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Watch the Golden Globes Tribute to Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor Diamond Jubilee BirthdayThe Golden Globe Awards does not usually do In Memoriam tributes, and the show didn't do one this year either. Instead, they shared a brief celebratory tribute honoring two of the many stars we lost in 2016: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, who died within a day of each other, less than a month before the 2017 awards show.

As Globes host Jimmy Fallon put it: "Hollywood has been around for over a hundred years, five generations built this industry. It's a big industry and sometimes we forget that it's actually a community, a community of families. This past year we lost so many legends and icons but a few weeks ago we lost a mother and a daughter within just a couple of days,. It was a terrible loss that we all felt."

The montage, set to "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)," included clips from "Star Wars," "Shampoo," "Singin' in the Rain," "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and home movie footage from their HBO documentary "Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher."

Watch the video:Todd Fisher, son of Debbie and brother of Carrie, tweeted his appreciation after the montage played:


[via: Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone]

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Emma Watson Sings in New 'Beauty and the Beast' Golden Globes TV Spot

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Emma Watson's Belle wants adventure in the great wide somewhere in Disney's new TV spot/trailer for "Beauty and the Beast." Belle's song is the focus of the new preview, which played during NBC's 2017 Golden Globe Awards broadcast Sunday night.

Previous to the trailer, fans heard a very brief snippet of Watson singing, but this new video does not hide her voice at all. And her voice is G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S. Fangirling like a pro over here.

Watch the TV spot:She wants so much more than they've got planned, but we'll settle for more of whatever Watson and director Bill Condon have planned.

Here's the movie's official synopsis:

"Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. 'Beauty and the Beast' is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast's hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.

The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston's long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts."

"Beauty and the Beast" opens in theaters March 17.

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Ryan Gosling Dedicates Golden Globe to 'My Lady' Eva Mendes's Late Brother

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74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsRyan Gosling started his 2017 Golden Globe Award acceptance speech with a joke about Ryan Reynolds, and ended with a touching tribute to the brother of his lady love, Eva Mendes.

"La La Land" star Gosling won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. One of his fellow nominees was Ryan Reynolds of "Deadpool," and Gosling honored his fellow Ryan at the start of his speech: "This isn't the first time I've been mistaken for Ryan Reynolds. It's getting out of hand." He addressed Reynolds in the audience, wishing the other Ryan had been honored.

"The Place Beyond The Pines" Premiere - 2012 Toronto International Film FestivalLater in the speech, Gosling gave a shout out to "my lady" -- actress Eva Mendes -- and their two daughters, Esmeralda and Amada. He said while he was making "La La Land," Mendes was raising their daughter, pregnant with their second, and helping her brother fight his battle with cancer. Gosling said if she hadn't taken all that on so he could have his experience in "La La Land," someone else would've been up there accepting the award. "Sweetheart, thank you."

Gosling closed by dedicating the trophy to the memory of Eva's brother, Juan Carlos Mendez.

It was a beautiful speech, and a wonderful sendoff for Gosling's brother-in-law. Hopefully, somewhere out there, he can appreciate it.

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Golden Globes Viewers Call Sofia Vergara's 'Anus' Joke 'Inappropriate'

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74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsAt first, some Golden Globe Awards 2017 viewers couldn't tell if Sofia Vergara was kidding or really couldn't pronounce "annual." She introduced Sylvester Stallone's daughters as co-Miss Golden Globes and made a joke about it being an "anal" -- er "anus" -- tradition. She winked to the camera, since it was just a second-language joke in line with her famous "Modern Family" character, Gloria.

74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsSome viewers laughed at the joke, but others found it in poor taste, especially since the girls she was introducing -- Sophia, 19, Sistine, 17, and Scarlet, 14 -- are only teens:

What do you think: Funny or inappropriate?

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Here's How 'Hidden Figures' Crushed Expectations at the Box Office

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There's a fascinating series of articles in this weekend's Los Angeles Times, inspired by the media's spectacular failure to read the nation's pulse during last year's presidential campaign, that explores the question of whether Hollywood has lost touch with America.

It's a loaded question, one that depends on your definitions of "Hollywood" and "America." And the answer requires a lot more nuance than even these 16 articles can muster, but the answer is, of course, yes.

But there's also the box office truism, which the Times writers don't address, that Hollywood doesn't really make movies for Americans anymore because it's making them primarily for audiences overseas.

