Shout! Studios has unveiled the first trailer and release date fo the upcoming indie action-thriller Dead Reckoning featuring a cast led by Riverdale and I Still Believe star K.J. Apa as a man trapped between two loyalties and left with only one choice. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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Tillie Gardner’s summer romance with local cab driver Niko before starting college is helping her cope with the tragic death of her parents in a private plane crash a few weeks earlier. Too bad she doesn’t know yet he is the brother of the terrorist who actually sabotaged the plane, and who is also involved with a plot to bomb the annual Fourth of July beach celebration on Nantucket Island. Can she gather herself and her wits together and discover his dark secret in time and prevent a terrible massacre?
Directed by the legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Andrzej Bartkowiak (Prizzi’s Honor, The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, Doom, Speed), and written by Alfred Wayne Carter and Kristin Alexandre, Dead Reckoning stars India Eisley (I Am the Night, Underworld Awakening), Apa, James Remar (Dexter, X-Men: First Class), Ellie Cornell (Femme Fatales, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), Sydney Park (The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) and Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange, The Expendables).
A Pulse Rate Production in association with Moody Independent, Productivity Media, and Motion Picture Exchange, the film is produced by Mark Donadio, Miriam Marcus, Andrzej Bartkowiak, and Jeffrey Bowler. Executive producers are Kristin Alexandre, William A. Earon, William G. Santor, John Hills, Andrew Chang-Sang, Catherine Dewey, Christopher Dewey, and James Andrew Felts.
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Dead Reckoning is set to hit VOD and digital platforms on November 13.
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ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game) to discuss his long-in-development courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is set to hit Netflix this Friday! Our interview can be viewed in the player below!
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Based on a true story, The Trial of the Chicago 7 follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war “carnival” that turned nasty. Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames. Curfews only escalated the violence.
After the clashes, independent investigators blamed eight police officers and eight protesters including Abbie Hoffman, who had already disrupted the New York Stock Exchange with showers of fake money. The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot. One was jailed for contempt, leaving the seven to fight the charges.
Sorkin’s second directorial effort will feature Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald) as Tom Hayden, Oscar-nominee Sacha Baron Cohen (Who is America?) as Abbie Hoffman, Jeremy Strong (Succession) as as Jerry Rubin, Golden Globe-nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) as Richard Schultz, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) as Bobby Seale, Alex Sharp (The Hustle) as Rennie Davis and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Luce, Waves) as Fred Hamptom. It will also star Michael Keaton, William Hurt, Thomas Middleditch, John Carroll Lynch, Daniel Flaherty, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, J.C. MacKenzie and Max Adler, who also serves as an executive producer.
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The film will also be executive produced by Matt Jackson. Marc Butan and Anthony Katagas. The Trial of the Chicago 7 will be produced by Oscar nominee Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, La La Land), Stuart Besser, and Tyler Thompson.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 hits Netflix this Friday!
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CJ Entertainment, Korea’s leading entertainment conglomerate has tapped award winning director, Deon Taylor (Black and Blue) to direct the gothic horror/thriller Grave Hill, the studio’s English-language remake of the popular Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.
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Released in 2016 to strong reviews from critics for its exploration of racial and social themes in a period/romance/horror setting, The Housemaid was written and directed by Derek Nguyen and produced by Timothy Linh Bui, which CJ Entertainment financed and produced. The remake, titled Grave Hill, will stay true to this concept, taking place in the American South during the Reconstruction Era.
“Having the opportunity to work with CJ Entertainment is absolutely a dream come true,” Taylor said in a statement. “The collaboration they created with Bong Joon Ho and the film Parasite was incredible. I truly believe Grave Hill is a special, elevated thriller that will speak to social themes we are dealing with today and simultaneously push audiences to the edge of their seats just like the original version did. This is a rare film and I’m very excited to bring it to life with CJ and team!”
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The script for the adaptation is being penned by Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) alongside Nguyen, with CJ Entertainment again financing, developing and producing the project with Group Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee, Jinnie Choi and Jerry Ko executive producing alongside Hidden Empire’s Roxanne Taylor and Motor’s Sean Sorensen. Don Handfield is set to produce the film via his Motor production banner alongside original producer Linh Bui for Happy Canvas, Nguyen and CJ Entertainment’s Yeonu Choi.
