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Tenet Blu-ray & DVD Details Revealed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital pre-orders for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will begin on November 10. The estimated street date for the physical and digital release of the movie is currently set for December 15, 2020.

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Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist (John David Washington) journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

The movie also stars Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Dimple Kapadia (Fugly), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises), and Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk).

Tenet opened globally beginning in August 2020 and has grossed $350 million to date, with the much-anticipated theatrical openings in the major markets of New York and Los Angeles still to come.

The 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD special features so far include the “Looking at the World in a New Way: The Making of Tenet” featurette, an hour-long exploration of the development and production of the film as told by the cast and crew.

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The film was produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan. Thomas Hayslip served as executive producer.

Nolan’s behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Jennifer Lame, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The score is composed by Ludwig Göransson

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Black Crab: Noomi Rapace to Star in Netflix’s New Thriller Film

BAFTA nominated-actress Noomi Rapace has signed on for the leading role in Netflix‘s forthcoming film adaptation of Black Crab, based on Swedish writer Jerker Virdborg’s thriller novel of the same name. This project marks the fourth collaboration between Rapace and the streamer, who have previously worked together on 2017’s action fantasy film Bright, and sci-fi film What Happened to Monday as well as 2019’s action-thriller Close.

“I’m very excited to come back to Sweden and do Black Crab,” Rapace said in a statement (via Deadline). “My first Swedish film in years. Can’t wait to get suited up and go on this journey – explore human shadows and slide through broken dreams and a world on edge. Survival to what price?”

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Set in a post-apocalyptic world during an endless winter, Black Crab follows six soldiers who are sent on a dangerous mission across the frozen sea to transport a package that could finally end the war. The film will be the feature-length directorial debut of Adam Berg with Malin Idevall and Mattias Montero set as producers. Production is expected to begin next year in Sweden.

“This project combines so many great attributes: a compelling story, a strong creative team and of course an incredibly talented lead actress,” Netflix’s Vice President International Original Film, David Kosse said. “We are looking forward to a great collaboration with Adam and the team at Indio and are confident that our members in Sweden and the rest of the world will enjoy this movie.”

Montero added, “As a Swede, you grow up knowing you live in a country of peace and equality, all in all life’s good and safe here. But lately, we have all learned how fragile our societies are due to pandemics, civil wars, global warming and economic chaos. How would it be to wake up one day in a totally destroyed and war-torn Sweden? Producing Black Crab is about flipping the coin and from a Scandinavian perspective show what happens to humanity when chaos arrives. It’s a big production and a great challenge and thanks to Netflix we can tell this Swedish story to a global audience.”

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The film also marks Rapace’s first major Swedish film after 11 years since her breakout performance as Lisbeth Salander in 2009’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy which was based on Stieg Larsson’s novel series of the same name. Rapace’s other notable film credits include Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Prometheus, Child 44, and The Secrets We Keep.

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Molly and the Moon: Kristen Bell & Jonathan Groff to Reunite in Live-Action Musical Film

According to Deadline, Golden Globe nominee Kristen Bell (The Good Place) and Tony nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton) have officially set up their first live-action teamed-up project as they have signed on for the leading roles in the upcoming original musical film titled Molly and the Moon. This marks Bell and Groff’s latest collaboration after starring together in Disney’s blockbuster animated films Frozen and Frozen II which have a combined gross of over $2 billion worldwide. The project hails from How I Met Your Mother creators and Emmy-nominated duo Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, who are also set to make their feature directorial debuts with the film.

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Molly and the Moon is being described as a comedy musical fantasy drama which will center around a little girl named Molly and her parents Kate and Brian, who will be portrayed by Bell and Groff, respectively. The songs Kate and Brian will sing together become the North Star for Molly to find her way through a mythical world, toward the moon she instinctively feels is calling her.

The story is inspired by Thomas’ personal crisis concerning the birth of his son Elliot, who was born with a rare genetic condition that resulted in him getting several heart defects and open-heart surgery at only two weeks old.

