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Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story Review

Rating:

8.5/10

Starring:

Schea Cotton
Elton Brand
Stephen Jackson
Randy Moss
Metta World Peace
Paul Pierce
Earl Watson

Written by Eric “Ptah” Herbert and Michael Landers
Directed by Eric “Ptah” Herbert

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Summary:

Manchild is a documentary about a Los Angeles basketball legend by the name of Schea Cotton. There have been many stories told about Schea, and all of the ones about what he did on the court are true. This time though Schea and the people closest to him tell the story about what REALLY happened. A star studded documentary featuring Scoop Jackson, Paul Pierce, Baron Davis, Ron Artest, Tyson Chandler, Jason Hart, Stephen Jackson and Elton Brand to name a few. There is no such thing as a “lock” for the NBA because if that were the case Schea Cotton would be there, no doubt. (IMDB)

Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story Review

Schea Cotton is a name many might vaguely recall, but few will actually remember. At a young age, the kid was anointed the NBA’s next big thing. Heir apparent to Michael Jordan. The LeBron before the LeBron. As a high schooler, he graced the cover of Sports Illustrated. He dominated opponents and wrecked the likes of Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett during youth camps in the mid-90s. He had a friggin’ shoe contract with Nike when he was a teenager!

At 6-foot-6, Cotton had the body of LeBron James, the shooting skills of Kevin Durant and the dunking power of Vince Carter. He was the whole package. NBA scouts salivated at his potential. In his sophomore season at Mater Dei High School, he averaged 24 points and 10 rebounds per game. The Monarchs went 36-1 that season and scooped up a state title to boot.

The list goes on and on. Awards. Accolades. Press. Media. Everything. Cotton should have his own signature brand, a number of NBA championship rings, some Olympic gold medals; and rank among those enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Except, the fame stopped just as quickly as it arrived.

Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story explores the life of a superstar talent who devoted his heart, body and mind to the game of basketball and was ultimately cast aside by the same media moguls who spent so much ink propping him up. It’s the classic rags to riches to rags story, except it’s true. And heartbreaking.

Directed by Eric “Ptah” Herbert, and featuring the likes of Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, Metta World Peace and Elton Brand, Manchild dives into the story behind the would-be legend of Schea Cotton and explores his meteoric rise to stardom; and his quick demise that befell him after a freak shoulder injury, poor test scores (mostly related to an illness known as testing anxiety) and a series of questionable allegations directed at him and his family. The documentary shows the grueling, grinding world of the professional athlete in which young people devote their entire body, mind and soul in the hopes of achieving superstardom. If anything, Manchild reveals just how good (and lucky) these professional basketball players are to land a career in an empire as vast an unforgiving as the NBA.

At one point, Cotton’s mother exclaims through tears, “This sport destroys a lot of people.”

Cotton reveals the torment he felt as he waited for his name to be called in the NBA Draft. He expected to go top 10 — 11 at the very least. His name was never called. Instead, Cotton, the once mighty prospect, played overseas and never made it to the NBA. “I didn’t get the breaks Kobe got,” he says mournfully.

His situation reached an apex when he pressed a gun to his head and came close to pulling the trigger. Except, he held back and decided to turn all of the negatives of his life into positives. He has since devoted his life to helping others; and served as a key inspiration — and, perhaps, a warning — to aspiring athletes.

Manchild is as engrossing a docudrama as you’ll ever see. Pieced together via archived footage and interviews with Cotton’s family, as well as a slew of professional athletes, the film gradually builds towards the inevitable tragedy, but shifts into a surprisingly positive reaffirmation of life in its closing minutes. No, it doesn’t break the mold in a manner like, say, Hoop Dreams, but Manchild provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes peak at the exciting but ultimately cuthroat world of professional sports.

As a society we too often focus on the success stories whilst negating the ones that never made it. Cotton never became a superstar, but he overcame a lot to become a great man. His story is worth your time.

