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CS Video: Laura Dern talks original trio reunion on Jurassic World: Dominion

While chatting with the Emmy, Oscar and Golden Globe winning actress/producer/director for the Pete Souza documentary The Way I See It, Laura Dern discussed with ComingSoon.net getting to be a part of a cultural revival for both Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the highly-anticipated Jurassic World: Dominion. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

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Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow return to executive produce Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Dominion, with Trevorrow once again directing the next chapter in one of the biggest franchises in the history of cinema. Producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley once again partner with Spielberg and Trevorrow in leading the filmmakers for this installment.

Recommended Reading: Jurassic Park: The Original Novel

The upcoming threequel will be starring returning cast members from the first two Jurassic World films include Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith as well as original Jurassic Park stars Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Campbell Scott. It will also feature Mamoudou Athie (Sorry for You Loss), DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It), Dichen Lachman (Animal Kingdom, Altered Carbon), Scott Haze (Venom, Antlers).

Joining the Jurassic team for the first time is Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim Uprising, The Black Hole), who has crafted the screenplay with Trevorrow. They will work off a story by Derek Connolly and Trevorrow, who together co-wrote Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom.

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Jurassic World: Dominion is currently set to debut in theaters on June 10, 2022, with The Way I See It now in select theaters and hitting MSNBC on Friday!

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CS Video: Laura Dern & Pete Souza on The Way I See It

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Dern and former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza to discuss their work on the documentary centered on the latter The Way I See It. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

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The documentary offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of two of the most iconic Presidents in American History, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, as seen through the eyes of renowned photographer Pete Souza. As the Official White House Photographer, Souza was an eyewitness to the unique and tremendous responsibilities of being the most powerful person on Earth. The movie reveals how Souza transforms from a respected photojournalist to a searing commentator on the issues we face as a country and a people.

Click here to purchase Obama: An Intimate Portrait and Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents!

The film is helmed and produced by Dawn Porter, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival for her pro-choice documentary Trapped, with Oscar and Emmy-winning producer Evan Hayes (Free Solo), Oscar and Emmy winner Laura Dern (Marriage Story) and Jayme Lemons attached to produce via the duo’s Jaywalker Pictures banner in association with Platform One Media.

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The Way I See It was originally set to have its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival before it was cancelled due to the global pandemic and instead is now available in select theaters and set to debut on MSNBC on Friday!

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Monster Hunter international trailer offers more Tony Jaa

While simultaneously unveiling the domestic trailer for the film adaptation of the Capcom franchise, Sony Pictures has released the international trailer for the Milla Jovovich-led Monster Hunter which features a much better look at Tony Jaa’s Hunter character. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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Monster Hunter centers on the leader of a UN military team named Artemis, played by Jovovich, who is transported to another realm populated by monsters. There she meets the Hunter (Jaa), with the two teaming up to close a portal to prevent monsters from attacking earth. The movie will be a highly stylish big-screen adaptation of the video game.

Click here to order the video game Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition!

The film adaptation will be led by Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil franchise) and Tony Jaa. It will also star Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Drive), T.I. Harris (Ant-Man and The Wasp), Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel, Rock of Ages), Meagan Good (Code Black), and Josh Helman (X-Men: Days of Future Past).

Monster Hunter is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film is a production by Sony Pictures, Constantin Film, and Impact Pictures with Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer, Martin Moszkowicz, and Dennis Berardi serving as producers.

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The Capcom video game series consists of action role-playing games where players and their friends work together to take down larger-than-life beasts in a living, breathing ecosystem. Since the first Monster Hunter title made its debut 14 years ago in 2004, the series has attracted a dedicated fan base, and grown into a global mega-hit with Monster Hunter: World, the latest title in the series, shipping 10 million units worldwide, with cumulative sales of the series exceeding 49 million units as of August 20, 2018.

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Dead Reckoning Trailer: K.J. Apa leads indie action-thriller

Shout! Studios has unveiled the first trailer and release date fo the upcoming indie action-thriller Dead Reckoning featuring a cast led by Riverdale and I Still Believe star K.J. Apa as a man trapped between two loyalties and left with only one choice. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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Tillie Gardner’s summer romance with local cab driver Niko before starting college is helping her cope with the tragic death of her parents in a private plane crash a few weeks earlier. Too bad she doesn’t know yet he is the brother of the terrorist who actually sabotaged the plane, and who is also involved with a plot to bomb the annual Fourth of July beach celebration on Nantucket Island. Can she gather herself and her wits together and discover his dark secret in time and prevent a terrible massacre?

