MGM+ has announced the titles coming to the premium linear channel and streaming service during the month of May. The MGM Plus May 2024 lineup includes new Beacon 23 Season 2 episodes and the films French Girl and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.
MGM+, an Amazon company, is a premium linear channel and streaming service delivering a broad lineup of exclusive original series and docuseries, the latest movie releases, and classic film franchises—all available in the U.S. on TV, on-demand, online, and across devices.
MGM+ is a destination for premium content, with original series including sci-fi horror series From, Emmy-winning series Godfather of Harlem, the Western adventure Billy the Kid, the anticipated new series Hotel Cocaine and Emperor of Ocean Park, the limited series A Spy Among Friends, and cinematic dramatic series Rogue Heroes, War of the Worlds, and Beacon 23.
The network is also the home of acclaimed docuseries,...
MGM+, an Amazon company, is a premium linear channel and streaming service delivering a broad lineup of exclusive original series and docuseries, the latest movie releases, and classic film franchises—all available in the U.S. on TV, on-demand, online, and across devices.
MGM+ is a destination for premium content, with original series including sci-fi horror series From, Emmy-winning series Godfather of Harlem, the Western adventure Billy the Kid, the anticipated new series Hotel Cocaine and Emperor of Ocean Park, the limited series A Spy Among Friends, and cinematic dramatic series Rogue Heroes, War of the Worlds, and Beacon 23.
The network is also the home of acclaimed docuseries,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
William Fichtner, Emily Hall and Caroline Concannon have joined the cast of the Michael Mailer Films and Tremendous Entertainment film Cutman.
The film is helmed by producer-director/co-writer Michael Mailer.
Cutman delves into the underworld of a retired boxer, played by Fichtner, who grapples with a terminal illness while reluctantly serving as an enforcer for low-level mobsters. Haunted by the memory of his deceased cutman, he suffers until a chance encounter with a troubled junkie, played by Emily Hall, and her daughter, played by Caroline Concannon. He’s then embarks on a journey of redemption and retribution.
Production just wrapped in Buffalo, New York. Mailer, Scott Kluge, Alessandro Penazzi and Jennifer Gelfer produce.
Fichtner is known for roles in Armageddon, Crash, Black Hawk Down and The Dark Knight, and on the TV series Prison Break. Fichtner was most recently seen starring opposite Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim...
The film is helmed by producer-director/co-writer Michael Mailer.
Cutman delves into the underworld of a retired boxer, played by Fichtner, who grapples with a terminal illness while reluctantly serving as an enforcer for low-level mobsters. Haunted by the memory of his deceased cutman, he suffers until a chance encounter with a troubled junkie, played by Emily Hall, and her daughter, played by Caroline Concannon. He’s then embarks on a journey of redemption and retribution.
Production just wrapped in Buffalo, New York. Mailer, Scott Kluge, Alessandro Penazzi and Jennifer Gelfer produce.
Fichtner is known for roles in Armageddon, Crash, Black Hawk Down and The Dark Knight, and on the TV series Prison Break. Fichtner was most recently seen starring opposite Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim...
- 3/29/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paradigm has signed Kim Coates, the actor and producer best known for a major role on FX’s Emmy-nominated crime drama Sons of Anarchy, for representation.
In Kurt Sutter’s series focused on the lives of outlaw motorcycle club members, which ran for seven seasons between 2008 and 2014, Coates plays one of the lead characters, Tig Trager, who serves as the sergeant-at-arms and is often involved in the club’s most challenging and controversial activities.
Most recently recurring on Max’s White House Plumbers, Coates has also been seen on series including Netflix’s Godless and Bad Blood, CBS’s CSI: Miami, and Fox’s Prison Break, to name a few.
Over the course of his decades-long career, he’s also been seen in more than 40 films, most recently appearing in Double Down South, a thriller written and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Schulman. In addition to Academy Award...
In Kurt Sutter’s series focused on the lives of outlaw motorcycle club members, which ran for seven seasons between 2008 and 2014, Coates plays one of the lead characters, Tig Trager, who serves as the sergeant-at-arms and is often involved in the club’s most challenging and controversial activities.
Most recently recurring on Max’s White House Plumbers, Coates has also been seen on series including Netflix’s Godless and Bad Blood, CBS’s CSI: Miami, and Fox’s Prison Break, to name a few.
Over the course of his decades-long career, he’s also been seen in more than 40 films, most recently appearing in Double Down South, a thriller written and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Schulman. In addition to Academy Award...
- 3/14/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"Pop the question before she switches teams again!" Paramount Movies has revealed an official trailer for a romantic comedy called French Girl, a Canadian feature about a distinctly Canadian problem - what if you move up to a new city and almost everyone there speaks French, and you don't. Adorable. Or as they say in French, adorablé. Gordon, a hopeless romantic, finds his proposal plans are thrown into chaos when his girlfriend is swept away to Quebec City by a job offer from her ex, a sophisticated celebrity chef. Determined to keep their love alive, Gordon leaves Brooklyn for her hometown, only to find himself hilariously out of his depth in attempting to charm her hard-to-impress, French-speaking family. Zach Braff stars with Evelyne Brochu as his girlfriend Sophie, plus Luc Picard, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Isabelle Vincent, Charlotte Aubin, Muriel Dutil, with William Fichtner and Vanessa Hudgens. This looks mildly amusing...
- 2/16/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The new romantic comedy feature “French Girl" is written and directed by James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright, starring Zach Braff, Evelyne Brochu, Luc Picard, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Isabelle Vincent, Charlotte Aubin, Muriel Dutil, with William Fichtner and Vanessa Hudgens, releasing March 15, 2024:
“….’Gordon’, a hopeless romantic, finds his proposal plans are thrown into chaos when his girlfriend is swept away to Quebec by a job offer from her ex, a sophisticated celebrity chef.
“Determined to keep their love alive, Gordon leaves Brooklyn for her hometown, only to find himself hilariously out of his depth in attempting to charm her hard-to-impress, French-speaking family.”
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“….’Gordon’, a hopeless romantic, finds his proposal plans are thrown into chaos when his girlfriend is swept away to Quebec by a job offer from her ex, a sophisticated celebrity chef.
