Exclusive: Michael Rooker Reflects on Mallrats & Super Anniversaries!

While chatting with the 65-year-old star for his role in the post-apocalyptic rom-com Love and Monsters, ComingSoon.net took a step back in time with Michael Rooker to reflect on the tenth anniversary of James Gunn’s Super and the 25th anniversary of Kevin Smith’s Mallrats. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!

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Written and directed by Kevin Smith, Mallrats was the second installment in the filmmaker’s View Askewniverse after his debut Clerks, though chronologically takes place the day prior, and centers on recently dumped T.S. (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee) as they head to the mall to escape their woes while battling with the shopping area’s tight security and the maniacal dad of T.S.’ ex, Jared Svenning (Rooker).

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In addition to London, Lee and Rooker, the cast for the film included Smith and Jason Mewes as iconic stoner duo and main thread for the View Askewniverse Jay and Silent Bob, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Renee Humphrey, Shannen Doherty, Ethan Suplee, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Scott Mosier, Brian O’Halloran, Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan and comic book legend Stan Lee as himself.

Written and directed by future Guardians of the Galaxy helmer Gunn, Super followed Frank Darbo, a short-order cook in a small town who, despite possessing no superpowers, decides to become a superhero called the “Crimson Bolt” after receiving what he believes to be a message from God to fight crime and rescue his wife Sarah from a local drug dealer and strip club owner.

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The cast for the dark comedy was led by Rainn Wilson and also included Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion, Rooker, Gregg Henry, Andre Royo, Sean Gunn and Linda Cardellini.

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Love and Monsters is now available on digital platforms!

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Sony’s Don’t Breathe Sequel & Ghostbusters: Afterlife Get New Release Dates

Sony Pictures has scheduled Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe sequel for an August 13, 2021 release date. Additionally, Sony has moved Columbia Pictures’ Ghostbusters: Afterlife to June 11, 2021, from its March 5, 2021 release date. The film will now debut the same weekend as the first Ghostbusters film, which premiered on June 8, 1984.

The Don’t Breathe sequel will now open against 20th Century Studios’ Deep Water while Ghostbusters: Afterlife will open a week before Warner Bros.’ In the Heights.

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Directed by Rodo Sayagues, Don’t Breathe 2 will take place several years after the home invasion of the first movie, with the Blind Man living in quiet solace… until his past sins catch up to him. According to Bloody Disgusting, Lang’s Blind Man has been hiding out for years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a house fire. Their quiet existence is shattered when a group of kidnappers show up and take the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

Sayagues co-wrote the script with Don’t Breathe co-writer and director Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead). Alvarez, Good Universe, and Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert of Ghost House will produce. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition and its Stage 6 Films division are backing the project.

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Don’t Breathe earned $157 million at the worldwide box office from a $10 million budget when the movie hit theaters in August 2016. Along with Lang, the movie starred Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, and Daniel Zovatto. In the film a trio of friends in Detroit who routinely commit small-time burglaries. When they uncover a score that they think will see them set for life, the group decides to break into the house of a blind man, thinking it will be easy to get in and out with a sizable amount of cash. As it turns out, what was to be an easy take may end up becoming the last thing any of them ever do.

The film was produced by Ghost House’s Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert alongside Joseph Drake, Nathan Kahane, and J.R. Young.

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Jared Leto Returning to Play Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Jared Leto is reprising his Suicide Squad Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League as the actor has reportedly joined the reshoots for the highly-anticipated Snyder Cut. Shooting is currently underway with Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, and Amber Heard among those involved with the reshoots.

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League will reportedly cost around $70 million in order to properly finish the editing and visual effects of the director’s original vision, as well as the additional photography. The original post-production crew is also expected to return along with the cast members to record additional dialogue for the cut. 

It was revealed at DC FanDome that the movie will release on HBO Max in 2021 by being broken up into four one-hour parts that will also be released as one four-hour film.

Fueled by the hero’s restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Justice League sees Bruce Wayne enlist the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Justice League, which features a screenplay from Chris Terrio from a story by Snyder and Terrio, stars Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, with J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, and Amy Adams as Lois Lane.

