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Doctor Strange

FantasyAdventureAction

Directed by Scott Derrickson

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil. From TMDB

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Doctor Strange is a 2016 fantasy adventure action film, directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams.

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  • C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    10 years ago today, the world premiere of DOCTOR STRANGE. What a wild ass night that was. Movie played like gangbusters, met Stan Lee for the first time, my first HUGE red carpet. Drank with Jess and friends until dawn. Definitely one of the best nights of my life.

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  • C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    When Scott and I set out to make DOCTOR STRANGE Kevin and Lou told us just to make a great movie and they would figure out how to fit it into the MCU. FANTASTIC FOUR is a return to that ethos. It’s just a great fucking Fantastic Four movie. It’s everything I’ve always wanted from one. Just perfect.

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  • C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2026

    Duncan has been working on this FOR-EVER. For context, I was brought in to work on it while Scott was developing DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. That's how long he's been making this. It is truly a handmade movie made entirely from blood, sweat, and tears. Very, very excited for it.

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  • Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    Alright fuck it, we're rolling from WandaVision right into Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness! I like this movie! Haven't seen it since it was in theaters tho, and it helps refresh my memory on this corner of the MCU in time for VisionQuest. Let's see what I find to yap about!

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    Until 2022, "BLONDIE & DAGWOOD" (bottom right) was the comics IP with the record for inspiring the most (AND most single-continuity!) feature film adaptations, 28 in total from 1938-1950 mostly featuring the same cast. Only the MCU finally surpassed it as of "Doctor Strange 2."

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  • Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2023

    I wrote on @boingboing.bsky.social about my all-time favorite movie (which actually never even came close to being made). Doctor Strange (2009): Guillermo del Toro, director; Neil Gaiman, screenplay cc. @realgdt.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

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  • Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.comBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    WELL to be fair maybe the last Doctor Strange movie beat both of those things to it. Sorry to Sam Raimi, but I hated that.

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  • John Maddening! @johnmaddening.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    Never noticed this at the end of the credits in the first DOCTOR STRANGE movie. It’s funny if you’ve seen it.

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  • Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.comBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Also, Doctor Mordrid kinda owns. If you’ve ever wanted Doctor Strange with the serial numbers filled off directed by Charles and Albert Band that features Jeffrey Combs fighting a stop motion T-Rex skeleton with a stop motion mammoth skeleton this is your movie

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    "WandaVision" was marginally helpful context for why a secondary Avenger is suddenly bugnuts crazy in "Doctor Strange 2;" but that's kinda it and the movie catches you up enough(ish?) IMO. Difference is some of the movies/marketing started to make context FEEL more needed to drive the D+ subs.

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  • Teejus @ichiban.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    I read a review of one of the Doctor Strange movies a few years ago, and the critic was like, "none of this movie will make sense if you haven't watched all nine hours of the TV show WandaVision," and something snapped in my brain. I haven't watched a superhero movie since reading that.

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  • Darv 🔜 WÜFF2026🇨🇱 @darvthebirb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    Despite the issues of Doctor Strange 2, I still think it's a solid movie and the biggest reason why it was because of how crazy they went with the magic

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  • Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.comBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    Giacchino is one of the best composers working right now, and I will not be taking further questions at this time. (In particular, the erudite and playful goofballery going on in the score of the first Doctor Strange movie really needs a whole paper written about it.) 🙂

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    ‘DOCTOR STRANGE 3’ is reportedly in early development at Marvel Studios. The film is expected to enter production after ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ wraps filming. (via www.nexuspointnews.com/post/doctor-...)

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    Sam Raimi says Rachel McAdams was “underutilized” in ‘DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS’ which is why he cast her as the lead in ‘SEND HELP’ “I promised myself that I would work with her again. And then this film came up, and her warmth is wonderful.” (via variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    And literally the last movie I saw with Patrick Stewart was Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It was still great seeing him. I hope Avengers: Doomsday has a dedication to him in mind now.

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  • Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2024

    Watching an episode of Pointless where two women just won the jackpot for knowing Sam Raimi directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, so at least someone got something out of that movie

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  • Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    It's a similar case to how the MCU's movie budgets are so needlessly wasteful (Doctor Strange 1 is rumoured to be near the $700 million mark!) that they're not actually as profitable as people think

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  • 🎃 ƚԋҽ ԋαυɳƚιɳɠ σϝ Aʅҽx˚Jҽɾι⛦ @mobiusstrip8.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    #NowWatching #filmsky Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness |2022 Sam Raimi |chronological |15.16 www.imdb.com/title/tt9419884 ·Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself that threaten to wipe out...·

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  • Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2025

    Why does Scarlet Witch’s arc make no sense in the Doctor Strange movie? Because the film division didn’t know the TV division had already told that story. Left hand right hand etc. Exactly how it looked. Fine. Now I can enjoy them both on their own terms.