Directed by the legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Andrzej Bartkowiak (Prizzi’s Honor, The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, Doom, Speed), and written by Alfred Wayne Carter and Kristin Alexandre, Dead Reckoning stars India Eisley (I Am the Night, Underworld Awakening), Apa, James Remar (Dexter, X-Men: First Class), Ellie Cornell (Femme Fatales, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), Sydney Park (The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) and Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange, The Expendables).

A Pulse Rate Production in association with Moody Independent, Productivity Media, and Motion Picture Exchange, the film is produced by Mark Donadio, Miriam Marcus, Andrzej Bartkowiak, and Jeffrey Bowler. Executive producers are Kristin Alexandre, William A. Earon, William G. Santor, John Hills, Andrew Chang-Sang, Catherine Dewey, Christopher Dewey, and James Andrew Felts.

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Dead Reckoning is set to hit VOD and digital platforms on November 13.

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CS Video: The Trial of the Chicago 7 interview with Aaron Sorkin

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game) to discuss his long-in-development courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is set to hit Netflix this Friday! Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

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Based on a true story, The Trial of the Chicago 7  follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war “carnival” that turned nasty. Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames. Curfews only escalated the violence.

After the clashes, independent investigators blamed eight police officers and eight protesters including Abbie Hoffman, who had already disrupted the New York Stock Exchange with showers of fake money. The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot. One was jailed for contempt, leaving the seven to fight the charges.

Sorkin’s second directorial effort will feature Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald) as Tom Hayden, Oscar-nominee Sacha Baron Cohen (Who is America?) as Abbie Hoffman, Jeremy Strong (Succession) as as Jerry Rubin, Golden Globe-nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) as Richard Schultz, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) as Bobby Seale, Alex Sharp (The Hustle) as Rennie Davis and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Luce, Waves) as Fred Hamptom. It will also star Michael Keaton, William Hurt, Thomas Middleditch, John Carroll Lynch, Daniel Flaherty, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, J.C. MacKenzie and Max Adler, who also serves as an executive producer.

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The film will also be executive produced by Matt Jackson. Marc Butan and Anthony Katagas. The Trial of the Chicago 7 will be produced by Oscar nominee Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, La La Land), Stuart Besser, and Tyler Thompson.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 hits Netflix this Friday!

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Deon Taylor tapped to helm English-language remake of The Housemaid

CJ Entertainment, Korea’s leading entertainment conglomerate has tapped award winning director, Deon Taylor (Black and Blue) to direct the gothic horror/thriller Grave Hill, the studio’s English-language remake of the popular Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.

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Released in 2016 to strong reviews from critics for its exploration of racial and social themes in a period/romance/horror setting, The Housemaid was written and directed by Derek Nguyen and produced by Timothy Linh Bui, which CJ Entertainment financed and produced. The remake, titled Grave Hill, will stay true to this concept, taking place in the American South during the Reconstruction Era.

“Having the opportunity to work with CJ Entertainment is absolutely a dream come true,” Taylor said in a statement. “The collaboration they created with Bong Joon Ho and the film Parasite was incredible. I truly believe Grave Hill is a special, elevated thriller that will speak to social themes we are dealing with today and simultaneously push audiences to the edge of their seats just like the original version did. This is a rare film and I’m very excited to bring it to life with CJ and team!”

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The script for the adaptation is being penned by Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) alongside Nguyen, with CJ Entertainment again financing, developing and producing the project with Group Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee, Jinnie Choi and Jerry Ko executive producing alongside Hidden Empire’s Roxanne Taylor and Motor’s Sean Sorensen. Don Handfield is set to produce the film via his Motor production banner alongside original producer Linh Bui for Happy Canvas, Nguyen and CJ Entertainment’s Yeonu Choi.

“Deon is a filmmaker who will absolutely push boundaries and challenge sensibilities when it comes to elevating a story – particularly those rooted in suspense with social and racial themes,” Jerry Ko, CJ Entertainment’s Head of International Division, said in a statement. “His creative vision for Grave Hill involves stepping far beyond the ordinary to retell a haunting story that’s different from anything audiences have seen before.”

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Grave Hill is being eyed to begin principal photography in early 2021.

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Kitbag: Joaquin Phoenix to Portray Napoleon Bonaparte in Ridley Scott Biopic

Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix (Joker, Gladiator) is set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in Oscar nominee Ridley Scott’s (Gladiator, The Martian) upcoming biopic Kitbag based on the 19th-century French emperor, according to Deadline. The outlet shares the film’s title stems from the saying, “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag.”