This weekend's box office offers a good illustration. In a dead-of-winter weekend -- with just one new wide release -- pundits had predicted an easy four-peat victory for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." They also called for a second-place finish for the cartoon hit "Sing," modest success for inspirational drama and awards-hopeful "Hidden Figures" in its first weekend of wide release, and a weak opening for the lone newbie at the multiplex, "Underworld: Blood Wars."As it turned out, however, "Rogue One" fell 56 percent from last weekend, much faster than experts had predicted, and so did "Sing" (down 55 percent), while "Hidden Figures" came in nearly $2 million above expectations. The result was a photo-finish contest between "Rogue One" and "Hidden Figures," with the former claiming just a $172,000 advantage over the latter as they both approached $22 million on Sunday. (By the time final figures are released Monday, "Hidden Figures" might even end "Rogue One"'s reign after just three weeks on top of the chart.)

Meanwhile, the fifth "Underworld" didn't even reach the low $15 million threshold it was predicted to clear, coming in fourth with an estimated $13.2 million.

Of course, "Rogue One" is still one of the biggest hits of 2016 (it should overtake "Finding Dory" for the year's top spot by the end of this week) and will soon be one of just seven movies in history to earn more than $500 million in North American theaters. Still, its plunge this weekend took pundits by surprise. Why did "Rogue One" fall so fast? You could point to the movie's bleak and violent tone, or its tangential connection to the Skywalker family story line of the rest of the "Star Wars" movies, or the bitter winter weather in much of the country. But you could also point to "Rogue One"'s casting. As one commenter to the Times complained, there's not an American actor to be seen. (Wait, what's Forest Whitaker, chopped liver?) Indeed, it's a blockbuster action movie with a female British lead and an international cast. This sort of diversity in casting of big-budget movies has spurred some backlash in the last couple of years, most notoriously with the "Ghostbusters" remake, but the fact is, it helps sell the movie abroad to have a Diego Luna or Donnie Yen or Riz Ahmed (or all three) in the cast.

Whatever American audiences may think a hero should look like, Hollywood is overlooking your preferences with an eye toward foreign markets. That's true whether it's an otherwise standard action franchise with a diverse cast (like the successful "Fast and Furious" movies) or a fantasy picture with a built-in overseas audience.

This is especially clear with the new "Underworld." The past four installments of the vampire-action series have all opened above $20 million here, but the current film treated its American release like an afterthought. In fact, "Blood Wars," which sees Brit Kate Beckinsale reprise her lead role, opened in most overseas markets in November, and it's already made $42.1 million in foreign sales. It's not clear why Sony's Screen Gems dumped it into American theaters during the winter wasteland that is the January release calendar, unless it knew that the movie's profit (it cost just $35 million, about half the budget of the previous installment) was already assured. How "Blood Wars" fares in America clearly doesn't matter.Conversely, "Hidden Figures" is a movie with all-American appeal. (Exit polling shows that 43 percent of "Hidden Figures" viewers were white, 37 percent were black, and 13 percent were Hispanic.) That may sound paradoxical, since it's a movie about math whizzes, and since its stars are three black women, but the historical drama about the overlooked but crucial contributions of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) toward launching the first Americans into space during the 1960s is an only-in-America story.

Only in America would Jim Crow and institutional sexism have been a barrier to achievement for these women, and only in America could they have overcome those barriers through pluck, hard work, and sheer merit. And only in America could mainstream audiences respond to this feel-good entertainment with the assumption that racism and sexism are problems we solved for good during the Civil Rights Era in which the movie is set, and that they're not something we need to feel bad about or work to correct today.

Indeed, "Hidden Figures" feels like a rarity among major-studio Hollywood movies. Again, not because its stars are black women or because it's a PG-rated inspirational movie with heartland appeal, but because it's a modestly-budgeted ($25 million) drama with a lot of dialogue, whose characters are mathematicians and engineers, taking place in a distinctly American historical setting. There's none of the shut-off-your-brain, effects-heavy, action-blockbuster elements that make Hollywood movies hits overseas. It's a movie clearly made with an eye toward American audiences alone. In today's box office landscape, that looks like a real gamble.

Given the $24.8 million that "Hidden Figures" has earned to date, the A+ rating it's earned at CinemaScore from paying customers, and the likelihood that it'll be up for major awards over the next two months, it seems that distributor Fox's gamble will pay off.

