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New Trailer: “The Alienist”

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The Alienist Season One


Turner’s TNT will take viewers into the darkest corners of New York City during the Gilded Age with the eagerly anticipated series The Alienist based on the Anthony Award-winning international bestseller by Caleb Carr.Set in 1896 amidst a backdrop of vast wealth, extreme poverty and technological innovation, this psychological thriller stars Daniel Brühl (Rush), Luke Evans (The Girl on The Train), Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral) and Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker). The Alienist is slated to premiere on Monday, Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT across TNT platforms.

The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist (aka alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of New York City’s first serial killers.

The Alienist also stars Douglas Smith (Miss Sloane) and Matthew Shear (Mistress America) as Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, twin brothers who help unravel the disturbing mystery; Matt Lintz (Pixels) as Stevie, a tough, young boy employed by Dr. Kreizler as a driver and errand boy; Robert Ray Wisdom (The Wire) as Cyrus, Kreizler’s valet, a man with a dark past who has been reformed by Kreizler; and Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World) as Mary, Kreizler’s mute maid with whom he shares a special unspoken connection.

Shot in Budapest, Hungary, The Alienist is a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T. BAFTA-nominee Jakob Verbruggen (Black Mirror) serves as director and executive producer along with Emmy® winner Cary Fukunaga (True Detective), Academy Award® winner Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Academy Award® nominees Hossein Amini (Drive) and E. Max Frye (Foxcatcher), Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Rosalie Swedlin, along with Chris Symes. Serving as co-executive producers on the series are Marshall Persinger (Rectify) and Jamie Payne (The Driver).

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FandaFandango Acquires MovieTickets.com

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…Creating Global Suite of Movie Ticketing Properties With Mission Of Getting More Moviegoers Into Theaters Worldwide.

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LOS ANGELES and BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Fandango, a leading digital network for all things movies, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MovieTickets.com, a popular online movie ticketer serving moviegoers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. MovieTickets.com will join brands Fandango, Flixster, Ingresso and Fandango Latin America to create a suite of movie ticketing properties, serving hundreds of millions of moviegoers worldwide. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions and is anticipated to close in Q4 2017.

The addition of MovieTickets.com will further Fandango’s goal of full national coverage, ensuring that moviegoers can purchase advance tickets to their favorite local theaters anytime, anywhere and on any device. Once completed, the acquisition will bring to Fandango’s ticketing network new exhibitors including National Amusements, Cineplex, Landmark Theatres and Marquee Cinemas, as well as many independent theater chains.

It will also expand the company’s footprint in Latin America, and establish a ticketing presence in Canada and the United Kingdom for the first time. After the acquisition is complete, MovieTickets.com will continue to operate from its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.

“MovieTickets.com has done a terrific job, building a popular and trusted brand with millions of loyal customers and hundreds of exhibitors, and has been a champion of serving theater circuits large and small for nearly two decades,” said Fandango President Paul Yanover. “We look forward to sharing an array of mobile and social media innovations with their customer base to enhance the movie discovery, planning and ticket buying experience.”
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“The New Mutants” Official Trailer

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20th Century Fox


20th Century Fox has released the latest trailer for its upcoming Marvel horror film “The New Mutants,” the latest in the X-Men franchise.

Directed by Josh Boone (best known for his work in “The Fault in Our Stars”) it is definitely nothing like you would expect from a usual X-Men movie and more like an atmospheric horror thriller spin-off. With “The New Mutants” being the 11th installment in the 17-year film series, this new direction is an exciting breath of fresh air.

With Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” cover track interspersed in the background, the trailer shows a group teens as they struggle to learn their abilities and identities while held in a spooky secret facility which might have bad intentions of their own.

Based on the Marvel Comics of the same name, the movie stars a group of talented young stars including Anya Taylor-Joy (who was excellent in “Split” earlier this year) as Magik, Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”) as Cannonball, Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones”) as Wolfsbane, Blu Hunt (“The Originals”) as Mirage and Henry Zaga (“13 Reasons Why”) as Sunspot.

“All of you are dangerous. That’s why you’re here,” says Alice Braga’s (“Elysium”) Dr. Cecilia, our young heroes’ mentor, though her true motives remain unclear.

X-Men: New Mutants is set for release on April 13, 2018.

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Gal Gadot Eyes Nazi Revenge Thriller “Ruin”

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Gal Gadot is clearly riding high lately. After conquering summer boxoffice as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince, the statuesque actress is diversifying her film roles as she is now in talks to join a new thriller “Ruin,” Deadline reports.