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CS Interview: Leslie Odom Jr. Explores World & Himself Through Hamilton Lens

When the COVID-19 crisis reached America’s shores, Tony-award winning actor Leslie Odom Jr. had only just begun a nationwide tour in support of his album Mr., released late last year. The first album to include songs he penned himself, Odom Jr. didn’t hesitate to cancel all his remaining shows, even before his hometown of New York had itself issued a shelter-in-place order.

Throughout his career, Odom Jr. has made decisions where he trusted in himself, and his talent, to see him to his goal. He once turned down a starring role in Aida on Broadway in favor of completing his undergrad degree. After seeing an early staging of Hamilton at Vassar College, the confidence with which he pursued the role of Aaron Burr was more reminiscent of Burr’s relentless rival Alexander Hamilton, than of the character Odom Jr. would later portray so magnificently.

“Adversity is a teacher,” Odom Jr. said, following his announcement to postpone nearly all of the dates on his Stronger Magic tour. From this adversity has also come opportunity. Disney decided to move its premiere of the Hamilton movie, a filmed version of the stage show from 2016 featuring the original Broadway cast, from a theatrical release in October into the homes of Disney+ subscribers just in time for the July 4th weekend. It seems that, in the end, Odom Jr.’s singing will be heard across the nation this summer after all.

ComingSoon.net got to speak with the man, who brought a complex historical figure to glorious life in Hamilton, about his memories of the show, and the conversations it has inspired in both his personal and professional life.

ComingSoon.net: Leslie Odom Jr., hello! It’s such a pleasure to speak with you.

Leslie Odom Jr.: My pleasure. The pleasure’s all mine.

CS: So I first just wanted to ask, four years ago at this point, what do you remember most about your early days working on Hamilton?

Odom Jr.: Oh man, my early days were spent both in bliss, in just sheer creative bliss that I was getting to work on something so extraordinary, and so special. And then, it was like half that, and then it was also — nervousness and fear all the time because I just wanted to be as good as it was. I just wanted to be as good as the people I was standing next to, namely Lin and Daveed and you know, and Phillipa and the rest of the company. I just wanted to earn my spot amongst them, you know?

CS: So what’s it like then revisiting this show specifically while America is in the middle of another revolution, what some are calling the largest civil rights protest in history?

Odom Jr.: Well, I think that part of that I’m waiting to see myself. As an artist, you don’t get to decide how your work is received or what mark it makes — you don’t get to decide that. And so, I was a part of a collective of people that made this, I think there’s 21 of us in the movie? And if you asked all 21 of us, there would be common ground for sure, but there would be also slightly different answers about what we hoped the movie was able to do and who it’s able to reach. So I think some of that is, as an artist you just make something that you love and that you believe in. And then, you have to wait and see how — if it matters. You have to wait and see if it matters if it’s going to resonate.

So I don’t know what it’s going to say to the streets, if it’s going to speak to the streets. I hope it does. I really do. You know, what I do know — and maybe this is enough — I hope it’s more, truly, but I do know: having seen it, they gave us the opportunity to screen it, I do know that it’s damn beautiful. And beauty, especially Black beauty and Brown beauty, those images are still political. They are still necessary. You know, I’m raising a kid right now. If you can imagine: my kid, we want my kid to watch movies, too. We want my kid to read books, too, okay?

CS: Right.

Odom Jr.: And you think about all of the art that’s been created and you think about your childhood and my childhood. Do you know how much of that stuff is white-centric? It is like, we’re indoctrinated. These kids are indoctrinated with these images, so early on, that are subtly telling them they’re not enough, they’re not important. They’re not centered in their own narrative.

So that’s first and foremost what I told Thomas Kail, from the bottom of my heart, is thank you for shepherding images of Black and Brown beauty into the world, because it is still necessary. As a father raising a kid, I search every day for things to show her that look like her, that are a reflection of who she is. And it’s like, don’t try to go back 30 years. Because the list is, you know what I mean? The list is small.

CS: You portrayed Aaron Burr, who was a slaveholder, who later fought for emancipation. And I wondered what that conflict was like for you, inhabiting that person as an actor and personally?

