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Following its successful summer box office run, writer-director Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives debuts on Blu-ray + Digital and DVD in September from A24 and Lionsgate. The Blu-ray and DVD features include audio commentary with Song, Lee and Yoo; the featurette Bound by Fate: Exploring Past Lives” and deleted scenes.
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Ladies who raunch are having the times of their lives thanks to the perverted minds of writer/director Adele Lim who takes an “ if you can’t beat ‘em, join ’em” foray into the usually all male unapologetically explicit R rated comedy. But Joy Ride isn’t a one-way trip. Lim brings the venture full circle as the ladies explore not just their sexuality, but stereotypes, friendship and belonging — and learning how to appreciate who they are. Joy Ride is full throttle and full frontal and just when you think it’s an irreverent comedy on cruise control, it turns down the road to redemption with sparks of subtle social commentary and soul.
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New Jersey has a stellar, and very important role in history of American film, particularly as it relates to female filmmakers. In 1912, Alice Guy-Blanché, the first female director in history, opened Solex Studios, one of the most successful studios in early American film, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Now two producers, Molly Conners and Jane Sinisi, have opened Phiphen Studios in Englewood Cliff. Their goal is to support and and be part of expanding the ever-growing New Jersey film community, which saw an increase in investment from $70 million in 2017 to over a half billion dollars just two years later in 2019.
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The whole time you are watching this movie you have the feeling you’ve seen it before. Escape the Field is light on scares and thin on character development while being heavy on mediocre dialogue and choppy editing, but the mostly unknown cast is somewhat likable and at only 88 minutes, it’s an interesting enough brain teaser,
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Abby Ryder Fortson, the 12-year-old actor best-known for her scene-stealing performances in Marvel’s “Ant-Man” movies, will play Margaret Simon and Rachel McAdams, an Academy Award nominee for the 2015 film “Spotlight,” will play Margaret’s mother, Barbara, in Lionsgate’s highly anticipated adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
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Academy Award winner Halle Berry has closed a deal to star in the female lead role for director, screenwriter and producer Roland Emmerich’s forthcoming science fiction epic Moonfall for Lionsgate.
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Novelist Suzanne Collins’ will release “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake” on May 19. It’s the prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy, and is being adapted into a feature film at Lionsgate
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Blockers helmer Kay Cannon is set to direct the treasure hunting comedy 79ers.. To be produced by Lionsgate, Point Grey and Gary Sanchez, the film follows a group of estranged friends are forced back together after 20 years to complete a treasure hunt they tried as misfit teens, but never completed.
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Courtney Kemp, the creator of Starz’s crime drama Power, has signed what has been deemed as a “one-of-a-kind” agreement with the premium cable channel’s parent company, Lionsgate. The development and production deal offers Kemp and her End of Episode shingle the opportunity to expand the Power franchise with potential spinoffs among a number of commitments by Starz.
Read moreMy recent marathon re-watch of Matthew Weiner’s smartly conceived and beautifully realized Mad Men series turned into a provocation to
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