But that jackpot will be a modest one. Meanwhile, "Rogue One" finally opened in China this week, where it sold 56 percent of all tickets purchased, for a take of $31 million. That's where the box office game is, with fantasy space heroines like Jyn Erso, not real-life American space heroines like Katherine Johnson.

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Golden Globes 2017: Chris Pine Explains That Beard, Praises 'Wonder Woman'

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74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsActor Chris Pine was mocked for his mangy beard -- and apparently called Chris Pratt -- on the 2017 Golden Globe Awards red carpet.

So, not the best start to the night. There's also this beard shade from the other day:

Pine explained that his beard is for his role as Dr. Alex Murry in "A Wrinkle in Time," which is now shooting for a 2018 release. The film -- based on the novel by name by Madeleine L'Engle, and directed by Ava DuVernay -- has an all-star cast, including Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Michael Pena, and more.

Pine's recent film "Hell or High Water" was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture, Drama. He'll soon be seen as Steve Trevor, Diana Prince's love interest, in "Wonder Woman." On the Globes red carpet, Pine praised the DC film: "It is going to be, I promise you, fantastic."

He wasn't sure if the film would open in June or July, but "Wonder Woman" -- directed by Patty Jenkins, and starring Gal Gadot -- is currently scheduled for release June 2, 2017.

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Golden Globes 2017: The Complete Winners' List

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THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS -- Pictured: "The Golden Globe Awards" Statuette -- (Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC)From Deadpool to Emma Stone, the 2017 Golden Globes has everything.

The awards show airs live tonight on NBC, and some of your favorite movies, stars, and TV series will need to make some space in their trophy rooms. Will "La La Land" win pretty much everything and pave its way to Oscar gold? Will the gut-punch of a drama, "Manchester by the Sea," take home Best Drama?

We'll keep you posted right here with all of tonight's winners, as we update live throughout the telecast.

Here's the full list of nominations:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

  • Casey Affleck, "Manchester by the Sea" -- WINNER
  • Joel Edgerton, "Loving"
  • Andrew Garfield, "Hacksaw Ridge"
  • Viggo Mortenson, "Captain Fantastic"
  • Denzel Washington, "Fences"

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

  • "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • "20th Century Women"
  • "Deadpool"
  • "Florence Foster Jenkins"
  • "Sing Street"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

  • Emma Stone, "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • Annette Bening, "20th Century Women"
  • Lily Collins, "Rules Don't Apply"
  • Hailee Steinfeld, "The Edge of Seventeen"
  • Meryl Streep, "Florence Foster Jenkins"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy

  • Donald Glover, "Atlanta" -- WINNER
  • Anthony Anderson, "Black-ish"
  • Gael Garcia Bernal, "Mozart in the Jungle"
  • Nick Nolte, "Graves"
  • Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"

Best Director, Motion Picture

  • Damien Chazelle, "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • Tom Ford, "Nocturnal Animals"
  • Mel Gibson, "Hacksaw Ridge"
  • Barry Jenkins, "Moonlight"
  • Kenneth Lonergan, "Manchester by the Sea"

Best Television Series, Drama

  • "The Crown," Netflix -- WINNER
  • "Game of Thrones," HBO
  • "Stranger Things," Netflix
  • "This Is Us," NBC
  • "Westworld," HBO

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

  • Claire Foy, "The Crown" -- WINNER
  • Caitriona Balfe, "Outlander"
  • Keri Russell, "The Americans"
  • Winona Ryder, "Stranger Things"
  • Evan Rachel Wood, "Westworld"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV

  • Tom Hiddleston, "The Night Manager" -- WINNER
  • Riz Ahmed, "The Night Of"
  • Bryan Cranston, "All the Way"
  • John Turturro, "The Night Of"
  • Courtney B. Vance, "The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story"

Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language

  • "Elle" -- WINNER
  • "Divines"
  • "Neruda"
  • "The Salesman"
  • "Toni Erdmann"

Best Motion Picture, Animated

  • "Zootopia" -- WINNER
  • "Kubo and the Two Strings"
  • "Moana"
  • "My Life as a Zucchini"
  • "Sing"

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

  • "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • "Nocturnal Animals"
  • "Moonlight"
  • "Manchester by the Sea"
  • "Hell or High Water"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