“Determined to keep their love alive, Gordon leaves Brooklyn for her hometown, only to find himself hilariously out of his depth in attempting to charm her hard-to-impress, French-speaking family.”
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- 2/15/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: The Longest Yard is getting another set of downs.
Deadline hears that another remake of the film, which originally starred Burt Reynolds in 1974 and was remade starring Adam Sandler in 2005, is in the works at Paramount Pictures. Rodney Barnes, who was an exec producer and writer on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is writing.
It comes from Gunpowder & Sky, whose CEO Van Toffler was an exec producer on the 2005 version when he worked at then-MTV owner Viacom. Toffler is producing with former MTV Films boss David Gale, who reunited with Toffler at Gunpowder & Sky and who also exec produced the Sandler version.
The Longest Yard is a prison sports comedy film.
‘The Longest Yard,’ 1974
The 1974 original was based on a story by Al Ruddy, directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. It starred Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a...
Deadline hears that another remake of the film, which originally starred Burt Reynolds in 1974 and was remade starring Adam Sandler in 2005, is in the works at Paramount Pictures. Rodney Barnes, who was an exec producer and writer on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is writing.
It comes from Gunpowder & Sky, whose CEO Van Toffler was an exec producer on the 2005 version when he worked at then-MTV owner Viacom. Toffler is producing with former MTV Films boss David Gale, who reunited with Toffler at Gunpowder & Sky and who also exec produced the Sandler version.
The Longest Yard is a prison sports comedy film.
‘The Longest Yard,’ 1974
The 1974 original was based on a story by Al Ruddy, directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. It starred Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a...
- 11/6/2023
- by Peter White and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In the upcoming musical romantic comedy “That’s Amore!,” audiences will have their chance to see John Travolta doing what so many of his fans love to see him doing — singing and dancing with a smile on his face.
The star’s enduring popularity certainly isn’t lost on writer-director Nick Vallelonga, who won two Oscars for writing and producing the 2018 hit “Green Book,” and is thrilled to be finally getting the film off the ground. “I’m constantly writing and developing scripts, and I’ve always had Travolta in mind for the role. I got to work with John on a George Gallo film [“The Poison Rose”] and I was his stand-in for a week on ‘Staying Alive,’ so I’ve always been a big fan of his work. He just makes you happy when you see him on screen, and I’ve always dreamed of making this movie with him.
The star’s enduring popularity certainly isn’t lost on writer-director Nick Vallelonga, who won two Oscars for writing and producing the 2018 hit “Green Book,” and is thrilled to be finally getting the film off the ground. “I’m constantly writing and developing scripts, and I’ve always had Travolta in mind for the role. I got to work with John on a George Gallo film [“The Poison Rose”] and I was his stand-in for a week on ‘Staying Alive,’ so I’ve always been a big fan of his work. He just makes you happy when you see him on screen, and I’ve always dreamed of making this movie with him.
- 11/1/2023
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
Synopsis
Black Hawk Down
From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (The Martian) and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor) comes the gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie, and the complex reality of war.
Black Hawk Down stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Eric Bana. In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly and terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives.
The Guns Of Navarone
Academy Award®-winners Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued.
Black Hawk Down
From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (The Martian) and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor) comes the gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie, and the complex reality of war.
Black Hawk Down stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Eric Bana. In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly and terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives.
The Guns Of Navarone
Academy Award®-winners Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued.
- 9/17/2023
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
A new episode of the Black Sheep video series has just been released, and in this one we’re taking a look at a movie you might expect to be really popular, since it’s a sci-fi action thriller that pits Denzel Washington against Russell Crowe. It’s not popular… but maybe it should be. The movie is Virtuosity (watch it Here), and you can hear all about its virtues by checking out the video embedded above.
Directed by Brett Leonard from a screenplay written by Eric Bernt, Virtuosity has the following synopsis: A former cop who has been imprisoned for murdering the psychopath who killed his family, Parker Barnes is recruited to test out a new virtual-reality program where the goal is to apprehend a computer-generated being called Sid 6.7, who has been modeled on hundreds of deranged criminals. When Sid manages to escape into the real world, Barnes must...
Directed by Brett Leonard from a screenplay written by Eric Bernt, Virtuosity has the following synopsis: A former cop who has been imprisoned for murdering the psychopath who killed his family, Parker Barnes is recruited to test out a new virtual-reality program where the goal is to apprehend a computer-generated being called Sid 6.7, who has been modeled on hundreds of deranged criminals. When Sid manages to escape into the real world, Barnes must...
- 9/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Clockwise from upper left: Extraction 2 (Netflix), The Woman King (Sony), Fast Five (Universal), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (TriStar Pictures), Rrr (Sarigama Cinemas)Graphic: AVClub
Remember the good ol’ days when you could see all the Christopher Nolan Batman films on Netflix? Well, those days are over. And remember the good...
Remember the good ol’ days when you could see all the Christopher Nolan Batman films on Netflix? Well, those days are over. And remember the good...
- 8/12/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
One night, two struggling cartoonists had what turned out to be a billion-dollar idea. What if Frank Miller’s Daredevil had human-sized turtles in it? From that question came the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a quartet of brothers named after Renaissance artists who fought the Shredder and his Foot Clan (a spoof of perpetual Daredevil baddies the Hand). Who could have guessed that the self-published comic Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created would launch a phenomenon, one that survived its first boom in the late ‘80s and crash in the mid-1990s? It has since gone on to become an enduring pop culture franchise which is still going strong after several decades. Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael have leaped out of the sewers and into every type of media, including video games and toys. Nonetheless, the characters are never more exciting than when they hit the big screen.
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- 8/2/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
This article contains some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem spoilers.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem really is a fresh start for Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael on the big screen. There have of course been many Ninja Turtles movies before 2023. Too many, in fact. And yet, what seemed hopelessly dated when Michael Bay rebooted the brand with garish CGI in the 2010s is now fresh and fun again.
This is in large part because of both the style of animation directorJeff Rowe employed on the amphibian guys, as well as the choices he and producers/writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg made by casting actual teenagers as the Turtles. For the first time in forever, the Turtles feel young and vital. However, there were other less obvious but still impressive choices made—such as that this is one of the few Tmnt movies not to feature the Shredder...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem really is a fresh start for Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael on the big screen. There have of course been many Ninja Turtles movies before 2023. Too many, in fact. And yet, what seemed hopelessly dated when Michael Bay rebooted the brand with garish CGI in the 2010s is now fresh and fun again.
