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Powerful Cast in Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” Poster, Trailer

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Directed by the elusively funny Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch is a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch” magazine.

The cast is an A-list of Hollywood superstars, including Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Elisabeth Moss, Billy Murray, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, Liev Schreiber, Frances McDormand, Adrien Brody and Benicio Del Toro.

According to IMDB, The New Yorker reported a piece that outlines some characters, subjects, and situations described in this movie, along with the corresponding The New Yorker articles, themes, and writers that Wes Anderson references. These include:

  • Arthur Howitzer Jr., played by Bill Murray, inspired by the New Yorker’s founding editor Harold Ross.
  • Herbsaint Sazerac, played by Owen Wilson, inspired by the writer Joseph Mitchell
  • Julian Cadazio, played by Adrien Brody, inspired by Lord Duveen, the subject of a 1951 six-part New Yorker profile by S. N. Behrman
  • Roebuck Wright, played by Jeffrey Wright, inspired by James Baldwin and A. J. Liebling, who were both New Yorker contributors over the years.
  • Lucinda Krementz, played by Frances McDormand, inspired by Mavis Gallant, She wrote a two-part 1968 piece on the student uprisings in France. This character also shares a last name with Jill Krementz, a photographer whose work has often appeared in the New Yorker and is the widow of the novelist Kurt Vonnegut.

The New Yorker also reported in the same piece that the movie takes place in a fictional French town called “Ennui-sur-Blasé.” “Ennui” and “blasé” are both English words, albeit both terms originate from the French, which means roughly the same thing: world-weary boredom, apathy, and sophistication. It is relatively common for French place names to contain the word “sur” (“on”) between two other words as a geographic descriptor. for example, the French Riviera village name “Beaulieu-sur-Mer” translates as “beautiful place on the sea.” So if it were a real place name, “Ennui-sur-Blasé” would mean, more or less, “Boredom-on-Apathy.”

For Anderson, the filmmaking process is 100% organic from start to finish. That begins with the writing. “It’s a real adventure to work on these things,” says longtime collaborator Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the story with Anderson and Roman Coppola and plays the role of the magazine’s cartoonist. “The stories are sort of concocted in real-time. There’s not some big outline or something that you’re filling in. You’re literally creating each moment as you get to it. It’s sort of like building a bridge while you’re on the bridge, and that’s what’s really exciting. When you wake up in the morning, you really have no idea what could happen to the story, to the characters, and that is such an exciting place to be. It’s free form but focused, and Wes is the captain of the ship.”

So funny!

The official name of the New Yorker-inspired magazine is The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, a publication inspired by the history of The New Yorker and the origins of two of the people who made it what it is: Harold Ross, the magazine’s co-founder, and William Shawn, his successor, both inspirations for Bill Murray’s character and both born in the Midwest. “Kansas seems to me like the most American place in America,” says Anderson. “I mean, really, in the end, The French Dispatch isn’t publishing for the people of Kansas. They’re publishing for America.”

Creating the story’s striking still-life passages, Anderson actually asked the actors to freeze in place. “It’s a game I play with my daughter,” says del Toro, “it’s probably one of the earliest things that I remember playing as a kid, and suddenly… we’re doing it, every actor from Tilda Swinton to Henry Winkler, all these legends, all playing the game. And it’s contagious. It’s really nice to see actors going back to their childhood and playing, Simon Says. There’s something very freeing about it. And I felt like it added to the film in another way. Wes could have frozen the action digitally, but there’s something about the actors actually freezing that makes it… you can feel it, you can touch it, and the audience can feel the joy behind it.”

See if you can catch every single actor in this movie.
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Sure Fire “F9: The First Saga” Trailer, Posters, TV Ad

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Go Fast and Furious with two brothers.

The following Fast and Furious premise is, “No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past.”

The next franchise title is short and sweet. Appropriately, the film is F9 for the ninth chapter in the adventure that has endured just about two decades, earning over $5 billion worldwide.

Directed by Justin Lin, the story follows Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto as he leads a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. 

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This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew forms up to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom’s forsaken brother, Jakob (John Cena, next year’s The Suicide Squad).

Justin Lin returns as director. He directed the franchise’s third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sequels when it became a global blockbuster. The action hurtles around the globe—from London to Tokyo, from Central America to Edinburgh, and from a secret bunker in Azerbaijan to the teeming streets of Tbilisi. Along the way, old friends show up, old foes will return, history becomes rewritten, and the true meaning of family goes through a test like never before.

The film stars returning cast members Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Sung Kang, with Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron. F9 also features Grammy-winning superstar Cardi B as a new franchise character named Leysa. She arrives as the woman with a connection to Dom’s past and a cameo by Reggaeton sensation Ozuna.

