January 2021 – Page 2 – Movie Retakes

CS Video: Supernova Interview With Star Tucci & Writer/Director Macqueen

CS Video: Supernova interview with star Tucci & writer/director Macqueen

Ahead of the film’s select theatrical and digital debut, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci (The Witches, The Lovely Bones) and writer/director Harry Macqueen to discuss their work on the moving romantic drama Supernova. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

In Supernova, It is deep Autumn and Sam and Tusker, partners of twenty years, are on holiday. They are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with young-onset dementia two years ago their lives have had to change. Jobs have been given up and plans put on hold. Their time together is now the most important thing they have. As the trip progresses however, their individual ideas for their future begin to collide. Secrets are uncovered, private plans unravel and their love for each other is tested like never before. Ultimately, they must confront the question of what it means to love one another in the face of Tusker’s irreparable illness.

The film is being led by Oscar winner Firth (The King’s Speech) and Emmy winner Tucci (The King’s Man). It will also feature James Dreyfus, Pippa Haywood, and Sarah Woodward.

Supernova is written and directed by Harry Macqueen. It is produced by Tristan Goligher and Emily Morgan. The film made its world premiere in September at the 2020 San Sebastián International Film Festival to very positive reviews from critics and hit theaters in the United Kingdom via StudioCanal UK back in November and is currently out in select US theaters, with plans to hit premium video-on-demand platforms on February 16.

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Exclusive Last Call Trailer From Gavin Michael Booth’s New Innovative Drama

Exclusive Last Call Trailer From Gavin Michael Booth's New Innovative Drama

Exclusive Last Call trailer from Gavin Michael Booth’s new innovative drama

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive Last Call trailer for Mill Creek Entertainment’s upcoming drama directed by Gavin Michael Booth who co-wrote the script with Daved Wilkins. You can check out the trailer now in the player below!

The critically acclaimed film tells the story of two strangers destined to intervene in each other’s lives after a misdial fates them together forever. Beth is a late-night janitor who accidentally answers a call from Scott who believes he has dialed a suicide prevention hotline. Last Call presents both ends of a harrowing phone call that has Beth navigating a life-changing conversation as she attempts to aide Scott within her limited means.

The movie is a split-screen real-time feature, comprised of two single-take shots, merged together and without cuts as the film plays out with two camera crews in different parts of a city as we follow each character through their happenstance encounter. The score for the film was also composed and recorded in real-time by Adrian Ellis to add to the ephemeral aesthetic of this groundbreaking film. This innovative, gripping cinematic feat is anchored by two incredible performances by Sarah Booth and Daved Wilkins.

Last Call comes from prolific filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth and the team at Mutiny Pictures. The film has won several awards in a variety of film festivals including Best Actress for Sarah Booth in the CKF International Film Festival as well as the Hamilton Film Festival. Gavin Michael Booth won best director in the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival.

Produced by Gavin Michael Booth and Wilkins, Last Call will be released on February 23, 2021, on DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, and Digital.

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Watched at Home: Top Streaming Films for the Week of January 23

So, this is pretty cool. Along with a Top 20 Streaming List for the week of January 23, the Digital Entertainment Group also compiled a year-end 2020 report. Guess what the most viewed film of last year was … go ahead. Guess. How about, Frozen 2? That makes sense considering it plays nonstop in most households, though, surprisingly, the second most streamed movie was Jumanji: The Next Level followed by Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker and Warner Bros.’ R-rated Joker. That’s quite the collection of movies, but, considering we’re amidst a global pandemic that has all but shut down Hollywood, not the least bit surprising. You can check out the whole list below!

As for the weekly list, American Skin, about a Marine veteran who seeks justice when his son is killed by a police officer, actually bumped Christopher Nolan’s Tenet from the throne. Shocking. Other new entries include the documentary MLK/FBI (No. 10), Let Him Go (No. 11) and the thriller Horizon Line (No. 15), while the Martin Scorsese crime drama/comedy The Wolf of Wall Street landed at No. 19.

