July 31 Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Releases

July 31 Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Releases

Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s July 31 Digital HD, Blu-ray and DVD column! As you can see, we’ve added a video player at the top highlighting this week’s releases, and you can find more detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!

New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD

Overboard (exclusive clip)
Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez do a role-reversal remake of the classic 80’s comedy which originally starred Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Check out an exclusive clip from the Blu-ray release below!

Tully
Charlize Theron stars in Jason Reitman’s brilliant dramedy about a woman saved from the brink of mental collapse by a helpful night nanny, played by Mackenzie Davis.

Dark Crimes
Comedy superstar Jim Carrey delivers a rare dramatic turn in this story about a murder investigation of a slain businessman in which clues are found in an author’s book about an eerily similar crime.

Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis
After losing the throne of Atlantis, Aquaman must escape the threat of the Red Lanterns and learn what it means to be a hero, in order to save the Justice League and the entire planet! Both the Blu-ray and DVD editions come with an exclusive LEGO minifigure of a DC hero.

Kings (DVD) 
Halle Berry and Daniel Craig star in this harrowing drama about a family in South Central Los Angeles a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial.

Reissues

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Arrow Video puts out a gorgeous transfer of Vincent Ward’s 1988 breakout film. Shot in New Zealand and highly inspired by the medieval art of Hieronymus Bosch, this film features stark black and white imagery of Cumbria in the year 1348 as the black plague looms… only to suddenly turn to color as our heroes travel through a tunnel into 1980’s New Zealand. The disc features a vintage 1989 documentary on the making of the film.

Piranha II: The Spawning
James Cameron’s inauspicious directorial debut, arguably the best movie about flying piranhas ever made, comes home to Blu-ray from Scream Factory featuring a spiffy-looking new 2K scan of the camera negative. The disc also features interviews with actor Ricky Paull Goldin and special effects man Brian Wade.

The House of the Dead
Also known as Alien Zone, this obscure 1978 anthology movie put out in a loving package by Vinegar Syndrome features the stories of four different corpses and how they each arrived on the slab.

New on Digital HD

Avengers: Infinity War
The fourth-highest-grossing film ever at the worldwide box office comes home to Digital platforms. The first part of Marvel Studios’ epic culmination involves nearly every major hero in their roster, with Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and the Guardians of the Galaxy being standouts. Josh Brolin truly delivers as the antagonist and central character trying to bring about a universal genocide for the good of the universe. A must-own for all Marvel fans!

TV on Blu-ray and DVD

Star Wars Rebels: Complete Season Four
The crew of The Ghost makes their final stand against the Empire as every episode of the final season of the fan favorite series comes to home video. The Blu-ray features several exclusive featurettes, including an excellent one with executive producer Dave Filoni dissecting the concept of The Force!

Counterpart: Season 1 (exclusive clip
In Season 1 of Starz’s hit show, Academy Award Winner J.K. Simmons plays Howard Silk, a cog of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. Howard is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue and danger, where the only man he can trust is “Prime”.

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Jeff Wadlow to Direct Blumhouse & Sony’s Fantasy Island Feature

Jeff Wadlow to direct Blumhouse & Sony’s Fantasy Island feature

Deadline is reporting that director Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare, Kick-Ass 2, Cry Wolf) is teaming up with Blumhouse and Sony Pictures to reimagine the ABC series Fantasy Island into a movie. Sony owns the rights to the original series which was created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling.

Fantasy Island ran on ABC from 1977-1984 and quickly became a fan-favorite. The island drama dealt with dark themes and the supernatural with a little bit of cheesiness as visitors would come to the island to live out their fantasies. Guests could request any fantasy on the unique resort island in the Pacific Ocean, overseen by the mysterious Mr. Roarke (originally played by Ricardo Montalban) and Hervé Villechaize’s Tattoo, but those fantasies rarely turned out as expected as visitors found themselves facing challenges that tested their character.

Wadlow previously collaborated with Blumhouse on the recent horror hit Truth Or Dare that earned $100 million at the worldwide box office from a budget of $5 million. He will be co-writing Fantasy Island with Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs with Jason Blum set to produce. Wadlow will also executive produce alongside Blumhouse’s Couper Samuelson with Ryan Turek overseeing the project for Blumhouse and Matt Milan overseeing for Sony.

Blumhouse’s recent features include The First Purge, Unfriended: Dark Web, and Upgrade. Upcoming projects include the return of Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode in the Halloween sequel, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Samuel L. Jackson in the third installment of a trilogy that includes previous features Unbreakable and Split, and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman.

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Time Traveler’s Wife Series from Steven Moffat Ordered by HBO

Time Traveler’s Wife series from Steven Moffat ordered by HBO

HBO has given a series order for The Time Traveler’s Wife, adapted by Emmy winner Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Doctor Who) from the Audrey Niffenegger novel. An intricate and magical love story, the series tells the story of Clare and Henry and a marriage with a problem… time travel.

The beloved story follows Henry DeTamble, an adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. The couple’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap.

“I read Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife many years ago, and I fell in love with it. In fact, I wrote a Doctor Who episode called The Girl In The Fireplace as a direct response to it. When, in her next novel, Audrey had a character watching that very episode, I realized she was probably on to me. All these years later, the chance to adapt the novel itself, is a dream come true. The brave new world of long-form television is now ready for this kind of depth and complexity. It’s a story of happy ever after — but not necessarily in that order,” said Moffat.

HBO’s programming president Casey Bloys added: “We are thrilled to be partnering with Steven Moffat, Hartswood, and WBTV on The Time Traveler’s Wife. Steven’s passion is evident in every project he’s written and we are certain that his love and respect for this mesmerizing and textured novel will make it a quintessential HBO series.”

The Time Traveler’s Wife was previously adapted for the big screen in 2009. The movie, directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starred Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. In the film, Bana stars as Henry, a Chicago librarian who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes him to move involuntarily through time. He ends up marrying Clare (McAdams), but their relationship is complicated thanks to Henry’s inability to remain in the same time and place as his wife.

Moffat will write and executive produce the series for HBO, alongside executive producers Sue Vertue and Brian Minchin with Hartswood Films in Association with Warner Bros. Television producing.

