The Boss Baby 2 lands Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Greenblatt & Eva Longoria

As the studio preps to get one sequel in theaters later this year, DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby, now subtitled Family Business, has begun building the rest of its cast with the additions of Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic World: Dominion), Ariana Greenblatt (Stuck in the Middle) and Eva Longoria (Dora and the Lost City of Gold), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

RELATED: Hans Zimmer & Steve Mazzaro Return to Score The Boss Baby 2

In addition to the trio, the cast has also expanded to include James Marsden (Sonic the Hedgehog) and Amy Sedaris (BoJack Horseman), all of whom join returning stars Alec Baldwin (The Looming Tower) in the titular role and Jimmy Kimmel (Teen Titans Go! to the Movies) and Lisa Kudrow (Neighbors 2) as the parents.

“The everyday joy for me is not only watching our actors make a line hilarious or heartfelt through subtle adjustments, but the process they all share of improvisation and character creation,” director Tom McGrath said in a statement. “They are the heart and soul of the characters they bring to life.”

The official logline for the film reads as follows:

Tim (Marsden) is now a married dad. Ted is a hedge fund CEO. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again … and inspire a new family business. Tim and his super-mom wife Carol (Longoria) live in the suburbs with their super-smart 7-year-old daughter Tabitha (Greenblatt), and super-cute new infant Tina (Sedaris). Tabitha, who’s at the top her class at the prestigious Acorn Center for Advanced Childhood, idolizes her Uncle Ted and wants to become like him, but Tim worries that she’s working too hard and is missing out on a normal childhood. When baby Tina reveals that she’s—ta-da!—a top secret agent for BabyCorp on a mission to uncover the dark secrets behind Tabitha’s school and its mysterious founder, Dr. Armstrong (Goldblum), it will reunite the Templeton brothers in unexpected ways, lead them to re-evaluate the meaning of family and discover what truly matters.

The first Boss Baby, released on March 31, 2017, earned $468.4 million worldwide, with $167 million coming from North America and $301.4 million from international markets. It also spawned a spinoff series on Netflix titled The Boss Baby: Back in Business.

The Boss Baby is a hilariously universal story about how a new baby’s arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly-imaginative 7-year old named Tim. With a sly, heart-filled message about the importance of family, DreamWorks’ The Boss Baby is an authentic and broadly appealing original comedy for all ages.

RELATED: CS Score Reviews Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

The voice cast also includes Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Miles Bakshi. The animated film is directed by Tom McGrath and written by Michael McCullers. The Boss Baby is produced by Ramsey Ann Naito.

Boss Baby 2 is slated to hit theaters on March 26, 2021.

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Dune’s Baron Harkonnen Fully Revealed Via New Action Figure

With all the publicity surrounding the new Dune movie, including McFarlane Toys‘ first reveals, one major character mostly remained hidden until now. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, memorably portrayed as a human blimp with a skin condition in the David Lynch version. The trailer offered a hint of Stellan Skarsgard‘s version in what looked like a mud bath, but now McFarlane Toys’ action figure gives us a full look at his outfit from the film (via SuperHeroHype).

His skin may be cleaner, but the villainous head of House Harkonnen looks just as morbidly obese. Not one to get his hands dirty in the action himself, the Baron likely leaves most of the active evildoing to his nephew Glossu Rabban.

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The figure depicted is a 12-inch figure, which most likely means a larger scale than the others, and barely articulated. McFarlane Toys knows the market prefers poseable characters in the six to seven-inch scale, but their Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 lines recently included more dynamically posed, fixed-position 12-inchers.

Could we see him in a smaller scale as well? Assuming the other figures sell, it seems likely. We still haven’t seen the Baron’s archrival Duke Leto in plastic form yet, and the Dune toy universe would feel incomplete without them.

The Baron hits stores this fall. Whether or not the movie opens on schedule, we shall see.

Will you make this bloated baddie part of your toy roster? Let us know in comments.