This is in large part because of both the style of animation directorJeff Rowe employed on the amphibian guys, as well as the choices he and producers/writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg made by casting actual teenagers as the Turtles. For the first time in forever, the Turtles feel young and vital. However, there were other less obvious but still impressive choices made—such as that this is one of the few Tmnt movies not to feature the Shredder...
- 8/1/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: William Fichtner (Hypnotic) has been set to star opposite Free Solo‘s Alex Honnold and his fellow climbing legends Brette Harrington (The Alpinist) and Adrian Ballinger (Edge of the Earth) in The Sound, an indie horror pic set in the adrenaline-filled world of big wall rock climbing.
Written and directed by Brendan Devane (The Canyonlands), the film currently in production in Nevada follows a group of climbers as they embark on the formidable challenge of conquering the Forbidden Wall, a perilous climb that has remained off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition swiftly transforms into a harrowing battle for survival against a malevolent force that toys with their minds and tests their resilience.
Intel on the climbers’ roles hasn’t been disclosed, but Fichtner portrays Conner, a father who is faced with losing his son in the same way he lost his father at a young age.
Written and directed by Brendan Devane (The Canyonlands), the film currently in production in Nevada follows a group of climbers as they embark on the formidable challenge of conquering the Forbidden Wall, a perilous climb that has remained off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition swiftly transforms into a harrowing battle for survival against a malevolent force that toys with their minds and tests their resilience.
Intel on the climbers’ roles hasn’t been disclosed, but Fichtner portrays Conner, a father who is faced with losing his son in the same way he lost his father at a young age.
- 7/10/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Maya Hawke (Asteroid City) and William H. Macy (Shameless) are set to lead the cast of the new original iHeartPodcast, Supreme: The Battle For Roe, a 9-episode series from creator and writer Aaron Tracy that delves into the true story of the Roe v. Wade case.
Supreme: The Battle for Roe is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will be available on the iHeartRadio app and all major podcast listening platforms beginning June 28 with new episodes available weekly on Wednesdays.
The series follows the journey of Sarah Weddington (Hawke), who at 26, is the youngest woman ever to argue a case in the Supreme Court. Macy will play Justice Harry Blackmun.
Rachel Winter directs and also produces alongside Ben Spector, Aaron Tracy and Eva Longoria.
“Before Roe V. Wade, Sarah Weddington had never worked on a contested case or even been inside a courtroom. Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion.
Supreme: The Battle for Roe is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will be available on the iHeartRadio app and all major podcast listening platforms beginning June 28 with new episodes available weekly on Wednesdays.
The series follows the journey of Sarah Weddington (Hawke), who at 26, is the youngest woman ever to argue a case in the Supreme Court. Macy will play Justice Harry Blackmun.
Rachel Winter directs and also produces alongside Ben Spector, Aaron Tracy and Eva Longoria.
“Before Roe V. Wade, Sarah Weddington had never worked on a contested case or even been inside a courtroom. Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion.
- 6/21/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Robert Rodriguez‘s action thriller Hypnotic, which stars Ben Affleck (Air), has taken a bumpy road on its way out into the world. It was delayed by the pandemic, shut down on three separate occasions, mixed up in an insurance lawsuit, and its main financier and distributor crumbled while it was filming. The movie spent two years in post-production, without a domestic distributor in place. It finally reached theatres earlier this month, courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment – and now it has received a digital release on all major platforms! For example, Hypnotic can be viewed on Amazon at This Link.
Scripted by Rodriguez (Machete) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Hypnotic sees Affleck taking on the role of a detective who finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending crimes mysteriously connected to his missing daughter. Aided by a gifted psychic, he is pursued by...
Scripted by Rodriguez (Machete) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Hypnotic sees Affleck taking on the role of a detective who finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending crimes mysteriously connected to his missing daughter. Aided by a gifted psychic, he is pursued by...
- 5/30/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
After being released in theaters earlier this month, the Robert Rodriguez-directed action thriller Hypnotic has been released on Digital platforms at home today, May 30, 2023.
The Ben Affleck thriller is now available on Digital on all major streaming platforms.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Robert Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious approach and convoluted storytelling.”
In the film, “Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.
“Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man...
The Ben Affleck thriller is now available on Digital on all major streaming platforms.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Robert Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious approach and convoluted storytelling.”
In the film, “Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.
“Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man...
- 5/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Affleck is in full frowny mode as a haunted cop on the tail of a criminal mastermind in a thriller that seems to revel in its absurdity
Ever wondered what would happen if someone stole a bunch of head-scratching mystery riffs from Now You See Me, The Adjustment Bureau, Memento and The Matrix, stuck them in a blender with an assortment of late-80s straight-to-video neo-noirs, and then pressed go without closing the lid, thereby causing the resultant volcanic eruption to merrily redecorate the world? Well, wonder no more, because here’s co-writer/director Robert Rodriguez with one he prepared earlier – splattering the cinema screen with all the colours of the daft, courtesy of an A-list star, a B-movie aesthetic, a C-minus musical score, and a D/E audience rating (Hypnotic has already failed to mesmerise in the US). Rejoice, fans of big-screen trash, as Oscar-winner Ben Affleck invites you...
Ever wondered what would happen if someone stole a bunch of head-scratching mystery riffs from Now You See Me, The Adjustment Bureau, Memento and The Matrix, stuck them in a blender with an assortment of late-80s straight-to-video neo-noirs, and then pressed go without closing the lid, thereby causing the resultant volcanic eruption to merrily redecorate the world? Well, wonder no more, because here’s co-writer/director Robert Rodriguez with one he prepared earlier – splattering the cinema screen with all the colours of the daft, courtesy of an A-list star, a B-movie aesthetic, a C-minus musical score, and a D/E audience rating (Hypnotic has already failed to mesmerise in the US). Rejoice, fans of big-screen trash, as Oscar-winner Ben Affleck invites you...
