There’s a new film on the horizon that everybody is sure to be talking about in a few months. But you’re ahead of the curve, which is why you’re reading about it now. The film is called Sanctuary, and it’s a thriller starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, two definite rising stars in the acting world. The movie, which wrapped production in New York, is directed by Zachary Wigon, who also made 2014’s the Heart Machine.

The story, which was written by Micah Bloomberg, co-creator of Amazon’s Homecoming, unfolds over a single evening, telling the story of a dominatrix (Qualley) and her rich client Hal (Abbott). Hal attempts to cut ties with his mistress after the death of his father and his soon-to-be inheritance of his late father’s vast fortune, but it doesn’t exactly go according to plan.

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As far as the cast goes, you probably recognize Qualley from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, or maybe from HBO’s The Leftovers. Meanwhile, Abbott is most known for playing Charlie in HBO’s Lena Dunham-directed Girls as well as several Broadway roles.

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With this cast and this story, Sanctuary is almost sure to be a movie worth keeping an eye on. No release date has been announced yet.

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Anna Kendrick: you know her, you love her, and you’ll probably watch everything she’s ever in, like the Pitch Perfect series, A Simple Favor, and Into the Woods.

Well, now, you’re in luck because it’s just been announced that Kendrick is working on a new movie. It’s a psychological thriller called Alice, Darling, and people are pretty excited about it. So what do we know so far about this film?

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It’ll be directed by first-timer Mary Nighy and tell the story of Alice, played by Kendrick, a woman who is keeping secrets from the people in her life, including her boyfriend (played by Charlie Carrick) and her two best friends (played by Wunmi Mosaku and Kaniehtiio Horn). Then, Alice and her two best friends go on a trip out of town and stuff hits the fan. Secrets get revealed, a local girl goes missing, and Alice’s boyfriend shows up unannounced.

The film was written by Alanna Francis and is being produced by Babe Nation Films, Elevation Pictures, and Castelletto Films. Director Nighy said, “Alice, Darling is a subtle, nuanced story about coercion and control. As a director, I couldn’t wish for a better cast of talented actors and creatives to bring this important story to life. The chemistry between Anna Kendrick, Wunmi Mosaku, and Kaniehtiio Horn as the three friends is a joy to see.”

Sound exciting? We think so, too.

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If you were on the internet in 2015, you were probably as captivated as the rest of the world by a viral Twitter thread made by Aziah “Zola” Wells about her falling out with an ex-friend “Jessica,” which spanned 148 tweets and captured the attention of millions.

So it’s no surprise that the wild story that unfolded in real-time on Twitter, engaging, entertaining, and outraging people as it went along, was adapted into a feature film that was just released called @zola.

Just like the Twitter thread, Zola, starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, tells the story of a waitress who gets caught up in a weekend of partying in Florida that turns into a wild, two-day adventure that would seem fake if you didn’t already know it was true.

Critics are loving the film, with Rolling Stone saying it “capitalizes not only on the viral nature of the original story but on the flashpoint of our specific tweet and app-addled, gig economized, bats**t moment.”

If you’re not yet convinced you want to watch it, you should know that the film is being distributed by A24, the company behind massive indie hits like Eighth Grade, Midsommar, The Farewell, Moonlight, and Lady Bird.

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With movie theaters across the country closed for the past few months, the film industry has experienced some significant changes over the past year. What people want to see and how they watch movies has shifted and these are the biggest film trends of 2020 so far.

Popularity of Action and Adventure Genres

Action and adventure have always been popular genres, but in 2020 people have been using them as a form of escape. Films like Bad Boys For Life, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Birds of Prey were big releases this year and they did well at box offices.

Women Making Female-Centric Films

At the end of 2019, we started seeing women made female-centric films like Little Women and Lady on Fire and 2020 began with Birds of Prey. Other female-centric films made by women to look forward to later this year include Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow, and Mulan.

Sequels and Remakes

Bad Boys For Life, Birds of Prey, Doolittle, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, and Emma have all been successful sequels or remakes. Fans can’t seem to get enough of the characters in these films and they’re dying to know what happens next.

Streaming

Due to theaters being closed, many movies have gone straight to streaming sites instead of playing in theaters first. More and more people are streaming films from Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Peacock, and Amazon Prime.

