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June 23 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

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June 23 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s June 23 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

Corpus Christi
2020 Academy Award Nominee for Best International Feature Film. After years in juvenile prison, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a small village to work as a manual laborer. Upon his arrival, a quick lie has him mistaken for a priest. Though untrained, his passion and charisma inspire the community. At the same time, his unconventional sermons and unpriestly behavior raise suspicions.

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (DVD)
A recently widowed young mother will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband’s murder.

Criterion Corner

Tokyo Olympiad
A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him.

Reissues

Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes unveils the secrecy of Jack the Ripper – clue by clue – murder by murder.

Strike Up the Band
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star as a pair of talented teenagers who stage an orchestra show intending to enter a competition in Chicago.

New On Digital HD

Trolls World Tour Dance Party Edition
This version includes the Dance Party Mode and an all-new original short starring Tiny Diamond!

You Should Have Left
In this psychological thriller from Blumhouse, a father (Kevin Bacon) fights to save his family from a sinister force that seems intent on making him pay for his past sins.

Infamous
Two young lovers rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media, and gaining fame and followers as a result.

Babyteeth
One family juggles first love, suburban malaise, and heavy pharmaceuticals in this moving and fresh comedy. Eliza Scanlen and Ben Mendelsohn star.

Miss Juneteenth
A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant.

TV on Blu-ray and DVD

South Park: Season 23
South Park is an Emmy Award-winning animated series about four boys living in a screwed-up Colorado town. Between tragedies global and local, as well as parental and celebrity interference, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny manage to have themselves a time.

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CS Video: Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Patrick Vollrath on 7500

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden, The Dark Knight Rises) and debuting writer/director Patrick Vollrath to discuss the action thriller 7500, in which the Golden Globe nominee stars as a co-pilot of a plane in the midst of an attempted hijacking. The interview can be viewed in the player below!

It looks like a routine day at work for Tobias (Gordon-Levitt), a soft-spoken young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris as he runs through the preflight checklist with Michael (Carlo Kitzlinger), the pilot, and chats with Gökce (Alyn Tezel), his flight-attendant girlfriend. But shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, seriously wounding Michael and slashing Tobias’ arm. Temporarily managing to fend off the attackers, a terrified Tobias contacts ground control to plan an emergency landing. But when the hijackers kill a passenger and threaten to murder more innocent people if he doesn’t let them back into the cockpit, this ordinary man faces an excruciating test.

Click here to watch 7500 on Amazon Prime right now!

The movie also stars Carlo Kitzlinger (Berlin, I Love You) and Alyn Tezel (X Company). 7500 is directed by Patrick Vollrath (Everything Will Be Okay) who co-wrote the film with Senad Halilbasic (Fatalis).

Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo of Augenschein Filmproduktion produced the film, while Franz Novotny and Alexander Glehr served as co-producers.

7500 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video now!

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Exclusive: Kevin Bacon Reflects on Friday the 13th 40th Anniversary

Exclusive: Kevin Bacon reflects on Friday the 13th 40th Anniversary

While chatting with the Golden Globe winner for his latest film, the Blumhouse psychological thriller You Should Have Left, ComingSoon.net took a look back with Kevin Bacon to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the iconic slasher Friday the 13th, which saw one of the star’s earliest performances. The interview can be viewed in the player below!

Originally released on May 9, 1980, Friday the 13th captured audiences’ imaginations and permeated our collective psyche. The film spawned one of the longest-running and most successful horror franchises in film history with 11 subsequent movies and, 40 years later, the iconic machete-wielding killer continues to haunt, fascinate and terrify new generations.

Click here to purchase your own copy of the limited edition steelbook!

The Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook features artwork from the original movie poster and includes the uncut, unrated version of the film, as well as access to a digital copy of the original theatrical version. Plus, plunge deeper into the film with previously released bonus content including commentary, interviews with cast and crew, and behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Friday the 13th follows a group of young counselors preparing for the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake, where a boy drowned years earlier. One by one, the counselors are stalked by a mysterious and violent killer. The film stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, and Kevin Bacon.

You Should Have Left is available to rent and purchase on digital platforms now!

