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Truth or Dare?
Four of these 10 new movies and TV series have a real-life backstory. Can you guess which ones?
1. Flamin’ Hot • In theaters June 9 In Eva Longoria’s film, Frito-Lay janitor Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia) promotes a new kind of Cheetos that taste like his Mexican immigrant dad’s fiery home cooking.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
2. Mary J. Blige’s Real Love and Strength of a Woman • Serial movies on Lifetime June 10 and 17 A woman’s star-crossed college romance resurfaces in a later decade.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
3. Based on a True Story • Series on Peacock June 8 A Realtor (Kaley Cuoco), a tennis star (Chris Messina) and a plumber collide in this comedy thriller.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
4. No Hard Feelings • In theaters June 23 A broke young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) gets paid by a rich guy (Matthew Broderick, 61) to date his painfully shy, Princeton-bound son.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
5. Asteroid City • In theaters June 23 Something out of this world happens at a 1955 Junior Stargazer convention in a film starring Tom Hanks, 66, and Steve Carell, 60.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
6. The Perfect Find • Netflix June 23 Competing with youngsters, a middle-aged fashion editor (Gabrielle Union, 50) is smitten with the boss’s son in this romantic comedy.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
7. LA Fire and Rescue • Series on NBC June 21 In Chicago Fire producer Dick Wolf’s latest show, firefighters face death daily to keep Angelenos safe.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
8. My Journey to 50 • BET+ June 15 Actress and author Gabrielle Union celebrates her first half-century by getting in touch with her African roots.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
9. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny • In theaters June 30 After a prologue set in 1944 featuring a digitally de-aged Harrison Ford (who is actually 80), Indiana Jones comes out of retirement in 1969. He’s back to crack the whip at a former Nazi (Mads Mikkelsen, 57) who’s been recruited by NASA and plans to hijack the U.S. mission to the moon.
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
10. Secret Invasion • Disney+ June 21 Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, 74) fights to save humanity from alien Skrulls who can take human form—so who knows who the bad guys are?
▭ True Story OR ▭ Totally Fiction
ANSWERS: 1, 3, 7, 8 ARE TRUE TO LIFE