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CS Video: The War With Grandpa interviews with Seymour, Marin & Riggle

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers), Cheech Marin (The Book of Life) and Rob Riggle (Night School) to discuss The War With Grandpa, which is now available in select theaters! Our interviews can be viewed in the player below! Click here to pre-order your digital copy of the family comedy!

RELATED: CS Video: The War With Grandpa Interview With De Niro, Fegley & Marano

Based on the award-winning book by Robert Kimmel Smith, The War with Grandpa follows sixth-grader Peter (Fegley), who is pretty much your average kid — he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter’s family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won’t go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.

Pick up your copy of the book here!

The comedy features an all-star supporting cast, including Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, Laura Marano, and Jane Seymour.

RELATED: De Niro, Hathaway, Isaac & Sutherland Join James Gray’s Armageddon Time

The War with Grandpa is directed by Tim Hill from a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. The film will be released in theaters on October 9, 2020.

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CS Recommends: Michael Mann’s The Keep, 30 Days of Night & More!

Stuck inside? Don’t know what to watch/read/play/listen to? ComingSoon.net has got you covered. In this week’s CS Recommends our staff kicks off gives you solid tips on the best media to consume during your downtime, including The Keep and more! Check out our picks below!

RELATED: October 6 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

MAX EVRY’S RECOMMEND: The Keep

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My favorite film by Michael Mann is his least favorite, the one he has used his considerable pull in Hollywood to try to keep (pun intended) off of Blu-ray and streaming services: 1983’s The Keep. This gothic World War II horror tale concerns Nazis who occupy a Romanian castle that was already occupied by a centuries-old spectral being named Molasar. German soldiers start getting offed, and a brutal SS officer (Gabriel Byrne) is brought in to investigate. The sprawling story weaves in a Jewish scholar (Ian McKellan), a sympathetic non-Nazi German Army Captain (Jürgen Prochnow), and a supernatural warrior called Glaeken (Scott Glenn). To say this movie is bats**t insane is a towering understatement. It’s also famously a mess due to studio interference that rendered some dialogue unintelligible, and scenes edited to the point of incoherence (it was cut from 210 minutes to 96 minutes without Mann’s input). The special effects man also died during production, leaving Mann to scrap many of the big sequences he had planned. It’s a shame, because what remains is an atmospheric wonder, with powerful imagery and a truly memorable golem-like villain, not to mention an exquisite Tangerine Dream score.

I love the film so much I recently took the time to read F. Paul Wilson’s original novel, which is actually only the first part in a multi-book saga called “The Adversary Cycle.” The labyrinthine plot involves false vampirism and the looming threat of concentration camps sweeping through Europe. It deftly combines real-life historical horrors with mythic fantasy elements that lead to nothing less than a confrontation between the forces of light and darkness in the purest sense. It’s also interesting that the character Scott Glenn plays in the film goes by the name “Glen” in the book!

Amazon currently has a low-quality version of The Keep available for purchase, but be warned that the picture and sound quality are dreadful. Still, it’s enough to give you a sense of the vibe Mann was trying to create, and is as close as we’ll get to being able to experience the film until Mann and Paramount relent in releasing a restored version of the already-compromised final product. Having seen a print of the film in a rep theater, I can say it was meant to be experienced in all its horrific splendor! Give the film a go if you’ve never seen it and want to experience a truly wild visionary horror epic, and then if you want to make sense of the plot check out the novel!

KYLIE HEMMERT’S RECOMMEND: 30 Days of Night

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David Slade’s 30 Days of Night debuted in 2007 and still, in my humble opinion, holds up as one of the best vampire horror thrillers to date. Produced by Sam Raimi, the movie is based on the comic book miniseries by Steve Niles, who co-wrote the screenplay, and Ben Templesmith and takes place in a small Alaskan town that enters a thirty-day-long polar night and is quickly overrun by a group of brutal and relentless vampires who take advantage of the prolonged darkness to openly kill and feed upon the townspeople. The adaptation is led by Josh Hartnett alongside Melissa George, Danny Huston, and Ben Foster, and is a genuinely terrifying, smart, and bloody tale about survival, sacrifice, and a seemingly unending nightmare.