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  • Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    every so often I remember that Scott Derrickson asked to use one of my monsters in the second Doctor Strange movie, but then like a month later he left the project and nothing happened

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  • Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    There are five major deaths in, like, 90 seconds of the second Doctor Strange move. ("But they're multiversal variants!" Yeah, so's most of the cast of Doomsday.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01k...

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  • Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Benedict Cumberbatch hints that Doctor Strange will have a third stand-alone film in the future. (via Variety)

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  • Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    You can count on a Doctor Strange movie to have some really incredible visuals and MOM is no exception. I just eat this shit up, I dunno lol

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  • TimTam- (Caudle) - Remembering Roo @caudlewag.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    This would be a lot cooler if they hadn't burned this character as a random cameo in a Doctor Strange movie like 5 years ago.

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  • Taylor but in Seattle @taylorannnx.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    I've finally watched Agatha All Along and, not gonna lie, I was already mad at the last Doctor Strange film and now I am EVEN MORE MAD AT IT. But yeah, it was a good series. Make up and costume department deserve a raise

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2025

    Stephen Broussard will reportedly serve as a producer on the ‘X-MEN’ reboot film. He previously worked on ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, ‘Doctor Strange’, ‘Werewolf by Night’, ‘Echo’ and ‘Wonder Man’ (via Daniel RPK | t.co/bjIPXV8n6j)

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  • 🌌🛸Anthonia Loud🩵🌠 @anthonialoud.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2026

    Share a SCI-FI or SCI-FANTASY movie title that begins with the letter “D” 🎥 D is for… Doctor Strange 🖤

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  • Sharkticon @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 3, 2026

    You know what always bugged me about that movie? So Doctor Strange has to erase this kids identity to fix the spell that he himself fucked up. Kids whole life gets wiped out nobody remembers them, he has to get his GED because apparently his school records got wiped out, and presumably his entire legal identity cuz if its going to wipe out school records why not citizenship status and medical records and identification cards, and then he moves into this dinky little apartment he somehow affords…

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  • JewelKnightJess "R" Us 🎲🖌️🎮 @jewelknightjess.comBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    My cinema going peaked during the days of Orange Wednesdays I don't think I've been to a movie irl since the Doctor Strange and Wanda Movie

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  • Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.comBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    NEW EPISODE! You know @scottderrickson.bsky.social from his movies DOCTOR STRANGE, SINISTER, THE BLACK PHONE, and THE GORGE (streaming Friday); you may not know that he lives and breathes Kurosawa. He joins us on this week’s GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC to talk RASHOMON: pod.link/1274489817/e...

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  • Scott Johnson @scottjohnsonart.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2024

    My licensing art (and reference selfie) for the 2016 Doctor Strange movie.

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  • Dabididab @dabiwinter.cryptoanarchy.networkBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    This new marvel movie sucks, Chris Pratt is playing Doctor Strange now??

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  • Dane Braddy (he/him) @danebraddy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2025

    You know that the film industry has lost the plot when Marvel Studios is forcing DOCTOR STRANGE to put on mass He's a WIZARD, KEVIN

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  • Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monsterBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

    I’d like to say that the Jeffrey Combs Film Fest was a success AND I actively encourage everyone to see Doctor Mordrid, which is Doctor Strange with the rights expired partway through production and is actually really good

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  • Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    Before this whole superhero movie thing totally burns out for good, I really hope we get this Defenders roster in the MCU. I've said it before, but if they do make a third Doctor Strange movie, it should be "Doctor Strange and the Defenders."

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Still kicks ass, better than the first film and just all around Raimi at what he does best with Horror and superheroes.

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    3 years ago today, ‘DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS’ released in theaters. The film grossed over $955M worldwide.

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  • sanitation @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 6, 2026

    In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) the antagonist of the film, The Scarlet Witch has a letter M on her head. This is a reference to her last name, Maximoff. What a narcissist..

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    Sam Raimi reveals that ‘DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS’ was originally going to feature a fourth main universe. They filmed the scenes, but they were ultimately cut from the film. (via theplaylist.net/doctor-stran...)

