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Lee Isaac Chung Tapped to Write/Direct Live-Action Your Name

Lee Isaac Chung tapped to write/direct live-action Your Name

After initially having Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) set to direct the live-action adaptation of Your Name, Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions and Toho have shifted gears and tapped Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) to rewrite and direct the new take on Makoto Shinkai’s acclaimed anime, according to Deadline.

Chung, who first found acclaim with his 2007 debut Munyurangabo at that year’s Cannes Film Festival, will be working off the most recent draft of the script penned by Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), who was in turn working off the original draft written by Arrival‘s Eric Heisserer.

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Released in Japan in 2016 and in the US in 2017, the story centers on Tokyo highschooler Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu from the rural Itomori, who discover they have the ability to switch bodies with one another and as a natural disaster threatens to destroy their lives, they must journey to meet each other and save their worlds before it’s too late. It became a runaway success upon its release, grossing over $303 million in Japan alone, becoming one of the country’s biggest hits and spawning a bidding war when the rights to multimedia adaptations hit the market in 2017.

Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) is set to produce the film alongside Genki Kawamura, a producer on the original project, with Toho handling Japanese distribution of the film and Paramount distributing it to all other territories.

Following his 2007 acclaimed debut and a handful of acclaimed indie dramas, Chung recently returned with the A24 and Plan B Entertainment-produced Minari, which won the Grand Jury and Dramatic Audience Awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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John Boyega & Gavin Hood Team for The Test Adaptation

John Boyega & Gavin Hood team for The Test adaptation

As we await to see his turns in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Naked Singularity, John Boyega has found his next project in the form of an adaptation of Silvain Neuvel’s The Test, which is set to be directed by Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky), according to Deadline.

Published in February 2019, the story is set in an authoritarian near-future and centers on a soft-spoken immigrant as he takes a citizen evaluation test while a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising the test must confront a terrorist group led by a far-right fanatic.

The Attack the Block star has signed on to portray the young psychologist while Payman Maadi, best known for his roles in HBO’s The Night Of and the Oscar-nominated A Separation, is set to star as the soft-spoken immigrant.

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In an official statement, Hood described the film as “a heart-pounding psychological thriller, set in an authoritarian near-future that grabbed me by the throat and left me reeling.”

The script for the project was adapted by Hood, known best for his Oscar-winning crime drama Tsotsi, while Erwin Stoff is attached to produce and Zev Foreman and Ilda Diffley are overseeing the film for Entertainment One.

After breaking out in his feature debut Attack the Block, Boyega went on to further stardom upon joining the Star Wars franchise as Stormtrooper-turned-rebel fighter Finn, appearing across all three films in the sequel trilogy as well as reprising the role in two episodes of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. When he wasn’t busy soaring through space, he also found acclaim with his appearances in the biographical drama Detroit as well as offering turns in Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Circle and Netflix’s CG-animated adaptation of Watership Down.

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Antebellum Review: A Socially Brilliant But Disappointing Thriller

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5/10

Cast:

Janelle Monáe as Veronica Henley / Eden

Eric Lange as Him

Jena Malone as Elizabeth

Jack Huston as Captain Jasper

Kiersey Clemons as Julia

Gabourey Sidibe as Dawn

Marque Richardson as Nick

Tongayi Chirisa as Eli

Robert Aramayo as Daniel

Co-Written & Co-Directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz

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Antebellum Review:

In the wake of Jordan Peele’s breathtaking directorial debut Get Out, the horror-thriller genre has seen a beautiful revival of tales that not only seek to shock its audiences but also inform them on the struggles persons of color and various genders endure in contemporary America and while Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s Antebellum certainly does plenty of the latter, it unfortunately is thoroughly lacking in the former.

Successful author and social justice pioneer Veronica Henley has her world upheaved as she finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and living on an 1800s plantation and must uncover the secret behind the mind-bending mystery and confront the past, the present and the future to get back home to her husband and daughter before it’s too late.

The concept for the film is truly brilliant, the idea of a modern-day woman suddenly finding herself in the past only instead of a cheery situation like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, it’s the horrific racist time of the American South, but one of the film’s problems comes in that it doesn’t take full advantage of this premise. It takes plenty of time to build the tension in its present day scenes and to develop Veronica into one of the most intelligent and easy-to-root-for Black women of the genre in the past decade while the plantation scenes do well to show off the real horrors of the past, but the two really feel like disparate halves that add up to a disappointing whole.

Thematically, the two match up brilliantly as a way to explore idea of never forgetting the horrible past and the attempt at erasure of the culture and voices of the African-American community in America and when it hits, it hits hard, but the problem is sometimes it’s too on the nose or just not subtle enough to meld with its genre home. Bush and Renz clearly have great messages fighting to be heard from within in the story, but without properly executing its ambitious plot, it almost threatens to silence itself.

The film isn’t thoroughly disappointing, as there are a number of elements that not only work but prove to be outstanding, one of which is the direction from the duo. In their feature debut, Bush and Renz show an incredible grasp on delivering artfully shot scenes from start to finish, especially all the scenes set on the plantation as there’s such an interesting combination of a clean palette of sun-bathing colors in the daytime to the muted but compelling shades of orange in the nighttime.

It is also supported by truly breathtaking performances from its entire cast, especially those of Monáe, Malone and Huston. In just under five years of appearing on screens, Monáe has proven herself to be one of the best musicians-turned-actors in a long while and though this may not see her peak performance just quite yet, it sees her truly shine as an empowering and brilliant modern Black woman that feels very much in line with her own efforts that she helps bring her character to life in stellar fashion. When it comes to portraying a completely despicable racist in this day and age, one could either go with a more subtle approach or go full cartoonish with their performance, but Huston and Malone find a nice middle ground with plenty of moments that dangerously approach becoming caricatures but pull back just enough to give their characters an extra layer of complexity to keep them watchable across its 106-minute runtime.