“It’s all live-action; we really wanted to make it feel like the classic live-action fantasy movies of our childhood, things like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal,” Bays said. “As we were building off of this metaphor, it became, how do we show this journey? How do we visualize a soul trying to make it into the world? For us, it felt like the journey of climbing a mountain. Molly is this little girl and the moon in the movie represents being alive and participating in the world. It’s her journey, trying to get to the moon. Around that we built this magical fantasy world that we cut back and forth from, that interacts with the real world in surprising ways. We see the fantasy journey and the friends she makes along the way. There’s a knight in shining armor. There’s a talking bunny that she meets in the forest. There’s a monster that she has to face. It’s a real hero’s journey for her.”

Thomas added, “The meter of Molly Moon is sort of the same as Elliot. Musicals are always about the first moments that prove why they are musicals. Kate, our lead character, the mother, is singing a lullaby to her pregnant belly and will sort of push in on that pregnant belly and go into this other world where we see a mysterious little girl in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean, looking up at the moon and hearing that song, hearing that lullaby come through the moon. It’s the moment you realize there’s this little soul, this life that wants to exist and be in the world and wants to reach the sound of that voice. She doesn’t know what it means or who it is. It just sounds like love, and she wants to reach it, and that’s sort of the moment that we connect the two worlds of our movie, the world of Molly and the real world that her parents are living in.”

Thomas also revealed that the film will also be inspired by films such as Where The Wild Things Are, and Alice in Wonderland. He is hoping that by telling this story, he could honor his son and all the parents who have gone through or are currently experiencing the same difficult journey they’ve undergone.

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Molly and the Moon will be directed by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays from a screenplay they co-wrote. Harvey Mason Jr. (Sing, Pitch Perfect films), Stephanie Diaz-Matos, and Nathan Larson have also boarded the project to serve as executive music producer, music supervisor, and composer, respectively. It will be produced by Jared Ian Goldman, Renee Witt and Jamal Daniel with Tory Metzger set as a producer.

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CS Video: Let Him Go interview with star Lesley Manville

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) to discuss her role as the antagonistic Blanche Weboy in the Kevin Costner (Yellowstone) and Diane Lane (Justice League)-led thriller Let Him Go. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

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Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.

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Let Him Go will be led by two-time Oscar winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) and Oscar nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful), who first appeared together as Jonathan and Martha Kent in Zack Snyder’s 2013 Man of Steel. It will also feature Lesley Manville, Will Brittain, Jeffrey Donovan, Kayli Carter, and Booboo Stewart.

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Based on the novel of the same name by Larry Watson, the film is written and directed by Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone)  Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan of The Mazur Kaplan Company will produce alongside Thomas Bezucha. Kimi Armstrong Stein, Jeffrey Lampert, Kevin Costner, and Rod Lake will executive produce.

Let Him Go hits theaters tomorrow!

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Kat Dennings Doesn’t Think She’ll Be Back For Thor: Love and Thunder

When Thor: Ragnarok opened in 2017, it notably omitted a handful of supporting characters from the previous two Thor movies. One of the missing cast members was Kat Dennings’ Darcy Lewis, who served as a primary source of comic relief in the earlier films. Later this year, Dennings will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Disney+’s WandaVision series. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like this will lead to more adventures in the God of Thunder’s orbit (via SuperHeroHype).

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Entertainment Tonight recently caught up with Dennings ahead of WandaVision’s premiere. Naturally, she couldn’t reveal much about her role in the upcoming series. But when asked whether she will appear in Thor: Love and Thunder, Dennings made her doubts known.

“No, still no idea!” said Dennings. “I don’t think I’m in it. I feel like I would have heard by now. So literally my answer is I have no idea, I have even less an idea than I did before.”

Last month, Chris Hemsworth said that Love and Thunder will start production in January. So if Taika Waititi wanted to include Dennings, he probably would have reached out to her already. Regardless, one character who is definitely coming back is Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. She will make her debut as the Mighty Thor in the film. And even if she isn’t involved, Dennings is still excited to watch this story play out onscreen.