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Amidst all the racial injustice happening across the country, people are trying their best to re-examine their way of life and what they can do to make the world a better, safer place for all. Like the rest of the world, the entertainment industry is trying to do their part in supporting the Black Lives Matter moment and it starts from the messages portrayed in the media regarding social equality and the role of law enforcement. It comes as no surprise that many people’s view of the way society is supposed to function and the way the world works comes from the portrayal of people of color and cops in television and movies, and a lot of times they are shown in heavily stereotyped, inaccurate ways that are just offensive.

One film that’s considered a classic and has won several Oscars including best picture, glorifies slavery and negative stereotypes of Black people, Gone With The Wind, has been removed from HBO this past week following protests over the death of George Floyd. The film was released in 1939 and tells the love story of southern aristocrats Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leight) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and it takes place in the American South on a plantation in the aftermath of the Civil War.

“Gone With The Wind is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible,” an HBO Max spokesperson told Variety. The film is set to eventually return to the platform but with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of the racist portrayals.

But, it’s not just Old Hollywood films that have been affected by what’s going on around the country, Paramount Network has canceled the long-running television show Cops and Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and BritBox have removed Little Britain from their platforms. Cops debuted in 1989 on Fox and moved to Paramount Network (formally known as Spike TV) in 2013. Over the past few years, the show has been under fire for its depiction of law enforcement and what goes on behind the scenes. “‘Cops’ is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a Paramount Network spokesperson said in a statement.

The comedy series Little Britain and the comedians’ airports mockumentary Come Fly With Me were removed from networks after characters used blackface to portray different ethnic backgrounds. Star Matt Lucas regrets playing Black characters on the show, “I wouldn’t make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I’d do now,” he told Big Issue in 2017.

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Sony has just released an official poster and the new trailer for their upcoming movie Venom. Unlike the first trailer that came out, this one actually has Venom in it.

Check it out below and see Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock fighting the evil alien symbiote. Hardy’s character is a reporter on a mission to investigate the Life Foundation, its chief Carlton Drake and what they are doing with alien symbiotes.

The trailer reveals a lot of information about the plot, so keep that in mind if you are against any kind of spoilers. It also contains some comic book action and corporate intrigue. The movie can surely be classified as a psychological horror along with the action badge.

Venom is directed by Ruben Fleischer and stars, besides Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Scott Haze, Janny Slate, and Reid Scott.

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There’s a new film on the horizon that everybody is sure to be talking about in a few months. But you’re ahead of the curve, which is why you’re reading about it now. The film is called Sanctuary, and it’s a thriller starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, two definite rising stars in the acting world. The movie, which wrapped production in New York, is directed by Zachary Wigon, who also made 2014’s the Heart Machine.

The story, which was written by Micah Bloomberg, co-creator of Amazon’s Homecoming, unfolds over a single evening, telling the story of a dominatrix (Qualley) and her rich client Hal (Abbott). Hal attempts to cut ties with his mistress after the death of his father and his soon-to-be inheritance of his late father’s vast fortune, but it doesn’t exactly go according to plan.

View this post on Instagram

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As far as the cast goes, you probably recognize Qualley from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, or maybe from HBO’s The Leftovers. Meanwhile, Abbott is most known for playing Charlie in HBO’s Lena Dunham-directed Girls as well as several Broadway roles.

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With this cast and this story, Sanctuary is almost sure to be a movie worth keeping an eye on. No release date has been announced yet.

The post Here’s What We Know so far About the Upcoming “Sanctuary” Film appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

Anna Kendrick: you know her, you love her, and you’ll probably watch everything she’s ever in, like the Pitch Perfect series, A Simple Favor, and Into the Woods.

Well, now, you’re in luck because it’s just been announced that Kendrick is working on a new movie. It’s a psychological thriller called Alice, Darling, and people are pretty excited about it. So what do we know so far about this film?

View this post on Instagram

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It’ll be directed by first-timer Mary Nighy and tell the story of Alice, played by Kendrick, a woman who is keeping secrets from the people in her life, including her boyfriend (played by Charlie Carrick) and her two best friends (played by Wunmi Mosaku and Kaniehtiio Horn). Then, Alice and her two best friends go on a trip out of town and stuff hits the fan. Secrets get revealed, a local girl goes missing, and Alice’s boyfriend shows up unannounced.

The film was written by Alanna Francis and is being produced by Babe Nation Films, Elevation Pictures, and Castelletto Films. Director Nighy said, “Alice, Darling is a subtle, nuanced story about coercion and control. As a director, I couldn’t wish for a better cast of talented actors and creatives to bring this important story to life. The chemistry between Anna Kendrick, Wunmi Mosaku, and Kaniehtiio Horn as the three friends is a joy to see.”

Sound exciting? We think so, too.