Odom Jr.: What a great question, what a great question. There’s dissonance. There’s dissonance and there is discomfort there, I have to tell you. But what I trusted was that that would make the performance and the show more interesting. Maybe I knew that it might sicken some people, that it might — I knew that it would be a part of a conversation. There is a tension in that piece, in the fact that we are playing slaveholders and we’re playing men — and there’s some women playing men, too, you know, some soldiers — we’re playing men that did some pretty indefensible things. But as you know, as an artist, I was obviously willing to take on the challenge for I think the greater symbolic victories of the piece, which are simply: it’s confronting, it’s challenging. It’s really the first question that needs to be asked is, okay, whose history is this?

CS: Right.

Odom Jr.: Who gets to tell the stories? Let’s start there. Okay, you say this is a history, right? Well, who gets to tell it? We’re telling it this time and we’re using our own words, our own language to tell it. That’s the first step. The next step is we’ve looked at this history through such…there has been a very concerted effort to tighten that iris, to make sure that we are only looking at it, as it is told by the victors or the perceived victors. And so that iris is so small.

You open that thing up a little bit and you go, yes, where were the women? Were they just throwing parties for the men who did all these wonderful things? Like where are the statues of the women again? We were all there, right? And then you open that iris a little bit and you go, what were the Black people doing? I’m sorry, wait a second, there were Black people here, right? And were there no Black heroes? So there’s no Black heroes in my neighborhood? Where are the Black people? You know what I’m saying?

CS: Yes, I do.

Odom Jr.: Lin, he started with, he started the conversation of, “Well, this is the history that we’ve all agreed on, right?” Okay, so these are the facts: as you’ve told them to me again and again. Okay, great. The first step is, now we’re going to take them and we’re going to tell the story in our own words. Are you okay with that?

Now let’s see what else we can talk about. Let’s see what else. So it’s really getting everybody to the table. Hamilton got so many people to the table because it’s so joyous and brilliant. And it set the table for us to have this conversation we’re having in the streets. It set a table for us. It’s common ground because so many people enjoy it, some people like it. And so, we end up all at the same Hamilton party. And what are you going to talk about once you’re at that party?

CS: You know, living in the Bronx, I saw hundreds of local high school students on their way to see Hamilton. It’s something the show worked really hard to facilitate. And I wonder, kind of jumping off what you were just saying, what were some of the most interesting questions they asked of you? Do you have any memories of that?

Odom Jr.: Yeah. I remember it was a little bit after I left, there was this young girl in Philadelphia who worked very hard to get to me. She was like, sending me private messages and she ended up finding a voice teacher of mine who was texting me. I was a little busy, but this young girl really wanted to ask me a question. And I finally got on the phone with her and she said, “So my friends and I talk about Hamilton a lot. And we feel like this show actually isn’t revolutionary at all. It’s just a bunch of People Of Color standing on the stage telling White people stories. What do you think about that?”

So you know, I loved it. I love stuff like that. I’m like, please bring it on, you know? So I love that she worked hard to get to me to ask me that question, to grill me a little bit. And all I could say to this young girl, this young revolutionary, was: Lin wrote the show that was on his heart to write. There is no doubt in my mind that in some time, someone is going to write the show that makes Hamilton look quaint. I have no doubt in my mind. I hope I live long enough to see that show. I said to her, “It’s your job.”

All Lin did was take the baton. Lin created an opportunity for himself and his brothers and sisters that never existed for him. Lin, a young Puerto Rican artist, a young talented actor, and musician. I mean, there are two shows for Lin to do, in the canon of musical theater, in the whole canon. Before he wrote [In the Heights and Hamilton]. You know, there’s literally nothing for him to do.

So all Lin did was take the baton from somebody. He ran his leg of the race, and now it’s your job to run your leg. You write the show that makes Hamilton look quaint. You write the show that answers all the questions that Hamilton didn’t have the courage to, or that you feel like it didn’t have the courage or the bravery to ask. Well, now that’s your responsibility.

CS: It seems to me that a running thread in your career has been how you trusted in your own worth, even when this may have put other opportunities that you had at risk. And that’s an easy thing to talk about, but hard to do. And I wondered what’s your secret?

