“Spies in Disguise” Trailer Features Will Smith As A Smooth Secret Agent

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Will Smith and Tom Holland lend their voices to this latest animated spy comedy film.

20th Century Fox has released the delightful trailer this week and it features as very intriguing twist. Watch the trailer below and try to make sense of it.

Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane in their directorial debuts, the film is based on the animated short Pigeon: Impossible by Lucas Martell and also features the voices of Ben Mendelsohn, Karen Gillan, Rashida Jones, DJ Khaled, and Masi Oka.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can’t learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril. SPIES IN DISGUISE is an animated comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage.

Spies in Disguise is set for release in theaters Sept. 13, 2019.

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Sequel To “Gladiator ” In The Works

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Sir Ridley Scott is revisiting ancient Rome with a sequel to “Gladiator” moving forward. Variety is reporting that the director/producer is developing the follow-up to the 2000 historical epic drama.

Screenwriter Peter Craig (The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and 2) will write the script. He is also credited for the upcoming sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The British film-maker last helmed the “All the Money in the World,” a film about the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and “Alien: Covenant,” both of which were released last year.

Last year, the director mentioned that the script was “on the shelf”. In fact, the sequel to Gladiator has been mentioned over the years since Gladiator’s successful run at the box-office, eventually culminating into an oscar best picture win and a best actor win for its star Russell Crowe. Gladiator grossed $460 million worldwider.

It would of course be difficult to bring Crowe back into the film given the fate of his character and events that transpired in the original, though many other sources claim the sequel will focus on Lucius, son of Lucilla (played by Connie Nielsen in the original film).

The storyline will center on Lucius, the son of Connie Nielsen’s character Lucilla from the original film. Lucius is the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus, the Roman leader killed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus.

There is currently no information about the production star nor release of the film.

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First Look At Henry Cavill In “The Witcher”

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As Netflix’s The Witcher series began filming, a first look at its lead Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia has been released.

The 23 second screen test clip features Cavill in character costume looking serious and intense, sporting long, white hair that is partly pony-tailed on the back, and then eventually sipping from a potion bottle.

The news that Cavill will be playing the lead role of Geralt of Rivia was revealed last September. “The Witcher” is a fantasy series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

Geralt is the titular Witcher in the short stories, novels and video games which takes place in medieval fantasy setting. He is one of the last witchers, a trained monster slayer for hire to slay deadly monstrous beasts.

Cavill recently played a CIA assassin in this summer’s blockbuster hit Mission: Impossible – Fallout starting Tom Cruise. He also portrayed Superman in WB/DC Comics’, Batman v Superman and Justice League.

“The Witcher” is expected to premiere in 2019 on Netflix.

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Trailer: Jaron Albertin’s “Weightless”

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Jaron Albertin’s WEIGHTLESS starring Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, Johnny Knoxville and Eli Haley will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, November 9 with a national release to follow.

Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, and Johnny Knoxville star in this haunting drama of a man, living on the margins of society, who suddenly finds himself responsible for a ten year-old son whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. An alienated loner who can barely take care of himself, he struggles to forge a relationship with this lonely, at-risk child.

Canadian director Jaron Albertin is a celebrated talent in the video and commercial world. In 2015, year he won the most prestigious award for advertising, the Palm d’Or at Cannes for his directorial work on Under Armour’sI Will What I Want campaign with Gisele Bündchen. His other numerous accolades include a Bronze Cannes Lion and additional Cannes Lion Shortlist, a prestigious D&AD Yellow Pencil (and additional Pencil nomination), Gold and Bronze Clio Awards, an AICP Award, and the PLUG Award for Music Video of the Year.

Weightless, co-written by BAFTA and Tony winning writer/playwright Enda Walsh (Once, Hunger) is his feature film directorial debut.

Weightless(official trailer)2018 from WEIGHTLESS on Vimeo.

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Netflix Announces Season 3 Premiere of The Last Kingdom

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The third season of The Last Kingdom, based on Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling books, will launch on Netflix in the US and UK on November 19th.

For the first time, all ten episodes of The Last Kingdom will premiere simultaneously on Netflix, and will feature a host of new characters including Ola Rapace (Skyfall) as Danish warrior Bloodhair, Thea Sofie Loch Næss (One Night in Oslo) as the dangerous seer Skade, Timothy Innes (Harlots) as King Alfred’s heir, Edward, and Magnus Bruun (Sprinter Galore, The Bridge) as Cnut.

The new season will see King Alfred consider his legacy, as his dream of uniting the kingdoms of England is jeopardised by incessant Danish attacks. Alfred knows that the only man with the power to crush the uprising and secure the Wessex dynasty is the great warrior and hero Uhtred, but when their volatile relationship reaches breaking point, Uhtred must confront the difficult truth: if he deserts Alfred’s cause, everything he has fought for will be forever changed.

Produced by the award-winning Carnival Films, the ten-part season is adapted by BAFTA-nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard, who also serves as executive producer. The executive producers for Carnival are Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant. Chrissy Skinns is series producer and Cait Collins is producer.

The Last Kingdom Season 3 will launch on Netflix US and UK on November 19, and will be released at a later date across Africa, Belgium, China, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, the Netherlands, the Nordics and Poland. The series is distributed worldwide by NBCUniversal International Distribution.

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“Possum” Trailer: New Horror Film From Dark Sky Films

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From the producers of The Survivalist and I Am Not a Serial Killer comes the directorial debut of Matthew Holness.

