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New My Salinger Year Trailer Starring Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver

New My Salinger Year Trailer starring Margaret Qualley & Sigourney Weaver

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

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

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

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

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Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Teaser Sets Premiere Date

Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers teaser sets premiere date

Disney+ has released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming The Mighty Ducks spinoff series titled The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, featuring Emilio Estevez’s return as Coach Gordon Bombay, who will again help rebuild the titular hockey team along with Gilmore Girls alum Lauren Graham. The series is scheduled to make its debut on Friday, March 26, 2021. Check out the video in the player below!

In the 10-episode season set in present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Brady Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom, Alex (Lauren Graham), set out to build their own team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of youth sports today. With the help of Gordon Bombay, they rediscover the joys of playing just for love of the game.

Based on the 1992 sports comedy-drama film, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will star Good Boys’ Brady Noon, Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls), and original star Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire). The series will also feature Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, Bella Higginbotham, and DJ Watts.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers is produced by ABC Signature, a part of Disney Television Studios. Steve Brill, the original creator, writer, and executive producer of all three films, which spawned an NHL franchise, is back as co-creator and executive producer of the new series. Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa (The King of Queens, 13 Going On 30) are co-creators and will serve as executive producers and showrunners. Michael Spiller serves as executive producer/director on the series, with James Griffiths serving as director/EP on the Pilot. Emilio Estevez is an executive producer and Lauren Graham is co-executive producer. George Heller and Brad Petrigala of Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner also serve as non-writing executive producers.

The original film was directed by Stephen Herek. It starred Estevez as Gordon Bombay, a successful attorney who later became the coach of a local youth hockey team after he was sentenced to community service as a punishment for drunk driving. After some self-realization, Estevez’s Gordon helped the underdog team by teaching them the techniques he learned when he was a kid which led them to win the state championship.

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Nicole Kidman Teaming With Amazon for Series Adaptation of Hope

Nicole Kidman teaming with Amazon for series adaptation of Hope

With three series already under her belt with the streaming platform, Oscar and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman (The Undoing) has added another project to her upcoming schedule as she is teaming up with Amazon to star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the 2019 Norwegian film Hope, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Written and directed by Maria Sødahl, the film centered on the relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja as they find their lives put to the test when the latter is diagnosed with brain cancer. The series is being described as “a complicated, blended-family drama” and will center on the central family over the course of 12 days spent together during the Christmas season and as they are confronted with the unravelling of a marriage with six children between them.

Kidman will star in and executive produce the project via her Blossom Films production banner, which has a large first-look deal with Amazon Studios, alongside the label’s Per Saari and Alice Bell (The Beautiful Lie), who is also adapting the film film into the series. This also marks the second upcoming pairing between Kidman and Bell, as the latter is currently set as co-showrunner and executive producer on the Amazon series The Expatriates alongside Melanie Marnich (The Affair, The Big C) in which Kidman will star in and executive produce.

Amazon acquired the rights to the film, which won the European Cinemas label award at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for Best Director and Best Actress at the 2020 European Academy Awards and has been submitted by the country for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars, for Kidman’s banner.

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Adrift: Jared Leto & Darren Aronofsky Reuniting on Jason Blum-Produced Project

Adrift: Jared Leto & Darren Aronofsky reuniting on Jason Blum-produced project

Requiem for a Dream alums Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club, Suicide Squad, The Little Things) and Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Mother!, The Whale) are reportedly reuniting on a new feature titled Adrift, according to Deadline, with Jason Blum (Get Out, BlacKkKlansman, Whiplash) attached to produce. Leto will star in the feature with Aronofsky set to direct and co-write.

Adrift is based on a short story by the same name written by Koji Suzuki, author of Ring, and published in the short story collection Dark Water. The story is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but he soon discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a “Ghost Ship.”

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Aronofsky will co-write the script along with Luke Dawson. According to the outlet, Leto and producer Emma Ludbrook pursued the rights to the story for 10 years before bringing it to Blum and Aronofsky.

Blum will produce the project via his Blumhouse Productions banner along with Leto and Emma Ludbrook through Leto’s production company Paradox along with Carla Hacken.

