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Walton Goggins joins Mel Gibson’s Santa Claus comedy Fatman

Deadline is reporting that Emmy nominee Walton Goggins (Justified, Vice Principals, The Unicorn) will star in a lead role alongside Mel Gibson in Rough House Pictures’ dark action Santa Claus comedy Fatman.

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Fatman centers on a neglected and precocious 12-year-old who hires an unorthodox hitman to kill Santa Claus (Gibson) after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.

Goggins will play Skinnyman, the eccentric, sharp-shooting hitman who works at a toy store.

The movie is written and directed by the Nelms Brothers (Small Town Crime), Eshom and Ian Nelms. Rough House Pictures is producing along with Todd Courtney of Mammoth Entertainment with Mammoth now set to finance. Rough House’s Brandon James, Fortitude’s Nadine de Barros, Skywolf’s Lisa Wolofsky, Michelle Lang, and Robert Menzies are also producing.

Rough House partners Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, and Jody serve as executive producers.

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Production on the project is currently underway in Canada.

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They’ve Gotta Have Us docuseries trailer from Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY

They’ve Gotta Have Us, a dynamic chronicle of art, activism, and race in Black Cinema featuring in-depth interviews with some of Hollywood’s most iconic voices has been acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing as the company’s first series acquisition. You can check out the trailer for the docuseries below!

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They’ve Gotta Have Us was conceived, produced and directed by Simon Frederick, a UK-based self-taught artist, photographer, filmmaker and broadcaster.

“As a company whose mission is to amplify voices of people of color, They’ve Gotta Have Us speaks directly to our highest ideas of inclusion, cultural context, and community. Not only are we introducing an exciting artist like Simon Frederick to a new audience, but his project shares the stories of Black Cinema’s most influential filmmakers and actors,” said ARRAY President Tilane Jones.

The series features revealing interviews with many barrier-breaking filmmakers and stars, including Diahann Carroll, John Singleton, Kasi Lemmons, John Boyega, Harry Belafonte, Robert Townsend, David Oyelowo, Whoopi Goldberg, Laurence Fishburne, Kasi Lemmons, and Barry Jenkins. The series also includes clips from and commentary about such seminal films as Carmen Jones, Claudine, Lilies of the Field, Do The Right Thing, Boyz in the Hood, Hollywood Shuffle, Black Panther and Moonlight.

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ARRAY will premiere the docuseries on Netflix on February 5, 2020. ARRAY has also acquired distribution rights in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. The announcement was made by ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay.

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A raw and gritty lead performance from Blake Lively can’t overcome The Rhythm Section’s sluggish pacing.

Joker director Todd Phillips was not expecting the positive response from audiences regarding mental health issues.

Not long ago, Netflix released a trailer for a film starring Alison Brie, titled Horse Girl. The footage that I saw in that trailer certainly intrigued me so I put it on my list of movies to see at Sundance, which is where the film premiered.

Horse Girl is definitely one of the strangest movies I’ve seen this year at the film festival. It ended up being a crazy mixed bag of nuts. Alison Brie plays a quiet young woman named Sarah who lives a simple life working in a fabric store and watching her favorite TV show. As she is living that life strange things start to happen to her. She starts sleepwalking, having insane lucid dreams, and ends up waking up in places she doesn’t recall going too.

As the story goes on she comes to believe that she is being abducted by aliens and that she is a clone of her grandmother. As you might expect everyone around her thinks she’s going completely crazy. But, is she?!

The reason I say that the film is a mixed bag of nuts is because it’s a psychological thriller that is unexpectedly quirky and funny. It’s also a dramatic film that has some unsettling eerie moments. The movie was kinda all over the place and it felt schizophrenic, which may have been intentional due to the main character having what seems to be a psychotic mental breakdown. 

It’s kind of a frustrating movie to watch because I really enjoyed certain moments in the film and I didn’t care for some of the other creative choices. Some moments just didn’t make any sense, and there were certain scenes that weren’t pertinent to the story. A half hour could have easily been cut out of the film to tighten it up and make it flow better. 

In the end, the movie was fine. It wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be, but I’m sure that there’s an audience out there that will enjoy and appreciate it.  

I should point out that Brie Larson did give a fantastic performance! She’s proved that she can play a crazy person. I think that there’s a better movie in there somewhere, it just needs some tightening up.

Here’s the synopsis:

Sarah (Alison Brie) has a quiet and fairly simple life, contenting herself with the crafts-store job she holds, the nightly supernatural crime TV show she adores, and the equestrian center she visits constantly. When a gift impulsively stirs her curiosity about her family history, unexpected and strange dreams begin to disturb her. As these visions seep into her waking moments, Sarah struggles to hold on to her fragile reality.