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Released in November 2017, the film earned mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, praising the action and performances from Gadot and Miller while criticizing every other aspect of the film, namely the inconsistent tone that many fault Joss Whedon (The Avengers) for after taking over directorial duties from Snyder. With a large budget of $300 million and a break-even point of $750 million, the film is considered a box office bomb having grossed only $658 million.

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New to Stream: OVID’s November 2020 Movie Lineup

OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films, has announced its November streaming lineup. On November 6, OVID brings out its first post-election release, the restored version of legendary situationist Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, based on his 1967 book.

Premiering on November 18, From What is Before, winner of five prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, is Lav Diaz’s extraordinary five-and-a-half-hour epic taking place in The Philippine countryside. Oliver Laxe’s Mimosas (November 19), winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Also on November 19, the masters of the French New Wave (Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, and others) unfurl slices of Parisian life in a restored version of Six in Paris.

Debuting November 20, Patrick Wang’s critically acclaimed A Bread Factory, a New York Times Critics Pick, features a remarkable performance from Tyne Daly told in two films about big changes in a small town, and the remastered HD version of Bamako, executive produced by Danny Glover, is the critically acclaimed political drama by celebrated filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako that chronicles an extraordinary trial in the capital city of Mali.

Additionally, New York City’s Latin heritage and urban landscapes are chronicled in three films. On November 25, David Riker’s La Ciudad is a collection of stories and an affecting portrait of disenfranchised Latin American immigrants living in New York. Diego Echeverria’s Los Sures is a complex portrait celebrating the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community in New York City. And Manfred Kirchheimer’s Stations of the Elevated weaves together vivid images of graffiti-covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing 1970s New York. The commentary-free soundtrack combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin.

Spotlighting classic films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFBC), OVID presents on November 12 two short docs by Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig, Glenn Gould – Off the Record and Glenn Gould – On the Record about the renowned Canadian concert pianist. On November 13, Caroline Leaf’s Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen, is a black-and-white portrait of the poet, novelist, and songwriter at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of Montreal.

RELATED: New to Netflix November 2020: All Movies & Shows Coming and Going

Details on these and the rest of the films coming to OVID in November are below:

Friday, November 6th

Society of the Spectacle (1973)

Directed by Guy Debord; Icarus Films, Documentary

France

La Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle) is a black-and-white 1973 film by the Situationist Guy Debord, based on his 1967 book of the same name. It was Debord’s first feature-length film. It uses found footage and détournement in a radical Marxist critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.

Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (2017)

Directed by Pablo Bryant; Grasshopper Film, Documentary

U.S.

A political cartoonist known for his outrageous and subversive art, Mr. Fish’s work has been published in places such as Harper’s, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and The Village Voice and sites like truthdig.com.

In this intimate and revealing documentary, Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End, we are introduced to the dangerously funny cartoonist as he struggles to stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.

Wednesday, November 10th

Churchill Island (1941)

Directed by Stuart Legg; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

This film won the NFB its first Oscar and was also the first documentary to win this coveted award. It presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationships between the various forces made up the island’s defenses. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle with the Luftwaffe, the Navy in its stubborn fight against the raiders of sea and sky, the coastal defenses, the mechanized cavalry, the merchant seamen and behind them all, Britain’s tough, unbending civilian army.

City of Gold (1957)

Directed by Colin Low & Wolf Koenig; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

This classic short film from Pierre Berton depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Using a collection of still photographs, the film juxtaposes the Dawson City at the height of the gold rush with its bustling taverns and dance halls with the more tranquil Dawson City of the present.

King of the Hill (1974)

Directed by William Canning & Donald Brittain; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

This feature documentary follows one of the greatest Canadian baseball players of all time, Ferguson Jenkins, through the 1972-1973 season. From the hope and innocence of spring training to the dog days of an August slump, the camera gets up close and personal at the home plate and records the intimate chatter on the mound, in the dugout and in the locker room. It provides a glimpse into the rewards and pressures of sports stardom and the easy camaraderie of the quintessential summer sport.