The post-World War II film is set to be directed by Justin Kurzel, who also helmed last year’s Assassin’s Creed and 2015’s Macbeth, and is scripted by Matthew & Ryan Firpo. The film will be made under Marc Butan’s Mad River Pictures.

No production date was announced nor what role she will play, but Deadline describes the film as an Inglorious Basterds/Fury-type revenge-thriller.

Based on the actress’ rising demand in Hollywood, it seems Gadot has a narrow window between projects before their respective shoots commence. She is currently attached in supernatural thriller “Deeper” opposite Bradley Cooper and is due to return in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman sequel for Warner Bros. which is set for Dec. 13, 2019 release.

Gadot will next be seen in next month’s WB/DC’s superhero team-up film “Justice League,” which marks her third film in the DC Extended Universe.

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“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Trailer 2 Released

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By Armando

Lucasfilm Ltd. – Walt Disney Studios


Its only October, a little more than two months away from The Last Jedi’s release, and Lucasfilm is already ramping up the promo.The latest trailer for the film has just been released and its genuinely spectacular. This is the only trailer for the film released so far since the first one debuted during Star Wars Celebration in Orlando last April.

Last Month, star Mark Hamill teased about the released of the trailer after tweeting “Watch Monday Night Football on Monday October 9th – for no reason in particular.” The actor later deleted the post and backtracked that Disney instead “will announce when they are ready.”

Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios also release the film’s latest theatrical poster which features General Leia Organa front and center, surrounded by the entire cast and a hooded Skywalker at the top. Its a more crowded one-sheet when compared to first one which focused only on Rey, Luke and Kylo but continues the red color scheme also seen in the trailers.

The second film in the Star Wars trilogy, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” picks up where “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” left off, where we saw Rey (Daisy Ridley) meeting long lost Jedi Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). There is a major revelation in the trailer, one that seem to suggest potentially shocking Rey and Kylo Ren alliance. “I need someone to show me my place in all this,” Rey says to Kylo Ren as the latter offers her his hand. Nerdtastic mind-blown!

The Last Jedi will see the return of Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, and Carrie Fisher in her last role. Joining the cast this time around are Laura Dern, Benicio del Toro and Kelly Marie Tran. It is the second film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy after 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Produced by Lucasfilm and continues the events established in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi will storm theaters December 15th, 2017.

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CMT Interview: Andrew Hollander About Composing the World of A Serial Killer, Amongst Other Things.

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composer Andrew Hollander


It is a widespread idea that the mind of a composer is often a rambunctious and claustrophobic one, with numerous do-overs and second thoughts. It is especially difficult when making something for a designated medium or even, for another person. Strangely enough, this understanding can also be applied to psychopathic killers. But according to Andrew Hollander, things really aren’t that complicated. With having enough context and musical ambition, plus a little luck-finding the perfect balance between the “colors” of a score and a hinting script was enough to craft the subtle sounds for My Friend Dahmer, a daring and even funny coming-of-age autobiography about one of America’s most interesting serial killers.

Q: Okay, so for starters, this may seem a little bit weird to ask, but I know that music is becoming more digital now- there’s so many apps and different DAWs- so I have to ask, do you play any instruments?

A: I do, no-clearly that’s not a crazy question, I do, I play a bunch of instruments. I mainly play piano and any sort of keyboard instruments, but I play a bit of guitar, bit of drums, you know.

Q: I notice there aren’t really any leads to your origins. What got you specifically into composing, and how did you get started in the niche? Also, which came first, songwriting or film composing?

A: They came at more or less the same time, funny enough-when I started playing music,I was like, I think 12 or 13 and I was in a bunch of rock bands…

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I started writing, some song stuff, some instrumental stuff, but I felt like-I always loved movies, so film scoring always kind of intrigued me, and then after college I moved to NY. And I got hired for this really low-budget indie film to score it, but they also needed some songs, so I also ended up doing both on that film. And it kind of just set me on that path, I was always doing things pretty much in parallel, sometimes I would do-and still do- a score and songs, for a film, but I was always working with different artists and bands on records and scoring films. Like certain years I might be busy with one more than the other, but I always liked just working in both worlds. One was never…neither of them was ever peripheral, both were really important to me and really inspiring to me. And so, they seem to be very parallel paths to me.
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Fincher Digs Deep In “Mindhunter” Trailer

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Netflix


The latest trailer for director David Fincher’s Mindhunter has been released, ahead of its debut on Netflix on October 13, 2017. Produced by Fincher and actress Charlize Theron, the drama series is based on Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas’s book “Mind Hunter: Inside The FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit“.