Recommended Purchase: McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Earth -52 Batman (Red Death) and The Flash Action Figure Multipack

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New to Hulu October 2020: All the movies & shows coming & going

The list for the new Hulu October 2020 movies and TV titles has been released, which you can now view below (via Vital Thrills) along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service next month. This includes the series debuts of new Hulu originals: Marvel Television’s last series Helstrom starring Tom Austen as Daimon Helstrom and Sydney Lemmon as Ana Helstrom; and the new horror anthology series Monsterland as well as the premieres of horror films Bad Hair and Books of Blood.

RELATED: Hulu Debuts First Teaser & Premiere for Justin Simien’s Bad Hair

Available October 1

90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days: Complete Season 4 (TLC)

90 Day Fiancé: Complete Season 7 (TLC)

All-Star Halloween Spectacular: Special (Food Network)

Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern: Complete Seasons 9 & 10 (Travel Channel)

Bride Killa: Complete Season 1 (ID)

Cutthroat Kitchen: Complete Season 13 (Food Network)

Dr. Pimple Popper: Complete Season 4 (TLC)

Going for Sold: Complete Season 1 (HGTV)

Guy’s Grocery Games: Complete Seasons 18 – 20 (Food Network)

Halloween Baking Championship: Complete Seasons 1 – 4 (Food Network)

Halloween Wars: Complete Seasons 3 – 8 (Food Network)

Hell’s Kitchen: Complete Season 18 (ITV)

Homicide City: Charlotte: Complete Season 1 (ID)

Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda: Complete Season 9 (ID)

Man with a Van: Complete Season 1 (ID)

Moonshiners: Master Distiller: Complete Season 1 (Discovery)

Murder Comes Home: Complete Season 1 (ID)

My 600-lb Life: Complete Season 8 (TLC)

My Feet Are Killing Me: Complete Season 1 (TLC)

Property Virgins: Complete Season 18 (HGTV)

Supermarket Stakeout: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)

Sweet 15: Quinceañera: Complete Season 1 (TLC)

The Flay List: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)

Twisted Love: Complete Season 1 (ID)

31 (2016)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Across The Line (2015)

After Life (2010)

Anti-Trust (2001)

Blade (1998)

Blade 2 (2002)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Blood Ties (2014)

Blue City (1986)

The Curse Of Downers Grove (2015)

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2011)

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

The Executioners (2018)

The Express (2008)

The Eye (2008)

Fallen (1998)

Girls Against Boys (2013)

Good Hair (2009)

Guess Who (2005)

Hostel (2006)

Hostel: Part II (2007)

House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)

The Hurt Locker (2009)

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Interview With the Vampire (1994)

Joe (2014)

Judy & Punch (2019)

Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Killers (2010)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Martyrs (2016)

Mud (2013)

Nurse 3D (2014)

The Pirates! Band Of Misfits (2012)

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

The Quiet Ones (2014)

Raging Bull (1980)

The Sandman (2018)

Senorita Justice (2004)

Sk8 Dawg (2018)

The Skull (1965)

Snakes On A Plane (2006)

Spaceballs (1987)

Species (1995)

Superbad (2007)

Thanks for Sharing (2013)

Tooth Fairy (2008)

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Vampire (2011)

Wayne’s World 2 (1993)

When A Stranger Calls (2006)

William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard (2015)

Available October 2

Monsterland: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)

Connecting: Series Premiere (NBC)

Available October 3

Ma Ma (2015)

Available October 4

Saturday Night Live: Season 46 Premiere (NBC)

Available October 5

Dragon Ball Super: New Episodes 1 – 131 (DUBBED) (Toei)

Available October 7

Books of Blood: Film Premiere (Hulu Original)

Ellen’s Game of Games: Season 4 Premiere (NBC)

Next: Series Premiere (Fox)

Available October 8

Scream 4 (2011)

Available October 9

Terminator: Dark Fate (2020)

Available October 11

Infamous (2020)

Savage Youth (2018)

Scotch: A Golden Dream (2018)