Royal Journey (1951)

Directed by David Bairstow, Gudrun Parker & Roger Blais; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951. Stops on the royal tour include Québec City, the National War Memorial in Ottawa, the Trenton Air Force Base in Toronto, a performance of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Regina and visits to Calgary and Edmonton. The royal train crosses the Rockies and makes stops in several small towns. The royal couple boards HMCS Crusader in Vancouver and watches Native dances in Thunderbird Park, Victoria. They are then welcomed to the United States by President Truman. The remainder of the journey includes visits to Montreal, the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, a steel mill in Sydney, Nova Scotia and Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.

Thursday, November 12th

Glenn Gould – Off the Record (1959)

Directed by Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig; National Film Board Canada, Music Documentary

Canada

In this short documentary, Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. This is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition.

Glenn Gould – On the Record (1959)

Directed by Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig; National Film Board Canada, Music Documentary

Canada

This short documentary follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding the cab driver, bantering with sound engineers at Columbia Records, and then, alone with the piano, fastidiously recording Bach’s Italian Concerto.

Friday, November 13th

Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1981)

Directed by Caroline Leaf; National Film Board Canada, Music Documentary

Canada

This short documentary profiles Quebec-born singing sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle. The sisters enjoy international acclaim—although outside of the mainstream—for their inimitable style, their talent as songwriters, and especially their unassuming, informal personalities. With camera and sketchbook in hand, artist and filmmaker Caroline Leaf captures the sisters’ endearing qualities. The result is an easygoing, sometimes whimsical portrait of the famous sisters on and off stage. Highlights include excerpts from the sisters’ Carnegie Hall performance and a look at their songwriting and recording processes.

Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965)

Directed by Caroline Leaf; National Film Board Canada, Music Documentary

Canada

This informal black-and-white portrait of Leonard Cohen shows him at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of Montreal, where the poet, novelist and songwriter comes “to renew his neurotic affiliations.” He reads his poetry to an enthusiastic crowd, strolls the streets of the city, relaxes in this three-dollar-a-night hotel room and even takes a bath.

Wednesday, November 18th

From What is Before (2014)

Directed by Lav Diaz; Starring Perry Dizon, Roeder, Hazel Orencio, Karenina Haniel, Reynan Abcede,

Mailes Kanapi; Grasshopper Film, Feature

Philippines

Winner of five prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, including the Golden Leopard for Best Film, Lav Diaz’s follow up to his acclaimed Norte, The End of History is an extraordinary five-and-a-half-hour epic that relates the strange, perhaps supernatural, occurrences that befall a remote village in the Philippine countryside.

Thursday, November 19th

Mimosas (2016)

Directed by Oliver Laxe; Starring Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar; Grasshopper Film, Feature

Morocco

Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s stunning new film, Mimosas, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik to the village where he was born. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. Without their leader, the company grows fearful. And at the foot of a mountain pass, they refuse to continue, entrusting the body to two men who agree to carry on and bring it to its final destination. But who are these men? And do they really know the way? In another world, a mysterious young man is chosen to find the caravan.

Six in Paris (1965)

Directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, and Jean Rouch; Starring Barbara Wilkins, Jean-François Chappey, Barbet Schroeder, Nadine Ballot, Gilles Quéant, Claude Melki, Micheline Dax, Jean-Michel Rouzière, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Davri, Philippe Hiquilly, Gilles Chusseau, Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Icarus Films, Feature

France

Six slices of Parisian life unfurl, each in a different neighborhood. Barbet Schroeder, produced and appears in Rouch’s Gare du Nord segment of marital dissatisfaction; Rohmer’s guilt-themed drama Place de l’Etoile benefits from longtime cinematographer Néstor Almendros; Chabrol stars in his La Muette opposite wife Stéphane Audran, as a couple whose child tries to tune out their bickering, and in Godard’s Montparnasse-Levallois, Joanna Shimkus mixes up letters to two different lovers.

Friday, November 20th

Bamako — remastered in HD! (2006)

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako; Starring Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré and Danny Glover Icarus Films, Feature

Mali

An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whom civil society blames for perpetuating Africa’s debt crisis, at the heart of so many of the continent’s woes. As numerous trial witnesses (schoolteachers, farmers, writers, etc.) air bracing indictments against the global economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. Melé, a lounge singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up; a security guard’s gun goes missing; a young man lies ill; a wedding procession passes through; and women keep everything rolling – dyeing fabric, minding children, spinning cotton, and speaking their minds.