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If you were on the internet in 2015, you were probably as captivated as the rest of the world by a viral Twitter thread made by Aziah “Zola” Wells about her falling out with an ex-friend “Jessica,” which spanned 148 tweets and captured the attention of millions.

So it’s no surprise that the wild story that unfolded in real-time on Twitter, engaging, entertaining, and outraging people as it went along, was adapted into a feature film that was just released called @zola.

Just like the Twitter thread, Zola, starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, tells the story of a waitress who gets caught up in a weekend of partying in Florida that turns into a wild, two-day adventure that would seem fake if you didn’t already know it was true.

Critics are loving the film, with Rolling Stone saying it “capitalizes not only on the viral nature of the original story but on the flashpoint of our specific tweet and app-addled, gig economized, bats**t moment.”

If you’re not yet convinced you want to watch it, you should know that the film is being distributed by A24, the company behind massive indie hits like Eighth Grade, Midsommar, The Farewell, Moonlight, and Lady Bird.

The post Yes, You Do Want to Watch This New Film Based on a Twitter Thread appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

With movie theaters across the country closed for the past few months, the film industry has experienced some significant changes over the past year. What people want to see and how they watch movies has shifted and these are the biggest film trends of 2020 so far.

Popularity of Action and Adventure Genres

Action and adventure have always been popular genres, but in 2020 people have been using them as a form of escape. Films like Bad Boys For Life, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Birds of Prey were big releases this year and they did well at box offices.

Women Making Female-Centric Films

At the end of 2019, we started seeing women made female-centric films like Little Women and Lady on Fire and 2020 began with Birds of Prey. Other female-centric films made by women to look forward to later this year include Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow, and Mulan.

Sequels and Remakes

Bad Boys For Life, Birds of Prey, Doolittle, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, and Emma have all been successful sequels or remakes. Fans can’t seem to get enough of the characters in these films and they’re dying to know what happens next.

Streaming

Due to theaters being closed, many movies have gone straight to streaming sites instead of playing in theaters first. More and more people are streaming films from Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Peacock, and Amazon Prime.

The post 2020’s Seen Some Huge Changes in the Film Industry appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

Amidst all the racial injustice happening across the country, people are trying their best to re-examine their way of life and what they can do to make the world a better, safer place for all. Like the rest of the world, the entertainment industry is trying to do their part in supporting the Black Lives Matter moment and it starts from the messages portrayed in the media regarding social equality and the role of law enforcement. It comes as no surprise that many people’s view of the way society is supposed to function and the way the world works comes from the portrayal of people of color and cops in television and movies, and a lot of times they are shown in heavily stereotyped, inaccurate ways that are just offensive.

One film that’s considered a classic and has won several Oscars including best picture, glorifies slavery and negative stereotypes of Black people, Gone With The Wind, has been removed from HBO this past week following protests over the death of George Floyd. The film was released in 1939 and tells the love story of southern aristocrats Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leight) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and it takes place in the American South on a plantation in the aftermath of the Civil War.

“Gone With The Wind is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible,” an HBO Max spokesperson told Variety. The film is set to eventually return to the platform but with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of the racist portrayals.

But, it’s not just Old Hollywood films that have been affected by what’s going on around the country, Paramount Network has canceled the long-running television show Cops and Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and BritBox have removed Little Britain from their platforms. Cops debuted in 1989 on Fox and moved to Paramount Network (formally known as Spike TV) in 2013. Over the past few years, the show has been under fire for its depiction of law enforcement and what goes on behind the scenes. “‘Cops’ is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a Paramount Network spokesperson said in a statement.

The comedy series Little Britain and the comedians’ airports mockumentary Come Fly With Me were removed from networks after characters used blackface to portray different ethnic backgrounds. Star Matt Lucas regrets playing Black characters on the show, “I wouldn’t make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I’d do now,” he told Big Issue in 2017.

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Sony has just released an official poster and the new trailer for their upcoming movie Venom. Unlike the first trailer that came out, this one actually has Venom in it.

Check it out below and see Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock fighting the evil alien symbiote. Hardy’s character is a reporter on a mission to investigate the Life Foundation, its chief Carlton Drake and what they are doing with alien symbiotes.

The trailer reveals a lot of information about the plot, so keep that in mind if you are against any kind of spoilers. It also contains some comic book action and corporate intrigue. The movie can surely be classified as a psychological horror along with the action badge.

Venom is directed by Ruben Fleischer and stars, besides Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Scott Haze, Janny Slate, and Reid Scott.

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