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Grammy Nominee Bad Bunny Making Feature Acting Debut in American Sole

Grammy nominee Bad Bunny making feature acting debut in American Sole

After landing fellow Grammy nominee Offset to star in the upcoming STXfilms dramedy American Sole, the cast for the film has expanded to include Bad Bunny in his feature acting debut.

“We’re tremendously excited by the way the cast is coming together and thrilled to have Bad Bunny joining this film,” Adam Fogelson, STXfilms Motion Picture Group Chairman, said in a statement. “As an actor, he’ll provide not only incredible entertainment value but real authenticity to his role.”

Written and directed by Ian Edelman (The After Party), American Sole follows two twenty-somethings with mountains of college debt who use the fast cash of after-market sneaker reselling to achieve their American dream. But when their startup runs out of cash and a shady investor is their only way out, the dream quickly becomes a nightmare.

The film will be led by Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island) and O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Long Shot), along with Camila Mendes (Riverdale). Kevin Hart will produce the film via his HartBeat production banner alongside Chris Paul via his Oh Dipp!!! Production label and Jake Stein via his Scondo Productions, while John McPheters of Stadium Goods is attached to executive produce with HartBeat’s Bryan Smiley.

Stadium Goods, the world’s premier sneaker and streetwear marketplace, serves as a consulting producer on the project. The resale market is one of the fastest-growing segments of the fashion industry, having reached $2 billion as some fans shell out as much as $50,000 for pairs of rare models previously made in extremely limited runs. Stadium Goods partnered with Christie’s in August 2019 to auction the Air Jordan 1 High “‘Backboard’ Origin Story” for $615,000, the record for the most expensive shoe ever sold.

(Photo Credit: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

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Hunter Hunter Trailer: Hunt or Be Hunted in IFC Horror-Thriller

As the film gears up for its mid-December release, IFC Films has unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming horror-thriller Hunter Hunter led by Devon Sawa (Final Destination) and Camille Sullivan (The Man in the High Castle), which can be viewed in the player below!

Hunter Hunter follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault, his wife Anne and their daughter Renée struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in the act, Joseph leaves his family behind to track the wolf. Anne and Renée grow increasingly anxious during Joseph’s prolonged absence and struggle to survive without him. When they hear a strange noise outside their cabin, Anne hopes it is Joseph but instead finds a man named Lou, who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.

In addition to Sawa and Sullivan, the cast for the film includes Summer H. Howell (Cult of Chucky, Clouds), Nick Stahl (Sin City, The Man Without a Face), Gabriel Daniels (The Ice Road, Goon, Fractured) and Lauren Cochrane (The Pinkertons, Tales From the Loop).

The film is being written and directed by Shawn Linden (Nobody, The Good Lie, The Fixer) with Neil Elman producing the film alongside Linden while Fernando Szew, Tony Vassiliadis, Hannah Pilleer, Jennifer Westin, Peter Bevan, Mariana Sanjurio and Tomás Yankelvich are all attached as executive producers.

Hunter Hunter is set to hit select theaters, digital platforms and video-on-demand on December 18.

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Don’t Tell a Soul Trailer: Rainn Wilson Stars in Saban Films’ Thriller Drama

Don’t Tell a Soul Trailer: Rainn Wilson stars in Saban Films’ thriller drama

Saban Films has released official trailer for Alex McAulay’s thriller drama titled Don’t Tell a Soul, featuring Emmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson as he gets stuck inside an unescapable pit where his only survival depends on the conscience of a teenage boy who must try to defy his older brother to save someone’s life. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters and on VOD on January 15, 2021. Check out the video in the player below!

In Don’t Tell a Soul, two teenage brothers named Matt and Joey decided to steal some money to pay off their sick mother’s medical bills. When security guard Mr. Hamby, catches them and gives chase, he winds up trapped at the bottom of a well. Joey and Hamby form an uneasy rapport as the younger brother debates letting their accidental captive go free — not knowing Hamby has secrets of his own that threaten everyone involved. Watch the trailer above.

