houston joined executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (the team responsible for the TV Gypsy).

Innocent college student Dakota Johnson begins a relationship with troubled businessman Jamie Dornan. Adaptation of EL James's erotic bestseller.

Mrs. Harris, an English domestic servant who falls in love with a couture Dior dress, decides she must buy one of her own. After she raises the funds to buy the dress, Mrs. Harris sets off on a journey to Paris that will change the course of her life. Paul Gallico's classic 1958 novel inspires the narrative.

The Immaculate Room, from director Mukunda Michael Dewil, tells the story of a young couple with an "easy" way to make 5 million dollars. When Mike and Kate are offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a huge amount of money, the task seems easy. All they have to do is stay in a blank room together for 50 days. But they quickly discover that spending every moment with a single individual for that long with no other stimulation is not as easy as it sounds, especially when each other's demons are laid bare.

An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Yucatan's most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.

A talent search from the producers of 'American Idol' features a variety of acts (singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats, jugglers and more) competing for fame and a million-dollar prize.

An adaptation of author George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" medieval fantasies about power struggles among the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” the series, set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” tells the story of House Targaryen.

An examination of what may have happened to beloved fitness icon Richard Simmons, who has not been seen for more than eight years.

An epic drama about the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the U.S., which is under constant encroachment by those it borders. It is an intense study of a world far from media scrutiny—where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations.