Month: July 2020

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Kidnappings, evil scientists, and old friends. Great minds think alike, as the Sully Brothers deliver their pitches, big and small.

The Write Stuff

There are several attributions for screenwriters: ‘Screenplay by,’ ‘Screen Story by,’ ‘Adaptation by,’ ‘Written by’ and ‘Story by.’ Making sense of these is hard, and incredibly specific.

Ghost in the Shell 25th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray Coming in September!

Celebrate the Ghost in the Shell 25th Anniversary when one of the most critically acclaimed anime films of all time arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital 4K Ultra HD) and Digital 4K Ultra HD on September 8 from Lionsgate. Based on the beloved manga from Japanese writer and illustrator Shirow Masamune, the film’s voice cast includes Atsuko Tanaka (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, TV’s Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell 2.0), Akio Ôtsuka (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Paprika, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots), and Kôichi Yamadera (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Ninja Scroll). Remastered in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and featuring fan-favorite commemorative artwork from pop illustrator Martin Ansin – along with brand new bonus material – this will be the most definitive Ghost in the Shell package to date.

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of inﬁltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Director Mamoru Oshii’s award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune, is lauded as one of the leading Japanese animation ﬁlms of all time.

The Ghost in the Shell special features include an audio commentary as well as two brand new bonus featurettes: “Accessing Section 9: 25 Years into the Future” and “Landscapes & Dreamscapes – The Art and Architecture of Ghost in the Shell.” Experience four times the resolution of full HD with the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, which includes Dolby Vision, bringing entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality. When compared to a standard picture, Dolby Vision can deliver spectacular colors never before seen on a screen, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. Additionally, the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack features Dolby Atmos, which will transport viewers from an ordinary moment into an extraordinary experience with moving audio that flows all around them. Fans will feel like they’re inside the action as the sounds of people, places, things, and music come alive with breathtaking realism and move throughout the space.

The Ghost in the Shell 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack will be available for the suggested retail price of $22.99.

4K / BLU-RAY / DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES
• Full-length audio commentary of Ghost in the Shell with Mary Claypool (Animation Writer and English Language Scriptwriter), Eric Calderon (Animation Producer and Writer), Richard Epcar (Voice of “Batou”), and Charles Solomon (Animation Historian and Critic)
• “Accessing Section 9: 25 Years into the Future” Featurette
• “Landscapes & Dreamscapes: The Art and Architecture of Ghost in the Shell” Featurette

ADDITIONAL ARCHIVAL BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• Production Report & Digital Works Featuretes
• Theatrical Trailer

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July 28 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

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July 28 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s July 28 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!

New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD

You Should Have Left (DVD)
In this psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation in a remote home in the Welsh countryside. What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a terrifying nightmare when reality begins to unravel, dark episodes from the past resurface, and a sinister force in the house refuses to let them leave.

Legacy of Lies (DVD)
In this pulse-pounding spy thriller, Scott Adkins stars as an ex-MI6 agent who gets dragged back into the world of espionage by a beautiful journalist.

Zombie for Sale
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 passers-by 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!

Gundala
A preeminent comic book superhero and his alter ego Sancaka enter the cinematic universe to battle the wicked Pengkor and his diabolical squad of orphan assassins.

Nothing Stays The Same: The Story Of The Saxon Pub (DVD)
This doc celebrates the last 30 years of live music in Austin, Texas, while also examining the challenges faced by musicians and music venues in one of the fastest-growing and most popular cities in the USA, all through the lens of the legendary Saxon Pub

Reissues

The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection
Italian writer/director Umberto Lenzi helmed popular peplums, created extreme poliziotteschi, and invented the Italian cannibal phenomenon. Hollywood actress Carroll Baker was an Golden Globe winning/Academy Award nominated star. Together in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, they made four landmark films that changed the erotic thriller and giallo genres forever. For the first time, experience the complete Lenzi/Baker collaboration on six discs, featuring restored uncensored versions, alternate edits, remastered soundtracks, exclusive Special Features and more.

Thirteen Ghosts
A family inherits an elegant mansion from a deceased relative. The catch is that along with the house comes a slew of ghosts that can be seen only through special goggles.

Lorenzo’s Oil
For Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nolte and Sarandon), the news that their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, has a rare terminal disease is sobering, to learn there is no known cure is devastating.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stuart Paton’s 1916 epic retelling of Jules Verne’s classic novel, shot on location in the Bahaman Islands. Allen Holubar stars as the domineering Captain Nemo, who rescues the passengers of an American naval vessel after ramming them with his iron-clad, steampunk submarine, The Nautilus.