Available October 12

The Swing Of Things (2020)

Available October 14

The Bachelorette: Season 16 Premiere (ABC)

Available October 15

The Purge: Complete Season 2 (USA)

Treadstone: Complete Season 1 (USA)

Bad Roomies (2015)

High Strung (2016)

It Came from the Desert (2017)

Life After Basketball (2019)

Playing with Fire (2019)

The Escort (2016)

Available October 16

Helstrom: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)

The Painted Bird (2019)

Available October 17

Shark Tank: Season 12 Premiere (ABC)

Momma Named Me Sheriff: Complete Season 1 (Adult Swim)

Mr. Pickles: Finale Episode (Adult Swim)

Available October 18

Friend Request (2016)

Available October 19

America’s Funniest Home Videos: Season 31 Premiere (ABC)

Card Sharks: Series Premiere (ABC)

Supermarket Sweep: Series Premiere (ABC)

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Season 2 Premiere (ABC)

Available October 20

The Voice: Season 19 Premiere (NBC)

F*ck That’s Delicious: Complete Season 4 (Vice)

Available October 21

Cyrano, My Love (2019)

Available October 21

Black-ish: Season 7 Premiere (ABC)

The Conners: Season 3 Premiere (ABC)

The Goldbergs: Season 8 Premiere (ABC)

Available October 23

Bad Hair: Film Premiere (Hulu Original)

Superstore: Season 6 Premiere (NBC)

Available October 26

Homeland: Complete Season 8 (Showtime)

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012)

Available October 29

American Housewife: Season 5 Premiere (ABC)

Bad Therapy (2020)

Here’s what is leaving Hulu in October: 

Leaving October 31

31 (2016)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

A Good Woman (2006)

After Life (2010)

An American Haunting (2006)

An Eye for a Eye (1966)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Australia (2008)

The Bellboy (1960)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

The Bounty (1984)

The Brothers McMullen (1995)

Bug (1975)

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin’ (1983)

Cinderfella (1960)

The Curse Of Downers Grove (2015)

Downhill Racer (1969)

The Executioners (2018)

Footloose (1984)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Girls Against Boys (2013)

Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

Gloria (2014)

Hellraiser (1987)

Hostel (2006)

Hostel: Part Ii (2007)

Hot Rod (2007)

The Impossible (2012)

Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole (2010)

Life of Pi (2012)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Margin Call (2011)

Martyrs (2016)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

The Patsy (1964)

The Pawnbroker (1964)

Phase IV (1974)

Psycho Granny (2019)

The Quiet Ones (2014)

Red (2010)

The Sandman (2018)

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Sliver (1993)

Spaceballs (1987)

Stuck On You (2003)

The Tenant (1976)

The Terminator (1984)

Trapped Model (2019)

Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019)

Twilight (2008)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)

Ultraviolet (2006)

Vampire (2011)

Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter (2019)

Walking Tall (1973)

When A Stranger Calls (2006)

Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard (2015)

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CS Interview: Janelle Monáe on social horror-thriller Antebellum

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with eight-time Grammy nominee Janelle Monáe (The Glorias) to discuss her role in the upcoming socially driven horror-thriller Antebellum, which is set to hit digital platforms this week!

RELATED: CS Video: Jena Malone & Jack Huston Talk Horror Thriller Antebellum

With the film taking a mind-bending approach at exploring the real terrors of the past and its connection to the modern world, Monáe reflected on her own connection to the past and how it influences her as an artist and person, referencing William Faulkner’s iconic quote from 1951’s Requiem for a Nun, “the past is never dead, it’s not even past.”

“What I think this film deals with is how it’s all connected,” Monáe expressed. “There’s no way to talk about what’s going on today, as it pertains to white supremacy and systemic racism, without talking about slavery and how the racist policies we have today were not rooted in the same ideologies when we were stolen and forced to move to America. For me, I am constantly trying to make sure that we don’t forget about what happened to the lawyers, the doctors, the artists that were stolen and forced to live here and now as a result of that, we still don’t have the freedom to jog without being shot. Still as black women we are being silenced and experiencing violence disproportioned. It’s all connected and our future is going to depend on us analyzing what happened, how did we get here, and I think that’s what this film touches on, past, present and future.”