- 5/28/2023
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, Jd Pardo, Jeff Fahey, Sandy Avila, Hala Finley, Ionie Nieves, Nikki Dixon | Written by Robert Rodriguez, Max Borenstein | Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Ben Affleck stars in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller from co-writer / director (and co-cinematographer / editor) Robert Rodriguez. Essentially ripping off Inception, only on a fraction of that film’s budget, it’s a fast-paced rug-puller that’s almost gleefully nonsensical. In a good way.
Affleck plays Detective Rourke, who’s introduced getting hypnosis therapy, because he isn’t over the trauma of his losing his young daughter Minnie (Ionie Nieves) after she was kidnapped from a playground when he looked away for a second. A period of time has passed and Minnie’s body has never been found, so when Rourke finds a photo of her while investigating a mysterious bank robbery case, he becomes convinced that the culprit, Dellrayne (William Fichtner), knows her whereabouts.
Ben Affleck stars in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller from co-writer / director (and co-cinematographer / editor) Robert Rodriguez. Essentially ripping off Inception, only on a fraction of that film’s budget, it’s a fast-paced rug-puller that’s almost gleefully nonsensical. In a good way.
Affleck plays Detective Rourke, who’s introduced getting hypnosis therapy, because he isn’t over the trauma of his losing his young daughter Minnie (Ionie Nieves) after she was kidnapped from a playground when he looked away for a second. A period of time has passed and Minnie’s body has never been found, so when Rourke finds a photo of her while investigating a mysterious bank robbery case, he becomes convinced that the culprit, Dellrayne (William Fichtner), knows her whereabouts.
- 5/26/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Universal’s “Fast X” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £5.8 million ($7.3 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
In second place, Disney’s “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” continued its strong run in the territory, adding £2.8 million in its third weekend for a total of £28.9 million. In its seventh weekend, Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” earned £544,283 in third position for a total of £51.8 million.
Lionsgate’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” debuted in fourth place with £327,197. Rounding off the top five was another debut, Sony’s “Beau Is Afraid,” with £231,370. The other debut in the top 10 was Trafalgar Releasing’s “Don Giovanni – Met Opera 2023,” which bowed in ninth position with £99,842.
Coming up, the Royal Opera House is opening its ballet “Sleeping Beauty” theatrically mid-week on May 24, while Trafalgar is opening concert film “Roger Waters – This Is Not A Drill – Live From...
In second place, Disney’s “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” continued its strong run in the territory, adding £2.8 million in its third weekend for a total of £28.9 million. In its seventh weekend, Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” earned £544,283 in third position for a total of £51.8 million.
Lionsgate’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” debuted in fourth place with £327,197. Rounding off the top five was another debut, Sony’s “Beau Is Afraid,” with £231,370. The other debut in the top 10 was Trafalgar Releasing’s “Don Giovanni – Met Opera 2023,” which bowed in ninth position with £99,842.
Coming up, the Royal Opera House is opening its ballet “Sleeping Beauty” theatrically mid-week on May 24, while Trafalgar is opening concert film “Roger Waters – This Is Not A Drill – Live From...
- 5/23/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A new video series called Modern Horror Movie Talk recently made its premiere on the Arrow in the Head Show YouTube channel, and with each episode of this show we’ll be joining host Tyler Nichols as he covers all new horror releases, the latest horror movie news, and new horror trailers. Films discussed in previous episodes of Modern Horror Movie Talk include Cocaine Bear, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, The Pope’s Exorcist (a couple times!), the newly released entry in the Children of the Corn franchise, The Blackening, Scream VI, 65, Infinity Pool, Terrifier 2, Knock at the Cabin, Renfield, Evil Dead Rise, Gerald’s Game, Apostle, It Follows, and Pearl. Now, for the thirteenth episode, Tyler is joined by special guest Chris Bumbray to discuss the latest Robert Rodriguez film: the action thriller Hypnotic, starring Ben Affleck. To find out what they had to say about Hypnotic, check out the video embedded above.
- 5/22/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Hypnotic is the latest film from director Robert Rodriguez, a Hitchcockian thriller which the director has been dreaming up for the past 20 years. The film stars Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey with Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner. We have the opportunity to show you interviews with the director and his cast from the set of the film.
Plot:
Determined to find his missing daughter, detective Danny Rourke instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Hypnotic...
Plot:
Determined to find his missing daughter, detective Danny Rourke instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Hypnotic...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hypnotic, who?
It’s unusual, to say the least, for a movie directed by the likes of Robert Rodriguez and starring Ben Affleck to barely be a blip on the radar of new movies opening the box office.
This lack of awareness helps explain why Hypnotic opened to a scant $2.4 million from 2,118 theaters over the May 14-16 weekend to mark the worst nationwide opening of any film directed by Rodriguez or starring Affleck. Hypnotic stands to lose tens of millions, after costing a reported $65 million to make, and reinforces what every savvy Hollywood studio executive knows: spending on marketing is essential.
The sci-fi action-thriller suffered several setbacks on the road to the big screen, capped by the implosion of Solstice Studios in late 2021, which had been set to market and release the film.
Solstice, led by indie veteran Mark Gill, had been counting on Hypnotic to forge its future. But...
It’s unusual, to say the least, for a movie directed by the likes of Robert Rodriguez and starring Ben Affleck to barely be a blip on the radar of new movies opening the box office.
This lack of awareness helps explain why Hypnotic opened to a scant $2.4 million from 2,118 theaters over the May 14-16 weekend to mark the worst nationwide opening of any film directed by Rodriguez or starring Affleck. Hypnotic stands to lose tens of millions, after costing a reported $65 million to make, and reinforces what every savvy Hollywood studio executive knows: spending on marketing is essential.
The sci-fi action-thriller suffered several setbacks on the road to the big screen, capped by the implosion of Solstice Studios in late 2021, which had been set to market and release the film.
Solstice, led by indie veteran Mark Gill, had been counting on Hypnotic to forge its future. But...
- 5/15/2023
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Network: ABC
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: February 19, 2023 -- May 7, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, Polly Draper, and Sachin Bhatt.
TV show description:
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show was developed by Julia Cohen and Phil Klemmer and is based on My Fellow Citizens!, the South Korean television series.
In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Read...
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: February 19, 2023 -- May 7, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, Polly Draper, and Sachin Bhatt.
TV show description:
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show was developed by Julia Cohen and Phil Klemmer and is based on My Fellow Citizens!, the South Korean television series.
In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Read...