GRANT HERMANNS’ RECOMMEND: The Wolf of Snow Hollow

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The werewolf genre generally sees audiences treated to a generic hunt for the titular beast or a focus on the person suffering from the lycanthropic affliction, but Jim Cummings’s The Wolf of Snow Hollow has offered one of the freshest and most entertaining takes on the genre thus far. Acting as a whodunnit in a small snowy town that rarely sees homicides occur, the film presents a fairly intriguing mystery and guessing game as to who’s committing the murders and whether it’s an actual supernatural monster or a disturbed human while also focusing on the offbeat and hilarious officers of the Sheriff Department, especially Cummings’ anger-prone recovering alcoholic deputy. It’s beautifully shot, thrillingly crafted, hilariously written, and brilliantly performed by its whole cast, namely Cummings, Rikki Lindhome, and Robert Forster in his final feature film role, establishing itself as a Halloween must-watch for the ages.

MAGGIE DELA PAZ’S RECOMMEND: Tragedy Girls

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Starring Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp, the film centers around two high school seniors and childhood best friends named Sadie and McKayla, who are both obsessed with becoming social media famous through their titular true crime blog. However, it proves to be difficult for them when there is actually little to no action going on in their boring Mid-western town of Rosedale. That’s why they have no choice but to take matters into their own hands by committing and planning the murders themselves while also managing to keep a serial killer in captivity.

This 2016 slasher dark comedy film was truly a delight to watch. It features a fun and entertaining storyline that is topped off by the incredible and charming performances of Hildebrand and Shipp. Despite being a duo of psychopathic protagonists, it’s extremely hard not to root for their characters, especially when their brutal killing plans don’t always go as smoothly as they’ve wanted them to be. These types of leads are definitely hard to sell to the audience but due to Hildebrand and Shipp’s dynamic chemistry, the film was able to effectively deliver the story and message they intended to convey.

What I also like the most about Tragedy Girls is that it serves as a timely social commentary about the effects of fame and social media to today’s society: How some people nowadays would just post anything that would garner them the most likes, views, and followers without even trying to be thoughtful of its real message and consequences. So, if you’re looking for something to add on your Halloween movie list, I highly recommend you check out this gem!

JEFF AMES’ RECOMMEND: Trick ‘r Treat

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Despite a substantial amount of slasher flicks and monster films at our disposal, there really is a lack of what one might call true Halloween films outside of, say, Hocus Pocus, John Carpenter’s Halloween, and a handful of others that exist in but don’t specifically focus on the holiday. That’s what makes Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat such an amazing, er, treat. The film does for Halloween what A Christmas Carol does for Christmas in that it provides a deeper lore to go along with the bags of candy and wacky, sometimes overly sensual costumes. By film’s end, you’ll not just understand Halloween, but feel compelled to take part in it lest you endure the wrath of the demonic pumpkin creature Sam.

Taking cues from the likes of Charlie Brown’s Halloween, classic slasher films, and monster flicks of yesteryear, Dougherty weaves a tapestry of wildly entertaining and sometimes hilarious stories that culminate with a morbid twist and a clear-cut message: respect Halloween or pay the price. You’ve been warned.

ComingSoon.net recommends all readers comply with CDC guidelines and remain as isolated as possible and to wear your mask during this urgent time.

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CS Video: The War With Grandpa interview with De Niro, Fegley & Marano

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro (The Irishman), Oakes Fegley (The Truth About Lies) and Laura Marano (The Perfect Date) to discuss their roles in The War With Grandpa, which is now in select theaters. Our interview can be viewed in the player below! Click here to pre-order your digital copy of the family comedy!

RELATED: The War with Grandpa Trailer & Poster: Old School vs New Cool

Based on the award-winning book by Robert Kimmel Smith, The War with Grandpa follows sixth-grader Peter (Fegley), who is pretty much your average kid — he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter’s family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won’t go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.

Pick up your copy of the book here!

The comedy features an all-star supporting cast, including Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, Laura Marano, and Jane Seymour.

RELATED: De Niro, Hathaway, Isaac & Sutherland Join James Gray’s Armageddon Time

The War with Grandpa is directed by Tim Hill from a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. The film is now in select theaters nationwide!

