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    You will have your dumpling and eat it too.

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    A kid pretends to be the leader of earth in the animation studio's next film, which hits cinemas in February 2024.

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    This Australian nerve-shredder is all about conjuring up spirits using an embalmed hand — and it hits cinemas in July.

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    You haven't seen a riff on Mary Shelley's gothic-horror classic like this before.

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