When it came to getting to the heart of her character, a woman with many similarities to herself, the 34-year-old star found that her biggest creative challenges was breaking down where she was at each point in the story and how to remain consistent with her diverse traits across the very different areas of the film.

“She is so layered and depending on where you are in the film, she had to adapt to her circumstances and I think for me, I had to figure out how to not get overwhelmed with the beginning, middle and end,” Monáe explained. “I had to break the movements up and figure out how to make sure that even though she was put in different circumstances, you still see at the core that she is a fighter, you still see that she is a thought leader and that she is willing to take risks and she still cares about her community. All of those things needed to be consistent throughout the film and the character.”

Though it results in some of the most difficult to watch moments in any film dealing with the subject, Monáe recalled that building an off-camera rapport with her antagonist costars was not only vital before the cameras began rolling, but also brought some brighter moments for her on set.

“With the antagonists, it was very important that we got to know each other as humans,” Monáe described. “I wanted to know what they stood for outside of being actors, I wanted to know about their families, I wanted to know about why they said yes to the project, because we were going to be getting on a plantation together. I wanted to know that this is a character you’re going to be playing and that in real life you would never do anything like this or want to be a part of it. You have to ask those questions, because this is sensitive for black people to put themselves in the portrayal of being an enslaved person. And we did, we had lots of philosophical conversations, we ate lunch together and what I love most is that the antagonists in the film always made sure that I felt safe and that I was okay. After each take, I just remember Jack, I remember Eric, I remember Jena asking over and over again, ‘Are you okay? Are you uncomfortable? Does this make you uncomfortable? Let me know, I want to make sure I’m being authentic to the character but not at the expense of your safety, physically and mentally.’”

Building the chemistry with her friends and family in the film also proved to be important to Monáe as it both helped her further get into the mindset of Veronica but also gave the audiences an extra emotional layer required for a horror protagonist.

“I think with my friends in the film, we talked and one of the things that was going to be important is that when this happens to Veronica, when she goes through this traumatic event or events, people have to empathize with her,” Monáe noted. “When she’s gone, her presence has to be missed and the things that help the audience, in my opinion, miss her is her interactions with her family. When you see that this woman is a mother, she is a best friend, she is a wife, she was and is loved by her community, it makes you root for her even more. It humanizes her in a way that feels familiar and something that you’d want to protect. You should want to protect human life anyway, but I think that seeing her in the context of her friends and family makes you want to root for her even more in this film.”

In Antebellum, successful author Veronica Henley (Monáe) finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality that forces her to confront the past, present and future – before it’s too late. Advocacy filmmakers Gerard Bush + Christopher Renz (Bush | Renz) – best known for their pioneering advertising work engaged in the fight for social justice – write, produce and direct their first feature film, teaming with QC Entertainment, producer of the acclaimed films Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, Zev Foreman, Lezlie Wills, and Lionsgate for the mind-bending new thriller Antebellum.

The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Marque Richardson, Robert Aramayo, Lily Cowles, and introducing Tongayi Chirisa. Written and Directed by Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz. Produced by Raymond Mansfield, p.g.a., Sean McKittrick, p.g.a., Zev Foreman, p.g.a., Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz, and Lezlie Wills, p.g.a.

RELATED: Antebellum VOD Release Date Announced, Will Skip Theaters

The movie will premiere as a Premium On-Demand release, debuting on all platforms on September 18. The film will be released theatrically in select international markets.

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Disney+ movies and TV titles for October 2020 revealed!