“Deon is a filmmaker who will absolutely push boundaries and challenge sensibilities when it comes to elevating a story – particularly those rooted in suspense with social and racial themes,” Jerry Ko, CJ Entertainment’s Head of International Division, said in a statement. “His creative vision for Grave Hill involves stepping far beyond the ordinary to retell a haunting story that’s different from anything audiences have seen before.”
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Grave Hill is being eyed to begin principal photography in early 2021.
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Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix (Joker, Gladiator) is set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in Oscar nominee Ridley Scott’s (Gladiator, The Martian) upcoming biopic Kitbag based on the 19th-century French emperor, according to Deadline. The outlet shares the film’s title stems from the saying, “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag.”
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Directed by Scott, Kitbag is described as an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. The film will capture Napoleon’s famous battles, his relentless ambition, and “astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary.”
David Scarpa (All the Money in the World) is penning the script for the 20th Century Studios project that is being produced by Scott and Kevin Walsh for Scott Free.
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Scott has completed production on the drama The Last Duel, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer. He’ll begin production next March in Italy on Gucci, starring Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver, and Jared Leto.
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According to Deadline, Adam McKay’s comedy Don’t Look Up has added Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name), Ariana Grande (Scream Queens), Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Kid Cudi (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Matthew Perry (The Ron Clark Story), and Tomer Sisley (Balthazar) to its cast. The group will be joining the previously announced Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), and Rob Morgan (Mudbound) in the Netflix feature.
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Don’t Look Up will be written and directed by Adam McKay, who is also set as a producer Hyperobject Industries banner with Kevin Messick. The film will center on two low-level astronomers who have to embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that is going to destroy Earth. According to Variety, Lawrence and DiCaprio are expected to play the two astronomers but the streamer has not yet confirmed the roles.
McKay has had a successful run in the satire genre over the past few years, earning one Oscar nomination and one win for 2016’s The Big Short and three Oscar nominations for 2018’s Vice, including Best Picture.
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Don’t Look Up is expected to begin filming before the end of the year.
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Amazon Prime Video has released the official Sylvie’s Love trailer for the romance drama starring Tessa Thompson (Creed, Thor: Ragnarok, Westworld) and Nnamdi Asomugha (When the Streetlights Go On, Crown Heights). Launching worldwide on Prime Video on December 25, you can check out the trailer in the player below along with the new poster!
In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as a member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before.
As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same. Writer/director Eugene Ashe combines romance and music into a sweeping story that brings together changing times, a changing culture, and the true price of love.
The movie also stars Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, and Jemima Kirke and is written and directed by Eugene Ashe.
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Sylvie’s Love is produced by Asomugha, Gabrielle Glore, Jonathan T. Baker, Ashe, and Matthew Thurm.
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Ahead of the film’s debut in theaters, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice, Let Him Go) to discuss his role in the Liam Neeson-starring action thriller Honest Thief, which hits select theaters this Friday!
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Much like many performers in the acting world, when it came to finding his interest in the project Donovan noted “it always starts with the script and it did with this one,” most notably in the fact it’s a character he’s never “really played before.”
“I often play the alpha in the room, and I thought it was really refreshing to me to play something where he wasn’t the fastest draw, he wasn’t the best in fighting,” Donovan expressed. “He was sitting behind a desk going through a messy divorce. So that was the first thing, and then the cherry on top was to get to work with Liam and with Kate and they added such an incredible cast of Robert Patrick, Jai Courtney and Anthony Ramos. I was just kind of like, a kid in a sandbox, just so happy to be playing with all of these cool toys.”
Given his lack of portraying “a broken man” before, the 52-year-old star looked back and found that the biggest creative challenge for getting to the heart of his character came in trying to build his backstory, that was developed off-screen and off the page.
“I just wanted to kind of fill in his back story as much as I could, and you know, who had bought the dog and who gets the dog and why are they getting divorced, all that stuff,” Donovan explained. “That was a big challenge because it wasn’t on the page, we had to kind of make up that history. You know, it’s always a collaboration. It starts with their design and their story, and then, you make up your own history, and as long as it doesn’t run counter to what the story’s kind of presenting, then that collaboration is going to work. I think what was the fun part was bringing a certain amount of humor to Agent Meyers that I think Mark didn’t know was kind of there, and I was really happy that I was able to do that.”