Million Dollar Mermaid
Esther Williams stars in this dramatic true musical romance of turn-of-the century swimming champion Annette Kellerman, better known as the Million Dollar Mermaid.

Pride and Prejudice
Oscar-winning adaption of Jane Austins comic classic about fivehusband-hunting sisters in 19th-century England.

Revenge of the Living Dead Girls
Promoted as France’s first gore film, La revanche des mortes-vivantes is a consumate shocker of horror and sex that as grown into a legend as being one of the sickest and most perverse of zombie films.

Mondo Bolordo
In one of the most infamous Mondo movies, Boris Karloff guides you through a world “throbbing and pulsing with love, from the jungle orgies of primitive tribes to sin-filled evenings of the London sophisticate.” Along the way, you’ll also experience Bedouin pimps, amorous dwarves, Spanish transvestites, German lesbians, Indian exorcists, Neapolitan cigarette smugglers and Chinese bondage models.

Kiss the Blood off My Hands
Former POW Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster), now living in England, is scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton (Joan Fontaine), who agrees to take him in and believes his story that the killing was an accident.

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour with stops in Paris and Italy where she shares a fantasy about Roman athletes and then jets off to Cannes.

Old Dracula
In this spoof of the Transylvanian legend, David Niven stars as Count Dracula, who sinks his fangs into a bevy of Playboy Bunnies in order to find the right blood type to resurrect his dear-departed wife.

Black Rainbow
A North Carolina newsman tracks the story of a traveling psychic, her father and her visions of death. Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards and Tom Hulce star.

Bloodstone
The Bloodstone, a priceless stolen ruby, accidentally ends up in the possession of American newlyweds Sandy and Stephanie.

Sukiyaki Western Django
In this action-packed Western, a nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Life Is a Long Quiet River
The radiantly bourgeois Le Quesnoys with their immaculate children and perfect manners and the grubby, disreputable Groseilles are thrown together in absurd chaos by an act of revenge as they discover that twelve years prior their babies were switched at birth.

The Shakedown
Dave Roberts (James Murray) is a fighter better known for taking falls in fixed fights than for taking home the prize money. He is part of a traveling team of scammers that fleece gamblers across the country. But then he falls head-over-heels for a fiery waitress (Barbara Kent) and a rough-and-tumble orphan (Jack Hanlon), and he begins to dramatically alter his life inside and outside of the ring.

Hiroshima
Adapted for the screen by independent director Hideo Sekigawa and screenwriter Yasutaro Yagi, Hiroshima combines a harrowing documentary realism with moving human drama, in a tale of the suffering, endurance and survival of a group of teachers, their students and their families.

Haven
Drawn by warm waters and nonexistent taxes, rich businessmen and their families flock to the once-sleepy Cayman Islands. But these dramatic demographic changes incite a culture clash that forces the residents to take stand. Starring Zoe Saldana and Orlando Bloom.

Possession
Jess (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is plunged into chaos when her husband, Ryan, and brother-in-law, Roman (Lee Pace) end up in comas after a horrific accident. When Roman finally wakes, he insists that he is Ryan. Has the spirit of Jess’s beloved husband returned to her, or is there something much more sinister at work?

The Phantom Rider
Buck Jones, the great king of outdoor adventure drama in his most exciting and mysterious role? Playing a daring lone hand against a band of ruthless outlaws, who stop at nothing to steal control of every ranch in the valley and the fabulous gold mine of one of their victims!

First Snow
Stranded after an accident outside a desolate town, Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) visits a fortune teller (J.K. Simmons) to pass the time, but soon learns that his days are numbered. Now, with his ultimate fate looming nearer, Jimmy becomes obsessed with revisiting his past in hopes of changing his destiny.

Even Money
Starring Kim Basinger, Nick Cannon, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Forest Whitaker and more, this film is a ferociously compelling drama that follows the lives of nine individuals as their fates become increasingly entwined in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed.

New On Digital HD

Amulet
Now In Theatres. Tomaz, a former soldier haunted by his past, takes refuge in the home of Magda-a lonely woman struggling to care for her ailing mother. As he finds himself falling for Magda, he begins to notice strange and unexplainable phenomena.

The Rental
Two couples on a weekend getaway grow suspicious that their rental host has sadistic intentions in this unnerving debut thriller from Dave Franco. Alison Brie and Dan Stevens star.

Most Wanted
Inspired by a gripping true story, an investigative reporter (Josh Hartnett) fights to expose the twisted truth behind a heroin bust orchestrated by dirty cops to frame an innocent man – sentencing him to life in a Thai prison.

Fisherman’s Friends
A fast living, cynical London music executive heads to a remote Cornish village where he’s pranked by his boss into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen. He struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families. Soon he’s forced to reevaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means.