- 5/13/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Love makes life complicated for this couple in the first season of The Company You Keep TV show on ABC. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like The Company You Keep is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of The Company You Keep here. *Status Update Below.
An ABC drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes...
An ABC drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes...
- 5/13/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Last year, Milo Ventimiglia wrapped up his six-year role on the This Is Us series, a very successful show for NBC. Now, he's starring in a very different series for ABC, The Company You Keep. Will this new show have a good long run as well? Will The Company You Keep be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Meanwhile, Emma Hill (Kim) is an undercover...
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Meanwhile, Emma Hill (Kim) is an undercover...
- 5/13/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Emma and Charles won't get to continue to work things out during the 2023-24 broadcast season. ABC has cancelled The Company You Keep, so that it won't return for a second season.
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Meanwhile, Emma Hill (Kim) is an undercover CIA officer. Her father, Joseph Hill (Saito), is the patriarch of a political dynasty and is married to Grace (Shen). Emma’s...
A drama series, The Company You Keep TV show stars Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper. Sachin Bhatt recurs. In the story, Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) is a masterful high-stakes con man who commits crimes with his family. He also runs a bar with his bossy older sister, Birdie (Calles). Their con parents are former steelworker Leo (Fichtner) and his wife, Fran (Draper). Meanwhile, Emma Hill (Kim) is an undercover CIA officer. Her father, Joseph Hill (Saito), is the patriarch of a political dynasty and is married to Grace (Shen). Emma’s...
- 5/13/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Over the past few decades, William Fichtner has been a highlight in Hollywood with his performance in various movies and TV shows. Many of the fans would know him from the award-winning show Prison Break. Apart from that, Fichtner is also seen in popular Hollywood movies such as The Dark Knight. The actor has established a notable presence with his career spanning over 30 years. Acting for over three decades in different production settings has made him familiar to many eyes and a popular personality among fans. However, there are still plenty of things unknown about him. Here are six...
- 5/13/2023
- by Safwan Azeem
- TVovermind.com
ABC has opted not to renew for a second season The Company You Keep, its new drama series starring and executive produced by Milo Ventimiglia.
The Company You Keep, produced by Disney TV Studios’ 20th Television, did not perform as well as ABC’s two other midseason 2023 entries, fellow drama Will Trent, which has been renewed for a second season, and comedy Not Dead Yet, which is looking good for a renewal.
Still, Disney has longstanding relationship with Ventimiglia, who segued to The Company You Keep following his six-season starring turn on 20th Television’s hit NBC drama This Is Us. Based on that and the fact that The Company You Keep only premiered in midseason, there was talk that ABC may give the series a partial second season order to give it more time to find an audience.
Related: 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming...
The Company You Keep, produced by Disney TV Studios’ 20th Television, did not perform as well as ABC’s two other midseason 2023 entries, fellow drama Will Trent, which has been renewed for a second season, and comedy Not Dead Yet, which is looking good for a renewal.
Still, Disney has longstanding relationship with Ventimiglia, who segued to The Company You Keep following his six-season starring turn on 20th Television’s hit NBC drama This Is Us. Based on that and the fact that The Company You Keep only premiered in midseason, there was talk that ABC may give the series a partial second season order to give it more time to find an audience.
Related: 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming...
- 5/12/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has canceled the drama series “Alaska Daily,” “Big Sky,” and “The Company You Keep,” Variety has learned.
Hilary Swank starred in “Alaska Daily” series as Eileen Fitzgerald, described as “a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.”
In addition to Swank, the series starred Jeff Perry as Stanley Cornik, Matt Malloy as Bob Young, Meredith Holzman as Claire Muncy, Grace Dove as Rosalind “Roz” Friendly, Pablo Castelblanco as Gabriel Tovar, Ami Park as Yuna Park, and Craig Frank as Austin Teague.
McCarthy served as creator and executive producer on the show, and also directed the pilot. Swank, Melissa Wells, and Bert Salke executive produced along with Kyle Hopkins and Ryan Binkley of the Anchorage Daily News. Peter Elkoff served as showrunner and executive producers.
Hilary Swank starred in “Alaska Daily” series as Eileen Fitzgerald, described as “a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.”
In addition to Swank, the series starred Jeff Perry as Stanley Cornik, Matt Malloy as Bob Young, Meredith Holzman as Claire Muncy, Grace Dove as Rosalind “Roz” Friendly, Pablo Castelblanco as Gabriel Tovar, Ami Park as Yuna Park, and Craig Frank as Austin Teague.
McCarthy served as creator and executive producer on the show, and also directed the pilot. Swank, Melissa Wells, and Bert Salke executive produced along with Kyle Hopkins and Ryan Binkley of the Anchorage Daily News. Peter Elkoff served as showrunner and executive producers.
- 5/12/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Rodriguez on the set of HypnoticPhoto: Ketchup Entertainment
For three decades, Robert Rodriguez has been doing his best to make movies his way, alternating between big studio releases and independent filmmaking with the help of Troublemaker Studios, his fully equipped home base in Austin, Texas. Along the way, he...
For three decades, Robert Rodriguez has been doing his best to make movies his way, alternating between big studio releases and independent filmmaking with the help of Troublemaker Studios, his fully equipped home base in Austin, Texas. Along the way, he...
- 5/12/2023
- by Matthew Jackson
- avclub.com
This is probably an odd thing to say, but whenever watching a modern potboiler I find myself asking, “What would Bertrand Tavernier think?” The kind of French cineaste that found themselves most at home in the company of the disposable American crime film, the esteemed director could wax poetic on the most disreputable of pictures. If you squint during Hypnotic––a collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck that’s likely been cooking since they first met at a 1997 Miramax holiday party––you can see faint traces of a classic noir like Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool, or something of such ilk.
Though pitched as somewhat of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, this is a throwback of another stripe: to 2010, not 1948. Stripped of the comfortable Hollywood budget that would’ve greeted that pairing during their respective heydays, this initially seems like the pilot for a slightly more high-concept detective show before accounting...
Though pitched as somewhat of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, this is a throwback of another stripe: to 2010, not 1948. Stripped of the comfortable Hollywood budget that would’ve greeted that pairing during their respective heydays, this initially seems like the pilot for a slightly more high-concept detective show before accounting...