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Constantine: City of Demons Trailer and Blu-ray Info Revealed

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Constantine: City of Demons trailer and Blu-ray info revealed

From executive producers David S. Gover and Greg Berlanti, The Hellblazer is back in an all-new twisted tale of mystery, intrigue and the occult with Constantine: City of Demons, a full-length, R-rated feature film based on the acclaimed DC animated series from CW Seed. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Blue Ribbon Content and DC Entertainment, the action-packed movie will be distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment starting October 9, 2018 on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital. Check out the Constantine: City of Demons trailer below, along with the box art in the gallery!

Click here to pre-order Constantine: City of Demons on Blu-ray!

Constantine: City of Demons will be available on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack ($39.99 SRP) and Blu-ray Combo Pack ($24.98 SRP) as well as on Digital ($19.99 HD, $14.99 SD). The Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack features an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc in 4K with HDR and a Blu-ray disc featuring the film; the Blu-ray Combo Pack features the Blu-ray and DVD. The Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Combo Pack include a digital version of the film.

Constantine: City of Demons is rated R for bloody violence/gore, disturbing images, and some sexual content.

A decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure Chas’s daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma. With the help of the mysterious Nightmare Nurse, the influential Queen of Angels, and brutal Aztec God Mictlantecuhtli, the pair just might have a chance at outsmarting the demon Beroul to save Trish’s soul. In a world of shadows and dark magic, not everything is what it seems, and there’s always a price to pay. The path to redemption is never easy, and if Constantine is to succeed, he must navigate through the dark urban underbelly of Los Angeles, outwit the most cunning spawns of hell, and come face to face with arch-nemesis Nergal – all while battling his own inner demons!

Constantine: City of Demons has been produced in a dual format – initially as animated shorts, the first five of which appeared on CW Seed. With a runtime of 90 minutes, the feature-length Constantine: City of Demons film has over an hour of never-before-seen content including the film’s thrilling climax).

Doug Murphy (Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost) directs the film from a script by J.M. DeMatteis (Batman: Bad Blood). Art Direction is courtesy of Phil Bourassa (Young Justice). Butch Lukic (Justice League Action, Batman Unlimited) is the film’s producer. Sam Register and Sarah Schechter also serve as executive producers.

Matt Ryan, who set the standard for the role of Constantine on the NBC live-action television series, returns to the famed trenchcoat in animated form – after reprising the role in both live-action (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow) series and an animated film (Justice League Dark).

The cast surrounding Ryan includes Damian O’Hare (Hell of Wheels) as Chas Chandler, Laura Bailey (Critical Role) as Trish & Asa The Healer, Emily O’Brien (The Young and the Restless) as Rene Chandler, Kevin Michael Richardson (Family Guy) as Mahonin, Jim Meskimen (Parks and Recreation) as Beroul, Robin Atkin Downes (The Strain) as Nergal, Rachel Kimsey (Justice League Action) as Angela, and Rick Wasserman (Batman: The Killing Joke) as Mictlantecuhtli.

RELATED: Batman: Hush Animated Movie Leads DC Animation’s 2019 Slate

Constantine: City of Demons Enhanced Content

The Sorcerer’s Occultist – Understanding John Constantine – An exciting examination of the powers and abilities used by DC’s working-class occult detective, John Constantine.

Constantine: City of Demons WonderCon Panel – 2018 – Storytellers join City of Demons’ star Matt Ryan at this year’s WonderCon for an inside look at Constantine’s latest adventure.

The Sorcerer’s Occultist – Understanding John Constantine

A practitioner of magic, and one that would not shy away from using the knowledge of the occult to his advantage, John Constantine has inadvertently found himself in a vast chasm between the light of heaven and the hellfire of the world below. He has a massive array of spells, incantations, curses and rituals that he can use to his advantage. He tries to rely heavily upon his knowledge of the occult, but at times he must use his deft hand at magic to help save the day. From the mythology surrounding the trench coat, being imbued with demonic power, to the blood transfusion with the devil’s blood that Constantine was forced to take on to be freed from his lung cancer, these aspects of his power will be placed under the microscope to reveal the depth of his abilities. The film City of Demons does a splendid job of capturing the John Constantine approach to life and adventure. He’s an occultist, he’s a sorcerer, and did we mention that he can time travel as well? Interviews will include various DC Comics experts that can provide details of Constantine’s abilities in these often overlooked reaches of the world of Superhero.

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Fantastic Fest 2018 Announces First Wave of Programming

Fantastic Fest 2018 announces its first wave of programming

Entering its 14th year of celebrating offbeat and brilliant cinema, this installment sees Fantastic Fest bring the very best in mind-melting mayhem and madness from all corners of the globe, which also includes a cinematic trip back in time to South Korea, highlighting a period of filmmaking that was mad, bad and dangerous to know!

Fantastic Fest is thrilled to present the World Premiere of the bone-chilling World War II horror-thriller Overlord, produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, with director Julius Avery and stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro and Mathilde Ollivier in attendance. This exhilarating, nerve-shredding ride tells the story of American paratroopers dropped into occupied France on the eve of D-Day who discover a secret Nazi lab carrying out terrifying and bizarre supernatural experiments.

Fantastic Fest alumni return to the festival in a dual threat that promises to shock, awe and conquer audiences. First up Apostle sees Gareth Evans’ (The Raid) take on the folk horror genre with Dan Stevens as a mysterious man infiltrating a sinister cult headed by Michael Sheen to rescue his sister with eye-gouging results. Then, Timo Tjahjanto pits Joe Taslim against Iko Uwais (The Raid) in The Night Comes For Us, an action thriller where the body count breaks new records in bone-crunching fights, venomous violence, and dynamic destruction!

Fantastic Fest’s mission to bring the best of genre continues to flourish with a worldwide group of films headed to Austin for a celebration unlike any other. Leading the pack is returning comedic genius Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) with his unexpected tale of a police interrogation during a murder investigation over the course of one night in the North American Premiere of Keep an Eye Out. Director Alejandro Fadel’s cerebral Cannes shocker Murder Me, Monster will also have its North American Premiere at the festival. Sensational shot-on-16mm psychotropic horror Luz will be in Austin for its U.S. Premiere, and the thrilling Swedish independent blockbuster The Unthinkable will blast the audience with its European take on a nation-under-siege big-budget spectacle at its World Premiere.