Top 20 — Week of Jan. 23

1. American Skin (Vertical Entertainment)
2. Tenet (Warner Bros.)
3. Honest Thief (Briarcliff Entertainment)
4. The War with Grandpa (Universal)
5. Yellowstone: S3 (Paramount)
6. Yellowstone: S1 (Paramount)
7. Love and Monsters (Paramount)
8. Yellowstone S:2 (Paramount)
9. Harry Potter: Complete 8-Film Collection (Warner Bros.)
10. MLK/FBI (IFC Films)
11. Let Him Go (Universal)
12. The Office: S1-9 (Universal)
13. The Informer (Vertical Entertainment)
14. Spell (Paramount)
15. Horizon Line (STX)
16. The Craft: Legacy (Sony)
17. Unhinged (Lionsgate)
18. 100% Wolf (Viva Pictures Distribution)
19. The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)
20. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Warner Bros.)

Top 20 — Year-End 2020 Report

1. Frozen 2 (Disney)
2. Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony)
3. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Disney)
4. Joker (2019) (Warner Bros.)
5. Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount)
6. Bad Boys for Life (Sony)
7. 1917 (Universal)
8. Scoob! (Warner Bros.)
9. Ford v Ferrari (Disney)
10. Knives Out (Lionsgate)
11. Trolls World Tour (Universal)
12. Yellowstone: S1 (Paramount)
13. Onward (Disney)
14. Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn (Warner Bros.)
15. Yellowstone: S2 (Paramount)
16. Yellowstone: S3 (Paramount)
17. Harry Potter (Complete 8-Film Collection) (Warner Bros.)
18. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Disney)
19. Bloodshot (2020) (Sony)
20. Midway (2020) (Lionsgate)

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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Biopic Delays Release to Mid-2022

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic delays release to mid-2022

Despite building up the ensemble roster for the biopic multiple times this week, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic is hitting a speed bump as Warner Bros. Pictures has elected to delay the film from its November 2021 release to its new home of June 3, 2022, according to Variety. The film recently saw the additions of newcomer Alton Mason as Little Richard and Gary Clark Jr. as Big Boy Crudup.

Sources report that the studio’s decision to delay the film, which was originally set to be one of its large slate of films to debut in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, spawns from the film still being in production in Australia with another five weeks of material left to shoot, making it highly unlikely to have made its November release on time without a rushed post-production.

Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Dead Don’t Die) is starring in the lead role as Elvis alongside Oscar winner Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Post), who is playing Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker, and Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), who will play Presley’s only wife Priscilla. It will also feature Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal as Gladys Presley, Rufus Sewell as Vernon Presley, and English musician Yola as Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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The movie will explore the life and music of Elvis through his complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Parker discovered Presley when he was just an unknown and quickly moved in as his lone representation. Parker was responsible for various milestones, including Presley’s record deal with RCA and his successful acting career.

The Elvis biopic will be co-written by Luhrmann, who will direct, and BAFTA winner Craig Pearce (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!). Luhrmann will also produce alongside Oscar winner Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby), Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss. Andrew Mittman will serve as an executive producer

The film is still set for its theatrical release on June 3, 2022.

(Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Bones & All: Timothée Chalamet & Taylor Russell in Talks to Star in Luca Guadagnino’s New Pic

Bones & All: Timothée Chalamet & Taylor Russell in Talks to Star in Luca Guadagnino's New Pic

Bones & All: Timothée Chalamet & Taylor Russell in talks to star in Luca Guadagnino’s new pic

Deadline brings word that Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy, Lady Bird, Little Women) could be reuniting with Call Me by Your Name director and Academy Award nominee Luca Guadagnino (Suspiria, We Are Who We Are, A Bigger Splash) as the actor, along with Tayor Russell (Escape Room, Waves, Lost in Space), are in talks to star in the feature Bones & All that would be directed by Guadagnino and written by David Kajganich (The Terror, Suspiria, True Story).

The only details known about the project is that it is a horror-love story revolving around Chalamet and Russell’s potential characters. The outlet notes that the package is gaining steam with “multiple bidders” interested in the feature.