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  • Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    I’m still hoping for a Columbo cameo in the next Doctor Strange movie

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  • Happiness Uzumaki @sonofether.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Pick an abandoned Guillermo Del Toro film. Mountains of Madness, Doctor Strange, Haunted Mansion, Hellboy 3. It boggles that we don't just let him make whatever he wants.

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  • Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2024

    Had forgotten that while attending the Zurich Film Festival in 2016 I encountered a urinal that played the trailer for DOCTOR STRANGE. Let's preserve that here.

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  • K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.appBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    give me a Blade/Doctor Strange movie. BAM, billion dollar idea, i can write this movie, it will be full of pathos and references to future villains but it'll be 90 percent Blade killing vampires while Doctor Strange quips and misses Christine.

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  • Hub @hubspiders.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    youtu.be/ABuDBiXeZ6U?... Scenes like this are why I prefer Multiverse of Madness over the original Doctor Strange movie. I love both, but I love how far Raimi pushed the weirdness of the character.

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  • Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    Magic, witchcraft, demons, HEAVY Hell vibes... a big part of my love of this movie is how hard I feel catered to It also cemented my love of both Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch Yer girl loves herself some villains and anti-heroes! (Strange isn't full anti-hero but this IS some shady shit lol)

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  • MikeTheHuman113 @mikeisahuman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Bit of a milestone this week, as Dark Phoenix is the 100th film I’ve logged on Letterboxd! Probably would’ve preferred it to be Doctor Strange had I realized it beforehand, but oh well, lol #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    Sam Raimi on casting Rachel McAdams in ‘SEND HELP’ after ‘DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS’: “I saw how talented she was and actually underutilized... and I promised myself that I would work with her again.” #SendHelp #RachelMcAdams #SamRaimi 🔗 variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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  • viagetty @afraid.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    using Doctor Strange hand movements to take Rivers Cuomo out of a movie soundtrack

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  • Chris Towers Missed The Playoffs @cptowers.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    I’m gonna do DOCTOR STRANGE & THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS revisionism: This movie kinda rocks

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  • Aedis @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 5, 2026

    imo iron man was never sci-fi, it was more of a magical realism where the "rule of cool" is law. I mean we're talking about the same universe that has the likes of Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch bending and breaking every single possible rule of physics with a flick of the wrist.

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  • Rosearik Rikki Simons @rikkisimons.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Watched Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness tonight and didn’t realize it was a Sam Raimi film until it started to act like a Sam Raimi film at the end.

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  • Corvid Dallas Multipass (he/him)(it/its) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @genuscorvidae.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    I'm being shown the MCU. Tonight? The original Doctor Strange movie. I'll never quite get used to Cumberbatch doing an American accent, tho...

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  • Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    Remembering the wonderful Jessica Walter, who would have been 84 today. In addition to her long list of film and television credits, a moment to recall how perfectly cast she was as Morgan le Fay in the 1978 CBS made-for-TV version of DOCTOR STRANGE.

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that he will not appear as Doctor Strange in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ He will instead have a major role in ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ (via variety.com/2025/film/ne...)

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Central @cumberbatchcom.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    Benedict Cumberbatch Says ‘There Is a Lot More to Play’ With Doctor Strange and That He Had to ‘Work Hard’ Not to Have ‘Arrogance’ About Marvel Success variety.com/2024/film/gl...

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  • Pete Cilella @petecilella.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2023

    Ep. 26 | Writer/Producer C. Robert Cargill (Sinister, Doctor Strange, The Black Phone) joins me to discuss adapting a short story into a feature film, Ethan Hawke, and much more before lulling you to sleep with two improvised stories. @crobertcargill.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/20VU...

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  • animal from the international network @animalonline.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    you know what I think of when I reflect on the second Doctor Strange movie? How great Patrick Stewart was in his insane, convoluted, comically horrific punchline of a cameo, and how Bruce Campbell has a ridiculous post-credits sequence that is more memorable than most of the rest of the movie

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  • ᴇʟᴇ ʙᴀᴛᴄʜꜱ |⭐️⭐️⭐️ @elennemigo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    NOV 1: hospital in movie 🏥 #NovemberMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 🎬 Doctor Strange (2016) 🪄

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2025

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is still an awesome superhero Horror film. What's not to like? It's classic Sam Raimi on a bigger budget. Sure, PG-13 but so were his Spider-Man movies. Otherwise, he made it kick ass and it still works.

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