“I thought it was genius, the most genius thing I had ever heard,” added Dennings. “I think it’s so brilliant. I mean, [Portman], you know, she’s a rock star actor, she can do anything. As a fan, I’m just excited to watch it.”

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Thor: Love and Thunder hits theaters on February 11, 2022.

Would you like to see Kat Dennings come back for the sequel? Let us know in the comment section below!

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Gold: Zac Efron to Star in New Survival Thriller Film

The Greatest Showman star Zac Efron has officially signed on for one of the leading roles in director Anthony Hayes’ forthcoming survival thriller titled Gold. On top of directing, Hayes also serves as co-writer and is expected to co-star in the project.

“This is an exciting, gripping and timely tale about greed, humanity, who we are, what we’ve done to the world and where we are heading if we aren’t careful,” Hayes said in a statement (via Deadline). “To have Zac Efron as my main man on this film is an absolute gift and to see what he is creating already is like nothing we’ve seen from him before. I can’t wait to deliver this bold, visceral and cinematic film to audiences all around the world.”

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Gold centers around two strangers traveling through a desert who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found. They hatch a plan to protect and excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary equipment. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, whilst battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his own fate.

The film will be directed by Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom) from a script he co-wrote with Polly Smyth. It will be produced by Hayes through his Rogue Star Pictures banner along with Deeper Water Films’ John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz. The film will be executive produced by Andrew Mann, Peter Touche, Simon Williams, Paul Wiegard, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Nick Forward, and Mike Runagall.

Production is expected to begin in Australia later this month.

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Zac Efron first gained worldwide recognition for his breakout role as Troy Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical trilogy film. He then went on to star in high-profile films such as 17 Again, The Lorax, Baywatch, Neighbors, The Greatest Showman, and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evile and Vile. The 33-year-old actor will next be seen in Disney+’s upcoming Three Men and a Baby remake and Blumhouse’s Firestarter remake.

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Dev Patel-Led Medieval Film The Green Knight Receives R-Rating

According to Film Ratings, A24’s upcoming medieval fantasy film The Green Knight has officially been given an R-rating from the MPAA for “violence, some sexuality and graphic nudity.” Originally scheduled for a May 29, 2020 release, the acclaimed studio hasn’t yet made any announcements about the David Lowery-directed epic film’s new release date after getting delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.

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An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger.  From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table.

The film stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, Lion), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl), Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, The King), Sarita Choudhury (Lady in the Water), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, The Eternals) and Ralph Ineson (Game of Thrones).

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The film is directed and written by David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, The Old Man & the Gun) from a story based on the poem of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The story was already adapted into film twice before by Stephen Weeks, the first of which starred Nigel Green (Jason and the Argonauts) as the Green Knight and the second of which starred Sean Connery (From Russia With Love) as the titular knight.

Lowery will be producing the project alongside Toby Halbrooks (Pete’s Dragon) and James M. Johnston (A Ghost Story) through their Sailor Bear banner. Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page are also producing on behalf of Ley Line Entertainment. Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert and Creative Wealth Media’s Jason Cloth are executive producing.

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Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling Temporarily Halts Production

According to Deadline, New Line Cinema announced that filming on actress-director Olivia Wilde’s highly-anticipated thriller Don’t Worry Darling has been temporarily halted due to a crew member testing positive for COVID-19. The star-studded cast including singer-songwriter Harry Styles, Oscar nominee Florence Pugh, and Chris Pine have immediately gone into quarantine which will last for 14 days.

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Originally written by Carey and Shane Van Dyke, Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological thriller about a 1950’s housewife who uncovers a disturbing truth to her perfect life. It’s also described as a pertinent story for the Time’s Up era and Wilde’s producing and writing collaborator Katie Silberman will rewrite the script and produce the film alongside Wilde and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee.

The film will also star Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Midsommar), Harry Styles (Dunkirk), Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman), and Wilde in a key supporting role. It will also feature Kiki Layne (The Old Guard), Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians, Eternals), Nick Kroll, Douglas Smith, Kate Berlant, Sydney Chandler, Asif Ali, Timothy Simons, and Ari’el Stachel.