Deep Blue Sea 3
As the body count rises, it becomes clear that genectically enhanced bull sharks will end life as we know it. Dive in for the deadliest, bloodiest return to the deep blue sea yet!

TV on Blu-ray and DVD

Wonder Woman: The Complete Series
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) travels to America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner). Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.

James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction
Award-winning writer, director and producer James Cameron explores science fiction’s roots and futuristic vision through interviews with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, among many others.

Hawaii Five-O: The Final Season (DVD) (exclusive extended scene)
Bomb threats. Kidnappings. Assassinations. And yes, even pirates. The final cases of HPD’s finest are among the hottest the islands have ever seen.

NCIS: The Seventeenth Season (DVD)
The 17th season of NCIS returns immediately after Ziva’s (Cote de Pablo) warning to Gibbs (Mark Harmon) that his life is in danger.

Deadwater Fell: Series 1 (DVD)
Physician Tom (David Tennant) and his teacher wife (Anna Madeley) lead a seemingly perfect life in a Scottish town. Then a fire ravages their home one night, forcing those closest to them to question everything they knew about their friends. Cush Jumbo and Matthew McNulty also star.

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Russell Crowe-Led Unhinged Moves Theatrical Release

Russell Crowe-led Unhinged moves theatrical release

After initially being primed to be the first major theatrical release of the summer, the Russell Crowe-starring thriller Unhinged has pushed its release date back once again as the pandemic has seen another spike in the United States.

The film, which was originally slated to hit theaters in July, will now be hitting theaters on August 21, with the official statement confirming that though not all theaters will be open in time for the release, forecasts show that more will open up the film’s second weekend of release and that “80 percent” of moviegoers were surveyed and said they would “definitely attend” the film in theaters.

“On behalf of the U.S. exhibition community, I want to thank Solstice Studios for their commitment to bringing Unhinged to theaters and for doing their part to help reinvigorate the theatrical movie business,” John Fithian, President and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners, said in a statement. “Movie theaters are able to safely reopen with thorough health and safety measure in many states across the country, but if studios wait until 100 percent of the theaters are open, it will be too late. We need supporters like Solstice Studios and Unhinged is the perfect film to kick off the opening of theaters to capture the last weeks of summer box office, followed by Tenet on Labor Day weekend and a strong fall schedule.”

Unhinged is a psychological thriller starring Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) from Carl Ellsworth, the writer of Red Eye and Disturbia, and Lisa Ellzey, the producer of Warrior and Kingdom of Heaven. It takes an ordinary, everyday incident to its most terrifying conclusion in telling the story of a mother who leans on her horn at the wrong time, to the wrong guy. “Road rage” doesn’t begin to describe what he’s about to do to her and everyone she knows.

The film is directed by Derrick Borte (American Dreamer) and also stars Caren Pistorius (Mortal Engines), Gabriel Bateman (Lights Out, Child’s Play), Jimmi Simpson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Westworld) and Austin P. McKenzie (When We Rise).

Unhinged is slated to be the first wide release back in theaters on August 21.

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Cineworld CEO Criticizes AMC-Universal Pictures Deal

Cineworld CEO criticizes AMC-Universal Pictures deal

This morning marked a major day in Hollywood as after a heated battle between the two, AMC Theatres and Universal Pictures entered an exclusive exhibition agreement and in its wake, Cineworld’s CEO Mooky Greidinger has responded with criticism, saying they “do not see any business sense in this model” to Deadline.

“While we don’t know the full details and we are always analyzing any move in the industry, we will analyze it,” Greidinger said. “People need to be aware that the first big movie from Universal is coming only in six months so there is no pressure here. But we clearly see this as a wrong move at the wrong time. Clearly we are not changing our policy with regards to showing only movies that are respecting the theatrical window.”

When the beef between AMC and Universal first began earlier this year after the studio announced it would release Trolls World Tour and other major titles in theaters and on digital platforms simultaneously, due to the global pandemic, Greidinger expressed similar feelings, stating that the chain “will not be showing movies that fail to respect” the traditional release windows.

The United Kingdom-based company is the owner of both the Cineworld chain overseas and the Regal Cinemas chain here in the US, the second-largest in the country with 7,155 screens across 542 theaters and 42 states.

Sources report that the Universal-AMC deal is being considered a stateside experiment and that the details on whether this will extend to international distribution deals, as it is proving difficult for the studio. The studio currently has overseas distribution deals with MGM for No Time to Die in November and Candyman in October, as well as DreamWorks’ The Croods 2 in December and Tom Hanks-led News of the World the same month.