Though bringing the sense of humor to his character that co-writer/director Mark Williams (Ozark) wasn’t fully aware of, the Burn Notice alum also sought to ensure his Agent Meyers was never “cartoonish” at any point in the film and sought to find the right balance between “grounded and funny.”
“I think that the storyline held onto him because he really was the opposite of Carter,” Donovan opined. “I mean, he was a guy who didn’t know where his life was going and didn’t know what his choices should be made and thought everything he did was right. Whereas Carter thought everything in his life that he did was wrong, and he wanted to make amends. So it was an interesting parallel that we got to play.”
Another of the elements of the film that Donovan found to be both challenging and fun was returning to the world of action sequences after starring in a number of more dramatic roles and supporting turns in the Sicario films.
“Those action sequences, they’re tough, you know, you get beat up and that’s real hands,” Donovan chuckled. “Liam’s a big guy, and once accidentally he got me one time, punched me right in the chest. But I had just accidentally punched him in the face, so I think he was just trying to make the playing field even [laughs].”
Working with Neeson also gave Donovan the opportunity to work alongside the 68-year-old’s celebrated stunt coordinator/double Mark Vanselow, who he’s worked with going all the way back to 1997’s The Haunting.
“They’ve got a history there and a shorthand, and you bring your own two cents to it,” Donovan stated. “Having done Burn Notice for seven years, I had a little bit of experience for action, so it was a great collaboration because when you work with someone who trusts you as much as you trust them, the process just goes so much smoother.”
When reflecting on his excitement for audiences to see the film in select theaters this week, Donovan describes how “when you’re making movies, you think it’s really important what you’re doing” but noting that “the health of our country is more important.”
“Trying to find that balance between people going to see it and staying healthy is a challenge,” Donovan expressed. “I hope people will go see it, as long as it’s safe and the theater has done everything it can to ensure that safety. But in the end, it’s your own personal choice what you do, and I wish it was a different time, but it is what it is.”
Donovan is best known to audiences for his lead role as Michael Westen on USA Network’s Burn Notice, in which he made his directorial debut, as well as helming the prequel spin-off film The Fall of Sam Axe, and in reflecting on the possibility of taking on a feature-length project he feels uncertain about doing so.
“As soon as I see how much work it is I politely tell myself, you’re out of your mind,” Donovan joked. “It’s so difficult. I mean, what Mark did to not only write it, then produce it and direct it, I mean, it’s a year of your life. My acting is hard, but it’s not digging dirt and mining coal. We’re just pretending on an air conditioned set most of the time. So I’m getting older and I’ve got a big family and I’m just trying to be home as much as I can and acting allows me to do that, whereas directing would just take me away from them for too long.”
In addition to seeing the actor next in Honest Thief and the forthcoming Kevin Costner and Diane Lane-starring Let Him Go, which he calls “a beautiful film,” Donovan recently wrapped production on Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, previously titled Cash Truck, and though he couldn’t give many details aside from he and star Jason Statham being “on the other side of the law,” he did express excitement about the shoot and the film.
“I just had to go shoot some additional photography last week in London, so I got to see Guy and it was great to be back on the set, albeit a social distanced set,” Donovan noted. “It was kind of crazy how much testing my nose got in three days [laughs]. I enjoyed working with Guy, he has a real particular style, not only on screen, but how he makes that product. I’m such a fan of his movies, and now that I’ve done it, I want to just keep working with him. I love his films and I hope I can work with him again. Look, it’s Jason Statham, it’s Holt McCallany and Scott Eastwood, it’s myself and it’s a heist movie. And, kind of like Honest Thief, there’s a lot more depth to it than just an action film, but with Guy, you’re going to get a lot more humor, which again, I think is a lot of fun to do.It’s a kind of a thick as thieves type of film, and what a dad will do to avenge a death in the family. Hopefully in January or February or whenever it comes out, the world has righted itself and people can go back to the movie.”
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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.