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Directed by Scott, Kitbag is described as an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. The film will capture Napoleon’s famous battles, his relentless ambition, and “astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary.”

David Scarpa (All the Money in the World) is penning the script for the 20th Century Studios project that is being produced by Scott and Kevin Walsh for Scott Free.

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Scott has completed production on the drama The Last Duel, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer. He’ll begin production next March in Italy on Gucci, starring Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver, and Jared Leto.

(Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Don’t Look Up: DiCaprio, Streep, Chalamet & More Join Adam McKay’s Comedy

According to Deadline, Adam McKay’s comedy Don’t Look Up has added Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name), Ariana Grande (Scream Queens), Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Kid Cudi (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Matthew Perry (The Ron Clark Story), and Tomer Sisley (Balthazar) to its cast. The group will be joining the previously announced Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), and Rob Morgan (Mudbound) in the Netflix feature.

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Don’t Look Up will be written and directed by Adam McKay, who is also set as a producer Hyperobject Industries banner with Kevin Messick. The film will center on two low-level astronomers who have to embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that is going to destroy Earth. According to Variety, Lawrence and DiCaprio are expected to play the two astronomers but the streamer has not yet confirmed the roles.

McKay has had a successful run in the satire genre over the past few years, earning one Oscar nomination and one win for 2016’s The Big Short and three Oscar nominations for 2018’s Vice, including Best Picture.

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Don’t Look Up is expected to begin filming before the end of the year.

(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images, Christopher Polk/Getty Images for TNT & Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

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Sylvie’s Love Trailer Starring Tessa Thompson & Nnamdi Asomugha

Amazon Prime Video has released the official Sylvie’s Love trailer for the romance drama starring Tessa Thompson (Creed, Thor: Ragnarok, Westworld) and Nnamdi Asomugha (When the Streetlights Go On, Crown Heights). Launching worldwide on Prime Video on December 25, you can check out the trailer in the player below along with the new poster!

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In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as a member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before.

As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same. Writer/director Eugene Ashe combines romance and music into a sweeping story that brings together changing times, a changing culture, and the true price of love.

The movie also stars Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, and Jemima Kirke and is written and directed by Eugene Ashe.

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CS Interview: Star Jeffrey Donovan on action-thriller Honest Thief

Ahead of the film’s debut in theaters, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice, Let Him Go) to discuss his role in the Liam Neeson-starring action thriller Honest Thief, which hits select theaters this Friday!

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Much like many performers in the acting world, when it came to finding his interest in the project Donovan noted “it always starts with the script and it did with this one,” most notably in the fact it’s a character he’s never “really played before.”

“I often play the alpha in the room, and I thought it was really refreshing to me to play something where he wasn’t the fastest draw, he wasn’t the best in fighting,” Donovan expressed. “He was sitting behind a desk going through a messy divorce. So that was the first thing, and then the cherry on top was to get to work with Liam and with Kate and they added such an incredible cast of Robert Patrick, Jai Courtney and Anthony Ramos. I was just kind of like, a kid in a sandbox, just so happy to be playing with all of these cool toys.”

Given his lack of portraying “a broken man” before, the 52-year-old star looked back and found that the biggest creative challenge for getting to the heart of his character came in trying to build his backstory, that was developed off-screen and off the page.

“I just wanted to kind of fill in his back story as much as I could, and you know, who had bought the dog and who gets the dog and why are they getting divorced, all that stuff,” Donovan explained. “That was a big challenge because it wasn’t on the page, we had to kind of make up that history. You know, it’s always a collaboration. It starts with their design and their story, and then, you make up your own history, and as long as it doesn’t run counter to what the story’s kind of presenting, then that collaboration is going to work. I think what was the fun part was bringing a certain amount of humor to Agent Meyers that I think Mark didn’t know was kind of there, and I was really happy that I was able to do that.”

Though bringing the sense of humor to his character that co-writer/director Mark Williams (Ozark) wasn’t fully aware of, the Burn Notice alum also sought to ensure his Agent Meyers was never “cartoonish” at any point in the film and sought to find the right balance between “grounded and funny.”

“I think that the storyline held onto him because he really was the opposite of Carter,” Donovan opined. “I mean, he was a guy who didn’t know where his life was going and didn’t know what his choices should be made and thought everything he did was right. Whereas Carter thought everything in his life that he did was wrong, and he wanted to make amends. So it was an interesting parallel that we got to play.”

