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“The Exorcist: Believer” Trailers, Featurettes, Clips, Posters and Burstyn Interview

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David Gordon Green directed The Exorcist: Believer from a screenplay by Peter Sattler and Green, from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride and Green. William Peter Blatty created the characters in this new Exorcist film. 

Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences worldwide. A new chapter begins thanks to Blumhouse and Green, who resurrected the Halloween franchise.  

Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding, played by Leslie Odom Jr., has raised their daughter, Angela, played by Lidya Jewett, on his own. 

Angela and her friend Katherine, played by Olivia Marcum, disappear into the woods, only to return three days later without knowing what happened to them. It unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the lowest point of evil. In terror and desperation, he seeks out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before—Chris MacNeil. 

For the first time since the 1973 film, Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.

The film also stars Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles Norbert Leo Butz. 

When The Exorcist, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, hit the movie theaters, it changed the culture forever. It obliterated box office records and earned 10 Academy Award nominations, becoming the first horror film nominated for Best Picture.  

“Queen Bees” Despite Mean Girls, Finds New Love in Exclusive Retirement Home

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Directed by Michael Lembeck, Queen Bees follows fiercely independent senior Helen, played by Ellen Burstyn. While her house undergoes repairs, she moves into a nearby retirement community ― just temporarily.

Once behind Pine Grove Senior Community doors, she encounters lusty widows, played by Anna Margaret, Loretta Devine and Jane Curtin. Their cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying “mean girls,” the likes of which she hasn’t experienced since high school, all of which leave her yearning for the solitude of home.

But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics, Helen discovers that it’s never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find new love, played by James Caan.

The rest of the cast includes Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Mitchell, Matthew Barnes, French Stewart and Alec Mapa.

Update Trailer, Similar with Less Voice Over

“Lucy in the Sky” Trailer, Clips & Poster

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The poster captures my attention like the moon captures Lucy’s attention.

Directed by Noah Hawley, Lucy in the Sky takes us on Lucy’s journey from outer space to Earth and the ever-changing reality of life through her eyes and soul.

Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi co-wrote the screenplay with Hawley adding final touches. The movie trailer spirals in different directions, and it’s hard to connect to the story in general.

I didn’t recognize Natalie Portman, who plays Lucy Cola, at first. Her makeup and hairstyle design molded her astronaut look. Joe Hamm stars as her husband, Mark Goodwin. He seems to be her anchor and tries to save her from after returning to Earth from a life-changing mission in space. She begins to slowly unravel and lose touch with reality. Of course, the question is why is she losing touch with reality.

It appears Portman is gravitating to themes where the main character ventures to another reality or altered reality. Like her appearance in Annihilation where she enters the shimmering to find out what happened to her husband and coming to terms with self- discovery of her failing marriage.

The digital version of the movie is out on the streets. The package includes deleted scenes, director’s journey, and four featurettes on the making of the film.

Lucy in the Sky cast includes Zazie Beetz, Ellen Burstyn, and Dan Stevens.

The next trailer is called “Trailer C” and delineates the story more. It looks like Portman’s character goes rogue, and the story gets dark. It’s unclear who is the bad guy — Hamm’s character or Portman’s.

I noticed in the credits that Reese Witherspoon is one of the producers of the movie.