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CS Interview: Writer/Director/Star Jim Cummings on The Wolf of Snow Hollow

In time for the film’s debut at the Beyond Fest and on digital platforms and select theaters, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with the writer, director and star of the horror-comedy The Wolf of Snow Hollow Jim Cummings to discuss developing the concept, his influences on the story and working with Robert Forster in his final feature role.

RELATED: [Beyond Fest] The Wolf of Snow Hollow Review: Subversive, Offbeat & Quietly Thrilling

When it came to the conception of the film and developing his story concept, Cummings expresses his large appreciation for the works of Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher and really desired to “make this, like, detective story” and actually started with his ending before building the plot around it.

“I had the idea after the ending of, like, you know, in the breaking story, I’d like to have a certain amount of clues, and there’s one clue which stands out,” Cummings explained. “It’s such a simple biological thing and I had the idea for the reveal of the twist at the end of the film and I was like, ‘That would be so dope, that would just be the coolest thing to do 70 minutes into a movie.’ I had to do that, I wrote the story and did all this research and read all of John Douglas’ books about serial murderers and motive and detective stories and all that stuff and I tried to make it as realistic as possible in that sense. Very quickly, it was like, ‘Alright cool this is actually a pretty dope idea, let’s see if we can go out with it’ and Orion read it and was ‘Oh, yeah, absolutely, let’s do this movie.’ It was kind of perfect, I was living in Los Angeles for three years and it was always boiling hot. I thought it might be fun to do like a snowball fight, kind of fun movie with my friends and we were incredibly lucky, the guys at Orion were just incredibly endorsing of us and allowed us to go out and make this thing.”

In tapping into both the detective nature of the story as well as the horror nature of the werewolf element, the multi-hyphenate filmmaker notes that he and his crew always kept the tropes of both genres in mind and “used that a lot on set,” stating it was “so important to do that.”

“The horror fandom is like such a unique kind of like crazed fandom and like the more that you can plant Easter eggs and like it becomes a much more diverse conversation with the audience in a way that other filmmaking isn’t,” Cummings expressed. “It’s like you have such a tapestry of horror movies that you kind of have to embrace these things because you’ll get cheers from the crowd. It’s a neat and fun thing to do.”

Cummings also found getting to work with the recently revived Orion Pictures was like a “daydream,” warmly recalling how it was “such a trip to see the first cut with the Orion logo and the spinning stars” and joking that he “could retire tomorrow, like, I made it in life.”

“I get to have this open one of my movies, like that stuff was really fun,” Cummings stated. “Outside of that, the team we’re working with, the executives were so kind and young and like, got it. They were very much understanding of, you know, how subtle you can be on a joke or subtle you can be in detective stuff and that the audience would follow it along anyway. Yeah. It was a daydream to work with them and they all kind of got the tone of the movie and gave notes that made the film better, not just different, which is very rare.”

Click here to purchase The Wolf of Snow Hollow!

Prior to partnering with Orion for his first studio film, Cummings broke out with his feature debut on the indie dramedy Thunder Road, based on his short film of the same name, on which he served as director, writer, star, co-editor, composer and visual effects artist. Coming into Wolf of Snow Hollow, however, Cummings elected to hand a number of these reins off to other talent and choose to focus on acting, directing and writing and he found it be a “great dream” experience.

“There were there were full days on set where I didn’t have to go into hair and makeup and I got to just direct,” Cummings recalled with a chuckle. “I got to work with Kelsey Edwards who, we met her in Utah, she’s a local and she plays Liz Fairchild in the film. She just could do all of the wonderful monologues, stuff that I think I’m, you know, halfway decent at and I didn’t have to do it. There are people who we got to work with where they were such a juggernaut of what they do that I didn’t have to worry about any of it. I just got to show up and do it. Natalie Kingston, the same thing, I’d never worked with her as a cinematographer, but I was a fan of hers for years. She and I are both from New Orleans. This was the first movie where I never touched the camera, I didn’t have to, I didn’t have to do any of that. It was like exclusively cinematography versus directing they were two non-overlapping departments, which is really, really wonderful. It was different, it was nice to be able to just direct and not have to race back and forth in front of the camera and behind it [laughs].”

When it came to building his cast, which alongside himself included the likes of Knives Out‘s Rikki Lindhome and Breaking Bad alum Forster, Cummings noted he had the latter at the top of his list when writing the character while finding the rest of his cast came with the luck of the draw of the casting process.

