Column: How Films Deals With Racism And Injustice
Film and storytelling is the best thing around to visualize the world around it. How injustice has been served for a long time in a country becoming the world’s largest democracy.
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The Jesus Rolls (2019)
A spin-off of The Big Lebowski (1998) centered on the notable bowler, Jesus Quintana.
CONFIRMED: Waititi Set To Direct A Star Wars Film
Taika Waititi has been confirmed as director for a new Star Wars film.
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Cats (2019) – Official Trailer #2
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Sam Worthington And David Hyde Pierce Joins ‘The Georgetown Project’
Sam Worthington, from Avatar, and David Hyde Pierce of Frasier-fame joins Oscar winner Russell Crowe in lead roles for the upcoming supernatural thriller.
Amblin Gets The Distributionrights For Cheshire Crossing
The studio picks up the graphic novel by Andy Weir, who is the author of The Martian.
Funhouse (2019) – Official Trailer
When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
Nicolas Cage Will Play Himself
Lionsgate is in talks to buy Nicholas Cage’s film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
6 Underground (2019) – Official Trailer #2
Meet a new kind of action hero. Six untraceable agents, totally off the grid. They’ve buried their pasts so they can change the future.
Trolls 2: World Tour (2020) – Official Trailer #2
Sequel to the 2016 animated hit.
The Wolf Hour (2019) – Official Trailer
June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It’s the notorious “Summer of Sam” and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife’s edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.
A Million Little Pieces (2018) – Official Trailer #2
A young aspiring writer at the bottom of his addictions is interned in a facility center to face his traumatic past.
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019) – Official Trailer #2
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
Chris Pratt’s ‘The Tomorrow War’ Gets 2020 Release Date
The upcoming sci-fi action film starring Chris Pratt gets a release date.
Fantasy Island (2020) – Official Trailer
A horror adaptation of the popular ’70s TV show about a magical island resort.
Hocus Pocus (1993)
A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
Saban Films Got Distribution-rights For Daniel Radcliffe Movie
The company just got the North American rights for the action comedy film Guns Akimbo starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Lands ‘Matrix 4’ Role
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from Aquaman (2018) fame has now got a lead role in Lana Wachowski’s Matrix 4.
Idina Menzel May Be Cinderella’s Evil Stepmother
Frozen (2013) star Idina Menzel is in talks to be Cinderella’s evil stepmother in the upcoming 2021 Cinderella film.
‘Training Day’ Prequel May Come
Warner Bros. has a prequel in the works for the 2001 crime drama that starred Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
Gal Gadot To Star In Holocaust Drama
Wonder Woman (2017), DC-star, and Israeli native Gal Gadot is set to star in her own produced biopic for Polish Holocaust heroine and 2008 Nobel Prize nominee, Irena Sendler.
Lady and the Tramp (2019) – Official Trailer #2
CGI and live-action re-imagining of the 1955 Disney classic.
Onward (2020) – Official Trailer
Set in a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on a quest to discover if there is still magic out there.
The Turning (2020) – Official Trailer
A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents. A modern take on Henry James’ novella “The Turn of the Screw”.
Klaus (2019) – Featurette
A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.
This is the behind-the-scenes.
Zoë Kravitz Is Officially Catwoman
Actress Zoë Kravitz, from “X-Men: First Class” and “Big Little Lies” fame, will play Catwoman in the new Batman film.
The Report (2019) – Official Trailer #2
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA’s post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
The Laundromat (2019) – Official Trailer #2
A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world’s financial system.
Jessica Henwick In Final Talks With ‘Matrix 4’
‘Iron Fist’ Star Henwick is finalizing her negotiations to join the fourth “Matrix” movie.
The Imagineering Story (2019) – Official Trailer
A look at the past, present and future achievements of Walt Disney’s Imagineering staff at his numerous Disney theme parks.
Barney Gets A New Live-Action Movie
Famous toy company Mattel is working on a new live-action Barney film.
Mark Wahlberg Might Play Swedish Adventure
The two timed Oscar-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg is maybe playing the lead in Paramount Players’ Arthur the King.
Ben Affleck Will Star In “Hypnotic”
It is now set that actor Ben Affleck will star in director Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Action Thriller Hypnotic.
Travis Fimmel Joins ‘Here Are The Young Men’
Actor Travis Fimmel, from the Viking series, joins the cast of Arclight’s upcoming project.
Citizen K (2019) – Official Trailer
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
The Boy (2016)
An American nanny is shocked that her new English family’s boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.
Lady Gaga Will Star In Film About The Gucci Murder
It seems that singer and actress Lady Gaga will star in a director Ridley Scott-attached film about the Gucci family, focusing on the murder of founder Guccio Gucci’s grandson.
Vince Vaughn and Sharon Horgan Will Star Together In ‘The Last Drop’
The film is an upcoming romantic dramedy which will be directed by Christopher Storer, from Ramy fame.
Jeffrey Wright Is Commissioner Gordon
The Batman director Matt Reeves confirms that actor Jeffrey Wright will play Commissioner Gordon in the upcoming Robert Pattinson led film.
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) – Final Trailer
Four friends return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own but discover that nothing is as they expect. The players need to brave parts unknown, from arid deserts to snowy mountains, in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
Andrew Garfield Star In Upcoming Netflix Adaptation ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’
Lin-Manuel Miranda is making a movie adaption of the autobiographical Off-Broadway show by and about Jonathan Larson, and now is it official that actor Andrew Garfield is joining the cast.
Rachel Weisz Set to Play Elizabeth Taylor
See-Saw Films is making an Elizabeth Taylor biopic called A Special Relationship starring Rachel Weisz as the famous actress turned activist.
Mob Town (2019) – Official Trailer
It is a story about the famed meeting of the heads of the Mafia in 1957 in upstate Apalachin, NY.
Paramount Players Sees Potential In ‘Planet of the Nerds’ Comic
Paramount Players buys the film rights for Planet of the Nerds comic.
Code 8 (2019) – Teaser Trailer
A desperate young man possessing special powers clashes with a militarized police force after committing a petty crime. Based on the short film.
Disney+ Wants To Make New ‘Hocus Pocus’ Movie
It looks like Disney is developing a revision of their movie Hocus Pocus, the 1993 cult classic starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. It seems that this version will be for their platform, Disney+.
Burden (2020) – Official Trailer
Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and Garrett Hedlund star in a powerful and timely true-story of faith and love overcoming hate. Set in a southern community scarred from deep-rooted racism, an unlikely friendship forms when an African American reverend helps a KKK member leave the Klan.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future.
The King (2019) – Final Trailer
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.