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Babyteeth Review

Rating:

8/10

Cast:

Eliza Scanlen as Milla Finlay

Toby Wallace as Moses

Emily Barclay as Toby

Eugene Gilfedder as Gidon

Essie Davis as Anna Finlay

Ben Mendelsohn as Henry Finlay

Andrea Demetriades as Jenny

Edward Lau as Tin Wah

Zach Grech as Isaac

Georgina Symes as Polly

Michelle Lotters as Scarlett

Directed by Shannon Murphy; Written by Rita Kalnejais

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Babyteeth Review:

The coming-of-age dramedy genre is littered with everything from kindhearted and poignant affairs to exploitative and emotion-manipulating efforts, namely when it comes to a terminally ill character, and in order to set themselves apart from the pack, one must have a unique or original story to tell and though the latter may not be true about Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth, it is most certainly the former.

When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with small-time drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a renewed lust for life, traditional morals go out the window, leaving her parents wanting to hold tighter to their little girl. Milla soon teaches everyone in her orbit – her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor – how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life.

A terminally ill teenager falling in love has been the subject of far too many clichéd films in the past decade, but with Babyteeth, written by Rita Kalnejais and based on her stage play of the same name, we’re treated to an actually interesting and different take on the genre and on the characters involved. The way Milla is depicted, both in marketing and in the film, doesn’t hardly openly advertise her sickness, which feels like a nice creative decision as we as viewers get to actually meet and learn about who she is as a person rather than let her sickness define her. So often in film when meeting a terminally ill character, we start with their illness and expand outwards in learning their unique traits and personalities, forcing that pathos down audiences’ throats as the film nears its end and heartbreak looms in the background.

But with Milla, Kalnejais throws this convention out the window and instead chooses to introduce us to the sweet, bizarre and funny character that she is before eventually revealing she is in fact dealing with a life-threatening illness. The rest of characters featured in the film also prove to be something of an unheard of nature, featuring a pill-popping mother, possibly adulterous father and small-time drug dealer with proper morals who truly cares for the protagonist. Some of the story arcs become a bit bizarre and unresolved as the film progresses, but Kalnejais and Murphy keep things grounded just enough and throw in plenty of dark comedy so as to not alienate audiences and keep it all believable, even if it means stepping into some familiar and unremarkable territories.

Even when the film finds itself wading in some formulaic waters, it’s always kept afloat thanks to the phenomenal performances of each of its leads. Though Milla is not an inherently unlikable character, she has moments that are hard to connect to but Scanlan brings these moments to life brilliantly, proving herself a truly powerful lead. Essie Davis and Ben Mendelsohn have yet to deliver a bad performance and this is certainly not a bump in the road for either of them, as both prove to be thoroughly compelling and truly embrace their roles.

Babyteeth may play a few formulaic notes and ends predictably, but thanks to Kalnejai’s powerful and funny script, Murphy’s tender direction and compelling performances from its cast, it sets itself apart from most other films in the coming-of-age dramedy genre.

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Universal Sets M. Night Shyamalan’s Upcoming Thriller for July 2021

Universal Sets M. Night Shyamalan's Upcoming Thriller for July 2021

Universal Sets M. Night Shyamalan’s Upcoming Thriller for July 2021

Universal Pictures has announced that M. Night Shyamalan’s untitled thriller will be released on Friday, July 23, 2021. The movie is currently set to open against Paramount Pictures’ sci-fi movie The Tomorrow War starring Chris Pratt, Betty Gilpin, J.K. Simmons, and Yvonne Strahovski.

The movie stars Eliza Scanlen (Little Women), Thomasin McKenzie (True History of the Kelly Gang), Aaron Pierce (Krypton), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Abbey Lee (Lovecraft Country, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Tower), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Avenue 5, Gold Digger, Jupiter Ascending), and Ken Leung (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Inhumans, The Blacklist).

The project is written, directed, and produced by two-time Oscar nominee Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable).

Shyamalan’s high-concept content has consistently captured the attention of audiences around the world for nearly two decades, having amassed more than $3.3 billion worldwide. His most recent Universal project, Glass, the culmination of his Eastrail 177 Trilogy, garnered nearly $250 million worldwide and opened No. 1 at the box office, remaining in the top spot for three weeks. Split, the second film in the epic series, also debuted at No. 1 and remained there for three weeks in a row during its 2017 release, while 2015’s The Visit brought in close to $100 million at the worldwide box office and was one of the highest-grossing horror films of the year. Having independently financed the three films with a combined production budget of $35 million, Glass, Split and The Visit went on to cumulatively gross more than $600 million worldwide. He will similarly finance his next two films.