  • Ryan Gosling, "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • Colin Farrell, "The Lobster"
  • Hugh Grant, "Florence Foster Jenkins"
  • Jonah Hill, "War Dogs"
  • Ryan Reynolds, "Deadpool"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

  • Olivia Coleman, "The Night Manager" -- WINNER
  • Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"
  • Chrissy Metz, "This Is Us"
  • Mandy Moore, "This Is Us"
  • Thandie Newton, "Westworld"

Best Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Viola Davis, "Fences" -- WINNER
  • Naomie Harris, "Moonlight"
  • Nicole Kidman, "Lion"
  • Octavia Spencer, "Hidden Figures"
  • Michelle Williams, "Manchester by the Sea"

Best Original Song, Motion Picture

  • "City of Stars," "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • "Can't Stop the Feeling," "Trolls"
  • "Faith," "Sing"
  • "Gold," "Gold"
  • "How Far I'll Go," "Moana"

Original Score, Motion Picture

  • "La La Land" -- WINNER
  • "Moonlight"
  • "Arrival"
  • "Lion"
  • "Hidden Figures"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV

  • Hugh Laurie, "The Night Manager" -- WINNER
  • Sterling K. "Brown, The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story"
  • John Lithgow, "The Crown"
  • Christian Slater, "Mr. Robot"
  • John Travolta, "The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story"

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

  • "The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story" -- WINNER
  • "American Crime"
  • "The Dresser"
  • "The Night Manager"
  • "The Night Of"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

  • Sarah Paulson, "The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story" -- WINNER
  • Felicity Huffman, "American Crime"
  • Riley Keough, "The Girlfriend Experience"
  • Charlotte Rampling, "London Spy"
  • Kerry Washington, "Confirmation"

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

  • "Atlanta" -- WINNER
  • "Black-ish"
  • "Mozart in the Jungle"
  • "Transparent"
  • "Veep"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy

  • Tracee Ellis Ross, "Black-ish" -- WINNER
  • Rachel Bloom, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
  • Sarah Jessica Parker, "Divorce"
  • Issa Rae, "Insecure"
  • Gina Rodriguez, "Jane the Virgin"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama

  • Billy Bob Thornton, "Goliath" -- WINNER
  • Rami Malek, "Mr. Robot"
  • Bob Odenkirk, "Better Call Saul"
  • Matthew Reese, "The Americans"
  • Liev Schreiber, "Ray Donovan"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Aaron Taylor Johnson, "Nocturnal Animals" -- WINNER
  • Mahershala Ali, "Moonlight"
  • Jeff Bridges, "Hell or High Water"
  • Simon Helberg, "Florence Foster Jenkins"
  • Dev Patel, "Lion"

Best Motion Picture, Drama

  • "Hacksaw Ridge"
  • "Hell or High Water"
  • "Lion"
  • "Manchester by the Sea"
  • "Moonlight"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

  • Amy Adams, "Arrival"
  • Jessica Chastian, "Miss Sloane"
  • Ruth Negga, "Loving"
  • Natalie Portman, "Jackie"
  • Isabelle Huppert, "Elle"

For comparison's sake, here are last year's nominations and winners.

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Golden Globes 2017: Jimmy Fallon Opening Revives Barb & Jon Snow

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In the magical musical opening to the 2017 Golden Globe Awards, Eleven of "Stranger Things" rapped; Jon Snow was revived again -- and sang; Ryan Reynolds channeled Ryan Gosling of "La La Land"; Justin Timberlake gave his BFF Jimmy Fallon a pre-monologue pep talk -- *and* -- Barb came back to life.

Twitter especially loved seeing Barb again, with "Stranger Things" fans immediately trending BARB IS STILL ALIVE:

Host Jimmy Fallon's big opening number honored major nominee "La La Land" -- and that went as planned. But then immediately afterward the teleprompter apparently went out and Fallon was forced to improvise.

Shortly afterward, he got back on track -- and later referenced Mariah Carey's New Year's snafu by blaming Dick Clark Productions for sabotaging the teleprompter.

In his monologue, Fallon joked about the popular vote, chatted with Ryan Gosling, impersonated Chris Rock, compared Donald Trump to King Joffrey of "Game of Thrones," bashed more of 2016, specifically bashed "Batman v. Superman" (via a Matt & Ben joke), and threw in a quip about Putin.

