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Earliest arrival, Jesse Eisenberg, whose movie “A Real Pain” — now in theaters — he wrote, directed and stars in. The moving memory story is a trip back to Poland to see where his grandma once lived. “Took me 14 years to write this. I’m spending the 15th year doing promos and I leave to fly back home tomorrow first thing in the morning.”