Odom Jr.: You know, faith.

CS: Faith?

Odom Jr.: Yeah, I’ve talked to young artists, men, just about not ignoring some sort of spiritual practice. And it’s not unrelated to what we see in the streets. It’s not unrelated. This thing, it works all of our lives. I know I’ve found as a man, there are going to come times where you can’t untie it, where you’ve done all that you can, where you’ve run your leg of the race. And in those situations in my life, I have depended on a God who has helped me through those moments, who has seen me through those moments, and the universe has only ever met me halfway. You know what I mean? More when I take one step for myself, God, the universe, takes two. It is the real stuff.

CS: So faith in something greater than yourself, trusting the process kind of a thing?

Odom Jr.: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I don’t pay lip service to a thing like that. It’s a real practice in my life.

(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Stephen Tobolowsky Reveals Groundhog Day Series in the Works

Stephen Tobolowsky reveals Groundhog Day series in the works

Groundhog Day is still one of the most celebrated and iconic films in both Bill Murray and Harold Ramis’ careers in the near 30 years since its release and though a sequel had long been ruled out, it appears the time looping comedy is finding new life as a TV series.

In an interview with The Production Meeting podcast, co-star Stephen Tobolowsky (One Day At a Time) revealed that while working on the Sony lot on one of its ABC co-productions, The Goldbergs or spin-off Schooled, he was pulled aside by a producer and told that they were developing a series and asked if he would reprise his role as iconic nag Ned Ryerson, to which he said, “Yeah, sure!” The 69-year-old star didn’t reveal any further details as to who is penning the script or other stars involved, but he did confirm it would pick up 30 years after the events of the first film.

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Co-written by Ramis and Danny Rubin on a story from Rubin, Groundhog Day centered on cynical TV weatherman Phil Connors as he heads to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the titular annual event, only to find himself trapped in a time loop and forced to endlessly repeat the day of February 2.

Alongside Murray, the film featured an ensemble cast that included Andie MacDowell (Ready or Not), Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek), Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray (Lodge 49), Marita Geraghty (Broadcast News) and Angela Paton (Trapped in Paradise).

What are your thoughts on a possible Groundhog Day series? Let us know in the comments below!

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Exclusive Bushwick: Burnt Trailer Starring Dave Bautista & Brittany Snow

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive Bushwick: Burnt trailer starring Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, My Spy) and Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect, Almost Family) in the newly released black and white version of the film available now as an iTunes extra. You can check out the trailer in the player below, as well as the full new poster designed by Stuart Holyrod and Nuno Sarnada!

“We thought July 4th weekend would be a good time to drop the news that we’re releasing a new Black and White print of our movie Bushwick. Burnt. Inspired by what George Miller did with Mad Max: Fury Road and James Mangold did with Logan, we thought that the subject matter of our movie and the way that it was shot using almost exclusively natural light, lent itself to black and white. We worked with our brilliant cinematographer Lyle Vincent and the amazing colorist Sean Dunckley at Light Iron to produce a beautiful, raw, Burnt version of Bushwick. It’s now up in the iTunes Extra alongside the original color version of Bushwick,” said co-director Cary Murnion.

Compiled by Bushwick directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott to celebrate the release of Bushwick: Burnt, the new black and white print of this timely action/war movie, this was the music that was inspirational to them as they made this movie, set in the neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY.

Bushwick: Burnt is directed by Jonathan Milott (Cooties) and Cary Murnion (Becky). The script was written by Nick Damici (Hap and Leonard) and Graham Reznick (Until Dawn) from a story by Murnion and Milott.

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Exclusive Mr. Jones Clip Featuring Vanessa Kirby & James Norton

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive Mr. Jones clip featuring Vanessa Kirby and James Norton in the upcoming docudrama thriller from Samuel Goldwyn Films. You can check out the clip now in the player below and order your copy of the movie here!

Agnieszka Holland’s thriller, set on the eve of WWII, sees Hitler’s rise to power and Stalin’s Soviet propaganda machine pushing their “utopia” to the Western world. Meanwhile, an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones (Norton) travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade that would later inspire George Orwell’s seminal book Animal Farm.

