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LA Screenings: 20 Shows You Don’t Want to Miss


‘Dope Girls,’ ‘Those About to Die,’ ’Homejacking,’ ‘The Listeners’ and ‘Law of the Sea’ are among near-20 titles to track at the LA Screenings.

Stars align as Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, Chrissy Metz of “This Is Us” fame and Dermot Mulroney lead a new thriller based on the novel by May Cobb – who will also serve as executive producer alongside Erwin Stoff (“The Serpent Queen”). Familiar tale now morphs into a “raw, authentic and gripping political thriller,” assures All3Media, revealing a world of “shifting allegiances and infighting, where a revolutionary dared to challenge the status quo.” Combining action and character-driven drama, it will see many complex characters, who are far from saintly. A market premiere for Globo’s biggest telenovela hit of the year, averaging 30 million viewers per episode, and indeed most popular soap since “Pantanal,” deriving from the same talents: Author Benedito Ruy Barbosa and adaptor screenwriter Bruno Luperi, his grandson.

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