All in all, it was a very Fallon monologue -- breezy and uncontroversial. He knew his audience, and played to them.

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'Game of Thrones' Stark Sisters Slay Golden Globes 2017 Red Carpet

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74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsMaisie Williams and Sophie Turner, aka Arya Stark and Sansa Stark on "Game of Thrones," arrived in style on the 2017 Golden Globes red carpet.

Maisie went for a canary-colored Audrey Hepburn look, with Turner heading in a more edgy direction with a gown from the Louis Vuitton Spring 2017 collection.

74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals"Game of Thrones" was nominated for Best Television Series, Drama; with Lena Headey (Queen Cersei Lannister) nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. (That's quite a mouthful!)

GoT co-star Liam Cunningham (Davos) was seen in a few photos with or behind Maisie Williams:

We can only hope Arya and Davos get to connect in "Game of Thrones" Season 7 -- and maybe launch a Gendry fan club, since they are both members?

The Stark sisters and Davos weren't the only GoT-ers at the Golden Globes, of course, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) even found time to Photobomb the "Stranger Things" kids on the red carpet.

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'Stranger Things' Star Is 'Terrified' of Season 2: 'We Got a Tough Road Ahead'

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74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsThe cast of Netflix's "Stranger Things" owned the red carpet at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards. Season 1 was nominated for Best Television Series, Drama; and Winona Ryder was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Drama. The young stars dazzled in their glamorous attire, but 41-year-old David Harbour (Chief Hopper) quipped that it was a big deal just for him to put on deodorant and pants.

74th Annual Golden Globe Awards - ArrivalsWhile on the People and Entertainment Weekly live pre-show, Harbour reacted to the massive buzz the series earned after it debuted last summer, admitting he feels pressure to meet the high expectations for Season 2:

"I love it, it's very strange. I was terrified the first season because it was a role I had never been given the chance to play — this heroic sort of character. Now I am more terrified to go into Season 2 because I feel that pressure. I think that we did a really nice job with Season 1. I think we all feel like we want to step it up and make Season 2 richer and more interesting. So we got a tough road ahead."

17th Annual AFI Awards - Awards PresentationWinona Ryder told E! the fan outpouring for "Stranger Things" has been "overwhelming in a wonderful, beautiful way." Ryder said the cast is sworn to secrecy when it comes to sharing 2017 plot points, but she also added that it helps her performance not to know what's coming.

So far, we know Season 2 is meant to fast-forward a little bit into the 1980s, show us more of the Upside Down, and give Nancy a wild new '80s hairdo. (Actress Natalia Dyer looks pretty normal in the Jan. 6 photo above.)

For now, the stars seem to be enjoying their fame, and the young'uns even got Photobombed by Jaime Lannister at the Globes:

Top that! "Stranger Things" will arrive on Netflix later in 2017.

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Box Office: 'Hidden Figures' and 'Rogue One' in Tight Race for Top Spot

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By Dave McNary

LOS ANGELES, Jan 8 (Variety.com) - "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" edged "Hidden Figures" in the race for the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated $22 million at 4,175 locations, estimates showed Sunday.

"Hidden Figures," a comedy-drama about pioneering African-American women in the early days of the American space program, trailed by only $200,000 with $21.8 million at 2,471 sites. So the positions could reverse when final figures for weekend are released Monday.

It was the fourth consecutive weekend victory for "Rogue One," which has lifted its domestic total to $477.3 million. The eighth "Star Wars" movie is now the eighth-largest domestic grosser of all time, trailing "Finding Dory" by less than $10 million.

"Rogue One" also launched in China with $31 million in its first weekend, pushing the international total to $437 million. Its worldwide box office has hit $914.4 million in less than a month.

Illumination-Universal's "Sing" was headed for a close third with $19.6 million at 3,955 sites. Sony's opening of "Underworld: Blood Wars" is looking at a fourth-place finish with $13.1 million at 3,070 locations, followed by Lionsgate's expansion of awards contender "La La Land" with $10 million at 1,515 venues.

"Hidden Figures" is performing far above recent forecasts, which had ranged between $16 million and $18 million. Taraji P. Henson stars as Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who, along with her colleagues Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), helps launch astronaut John Glenn into space.

The awards-season contender has a modest $25 million budget. Spencer is up for a Golden Globe in the supporting actress category on Sunday.

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