Mr. Jones features an ensemble cast including Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie, Garden State), James Norton (Little Women, Flatliners), and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw). The film is the theatrical debut of writer Andrea Chalupa and directed by Agnieszka Holland whose films In Darkness, Europa Europa, and Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest) were all nominated for Academy Awards.

The movie is currently available on Digital and will release On Demand on July 3, 2020.

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Exclusive Carmilla Trailer for the Classic Vampire Tale

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Exclusive Carmilla trailer for the classic vampire tale

Film Movement has provided ComingSoon.net with the exclusive trailer debut of Carmilla, the latest screen version of the vampire tale that pre-dates Dracula. Check out the Carmilla trailer in the player below!

Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae of Broadchurch, Fighting with My Family) lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine of Patrick Melrose, Jericho). Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl (Devrim Lingnau) into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.

This atmospheric coming-of-age tale, also co-starring Golden Globe-nominee Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Terror, Game of Thrones, The Crown) is inspired by the 1872 gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, who crafted the story of Carmilla 25 years before Bram Stoker put the supernatural story of Count Dracula on the page.

Written and directed by Emily Harris and produced by Lizzie Brown and Emily Precious, Carmilla will open on July 17.

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Blue Bayou: Focus Features Acquires Worldwide Rights to Justin Chon’s Drama

Blue Bayou: Focus Features Acquires Worldwide Rights to Justin Chon's Drama

Blue Bayou: Focus Features Acquires Worldwide Rights to Justin Chon’s Drama

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou from MACRO and Entertainment One (eOne) out of Cannes’ virtual market.

Written and directed by Chon, who won multiple festival awards for Ms. Purple and Gook, Blue Bayou stars Chon alongside Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Mark O’Brien (Arrival), Linh Dan Pham and Emory Cohen (Brooklyn).

Blue Bayou tells the heartbreaking story of Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in the United States who is forced to confront his distant past and what it means for his own future and his family’s when he unexpectedly faces deportation.

“Justin’s ability to open our eyes to new perspectives by celebrating our shared humanity is more vital now than ever before. We’re so proud to help bring his voice to the world and to reunite with Alicia along with the brilliant teams at eOne and MACRO,” said Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski.

The film was financed by MACRO and eOne. Producers are Chon, Charles D. King (Mudbound), Kim Roth (Tigertail), and Poppy Hanks (Sorry To Bother You).

Clara Wu, eOne’s Nick Meyer, Zev Foreman, and Eddie Rubin are executive producers. Greta Fuentes of MACRO and Yira Vilaro are also co-producers. Focus Features will distribute the film in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International will distribute internationally.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Relativity Media)

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Danny Glover Offers Update on Lethal Weapon Reboot

Danny Glover offers update on Lethal Weapon reboot

The Lethal Weapon franchise has been one of the most celebrated and hit action franchises to survive past its ’80s and ’90s run and after reported talks in January of a fifth film in the series, star Danny Glover has given an update on the potential reboot.

In an interview with Variety, the 73-year-old actor confirmed that there “had been a conversation” in January about another film in the franchise with both Glover and co-star Mel Gibson attached the return and that “there is something of a plan.”

“I don’t want to give away the plot on the script that I read, but I found the plot had very strong relevance to some of things that are happening today,” Glover said. “I can say that. But that was in January. History changes so fast. But yes, there’s been talk about it. I can only tell you, if it does happen, there is something extraordinary in it. If Lethal Weapon gives us some sort of contribution to understanding a little bit more. It would be interesting to do. It would be interesting to see how we take this within the political framework we are in; the economic framework that we are in. And especially that framework as opposed to the communities that have been affected by the kind of police violence, the kind of police standards, and the power that they exert as well. And what would be interesting from that vantage point is what that attempt could be like at this particular moment.”