In the new series, Jonathan Groff plays Holden Ford, an FBI special agent for the agency’s Behavioral Science Unit who interviews imprisoned serial killers in an effort to understand what goes on in a killer’s mind and how they operate.

He is joined by Holt McCallany who plays Bill Tench, and together they pioneer criminal psychology and profiling in its early days of development, and use their research findings to solving ongoing murder investigations.

Set to Talking Heads’ “Psychokiller,” the trailer shows the duo meet Edmund Kemper, also known as the “Coed Killer,” all the while arguing and worrying if their superiors will discover their activities. “Certainly our goal is to be preemptive,” Holden says to Bill. “We’re the FBI, Holden. That is not our goal. Yet,” says Bill.

The book’s author Douglas, himself a notable name in the history of criminal profiling, is the basis of the character Ford, which guarantees some interesting insider stories. He was also previously an inspiration for the Jack Crawford character which appeared in Thomas Harris’ novels such as The Silence of the Lambs. The character was played in the movie of the same name by Scott Glenn.

Netflix seem to have a lot of confidence in what Fincher and co. has crafted that they already renewed it for Season 2. Not surprising since Fincher himself directed Mindhunter’s pilot episode, as he did successfully with Netflix’ House of Cards. It also certainly helps that chronicling characters pursuing killers is familiar turf to Fincher (“Se7en” and “Zodiac” come to mind.)

See Mindhunter’s trailer and official synopsis below:

In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters.

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New “Justice League” Trailer Released

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Warner Bros. Pictures


DC heroes unite in latest trailer for “Justice League,” the long awaited superhero team up film based on the DC Comics superheroes of the same name. This is the third, and most likely final trailer for the WB tentpole.

The trailer for the superhero mashup opened with the death of Superman. We see Henry Cavill making a fleeting appearance, the first time that the Superman (or in this case Clark Kent) has shown up in a Justice League trailer, suggesting we will be seeing more of the Man of Steel, my Adam’s Lois Lane in despair, violence, acts of war and terrorism are all on the rise.

“The world needs Superman,” says Bruce Wayne. “I made him a promise, which is why I’ve brought you together.”

What follows is a collage of epic battles as our heroes fend off an invasion of Parademons, the extraterrestrial troops introduced during Batman’s dream sequence in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Aside from established DC characters Batman and Wonder Woman, other members such as Aquaman, Cyborg and Flash are also prominently featured.

Directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by Joss Whedon, Justice League is for release on November 17, 2017 with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciarán Hinds, Amy Adams, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, and J. K. Simmons.

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New Teaser Art For “Thoroughbreds”

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Focus Features

Focus Features has released a new teaser art for “Thoroughbreds,” ahead of the film’s teaser trailer release next week.

Directed by Cory Finley from a screenplay he also wrote, the drama thriller stars Anya Taylor-Joy (“Split”), Olivia Cooke (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”), Paul Sparks (Netflix’s “House of Cards”) and Anton Yelchin (“Star Trek” films) in his last role before his tragic death last year.

Early this year, the movie premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and is scheduled for release on select theaters March 9, 2018.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted internship on her resume; Amanda has developed a sharp wit and her own particular attitude, but all in the process of becoming a social outcast. Though they initially seem completely at odds, the pair bond over Lily’s contempt for her oppressive stepfather, Mark, and as their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one another’s most destructive tendencies. Their ambitions lead them to hire a local hustler, Tim, and take matters into their own hands to set their lives straight.

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New “Pacific Rim Uprising” Trailer Feature Epic Robot Action

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Universal Pictures


The first look at “Pacific Rim Uprising” has no shortage of giant robots and monsters in action and it looks spectacular. Unveiled on Friday at New York Comic-Con, the return of monstrous Kaijus guarantees epic battles bigger than the first film.

The trailer introduces us to John Boyega’s Jake Pentecost, the son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) who sacrificed himself in the original 2013 Guillermo del Toro film. There is also franchise newcomer Scott Eastwood as Jaeger pilot Lambert, Pacific Rim alums Charlie Day, Burn Gorman and a glimpse of Rinko Kikuchi’s Mako Mori.

Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, the trailer certainly have that same spectacle seen on his TV work on Starz series Spartacus, fully aware of robot vs. monster appeal but a tad less serious than the original. Director Guillermo del Toro is credited for the story.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is scheduled to stomp into theaters on March 23, 2018.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising.

John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous “Kaiju.” Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.

To read full synopsis, visit Pacific Rim Uprising’s website

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