Back in April, I wrote the piece titled “The 2020 Summer Movie Season is Most Likely Canceled,” in which I wrote the obit for summer movies. Well, I am here now to tell you that, based on the way things have been going, the entire year is most likely going to be a wasteland of nothingness, theatrically speaking.
Read more‘Rogue’: Megan Fox is Back Fighting Off Deadly Lions In VOD Action Thriller [Trailer]
Lionsgate is releasing the straight-to-VOD movie, “Rogue.” The big sell for this film is that it is led by Megan Fox. In it, the 34-year-old actress plays a soldier who leads her special ops team in Africa with the goal of rescuing war prisoners. However, their mission takes a turn for the worst when they find out that they are being hunted by, no joke, deadly lionesses.
This is B-horror-thriller territory, but, more importantly, it’s the first Megan Fox-led movie since … 2009’s uber-underrated “Jennifer’s Body.” Fox, an Aughts “sex symbol,” has had her career hampered down by, what I believe to be, blacklisting courtesy of studio execs. Why? Well, a 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel didn’t help. In the now resurfaced interview, Fox cited the problematic treatment she encountered while auditioning for “Bad Boys II” and called out the rampant sexism running rampant in Tinsel Town.
Ever since then, she’s had cameo appearances in “This is 40,” and The Dictator,” and also ended up starring as Alice in the 2014 “Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles” adaptation,” ditto its 2016 sequel “Out of Shadows.” Other than that, zilch, nada, zippo.
With all that being said, please, do yourself a favour and rent “Jennifer’s Body” — it’s a hoot and a total modern-era feminist classic. It was shunned upon release, the critics hated it, but its reputation has gained considerable traction during the #MeToo era.
“Rogue” is directed by M.J. Bassett. Alongside Fox, “Rogue” has a cast that includes Jessica Sutton, Calli Taylor, Brandon Auret, Adam Deacon, and Sisanda Henna. The film will be released by Lionsgate on VOD on August 28.
Cannes 2020: These 17 Movies Would Have Competed for the Palme d'Or
The Cannes Film Festival was officially canceled in April due to COVID-19, but that didn’t stop them from going “digital” by releasing a list of 56 films that would have made up its 2020 edition. A total of 15 features were from first-time directors, while 16 of the films listed were helmed by women. The 56 films selected were chosen out of a potential pool of 2,067 features that were submitted. There are 147 countries being represented, and 21 of them coming from France.
Read moreTheater Owners Group Urges Hollywood to Release Movies and “Deal With The New Normal”
Roger Deakins Believes ‘Kundun’ Is His Best and Most Underseen Work
I do not really like Martin Scorsese’s "Kundun,” despite multiple watches, it’s one of the few duds of the prolific filmmaker’s career (right up there with “New York, New York” and “Boxcar Bertha"). Its narrative moves like molasses and the drama is static. Scorsese has called it a passion project, he’s a deeply-ingrained Buddhist so telling the story of Dalai Lama is as religious an experience as he will likely have behind the camera.
Read morePTA's Next Movie Rumored to Be About a Child Actor, an Older Director and a Closeted Gay Politician
For a while now, we’ve known that Paul Thomas Anderson was hard at work on a new film. Back in April, it was revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio had passed on this mysterious new project in favor of working with Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Valley,” which he then dropped out of because he wanted to work with Martin Scorsese on “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
Read moreChristopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Delayed Indefinitely; Will the 2020 Movie Season Be Canceled?
As was anticipated, the COVID-19 pandemic tied Warner Bros’. hands too tightly as they have gone ahead and delayed Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” yet again. Except, this time, there is no new release date. By all accounts, “Tenet” is delayed indefinitely.
Read moreTelluride Lineup Would Have Included ‘Nomadland,' ‘The French Dispatch' and ‘Soul'
‘Ammonite’ Director Francis Lee Not Happy His Film Might Not Screen in Theaters
There is no reason to cower and hide frustration with your local government. It is perfectly okay to be upset that lockdowns are happening, and that movie theaters are still shut down, with no concrete plan about when they’ll actually reopen. Don’t let anybody shame you in thinking otherwise, it is your given right to express your discontent towards this matter.