The film is being led by Rainn Wilson (The Office), Jack Dylan Grazer (It, Shazam!), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), and Mena Suvari (Six Feet Under).

Don’t Tell a Soul marks the directorial debut of Alex McAulay, who have also written the screenplay. The film is produced by Chris Mangano and Merry-Kay Poe. The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival last September and is set to hit select theaters, digital platforms and video-on-demand and January 15.

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Vanguard Review: Jackie Chan’s Latest is Hardly at the Forefront of Modern Action

Rating:

3/10

Cast:

Jackie Chan as Tang Huanting

Yang Yang as Lei Zhenyu

Ai Lun as Zhang Kaixuan

Mu Qimiya as Miya

Xu Ruohan as Fareeda

Jackson Lou as Qin Guoli

Eyad Hourani as Omar

Written and Directed by Stanley Tong

Vanguard Review:

For this longtime fan of Asian cinema, it’s hard to believe that nearly 25 years have passed since Rumble in the Bronx became Jackie Chan’s entrée into the mainstream U.S. market, kicking off Hollywood’s embrace/co-option of Hong Kong’s action traditions and choreography, as well as some of its stars and filmmakers. Unfortunately, Vanguard, the latest collaboration between Chan and Rumble director Stanley Tong, exemplifies the negative type of reverse osmosis that occurred as borders between film industries fell: It’s a Chinese production informed by international tropes of the most generic kind. Essentially, it’s an imitation James Bond adventure that trots around the globe, stringing together diminishing-returns action setpieces with boilerplate dialogue and an absolute minimum of plot and characterization.

The world tour begins in London, where swarthy baddies attempt to kidnap businessman Qin Guoli (Jackson Lou) during a Spring Festival parade. Good thing that Vanguard, a covert security organization armed and outfitted with the latest in hi-tech weaponry and surveillance, is on the case. Agents and best buds Lei Zhenyu (Yang Yang) and Zhang Kaixuan (Ai Lun) try to stop the abduction, leading to the film’s first major martial-arts brawl in a restaurant kitchen—a serviceable but thoroughly familiar setting for such a set-to, and a sign of pedestrian things to come. During this fight, Ai does some of Chan’s old shtick, like shaking his hand in momentary pain after walloping a bad guy, since Chan himself spends this operation sitting behind a desk as bespectacled Vanguard boss Tang Huanting.

Tang gets to come out and play when the scene switches to Africa, where Qin’s daughter Fareeda (Xu Ruohan) frolics with her digitally created lion pal Charlie in a scene apparently inspired by a classic moment from Mighty Peking Man, and is fighting the local poachers—mostly on social media, it seems. This nasty group joins up with the lead baddies in their attempts to grab Fareeda, who has a 007-ish vehicle and gadgets of her own and bonds romantically with Lei while looking at pretty birdies during a break in the mayhem. It all culminates in an entertainingly ridiculous, CGI-enhanced pursuit down raging rapids—the last time Vanguard is any honest fun.

From there, we jump to the thoroughly hackneyed storm-the-impregnable-fortress portion of the movie on the villains’ home turf in a tactfully fictionalized Middle Eastern country, complete with caravans of vehicles driving through bazaars, endless machine-gun fire and world-music wailing on the soundtrack, topped by half-hearted Fast & Furious-esque car stunts. Here and elsewhere, Vanguard is overly dependent on digital effects that render the action cartoony and weightless, the only intentional humor appearing when Chan injects occasional slapstick into his too-infrequent brawls and in a couple of visual jokes, such as a small fleet of Vanguard espionage drones that actually look like bees. Throughout, the martial arts deliver brief jolts of excitement, but are neither inventive nor extensive enough to dispel the increasingly plodding conventionality in the story (scripted by Tong himself). The lack of genuine rooting interest is particularly acute given that the dramatic “highlights” (a disarm-the-bomb scene, etc.) feel dropped in by rote, and the antagonists’ performances are uniformly lousy.

