June 2020 – Page 2 – Movie Retakes

Anne Hathaway Claims Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Allow Chairs On Set

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Anne Hathaway Claims Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Allow Chairs On Set

In a recent interview with Variety, actress Anne Hathaway revealed a funny little tidbit about director Christopher Nolan, who she has worked with on The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar — the man doesn’t like chairs on set.

“Chris also doesn’t allow chairs,” Hathaway said. “I worked with him twice. He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working. I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”

Hathaway insists that working with Nolan, chairs or not, was a rewarding experience.

“You know how you have those jobs and you just go, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to work again because this was such fun,’” Hathaway said. “Chris’ whole approach to filmmaking is one of my favorite ones. He’s broken it down to its most minimal, but also his movies are just so huge and ornate. That combination of really being intentional about what it was that we were doing — and also, he’s just so inspiring.”

Nolan’s next film is the big-budget spectacle Tenet, which was slated to hit theaters in July, but has since been pushed back to August 12. The film is written by Nolan and will utilize a mixture of IMAX and 70mm film, which is something he’s become famous for.

The director first made an impact in 2001 with his indie film Memento. His next film, Insomnia, was also a modest hit. but it wasn’t until Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005 that Nolan became a box office force in his own right. The Prestige was Nolan’s last movie to gross under $200 million worldwide. His other films include The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk.

Nolan is producing Tenet along with his partner Emma Thomas and is currently slated for an August 12 release.

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Ray Fisher Retracts His Support for Joss Whedon’s Justice League

Poor Joss Whedon. The man is taking it hard in the chin for essentially doing the job Warner Bros. asked him to do on Justice League. Now, Ray Fisher has taken to Twitter to renounce his loyalty to Joss Whedon, effectively retracting a statement he made at Comic Con in which he threw his support at The Avengers director. You can check out the full Tweet below.

“I’d like to take a moment to forcefully retract every bit of this statement,” Fisher says regarding a video in which he says, “Joss Whedon is a good guy and Zack picked a good person to clean up and finish up for him.” (The look on Jason Mamoa’s face during that clip says it all.)

Whedon’s Justice League was not very good, but that was more to do with a rushed production, and a limited budget. Given more time and a blank slate to work with, Whedon could probably make an enjoyable Justice League flick on par with his first two Avengers films.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League will reportedly cost around $20-30 million in order to properly finish the editing and visual effects of the director’s original vision. The original post-production crew is also expected to return along with the cast members to record additional dialogue for the cut. No new footage will be shot, however.

Fueled by the hero’s restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Justice League sees Bruce Wayne enlist the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Justice League, which features a screenplay from Chris Terrio from a story by Snyder and Terrio, stars Affleck as Batman, Cavill as Superman, Gadot as Wonder Woman, Momoa as Aquaman, Miller as The Flash, Fisher as Cyborg, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, with J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, and Amy Adams as Lois Lane.

Released in November 2017, the film earned mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, praising the action and performances from Gadot and Miller while criticizing every other aspect of the film, namely the inconsistent tone that many fault Joss Whedon (The Avengers) for after taking over directorial duties from Snyder. With a large budget of $300 million and a break-even point of $750 million, the film is considered a box office bomb having grossed only $658 million.

I’d like to take a moment to forcefully retract every bit of this statement: pic.twitter.com/1ECwwu6TG1

— Ray Fisher (@ray8fisher) June 29, 2020

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10 Great Weird Movies Available on Midnight Pulp

ComingSoon.net recently took advantage of the movie app Midnight Pulp, and found a whole slew of wonderfully strange genre fare for some of our more adventurous readers out there. Check out our list of 10 Great Weird Movies Available on Midnight Pulp below!

Midnight Pulp is free with ads, though there is also a premium version for $4.99 a month with more movies (a lot of R-rated stuff), a diverse cross-section of action, horror, exploitation, experimental, anime, foreign and generally offbeat programming. There’s a diverse cross section of quality programming, some of it familiar and some of it not. Click here to check out Midnight Pulp for yourself!