Disney+ has revealed the full list of new movies and TV titles that will be available to the streaming service this coming October 2020. This includes the highly-anticipated premiere of The Mandalorian Season 2 as well as the series debut of NatGeo’s The Right Stuff. Check out the full list below! (via Vital Thrills)

Next month will also see the world premiere of Justin Baldoni’s upcoming drama film Clouds which tells the true story of Zach Sobiech, a musically gifted 17-year old living with a rare bone cancer (osteosarcoma). The film follows Zach’s journey over the course of his senior year as he navigates the complexities of love, friendship, family, and leaving behind a musical legacy.

RELATED: WandaVision Confirmed for 2020 in New Disney+ Promo

Available October 1

Maleficent

Available October 2

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Mr. Holland’s Opus

Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under (Season 1)

The Simpsons (Season 31)

Zenimation Extended Edition – Premiere

Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Episode 102 – “Happy Birthday, Gino!”)

One Day at Disney (Episode 144 – “Pablo Tufino: Ride Show Technician”)

Weird But True (Episode 308 – “Our Solar System”)

Available October 9

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Oil Spill of the Century

Wild Portugal

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The Right Stuff – Premiere (Episode 101 – “Sierra Hotel” / Episode 102 – “Goodies”)

Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Episode 103 – “Betty and the Beast”)

Weird But True (Episode 309 – “Cooking”)

One Day at Disney (Episode 145 – “Gabriela Clark: Creative Print Marketing”)

Available October 16

Disney Junior the Rocketeer (Season 1)

Drain (Season 3)

Lost on Everest

Marvel’s Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United

Clouds – Premiere

The Right Stuff (Episode 103 – “Single Combat Warrior”)

One Day at Disney (Episode 146 – “Alfredo Ayala: R&D Imagineer”)

Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Episode 104 – “Meet the Mandrills”)

Meet the Chimps – Premiere

Weird But True (Episode 310 – “Explorers”)

Available October 23

Gathering Storm (Season 1)

India from Above (Season 1)

Marvel Super Hero Adventures (Shorts) (Season 4)

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead

Ultimate Viking Sword

Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Episode 105 – “Aardvark Love!”)

Once Upon a Snowman – Premiere

The Big Fib (New Episodes 116 – 130)

The Right Stuff (Episode 104 – “Advent”)

Weird But True (Episode 311 – “Scuba Diving”)

Available October 30

Disney the Owl House (Season 1)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

X-Ray Earth (Season 1)

The Mandalorian – Season 2 Premiere

Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Episode 106 – “Peri’s Prickly Pregnancy”)

The Right Stuff (Episode 105 – “The Kona Kai Seance”)

Weird But True (Episode 312 – “Camping”)

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A Rainy Day in New York sets U.S. release date for October

MPI Media Group and Signature Entertainment have announced the U.S. release date of Woody Allen’s romantic comedy film A Rainy Day in New York, after over a year since it was delayed by Amazon Studios. Originally scheduled for a July 2019 release, the Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning-led film will now hit the theaters on Friday, October 9. The date announcement also came with the released of a new trailer which you can check out below!

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A Rainy Day in New York was delayed and dropped by Amazon after Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow’s 1992 sexual abuse allegation against her father have resurfaced again in 2017 which have also coincided with the rise of the Me Too movement. Because of this revelation, some of the cast members including Chalamet and Gomez have donated their salary to RAINN and Time’s Up.

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New Death on the Nile Photos Featuring Gal Gadot, Kenneth Branagh & Armie Hammer

20th Century Studios has released four new Death on the Nile photos featuring stars Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, and Kenneth Branagh in the upcoming mystery-thriller opening in U.S. theaters on October 23, 2020. You can check out the new photos now in the gallery below!

All eyes on the passengers of the SS Karnak. See the new images from #DeathontheNile only in theaters October 23. pic.twitter.com/ChU7m8hUtq

— 20th Century Studios (@20thcentury) September 17, 2020

RELATED: Death on the Nile Trailer Brings Back Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot!

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement.

Death on the Nile reunites the filmmaking team behind 2017’s global hit Murder on the Orient Express, and stars five-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh as the iconic detective Hercule Poirot. He is joined by an all-star cast of suspects, including: Tom Bateman, four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright.