Written and directed by the celebrated filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for Happiness) and co-executive produced by Danny Glover (who also provides a cameo in the film), this critically acclaimed political drama – filled with a lush mix of warm colors and impassioned music – offers a unique opportunity for audiences to become familiar with contemporary Africa. Sissako, who grew up in the courtyard that the film is set in, hired professional lawyers and judges along with “witnesses” to express their true feelings. Bamako voices Africa’s grievances in an original and profoundly moving way.

A Bread Factory (2018)

Directed by Patrick Wang; Starring Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters, Tyne Daly; Grasshopper Film, Feature

U.S.

The acclaimed new work from filmmaker Patrick Wang (In the Family), featuring a remarkable performance from actress Tyne Daly, is the story of The Bread Factory, a community arts center in the small town of Checkford, told in two films. In part one, after 40 years of running The Bread Factory, Dorothea (Daly) and Greta (Elisabeth Henry) are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple—performance artists from China—come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town. Part two revolves around rehearsals for the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers.

Tuesday, November 24th

How to Build an Igloo (1949)

Directed by Douglas Wilkinson; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance–a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours. The commentary explains that the interior warmth and the wind outside cement the snow blocks firmly together. As the short winter day darkens, the two builders move their caribou sleeping robes and extra skins indoors, confident of spending a snug night in the midst of the Arctic cold!

Lonely Boy (1962)

Directed by Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor; National Film Board Canada, Music Documentary

Canada

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. Taking a candid look at both sides of the footlights, this film examines the marketing machine behind a generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal their perspective on the industry.

Waiting for Fidel (1974)

Directed by Michael Rubbo; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island.

Wednesday, November 25th

La Ciudad (1998)

Directed by David Riker; Starring Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano; Oscilloscope Laboratories, Feature

U.S.

LA CIUDAD is a dramatically photographed collection of stories of love, hope, and loss, and an affecting portrait of disenfranchised Latin American immigrants living in New York. Filmed over the course of six years in the 1990s, LA CIUDAD takes us inside this community of newcomers, creating a powerful and incisive drama about the loneliness, displacement, and economic hardship which they face in the new and unfamiliar world of the city.

Los Sures (1984)

Directed by Diego Echeverria; Oscilloscope Laboratories, Documentary

U.S.

LOS SURES skillfully represents the challenges residents of the Southside faced: poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources. The complex portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community, showing the strength of their culture, their creativity, and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. Beautifully restored for the 30th anniversary premiere at the New York Film Festival, this documentary is an invaluable piece of New York City history.

Stations of the Elevated (1981)

Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer; Oscilloscope Laboratories, Documentary

U.S.

Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin. Gliding through the South Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan – making a rural detour past a correctional facility upstate – Stations of the Elevated is an impressionistic portrait of and tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared.

And here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming to OVID in December:

Wednesday, Dec. 2nd

Border South (2019)

Directed by Raúl O. Paz Pastrana; Bullfrog Films, Documentary

U.S.

To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the US collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory.

Every year hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. Gustavo’s gunshot wounds from Mexican police, which received a lot of press attention, might just earn him a ticket out of Nicaragua. Meanwhile anthropologist Jason De León painstakingly collects objects left behind by migrants on the trail, which have their own stories to tell. These remains, from Hondurans crossing through southern Mexico, reveal a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail.

Day One (2019)

Directed by Lori Miller; Bullfrog Films, Documentary

U.S.

Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.

Thursday, Dec. 3rd

Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970)

Directed by Michael Rubbo; National Film Board Canada, Documentary

Canada

A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of 3 young American journalists who, in 1970, explored the consequences of war and of the American presence in Vietnam. It is not a film about the Vietnam War, but about the people who lived on the fringe of battle. The views of the city are arresting, but away from the shrines and the open-air markets lies another city, swollen with refugees and war orphans, where every inch of habitable space is coveted.