The film is set for release in theaters and on digital platforms on November 2, 2018.

Here is what critics are saying so far:
“In this debut feature, Holness has delivered a singularly clear and horrifying vision – a simple but overwhelmingly frightening horror story, wrapped in atmosphere so thick you could drown in it. ” – Birth.Movies.Death

“Holness makes his debut behind the camera in expertly clammy style.”
– Financial Times

Written and directed by Matthew Holness from producers James Harris, Mark Lane, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, the film stars Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong

Here’s the film’s synopsis:

A disgraced children’s puppeteer (Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible – Fallout) returns to his dilapidated childhood home and lecherous stepfather (Alun Armstrong), intent on destroying ‘Possum’, a hideously malformed spider-puppet he carries with him in a brown leather case. His mind flooded with painful half-memories and nightmarish visions, he soon finds himself embroiled in a local investigation for a missing boy, progressively unsure of what’s real and what’s not. All the while Possum seems to mock his suffering at every turn.

A hallucinatory venture into a truly damaged psyche, Matthew Holness’ (Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace) POSSUM is a twisted trip of terror where both nothing and everything is exactly as it seems.

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Natalie Portman in Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux”

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Portman plays a mesmerizing pop star on a comeback trail while grappling with a teenage daughter in the latest musical drama “Vox Lux.”

Neon recently released the film’s provocative full-length trailer, and from the looks of it Portman is in top form, possibly one of her most-intense portrayal since the psychological horror Black Swan.

“It’s a weird world we live in. And the way I’ve chosen to live my life goes against some people’s views on things,” Portman’s Celeste says in a press conference.

Written and directed by Arizona born Brady Corbet, who made is feature film directorial debut in the acclaimed 2016 historical mystery drama “The Childhood of a Leader,” “Vox Lux” is the academy award winning actress’ follow-up to Annihilation.

Vox Lux also features Stacy Martin as Celeste’s sister and Jude Law as the meddling manager. Australian singer, songwriter Sia composed several of the film’s original songs, while Scott Walker did the score.

Vox Lux is set to hit theaters on Dec. 7.

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Thom Yorke Performs Chilling Song “Unmade” From Upcoming “Suspiria” Film

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Thom Yorke plays “Unmade” for BBC Radio 6 Music, see video below. The song is one of the tracks for his “Suspiria” soundtrack which was released today by XL Records.

Yorke’s intimate performance on a piano is both haunting and chilling, giving us an idea of the overall atmosphere of the upcoming Luca Guadagnino-directed supernatural horror film.

The soundtrack is the Radiohead front-man’s first foray into film score and features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir as well as his song son Noah on drums.

The double album includes 25 original compositions, which is a combination of instrumentals, full traditional songs and interludes.

“Suspiria” is a remake of the eponymous 1977 Italian horror classic starring Jessica Harper and directed by Dario Argento. Dakota Johnson will play Harper’s role as a student who travels to Europe to perfect her dancing in a renowned dance academy, while Swinton will play Madame Blanc, the vice-directress of the academy. Chloë Grace Moretz is the dance student who disappears.

It is is due out on November 2.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Tilda Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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Trailer: “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Soars

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Universal Pictures has released a brand new trailer for “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” the second and final sequel to the hugely successful DreamWorks film franchise based on Cressida Cowell’s books.

Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, “The Hidden World” features the voices of actors Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig and F. Murray Abraham.

The series characters have come a long way. The once awkward teenager Hiccup is now the chief of the Viking island of Berk, while his dragon Toothless has found love of his own. But there is also trouble in the horizon in the form of the film’s villain Grimmel.

Based on the director’s recent interview, the series will wrap up in an emotional note. “We thought about it for a long time and came up with what we think is a bittersweet way to say goodbye to these characters, but the right way,” DeBlois recently told EW.

“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World arrives in theaters on February 22, 2019.

Here is what the film’s synopsis says:

What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic trilogy spanning their lives. In this next chapter, Hiccup and Toothless will finally discover their true destinies: the village chief as ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, and the dragon as leader of his own kind. As both ascend, the darkest threat they’ve yet faced—as well as the appearance of a female Night Fury—will test the bonds of their relationship like never before.

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25 Films Submitted For Oscars Animated Feature

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A broad range of animated features has been submitted for consideration i the Animated Feature Film category, 25 films to be precise. The lists consists of major studio features such as Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation,” Universal/Illumination’s “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” and Warner Bros.’s “Teen Titans Go! To the Movies” and “Smallfoot” as well as art house films such as Fox Searchlight’s “Isle of Dogs.”

Its also worth noting that a few more films are have not yet made their Los Angeles qualifying run including “Wreck-It-Ralph: Ralph Breaks The Internet” and “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch.”

Oscar nominations in all categories are set to be announced Jan. 22, 2019 while the 91st Academy Awards will on Feb. 24, 2019.

Here’s the list of submitted animated features in alphabetical order:

“Ana y Bruno”
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Early Man”
“Fireworks”
“Have a Nice Day”
“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs”
“The Laws of the Universe – Part I”
“Liz and the Blue Bird”
“Lu over the Wall”
“MFKZ”
“Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms”
“Mirai”
“The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl”
“On Happiness Road”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Ruben Brandt, Collector”
“Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero”
“Sherlock Gnomes”
“Smallfoot”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
“Tall Tales”
“Teen Titans Go! To the Movies”
“Tito and the Birds”

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