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New Line Cinema was eager to work with Wilde following her directorial debut Booksmart. Wilde will also star in and produce the film, alongside Silbermann and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment. The film will also be executive produced by Catherine Hardwicke, Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke with Daria Cercek and Celia Khong set to oversee the project on behalf of New Line.

Part of the deal includes an asking budget around $20 million, fees for acting, directing, for Silberman’s rewrite, and the “rare” backend. The outlet reports that the filmmakers and producers of Don’t Worry Darling stand to receive 50 percent in profit participation once the movie breaks even. The last time a deal was made like this was between Warner Bros. and Todd Phillips’ The Hangover.

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CS Interview: Loretta Devine on Return to Horror in Spell

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Emmy winner Loretta Devine (Grey’s Anatomy, Sierra Burgess is a Loser) to discuss her return to the horror genre for the hoodoo pic Spell, which is now available available on digital platforms!

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ComingSoon.net: So it’s been a while since we’ve seen you in the horror genre, I think since you were Officer Reese in the Urban Legend movies. What was it like returning to the genre?

Loretta Devine: Oh my god. I hadn’t thought of that movie in so long, but this is really a lot different from that [laughs]. I was the good guy in the Urban Legend movie. This time, I’m not such the good guy, I guess I should say. I think the villain is always the one that’s remembered the most, so I think it was very exciting. It was exciting to do because it’s so different from the genre that I’m used to. But I still played a character that had conviction, and this is a woman, Eloise is a practitioner of root work. And she believes herself to be no different from a doctor. So, to me, she’s a good guy, really, but she has very negative motives because it’s the time of the blood moon, which increases your magical powers tenfold, and she has the perfect candidate to do some of the things that she wishes to do for herself. I don’t want to give away the plot. I think the thing that’s the most scary about the film is that it’s really based on the black people that live in the Appalachian mountains and the character that has a definite history that comes out of slavery and has a lot to do with the fact that there is not enough money to get actual doctors. So, these are some of the sort of practices that they use because of the amount of poverty that’s in that region and that there is an amount of truth to it. They use something that is called hoodoo, and hoodoo is American magic. It’s not the same as voodoo, which is a Haitian, African form of witchery and craft. This is called root work, which has to do with the soil and herbs and casting of spells and it also has a great amount to do with what the people believe to be true. So she’s able to give people their sight back and to give them their voice back by using dolls called Boogitys.

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CS: That’s one of the things I really loved about the film, is how expansive it was on the hoodoo culture, which I feel is something we haven’t really seen too much in film before. Were you very familiar with it prior to joining the film?

Devine: Well, I’m from down south and my family picked cotton in Richards, Texas and there were stories. I had heard some of the things that I found out before I did the movie that were actual things that were believed in my family. For instance, if a baby is born with a cowl, which is like a veil over their face, they were considered to have special powers or be able to see things into the future that other people couldn’t see. My character in this script was born that way and they threw her in the river, but she didn’t drown. So other runaway slaves found her and she was taught how to become a root worker. So it is an actual prayer that some of the people believe in and know how to manifest. So I had heard of some of it before, which made it even more scary for me. Also, we shot this in South Africa in Cape Town, and that was scary, too.

CS: Yeah, the farm has such a nice, rural feeling to it, what was it like shooting at that location?

Devine: Well, Mark Tonderai, the director and the writer, they setup the bible that had a view of what the place should be. We filmed most of the story in this attic that was also in one room and had been built into the sky that was connected to a house and a farm area, which is what you see there. It’s built way out in the woods in South Africa in a winery district, which was about an hour’s drive from where we were living, where we were staying in Cape Town. It was very hard because everybody had to go up and down these stairs to get to the main area that we were filming in and sometimes we would be in this very small room, with over 30 people, which would include all of the camera people and the actors and you know, the people with the costumes and the makeup and everything had to go up and down these stairs for everything. It just created a certain kind of tension and weariness I think that made the movie even better.