RELATED: New to Stream: Acorn TV’s November 2020 Lineup

With the help of an unprecedented collaborative effort by eight of the most noteworthy, independent film distribution companies in the U.S., Docuseek, LLC launched an innovative, new, subscription video-on-demand service, OVID.tv. OVID is available in the U.S. and Canada. New subscribers can sign-up for a free 14-day trial. After that, subscriptions are just $6.99/mo or $69.99 for an annual subscription.

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Exclusive Most Guys Are Losers Trailer Starring Mira Sorvino & Andy Buckley

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy Most Guys Are Losers, starring Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Andy Buckley (The Office). You can check out the trailer now in the player below!

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Sandy’s new boyfriend, Bo, meets all the criteria for a good partner (and she knows it)! However, when she brings him home for the holidays, her dad, Mark, thinks he knows better. Bar owner Mark Berzins has seen decades of relationships-gone-wrong and is determined to poke some holes in this one. A well-intentioned investigation into he new boyfriend leads to awkward misunderstandings, spilled secrets, and heartwarming moments. This intimate and humorous exploration of love, in all its forms, is an instant holiday classic.

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Based on the book and life of Denver bar owner Mark Berzins and cleverly reimagined by screenwriter and director Eric Ustian, the movie also stars Paul Sorvino, Michael Provost, Grace Fulton, and Belmont Cameli.

RELATED: Exclusive Honest Thief Clip Featuring Liam Neeson & Jeffrey Donovan!

Most Guys Are Losers will have its virtual premiere at the Denver Film Festival on October 22.

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Nia DaCosta’s Candyman Set for August 2021 Release!

After initially being pulled from the schedule for an unset 2021 release, Universal Pictures has officially set Nia DaCosta’s upcoming Candyman revival starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Trial of the Chicago 7) for an August 27, 2021 release date.

RELATED: Nia DaCosta’s Candyman Release Date Delayed to 2021

Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Us) unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directs and co-writes this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo; AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

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Universal Pictures presents, from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Monkeypaw Productions, in association with BRON Creative, Candyman. Candyman is directed by DaCosta, and produced by Ian Cooper (Us), Monkeypaw President Win Rosenfeld and Jordan Peele. The screenplay is by Peele & Rosenfeld and DaCosta. The film is based on the 1992 film Candyman, written by Bernard Rose, and the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. The film’s executive producers are David Kern, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth.

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Mercy Sparx: MGM Nabs Rights to Supernatural Comic Book Series

According to Deadline, MGM has successfully acquired the screen rights to Devil’s Due Publishing’s supernatural comic book series titled Mercy Sparx which centers around a female demon who’s hunting down rogue angels on Earth. The studio is also eyeing this project as a potential franchise-starter that is being described as a female version of Keanu Reeves’ Constantine.

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Created by writer Josh Blaylock, Mercy Sparx is a female demon sent from Hell to Earth on a mission, which she must complete while hiding among humans. On earth, Mercy has an existential crisis and begins to see the gray area between good and evil. It forces her to choose her place within it and compromises her mission.

Recommended Reading: Mercy Sparx Volume 1

The official synopsis reads: “Meet Mercy Sparx – a devil girl living on Earth in both human and devil form. Did we mention she’s working undercover for Heaven? She hunts down angels that have gone rogue whenever she’s called in to work. But, in the meantime, Mercy’s just drinking whiskey and chain-smoking until she’s assigned to take down an angel that has fallen.”

RELATED: Undone By Blood: AMC & Norman Reedus Adapting Western Comics Into Series

The project will be penned by Nick Shafir and is a co-production between The Picture Company and Assemble Media with Jack Heller, Alex Heineman, and Andrew Rona set as producers. It will be executive produced by Blaylock and Scott Veltri of Assemble. Elishia Holmes and Sandino Moya-Smith have also been tapped to oversee the project on behalf of MGM.

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Netflix’s The Life Ahead Trailer Starring Sophia Loren

Netflix has released the official trailer for the upcoming drama The Life Ahead, starring Academy Award winner Sophia Loren (Two Women). Arriving in select theaters next month and on Netflix on November 13, you can check out the trailer for the movie now in the player below!

RELATED: New to Netflix November 2020: All Movies & Shows Coming and Going

In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of items from the elderly Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a Holocaust survivor who makes a meagre living raising the children of prostitutes with whom she once shared the streets. When Momo is forced to apologize to Rosa, she reluctantly agrees to take him in temporarily and the two lonely individuals find an unlikely family in each other through a deep and unconventional bond. The kindred spirits become connected to a common destiny that will change the course of their lives.