Bad Taste

Lord of the Rings‘ Peter Jackson’s first foray into features lives up to its name and then some, featuring crazy gross-out gags created through ingenious special effects that defy the low low budget. Jackson himself plays two roles, and you can see the first inklings of one of the most successful filmmakers of all-time.

The Baby

Released the same year he made Magnum Force, Ted Post’s 1973 oddity follows a social worker who discovers a grown man who has been pathologically infantilized by his mother. The man literally still thinks and acts like a baby, sleeps in a crib, etc. This is a wild flick with a whopper of a twist ending you definitely won’t see coming.

Messiah of Evil

Aroung the same time they co-wrote the classic American Graffiti (but long before they made the infamous Howard the Duck), husband/wife team Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz made this cheapie horror flick. Despite its low budget trappings, this creepy story about a woman who travels to a strange town to find her missing father only to encounter a strange death cult is full of surreal moments that are genuinely jarring at times. A very underrated film, that also features classic character actors Elisha Cook Jr. and Royal Dano.

Horror Express

This Spanish-made cult classic is like Murder on the Orient Express mashed up with a Hammer Horror flick. Hammer vets Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing lead the charge as passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow in 1906 as they deal with one of the weirdest monsters ever, an extraterrestrial that inhabits host bodies and leaves images of pre-historic earth in their eyes. Yeah. Telly Savalas is having a ball as a willful Cossack officer, and the movie is filled with a lot of fun miniature work of the train.

The Slayer

This film could almost be seen as a kind of precursor to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (right down to the burn victim dream monster), following an abstract artist named Kay plagued by nightmares of supernatural torment and death. Fearing her mental health, Kay’s friends take her on a vacation to an island which they discover upon landing is actually deserted. Trapped on the island by a hurricane, the group starts getting picked off one by one every time Kay falls asleep.

The Changeling

This classic shocker (which is poised for a big remake) stars George C. Scott in a bravura performance as a composer who moves into an eerie Victorian mansion after the tragic deaths of his wife and child. Once he moves in he begins experiencing supernatural phenomena. With chilling atmosphere, this is one of the most accomplished horror films of the 80’s.

Fist of the North Star

Essentially an animated Japanese Road Warrior riff with a lot of mysticism and martial arts thrown in, this film based on the manga “Hokuto no Ken tankōbon” is a violent hoot. The protagonist Ken (dressed in full Mad Max regalia) has mastered the art of Hokuto Shinken, wherein he basically rapid-fire punches bad guys on their pressure points until their heads and bodies literally explode! Available in both Japanese with subs and an English dub.

Satan’s School For Girls

This 1973 made-for-TV movie (produced by Aaron Spelling!) is not as salacious as its title suggests. It’s actually a cracking gothic terror tale set at an all-girls academy where a young woman played by Pamela Franklin goes to look into the death of her sister. Roy Thinnes is terrific, and it also features a pre-Charlie’s Angels Kate Jackson!

Tideland

Terry Gilliam’s wildly misunderstood and underseen masterpiece is something in between Alice in Wonderland and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Jodelle Ferland stars as an imaginative young girl whose parents (Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Tilly) both overdose and she is left stranded in a remote farm house with some very strange neighbors across the way. This is a movie designed to be divisive and test your limits as a viewer in almost every way, especially via the juxtaposition of the genuinely innocent and the severely disturbing.

Creature

A year before Aliens came out, that films effects artists Dennis Skotak and Robert Skotak actually did the impressive effects for this Alien ripoff. Directed by William Malone and featuring a fun cast including Klaus Kinski, it’s heavy on spooky atmosphere and a must-see for Xenomorph fans. The version available on the service is actually the director’s cut titled “The Titan Find.”

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Relic Clip: These Moldy Walls House Dark Secrets

Relic Clip: These moldy walls house dark secrets

IFC Films have debuted a new clip from the Sundance Film Festival horror darling Relic starring Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns) and Robyn Nevin (Top of the Lake) teasing the dark secrets the house’s moldy walls are hiding. The clip can be viewed in the player below!