By the time Vanguard arrives at its final act in Dubai, it has come to seem far longer than its 107 minutes. The last 10 of those consist of the credits, most of which are accompanied by the usual outtakes of Chan and others getting injured doing their stunts—and one particularly serious moment in which the star almost drowned during that river sequence. It’s nice to see him as committed as ever to giving his all to a project—even if, at age 66, his all isn’t what it once was—though the length of those credits indicate the misplaced priorities here. One of Vanguard’s final shots looks like it cost more than all of Drunken Master or Project A, proving once again that money is no substitute for imagination in both plotting and action. Even (especially?) at this late stage of his career, Chan and his fans deserve better.

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Adam Driver-Led 65 Adds Love and Monsters’ Ariana Greenblatt

Adam Driver-led 65 adds Love and Monsters’ Ariana Greenblatt

Following her breakout roles in Disney+’s The One and Only Ivan, Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Paramount’s Love and Monsters, Ariana Greenblatt has found another major step forward in the film world as she has signed on to co-star in the Adam Driver-led sci-fi thriller 65, according to Deadline.

65 will be written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the scribes behind A Quiet Place and duo behind Haunt, who will also produce the film through Beck/Woods banner. Further details about the film’s plot and characters are still being kept under wraps. This will also mark the directing duo’s latest collaboration with Sam Raimi after working together on one episode of Quibi’s 50 States of Fright, with the Evil Dead creator and Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy helmer attached to produce the project alongside Zainab Azizi and Debbie Liebling via their Raimi Productions banner.

Adam Driver gained worldwide recognition for performance as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. After receiving commercial success for Star Wars, he then earned critical acclaimed for his performances in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story which both gave him two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor respectively. He will next be seen in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel starring alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Greenblatt first rose to stardom with her small role as Young Gamora in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Disney Channel’s Stuck in the Middle before branching out with supporting roles in the well-received adaptation of The One and Only Ivan and the acclaimed Dylan O’Brien led apocalyptic rom-com Love and Monsters and will soon be seen in Netflix’s Awake alongside Gina Rodriguez (Carmen Sandiego), The Boss Baby: Family Business and Warner Bros.’ In the Heights.

(Photo Credit: Morgan Lieberman/Getty Images)

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Jennifer Garner & Zoe Saldana Join Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project

Jennifer Garner & Zoe Saldana join Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project

Netflix has taken to Twitter to announce that Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner (Alias) and Marvel Cinematic Universe star Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy) have officially signed on to star opposite Ryan Reynolds (Free Guy) in director Shawn Levy’s forthcoming action-adventure film titled The Adam Project.

THE ADAM PROJECT, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, and Zoe Saldana, is coming to Netflix! The action-adventure film will be directed by Shawn Levy.

(Getty) pic.twitter.com/ui8JqOffSX

— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) November 17, 2020

Further details about their characters are still being kept under wraps but both actresses are no stranger to the action genre with Garner previously starring 2003’s Daredevil and 2018’s Peppermint as well as ABC’s spy thriller series Alias. Meanwhile, Zoe Saldana gained worldwide recognition for starring in some of the highest-grossing films including Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.

The Adam Project (formerly titled as Our Name is Adam) will reportedly follow a man who must travel back in time to get help from his 13-year-old self and together must encounter their late father, who is the same age as Reynolds. This marks the second collaboration between Reynolds and Levy, who previously worked together on the upcoming action-comedy Free Guy.

The film will be directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) from a screenplay written by Jonathan Tropper and David Ellison. Reynolds and Levi will both produce the action-adventure film through their respective production banners Maximum Effort and 21 Laps Entertainment. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger are producing for Skydance.

Skydance most recently worked with Netflix on the film adaptation of The Old Guard with Charlize Theron (F9: The Fast Saga) leading the cast, while also having Top Gun: Maverick and Snake Eyes coming up in its slate with Paramount Pictures and Amazon currently in negotiations to acquire the Michael B. Jordan-led Without Remorse.