- 5/12/2023
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez broke out in the ‘90s with pulpy action thrillers and horror hits Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn. The premise for his latest, Hypnotic, suggests a return to his early works in attitude and scale. Instead, Rodriguez forgoes his usual playfulness and sense of rebellious fun in favor of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, complete with an overly serious approach and convoluted storytelling.
Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) recklessly throws himself into work as a coping mechanism over his missing daughter. Danny completes his latest therapy session that explores the fateful trip to the park where his daughter disappeared, then immediately gets picked up by his partner, Nicks (Jd Pardo), to investigate an anonymous tip for an impending bank robbery. As the heist seems to begin, Danny spies a suspicious man, Dellrayne (William Fichtner), enter the equation.
Danny discovers the man’s bizarre ability to hypnotize people around them,...
Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) recklessly throws himself into work as a coping mechanism over his missing daughter. Danny completes his latest therapy session that explores the fateful trip to the park where his daughter disappeared, then immediately gets picked up by his partner, Nicks (Jd Pardo), to investigate an anonymous tip for an impending bank robbery. As the heist seems to begin, Danny spies a suspicious man, Dellrayne (William Fichtner), enter the equation.
Danny discovers the man’s bizarre ability to hypnotize people around them,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Find someone who looks at you the way Ben Affleck looks at genres that peaked in the ‘90s. His ongoing quest to save the middlebrow movie has seen him try his hand at everything from big budget sports dramas to old school erotic thrillers in recent years as he tries to prove that entertaining adults is still a noble goal.
His latest role, which finds him starring in in Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic,” is a similar throwback to the kind of nonsensically complex, star-driven thrillers that could be instantly forgotten before enjoying a long DVD shelf life in 2002. If TBS launched its own airline and started producing original films designed to be viewed on two hour commuter flights, this would be an ideal first project.
The elevator pitch for “Hypnotic” may well have been, “Take ‘Inception,’ strip it of any serious artistry and nuance, cram as many twists as humanly possible into 90 minutes,...
His latest role, which finds him starring in in Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic,” is a similar throwback to the kind of nonsensically complex, star-driven thrillers that could be instantly forgotten before enjoying a long DVD shelf life in 2002. If TBS launched its own airline and started producing original films designed to be viewed on two hour commuter flights, this would be an ideal first project.
The elevator pitch for “Hypnotic” may well have been, “Take ‘Inception,’ strip it of any serious artistry and nuance, cram as many twists as humanly possible into 90 minutes,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Drawing inspiration from The Matrix, Edge of Tomorrow, and, especially, Christopher Nolan’s Memento and Inception, Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi neo-noir Hypnotic is less homage than a faded copy of a copy. Rodriguez and co-writer Max Borenstein certainly aren’t the first filmmakers to recycle a high-concept idea. But for a film so explicitly concerned with the reshaping of reality, Hypnotic’s utter failure to present a world that feels remotely convincing or fleshed out is a source of constant distraction. And while a couple of its myriad twists are clever enough, the film is often more mind-numbing than mind-bending.
Hypnotic opens with urban police officer Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) mourning the kidnapping of his seven-year-old daughter, Minnie (Ionie Nieves), whose abductor, once caught, claims no memory of his actions or her whereabouts. Something is off about the whole incident, the details of which are replayed for the audience via...
Hypnotic opens with urban police officer Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) mourning the kidnapping of his seven-year-old daughter, Minnie (Ionie Nieves), whose abductor, once caught, claims no memory of his actions or her whereabouts. Something is off about the whole incident, the details of which are replayed for the audience via...
- 5/11/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
An Austin police detective named Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) sits in a therapist’s office. His daughter was kidnapped at a playground — he’d been watching her, then suddenly, poof, she’s gone — and the story has been all over the news for months. The cop is dutifully attending his mandated psych-evaluation sessions. Rourke is finally cleared to go back to work, and he and his partner (J.D. Pardo) have been assigned to a stakeout. Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.
- 5/11/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Ben Affleck and Alice Braga star in ‘Hypnotic’ (Photo ©️ 2023 Hypnotic Film Holdings LLC)
Writer/director Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, a film that promises a mind-bending and reality-shifting experience, isn’t edgy enough to be interesting. While the final act provides some thrills, getting there requires you to endure two acts desperately in need of a dose of adrenaline. (“Endure” is not an overstatement in this case.)
Ben Affleck, coming off an outstanding job directing and starring in Air, seems to be just going through the paces as Danny Rourke, a police detective devastated by the loss of his child. Flashbacks reveal his young daughter, Minnie, was abducted from a playground while he was watching her. Danny made the mistake of taking his eyes off his child for just a moment, long enough for a stranger to steal her away.
Although Minnie was never found, a man who claimed not to...
Writer/director Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, a film that promises a mind-bending and reality-shifting experience, isn’t edgy enough to be interesting. While the final act provides some thrills, getting there requires you to endure two acts desperately in need of a dose of adrenaline. (“Endure” is not an overstatement in this case.)
Ben Affleck, coming off an outstanding job directing and starring in Air, seems to be just going through the paces as Danny Rourke, a police detective devastated by the loss of his child. Flashbacks reveal his young daughter, Minnie, was abducted from a playground while he was watching her. Danny made the mistake of taking his eyes off his child for just a moment, long enough for a stranger to steal her away.
Although Minnie was never found, a man who claimed not to...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Ben Affleck in HypnoticPhoto: Hypnotic Film Holdings LLC
Hypnotic may be Robert Rodriguez’s most conventional movie since 1998's The Faculty, and that’s not at all a bad thing. While his ambition can lead him to delirious highs like Sin City and Alita: Battle Angel, the writer-director-excess-multitasker is also extremely prone to over-rushed,...
Hypnotic may be Robert Rodriguez’s most conventional movie since 1998's The Faculty, and that’s not at all a bad thing. While his ambition can lead him to delirious highs like Sin City and Alita: Battle Angel, the writer-director-excess-multitasker is also extremely prone to over-rushed,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Luke Y. Thompson
- avclub.com
Plot: A detective (Ben Affleck) in Austin investigates a violent bank robbery carried out by a man (William Fichtner) who seems able to hypnotize his victims into doing his bidding. Along the way, he discovers a secret organization of “hypnotics” that may have something to do with his daughter’s disappearance.