RELATED: Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh Talks the Future of Poirot!

Death on the Nile is written by Michael Green, adapted from Christie’s novel, directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is produced by Ridley Scott, Mark Gordon, Simon Kinberg, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Hofflund and Kevin J. Walsh, with Matthew Jenkins, James Prichard, and Matthew Prichard serving as executive producers.

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All the Old Knives: Amazon Studios Acquires Thriller Starring Chris Pine & Thandie Newton

Deadline brings word that Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to the upcoming thriller All the Old Knives, starring Emmy nominee Chris Pine (Star Trek franchise, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984) and Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner Thandie Newton (Westworld, Crash, God’s Country) and based on the novel by Olen Steinhauer. Steinhauer adapted the screenplay and Janus Metz (ZeroZeroZero) will direct.

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The story is set in the town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and follows ex-lovers — one a CIA spy, one an ex-spy — meet over dinner to reminisce on their time together at Vienna station. The conversation moves inevitably to the disastrous hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127, which ended in the deaths of all on board. That failure haunts the CIA to this day, and Henry has come to Carmel to close the book on that seedy chapter. As they parry, flirting, over California cuisine, it becomes clear that one of them is not going to survive the meal.

Pick up your copy of Steinhauer’s All the Old Knives here!

All the Old Knives will be produced with Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions in association with Entertainment One (eOne). Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler are set to produce through Chockstone Pictures with Matt Jackson producing via his Jackson Pictures banner.

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Pine is executive producing through his Barry Linen Productions along with Joanne Lee of Jackson Pictures and Kate Churchill of Churchill Films. Executive producers include Richard Hewitt and Mark Gordon.

(Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage via Getty Images & Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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CS Interview: Director Mark Steven Johnson on rom-com Love, Guaranteed

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with director Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, When in Rome) to discuss his return to the rom-com genre for the first time in a decade, Love, Guaranteed, which is now available to stream on Netflix!

RELATED: CS Video: Rachel Leigh Cook, Damon Wayans Jr. & Heather Graham on Love, Guaranteed

When he first heard word of the project’s concept and development, Johnson found he was very interested in helming the project, namely given he began his career in the romantic comedy field penning the well-received Grumpy Old Men and its poorly-received sequel, and expressed that the genre is “where my heart is.”

“I’ve done a lot of different things, but I always keep coming back to comedy, I really wanted to do rom-coms, like classics like When Harry Met Sally kind of rom-com, and when this one came along, I loved Rachael Leigh Cook’s idea,” Johnson explained. “I went into Netflix and I said, ‘I just want to do something that makes people feel really good.’ That’s enough for me right now, I just want to help people feel better than they did when it started and we all agreed and so that’s what we set out to do. Something with a big heart to it and something that felt like an old-fashioned classic romantic comedy and I think we accomplished it. It was so much fun to do, I loved making this movie so much and going back to comedy and working with Netflix and Damon and all of the local actors.”

While Cook naturally came with the project as its female lead, along with getting a story credit and executive producing, the next step became searching for his leading man and it didn’t take long for the 55-year-old filmmaker to land on Damon Wayans Jr., as he was already a big fan of his previous work and saw something in the film that was right for the star.

“I’m a big New Girl fan, so I love Damon and I love his stand-up and I love the movie Let’s Be Cops, I just think he’s so talented and I hadn’t seen him do anything like this before and he’s such a handsome guy, he would kill me if he heard me say all of this,” Johnson laughed. “But he’s such a great-looking guy and I wanted to be the first to really show off that side of him so when I met with Damon, what he said when he got to me was, ‘I’m always that guy in comedies that whenever any kind of emotion comes up it’s undercut.’ That’s the job of a comedian, ‘Don’t want to be sappy, don’t want to be too emotional, you’ve got to be too cool for that’ so he said, ‘If I’m going to do this, I’m going to really commit to it, I promised myself that if we were going to get to do this that if the emotion was there I was really going to be the guy and not go for the joke.’ That chemistry, that weird thing, is something that either happens or it doesn’t, I’ve had it where it doesn’t work and I’ve had it where it does and these two work. I think they’re great together, I’m really rooting for them on-screen together.”