Director Jeff Baena (Life After Beth, Joshy, The Little Hours) returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his fourth feature, diving into an incredibly personal and unusual new realm while retaining his trademark aptitude for character exploration and unsettling humor. A stellar supporting cast underlines Brie’s remarkable lead performance, including turns by Molly Shannon, Debby Ryan, and John Reynolds. Born out of a close collaboration between Baena and Brie, who co-wrote and produced the film, Horse Girl looks at the tenuous grasp we have on waking life through a bold and disquieting character study.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, known in the U.S. for the series Quantico and the film Isn’t It Romantic, is in final talks to join the cast of The Matrix 4. If the deal finalizes, Chopra Jonas will join the returning Matrix film cast members Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lambert Wilson, as well as new cast members Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Lana Wachowski is back to direct and co-write the film that will expand on the original Matrix trilogy. Variety reports the status of the film:

The “Matrix 4” cast has been in fight training for weeks for production start, which will begin Imminently in Northern California.

The plot for the film is currently unknown, but The Matrix 4 is set to hit theaters on May 21, 2021. Would you be excited to see Priyanka Chopra Jonas added to the cast?

F9: New character posters released for Universal’s Fast & Furious 9

Universal Pictures has released new character posters for Fast & Furious 9, aka F9, ahead of The Road to F9 concert and trailer drop event will take place this Friday. You can check out the new posters in the gallery below!

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Fast & Furious 9 was originally set to hit theaters on April 19 but was pushed back a year to make room for the first spin-off in the series, Hobbs & Shaw, which had premiered last August. As a result, Fast & Furious 9 will be getting a May 22, 2020 release with Justin Lin returning to directing in the franchise, after helming Fast & Furious parts 3 through 6. Dan Casey will pen the screenplay based on Lin’s story alongside series mastermind Chris Morgan.

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The film will feature the return of Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz, Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pierce, Ludacris as Tej Parker, Enrique Guzman as Simon Toretto, Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey, Helen Mirren as Magdalene Shaw and Charlize Theron as Cipher. John Cena, Finn Cole, Anna Sawai, Vinnie Bennett, and Michael Rooker have also been cast for the latest installment.

You can buy the Fast & Furious films here.

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Amasia Entertainment is the latest production company to snatch up the right to The Green Hornet and they plan on producing a new movie that follows the adventures of Green Hornet and his sidekick Kato. The last time we saw The Green Hornet up on the big screen was the 2011 film that starred Seth Rogen. This new project will be a whole new reimagining.

The Green Hornet is a feared underworld figure but in reputation only, the mystery man is actually an undercover crime fighter who also crusades for justice with his day job as newspaper publisher Britt Reid.

Amasia Entertainment was co-founded by Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo. Helfant used to by Marvel Studios president and COO, and he had this to say in a statement:

“This is one of the only stand-alone classic superhero franchises. We’re a bunch of fan geeks at Amasia and are thrilled about creating something fresh and truly worthy of this legacy property.  A new world that is relevant and thrilling, while respecting and honoring the original vision.”

He went on to talk about his love for The Green Hornet, saying:

“When I was a kid, The Green Hornet was one of my favorite television series. I loved everything about it: the Green Hornet, Kato, and of course, the Black Beauty. They were the coolest! It was personally painful to leave them all behind when I left Dimension. So I tried to option the property again at Marvel before it went over to Sony, and then again in 2017 before the rights landed at Paramount.”

Well, Helfant finally got what he wanted and landed the rights to this beloved property. His partner Bradley Gallo added:

“As long as I’ve known Michael, he has expressed his loving ‘nerdom’ for Green Hornet and passed on his addiction to me. I am looking forward to bridging the film worlds of America and Asia – and I’m very grateful to be on this journey with Michael, Amasia, the Green Hornet family, and fellow fans!”

These two are obviously very excited about the opportunity to make a Green Hornet movie. It’ll be interesting to see what they end up doing with it, but hopefully, they don’t screw it up. I don’t think it would be hard to outdo what Seth Rogen’s version of the film did.

Source: Deadline

Actor Finn Wolfhard, star of Stranger Things and the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, says he would love to join the Star Wars universe as a young Ben Solo.

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch release date & whimsical logo

Searchlight Pictures has revealed the official release date for Wes Anderson’s upcoming comedy romance drama The French Dispatch and a whimsical new logo. Set to hit theaters on June 24, you can check out the new poster in the gallery below!

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Plot details on the project are being kept under wraps, but it is described as a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city centering on three storylines that bring to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch” magazine.

The French Dispatch stars Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Traffic), Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Suspiria, Michael Clayton), Léa Seydoux (Spectre), Oscar winner Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Fargo), Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy, Call Me by Your Name), Lyna Khoudri (The Blessed), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Mathieu Amalric (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Stephen Park (Fargo), Oscar nominee Bill Murray (Lost in Translation), and Oscar nominee Owen Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums).

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The French Dispatch is written and directed by Anderson from a story by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Hugo Guinness. The movie is independently financed by billionaire Steve Rales of Indian Paintbrush, who regularly backs Anderson’s projects.

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