Review: While watching Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, I was struck by how much I’ve missed the ninety-minute genre movie. Running a lean hour and a half, Rodriguez’s movie isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s lean and effective, with a propulsive pace more directors should sit up and take notice of. A kind of jacked-up genre mashup that’s a bit like Scanners by way of Inception, Hypnotic, which is getting a very low-key, but relatively wide, theatrical release this Friday, is the kind of genre movie we got pretty much weekly in the eighties and nineties.
Review: While watching Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic, I was struck by how much I’ve missed the ninety-minute genre movie. Running a lean hour and a half, Rodriguez’s movie isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s lean and effective, with a propulsive pace more directors should sit up and take notice of. A kind of jacked-up genre mashup that’s a bit like Scanners by way of Inception, Hypnotic, which is getting a very low-key, but relatively wide, theatrical release this Friday, is the kind of genre movie we got pretty much weekly in the eighties and nineties.
- 5/10/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
When it comes to the films we associate him with, a lot has changed since the ‘90s when Robert Rodriguez was among the most exciting indie names in cinema with the inventive likes of “El Mariachi,” “From Dusk Till Dawn” and the best segment of the “Four Rooms” anthology. He now has several “Spy Kids” movies, high-profile music videos and middling efforts like “Alita: Battle Angel” under his belt, though this critic can’t help but think of him as the same scrappy independent auteur of decades past in search of a meaty, inventive story.
Which is why the Ben Affleck-starring “Hypnotic” looked and sounded exciting, at least on paper, signaling a brainy yet accessible neo-noir detective tale with an original Rodriguez spin. Sadly, the film is a tedious and erratically cut caper, whose shape-shifting story feels like an uneven and over-plotted rehash of various recognizable films that we’ve seen before.
Which is why the Ben Affleck-starring “Hypnotic” looked and sounded exciting, at least on paper, signaling a brainy yet accessible neo-noir detective tale with an original Rodriguez spin. Sadly, the film is a tedious and erratically cut caper, whose shape-shifting story feels like an uneven and over-plotted rehash of various recognizable films that we’ve seen before.
- 5/10/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
The third season of "The X-Files" featured a memorable episode titled "Pusher." Penned by none other than "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, the story pitted Agents Mulder and Scully against a guy who had the ability to "push" people with his mind and a few suggestive words. Needless to say, the titular pusher uses his ability to manipulate people for evil, and only Mulder and Scully can stop him — unless he alters their minds, too!
It's a pretty good episode, and it's pretty clear that it must be a favorite of Robert Rodriguez because he rather shamelessly rips it off for his new movie "Hypnotic." Working with co-writer Max Borenstein, director Rodriguez creates a film that frequently feels like an extended "X-Files" episode, and when it's not doing that, it's rather liberally borrowing from the work of Christopher Nolan. While it makes sense that anyone would want to rip off...
It's a pretty good episode, and it's pretty clear that it must be a favorite of Robert Rodriguez because he rather shamelessly rips it off for his new movie "Hypnotic." Working with co-writer Max Borenstein, director Rodriguez creates a film that frequently feels like an extended "X-Files" episode, and when it's not doing that, it's rather liberally borrowing from the work of Christopher Nolan. While it makes sense that anyone would want to rip off...
- 5/10/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
This week’s release schedule is very light on the horror front, with just a small handful of new horror movies being offered up in the coming days. Among them? Evil Dead Rise comes home!
Here’s all the new horror releasing May 9 – May 14, 2023.
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
In the wake of scaring up over $100 million at the worldwide box office, Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise is now available Digitally at home. It’s coming to 4K and Blu-ray on June 27.
Evil Dead Rise is now available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $24.99 and for 48-hour rental via PVOD for $19.99 Srp on participating digital platforms where you purchase movies, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu.
Evil Dead Rise is directed by Lee Cronin, starring Lily Sullivan (“I Met a Girl,” TV’s “Barkskins”) and Alyssa Sutherland (TV’s “New Gold Mountain,...
Here’s all the new horror releasing May 9 – May 14, 2023.
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
In the wake of scaring up over $100 million at the worldwide box office, Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise is now available Digitally at home. It’s coming to 4K and Blu-ray on June 27.
Evil Dead Rise is now available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $24.99 and for 48-hour rental via PVOD for $19.99 Srp on participating digital platforms where you purchase movies, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu.
Evil Dead Rise is directed by Lee Cronin, starring Lily Sullivan (“I Met a Girl,” TV’s “Barkskins”) and Alyssa Sutherland (TV’s “New Gold Mountain,...
- 5/9/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Company You Keep Season 1 finale “The Truth Hurts.”] Well, at least The Company You Keep didn’t end its first season — which could be its only, given it hasn’t been renewed and so much up in the air due to the writers strike — on a major cliffhanger. In fact, it does a pretty good job of setting up what a second season could look like while also giving us an idea of what could be next for these characters in such a way that we’re not left with too many questions about what the future holds. Emma (Catherine Haena Kim) and Charlie’s (Milo Ventimiglia) plan to take down Patrick Maguire (Timothy V. Murphy) for good not only works, but Leo (William Fichtner) and Fran (Polly Draper) are also able to use that takedown to put an end to Frankie’s (Tony Shalhoub) for the neighborhood after...
- 5/8/2023
- TV Insider
When it comes to playing the tough guy, William Fichtner does it with so much charisma it has almost become a trademark for most of his roles. A true New Yorker at heart, Fichtner was born in Long Island, New York, on November 27, 1956. Since he began his acting career in 1987, Fichtner has starred in several commercial hit movies, as well as working with several top actors. Fichtner has worked extensively in film and television in a lead role and as a supporting cast. As a voice actor, Fichtner has also voiced several characters in popular video games.
- 5/3/2023
- by Onyinye Izundu
- TVovermind.com
This Is Us star Jon Huertas directs the season finale of ABC’s The Company You Keep. Season one episode 10 – “The Truth Hurts” – will air on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.
The season one cast is led by Milo Ventimiglia as Charlie. Catherine Haena Kim plays Emma, William Fichtner is Leo, Tim Chiou is David, Freda Foh Shen is Grace, James Saito is Joseph, Sarah Wayne Callies is Birdie, Felisha Terrell plays Daphne, and Polly Draper is Fran Nicoletti.