“One of our producers, Matt Miller, had worked with him in a film called Too Late so we knew that we could at least get a script to him that he would read,” Cummings explained. “But then some of them, no, like Rikki Lindhome came in to audition and I had seen her in Garfunkel & Oates and a thousand other films, and it was mainly comedy stuff and it was mainly a bit metropolitan. I had never seen her play this kind of like cowgirl tomboy and then as soon as we talked, as soon as we got on the phone and hung out with each other, she was like, ‘Oh no, this is like I grew up in a small town. This was me. Like, I know this. I know this person. I know this thing.’ It became very clear. So like it was kind of casting against the grain, but she fucking killed it in the movie. She comes across as like so, you know, desirous of success and then also like wanting to create diplomacy and she’s just so put upon this whole time. It’s just like it was exactly what the character was supposed to be. And she became that it was really wonderful.”

Cummings discussed it was “a crazy shock” when the news first broke that Forster had passed away, leading to everyone “calling my phone and I had to merge a bunch of calls” and finding it to be “a really weird thing when somebody that you know who is a celebrity passes away” but that he’s honored to be bringing his final feature performance to the world.

“He’s so good in the film and I feel like I got to know him a lot and he kind of was this paternal figure for all of us,” Cummings warmly remembered. “The movie’s about this guy who’s hiding a medical condition from people so that he could keep working and so it was kind of this perfect fusion that he you know, he did such a great job. I don’t know. We didn’t change the edit after he passed away, I would say that we because, you know, we loved him just the same from the first day we started editing it and he gave us gold. The movie, his performance was so funny and so heartbreaking and kind of honest of what it’s like to be the head of a patriarchal group like a sheriff’s department. That performance, I mean, I stand by it, that’s one for the ages, he’s so good.”

While not faced with too many creative challenges on the film, given a supportive cast and crew and producers, Cummings did laugh as he recalled he encountered plenty of production challenges with his shooting in the mountainous setting.

“Shooting on the top of a mountain at 14 degrees, you know, when trying to murder someone over 14 hours outside,” Cummings related. “We had to do all of this stuff that like from my hot porch in Echo Park, sounded like a good idea, and then when you’re at the top of the mountain and all your friends have frostbite, you’re like, ‘Why did you do this to us?’ It’s not the best idea. I mean, everything, dude, we had, you know, at the most, I think were 60 people on set, 60 members, the cast and crew, for some of these bigger set pieces, that’s something that I had never done before. Somebody and producer Ben Wiessner says ‘Making a movie like this is like taking an aircraft carrier to the grocery store’ for getting the simplest shot that you would normally be able to get by going and grabbing the camera and taking it up very quickly has to be done with this huge team of people, and so it just takes a lot longer. There’s a quote there’s a great quote from Uncle David Fincher who says, ‘You don’t know what directing is until you’ve got five shots left to get, but the sun is going down and you’re only going to get two.’ And I remember hearing that in film school and then learning it in a real way on this film.”

Having mentioned the Social Network and Se7en filmmaker a few times in previous answers, Cummings confirmed that two-time Oscar nominee Fincher was a major influence for the look of the film as he and cinematographer Kingston discussed his works frequently as she built her lookbook that was “based off of kind of darker films and photographers as well.”

“Going through all of Fincher’s cinematographers and like some of the movie lends to that, like, ‘Hey, it’s ok that this is not as sculpted, this is just like this girl eating ramen in her kitchen,’ that felt a bit more, you know, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Cummings explained. “Yeah, I mean, there are thousands of conversations we had, we spent five days in a room together just talking about what the look at the movie was going to be and doing shotlisting and talking about the emotions of the scenes and that kind of stuff. Which is something I had never been before. But yeah, that was that was all kind of in the DNA of the project before we showed up on set.”

With the film coming at a time in which people are still sequestered to their homes, the studio was unable to hold test screenings and established its premieres at the Beyond and Fantastic Fest as the first time people would see it and Cummings laughingly called it “a waking terror” leading up to the release but also expressed excitement for the response, especially as it heads to drive-ins and digital platforms after the festivals.