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New to Stream: HBO Max July 2020 Highlights

New to Stream: HBO Max July 2020 highlights

As the month of June nears its close, fresh streaming platform HBO Max has unveiled its roster of films and series set to premiere in July, including Mel Brooks’ acclaimed Western spoof Blazing Saddles, the Wesley Snipes-led Blade trilogy and the Cynthia Erivo-starring Oscar-nominated biopic Harriet focused on the titular abolitionist!

Max Originals landing on the platform include the three-part documentary series Expecting Amy, an unfiltered and intimate view into comedian Amy Schumer’s life on tour creating a stand-up special during her difficult pregnancy, adult animated comedy Close Enough from J.G. Quintel, creator of the Emmy-winning Regular Show, and multi-generational family docusoap House of Ho, chronicling the daily lives of patriarch Binh Ho, matriarch Hue Ho, and their family. To top it off, HBO Max will debut Cartoon Network Studios’ animated children’s series Tig n’ Seek with the U.S. premieres of the scripted comedy Frayed and the unscripted heartwarming British animal rescue series The Dog House.

HBO Originals this July include the season four premiere of Room 104, the debut of Foodie Love from HBO Europe, and the documentary premieres of Stockton on My Mind and Showbiz Kids. Blockbuster films including Harriet starring Cynthia Erivo (The Outsider), Motherless Brooklyn, Midway, and Last Christmas will join the HBO service in the month. Plus, it’s your last chance to catch Crazy Rich Asians, Long Shot, Crimson Peak, Rio, The Sun is Also a Star and X-Men before they leave the platform.

The full list of titles set to premiere on HBO Max this July include:

July 1:
Absolute Power, 1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
The Amazing Panda Adventure, 1995
American Graffiti, 1973
American History X, 1998
Angels in the Outfield, 1951
Angus, 1995
August Rush, 2007
The Bachelor, 1999
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, 1998
Batman and Harley Quinn, 2017
Batman vs. Two-Face, 2017
The Batman vs. Dracula, 2005
Batman: Assault on Arkham, 2014
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, 2016
Batman: Under the Red Hood, 2010
Batman: Year One, 2011
Beautiful Creatures, 2013
Beerfest, 2006
The Big Year (Extended Version), 2011
The Bishop’s Wife, 1947
Blade, 1998
Blade 2, 2002
Blade: Trinity, 2004
Blazing Saddles, 1974
Blood Work, 2002
Born to Be Wild, 1995
The Boy Who Could Fly, 1989
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, 2004
Catch Me If You Can, 2002
Clara’s Heart, 1988
The Conjuring, 2013
Cop Out, 2010
Creepshow, 1982
Death Becomes Her, 1992
The Departed, 2006
The Dirty Dozen, 1967
Dirty Harry, 1971
Doc Hollywood, 1991
Dolphin Tale, 2011
Dumb & Dumber, 1994
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, 2003
Enemy of the State, 1998
The English Patient, 1996
The Enforcer, 1976
The Exorcist, 1973
Fantastic Four (Extended Version), 2005
Flags of Our Fathers, 2006
Flushed Away, 2006
Four Christmases, 2008
Fred Claus, 2007
Free Willy, 1993
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, 1995
Free Willy 3: The Rescue, 1997
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, 2010
Freedom Fighters: The Ray, 2017
The Gauntlet, 1977
Get Smart, 2008
Good Girls Get High, 2019
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, 2011
Green Lantern: First Flight, 2009
The Green Pastures, 1936
Grumpy Old Men, 1993
Grumpier Old Men, 1995
A Guy Named Joe, 1943
Halwa, 2019 APAV Short
Heartbreak Ridge, 1986
The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945
Horrible Bosses (Extended Version), 2011
In Secret, 2014
In Time, 2011
Inkheart, 2009
Innerspace, 1987
Insomnia, 2002
J. Edgar, 2011
Jack Frost, 1998
Jane Eyre, 2011
Jeepers Creepers, 2001
Jeepers Creepers 2, 2003
JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, 2014
John Q, 2002
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 2008
Justice League vs. Teen Titans, 2016
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, 2010
Justice League: Doom, 2012
Justice League: Gods and Monsters, 2015
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, 2013
Justice League: The New Frontier, 2008
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, 2015
Justice League: War, 2014
Kill Bill: Volume 1, 2003
Kill Bill: Volume 2, 2004
Kiss of the Dragon, 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, 2003
The Last Emperor, 1987
Last Knights, 2015
The Last Samurai, 2003
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, 2015
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash, 2018
Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High, 2018
Lego Justice League: Cosmic Clash, 2016
Lego Justice League: Gotham City Breakout, 2016
The Letter, 2020
Life Is Beautiful, 1998
Little Big League, 1994
Little Manhattan, 2005
Little Nicky, 2000
The Longest Yard, 2005
Loser Leaves Town, 2020
Love Don’t Cost a Thing, 2003
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1983
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985
Magnolia, 1999
Malibu’s Most Wanted, 2003
Mars Attacks, 1996
Megamind, 2010
Message In A Bottle, 1999
Michael, 1996
Mickey Blue Eyes, 1999
Money Talks, 1997
Monkey Trouble, 1994
Moonwalk With Me, 2019 APAV Short
Mr. Nanny, 1993
Munich, 2005
Music and Lyrics, 2007
Nancy Drew, 2007
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989
National Lampoon’s European Vacation, 1985
National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon, 1993
National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983
Necessary Evil: The Super-Villains of DC Comics, (Documentary Premiere)
New Looney Tunes
Now and Then, 1995
Orphan, 2009
Osmosis Jones, 2001
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, 1985
The Polar Express, 2004
Pop Star, 2005
Power, 1986
The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone, 2017
Rich and Famous, 1981
The Right Stuff, 1983
Rumor Has It, 2005
Saving Private Ryan, 1998
Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, 1985
Showgirls, 1995
Something to Talk About, 1995
Space Jam, 1996
Spies Like Us, 1985
Star Trek, 2009
Stay, 2005
Sudden Impact, 1983
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, 2018
Superman: The Movie, 1978
Superman II, 1981
Superman III, 1983
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, 1987
Superman Returns, 2006
Superman: Brainiac Attacks, 2006
Superman: Unbound, 2013
Sweet November, 2001
Take the Lead, 2006
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, 2006
Tequila Sunrise, 1988
The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999
Thirteen Ghosts, 2001
Tightrope, 1984
Tom & Jerry: The Movie, 1993
The Towering Inferno, 1974
Troy, 2004
True Crime, 1999
Twelve Monkeys, 1995
Unforgiven, 1992
Vegas Vacation, 1997
Watchmen, 2009
What’s Your Number? (Extended Version), 2011
The Women, 2008
Wyatt Earp, 1994
Yogi Bear, 2010
Yours, Mine, and Ours, 2005
Zoetic, 2019 APAV Short

July 3:
Los Futbolismos (Aka The Footballest), 2020

July 4:
Midway, 2019

July 7:
Blue Exorcist, Seasons 1 & 2
Your Lie in April, Season One
91 Days, Season One

July 9:
Close Enough, Series Premiere

From JG Quintel, creator of the Emmy Award-winning Regular Show comes Close Enough, a surreal animated comedy about a married couple, their five-year-old daughter, and their two divorced best friends/roommates all living together on the east side of Los Angeles.

Expecting Amy, Docuseries Premiere

Expecting Amy is an unfiltered three-part documentary that shows the struggle, strength and ambition that has made Amy Schumer one of the singular comic voices of all time. It takes viewers behind-the-scenes as Schumer battles through an extraordinarily difficult pregnancy while documenting the formation of a comedy special.

July 11:
Sesame Street, Season 50 Finale
Last Christmas, 2019

July 13:
Foodie Love, Series Premiere

Foodie Love, an eight-part drama series produced by HBO Europe in Spain, follows two thirty-somethings after they meet on a foodie mobile dating app.

July 14:
Inuyasha, Season One
Showbiz Kids, Documentary Premiere

Showbiz Kids offers an unvarnished look at the high risk, high reward business of working as a child actor in the entertainment industry. The film chronicles the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child. Those who know the industry best, including several successful child actors and two aspiring hopefuls, unpack their own complicated experiences as they reconcile the hardships they’ve faced and sacrifices they’ve made on their way to finding success in show business.