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“Morbius” Trailer of Marvel’s Dangerously Enigmatic Antihero

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Some call Morbius one of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters. The comic book character comes to the big screen with Jared Leto transforming into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. 

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease. 

Daniel Espinosa directed Morbius with the story by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless and the screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The rest of the cast includes Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. It’s refreshing to see a surprise appearance of Michael Keaton, who is not on the cast list yet. 

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Spotlight on the Horrifying “Brahms: The Boy II” Trailers and Poster

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horrifying look at a boy who befriends a doll, Brahms: The Boy II

Directed by William Brent Bell, Brahms: The Boy II brings a frightful look at the unaware and terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion. The story follows a young family just moving into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

Bell directed the first Brahms movie. An excellent cast includes Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson.

The studio calls this the final trailer, and it’s okay because it tells more about the story.

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Inspired by True Events “The Two Popes” Trailer and Clips

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Discussing the possibility of leaving the role of pope, we wonder who is actually the pope.

Directed by Fernando Meirelles, The Two Popes is an intimate story of one of the most dramatic shifts of power in the last 2,000 years. Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio, played by Jonathan Pryce, requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict, played by Anthony Hopkins. 

Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and the future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church. Behind Vatican walls, a struggle commences between tradition and progress, guilt and forgiveness, as these two very different men confront their pasts to find common ground and forge a future inspired by actual events for a billion followers around the world. 

The three clips with Hopkins and Pryce are no comparison. It’s incredible to watch these two work together and evidence as to why Pryce received a Golden Globe nomination.

Other Films by Fernando Meirelles:

The Constant Gardener

Blindness

City of God

Maids

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Young Cast Highlight “The New Mutants” Trailer

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Forming a strong group of young mutants, they go agains establishment.

Co-written and directed by Josh Boone, The New Mutants follow five young mutants who are just discovering their abilities. Yet, held in a secret facility against their will. They do everything in their power fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

Using their powers, the young mutants plan their escape

Knate Lee co-wrote the screenplay with Boone. Boone is best known for directing The Fault in Our Stars. The cast includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Antonio Banderas, and Charlie Heaton.

The trailer explains the story pretty well. 

Sidney Flanigan stars as Autumn in NEVER, RARELY, SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, a Focus Features release.

“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” Movie Trailer and Clips

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Written and directed by Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn, played by Sidney Flanigan, and her cousin Skylar, played by Talia Ryder, embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion.

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Talia Ryder stars as Skylar in NEVER, RARELY, SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features

Also starring in the movie is Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, and Sharon Van Etten.

The next two clips show extraordinary acting.

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Amazing and Exciting “Respect” Aretha Franklin Biopic

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Repect about the life of Aretha Franklin

Directed by Liesl Tommy and starring Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin, following the rise of her career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.

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(ctr) Marlon Wayans stars as Ted White and Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin.

The movie also stars Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Tate Donovan, Heather Headley, Skye Dakota Turner, and Mary J. Blige.

Unconditional Ski Challenge in “Downhill” Trailer, Clip, Poster

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Written by Jesse Armstrong and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Downhill stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Julian Grey,
Ammon Jacob Ford, and Kristofer Hivju.

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The movie is an adaptation of the 2014 Golden Globe-nominated Swedish film Force Majeure. Barely escaping an avalanche during a ski vacation in the Alps throws the seemingly picture-perfect family into disarray as they forced to reevaluate life and how they genuinely feel about each other.

The movie is available on disc formats as well as streaming.

Said Julia Louis-Dreyfus from the set: “(I’m) thrilled to have completed my first day of filming with Jim and Nat and Will Ferrell and my friends at Likely Story here in Austria; it’s all downhill from here.”

“Obviously, Searchlight is like family at this point,“ said directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. “We’re honored to be working with them for the third time. But, to also have our paths cross with Julia, and a fellow Groundling alum in Will makes this all the more special and exciting for us.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is fantastic in the next movie clip, and Ferrell plays off her so nicely.

I am not quite sure what is happening here in this scene, but I guess it is right before the avalanche.

“The Woman in the Window” Poster and Trailer

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Directed by Joe Wright, The Woman in the Window is a psychological suspense thriller with a stellar cast. But, don’t fall for the psychotropic drugs because the psychiatric industry labels a person, so Big Pharma can make money and ruin lives. If this woman, played by Amy Adams, were not on these drugs, she’d function just fine.

As the story goes, a child psychologist, Adams, befriends a neighbor, played by Julianne Moore, across the street from her New York City brownstone, only to see her own life turned upside down when the woman disappears, and she suspects foul play.

Tracy Letts’ screenplay based on the gripping, best-selling novel, brings to life, where shocking secrets revealed, and no one-and nothing-is what it seems.

Also starring is Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.