Joker: Folie à Deux: Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix’s Sequel Bombs at Box-Office

Todd Phillips’ musical starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is the first Hollywood comic book picture to receive failing grade.

Hobson’s Choice (1954): David Lean’s Comedy of Manners and Foibles, Starring Charles Laughton, John Mills

Winner of the British Academy for Best British Film 1954, David Lean’s Hobson’s Choice is based on Harold Brighouse’s 1916 play of the same name.

In Love and War (1996): Attenborough’s Tale of the Young Hemingway during WWI, Starring Sandra Bullock, Chris O’Donnell

Directed by Richard Attenborough, the tale is set during the First World War and is based on the wartime experiences of the writer Ernest Hemingway.

Running Man, The: Edgar Wright to Direct Glen Powell and Katy O’Brian

The feature is based on the 1982 Stephen King novel about totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.

Political Movies: 100 Most Significant. No. 81: “The Times of Harvey Milk,” Epstein’s Oscar Winning Documentary

Though better known, Gus Van Sant’s 2008 Oscar winning biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn, was not the first feature about the gay pioneering politician Harvey Milk, or about the socio-political era in which he rose to power as the first openly gay man elected to office.