(Photo Credits: Getty Images)

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Lionsgate Lands Zachary Levi to Lead The Unbreakable Boy

Lionsgate lands Zachary Levi to lead The Unbreakable Boy

After already landing the Shazam! star to star as Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner in the in-development biopic American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story, Lionsgate has tapped Zachary Levi to lead the cast for the upcoming drama The Unbreakable Boy.

Written and directed by Jon Gunn (I Still Believe), the story is based upon the true story and book of the same name from Scott M. LeRette with Susy Flory. The official logline for the film is as follows:

You’ve never met a kid like Austin. He’s not just one in a million… he’s one in four billion – the odds of being born with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes Austin truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming worldview that transforms and unites everyone around him – especially his dad, Scott (Zachary Levi), who changes his life as he comes to see Austin not as the symbol of something broken, but the triumph of an indestructible spirit. To meet Austin is to know that being “unbreakable” is not about physical strength, but inner strength. It’s about embracing love and grace, even in the most trying times.

Click here to purchase the 2014 novel!

The Erwin Brothers (I Can Only Imagine, I Still Believe) are attached to produce the project alongside Kevin Downes via their Kingdom Story Company production banner and Jerilyn Esquibel and Peter Facinelli. Kingdom Story Company is also set to produce the Levi-led Kurt Warner biopic at Lionsgate, which will begin production sometime next year after production wraps on Unbreakable Boy.

In addition to the Warner biopic and Unbreakable Boy, Levi is currently prepping to reprise his role as the titular DC Comics hero in the highly-anticipated Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which is currently slated for a June 2, 2023 release by Warner Bros.

(Photo Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV)

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Castle Freak Trailer Reveals Reimagining of Stuart Gordon’s Horror Classic

Castle Freak trailer reveals reimagining of Stuart Gordon’s horror classic

RLJE Films and Fangoria have unveiled the first trailer for the forthcoming reimagining of Stuart Gordon’s cult classic 1995 slasher pic Castle Freak from debuting director Tate Steinsiek (The Amazing Spider-Man, Face Off), which can be viewed in the player below!

After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca’s receives some bizarre news: her long-lost-mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew—and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious happenings begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel her family’s mysterious history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.

The film is being written by Kathy Charles (The Kings of Maine) and helmed by Steinsiek, an award-winning special effects artist whose past works include Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, Scare Package, The Amazing Spider-Man and more! The original film, released in November 1995 direct-to-video, was co-written by Gordon and Dennis Paoli and directed by the former and was loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories “The Outsider” and “The Rats in the Walls” and was a modest critical success and garnered a large cult following in the years since its release.

Click here to purchase the 1995 original film!

The cast for the film includes Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty), Kika Magalhaes, Emily Sweet (Syn), Elisha Pratt (True Detective) and Omar Brunson (Shadow Fighter), while original film star Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, Beyond the Gates) is set to produce the horror reimagining and Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond, Kill Bill) is attached as composer for the film’s score.

Castle Freak is set to debut on Shudder on December 3 followed by a digital HD and video-on-demand release on December 4!

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Bruce Wayne Goes Back To the ’70s In Batman: Soul of the Dragon Trailer

Next year, director Sam Liu is sending Batman back in time to the ’70s in a new animated film, Batman: Soul of the Dragon. The story finds Bruce Wayne/Batman (David Giuntoli) drawn into a conspiracy alongside his former martial arts associates. Michael Jai White also stars in the movie as Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger, with Mark Dacascos, and Kelly Hu as Lady Shiva.

IGN has debuted the first trailer for Batman: Soul of the Dragon, which shows Bruce and Richard as they reunite in the ’70s. Flashbacks also reveal how Bruce first encountered Richard, Ben, and Shiva under the tutelage of O-Sensei. Apparently, there’s also a connection to the past that forces the four of them to come back together. The trailer also appears to establish Kobra, and his international terrorist cult, as the primary threat.

