Category: New Releases
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Startling THE STARLING is Melissa McCarthy at her dramatic best for you
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent As if there is not enough drama and sorrow on the world stage right now, two-time Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy plays Lilly Maynard, a mother with a great loss that she shares with broken husband Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd also from BRIDESMAIDS) and a flock of angry birds in…
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Hella CINDERELLA is Writer-Director Kay Cannon’s shot across the bow
In case you forgot the original ‘say yes to the dress’ scenario, writer-director Kay Cannon has some new ideas. This musical CINDERELLA has a grounded yet gorgeous Camila Cabello as an entrepreneurial designer saddled with some extra baggage, and not the Louis Vuitton kind. With this reboot comes a slate of re-purposed cover songs to…
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DOLPHIN ISLAND splashes onto PureFlix, a division of SPE, this Fall
LOS ANGELES, CA: Pure Flix, a specialty division of Sony Pictures Entertainment streaming service, has acquired the SVOD rights for the film DOLPHIN ISLAND, which will debut Sept. 1 on the platform. Directed by Mike Disa (SPACE DOGS, HOODWINKED TOO!) and produced by Shaked Berenson (SPACE DOGS, A TIGER’S TALE), and written by Disa, Berenson and Rolfe Kanefsky (PUPPY SWAP: LOVE UNLEASHED),…
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SPENCER for Heir: Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana Teaser
by Screenmancer Staff The Windsors, meaning Charles and Lady Di, turned the world’s head in 1981 with a fairytale (read: media ratings) wedding. Yet the end of their romance is the business end of SPENCER, directed by Pablo Larrain. Under Larrain’s spell, Kristen Stewart appears to inhabit the restless soul of the tall and unhappy…
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THE PROTÉGÉ star Maggie Q talks representation & stalks bad guys
by Screenmancer Staff Last night at a Gold House event at Landmark Theaters in Los Angeles, action star Maggie Q of Lionsgate release THE PROTÉGÉ which opens Aug. 20, shared her insights on the new thriller and Asian-American representation with Entertainment Weekly’s Lacey Vorrasi-Banis. Gold House is a non-profit that “forges the inclusive unity, representation, and…
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Jennifer Hudson wows at Aretha Franklin biopic RESPECT’s LA premiere
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent All you need to know is one quote from Aretha Louise Franklin, the subject of biopic RESPECT starring Jennifer Hudson from United Artist Releasing that opens on Friday the 13th. “Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident,…
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Out of a hidden holster comes Clint Eastwood’s CRY MACHO
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Maestro of Hollywood Cinema Clint Eastwood just pulled a fast one by directing and acting in CRY MACHO at age 91. Set for a Sept. 17 release date from HBO Max and Warner Bros, croak-voiced Eastwood plays Mike Milo, a broken down-and-out “rodeo star” who failed at his last…
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VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE with Woody Harrelson, yikes, look out
by Screenmancer Staff “Eddie, we should be out there snacking on bad guys… I am a predator. I need to eat,” says Tom Hardy’s bodily goo in VENOM sequel VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE. Goo-getter Hardy is joined this Fall by wacko bad guy Woody Harrelson, a not very nice villain with a human red…
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Papa Roach’s “Swerve” intros the new improved Cali band
by Screenmancer Staff NEW YORK, NY: Papa Roach, the iconic California rock band, is kicking open the door to a new chapter of their career with the release of “Swerve”, a high-octane, swagger-packed thrill ride featuring the outspoken frontman of Fever 333, Jason Aalon Butler, and rising LA-based rapper Sueco. The track premiered last night on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show with Daniel…
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We still heart Spike Lee & NEON nabs Jonas Carpignano’s film
by Screenmancer Staff CANNES FRANCE: Never mind the recent Spike Lee leak that named “Titane” as a winner as NEON took their second Palme d’Or in a row, just off the heels of Parasite, with Julia Ducournau’s new film. NEON also announced that it has taken North American rights to Jonas Carpignano’s festival sensation A Chiara, which won the Europa…
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DOWNEAST is a mobster-lobster movie, capisce?
by Screenmancer Staff “Every town is built on bad decisions,” says a Townie in Joe Raffa’s new film DOWNEAST. And what better way to kick off Summer than with a lobsta-mobsta epic whereby Lobstermen and Made Men meet at the intersection of “no you didn’t” and Cosa Nostra? Get your bay leaves, bibs, and claw…
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LFG on HBOMax spotlights US Women’s Soccer saga for pay
by Screenmancer Staff LFG is an acronym for sports rallying cry “Let’s F*cking Go,” and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Alex Nix Fine and Sean Fine have shined a spot on the saga behind the US Women’s Soccer team’s fight for equal pay. Three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action,…
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2, Charlize Theron, Oscar Issac, return to abnormal too
by Screenmancer Staff Everything is back to Abnormal for the Chas Addams originated Addams movie family, who will go on a RipV camper vacation this Fall. In the animated kooky retool, Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, and Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton make up this branch of oddest the family tree with Snoop…
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Before she was an Avenger, yikes ScarJo is BLACK WIDOW
by Screenmancer Staff When BLACK WIDOW opens in July, look out Scarlett Johansson because Rachel Weisz is on your tail. “One thing’s for sure,” Black Widow says, “I’m done running from my past.” Of course, she hits a high rise office building after that, chased by scary Russiabots (or whatever) who have cancelled Perestroika to…
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More stress, why not: THE TOMORROW WAR is coming
by Screenmancer Staff Yeah so, 30 years in the future you get drafted retroactively from the past to save the world? Such is the plot of THE TOMORROW WAR from Amazon Prime if you are Chris Pratt and company. This impending battle for mañana will have a “global premiere” on July 2. Just in time…
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