Written and directed by Natalie Erika James in her feature debut, the film focused on elderly mother Edna as she inexplicably vanishes and sees her daughter Kay (Mortimer) and granddaugher Sam rush to their family’s decaying country home, finding clues of increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay’s concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she’s been clashes with Sam’s unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back.

As Edna’s behavior turns increasingly volatile, both begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her. All three generations of women are brought together through trauma and a powerful sense of strength and loyalty to face the ultimate fear together.

Alongside Mortimer, the film’s cast includes Robyn Nevin (Top of the Lake, The Eye of the Storm), Bella Heathcoate (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Pieces of Her) and Jeremy Sanford (Satisfaction, Worst Year of My Life).

Relic is produced by Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw, Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, with the Russo Brothers, Mike Larocca, Todd Makurath, Wang Zhonqiun, Wang Zhonglei and Hu Junyi all attached as executive producers. The film, which made its debut to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is set to hit select theaters, drive-ins and VOD and digital platforms on July 10!

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X-Men Cast Reunion Crashed by Origins Star Ryan Reynolds

X-Men cast reunion crashed by Origins star Ryan Reynolds

It’s amazing to think that 20 years ago the cinematic world was introduced the X-Men universe and to celebrate, the cast of the original film gathered for a Zoom reunion call to support Global Citizen’s Global Goal: Unite for Our Future…only to be crashed by Origins: Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds and other prequel stars. The hilarious clip can be viewed in the player below!

Global Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On the platform, viewers can learn about issues, take action on what matters most, and join a community committed to social change, with the company believing they can end extreme poverty with the collective actions of Global Citizens across the world.

The reunion call features franchise icons Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, alongside Halle Berry and Famke Janssen with guest appearances from Dark Phoenix‘s Sophie Turner and James McAvoy and a surprise final cameo from Origins: Wolverine‘s Liev Schreiber. The majority of the cast members on the call leave after the future Deadpool co-writer/producer/star brings them in on the call, citing a need to join Game of Thrones, James Bond, Star Trek and Split reunions.

Viewers who would like to join the Global Citizen can sign up here!

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Disney+’s Summer Movie Nights to Feature Original Movies & Blockbuster Hits

Disney+'s Summer Movie Nights to Feature Original Movies & Blockbuster Hits

Disney+’s Summer Movie Nights to Feature Original Movies & Blockbuster Hits

This summer, Disney+ is heating up with Summer Movie Nights, featuring a sizzling lineup of brand new original and newly announced family favorite movies coming to the service.

Beginning Friday, July 3 with the Disney+ premiere of Hamilton, the filmed version of the original Broadway production, families and fans can come together to watch blockbuster hits and original movies premiering every week. Some of the movies debuting during Disney+ Summer Movie Nights include:

Friday, July 3

Hamilton – An unforgettable cinematic stage performance, the filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton combines the best elements of live theater, film, and streaming to bring the cultural phenomenon to homes around the world for a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The Mighty Ducks – Emilio Estevez portrays a hotshot trial attorney who gets a unique community service assignment: coaching a hapless group of pee wee hockey players. Can he turn the worst team in the league into champs and face his personal demons along the way?

Friday, July 10

X-Men: Days of Future Past – The unstoppable characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves in an epic struggle to change the past and save our future.

Solo: A Star Wars Story – Through a series of daring escapades, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca in an epic adventure directed by Ron Howard and written by Jonathan & Lawrence Kasdan.

Friday, July 17

X-Men: Apocalypse – Apocalypse, the most powerful mutant in the universe, tries to destroy all of mankind. To save humanity, Professor X leads the X-Men in a showdown that will determine the fate of the world.

Friday, July 24

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who escape from the Devil’s Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea…notably him.

Friday, July 31

Incredibles 2 – Helen is called on to help bring Supers back, and Bob must juggle the daily heroics of home life. But when a new villain arises with a sinister plot, the Parrs meet the challenge together!