In addition to Neeson in the lead role, the cast for the film features Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad), Kate Walsh (The Umbrella Academy), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), Jeffrey Donovan (Lucy in the Sky), Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (Hamilton).
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 set to hit theaters on October 16.
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Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Ava DuVernay (13th, When They See Us, Selma) is set to write, direct, and produce the film adaptation Caste, based on the novel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents written by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, according to Variety.
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Caste will use a “multiple-story structure to examine the unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how our lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions dating back generations.”
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DuVernay will produce the feature adaptation alongside ARRAY Filmworks’ Sarah Bremner and Paul Garnes. Netflix executive Tendo Nagenda is partnering with DuVernary for the project. The two previously collaborated on Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time.
Wilkerson’s book was published in August 2020 and became a New York Times bestseller and became an Oprah’s Book Club selection.
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The filmmaker’s previous projects with Netflix include the documentary 13th, which won BAFTA, Emmy, and Peabody Awards and earned DuVernay an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature, becoming the first Black woman director nominated for an Oscar, and 2019’s When They See Us, a four-part limited series that received 16 Emmy nominations. DuVernay’s next collaboration with Netflix is a series she is producing based on Colin Kaepernick, Colin in Black & White.
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Netflix has released the official trailer for the upcoming drama Hillbilly Elegy, starring Gabriel Basso (Super 8, The Big C) and Oscar nominees Amy Adams (Sharp Objects, American Hustle) and Glenn Close (The Wife, Fatal Attraction) and based on the inspiring true story and bestselling novel by J.D. Vance. You can check out the trailer now in the player below along with the teaser key art in the gallery!
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J.D. Vance (Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
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Directed by Academy Award-winner Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind), Hillbilly Elegy is a powerful personal memoir that offers a window into one family’s personal journey of survival and triumph. By following three colorful generations through their unique struggles, J.D.’s family story explores the highs and lows that define his family’s experience.
Written by Oscar nominee Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water), the movie also stars Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos.
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The drama is produced by Brian Grazer, Howard, and Karen Lunder. Executive producers include Diana Pokorny, Julie Oh, William M. Connor, and J.D. Vance.
Hillbilly Elegy will release in select theaters and on Netflix on November 24, 2020.
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After landing Aldis Hodge (The Invisible Man) to star as Hawkman late last month, New Line Cinema’s Black Adam led by Dwayne Johnson (Jungle Cruise) has expanded its cast with the addition of Person of Interest alum Sarah Shahi, according to Deadline.
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The 40-year-old actress, who most recently appeared in a recurring role on Showtime’s City on a Hill and ABC’s The Rookie, is set to star as a university professor and freedom fighter who is leading a resistance in Kahndaq.
During its appearance at last month’s DC Fandome event, it was revealed that the film would feature the appearances of Hawkman, Doctor Fate and Cyclone to set up the Justice Society of America, while also bringing word that Hawkgirl would have to remain absent for the time being. Over the years, many superheroines have assumed the secret identity of Hawkgirl. The only recurring element is her partner/romantic interest Hawkman since it’s nearly impossible to see one without the other. Recently, fans saw the Shiera Sanders Hall version of Hawkgirl as part of the Justice Society of America in the Stargirl television series. Sadly, she lost her life to Brainwave on the night the Injustice Society attacked the JSA headquarters.
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Dwayne Johnson has been working on Black Adam for 10 years. The character was originally supposed to appear in this year’s Shazam! but decided to save his highly-anticipated debut for a later film in order to let each character get some breathing room. However, despite not appearing in Shazam!, his character was teased with the wizard Shazam, played by Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy), telling his origin story to Billy Batson.
Based on the DC Comics character created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, Black Adam will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows) with Johnson starring as the titular anti-hero and Adam Sztykiel having written the current script. Noah Centineo will play Atom Smasher in the movie. The film will be the second collaboration between Collet-Serra and Johnson, who have also been working together on Disney’s forthcoming adventure film Jungle Cruise.
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The film will be produced by Johnson and FlynnPicturesCo’s Beau Flyn along with Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions. Scott Sheldon will be overseeing the project for FlynnPictureCo.
Black Adam was slated to hit theaters on December 22, 2021, but was recently pushed back to an unspecified release date due to production delays from the global pandemic
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