Other Fantastic Fest highlights include a focus on global female genre filmmakers who are blasting through the silver screen with distinctive and brilliant features. From Ukraine, Marysia Nikitiuk explores the clash between old world values and young love in a visually charged fusion of genres in When the Trees Fall. Spain’s Sonia Escolano turns up the tension in her mesmerizing treatise on religion, faith and belief in House of Sweat and Tears. Isabella Eklof brings her Sundance critical hit Holiday to the fest all the way from Denmark. And finally, alumna Amanda Kramer makes an unforgettable mark with her distinctive debut Ladyworld, a post-apocalyptic, daring probe into the darkest reaches of the teenage female mind.

Fantastic Fest turns its eye to South Korea and explores the Korean Quota Quickies, a period in the 1970s which saw filmmaking flourish despite stifling ideological censorship thanks to a quota system which required a strict number of local productions be made for each of the foreign films imported. Although most of these were rushed productions, clever directors used the system to their advantage to sneak strange and daring content past producers, directors, and censors. Fantastic Fest is going to present two very rarely seen films from the period: BANGREUMYEON from director Kim Ki-Young, one of Park Chan-Wook’s directing idols, and Quit Your LIfe from director Park Nou-Sik, who provided the literal roadmap for all Korean revenge movies to come.“To be able to highlight a period of Korean cinema that is largely unknown in North America is a brilliant opportunity to not only re-discover what shaped the modern Korean cinema we all know and love, but also a great way to tap into the sheer electric creative force running through the films as shaped by the strict authoritarian environment they were created in,” says FF Creative Director Evrim Ersoy. The festival will also bring the best of modern Korean cinema to the festival including Lee Chang-dong’s critical Cannes hit Burning.

AGFA (the American Genre Film Archive) triumphantly returns to the festival with a trio of restorations all receiving the World Premiere treatment. ’80s shot-on-video epic Blood Lake is restored from the 1″ master tapes and arrives alongside a double bill of I Was a Teenage Serial Killer and Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore, celebrating the punk riot grrrl feminist cinema of Sarah Jacobson, both in brand new 2K preservations. Plus the highly-anticipated World Premiere of Maniac, restored lovingly from the once-thought-lost 16mm negatives into 4K; with director William Lusting in attendance!

A bizarre trio of animation from across the world arrives at the festival to showcase the most daring, dangerous and unique styles. From Japan and the demented mind of Ujicha comes Violence Voyager, a stop-motion cornucopia of mesmerizing madness. From Chile, directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s breathtaking Wolf House, featuring perhaps the most inherently sinister and chilling story in any film this year. And finally, from Czech Republic and building on the great Czech puppet animation tradition arrives Aurel Klimt’s delightfully untrue but entertaining story of the first dog in space, Laika.

Fantastic Fest also sees expansion within its advisory board with the addition of new member Curran Nault. Nault, who is the Founder and the Artistic Director of the queer transmedia arts festival OUTsider, says, ‘”It’s an honor to join the Fantastic Fest Board at this pivotal moment in its evolution. I’m beyond ecstatic to lend my voice to the extraordinary creative fray already underway this year.” He’s the sixth member of the FF advisory board, which also includes Kier-La Janisse, Suki Rose-Simakis, Elijah Wood, Peter Kuplowsky and Kristen Bell.

Finally, building up on last year’s successful launch, Fantastic Fest Satellite Markets are back! They’ll be showing best of the festival titles including Cam, The Guilty, this season’s scariest film Terrified and many more to come in Denver, San Francisco, and New York. Details for the Satellite Markets can be found on the satellite landing page, here!

First Wave Film Lineup Below:

Apostle
United Kingdom, 2018
World Premiere, 129 min
Director – Gareth Evans
The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.

Ban Geum-Ryeon
South Korea, 1981
Regional Premiere, 90 min
Director – Kim Ki-young
From Park Chan-wook’s idol comes a twisted tale of lecherous lords and murderous mistresses. Presented outside of Korea for only the second time, Kim Ki-young’s masterpiece Ban Geum-Ryeon is a lush smorgasbord from Korea’s most demented cinematic mind.

AGFA and Bleeding Skull Present: Blood Lake
USA, 1987
World Premiere of New Preservation, 82 min
Director – Tim Boggs
The finest vacation from hell ever captured on VHS, rescued from the original 1″ master tapes!

Burning
South Korea, 2018
Texas Premiere, 148 min
Director – Lee Chang-dong
Lee Chang-dong’s latest triumph weighs the delicate balance between creation and destruction as a writer runs into an old classmate who gets him caught up in a mystery bigger than both of them.

Cam
USA, 2018
US Premiere, 94 min
Director – Daniel Goldhaber
In Attendance – Writer/Producer Isa Mazzei
Alice is a camgirl with principles. She doesn’t do public shows, she doesn’t tell her fans she loves them, and she doesn’t fake her orgasms. But when a mysterious lookalike takes over her channel, the rules no longer apply.

DOG
France, 2017
US Premiere, 87 min
Director – Samuel Benchetrit
A dark fable about loneliness, perfectly illustrated by Jacques Blanchot’s loss of humanity and slow transformation into a dog. Director Samuel Benchetrit shares a subtle commentary on our current world, and its social, interpersonal, and political issues.

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
USA, 2018
Texas Premiere, 108 min
Director – Jim Hosking
Fantastic Fest alumni director Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler, Renegades) is back with a second feature as absurd, crazy, and funny as his first. Follow Lulu Danger’s very own revolution in a Lynch-meets-Waters run-down version of America.

The Guilty
Denmark, 2018
Austin Premiere, 85 min
Director – Gustav Möller
A horrific crime; an emergency responder struggling to stay off the edge; a kidnapping victim calling in for help. This is all we’re going to tell you about first-time feature filmmaker Gustav Möller’s unmissable and gripping debut thriller.

Holiday
Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, 2018
Texas Premiere, 93 min
Director – Isabella Eklöf
The sun-drenched dream of the eponymous summer vacation has its dark side revealed in Isabella Eklöf’s powerful debut feature Holiday, an unforgettable exploration of the fraught, brutal experience of young womanhood.