Summer movie nights just leveled up. Starting Friday on #DisneyPlus, we’re bringing you new releases every week, from superhero epics like X-Men and Incredibles 2 to epic musicals like Hamilton and The Greatest Showman. #DisneyPlusMovieNights pic.twitter.com/wuWDizeszN

— Disney+ (@disneyplus) June 29, 2020

Friday, August 7

X-Men – The X-Men, a group of mutants with extraordinary powers, wage a fight against both intolerance, and a fellow band of radical mutants intent on exterminating the human race.

The Peanuts Movie – Snoopy, the world’s most lovable beagle and flying ace takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis The Red Baron, while his best pal, Charlie Brown, begins his own epic quest.

Friday, August 14

Ant-Man and the Wasp – As he struggles to balance his home life and Super Hero duties, Scott Lang finds he must suit up as Ant-Man again, joining the Wasp on an urgent mission to uncover secrets from the past.

The Greatest Showman – Hugh Jackman stars in this bold and original musical – inspired by the ambition and imagination of P.T. Barnum – celebrating the birth of show business and dreams coming to life.

Friday, August 21

Beauty and the Beast (2017) – The story and characters you love come to life in the live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, a cinematic event celebrating one of the most beloved tales ever told.

Friday, August 28

Fantastic Four (2005) – Transformed into superheroes after surviving a disaster in space, The Fantastic Four struggle to reconcile their powers, responsibilities and relationships as a dysfunctional family. Overcoming their personal conflicts, they finally join forces to defeat Dr. Doom, the malevolent, metallic embodiment of their treacherous former patron.

Alice Through the Looking Glass – When Alice comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland, she discovers that her friend the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) has lost his Muchness and embarks on a perilous race to save him before time runs out.

Friday, September 4

The Wolverine – The Wolverine returns to face his ultimate nemesis in an action-packed battle that takes him to modern-day Japan; an epic fight that will change him forever.

Fans can use #DisneyPlusMovieNights and follow Disney+ on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for live Q&As, watch parties, and exclusive content bringing the excitement of the summer movie season into their homes.

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Quibi Unveils Ensemble for The Princess Bride Recreation

Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride is one of the most everlasting romantic adventure comedies that no one wants to see a remake of, but Quibi has found a workaround as they have partnered with Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) for an ensemble recreation! (Via Entertainment Weekly)

Reitman previously staged live reads of the cult classic at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2011 and Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and filmed the recreation special in secret in quarantine. The cast list for the special includes Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones), Common (The Chi) and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and David Burtka, Hugh Jackman (Logan), Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes), Keegan-Michael Key (All the Bright Places), Elijah Wood (Come to Daddy), Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart), Jack Black (Jumanji: The Next Level), Diego Luna (Narcos: Mexico), Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Jon Hamm (Tag), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Patton Oswalt (The Boys), Josh Gad (Frozen II), Reiner and Fred Savage!

Other cast members are currently being kept under wraps, with the roster all trading off roles across the film’s iconic sequences and Savage reprising his role. It marks the second time in the past few years he’s reprised his role in an homage-fashion after the PG-13 edit of Deadpool 2 entitled Once Upon a Deadpool.

Based on the William Goldman novel of the same name, the 1987 film told the story of a farmhand named Westley, portrayed by Cary Elwes, as he journeys to rescue his true love, Princess Buttercup, played by Robin Wright, and is accompanied by companions befriended along the way, including Spanish fencer Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), out for revenge for the death of his father. To preserve the novel’s existence, the story is told in the film as a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading it to his sick grandson (Savage).

The new recreation is set to premiere on Monday and the original can currently be streamed on Disney+!

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Spencer: NEON & Topic Studios Acquire U.S. Rights to Kristen Stewart Drama

NEON and Topic Studios have co-acquired the U.S. rights to director Pablo Larraín’s (Jackie, Neruda, Lisey’s Story) Spencer starring Kristen Stewart (Seberg, Underwater, Still Alice) as Princess Diana.