Before the cameras started rolling, however, Johnson had one little change he wanted to make from Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy’s script which was its setting, feeling he wanted to move the story from the oft-explored Los Angeles to the more romantic setting of Seattle.

“There was talks about maybe going to South Africa to shoot because it’s such a good deal financially,” Johnson recalled. “I said, ‘Look I want those leaves turning in the fall, I want coffee, I want rain, I want that cozy, fireside kind of vibe to it.’ I love Vancouver, it does double for Seattle, which I know has been done a lot, but when you go to Vancouver and you see those leaves turning in Stanley Park and you’ve got the city and the mountains and you’ve got Gastown and the cobblestone streets I mean, oh my god, it’s so romantic. I just said, ‘Look I’d rather shoot here and have less days to shoot,’ because it meant so much to me to have that look and I think you feel it. The scene, the walk and talk where the leaves are turning near the water, I loved that, you don’t have to fake anything, it’s beautiful and it’s fall. They meet at a coffee cart and it’s pouring out, which was actually not in the script, it was really pouring out and that was day one [laughing], but we went, ‘Look, we don’t even have to work for it, it’s actually pouring out,’ because that’s the way it is in Seattle, it rains a lot. You see them walk and talk together on that first time they meet on the way to her office, if you look behind them it’s just pouring out, I mean we were drenched. It wasn’t a cute little romantic rain, it was pouring, it was unbelievable [laughs].”

Changing this setting as well as the shorter nature of a smaller-budget shoot proved to a practical challenge for Johnson, as he has “never done a movie in 22 days” and found himself occasionally struggling with the time crunch as he was afraid of “feeling like you were losing anything” in the performances.

“We had a great local casting director and she really turned me on to Sean Amsing and Lisa Durupt, all these local wonderful actors,” Johnson brightly noted. “When people start improving and it’s working, it’s such a pleasure but you also have to watch the clock [chuckles], so it’s always the combination of trying to get as much as you can in the limited amount of time you have. As far as the comedy goes, that’s what I’ve loved so much and what feels natural to me since the very beginning, I was 25 when I wrote Grumpy and that’s how I started and where I’m so happy to be back to. I just want to make romantic comedies for Netflix forever, I’d be very happy doing that [laughs]. It’s funny, this is my first time doing anything for Netflix and that isn’t theatrical and this is usually the most stressful week of your life, because you’re like, ‘How is this going to do? Are people going to know about it? Are they going to go to it?’ When you’re working with Netflix, you’re like, ‘Yeah, they’re going to know about it, they got Netflix, they might watch it.’”

Despite this crunch, however, he found he had “100 percent” creative flexibility with Netflix behind the film in comparison to working with the theatrical studio system he’s mostly worked with throughout his career, crediting his Netflix executives for really “trusting you and supporting you” and “letting you do your thing, it’s wonderful.”

“It’s one little benefit to making a smaller movie like this is you’re know dealing with a $100 million budget where everybody is frightened that it may not work and they’re getting their hands involved,” Johnson explained. “It’s been the best experience of my career so far.”

With a cast of such comedic force, Johnson definitely allowed his talent to play with the material and their characters while also noting that they also shot “everything that was on the page” so they could have options in the editing room.

“That’s the tricky thing, because there are some great, great actors who can’t improv, they just weren’t taught that way, they’ll give you what’s on the page beautifully, but anything off the page they’re on their heels a bit,” Johnson related. “So the fact that all these people have a comedy background, it was like you had an improv troupe, so there’s a lot of lines, especially I’d say from Roberto and Denise in the office, a lot of that was them going off each other and they had never met before. They had never worked together before and they were like an old comedy gang, it was fun watching them play off each other.”