“The Truth Hurts” Plot: Emma and Charlie partner with Daphne to produce a plan to take down the Maguires once and for all, but will the final showdown cause Charlie and Emma to stay on opposite sides or end up closer than ever?
Catherine Haena Kim and Milo Ventimiglia in ‘The Company You Keep’ episode 10 (ABC/Raymond Liu)
The Season 1 Plot, Courtesy of ABC:
A night of passion leads to...
The season one cast is led by Milo Ventimiglia as Charlie. Catherine Haena Kim plays Emma, William Fichtner is Leo, Tim Chiou is David, Freda Foh Shen is Grace, James Saito is Joseph, Sarah Wayne Callies is Birdie, Felisha Terrell plays Daphne, and Polly Draper is Fran Nicoletti.
“The Truth Hurts” Plot: Emma and Charlie partner with Daphne to produce a plan to take down the Maguires once and for all, but will the final showdown cause Charlie and Emma to stay on opposite sides or end up closer than ever?
Catherine Haena Kim and Milo Ventimiglia in ‘The Company You Keep’ episode 10 (ABC/Raymond Liu)
The Season 1 Plot, Courtesy of ABC:
A night of passion leads to...
- 5/3/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Check out the trailer for the upcoming film Hypnotic.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez, the film stars Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey with Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner.
Ketchup Entertainment will open Hypnotic in theaters on May 12, 2023
Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez, the film stars Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jd Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey with Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner.
Ketchup Entertainment will open Hypnotic in theaters on May 12, 2023
Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
- 4/20/2023
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Four-time Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub guest stars as a former boyfriend of Charlie’s mom, Fran, on ABC’s The Company You Keep season one episode nine. The first season’s penultimate episode will air on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.
The season one cast is led by Milo Ventimiglia as Charlie. Catherine Haena Kim plays Emma, William Fichtner is Leo, Tim Chiou is David, Freda Foh Shen is Grace, James Saito is Joseph, Sarah Wayne Callies is Birdie, Felisha Terrell plays Daphne, and Polly Draper is Fran Nicoletti.
“The Truth Shall Set You Free” Plot: Realizing they want the same thing, Emma and Daphne agree to work together to take down the Maguires. Later, the Nicolettis consider selling the bar when a great offer comes their way, and David announces he is done with politics.
Polly Draper in ‘The Company You Keep’ episode 9 (ABC/Raymond Liu)
The Season 1 Plot,...
The season one cast is led by Milo Ventimiglia as Charlie. Catherine Haena Kim plays Emma, William Fichtner is Leo, Tim Chiou is David, Freda Foh Shen is Grace, James Saito is Joseph, Sarah Wayne Callies is Birdie, Felisha Terrell plays Daphne, and Polly Draper is Fran Nicoletti.
“The Truth Shall Set You Free” Plot: Realizing they want the same thing, Emma and Daphne agree to work together to take down the Maguires. Later, the Nicolettis consider selling the bar when a great offer comes their way, and David announces he is done with politics.
Polly Draper in ‘The Company You Keep’ episode 9 (ABC/Raymond Liu)
The Season 1 Plot,...
- 4/19/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Warner Bros. has revealed a new trailer for the Ben Affleck-led and Robert Rodriguez-directed psychological thriller ‘Hypnotic.’
Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal spectre (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Directed By Robert Rodriguez, Jd Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey and Jackie Earle Haley co-star in the film which Rodriguez penned alongside Racer Rodriguez and Max Borenstein.
Also in trailers – Trailer drops for Disney+ series ‘Sam – A Saxon’
The film...
Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiralling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal spectre (William Fichtner) – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Directed By Robert Rodriguez, Jd Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey and Jackie Earle Haley co-star in the film which Rodriguez penned alongside Racer Rodriguez and Max Borenstein.
Also in trailers – Trailer drops for Disney+ series ‘Sam – A Saxon’
The film...
- 4/18/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ben Affleck's having a good year so far, with Air successful and his upcoming (albeit likely brief) return to Bruce Wayne in The Flash. He's no doubt hoping for another hit with Hypnotic, a thriller that Robert Rodriguez has been aiming to get to screens for nearly two decades. The trailer is online…
In the story originally written by Rodriguez and worked on by Max Borenstein, Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a detective determined to find his daughter with the aid of psychic Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), whose investigation will lead him to question his most basic assumptions about his world and everyone in it.
Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies puled off by a mysterious, hypnotic character played by William Fichtner.
The ensemble includes: Jd Pardo as Rourke’s partner, Nicks, Hala Finley as his missing daughter, Minnie, Dayo Okeniyi...
In the story originally written by Rodriguez and worked on by Max Borenstein, Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a detective determined to find his daughter with the aid of psychic Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), whose investigation will lead him to question his most basic assumptions about his world and everyone in it.
Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies puled off by a mysterious, hypnotic character played by William Fichtner.
The ensemble includes: Jd Pardo as Rourke’s partner, Nicks, Hala Finley as his missing daughter, Minnie, Dayo Okeniyi...
- 4/17/2023
- Empire - Movies
Director Robert Rodriguez‘s action thriller Hypnotic, which stars Ben Affleck (Air), has taken a bumpy road on its way out into the world. It was delayed by the pandemic, shut down on three separate occasions, mixed up in an insurance lawsuit, and its main financier and distributor crumbled while it was filming. The movie spent two years in post-production, without a domestic distributor in place. But now it’s set to reach theatres on May 12th, courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment, and the folks at Screen Rant have gotten the exclusive first look at the final poster for the film. You can check it out at the bottom of this article. They also have a teaser poster you can see at This Link.
Scripted by Rodriguez (Machete) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Hypnotic sees Affleck taking on the role of a detective who finds himself spiralling down a rabbit...
Scripted by Rodriguez (Machete) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Hypnotic sees Affleck taking on the role of a detective who finds himself spiralling down a rabbit...
- 4/17/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
“Hypnotic” is the new $80 million budgeted science fiction thriller, directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, J. D. Pardo, Hala Finley, Dayo Okeniyi, Jeff Fahey, Jackie Earle Haley and William Fichtner releasing May 12, 2023 in theaters:
“…a detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program…
“…while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists…”
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“…a detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program…
“…while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 4/16/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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