Pick up your copy of the novel here!

The Life Ahead is directed by Edoardo Ponti and adapted by Ponti and Ugo Chiti from Romain Gary’s novel The Life Before Us. The film also stars Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri, Iosif Diego Pirvu, Massimiliano Rossi, Abril Zamora and Babak Karimi.

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The drama was produced by Palomar in collaboration with the Artemis Rising Foundation with the support of Regione Puglia, Puglia Promozione, and the Apulia Film Commission.

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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Trailer: His legacy is more than a croc

Lionsgate has unveiled the official trailer for the meta-fueled Australian comedy The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee which sees outback legend Paul Hogan return to films as himself as he seeks to prove his legacy is more than a croc. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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Co-written and directed by Dean Murphy, the film centers on the 81-year-old star as he finds himself thrust back into the spotlight with the announcement he will be knighted by the Queen of England and must attempt to restore his sullied reputation ahead of the ceremony.

After a lengthy absence from both film and television, Paul Hogan surged back into the spotlight after a trailer was released promoting a film project titled Dundee in 2018. After much speculation over whether or not this film was a legitimate film, the truth was revealed. The catcher was that the short film trailer was an advertisement to promote tourism in Australia.

The original 1986 Crocodile Dundee was a fish-out-of-water comedy written by and starring Paul Hogan as the Australian bushman Mick Dundee who comes to New York City. A sleeper hit, it grossed $328 million at the worldwide box office and spawned two sequels, 1988’s Crocodile Dundee II and 2001’s Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, neither of which met the expectations of the original.

The Very Excellent Mr Dundee is directed by Murphy (Strange Bedfellows, Muggers), who also produces alongside Nigel Odell (Long Weekend, Muggers). Executive producers are KMI’s Kathy Morgan, Christopher Figg and Robert Whitehouse from London’s Piccadilly Pictures, Sherman Ng from Singapore’s Salt Media and Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten from Transmission Films.

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The film is slated for a digital release on December 11!

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CS Interview: Star Jai Courtney on action thriller Honest Thief

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) to discuss his role in the Liam Neeson-led action thriller Honest Thief as the corrupt FBI agent John Nivens. The film is now out in select theaters!

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ComingSoon: You’ve kicked ass with Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise, you’ve had your ass kicked by Tom Cruise, what’s it like entering the ass-kicking world of Liam Neeson?

Jai Courtney: I feel like it was just the direction I had to go, I had to tick another one of these legends off my list and who better to link up with than Liam on a movie like this [laughs]. It was a lot of fun and he’s obviously a legend and it’s kind of a familiar genre for him and what we love seeing him do and that’s a big part of why I wanted to get involved and come on board, so I was thrilled for the opportunity.

CS: Though we’ve seen you play similar characters before, what was it like getting to the heart of your role in this one?

JC: I always have a lot of fun with these characters, I do try to spread them out a little because I have other interests and I feel like there’s kind of more strings to my bow, but it is a lot of fun when you get to do something like this where you’re a pretty straightforward bad guy. You always try to root that in something that feels authentic and Nivens was no exception, he’s a guy that truly believes that it’s a victimless crime they’re committing and what’s the big deal and he makes some sense. It might not be in line with everyone’s moral code, but there’s something to be said for it. I always just try to have fun with that and not judge these bad guys too harshly and it helps me settle into that and enjoy and I hope audiences can do that with this character as well.

CS: What was it like developing the antagonistic banter with Liam and Anthony Ramos?

It was great, Anthony and I had a great time, we play very different guys where our codes sit and our ethical approach to the job, so it was kind of interesting because they’re both sort of not on the same page the whole time and trying to convince him of some of the stuff we have to be capable of created a nice energy between us. Liam was interesting, there’s so much of the film where we’re not in the same room, but he’s kind of coming after us or we’re going after him, so it was really cool when we finally got to do a couple of those scenes where we’re in the same space, there’s some great action there as well and of course no Liam Neeson film would be complete without some great phone conversations either [laughs]. It was cool to be a part of some of those moments in it as well.