Created by Shane Black, the first film was directed by Richard Donner and released in 1987 and followed beleaguered veteran detective Roger Murtaugh (Glover) as he is partnered with reckless and PTSD-afflicted Martin Riggs (Gibson). The buddy comedy received rave reviews from critics and grossed over $120 million on a $15 million budget and spawned a franchise that included three sequels starring the two and a TV adaptation with Damon Wayans Sr. and Clayne Crawford taking on the roles of Murtaugh and Riggs that ran for three seasons on Fox before being cancelled.

A fifth film has been in the talks for years, though stalled for a long time as Gibson and Glover have expressed a lack of interest and problems with various scripts offered over time until January saw the news that Lethal Weapon 5 was in active development with the duo returning alongside Donner.

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Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe to Premiere on Disney+

The out-of-this-world animated movie Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe, from Disney Television Animation, will premiere exclusively on Disney+ Friday, August 28. The soundtrack, from Walt Disney Records, will be available the same day, and you can check out the key art below!

Executive-produced by the creators/executive producers of the Emmy Award-winning Phineas and Ferb series, Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe is an adventure story that tracks stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb as they set out across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who after being abducted by aliens, finds utopia in a far-off planet, free of pesky little brothers.

Voice talent reprising their roles from the original series and movie include: Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn; Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn; Caroline Rhea as their mom, Linda; Dee Bradley Baker as Perry the Platypus; Alyson Stoner as Isabella; Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet; Bobby Gaylor as Buford; Olivia Olson as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz; Tyler Mann as Carl; and Povenmire and Marsh as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz and Major Monogram, respectively. David Errigo Jr. joins the cast as Ferb Fletcher.

The movie also stars Ali Wong (American Housewife) as Super Super Big Doctor; Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) as Stapler Fist; Diedrich Bader (American Housewife) as Borthos; and Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) as Garnoz.

In addition to Povenmire and Marsh, the talented crew includes director Bob Bowen (Family Guy), composer Danny Jacob (Phineas and Ferb) and songwriters Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!), Emanuel Kiriakou (Whitney Houston’s “I Look To You”) and Kate Micucci (“Garfunkel and Oates”).

All four seasons of the original animated series Phineas and Ferb, along with the Disney Channel Original Movie Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, are also available to stream on Disney+. Beginning Tuesday, August 25, all episodes will be presented on Disney XD leading up to the movie’s premiere.

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Jason Reitman Hints at Surprise in Ghostbusters Drive-In Re-Release

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Jason Reitman hints at surprise in Ghostbusters drive-in re-release

Though fans will have to wait a little longer for the highly-anticipated next installment in the hit sci-fi comedy franchise, this week marks Ghostbusters‘ return to select drive-ins across the country and Afterlife director Jason Reitman has hinted the special screenings will have a surprise attached to the beginning!

If you can find a drive-in… There’s a fun little surprise before the movie. Please be safe! Bring your flight suits and a mask! pic.twitter.com/loSMYxqMBU

— Jason Reitman (@JasonReitman) July 1, 2020

Click here to find the nearest drive-in theater to you to catch the special Ghostbusters re-release!

Ghostbusters: Afterlife will focus on a new family with single mom Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two kids, Trevor and Phoebe (Finn Wolfhard & Mckenna Grace) who move into a beaten-down farmhouse in Oklahoma only to discover that there’s something strange in the neighborhood. Unexplained quakes shake the town. There’s an old mine nearby that bears the name of Ivo Shandor, who built the Manhattan high-rise in the 1984 film that channeled the forces of evil. Paul Rudd costars as a local teacher who’s been documenting the unexplained phenomena, befriending Callie and her kids and helping make the connection between the current weirdness and the events of three decades before.

12-year-old Mckenna Grace (Captain Marvel, Annabelle Comes Home) stars in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) playing her mother and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, IT) as her brother. Paul Rudd (Avengers: Endgame) will be playing a teacher in the film, while Oliver Cooper and Bokeem Woodbine will also be featured. Original stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts will reprise their characters.

Jason Reitman (Juno, Young Adult, Tully) directed the new film, taking over from his father Ivan Reitman who helmed the first two and will produce. Reitman, who had a cameo in 1989’s Ghostbusters 2, co-wrote the script with Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist), who is no stranger to ghost stories.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is set to hit theaters on March 5, 2021!