Written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders, Locke), Spencer covers a critical weekend in the early ’90s when Diana decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working and that she needed to veer from a path that put her in line to one day be queen. The film takes place over three days, in one of her final Christmas holidays in the House of Windsor in their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England.

The movie won’t deal with Princess Diana’s tragic death after she left that palace life, but will examine the fraying of the relationship with her husband and her ferocious love for her sons Prince William and Prince Henry.

Spencer will be produced by Larraín along with Fabula partner Juan de Dios, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, and Paul Webster. The movie will be released by NEON, with plans to be announced at a later date.

(Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)

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CS Movie Day Planner: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Comingsoon.net is introducing a new feature called CS Movie Day Planner, where we pick a movie and list all the activities the main character did in a single day. Check out Ferris Bueller’s day in the gallery below!

Many of us around the world have the day off. Our circumstances are less than appealing but we must stay optimistic. John Hughes’ character, Ferris Bueller from the 1986 classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is one of the most optimistic personas to ever grace the screen. The guy can handle anything. He epitomizes what it means to be alive and free—missing 9 days of school not to slack off, watch television or play video games, but to live and embrace the world he lives in.

We can’t do that last part right now but we can live vicariously through Ferris. Faking sick may not be the most appropriate way to acquire some free time (especially during a global pandemic); however, the day Bueller had in 1986 is that of legend. It’s not just about what he did but how he did it: liberating his best friend Cameron and spending time with the girl he loved. Most of the quotes in the following list are by Ferris as we follow his POV (unless stated otherwise). With Ferris-like tenacity, we’ve done our best to honor the schedule of the greatest day off of all-time (but it’s also a movie so suspend your disbelief a little).

6:30 a.m. - Lie in Bed Looking Deathly Ill for Your Parents to See

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New to Stream: Arrow Video Channel’s July 2020 Lineup

New to Stream: Arrow Video Channel’s July 2020 lineup

Acclaimed British indie film distributor Arrow Video has unveiled its lineup of programs set to debut on their streaming platform, Arrow Video Channel, in July which includes the acclaimed David Bowie-starring war drama Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and Korean rom-zomedy Zombie for Sale! The full list of titles set to premiere can be viewed below!

The plot synopsis for Zombie for Sale reads as follows:

When the illegal human experiments of Korea’s biggest pharmaceutical company go wrong, one of their “undead” test subjects escapes and ends up in a shabby gas station owned by the Park family – a band of misfits spanning three generations who hustle passersby to make ends meet. When the Park family uncover their undead visitor, he bites the head of their household, who instead of transforming into an undead ghoul becomes revitalised and full of life! The family then hatch a plan to exploit this unexpected fountain of youth, allowing locals to pay to be bitten too, until things go wrong…

New to Stream: Arrow Video Channel’s July 2020 Lineup

The Gamera Collection (12 films) (UK/US)

Creepshow 2 (UK/US)

Bloodstone (UK/US)

Black Rainbow (UK/US)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (UK)

The Arrow Video Channel is available on Apple TV in the UK and US, as well as on Amazon in the UK.

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Month: June 2020

Anne Hathaway Claims Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Allow Chairs On Set

Ray Fisher Retracts His Support for Joss Whedon’s Justice League

10 Great Weird Movies Available on Midnight Pulp

Bad Taste

The Baby

Messiah of Evil

Horror Express

The Slayer

The Changeling

Fist of the North Star

Satan’s School For Girls

Tideland

Creature

Relic Clip: These moldy walls house dark secrets

X-Men cast reunion crashed by Origins star Ryan Reynolds

Disney+’s Summer Movie Nights to Feature Original Movies & Blockbuster Hits

Quibi Unveils Ensemble for The Princess Bride Recreation

Spencer: NEON & Topic Studios Acquire U.S. Rights to Kristen Stewart Drama

CS Movie Day Planner: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

New to Stream: Arrow Video Channel’s July 2020 lineup