“It really is relatively unsanitized it’s so cool,” Cummings excitedly opined. “You know, Jim said it was okay and the two other editors say, okay, the studio says it’s okay let’s put it out to the world. But then dude, it’s like the fact that Beyond Fest and Fantastic Fest and American Cinematheque, all these people that are, like, working hard to get the movie on the screen. It’s such a daydream to be able to have made this thing over the last two years and then finally people get to see it, that’s a very cool thing. Like all of these amazing actors that acted in the film finally get to have clips for their reel and like, you know, that the universe gets to have something that’s like a fun Christmasy werewolf movie for the holiday season. I don’t know, man, it’s a it depends on what day you ask me, there’s times where I’m like, ‘I wish I had known, I wish I’d known AfterEffects when I was doing that shot, I could stabilize it better. But like that’s it, you put it out, it’s my first studio movie, I’m thrilled. I think it’s also really something I’m feeling the transformative nature of like being transported to this snowy small town, but like it snowed in Colorado last weekend. So there’s going to be snow at the drive that like it’s going to feel like you’re part of that experience. So much of the movie is like in cars and like it’s such a fun movie to watch with a crowd, and I just I’m thrilled for people to be able to engage with it in that way. There’s like such a retro, the movie has this kind of like ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, like retro Orion classic feel to it. And so it’s just fun. I don’t know, it feels like it feels like, you know, John Carpenter, we’re putting Halloween on the big screen again. You know, it feels like that kind of fun, rush of excitement for fandom.”

RELATED: Synchronic Trailer: Anthony Mackie & Jamie Dornan Star in New Sci-Fi Horror

Written and directed by Jim Cummings, the film follows a small-town sheriff struggling with a failed marriage, a rebellious daughter, and a lackluster department, as he is tasked with solving a series of brutal murders that are occurring on the full moon. As he’s consumed by the hunt for the killer, he struggles to remind himself that there’s no such thing as werewolves.

Alongside Forster, the cast for the film includes Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Under the Silver Lake), Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal, The King of Staten Island) and Chloe East (Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, Next Level).

The trailer for the film includes a new song called “Little Red Riding Hood” from the soundtrack for the film, arranged by Ben Lovett with vocals from Valen. The film is scored by Ben Lovett (composer for The Ritual, The Night House and The Wind). The soundtrack is set to be released by Lakeshore Records.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow is now available in select theaters and on digital platforms and VOD just in time for the Halloween season!

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7.8 out of 10

Cast:

Timothée Chalamet … Gatsby
Elle Fanning … Ashleigh
Liev Schreiber … Roland Pollard
Suzanne Smith … Roland’s Assistant
Olivia Boreham-Wing … Roland’s Assistant
Ben Warheit … Alvin Troller
Griffin Newman … Josh
Selena Gomez … Chan

You can pre-order your copy of the movie here!

A Rainy Day In New York Review

There’s a whimsical sense of innocence and naivete percolating Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York, an entertaining old-fashioned rom com in which a pair of attractive lovers realize their future lies with other more attractive people. The two main characters, Gatsby and Ashleigh, played by Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning, are meant to signify contemporary youths — albeit to the nth degree — struggling with life on opposite ends of the social pole, as it were. He’s a deadbeat snob who loathes his more culturally inspired upbringing and spends his nights gambling away his fortune, while she’s just a gal from Arizona who fawns at every celebrity she comes in contact with and is too innocuous to recognize her own irresistible sex appeal. They co-exist because, hey, she’s cute and fun and he’s sophisticated and mostly uncomplicated.

The plot ushers them to (where else?) New York, so she can interview a famed filmmaker (played by Live Schreiber) experiencing his own midlife crisis alongside a neurotic producer (played by Jude Law). Predictably, the job separates Ashleigh from Gatsby long enough for each of them to go on one of those life reflective quests where every encounter provides some form of on-the-nose commentary about their relationship.

At one point, Gatsby visits his brother and learns that he is afraid to marry his fiancé because her obnoxious laugh renders him impotent. Later, Gatsby speaks to his mother and discovers a deep family secret that completely changes his outlook on society and his personal upbringing. He even stumbles onto a movie set where he runs into Chan (Selena Gomez), a sister of a former flame, who instantly lambasts him for his completely unoriginal decision to date a girl from the desert. “What do you guys talk about? Snakes?”

Ashleigh, meanwhile, enjoys her own misadventures during which her fondness for Gatsby seems to diminish with each glass of wine.