(Photo by Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images)

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: Guadagnino to Helm Script by Rogen & Goldberg

Searchlight Pictures has set Seth Rogen (Preacher, Console Wars, The Boys) and Evan Goldberg (Sausage Party, The Night Before, This Is the End) to write the script for Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood with Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) to direct the narrative feature based on director Matt Tyrnauer’s biographical documentary, according to Deadline.

The film focuses on Scotty Bowers, a World War II Marine combat veteran who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and became a legendary bisexual male hustler and date-arranger for gay Hollywood movie stars from the 1940s until the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Watch Tyrnauer’s Scott Bowers documentary here!

The documentary is based on Bowers’ book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars (available to order here), a dishy tell-all that was so titled because Bowers arranged these liaisons from a gas station he ran in the shadow of the Hollywood studios. Despite the prurient nature of his business, Bowers was beloved because he created a safe environment for gay members of the showbiz community to hook up in secret in what otherwise would have been a much more dangerous and possibly deadly pursuit.

Tyrnauer and his Altimeter Films partner Corey Reeser will produce along with Point Grey Pictures. Searchlight’s Richard Ruiz is overseeing the project.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images & Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

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Chemical Hearts Trailer Starring Lili Reinhart & Austin Abrams

Amazon Prime Video has released the official Chemical Hearts trailer starring Lili Reinhart (Riverdale, Hustlers) and Austin Abrams (Euphoria, The Walking Dead). Based on the novel Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland, you can watch the trailer now in the player below!

Chemical Hearts is an unapologetic coming of age story involving a hopeless romantic and a young woman with a mysterious past. Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with her —or at least the person he thinks she is.

The film also stars Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young, Coral Peña, and C.J. Hoff.

In addition to starring in the film, Reinhart is making her first executive producer credit alongside Jamin O’Brien (Eighth Grade) and the project is also produced by Page Fifty-Four’s Alex Saks (The Florida Project).

Written, directed, and produced by Richard Tanne (Southside With You) Chemical Hearts will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on August 21.

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Jordan Peele & Issa Rae To Produce Universal’s Sinkhole

Jordan Peele & Issa Rae to produce Universal’s Sinkhole

Emmy Award winner Jordan Peele (Us) and Emmy Award nominee Issa Rae (Insecure) are putting their creative heads together to produce a feature adaptation of the horror short story Sinkhole at Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by Leyna Krow and published in 2016, the story centers on a young family as they move into their dream home and discover a gaping sinkhole in their backyard. But much to their shock, the sinkhole takes all things that are broken and destroyed and makes them perfect again, but must confront what happens when that thing is a person.

Though there aren’t currently any writers or directors attached to the project just yet, sources report the film is being considered a potential star vehicle for Rae, who will produce the “genre piece that engages on the question of female perfection and identity” via her Issa Rae Productions banner alongside Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi.

Peele and Win Rosenfeld are set to produce the project via his Monkeypaw Productions banner, which has been behind both of his hit directorial efforts as well as contributing to the Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman and highly-anticipated Candyman reboot from Nia DaCosta, as well as the Peele-hosted Twilight Zone revival and HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Lovecraft Country.

Rae previously worked with Universal on the fantasy comedy Little and the well-received romantic drama The Photograph, while Peele’s collaboration with Universal harks back to his Oscar-winning directorial debut Get Out and his follow-up Us, as well as the forthcoming Candyman and puppet horror film Abruptio.

(Photo Credits: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic and Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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Black Beauty: Disney+ Acquires Adaptation From Constantin Film

Disney+ has acquired Black Beauty from Constantin Film and JB Pictures’ contemporary adaptation of the children’s book written by Anna Sewell. The movie is set to premiere on the streaming service later this year.

The already-completed feature is a modern retelling of Sewell’s 19th-century novel and tells of the titular horse who is born free in the American West. When she is captured and taken away from family, her story intertwines with that of 17-year old Jo Green, similarly grieving over the loss of her parents. The two slowly develop a bond that is built on love, respect, and mutual healing.

Pick up your copy of Sewell’s Black Beauty novel here!

The film stars Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms) as Jo Green and Oscar winner Kate Winslet (The Reader, Steve Jobs) voices Black Beauty. The movie also stars Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) as John Manly and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black) as Mrs. Winthorp.

Ashley Avis (Adolescence, Deserted) wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. Black Beauty was filmed last year in South Africa.

Jeremy Bolt (Polar, Monster Hunter) of JB Pictures and Constantin’s Robert Kulzer (Polar) produced the project along with South African producer Genevieve Hofmeyr (Mad Max: Fury Road) of Moonlighting Films. Executive producers include Martin Moszkowicz, Edward Winters, and Jon Brown with Dylan Tarason serving as co-producer.

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