CS: So you mentioned that you don’t necessarily perceive her as the villain, but what would you say were some of the biggest creative challenges for you getting to the heart of this character that we haven’t really seen you play before?

Devine: Well, mostly the characters that I play are always very sweet mothers. I don’t think I played many villains, even when I was in Urban Legend, I was the good person. So it was a challenge, I think, first of all, I don’t think the people at Paramount really thought it was something I could do because they’d only seen me in very gentle types of roles. The director was the one that said, “Oh no, I saw her on Family Reunion, and when she whooped that boy, I think that’s exactly what I need for this movie.” So he used the timber of my voice and my kindness, I think, as a setup for all of the things that come later in the movie.

CS: So then what was it like building the rapport, the antagonistic rapport with Omari, who I mean, you’ve worked with before and who was telling me that you two were already friends prior to the film?

Devine: See, what you call antagonist to me, I think of everything from my character was very honest. I honestly didn’t mean him any harm, and I honestly felt that everything that was done in the movie was for the good of the community and for the good of my livelihood, which is how most people function. So I don’t think there was anything done in a sinister way, until maybe the very, very end, maybe. That’s what I can say about how I felt about it. I knew Omari from his work more than from personally seeing and knowing him. We live in different states, so we’ve seen each other at awards shows and benefits and things like that, but I didn’t like, know him, know him. I just knew he was fine and that all the women were going to wish they were locked in a basement with him, also an attic. So that’s all I can say, and it really helped the movie that he has his shirt off half the time [laughs].

CS: What was it also like building the rapport with John Beasley as Earl? Because I mean, even though he doesn’t quite have as much screen time as you and Omari, he still feels like a pretty vital person.

Devine: I played John Beasley’s wife before, I think twice in two different television shows. So I knew John Beasley, I’m closer to John than I was to Omari because I knew John better from all of the years of working with him. We also have the same agent and manager, so it was wonderful to work with him. John is very down to earth and very straightforward. He tells you exactly what he thinks without any qualms. I got a chance to spend time with him, his wife and family. We did a lot of sightseeing together on our days off. So that part of it was really, really wonderful.

CS: That’s great. So, you have so many moments to steal the scene throughout, what would you say was your favorite scene to get to perform throughout the film?

Devine: Oh god. There was one speech that I had to give, explaining why she thought root work was so important for her community. I really worked so hard on that speech. There were so many long, long speeches in this thing that took so much time to learn and then to actually do because when you do them over and over, they have to be exact. That was so hard. But the hardest part was not knowing whether or not it would actually make it into the film, you know? So I think the moment where we did, where Omari discovered the bones that I was having him throw and the speech that went with it, that was one of my favorite moments in the film, besides the very ending, where they do what they do to me [laughs].

CS: When I talked to Omari, he even mentioned that there was just a minimal bit of improv going on between the two of you. Did you find that you got to improv a little bit here and there as well?

Devine: I can’t remember—well, in the church scene, there was a lot of improv, and they cut a lot of that out, too, because there was a lot of singing and at one point I think they had John Beasley doing a sermon. I don’t think the sermon made it. A lot of those things were improv’d because it was such a huge church thing and they had no dialogue for that. But they wanted it to be happening. So we just went for it.

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While flying to his father’s funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family.  He awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise’s (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

Alongside the Power alum and This Christmas star, the cast for the film includes John Beasley (The Sum of All Fears, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

The film is written Kurt Wimmer (Children of the Corn, Law Abiding Citizen) and directed by Mike Tonderai (House at the End of the Street, Locke & Key) and is produced by Morris Chestnut (The Resident, The Enemy Within), Gordon Gray (Most Dangerous Game, The Way Back), Janine van Assen (Tomb Raider, Serenity), Brian Wilkins (Darrow & Darrow, Lost in America) and Wimmer.

Spell is now available on video-on-demand and digital platforms from Paramount Home Entertainment!

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