Chalamet’s upcoming projects include the highly-anticipated feature Dune from Denis Villeneuve and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. Russell recently wrapped production on the final season of Netflix’s Lost in Space and is in post-production on Escape Room 2. Guadagnino is also at work on the Brideshead Revisited miniseries starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes, Andrew Garfield, and Joe Alwyn.

A production start date on Bones & All on the project has not yet been set.

(Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images & David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

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Project Power Duo Partner With Paramount & Bruckheimer for Feature

Project Power duo partner with Paramount & Bruckheimer for feature

Coming off of the hit Jamie Foxx-led Netflix actioner, Project Power filmmaking duo Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are keeping the ball rolling as they have signed on to helm Secret Headquarters at Paramount Pictures, according to Deadline.

The plot details for the film are currently being kept under wraps, but sources report that the project is being considered a top priority for all parties involved. The script is currently being penned by Joost, Schulman and Josh Koenigsberg, whose previous credits include time as a staff writer on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and story editor on Hulu’s High Fidelity series adaptation. The trio are working on an original idea from Christopher Yost, who was the sole writer on the project originally and is currently working as writer and executive producer on Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series.

Chad Oman (Remember the Titans, Gemini Man) is attached to produce the film alongside mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who recently brought back his hit Bad Boys franchise to life and saw the long-awaited threequel land as the third highest-grossing film of 2020 and is gearing up for the release of another franchise revival with the Tom Cruise-fronted Top Gun: Maverick, which is currently slated for a July 2 release.

In addition to Secret Headquarters, Joost and Schulman are currently working on an adaptation of the graphic novel Nemesis with Promising Young Woman helmer Emerald Fennell attached to script and have been attached to a film adaptation of Capcom’s Mega Man for four years with Project Power‘s Mattson Tomlin currently attached to write and Masi Oka (Heroes) producing alongside the game publisher.

(Photo Credit: D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

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Ethan Hawke Reuniting With Derrickson & Blumhouse for The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke reuniting with Derrickson & Blumhouse for The Black Phone

Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke is looking to keep his upcoming dance card full as the soon-to-be Marvel Cinematic Universe star has signed on to reunite with Sinister co-writer/director Scott Derrickson and producer Jason Blum for their upcoming adaptation of The Black Phone, according to Deadline. Hawke will star alongside Emmy-winning Justified vet Jeremy Davies.

Based on the 2004 novella of the same name from Joe Hill, who will also executive produce the film, the logline for the source material reads as follows:

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn’t easy to make friends when you’re the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. John Finney is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead.

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In addition to directing the project, Derrickson is adapting the story with frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill, both of whom will be reuniting with Blumhouse following their fan-favorite 2012 box office hit horror film Sinister starring Ethan Hawke, which the two wrote together and Derrickson helmed. The film’s box office success spawned a sequel the two wrote together but handed the directorial duties off to Ciaran Foy, though it would see lower box office returns and was panned by critics and audiences alike.

Derrickson and Cargill will produce the project via their Crooked Highway Productions banner alongside Jason Blum for his eponymous production banner, while Universal and Blumhouse will distribute. Black Phone has also already begun building its cast as Mason Thames (For All Mankind) and Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4) have both signed on to star in the film.

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Four New DC Showcase Animated Shorts to Release in 2021-2022

Four new DC Showcase animated shorts to release in 2021-2022

Beloved DC characters Kamandi, The Losers, Blue Beetle, and Constantine are the focus of four new DC Showcase animated shorts for release by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in 2021-2022.

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and inspired by characters and stories from throughout the iconic DC canon, the all-new quartet of shorts will be included on upcoming releases of DC Universe Movies, with exception of the lengthier Constantine short. The Constantine short will serve as the anchor for a compilation set to be distributed in 2022.

All four new DC Showcase shorts are produced by Rick Morales (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge).