House of Sweat and Tears
Spain, 2018
World Premiere, 104 min
Director – Sonia Escolano
In Attendance – Director Sonia Escolano
“She,” the leader of a violent cult, rules her flock with an iron fist to ensure they never stray from the path. But a series of events and a mysterious outsider threaten the pattern of their reality in this electrifying exploration of faith and belief.

AGFA Presents: I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
USA, 1993
World Premiere of New Restoration, 27 min
Director – Sarah Jacobson
Sarah Jacobson’s punk-spirited DIY films combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism in brand new 2K preservations.

Keep an Eye Out
France, 2018
North American Premiere, 73 min
Director – Quentin Dupieux
An absurd all-night interrogation set in a camp ’70s police station, Quentin Dupieux’s latest opus, Keep an Eye Out, is a celebration of his own brand of quirky, offbeat humor, performed by France’s most refreshing comedic talents.

Ladyworld
USA, 2018
US Premiere, 93 min
Director – Amanda Kramer
In Attendance – Director Amanda Kramer and Actor/Co-Editor/Production Designer Noel David Taylor
In Amanda Kramer’s daring low-budget debut Ladyworld, a birthday party quickly devolves into chaos when a mysterious earthquake traps eight teenage girls alone in a house, challenging their friendships, identities, and eventually their grip on reality.

Laika
Czech Republic, 2017
Regional Premiere, 88 min
Director – Aurel Klimt
In Attendance – Director Aurel Klimt
This is the story of Laïka the space dog who, unlike in real life, did not die aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957. In this bizarre and charming stop-motion musical, Laïka crashes on a peculiar planet where she meets new friends.

Luz
Germany, 2018
US Premiere, 70 min
Director – Tilman Singer
In Attendance – Director Tilman Singer
Luz enters a police station at night to report an assault. As the interrogation progresses, it becomes clear a demonic entity wants to possess her in this audacious, psychotropic horror film shot on 16mm.

Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club
Israel, 2018
International Premiere, 90 min
Director – Guilhad Emilio Schenker
Desperate, aging, Sophie only needs to seduce one more handsome victim – excuse me, date – to become a worry-free Lordess in Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, Israeli director Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s delightfully twisted debut feature.

Maniac
USA, 1980
World Premiere of New 4K Restoration, 88 min
Director – William Lustig
In Attendance – Director William Lustig
The 4K restoration of grindhouse auteur Bill Lustig’s 1980 slasher landmark features splatter SFX artist Tom Savini’s gnarliest work, as well as one of horror’s finest, sweatiest performances from legendary character actor/co-writer Joe Spinell.

AGFA Presents: Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
USA, 1997
World Premiere of New Restoration, 98 min
Director – Sarah Jacobson
Sarah Jacobson’s punk-spirited DIY films combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism in brand new 2K preservations.

Murder Me, Monster
Argentina, France, Chile, 2018
North American Premiere, 109 min
Director – Alejandro Fadel
Visual horror masterpiece Murder Me, Monster lures you into the fascinating and opaque underworld of serial murder, supernatural obsession, metaphysical hallucinations, forbidden love – and one nightmarishly gross monster.

The Night Comes For Us
Indonesia, 2018
World Premiere, 121 min
Director – Timo Tjahjanto
A former triad enforcer must protect a young girl while trying to escape his former gang, setting off a violent battle on the streets of Jakarta.

The Night Shifter
Brazil, 2018
US Premiere, 110 min
Director – Dennison Ramalho
An attendant at a busy morgue who can also converse with the dead puts his loved ones in peril using his forbidden knowledge for vengeance in Dennison Ramalho’s (Ninjas, ABCs of Death 2) twisted and gleefully icky feature debut.

One Cut of the Dead
Japan, 2018
Texas Premiere, 96 min
Director – Shinichiro Ueda
A filmmaker sets out to shoot a zombie film in an abandoned factory, but something is lurking on the outside. Is it a zombie apocalypse or just another shoot gone wrong?

Open 24 Hours
USA, Serbia, 2018
North American Premiere, 100 min
Director – Padraig Reynolds
In Attendance – Director Padraig Reynolds
A young woman who had previously set her serial killer boyfriend on fire is now seeking normalcy by getting a job working the overnight shift at a 24-hour convenience store, where things are most definitely not going to be normal.

Overlord
USA, 2018
World Premiere, TBD min
Director – Julius Avery
In Attendance – Director Julius Avery and cast including Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro, and Mathilde Ollivier
In the upcoming WWII horror-thriller Overlord, a group of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France on the eve of D-Day. As they struggle to carry out their seemingly impossible mission, they discover a secret Nazi lab carrying out terrifying and bizarre supernatural experiments.

Piercing
USA, 2018
Texas Premiere, 81 min
Director – Nicolas Pesce
From the twisted mind of Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of my Mother) comes a provocative two-hander chamberpiece – a tense battle of wits and desire between prostitute and trick, predator and prey.

Quit Your Life
South Korea, 1971
North American Premiere, 82 min
Director – Park Nou-sik
Presented in English for the first time, actor-director Park Nou-sik balances the scales of justice as he stalks around Korea with his noose of judgment in the relentless revenge drama Quit Your Life

School’s Out
France, 2018
North American Premiere, 103 min
Director – Sébastien Marnier
In this dread-soaked cerebral thriller, a handsome young substitute teacher gets in over his head when taking on a class of gifted students after their former teacher’s dramatic in-class suicide.

Terrified
Argentina, 2017
US Premiere, 87 min
Director – Demián Rugna
In Attendance – Director Demián Rugna
Strange things are going on in a Buenos Aires neighborhood. Demián Rugna’s constantly surprising and truly spine-chilling horror film has one goal: to scare the shit out of everyone.

The Unthinkable
Sweden, 2018
World Premiere, 129 min
Director – Crazy Pictures
Something unthinkable is happening in Sweden. It starts with a few isolated incidents but suddenly, it’s all over the country. There are some who were prepared and others who weren’t. Ready or not, things will go out with a bang!

Violence Voyager
Japan, 2018
Regional Premiere, 83 min
Director – Ujicha
En route to visit a friend in another village, two kids go looking for a fabled shortcut through the mountain. Instead, they stumble upon an amusement park called Violence Voyager, and that’s when everything goes to shit.
 