Here’s the official synopsis from Warner Bros. Animation.

“Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman, world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner, and Lady Shiva and their mentor O-Sensei to battle the monsters of this world and beyond!”

Batman: Soul of the Dragon will hit digital on January 12, 2021, and 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack and Blu-ray on January 26, 2021.

You can watch the trailer below, and then share your thoughts in the comment section below!

Recommended Reading: Batman: A Death in the Family

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Alamo Drafthouse Auctioning Off Rare Mondo Prints

Yes, there is a basement in the Alamo, and it’s ready to open for visitors. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is inviting guests to Invade the Alamo Basement – an ongoing sale of Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo collectibles that kicks off with the largest and most comprehensive auction of Mondo prints ever. Drawn entirely from Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League’s personal collection of nearly 2,000 Mondo limited edition prints, the auction begins Sunday, November 29th in partnership with eMoviePoster.com. Bidding for each item begins at just $1.

“I love Mondo posters. I own quite a few of them and the interpretations of my films by the Mondo crew are a source of great pride to me,” says Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. “It is clear they are in the middle of a very cool Venn diagram composed of huge artistic talent and a genuine love of movies.”

The auction will begin at 5:00PM on November 29th and close on December 13th. Bidders must have a free account at eMovieposter.com to bid. Everything in the auction is certified original and in mint or near mint condition. Each poster will be meticulously inspected and graded prior to the auction by the eMovieposter team.

From Tim League: “Cinemas across the country are facing extraordinary financial hardships. We are legally unable to open many of our venues, and where we can open, our capacity is significantly reduced, the product – the supply of blockbuster films – has evaporated, and our debt from accrued rent during closure continues to mount.

100% of proceeds from the sale will go towards paying staff of the Alamo Drafthouse and paying debt and expenses accrued during the COVID closures. These next four to six months are critical and the proceeds from this auction will help immensely.

If you are a Mondo collector, if you have a movie fan in your life who would like something unique under the Christmas tree this year, or if you have never purchased a poster before, we invite everyone to explore the incredible history of nearly 15 years of beautiful poster design in this auction.

We are also very proud to be partnering with our friends at eMovieposter.com. I’m a longtime buyer from Bruce Hershenson, and chose his company for many reasons. First, they take exceptional care with the posters they sell and quickly ship when the auction closes. But there are unique features at eMovieposter.com that Mondo collectors will also appreciate, namely that a bot or a sniping tool cannot win at eMovieposter. If you bid within the last five minutes of an auction, an additional five minutes is automatically added. The playing field is leveled and you will not be outbid at the last microsecond.

The other unique aspect of eMovieposter is that in over 30 years of auctioning, there has never been a reserve for any item. All posters begin at $0, and the opening bid is $1. If you’ve always wanted a specific Mondo poster but haven’t been able to get one, this is your unique chance.”

Alamo Drafthouse’s history of creating special hand-silkscreened event posters dates back to early partnerships with then gig poster luminary and Mondo co-founder Rob Jones on posters for QT Fest and early outdoor Rolling Roadshow events like Cinemapocalypse. Later, Mondo Tees – the tiny iron-on T-shirt shop in the original Alamo Drafthouse’s ticket booth – began creating and releasing collectible prints that became highly sought-after, and revolutionized the film poster world.

Mondo’s reputation for graphic excellence continues with inventive, artist-driven designs for everything from the latest studio blockbusters to cult classics. That commitment to has led the company to work with a roster of world-renowned artists that include Aaron Horkey, Becky Cloonan, Francesco Francavilla, Frank Kozik, Jermaine Rogers, Jason Edmiston, Jay Ryan, Jay Shaw, Jock, Tula Lotay, Laurent Durieux, Matt Taylor, Olly Moss, Stan Sakai, Shepard Fairey, Drew Struzan, Vania Zouravliov, and many more.

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