Directed by Matt Peters (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War) from a script written by Paul Giacoppo (Young Justice, Star Wars: Resistance), Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! will be the first of the new shorts to be released. The post-apocalyptic thriller will be attached as a bonus feature to Justice Society: World War II in Spring 2021.

Launched in 2010, DC Showcase was originally comprised of four animated shorts: The Spectre (2/23/2010), Jonah Hex (7/27/2010), Green Arrow (9/28/2010), and Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam (11/9/2010). An additional short, Catwoman (10/18/2011), was attached the following year to the release of Batman: Year One. For 2019-2020, DC Showcase returned with five shorts: Sgt. Rock (8/6/2019) Death (10/22/2019), The Phantom Stranger (3/17/2020), Adam Strange (5/19/2020), and the interactive Batman: Death in the Family (10/13/2020).

Actors featured on DC Showcase shorts have included Malcolm McDowell, James Garner (in his final performance), Jerry O’Connell, Linda Hamilton, Karl Urban, Gary Cole, Alyssa Milano, Bruce Greenwood, Thomas Jane, Michael Rooker, Eliza Dushku, Neal McDonough, Ariel Winter, Danica McKeller, George Newbern, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charlie Weber, Arnold Vosloo, Leonard Nam, Jamie Chung, Peter Serafinowicz, and Michael Rosenbaum.

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Sets PVOD & Streaming Date

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run sets PVOD & streaming date

Just over a month ahead of the streaming platform’s official rebranding, Paramount Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for the forthcoming The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and officially set its premiere on Paramount+ and PVOD platforms for a limited time for March 4 alongside the premiere of the first six episodes of spin-off series Kamp Koral. The new trailer can be viewed below!

Are you ready for some sea-nanigans? Get ready to #BringGaryHome with The #SpongeBobMovie: Sponge on the Run, premiering March 4!

Rent it from AppleTV, Prime Video, Vudu and other digital stores.

Also streaming on @paramount_plus pic.twitter.com/NgD2UFMQRn

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) January 28, 2021

The film, previously titled It’s a Wonderful Sponge, will be the first 3D computer-animated SpongeBob movie, which is being described as a love letter to the franchise’s original creator Steven Hillenburg, who passed away last November, as well as the fans of the show, not to mention the fictional residents of Bikini Bottom.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will feature a score by Hans Zimmer and original songs by Ali Dee. The film will also be featuring the voices of Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) and Reggie Watts (Tuca & Bertie). In addition, pop star legend Cyndi Lauper and co-writer Rob Hyman are working on original songs for the film. It is being produced by Paramount Animation in collaboration with Nickelodeon Movies and United Plankton Pictures.

Since its debut in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has become the most widely distributed property in Viacom International Media Networks history, seen in more than 208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. This marks the third feature-length adventure, after 2004’s The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, and 2015’s Sponge Out of Water.

The project is being directed by Tim Hill and produced by Ryan Harris with choreography by Mia Michaels and is set to hit Paramount+ on PVOD platforms for a limited time on March 4 alongside the first six episodes of Kamp Koral while the latter half of its season will debut at a later date.

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New My Salinger Year Trailer Starring Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver

New My Salinger Year Trailer starring Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver

IFC Films has released a brand new trailer for the upcoming drama film titled My Salinger Year, featuring Emmy-nominee Margaret Qualley as an aspiring writer who was assigned to deal with J.D. Salinger’s numerous fan mails. Also starring Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver, the film will be arriving in theaters on March 5, 2021. Check out the video in the player below!

New York in the ’90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office – where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches – and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

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Alongside Qualley and Weaver, the cast for the film includes Douglas Booth (Mary Shelley, The Dirt), Brian F. O’Byrne (Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector), Colm Feore (The Umbrella Academy, For All Mankind) and Yanic Truesdale (Gilmore Girls).

Based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoir of the same name, My Salinger Year is written and directed by Phillippe Falardeau, best-known for previously helming the Oscar-nominated drama Monsieur Lazhar, the Reese Witherspoon-starring drama The Good Lie, and the eponymous Chuck Wepner biopic starring Liev Schreiber in the titular role.

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Month: January 2021