July 15:
Smurfs, Season One

July 16:
House of Ho, Series Premiere

Patriarch Binh Ho and his wife Hue Ho immigrated from Vietnam to the United States with little money, relying on hard work to establish the ultimate American dream. The power couple has built a multimillion-dollar bank, a real estate development company, and a new generation of American Hos. The series pulls back the curtain on their lavish Houston lifestyle and showcases the tight family connections that unite them as well as the multi-generational outrageous drama that ensues.

July 17:
Abuelos (Aka Grandpas), 2020

July 18:
Harriet, 2019

July 21:
Bungo Stray Dogs, Seasons 1-3
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Season One

July 23:
Tig N Seek, Series Premiere

From creator Myke Chilian, Tig n’ Seek follows an upbeat and eccentric 8-year-old boy named Tiggy and his cat, Gweeseek.

July 24:
Room 104, Season 4 Premiere
La Gallina Turuleca (Aka Turu, The Wacky Hen), 2020

July 25:
Motherless Brooklyn, 2019

July 28:
Aldnoah.Zero, Season One
Mob Psycho, Season One
Stockton On My Mind, Documentary Premiere

The multi-layered story of millennial mayor Michael Tubbs, whose own experience growing up amid poverty and violence inspired him to initiate change and “Upset the Setup” in his beleaguered hometown of Stockton, California.

July 30:
The Dog House – UK Edition, Season 1

Set inside a rural British Dog Rescue Centre famous for its commitment to matching homeless dogs with new owners, The Dog House bears witness to the joy, comedy and pathos of the human-dog dating experience.

Frayed, Series Premiere

Set in 1989, this comedy follows the journey of Sammy Cooper, a fabulously wealthy London housewife who is forced to return to her hometown in Newcastle, Australia. In coming home, Sammy must revisit her past and the events that led her to flee as a teenager years ago.

July 31:
Los Lobos, 2020

LAST CHANCE TO CATCH: SELECT TITLES LEAVING HBO MAX IN JULY

July 5:
Crazy Rich Asians, 2018
The Nun, 2018

July 7
The Defiant Ones

July 30:
Blindspotting, 2018

July 31:
A Christmas Story, 1983
Analyze This, 1999
Aquamarine, 2006
Blood Diamond, 2006
Bowling For Columbine, 2002
Boys Don’t Cry, 1999
Casino Royale, 1967
Casino Royale, 2006
Crimson Peak, 2015
Final Destination, 2000
For Love Of The Game, 1999
Friday the 13th, 2009
Hairspray, 2007
Hairspray, 1988
Happy Feet, 2006
Intolerable Cruelty, 2003
King Arthur (Director’s Cut), 2004
Long Shot, 2019
Look Away, 2019
Mamartuile, 2018
Man Of The House, 1995
Mildred Pierce, 1945
Now, Voyager, 1942
Once Upon A Crime, 1992
Pet Semetary, 1989
Presumed Innocent, 1990
Pride and Prejudice, 1940
The Polar Express, 2004
Quantum Of Solace, 2008
Recreo, 2019
Rio, 2011
Rock The Kasbah, 2015
Season Of The Witch, 2011
She’s Funny That Way, 2015
The Goonies, 1985
The Honeymooners, 2005
The Island, 2005
The Merchant Of Venice, 2004
The Neverending Story, 1984
The Predator, 2018
The Sun Is Also A Star, 2019
The Take, 2016
TMNT, 2007
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
X-Men, 2000

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Barry Jenkins, Leonardo DiCaprio & Netflix Developing Virunga Film Adaptation

Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and Netflix are teaming up on a feature adaptation of the Oscar-nominated documentary Virunga.

The true story follows rangers risking their lives to save Africa’s most precious national park and its endangered gorillas. In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth and home to the planet’s last remaining mountain gorillas. In this wild, but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers – including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a caretaker of orphan gorillas and a dedicated conservationist – protect this UNESCO world heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo’s rich natural resources. When the newly formed M23 rebel group declares war, a new conflict threatens the lives and stability of everyone and everything they’ve worked so hard to protect, with the filmmakers and the film’s participants caught in the crossfire.

The original documentary film was written and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel (The White Helmets). The doc is streaming now on Netflix.

DiCaprio, who served as an executive producer on the docu, is producing the project with his Appian Way partners Jennifer Davisson and Phillip Watson as well as Oscar-winner Joanna Natasegara for London-based Violet Films. Einsiedel will serve as executive producer.