One of the most opportunistic parts of the production came in the form of the casting of Heather Graham (Desperados) in the role of the titular dating service’s CEO, with Jonson also calling himself a “huge Heather fan” and pointing to her work on another Vancouver production as helping land her for the role.

“I just watched Bowfinger the other day with my kids, it’s such a great movie,” Johnson warmly opined. “She’s so funny and she’s so beautiful and we were kind of playing off a Gwyneth Paltrow Goop kind of character, and we just got very fortunate because I brought her up because I realized she was in town shooting The Stand based on the Stephen King book. I knew she was there and knowing actors like I do, most actors want to work, they don’t want to sit around on days when they’re off, they want to play, so I thought, ‘Maybe she could do this while she’s here in town working on The Stand’ and that’s what happened, she’d come shoot a couple days with us and we’d have this really fun, gorgeous rom-com atmosphere and then she’d go to work and come back and I’d be like, ‘How was it yesterday?’ and she’d say ‘I had rats dropped on my head, that’s what happened to me yesterday’ [laughs]. So it was quite the difference from Stephen King to our movie, so I think she had quite the great time.”

Though he started his career in the romantic comedy genre, many audiences may know Johnson better for his works in the comic book world with the 2003 adaptation of Daredevil starring Ben Affleck (Justice League) and 2007 adaption of Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage (Mandy), both of which he wrote and directed. With the forthcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opening up the possibility to pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe iterations of iconic heroes appearing in the film, Johnson found it could be “fantastic” to see his versions of the characters return to screen for the project.

“I’m the biggest Marvel fan in the world, especially the Marvel universe now, my movies were pre-all of that,” Johnson chuckled. “I think they’re probably going to wanna — who knows, who knows what they want to do? I love those films, I absolutely adore them and loved making them, but I’m happy to be back in comedy [laughs]. This is my comfort zone.”

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Earnest, hard-working lawyer Susan (Rachael Leigh Cook) has taken one too many pro bono cases. To save her small law firm, Susan begrudgingly takes a high-paying, high-profile case from Nick (Damon Wayans Jr.), a charming new client who wants to sue a dating website that guarantees users will find love. But Susan and Nick soon find themselves in the middle of a media storm, and as the case heats up, so do their feelings for each other — which could jeopardize everything.

Love, Guaranteed also stars Heather Graham (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). The movie was written by Elizabeth Hackett (Falling Inn Love) and Hilary Galanoy (Falling Inn Love) and directed by Mark Steven Johnson.

The movie is now streaming on Netflix.

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Exclusive Lost Girls & Love Hotels Clip Starring Alexandra Daddario

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive clip from the upcoming drama thriller Lost Girls & Love Hotels, starring Alexandra Daddario and releasing on Digital and On Demand on September 18. You can check out the clip now in the player below!

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Based on Catherine Hanrahan’s book of the same name, the film is a provocative journey inviting you to get lost within the darkest corridors of Japan in hopes of experiencing fleeting moments of beauty. We follow the passionate tale of love and lust between a haunted American English teacher Margaret and a dashing Yakuza named Kazu as their affair tears them apart and reshapes them across Tokyo’s landscape of dive bars, alleyways, and three-hour love hotels.

Pick up a copy of the book here!

Lost Girls & Love Hotels stars Alexandra Daddario (San Andreas), Takehiro Hira (The Fighter Pilot, The Floating Castle), Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones), Misuzu Kanno (37 Seconds, Vise), and Kate Easton (Where’d You Go, Bernadette) The film is directed by William Olsson from a screenplay written by Hanrahan with Lauren Mann serving as a producer.

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Daddario is best known for portraying the role of Annabeth Chase in the film adaptations of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson starring alongside Logan Lerman and Brandon T. Jackson. Her other notable film credits include: the 2017 Baywatch opposite Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson; the disaster film San Andreas; Hall Pass; Texas Chainsaw 3D; and in Netflix’s rom-com When We First Met.

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