When the Trees Fall
Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia, 2018
North American Premiere, 88 min
Director – Marysia Nikitiuk
In Attendance – Director Marysia Nikitiuk
Scar and Larysa are desperately in love and suffocating under the tradition and archaic demands of their Ukrainian village. When the frustrations of each finally detonate, their world and the lives of those surrounding them are tragically shattered.

The Wolf House
Chile, 2018
North American Premiere, 73 min
Directors – Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
In Attendance – Director Cristóbal León
An animated tale, supposedly restored from the archives of a German colony by the Chilean government, The Wolf House is the unsettling story of Maria, punished with a hundred nights alone in a cabin in the woods.

Fantastic Fest will begin Thursday, September 20 and end Thursday, September 27.

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Jungle Cruise Movie: Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt Debut Video from Set

Jungle Cruise movie: Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt debut video from set

In a new set video, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt display their great comedic chemistry for Walt Disney Pictures‘ Jungle Cruise, the upcoming theme park ride adaptation which is now in production! Check out the video in the player below!

The new film stars Dwayne Johnson (Skyscraper), Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns), Edgar Ramirez (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story), Jesse Plemons (Game Night), Paul Giamatti (San Andreas) and Jack Whitehall (The Bad Education Movie).

In Jungle Cruise, Johnson plays a boat captain who takes his sister (Blunt) and her brother (Whitehall) on a mission to find a tree believed to possess healing powers. Wild animals and a competing expedition figure into the proceedings. Ramirez is said to be one of the movie’s villains, a character with a conquistador background who is leading a competing German expedition alongside the baddie played by Plemons (Game Night).

Jungle Cruise‘s script by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Star Trek Beyond) was recently rewritten by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049). Johnson will produce alongside his Seven Bucks Productions partners Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia, as well as frequent collaborator Beau Flynn (San Andreas, Baywatch) of Flynn Picture Co. John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment will also produce.

Jungle Cruise will join the ranks of films Disney has created based on their theme park attractions, including The Country Bears, The Haunted Mansion, Mission to Mars, Tomorrowland, and the most popular, Pirates of the Caribbean. Disney plans to develop the film as a possible franchise in the same vein as Pirates of the Caribbean. The film began production in May and will film through the summer.

Emily Blunt and Dwayne @TheRock Johnson welcome you to the adventure of a lifetime! Disney’s @JungleCruise is now in production. In theaters October 2019. #JungleCruise pic.twitter.com/kKiasbWbT9

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) July 31, 2018

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Erin Cressida Wilson Developing an Indecent Proposal Remake

Erin Cressida Wilson developing an Indecent Proposal remake

Writer Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) has been brought onboard to pen the script for the upcoming remake of the 1993 romance drama Indecent Proposal for Paramount Players, Collider has confirmed.

The original 1993 Indecent Proposal starred Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson and was directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Flashdance, Jacob’s Ladder). In the movie, a billionaire (Redford) offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple (Moore, Harrelson) for one night with the wife, ultimately wreaking havoc on the couple’s relationship. The film ended up earning $266 million worldwide becoming a hit at the box office but would also go on to win the 1993 “Razzie” for Worst Picture.

The movie was based on the Jack Engelhard novel of the same name that was published in 1988. The official description of the book is as follows: “In Atlantic City, after watching a major player lose and win back millions at the blackjack table, Joshua Kane and his wife Joan are offered a devil’s deal: this man will give Joshua one million dollars and the promise of a better life — in exchange for one night with Joan.” 

The Indecent Proposal remake is still in the early stages as Paramount Players seeks out a director and its cast. In the meantime, the premise of the story asks an intriguing question: Would you agree to that devil’s deal?

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Comedian Marc Maron in Talks to Join The Joker Origin Movie

Comedian Marc Maron in talks to join The Joker origin movie

Variety is reporting that actor, comedian and podcaster Marc Maron is in talks to join Warner Bros. Pictures‘ Joker origin movie. He will be playing a booking agent on the talk show hosted by Robert De Niro’s character, who winds up booking the man who will become The Joker and plays a part in driving him mad.

Maron will join a cast led by Joaquin Phoenix (The Master, Walk the Line) as the Clown Prince of Crime, along with Zazie Beets (Deadpool 2), Frances Conroy (American Horror Story) and Robert De Niro (The King of Comedy).

Maron is a veteran comedian who broke out in recent years thanks to his wildly popular WTF podcast where he interviews actors, musicians, comedians and other celebrities (including former President Barack Obama). He branched out into acting with three seasons of his eponymous IFC sitcom Maron, as well as a co-starring role on the current Netflix hit GLOW. His feature film work includes Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Sleepwalk with Me and Almost Famous, the latter in which he famously yelled out, “LOCK THE GATES!” He will next be seen starring in director Lynn Shelton’s indie drama Sword of Trust.

Although Warner Brothers is still moving forward with a Jared Leto starring Joker film, Phoenix’s Joker has already gotten the official green light. Written by Scott Silver (The Fighter) and directed by Todd Philips (The Hangover), the film will be loosely based on Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s classic 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, and is unique for the superhero genre in its relatively small $55 million dollar budget.

The Joker film is set to begin filming this September, with a release date of October 4, 2019.

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Timeless Series Finale: Cancelled NBC Series Returning for Two-Part Conclusion

Timeless series finale: Cancelled NBC series returning for two-part conclusion

Variety brings word that NBC is planning on bringing back the recently canceled series Timeless for a two-part series finale. The series finale will allow the massive cliffhanger at the end of the second season to be resolved as well as giving fans a proper conclusion as the story finally wraps up.

Lisa Katz, co-president of scripted programming at NBC Entertainment, said: “We’re excited to tell one final chapter to this incredible story. A huge thank you to all — our cast, crew, producers, and partners at Sony — who have worked so very hard, and to the fans who kept us on our toes and made sure we did our very best week after week.”

From Eric Kripke (Revolution, Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), season two of this thrilling action-adventure series picks up right where we left off with our heroes. We continue to race throughout history with our beloved team: Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), a scientist; Wyatt (Matt Lanter), a soldier; and Lucy (Abigail Spencer), a history professor, in an attempt to prevent the destruction of our world as we all know it. This season they’ll find an unlikely ally in their quest to ruin Rittenhouse, a deadly organization with plans to change history and reshape reality – even though Lucy’s family has been a part of Rittenhouse for centuries. Still making every effort not to affect the past themselves, they will visit 1692, 1917, 1941, 1981 and more.