Antebellum was certainly a film with plenty of potential to explore some important timely topics while simultaneously delivering some chills and thrills, but with such a focus on the former it loses sight of how to achieve the latter that it proves a disappointment, especially in its time-bending revelations, that even its strong performances and stylish direction can’t quite save the experience.

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The Opening Act Trailer: You Have to Start at the Bottom to Reach the Top

The Opening Act Trailer: You have to start at the bottom to reach the top

RLJE Films has debuted the first trailer for the star-studded indie comedy The Opening Act led by Jimmy O. Yang (Fantasy Island) and Cedric the Entertainer (First Reformed) that shows in the stand-up comedy game, you have to start at the bottom to reach the top. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

Written and directed by Steve Byrne (Sullivan & Son), the film focuses on Will Chu, who has it all – the job, the girl – but what’s missing is his true passion in life, to become a stand-up comedian. When he gets the opportunity he’s been waiting for, the emcee slot on the road opening for his hero Billy G., the realities of life on the stage come crashing in. Between relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs, things get off to a rough start. Even if he can take the opportunity to learn from his idols and overcome the challenges, Will still needs to decide if he should continue with the life he has, or pursue the one he has always dreamt of – the life of a comedian.

Alongside Yang and Cedric, the cast for the film includes Alex Moffat (F is for Family), Neal Brennan (Capone), Debby Ryan (Insatiable), Ken Jeong (Crazy Rich Asians), Bill Burr (The King of Staten Island), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Whitney Cummings (The Female Brain), Russell Peters (Supercon), Tom Segura (Countdown), Iliza Shlesinger (Spenser Confidential) and Roy Wood Jr. (Space Force).

The Opening Act, which is also produced by Vince Vaughn (Freaky) and Peter Billingsley (Spider-Man: Far From Home), is set to hit select theaters, digital platforms and VOD on October 16.

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Filmshop Exhibition Offers Virtual Indie Film Series

Filmshop, a nonprofit collective of independent filmmakers in NY, LA, and New Orleans announced a new initiative called Filmshop Exhibition, an online showcase offering members the opportunity to share their work virtually via curated blocks by notable members of the entertainment industry. The free series kicks off September 10th and runs on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through October 24th on their website.

Each curated block will be available for 24 hours after the scheduled start time each week. Additional offerings include live social media Q&A’s after exhibitions on Friday nights, and three panels addressing ongoing issues within the Latinx, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ film communities. You can read more about the films and curators as well as see the full event schedule via their website. If you’d like RSVP for a particular block, you can visit their Eventbrite page.

Curators include: Adam Baran (Filmmaker and Curator of Queer|Art|Film), Adeel Ahmed, Kamran Khan, and Lipica Shah (Co-Founders, 1497 Writers Lab), Alyson Shumeyko (Producer, Mustache Agency), Anthony Kao (Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Cinema Escapist), Chip Parham (Senior Shorts Programmer, Lighthouse International Film Festival), Elizabeth Lodge Stepp (Producer and Member of the Department of Motion Pictures), Genevieve Villaflor (Film Programmer and PR and Festivals Consultant), Hannah Ruth Earl (Talent Associate, Moving Picture Institute), Jake Hart (Screenwriter and Content Curator at DUST), Julia Douglas and Colin Usher (Founders, Studio Faire Residency), Lela Meadow-Conner (CEO and Mother/Founder, mama.film), Lydia Darly (Co-Founder and Managing Director, NovaFrontier Film Festival), Melanie Addington (Executive Director, Oxford Film Festival), Michael Dunaway (Editor at Large, Paste Magazine, and Founding Partner of Gasoline Films and Poitier & Dunaway Motion Pictures), Reinaldo Marcus Green (Writer, Director, & Producer whose credits Include: Monsters and Men, Top Boy, Good Joe Bell, King Richard), Rosalind Murphy (Media Consultant and Producer), Samantha Shepard (Producer, Mustache Agency), Sarah Peters (Writer, Director, Producer and Director of National Publicity at Searchlight Pictures), Skye Borgman (Director and Co-Owner of Top Knot films), Stephanie Iscovitz (Motion Picture Literary Coordinator, Buchwald), and Thelma Adams (Author and Film Critic)

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The Devil Has a Name Trailer Starring David Strathairn, Kate Bosworth & Edward James Olmos

Momentum Pictures has released the official trailer for The Devil Has a Name, an upcoming drama movie inspired by true events starring Oscar nominee David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), and Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica). Also directed by Olmos, you can check out the trailer for the movie now in the player below along with the full key art!

Widowed, broke, and adrift, farmer Fred Stern (Strathairn) finds a new purpose in life when he learns that the psychotic matriarch of a sinister oil company is polluting his water. But as his crusade against the powers that be spills out of the courtroom and into his personal life, Fred must find a way to avoid the ruin of his farm, his family, and his dreams.

Inspired by bizarre, true events, The Devil Has a Name comedically pulls back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.

Written by Rob McEveety, the movie also stars Katie Aselton (The Gift), Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, The Boys), Emmy nominee Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) with Golden Globe nominee Alfred Molina (Feud), and Golden Globe winner Martin Sheen (The West Wing).

The Devil Has a Name will release in theaters, On Demand, and on Digital on October 16, 2020.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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New to Hulu October 2020: All the Movies & Shows Coming & Going

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.

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

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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!

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.

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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