(Photo by Manny Hernandez/Getty Images & Mike Marsland/WireImage via Getty Images)

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Elisabeth Moss-Led Horror Run Rabbit Run Acquired by STX

Nearly two weeks after the Emmy-winning actress signed on to star in the project, Daina Reid’s horror-thriller Run Rabbit Run starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) has been acquired by STX Entertainment in the first major deal from the virtual Cannes market, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, which is being penned by novelist Hannah Kent, will see Moss star as Sarah, a fertility doctor with a strong understanding of the cycle of life, in which a person is born, they live and they die, but when her young daughter Mia begins displaying increasingly strange and erratic behavior, she is forced to challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.

“Elisabeth’s outstanding performance and the huge success of The Invisible Man make her a theatrical force to be reckoned with,” STXfilms motion picture group chairman Adam Fogelson said in a statement. “A genre film that reunites Elisabeth with The Handmaid’s Tale director Daina Reid is an incredible opportunity, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this film together.”

Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films, who developed the story concept with Kent, will produce the film alongside Moss and producing partner Lindsey McManus, while XYZ Films is currently set to executive produce the project. XYZ will also finance the production in conjunction with Screen Australia, with STX set to distribute the movie directly in the US, UK and Ireland via its STXfilms banner and handle worldwide sales via the STXinternational branch.

In addition to helming four episodes of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hulu series led by Moss, Reid is well-known for her work on the small screen with directing episodes of HBO’s The Outsider, Amazon’s Upload and Netflix’s Space Force, amongst others.

This year has already seen two notable hits for Moss with the critical and commercial hit Invisible Man reboot from Leigh Whannell (Upgrade) and Blumhouse Productions, as well as the highly-acclaimed biopic drama Shirley centered on the eponymous author of The Haunting of Hill House. She will next be seen in Wes Anderson’s upcoming dramedy The French Dispatch, which is currently slated to hit theaters on October 16.

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Exclusive: Carl Ellsworth Talks Scrapped Gremlins 3 Script!

Thirty-six years ago this month, Joe Dante’s Gremlins invaded theaters and instantly upped the ante for big-budget monster mayhem. June 1990 saw the release of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in which Dante took the concept in a wackier, more pop-culture-satirical direction. Over the three decades since, fans have been waiting for a return of cuddly little Gizmo and the hellacious creatures he inadvertently spawned, and while the animated prequel series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai is coming from HBO Max, there was also another theatrical follow-up in the works for several years in the 2010s.

A key writer involved was Carl Ellsworth, who wrote Wes Craven’s airborne thriller Red Eye and co-scripted The Last House on the Left remake for Craven, as well as the hit Disturbia. With his latest genre exercise, the Russell Crowe-starring road-rage opus Unhinged, coming to theaters July 10, Ellsworth recalls his time on the mini-monster sequel, collaborating with the original film’s scriptwriter Chris Columbus. “The last time I touched it is now going on three years ago,” he says. “I was so excited to do it. I got the chance to work with Chris, and I loved the story we came up with. I’m so bummed that it hasn’t seen the light of day yet. What might have been, what could have been!”

What could have been, he explains, was a sequel that returned to the horrific spirit of the ’84 film. Columbus’ initial Gremlins spec draft was a serious scare story with R-level mayhem, and even after it was toned down under producer Steven Spielberg’s supervision, the PG-rated result was graphic and frightening enough to help encourage the creation of the PG-13 rating. The new movie, Ellsworth says, “was thought of as a direct sequel mostly to the first film—not discounting the second one by any stretch, but I saw it as very much a passing-the-baton story, staying in the tone of the original. I think that helped get me the job: I said, ‘Yeah, there’s a lot of humor in the movie, helped by the classic Jerry Goldsmith score that gives us a license to laugh, but it’s first and foremost a horror movie.’ ” (Indeed, occasional screenings of an early cut of Gremlins during the last decade have revealed the power of Goldsmith’s music to soften some of the blows. In particular, the Gremlins’ Kentucky Harvester attack on the Futtermans in this version, without Goldsmith’s jaunty scoring, plays as truly unnerving.)