There’s a not-so-subtle conflict in the film revolving around the finer arts versus more popular entertainment. When Gatsby refuses to go to his mother’s literary party filled with “housewives who have the leisure to pursue esoteric culture — the out of work discussing the out of print,” he casually name-drops the famed sports journalist Jimmy Cannon, who made his mark covering boxing. Oh, and Gatsby makes this observation while sitting beneath a giant mural of Marvel superheroes.

In an earlier scene, Gatsby bumps into an old chum from school who slams “Turner Classic Movie wimps,” Grace Kelly and laments the lack of toilet humor in modern films. How uncivilized. But also, what?

Basically, the whole endeavor serves mostly as an excuse for Allen, now 84, to unleash his trademark neurotic dialogue, pontify about classical artists, and critique modern culture. To that end, A Rainy Day in New York delivers in spades and works as an amusing piece of romantic cinema dripping with enough pop culture references to make cinephiles swoon. Your enjoyment of the film will greatly depend on your love of art and Hollywood in general, though Allen does paint a seedy portrait of a La-La Land infected with sleazy playboys and dejected would-be artists caked in alcohol.

Chalamet makes for an engaging enough lead, though he looks far too young to carry the kind of depression he wallows in for much of the film’s run time; and speaks and acts like a character from another century. At one point he claims his family is “a farrago of WASP plutocrats,” to which the recipient of the comment replies, “That sounds like something on the menu of a Fusion restaurant.”

Is there really a place in this world where people talk like that?

On the opposite end of the spectrum is the adorable Elle Fanning, who charms her way through a rudimentary role with aplomb. Ashleigh is (for lack of a better word) a flibbertigibbit, whose sole purpose is to make bad decisions in order to help audiences accept Gatsby’s ultimate choice at the film’s end. Yet, Fanning stimulates the character with a pleasant dose of sweetness and plucky charm that is hard to sneer at. “I certainly hope there isn’t a gun in the glove compartment like in one of your movies,” she tells a producer after he catches his wife cheating on him, so enchanted is Ashleigh by the aura of movies. Though, later we see she at least has the good sense to recognize and debate whether to accept a sexual advance from a popular actor.

A Rainy Day in New York doesn’t aspire to the same heights as Annie Hall, nor does it reach the greatness of more modern fair like Midnight in Paris. That’s because, for all the aforementioned talk revolving around art and culture, the film really boils down to a simple tale of boy meets girl. With this, Allen doesn’t traverse any new ground. Except, the man has such a strong grasp of the romantic comedy genre that even his lesser works hold some value.

You may not get much out of it, but A Rainy Day in New York still manages to stir the mind and tickle the heart.

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Pixar’s Soul to Debut on Disney+ This Christmas!

The Walt Disney Company announced today that Soul, the all-new original feature from Pixar Animation Studios, will debut exclusively on Disney+ on December 25, 2020. In international markets where Disney+ isn’t currently or soon to be available, Soul will be released theatrically, with dates to be announced.

RELATED: Watch a Sneak Peek From Disney & Pixar’s Soul!

“We are thrilled to share Pixar’s spectacular and moving ‘Soul’ with audiences direct to Disney+ in December,” said Bob Chapek, Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company. “A new original Pixar film is always a special occasion, and this truly heartwarming and humorous story about human connection and finding one’s place in the world will be a treat for families to enjoy together this holiday season.”

Soul comes from visionary filmmaker Pete Docter, the Academy Award-winning director behind Inside Out and Up, and co-director/writer Kemp Powers, playwright and screenwriter of One Night in Miami. It stars the voice talents of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Angela Bassett and Daveed Diggs and features original jazz music by globally renowned musician Jon Batiste and a score composed by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network).

“The world can be an exhausting and frustrating place – but it’s also full of unexpected joys, even in seemingly mundane things,” said Docter, director of Soul and Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios. “‘Soul’ investigates what’s really important in our lives, a question we’re all asking these days. I hope it will bring some humor and fun to people at a time when everyone can surely use that.”

Over the last six months, marketplace conditions created by the ongoing pandemic, while difficult in so many ways, have also provided an opportunity for innovation in approaches to content distribution. With over 60 million subscribers within the first year of launch, the Disney+ platform is an ideal destination for families and fans to enjoy a marquee Pixar film in their own homes like never before.

