film news of the week: apr 14-20

breaking news

  • THE LAST OF US SEASON 2 premiere DREW OVER 5.3 MILLION VIEWERS IN THE US, UP 10% FROM SEASON 1 DEBUT
  • a clueless SEQUEL SERIES IS IN THE WORKS AT PEACOCK. ALICIA SILVERSTONE IS SET TO RETURN.
  • sinners IS ON TRACK FOR A $40-50M DOMESTIC DEBUT. IT COULD SURPASS JORDAN PEELE’S ‘NOPE’ ($44.3M) AS THE BIGGEST OPENING FOR AN ORIGINAL FILM POST-COVID.

upcoming projects

HALLE BAILEY AND HAVANA ROSE LIU JOIN JULIANNE MOORE AND PAUL GIAMATTI IN JESSE EISENBERG’S UNTITLED MUSICAL COMEDY FOR A24

JESSICA CHASTAIN TO STAR IN HORROR FILM ‘INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE’ FROM ‘HOST’ DIRECTOR ROB SAVAGE.

SANDRA HÜLLER AND COLMAN DOMINGO TO STAR IN GORAN STOLEVSKI’S SATIRICAL DRAMA ‘TRUE-ISH.’

EMMA D’ARCY HAS JOINED ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU’S NEXT FILM STARRING TOM CRUISE, SANDRA HÜLLER, RIZ AHMED, SOPHIE WILDE AND JESSE PLEMONS

GIANCARLO ESPOSITO, TIFFANY BOONE, TRAMELL TILLMAN, JOHN CHO, ABUBAKR ALI, JAHLEEL KAMARA, ADIA AND LAITH NAKLI JOIN MAHERSHALA ALI IN ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’ FROM BASSAM TARIQ

MICHAEL EALY HAS BEEN CAST AS MALCOLM X IN ‘THE GREATEST’, A LIMITED SERIES ABOUT THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD ALI.

BRITT LOWER AND DAVID DASTMALCHIAN TO STAR IN PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR ‘SENDER’ FROM RUSSELL GOLDMAN

LINDSAY LOHAN IS SET TO HEADLINE AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE ‘COUNT MY LIES’ FOR HULU. 

LUCY HALE TO STAR IN NETFLIX SERIES ADAPTATION OF CAITE DOLAN-LEACH’S ‘DEAD LETTERS’ WITH ALEX COOPER PRODUCING

PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS JOINS ZAC EFRON, WILL FERRELL AND REGINA HALL IN NICHOLAS STOLLER’S UNTITLED COMEDY FOR AMAZON MGM.

NICHOLAS GALITZINE AND BILL SKARSGÅRD TO STAR IN NETFLIX’S ‘MOSQUITO BOWL’ FROM DIRECTOR PETER BERG.

ELIZABETH OLSEN, CRISTIN MILIOTI, ODESSA YOUNG, ZOË WINTERS, CAROLYN KETTIG, MEREDITH HAGNER, AND BRIDGET BROWN TO STAR as the sisters IN ‘SEVEN SISTERS’

rotten tomatoes scores:

THE WEDDING BANQUET: 95%

SINNERS: 99%

NICOLA COUGHLAN

HAS RAISED OVER £70,000 FOR ‘NOT A PHASE’, A CHARITY COMMITTED TO UPLIFTING AND IMPROVING THE LIVES OF TRANS PEOPLE ACROSS THE UK.

“IF YOU ARE A CISGENDER PERSON WHO IS AN ALLY OF A TRANS PERSON, I THINK NOW IS THE TIME TO JUST SPEAK UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD AND LET YOUR TRANS AND NON-BINARY FRIENDS AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE KNOW THAT YOU ARE THERE FOR THEM AND WILLKEEP FIGHTING FOR THEM.”

digital releases

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH (2025)
directed by: justin kurzel
Starring: Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young, Ciarán Hinds
genre: romance, war

THE WOMAN IN THE YARD (2025)
directed by: JAUME COLLET-SERRA
STARRING: DANIELLE DEADWYLER, OKWUI OKPOKWASILI, PEYTON JACKSON
GENRE: SUPERNATURAL HORROR

special release:

NO OTHER LAND IS NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT AT NOOTHERLAND.COM

ALL PROCEEDS WILL SUPPORT THE MASAFER YATTA COMMUNITIES FEATURED IN THE DOC, INCLUDING SUPPORT TO FAMILIES ATTACKED BY SETTLERS AND THE FUNDING OF CLASSES TO GROW THE NEXT GENERATION OF LOCAL STORYTELLERS.

movie releases

sinners

DIRECTED BY: RYAN COOGLER

STARRING: MICHAEL B. JORDAN, WUNMI MOSAKU, HAILEE STEINFELD

SYNOPSIS: TRYING TO LEAVE THEIR TROUBLED LIVES BEHIND, TWIN BROTHERS RETURN TO THEIR HOMETOWN TO START AGAIN, ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT AN EVEN GREATER EVIL IS WAITING TO WELCOME THEM BACK.

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the wedding banquet

DIRECTED BY: ANDREW AHN

STARRING: BOWEN YANG, HAN GI-CHAN, LILY GLADSTONE, KELLY MARIE TRAN

GENRE: FEEL-GOOD ROMANCE

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new looks

emma stone in ‘eddington’, benedict cumberbatch and olivia colman in ‘the roses’, logan lerman and molly gordon in ‘oh, hi’, a new look of ‘him’, dakota johnson in ‘materialists’, pedro pascal for ‘mandalorian and grogu’

new posters

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