The sophomore series was canceled after it’s first season due to lackluster viewer ratings but was resurrected three days later by NBC due to the passionate fan base flooding NBC with support for the show. NBC ended up giving the series a 10 episode second season that premiered on March 1st.

Ryan and Kripke also commented on the two-part series finale, saying: “While we wish we could’ve made another dozen seasons of Timeless, this is the next best thing. We’re thrilled to take the Lifeboat out for one last spin and bring closure to our story. The studio, network, cast, and crew are all doing this for one reason only: the fans. Because they deserve it. Because the fans made this happen and we thank them for their passion, support, and helicopters. So? You guys want to get Rufus back or what?”

The cast of Timeless includes Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Višnjić, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit. Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke are the creators, writers and executive producers. Tom Smuts and Arika Lisanne Mittman are co-showrunners and executive producers. Don Kurt, Greg Beeman, John Davis, John Fox and Marney Hochman also executive produce. Timeless is a production of Sony Pictures Television, Davis Entertainment, MiddKid Productions and Kripke Enterprises.

No date has officially been set by NBC for the two-part series finale, but the special could air this winter.

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Jon Turteltaub Explains Why National Treasure 3 Hasn’t Happened

Jon Turteltaub explains why National Treasure 3 hasn’t happened

In a conversation with Collider, director Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, The Meg) discussed why a third installment of the National Treasure franchise hasn’t happened yet at Disney and why he thinks they should turn the story into a trilogy.

Turteltaub explained to the outlet that it all comes down to money: “When National Treasure first got made, there was a lot more money to go around. Everybody got paid nicely. The problem with getting the third one made isn’t the people who are getting paid saying, ‘I’m not doing it unless you pay me a lot!’ It’s really that Disney feels they have other films they want to make that they think will make them more money.”

The filmmaker disagrees with Disney’s position on not wanting to continue with National Treasure 3, saying the company doesn’t recognize that the audience wants to see more: “I think they’re wrong. I think they’re right about the movies they’re making; they’re obviously doing a really good job at making great films. I just think this would be one of them, and they don’t quite realize how much the Internet is begging for a third National Treasure.”

Turteltaub also shared that a script was being developed, but Disney’s lack of enthusiasm prevented the “close, but not so great” script from moving forward, even though the director felt it was good enough for the studio to have considered allowing development to continue until it was perfected.

National Treasure, starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock) and Diane Kruger (In the Fade, Inglourious Basterds), was released in 2004 and earned $347 million at the worldwide box office. The follow-up, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, made an additional $457 million worldwide for Disney.

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the story left off with National Treasure: Book of Secrets, following treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) as he once again sets out on an exhilarating, action-packed new global quest to unearth hidden history and treasures. When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben’s great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s death. Determined to prove his ancestor’s innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations – but to the trail of the world’s most treasured secrets. The movie also starred Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, and Helen Mirren.

Have you been waiting for a National Treasure 3? Let us know if you would be down to see Nicolas Cage return as treasure hunter Ben Gates in the comments!

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Incredibles 2 Worldwide Box Office Crosses $1 Billion

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Incredibles 2 worldwide box office crosses $1 billion

Disney•Pixar‘s long awaited Incredibles 2 has been smashing box office records since it debuted back in June, and the highly anticipated sequel has set another milestone, joining the $1 billion club! The sequel officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office yesterday, making it Disney’s 5th animated and 18th ever billion-dollar release. The film joins Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War as Disney’s 3rd release to reach the $1 billion milestone this year.

RELATED: Video: Brad Bird, Craig T. Nelson, and Holly Hunter on Incredibles 2!

Incredibles 2 has earned $574 million domestically and $430.9 million internationally for a global total of $1.005 billion through July 30. The film is also the first animated film ever to surpass the $500 million mark in North America and now stands as the 9th biggest overall release in U.S. history. With Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, and Incredibles 2, Pixar is the first and only animated studio to have released three billion-dollar films.

The film isn’t even done rolling out across the world either as it’s set to open in Japan and Span this week and debut in Italy and Germany in September.

In Incredibles 2, Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, while Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) navigates the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell), Dash (voice of Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack—whose super powers are about to be discovered. Their mission is derailed, however, when a new villain emerges with a brilliant and dangerous plot that threatens everything. But the Parrs don’t shy away from a challenge, especially with Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) by their side. That’s what makes this family so Incredible.

RELATED: Video: Samuel L. Jackson Plus Odenkirk & Keener on Incredibles 2

The voice cast also includes Brad Bird, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Jonathan Banks, Sophia Bush, and Isabella Rossellini.

Written and directed by Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille) and produced by John Walker (The Incredibles, Tomorrowland) and Nicole Grindle (Sanjay’s Super Team short, Toy Story 3 associate producer), Disney•Pixar’s Incredibles 2 busts into theaters on June 15, 2018.

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Netflix’s Apostle Movie Poster Promises Fire and Flame

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Netflix’s Apostle movie poster promises fire and flame

Netflix has released the first official movie poster from the upcoming horror occult film, Apostle. Make sure you check out the poster in all of its glory in the gallery below and let us know what you think.

London, 1905. Prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined.

Written and directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid), Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality behind it. Aram Tertzakian and Ed Talfan are producing.

Apostle stars Dan Stevens (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Legend), Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express, The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Mark Lewis Jones (Stella, Keeping Faith), Bill Milner (IBoy, X-Men: First Class), Kristine Froseth (Rebel in the Rye, Sierra Burgess is a Loser) Paul Higgins (Utopia, Couple in a Hole), and Michael Sheen (Home Again, Passengers).

The film will premiere globally on Netflix on October 12, 2018.

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Antoine Fuqua Wants Denzel to Play Scarface in Upcoming Adaptation

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Antoine Fuqua wants Denzel to play Scarface in upcoming adaptation

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven, Southpaw) discussed the possibility of turning The Equalizer story into a trilogy and his upcoming adaptation of Scarface, where he hopes Oscar winner and regular collaborator Denzel Washington (Training Day, Glory, Fences) will take the lead.

When asked about the dream casting, Fuqua explained that he’s trying to nudge Denzel into playing Scarface,

“My dream is for him to be Scarface,” Fuqua said. “He laughs sometimes and he kind of goes, “'(Al) Pacino did a great job! I don’t want to do that.'”