Read more‘Hamilton': Shallow, Dramatically Inept and Highly Overpraised [Review]
I’ve been holding off on reviewing “Hamilton” because, quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about it. Director Thomas Kali’s filmed stage play isn’t really cinema, it’s more like a filmed 160-minute document of the critically-acclaimed Broadway show. To call this a movie would do the entire art form a disservice, hell, it’s not even a documentary, it’s more like a digital video recording of a 2016 stage performance.
Read moreIndustry Expert Predicts Movie Theaters Will Remain Closed Until Mid-2021
Uhhh, if theaters stay closed until mid-2021, then you can kiss cinema and movie chains such as AMC goodbye. The industry as a whole is already in massive debt. At some point, studios are going to seriously need to consider a way to make money without relying on box office earnings. We are headed towards every awards contender being screened this fall.
Read more‘Tenet' Reportedly Needs to Gross $800M Worldwide in Order to Break Even
There is absolutely no way this movie gets released this summer.
“Nolan’s film would need to gross $800 million worldwide in order to break even in theaters. At this writing, of course, that’s impossible as most domestic theaters are closed — and, as COVID-19 outbreaks continue to spike, it seems increasingly likely that they may stay that way for the foreseeable future.” [via IndieWire]
Netflix to Release ‘The Devil All the Time' in September
Today comes the news that Campos’ film will be released by Netflix on September 16th. The streaming giant couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the pandemic, they are relentless in the amount of streaming content they have greenlit for release these past few months. Their fall lineup is stacked with heavy-hitting titles such as David Fincher’s “Mank,” “Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” and Ben Wheatley’’s “Rebecca.”
Read more‘Hard Kill’: What The Hell Happened to Bruce Willis' Career? [Trailer]
If you take a look at Bruce Willis' IMDb page now and the work he's done in the past couple of years, it's all straight-to-video. “Once Upon A Time In Venice,” “Marauders,” the list goes on, almost all of them receiving poor reviews and largely ignored by audiences alike. In fact, the last time Willis had decent box office and positive reviews was more than 8 years ago when Wes Anderson's “Moonrise Kingdom” and Rian Johnson's “Looper” were released in the same year.
Read more‘The Painted Bird’: A Shocking, Empty and Self-Important Holocaust Movie [Review]
Movies about World War II can be brutal, especially if they are set in rural-ravaged Eastern Europe and have a child protagonist rummaging through the chaos. There’s always been something about that time and setting that exudes total and utter dread. The most well-known examples would be “Come and See,” and Tarkovsky’s “Ivan’s Childhood” which set the bar quite high.
Read moreNettflix Claims ‘Extraction' and ‘Bird Box' Are its Two Most-Watched Original Films Ever
Is ‘Da 5 Bloods' the Best Movie Released So Far This Year? [Podcast]
Spike Lee‘s “Da 5 Bloods” was the top vote-getter in our Best of 2020 critics poll. Lee’s Vietnam drama edged out Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and Leigh Whannell’s “The Invisible Man” in second and third place, respectively.
Read moreAll You Need to Know About Tomb Raider 2
The Tomb Raider franchise first came to the silver screen in 2001, starring the unforgettable Angelina Jolie as protagonist Lara Croft.
Read more‘Project Power’: Jamie Foxx & Joseph Gordon-Levitt Take A Superpower Pill in Netflix Action Movie [Trailer]
Netflix has released the trailer for yet another movie we didn’t even know existed.
Read more‘Feels Good Man’: Pepe the Frog Creator Tries to Reclaim His Character in New Doc [Trailer]
Arthur Jones’ “Feels Good Man” seeks to have animator Matt Furie reclaim his creation “Pepe the Frog,” an animated amphibian that has become a symbol of rebellion for many within the “alt-right” movement.
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Brady Corbet's “The Origin of the World,” his X-Rated epic about "Northern California’s economy" in the 1970s epic, has now started production in South Africa under the working title “SALT FLATS.”