Previously scheduled for theatrical release on November 20, 2020, Soul was named an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year along with multiple upcoming festivals including the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival this Sunday.

RELATED: New Soul Trailer Previews Pixar’s Newest Original Film

What is it that makes you…YOU? Pixar Animation Studios’ Soul introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions.

Soul is Directed by Academy Award winner Pete Docter (Inside Out, Up), co-directed by Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami) and produced by Academy Award nominee Dana Murray, p.g.a. (Pixar short Lou).

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New York Sideshow Con day 3 reveals, booth tour & sales!

The third day of the New York Sideshow Con has arrived and revealed a roster of exciting new figures including The Child from Disney+’s The Mandalorian, a number of iconic DC and Marvel Comics characters and even Star Wars‘ Darth Maul. The figures can be viewed in the gallery below!

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While most physical conventions have moved entirely into the digital realm, Sideshow New York Con will recreate their bold custom-made installation that debuted during the summer show season, with updates to the format to keep fans engaged throughout the week. This secure and private environment captures the spirit of the incredible “pop culture art gallery” style presence that Sideshow traditionally exhibits at shows like New York Comic Con in order to augment the comprehensive virtual streaming experience for audiences at home.

“Once again, we’re building a bespoke physical space at Sideshow Studios – but this time in the form of an intimate museum/art gallery-style venue – with podium displays with fine art on the walls, and beautiful pop culture dioramas showcasing statues and figures by Sideshow, Hot Toys, PCS Collectibles, Iron Studios, Tweeterhead, Unruly Industries, Atomic Misfit, and more,” Sideshow PR Manager Andy Smith said in a statement. “Sideshow will be sharing a wealth of social media content throughout the event, including live-streamed booth tours, photos, interviews, and contests – and we’ll be showcasing different displays every single day!”

Sideshow Con’s summer 2020 swag bundle was an instant sell-out, with the fall swag bundle- complete with a collectible pin, an event T-shirt, and a promotional code- expected to be equally as popular. Fans who purchase this limited edition swag bundle will also receive a free bonus Stan Lee collectible pin celebrating the comic book legend and the city that never sleeps. Fans can also score reward points for their Sideshow account during the event, meaning there are plenty of chances to collect throughout the convention.

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Sideshow New York Con offers fans a chance to engage closely with their favorite products, artists, and fandoms without lines, crowds, or taxis- the only traffic here is web traffic! Access to Sideshow’s full convention experience has never been easier with comprehensive product livestreams, as well as creator interviews, up-to-the-minute reveals and announcements, and other content features that bring all of the news right to you from October 6-11.

Today’s Highlight Also Includes Batman: Modern Age Premium Format Figure:

Criminals of Gotham, beware! Sideshow presents the Batman: Modern Age Premium Format Figure, protecting your city of DC Comics collectibles.

The Batman: Modern Age Premium Format Figure measures 21 inches tall, perched atop an Arkham cemetery base with a grim expression beneath his signature mask. Fans familiar with the shaded history of Gotham’s famed asylum may recognize the marks of madness carved into the gravestones beneath Batman’s boots.

The polyresin Batman: Modern Age Premium Format Figure stands ready to bring justice to his city, wearing his iconic blue and grey costume composed of a sculpted tactical bodysuit which bears his iconic yellow and black bat-symbol on the chest, as well as a muted gold utility belt at his waist. Batman’s blue sculpted gauntlets, boots, and white-eyed cowl all bear the scars and fatigue of realistic battle-damage, giving the Dark Knight a sense of history as the defender of Gotham. The Caped Crusdaer also features a tailored blue fabric cape with a black underside, distress detailing, and internal wiring that allows you to pose the material for added dramatic flair.

The Batman: Modern Age Premium Format Figure is extremely limited to an edition of only 500 pieces that retail for $600, making this a must-have Batman collectible for DC Comics fans

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Reed Morano & Charlie Kaufman tapped to adapt The Memory Police

Coming off of his rave success with the Netflix distributed psychological drama I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman has found his next project in Amazon’s adaptation of The Memory Police which has also found its director in The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Reed Morano, according to Deadline.