Despite Denzel being seemingly unsure about taking on such an iconic part, Fuqua says that he is still “trying to nudge him into doing it.”

The Scarface adaptation is based on the 1930 novel written by Armitage Trail. The book was heavily inspired by real-life gangster Al Capone aka Scarface. The story follows the rise and fall of Tony “Scarface” Camonte who takes over the illegal alcohol business in Chicago during the Prohibition Era after killing mob leader Al Springola. The story concludes with Camonte being killed by his brother, an officer with the Chicago PD, who doesn’t recognize his brother since he thought he had died in WWI.

The iconic 1983 Scarface film is set in Miami in 1980 and follows Tony Montana, a determined Cuban immigrant who takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Fuqua’s reimagining from Universal Pictures will shoot from a script polished by four-time Academy Award winners Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo). The newest adaptation is said to take place in a contemporary Los Angeles setting and will be produced by Dylan Clark with Scott Stuber executive producing alongside Scarface producer Marty Bregman.

Whether or not Denzel decides to become the next Scarface remains to be seen, but Fuqua told the outlet that they are both on board to make The Equalizer 3 happen. Nothing is set in stone, but Fuqua would “love for it to happen,” and the possibility of a trilogy has been brought up by Sony. Fuqua also mentioned that if The Equalizer 3 were to happen, he’s interested in an international setting where Denzel could play a “James Bond-type character.”

The Equalizer 2 became the surprise #1 movie in America in its opening weekend, with an estimated domestic total of $35.82 million for the three-day weekend. The R-rated sequel has surpassed the original, exceeded studio and industry expectations, and became the highest grossing opening in Antoine Fuqua’s career. Denzel Washington stars in the title role once again in the first sequel of his career. Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Bill Pullman, and Melissa Leo co-star.

What do you think about Denzel becoming the next Scarface? And are you hoping for a third installment in The Equalizer franchise? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Over 60 Venom Screenshots from the New Trailer

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Over 60 Venom screenshots from the new trailer

Earlier Sony Pictures released the new trailer for Venom (which you can watch by clicking here!), we’ve now combed through the video to bring you over 60 Venom screenshots that offer an up close look at the symbiote’s new solo movie. Check them out in the gallery below!

RELATED: Venom Comic-Con Panel Reveals Riz Ahmed’s Riot & More!

Tom Hardy stars in the upcoming feature film as Eddie Brock, the host for Venom. Joining him in the film are Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Jenny Slate (Zootopia) and Woody Harrelson (the Hunger Games franchise, True Detective).

Venom will hail from Sony’s Marvel Universe of characters and will not be a spinoff of the current Marvel Cinematic Universe, wherein Sony allows Spider-Man to be played by Tom Holland. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are producing along with Amy Pascal, with Palak Patel and Eric Fineman overseeing for Columbia Pictures.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) and written by Scott Rosenberg (Pain & Gain, Jumanji) & Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), the Venom film is set for an October 5, 2018 release date.

First appearing in the comic book series as an alien costume worn by Spider-Man in Marvel‘s The Amazing Spider-Man #252 in 1984, it was several years before the creature left Peter Parker and merged with photographer Eddie Brock, forming the antihero known as Venom. Since then, the character has appeared in a variety of different forms and bonded with several different hosts. In the “Ultimate” Marvel Universe, the suit has a more terrestrial origin, created by Parker and Brock’s scientist parents in an attempt to cure cancer. More recently, the Venom symbiote has been moving between hosts, including Mac Gargan (aka The Scorpion) and Peter Parker’s old high school rival, Flash Thompson.

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Peter Segal to Direct Dave Bautista Action-Comedy My Spy

Peter Segal to direct Dave Bautista action-comedy My Spy

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Peter Segal (Get Smart, Fifty First Dates) has been tapped to take on the director’s mantle for Dave Bautista’s action-comedy My Spy. The director is already working with STXfilms on the comedy, Second Act, which will be released later this year.

The film will follow a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. Bautista and Jonathan Meisner will serve as producers on the film, and STXfilms’ SVP of production Drew Simon and director of development Kate Vorhoff will oversee production.

Jon and Erich Hoeber penned the script for the film. The Hoeber brothers’ screenwriting credits include the Red action-franchise and Battleship, as well as the upcoming science fiction adventure, The Meg, starring Jason Statham and Ruby Rose.

My Spy is one of several projects STX is developing with Bautista, including the short-form action-comedy VR series from the company’s immersive content division, STXsurreal. The ambitious undertaking by STX to follow a custom-created model for their upcoming projects will help serve to create definitive roles for actors while also encouraging collaboration.

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Priyanka Chopra Joins Chris Pratt in Cowboy Ninja Viking

Priyanka Chopra joins Chris Pratt in Cowboy Ninja Viking

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures has tapped Priyanka Chopra (Quantico, A Kid Like Jake) to join Cowboy Ninja Viking. Chopra will be playing the love interest of Chris Pratt’s character.

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World franchises) will star as a new kind of assassin who manifests the toughest skills of three different personas: Cowboy, Ninja, and Viking. The hard-edged actioner laced with attitude is based on the Image Comics graphic novel by AJ Lieberman and illustrator Riley Rossmo.

Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) will be directing the film. Fans will remember that MacLaren was originally set to make her feature directorial debut with last year’s Wonder Woman before she left over creative differences. She most recently helmed the pilot for HBO’s The Deuce, and also has the WWII thriller The Nightingale in development at Tri-Star.

The film version of Cowboy Ninja Viking features a screenplay originally written by Zombieland and Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, which was rewritten by Craig Mazin (The Hangover Part II, Identity Thief). Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner and Mark Gordon are attached to produce.

Cowboy Ninja Viking is expected for release on June 28, 2019.