(Photo by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images & Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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New Trailer For THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS and it Gets a March Premiere Date

Disney+ has shared a new trailer for its upcoming Mighty Ducks sequel series, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. They’ve also announced that the 10-episode series will premiere on March 26th!

The series looks like it’s going to be a wonderful and uplifting continuation of the franchise and I’m actually pretty excited about it! I grew up on the original films and I loved them, I’ve always liked stories about underdogs rising to the occasion. This series carries that same spirit and inspiration as the original movies.

The series sees the return of Emilio Estevez as Coach Gordon Bombay. He is joined by Lauren Graham and Brady Noon, as well as Swayam Bhatia, Taegen Burns, Julee Cerda, Bella Higginbotham, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Maxwell Simkins and De’Jon Watts in the cast.

The series is set in present-day Minnesota, “where the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom, Alex (Graham), set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports.”

Check out the new trailer for The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers below and let us know what you think!

New Captain America Will Be Officially Determined in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Anthony Mackie teases what Marvel Cinematic Universe fans can expect when The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuts.

The Many Saints of Newark Official First Look at Michael Gandolfini as Teenage Tony Soprano

New HBO Max trailer reveals the first footage of Michael Gandolfini as a teenage Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark.

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Adds Gary Clark Jr. as Big Boy Crudup

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Adds Gary Clark Jr. as Big Boy Crudup

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis adds Gary Clark Jr. as Big Boy Crudup

Following the recent addition of newcomer Alton Mason as Little Richard, Deadline reports that Grammy-winning artist Gary Clark Jr. has been cast to join Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic which is currently filming in Australia. In addition, up-and-coming singer Shonka Dukureh as well as Shannon Sanders along with his Gospel team of Lenesha Randolph and Jordan Holland have also joined the ensemble cast with Dukureh playing the role of rhythm-and-blues singer Big Mama Thornton.

Clark, who won three Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance, is set to portray the role of legendary blues singer-songwriter Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, who was one of Elvis Presley’s musical inspirations. Presley previously covered Crudup’s three songs titled, “That’s All Right,” “My Baby Left Me,” and “So Glad You’re Mine.”

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

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

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

The film is still set for its theatrical release on November 5, 2021.

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Kevin Feige Says Chloé Zhao’s Pitch For ETERNALS is The Best He’s Ever Heard

Out of all the Marvel projects set to be released during phase four, I’ve noticed that the least amount of excitement is for Eternals. Well, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is looking to change that and build up some more hype for it.

During a recent profile of director Chloé Zhao by Rolling Stone, Feige praised the director and said that “Zhao’s pitch for the movie the is best he’d ever heard.” He added:

“Not only does Chloe make remarkable, small, personal movies in a remarkable, small, personal way, but she thinks in grand, cosmic, gigantic terms, which fit perfectly with what we wanted to do. Eternals is a very big, sweeping, multimillennial-spanning story. And she just got it.”

That should give fans a little boost of confidence in the movie and the director. It has been teased that Eternals could go “further and bigger” than Avengers: Endgame. But that’s something we’ll just have to wait and see.

Marvel should record their pitch meetings and then release them as part of the special features. I would love to see how some of these pitch meetings go!

Eternals stars Angelina Jolie as Thena, Gemma Chan as Sersi, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Richard Madden as Icarus, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, and then there’s Kit Harrington as an archeologist named Dane Whitman.

A lot of the film’s story details have been kept under wraps, but here’s the synopsis that was released:

Marvel Studios’ The Eternals features an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, The Deviants.

In the comics, The Eternals were sent to Earth 35,000 years ago by the Celestials to protect humankind from the Deviants. The director, Chloé Zhao, previously explained, “It’s about this group of incredible immortals, but through their journey, we really get to explore what it means to be human and humanity on our time on this planet.”

It’s also explained in a description for the film that following the events of Avengers: Endgame, “an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, The Deviants.”

Eternals will be released in theaters on November 5th, 2021.

Spider-Man 3 Star Zendaya Praises Alfred Molina’s On-Set Work Ethic

Spider-Man 3 star Zendaya seemingly confirms that Alfred Molina will return as the villainous Doctor Octopus.