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Based on Yoko Ogawa’s 1994 novel of the same name, the story takes place on an unnamed island off an unnamed coast where things have begun to disappear, beginning small with ribbons and roses and progressively grows into photographs. However, a few rare people are able to remember the things that no longer exist but the Memory Police are determined to make sure that what has been erased must remain forgotten forever. When a young novelist realizes her book editor is one of the few people still able to remember things, she shelters him in a room under her floorboards and the two struggle to hold onto the truth as the world closes in around them.

The script for the adaptation of the National Book Award-nominated tale will be penned by four-time Oscar nominee and one statue winner Kaufman while Morano, the first woman to win the Best Director Emmy for the pilot of Hulu’s Emmy-winning drama The Handmaid’s Tale, will direct and produce the project.

Click here to purchase the recently published translation of Ogawa’s acclaimed novel!

Despite receiving rave reviews from critics in its original release, The Memory Police only recently made its way to English-language countries with an English translation from Pantheon Books last August, just over 25 years after its original publishing by Kodansha in Japan.

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After making her feature debut with the acclaimed 2015 drama Meadowland and following it with the 2018 well-received post-apocalyptic drama I Think We’re Alone Now, Morano returned to the filmmaking world with the Blake Lively-led action thriller The Rhythm Section, which received generally negative reviews from critics and set the record for the worst opening weekend of a film playing in over 3,000 theaters and bombed at the box office.

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Wolfwalkers Trailer Previews Apple’s Fantasy Animated Film

Apple has released the official Wolfwalkers trailer for their upcoming original fantasy animated feature which hails from Cartoon Saloon, an acclaimed Irish animation studio who are the ones behind Oscar-nominated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea and The Breadwinner. The film is expected to have its theatrical release this fall and will be available for streaming on December 11. Check out the video in the player below!

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In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the WOLFWALKERS and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Wolfwalkers features the voices of Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon McBurney, Tommy Tiernan, John Morton, Jon Kenny, Nora Twomey, Oliver McGrath, Niamh Moyles and Sofia Coulais.

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Wolfwalkers is directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart from a script written by Will Collins. It is produced by Paul Young, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, and Stephan Roelants. The film had its world premiere last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange joins Spider-Man 3!

As if the return of Jamie Foxx’s Electro for Tom Holland’s third webslinger adventure wasn’t already exciting, Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man threequel as Doctor Strange, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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With Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark resting in peace and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury off on a vacation in space with the Skrulls, Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange will be filling in as the adult mentor for Holland’s Peter Parker in the film, while also possibly establishing the connection between Foxx’s Electro and Holland’s Spider-Man, should it be the same iteration of the villain from the Andrew Garfield-led Amazing Spider-Man film.

While most of the original series cast are set to return for the threequel, Foxx’s casting further blurs the lines across Sony’s three webslinging franchises, with the previous installment bringing back J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson from Sam Raimi’s trilogy and the studio’s Sony Universe of Marvel Characters led by Venom expected to crossover into the Marvel Cinematic Universe series soon.

Foxx previously portrayed the role in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 helmed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield in the titular role, but after it underperformed at the box office with $708.9 million worldwide on its estimated $200 million budget and received mixed reviews from critics and fans, Sony cancelled future plans including a third Garfield-led film and Sinister Six and Venom spin-offs.

Originally scheduled for a July 16, 2021 release, the film was first pushed back to November 5 and will now bow on December 17. The untitled third installment’s previous release date was recently given to Uncharted, with Holland revealing in an Instagram video that production on the webslinging title should begin around February 2021 after the conclusion of the filming for Nathan Drake’s long-awaited big-screen debut.

Tom Holland will return for the film as the titular wall-crawler, and it remains to be seen what villains he’ll go up against in the trilogy caper. Given the ending of Far From Home however, any number of his rogues gallery are likely eager for a fight. The third installment to the MCU’s Spider-Man films will also feature the return of Zendaya (Euphoria, Dune) as MJ. Holland’s Spider-Man is also set to appear in another Marvel Studios film per the new agreement.

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Sony’s upcoming Spidey slate includes the Venom sequel, starring Tom Hardy and directed by Andy Serkis, as well as Jared Leto’s in-the-can Morbius, a Kraven the Hunter film, and a spinoff featuring Silver Sable and Black Cat. Should these films interact with the MCU and Tom Holland, it remains to be seen, but the door seems open.

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