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Disney’s Christopher Robin Director & Cast on the Wisdom of Winnie the Pooh

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Disney’s Christopher Robin director & cast on the wisdom of Winnie the Pooh

Inspired by the stories of A.A. Milne and the Winnie the Pooh animated films and shows based on them, the latest Disney live-action adaptation reunites a now grown-up Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) with his childhood friends. Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and Winnie the Pooh are all there as if no time has flown by in the Hundred Acre Wood. For Christopher Robin, he’s been gone for too long and has placed work above fun more than anything. When his wife Evelyn (Hayley Atwell) and daughter Madeline (Bronte Carmichael) want to go on Holiday, Robin ends up taking on more work and making his family go to the country house without him. Putting a strain on his relationship and being forced by his boss to make budget cuts, Christopher has a breakdown. Lucky for him, Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings) has found his way to London at the moment he’s needed the most.

At the press day for the film, ComingSoon.net sat down with the film’s stars Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell and director Marc Forster to chat about what makes Winnie the Pooh so timeless, expanding the legacy with Richard Sherman of the Sherman Bros. and growing up but never letting go of your inner child.

Timeless Stories

Actress Hayley Atwell reminisced about the lasting presence of Winnie the Pooh in her childhood, “Its quintessentially English, this idealism of the world of the Hundred-Acre wood and these little animals.” she said of the characters created by Milne that Disney later carried the legacy of. “There’s an innocence that we all relate to because it’s childhood innocence of spending long summer days with your best friends just hanging out not doing anything. The appeal is always that sense of gentleness and safety in that world of friendship when you’re a child. When you don’t have that burden of responsibility when big things happen to you where you can create your reality very much in your imagination and back garden.”

The Music

While working on the film, director Marc Forster reached out to the surviving member of the Sherman Bros. who created so many of the Disney classics for the original film. He discussed what it was like to pitch the idea to a living legend, “If I could get one song out of Richard Sherman, it’d be such a blessing for the movie. So I call him up and send him the script. I said ‘…at the beginning when they say goodbye, they can sing a little song for him before Eeyore does a little poem.’ So he calls me up and tells me he’s going to play the song for me. I have it on speaker, I’m in the car driving back from the set. He’s in his house playing from his piano and singing for me into his phone. First I get goosebumps, then I start crying. At the end, he plays a second song, and then a third song and a fourth. I’m literally in tears in the car and I said, ‘Richard, this is beautiful. Wait, wait I didn’t record this can you please sing it again’. I had to record it, its the most beautiful heartbreaking thing, him on the piano.”

While McGregor and Atwell don’t get to sing in the film, “We got a dance, which was nice.” laughed McGregor. Atwell interjected, “We sang a lot in the car.”

McGregor continued, “We were not unmusical just not on screen.”

Atwell did share what classic Winnie the Pooh song she would have loved to share with the animated characters, “There’s a song that’s not in this one but it’s on other cassette tape versions. Where he’s trying to get honey from a nest and he’s going how sweet to be a cloud floating in the blue and he’s trying to sing a song pretending to be a cloud then they won’t think I’m a bear looking for honey. And it was a cute little ditty.” she said of Little Black Raincloud as McGregor hummed along.

On Growing Up But Never Forgetting Your Inner Child

For Ewan McGregor, having only had a version of the character who was a young boy, tapping into an adult version wasn’t challenging as he based his performance on his experience as a working father and what that could be like at the time Robin would be a dad himself. He explained, “I think there’s an interesting thing as a dad about Christopher Robin being a man at that time. It would be unusual for him or any father to sense that he wasn’t close enough to his children but he’s not close enough to his daughter and he feels that–which is what’s so beautiful about the film because by the end of it he’s done something about it. And he’s closer to her. Pooh helps him to find the child in him again, who he was in the beginning when we see him at the beginning of the movie and then life happens to him and he’s lost that and Pooh helps him back to that. I suppose it was quite hard in some of the early scenes with Haley and Bronte, it was hard to pull back and make Christopher uptight and not notice that he is. At that point, he doesn’t know that. I love that the scenes, in the beginning, set that up. You can see they love each other, it’s important that we understand that otherwise, we don’t root for them.”

Atwell agreed, “Early you see them dancing, having this connection together then you know what is at stake for him if he loses it and you think what a missed opportunity to have this wonderful life with this woman who loves him and this beautiful daughter that wants to just be with him.”

Forster loved being able to use the known mythology of the tales to mean something more as Robin got older, “When he enters the hundred acre woods it’s again very foggy, he can’t find his way until he comes out of the Heffalump pit and the sun comes out and the colors become more lush. After beating the Heffalump out of himself, the Heffalump battle he sort of finds himself fighting his own demons and coming out on the other side with the realization of who he is and what he’s become.”

To him the film is inspired by many of the Pooh-isms that many could use nowadays, Forster noted some of his favorites, “Some people care too much and I think it’s called love.” he smiled and added, “Then there’s the one: Do you ever stop to think and forget to start again?”

Christopher Robin opens this Friday!

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IT Chapter Two Set Photos with the Grown Up Losers Club

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IT Chapter Two set photos with the grown up losers club

Production is underway on the upcoming IT Chapter Two in Toronto, Canada and local news outlet Northumberland News has snagged new set photos from the film featuring a shot of the grown up Losers Club! Check them out below and see more by clicking here!

The main cast of IT: Chapter 2 includes James McAvoy (X-Men franchise, Split) as Bill, Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak, The Martian) as Beverly, Bill Hader (Barry, Trainwreck) as Richie, Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast) as Ben and James Ransone (Generation Kill) as Eddie, with Andy Bean (Here and Now) as Stanely Uris, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, Teach Grant (Altered Carbon, Damnation) as Henry Bowers, Jess Weixler (The Son, Chained for Life) as Bill’s wife, Xavier Dolan (Boy Erased) as Adrian Mellon, Will Beinbrink (Queen of the South) as Tom Rogan and, of course, the return of Bill Skarsgård as the clown Pennywise.

The second part of IT is written by Gary Dauberman from the book by Stephen King, and will be directed once again by Andy Muschietti. The sequel will hit theaters on September 6, 2019.

IT debuted in September of last year to the tune of $123.1 million on opening weekend, the highest opening weekend ever for a September release, for a fall release, and for a horror movie. It clocked in just $9 million behind Deadpool for the second-highest opening for an R-rated movie. The film earned over $700 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing horror movie of all time.

Actress Jessica Chastain seen in downtown Port Hope for ‘Largo’ filming @jes_chastain @StephenKinghttps://t.co/VBiUBmbt2j pic.twitter.com/xYdQE6OCN0

— Northumberland News (@north_news) July 30, 2018

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