“These little creatures—what they’re really doing, they’re cold-blooded little murderers, you know?” Ellsworth continues. “They’re psychotic little creatures that are killing everybody. So that’s where it all started” when it came to writing the third film. “I tried to preserve the humor, but at the same time, I was starting with the
foundation of this being a horror movie, which I was really thrilled about.”

He wasn’t the only one anxious to be involved with a continuation of the Gremlins’ adventures. “I became friendly along the way with Zach Galligan, the original Billy Peltzer, and he was so eager to return to the role. He was excited, I guess, by the idea that he and Gizmo should be the equivalent of Han Solo and Chewie in Star
Wars: The Force Awakens. And he wasn’t too far off from where we were going.” In addition to bringing back Billy and Gizmo, Ellsworth adds, “There was, I believe, a smaller role for Billy’s girlfriend, played [in the first two movies] by Phoebe Cates. But Gizmo was at the very core of the story; it explored more of the mythology and the
history of the Gremlins.”

Sadly, there hasn’t been any news of forward motion on Gremlins 3 in the last few years. “It’s one of those situations where it fell through the cracks, or they couldn’t put it together—who knows what happened?” Ellsworth says. “You know, some things see the light of day and some things get shelved. I have no idea what they’re
doing with it nowadays, but I hope, as everybody does, that something happens, whether it’s with my script or somebody else’s. I wish they could have done something with it for the [first movie’s] 35th anniversary last year.”

In the meantime, as he awaits the release of Unhinged into reopening theaters on July 1, Ellsworth has been “on-again, off-again rewriting a thriller called Smart House for Lionsgate, which Alex Aja (Horns, Crawl) was attached to. We’ve kind of been going back and forth on it; it’s got James Wan as a producer, and he originated the story, which is about a smart house that goes bad and awful things ensue. So I’m waiting to hear on whether I’ll be continuing with that one; it’s been a process. And I’m also looking for the next thing—and trying to dream up the next thing, too.”

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Talenthouse Announces Bill & Ted Face the Music Fan Art Contest

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Talenthouse announces Bill & Ted Face the Music fan art contest

Orion Pictures is teaming up with Talenthouse Art Works for a special fan art contest for Bill & Ted Face the Music in which five lucky fans can win $2,000 and get the chance to have their artwork featured in the marketing campaign for the highly-anticipated threequel!

The general guidelines for contestants is the artwork must be inspired by promotional images and the trailer for the new film, not using it directly, and that whether directly using the studio’s title treatment or artists getting creative with it, each piece of art must feature “Face the Music” somewhere on it. Fans are not allowed to use the style of the film’s titles or Wyld Stallyns logo from the first two films in their artwork and if to include, the titular duo, they must be in their current age rather than their teenage selves of the past.

The five pieces of artwork chosen by Orion Pictures and guest judges, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter themselves, will have the potential to have their artwork featured in the new film’s marketing campaign, as well as receiving proper credit and exposure for their work across digital, print and marketing channels and in merchandising, as well as receiving $2,000 for each piece of work selected. Fans can sign up for the contest here!

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5 pieces of artwork, as chosen by Orion Pictures and the guest judges, will be selected. The Selected Creators will:

Potentially have their artwork featured in Bill & Ted Face the Music’s marketing campaign
Potentially receive exposure for their artwork across Bill & Ted Face the Music‘s digital and marketing channels including print materials and merchandise
Receive $2,000 for each piece of artwork selected

Bill & Ted Face the Music centers on Bill S. Preston (Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Reeves), who are now fathers and have yet to fulfill their rock ‘n’ roll destinies. Their lives change when they are visited by a messenger from the future who warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.

Buy both previous Bill & Ted films here.

Joining Winter and Reeves are Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical) as Bill and Ted’s daughters, respectively. The film will also feature Anthony Carrigan (Barry), Jillian Bell (Workaholics), Kristen Schall (Toy Story 4), Holland Taylor (Gloria Bell), Kid Cudi, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, and Beck Bennet. William Sadler is also set to reprise his role as Death alongside franchise returners Amy Stoch and Hal London Jr. Newcomer.

News of a third Bill & Ted film has been floating around for years. After Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, original creators Chris Matheson (Imagine That) and Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Now You See Me) have penned the script, with Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest, Fun with Dick and Jane) directing. Scott Kroopf (Limitless) will produce together with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios, with Steven Soderbergh serving as an executive producer alongside Scott Fischer, John Ryan Jr., and John Santilli.