Another of the elements of the film that Donovan found to be both challenging and fun was returning to the world of action sequences after starring in a number of more dramatic roles and supporting turns in the Sicario films.

“Those action sequences, they’re tough, you know, you get beat up and that’s real hands,” Donovan chuckled. “Liam’s a big guy, and once accidentally he got me one time, punched me right in the chest. But I had just accidentally punched him in the face, so I think he was just trying to make the playing field even [laughs].”

Working with Neeson also gave Donovan the opportunity to work alongside the 68-year-old’s celebrated stunt coordinator/double Mark Vanselow, who he’s worked with going all the way back to 1997’s The Haunting.

“They’ve got a history there and a shorthand, and you bring your own two cents to it,” Donovan stated. “Having done Burn Notice for seven years, I had a little bit of experience for action, so it was a great collaboration because when you work with someone who trusts you as much as you trust them, the process just goes so much smoother.”

When reflecting on his excitement for audiences to see the film in select theaters this week, Donovan describes how “when you’re making movies, you think it’s really important what you’re doing” but noting that “the health of our country is more important.”

“Trying to find that balance between people going to see it and staying healthy is a challenge,” Donovan expressed. “I hope people will go see it, as long as it’s safe and the theater has done everything it can to ensure that safety. But in the end, it’s your own personal choice what you do, and I wish it was a different time, but it is what it is.”

Donovan is best known to audiences for his lead role as Michael Westen on USA Network’s Burn Notice, in which he made his directorial debut, as well as helming the prequel spin-off film The Fall of Sam Axe, and in reflecting on the possibility of taking on a feature-length project he feels uncertain about doing so.

“As soon as I see how much work it is I politely tell myself, you’re out of your mind,” Donovan joked. “It’s so difficult. I mean, what Mark did to not only write it, then produce it and direct it, I mean, it’s a year of your life. My acting is hard, but it’s not digging dirt and mining coal. We’re just pretending on an air conditioned set most of the time. So I’m getting older and I’ve got a big family and I’m just trying to be home as much as I can and acting allows me to do that, whereas directing would just take me away from them for too long.”

In addition to seeing the actor next in Honest Thief and the forthcoming Kevin Costner and Diane Lane-starring Let Him Go, which he calls “a beautiful film,” Donovan recently wrapped production on Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, previously titled Cash Truck, and though he couldn’t give many details aside from he and star Jason Statham being “on the other side of the law,” he did express excitement about the shoot and the film.

“I just had to go shoot some additional photography last week in London, so I got to see Guy and it was great to be back on the set, albeit a social distanced set,” Donovan noted. “It was kind of crazy how much testing my nose got in three days [laughs]. I enjoyed working with Guy, he has a real particular style, not only on screen, but how he makes that product. I’m such a fan of his movies, and now that I’ve done it, I want to just keep working with him. I love his films and I hope I can work with him again. Look, it’s Jason Statham, it’s Holt McCallany and Scott Eastwood, it’s myself and it’s a heist movie. And, kind of like Honest Thief, there’s a lot more depth to it than just an action film, but with Guy, you’re going to get a lot more humor, which again, I think is a lot of fun to do.It’s a kind of a thick as thieves type of film, and what a dad will do to avenge a death in the family. Hopefully in January or February or whenever it comes out, the world has righted itself and people can go back to the movie.”

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Written by Steve Allrich (The Canyon) and directed by Mark Williams, the co-creator of the hit Netflix crime thriller Ozark, Honest Thief will follow a bank robber (Neeson) who after attempting to turn himself in after falling in love with an employee from where his loot is stashed must deal with the complications that arise when his case is taken on by corrupt FBI agents, played by Jai Courtney and Anthony Ramos.

In addition to Neeson in the lead role, the cast for the film features Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad), Kate Walsh (The Umbrella Academy), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), Jeffrey Donovan (Lucy in the Sky), Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (Hamilton).

Williams produced Honest Thief alongside Tai Duncan, Stephen Emery and Myles Nestel of Solution Entertainment Group, which sold the international rights to the film to Briarcliff and Open Road in June.

Neeson has found large success in recent years in the action genre, starring in the fan-favorite Taken trilogy and starring in this year’s box-office hit The Commuter, the fourth collaboration between him and director Jaume Collet-Serra. The 66-year-old actor will next be seen in the upcoming comedy Made in Italy, the directorial debut of James D’Arcy (Avengers: Endgame), which is scheduled for an August 7 release.

Honest Thief is set to hit theaters on October 16.

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