CS: Did you find you got to do a majority of your stunts throughout the film? 

JC: Yeah I did and it was a lot of fun, it’s not like super super heavy for my character, but there’s some great shootout stuff and it’s always good working with some great people and getting some weapons combat. We had a fantastic stunt team, Mark Vanselow, who also doubles as Liam, was our coordinator, they’ve been together for a long time and I think they have a really great shorthand in developing the action for his kind of stuff and the kind of film that he likes to make and I had a great time with him. There was some cool stuff, some great pyrotechnics, a bit of driving as well, some good car-rig stuff. I haven’t played this space in a minute, I’ve kind of been exploring other types of cinema and TV even in this past year, so it was cool to be back in the saddle with a sort of straightforward action film and playing a role of this kind.

CS: Since you mention TV, Mark Williams is one of the creative minds behind Ozark, did you two talk at all about having you join the final season?

[Laughs] No I didn’t bug him about that, so it’s all good, these things will either happen or they won’t through the kind of natural progression of things. The show Stateless I did out in Australia, it came out on Netflix not too long ago and I’m thrilled with that, there’s such great writing in TV at the moment and I really enjoy that more long-form storytelling so hopefully one of these days I’ll find something to go over there and do, it’d be awesome. I’m a big fan of Ozark, that was a lot of what had to do with getting involved with Mark and hearing his brilliant ideas.

CS: There’s a nice dark humor underlying the whole film, what was it like for you honing in on that tone for your character?

JC: I kind of like that vibe, it’s kind of what’s fun about playing a role like this is you have to kind of be able to manage that, it’s kind of what helps keep these characters enjoyable. That’s always kind of my goal in playing a villain is to portray something people want more of, even if they’re not someone that’s really likable, you want them walking away feeling like they had fun with them. Kind of having a bit of banter and a bit of a comic edge to some of the exchanges, that all is the sort of things that make it interesting for me when I’m exploring it and reading something and deciding if it’s the right move and Nivens was kind of right in line with that. I saw an opportunity to have a lot of fun with someone and get up to no good.

CS: What would you say were some of your biggest creative challenges coming into this project?

Honestly the challenging stuff was getting back into some of the physical scenes and working out some of that stunt stuff. There’s a great fight scene with myself and Kate Walsh, which was a lot of fun, but took a lot of rehearsal, and some stuff with Liam’s character as well and I think having that bit of a break from the action scene, that’s the sort of stuff that’s such a perishable skill and that you really get a fitness for when you’re doing a lot of it. I think that was something where I was like, “Damn, yeah, we’re getting back in the gym and putting the work in to make sure these scenes really serve the movie and they’re exciting and keeping everyone safe during.” That was probably the biggest challenge with this, playing an asshole comes kind of naturally to me, so working with a character like Nivens is often the easiest kind of stuff I get to do and I do joke a little there, but strangely there’s something kind of so fun and satisfying about playing a character that doesn’t have a ton of redeeming qualities and it frees you up. It’s good to play someone earnest who has a strict kind of moral code as well and is dealing with challenges within, but for a film like this it was cool to play someone like Nivens and I’ll be doing it again for sure.

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Written by Steve Allrich (The Canyon) and directed by Mark Williams, the co-creator of the hit Netflix crime thriller Ozark, Honest Thief will follow a bank robber (Neeson) who after attempting to turn himself in after falling in love with an employee from where his loot is stashed must deal with the complications that arise when his case is taken on by corrupt FBI agents, played by Jai Courtney and Anthony Ramos.

Williams produced Honest Thief alongside Tai Duncan, Stephen Emery and Myles Nestel of Solution Entertainment Group, which sold the international rights to the film to Briarcliff and Open Road in June.

Neeson has found large success in recent years in the action genre, starring in the fan-favorite Taken trilogy and starring in this year’s box-office hit The Commuter, the fourth collaboration between him and director Jaume Collet-Serra. The 66-year-old actor will next be seen in the upcoming comedy Made in Italy, the directorial debut of James D’Arcy (Avengers: Endgame), which is scheduled for an August 7 release.

Honest Thief is in select theaters now!

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