By Creative Media Times

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Margot Robbie’s rising star profile looks to continue as Neon dropped a new red band trailer for the biographical sports black comedy film “I, Tonya.” about the Tonya Harding Olympic scandal.

The film has been receiving plenty of Oscar buzz around Robbie’s performance as well as the film following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers, the movie seems to be told more around Harding’s abusive family background which she later dished out on the ice including the infamous attack on Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics and its aftermath.

The trailer also shows audiences their first look at Harding’s foul-mouthed mother LaVona played by Allison Janney, Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gilooly as played by Sebastian Stan. “The haters always say ‘Tonya, tell the truth.’ There’s no such thing as truth,” says Robbie’s Harding.

‘I, Tonya’ is set for release on December 8, 2017.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother, LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie’s I, TONYA is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked––and checkered––glory.

By Creative Media Times

A24

Based on the best-selling book “A Prayer Before Dawn: A Nightmare In Thailand,” the film tells the true to life story of English boxer Billy Moore, who also wrote the book.

The film screened last May at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as one of its midnight screenings section where it received generally positive reviews, with Variety’s Guy Lodge calling the film a “big, bleeding feat of extreme cinema” while praising the performance of rising star Joe Cole (Green Room, Peaky Blinders) as “ferociously physical.” Joe Cole portrays the real-life English boxer Moore in the film.

Written by Nick Saltrese, from producers Roy Boulter, Rita Dagher, Sol Papadopoulos and Nicholas Simon, the film is expected to be released in 2018.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

Based on the international best-seller, A Prayer Before Dawn is the true story of Billy Moore, a troubled young British boxer sent to one of Thailand’s most notorious jails. Refusing to die inside prison, Billy becomes a student of the lethal art of Muay Thai boxing, and in the process, finds a brotherhood that will guide him on an incredible journey to redemption.

By Armando

Focus Features

“You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat. When I was a boy, I started to hide things in the lining of the garments. Things that only I knew were there. Secrets,” says Day-Lewis’ Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned 1950s dressmaker whose life unraveled after a young woman, Vicky Krieps walks into his life and becomes his muse and obsession.

A few months ago, Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting following Phantom Thread. The actor did not provide a reason for his retirement but is expected to fulfill publicity tasks for the Phantom Thread.

Anderson and Day-Lewis previously collaborated together ten years ago in ‘There Will Be Blood,’ for which the actor won an academy award best actor. The acclaimed actor also won the same award for his performances in My Left Foot (1989) and Lincoln (2012).

Another win for the celebrated thespian and he will share the record with Katharine Hepburn as the actor with the most Oscar wins, a fitting achievement for one of most acclaimed actors of our generation.

Extremely protective of his privacy, Day-Lewis previously vanished into semi-retirement in 1997 following Jim Sheridan’s The Boxer and moved to Florence, Italy. He then appeared in five more films (excluding “Phantom Thread”.) Now 60 years old, there is definite reason to take the actor’s announced retirement seriously. All good things must come to an end.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis.

‘Phantom Thread’ is set to be released on December 25, 2017

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Neon

“America, they want someone to love, but they want someone to hate,” says Margot’s character. “And the haters always say ‘Tonya, tell the truth.’ There’s no such thing as truth. I mean it’s bullshit.”

The film is based on the sensational story of Tonya Harding and husband Jeff Gilooly (Sebastian Stan), who in 1994 orchestrated an attack against Harding’s competitor Nancy Kerrigan and break her right leg in order to prevent her from competing at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Though her leg was not broken, it was soon found out that Gilloly, along with bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) hired an assailant, though Gilloly shifted blame to Harding.

I, Tonya recently had a surprisingly play at Toronto International Film Festival in September, where it won second runner up for People’s Choice Award, and successfully starts the awards season with Gotham Awards nominations for the film and star Margot Robbie.

Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and written by Steven Rogers (Stepmom), the film also stars Allison Janney, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson, Caitlin Carver, Bojana Novakovic and Bobby Cannavale.

‘I, Tonya’ is set for release on December 8, 2017.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother, LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie’s I, TONYA is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked––and checkered––glory.