Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in ‘Secret in Their Eyes’
STX Entertainment is positioning Secret In Their Eyes for an early awards season release, slating the dramatic film to hit theaters on November 20, 2015. The new date, which is almost a month later than the film’s original planned release date, will put Secret In Their Eyes in front of moviegoers’ eyes the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Written and directed by Billy Ray, Secret In Their Eyes is adapted from Juan Jose Campanella’s Oscar-winning foreign language film and stars Nicole Kidman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Julia Roberts.
“Secret In Their Eyes is a smart, well-crafted crime thriller with a remarkable cast that has broad commercial appeal for adults,” stated Kevin Grayson, President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution for STX. “We launched the trailer over the July 4(th) weekend and have been thrilled with the response. We believe this is a time of year where our audience will be looking for quality films, and are pleased to give them this compelling date night thriller.”
The Plot:
After FBI investigator Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds the teenage daughter of his partner Jess (Julia Roberts) murdered in a brutal crime, they team with the District Attorney, Claire (Nicole Kidman), and make it their crusade to bring the murderer to justice. Their passion meets cold reality, however, when they realize the murderer is a protected witness in an ongoing terror investigation – they can only watch as he walks free.
After searching every day for 13 years, they uncover a surprising new lead that takes them on an intense pursuit of the elusive killer. No one is prepared, however, for the shocking, unspeakable secret that will reveal the enduring, destructive effects of grief and vengeance on the human soul. Interweaving past and present, The Secret In Their Eyes is a deeply layered mystery that explores the boundaries of justice, and asks the question, how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong?
Aldis Hodge and Alano Miller in ‘Underground’ (Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Television)
John Legend has come on board to executive produce WGN America’s thriller, Underground, created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski. Green and Pokaski wrote the series and will executive produce along with Akiva Goldsman, Tory Tunnell, Joby Harold, and Anthony Hemingway. In addition, Hemingway directed episodes one through four. Legend and his Get Lifted partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius will not only executive produce but will also handle all “music aspects” of Underground including the score and soundtrack.
Underground‘s cast features Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Christopher Meloni, Jessica De Gouw, and Alano Miller.
“We are excited to join forces with WGN America and Sony and the talented team of writers and producers on this powerful project that we believe will inspire us all,” said Legend. “This series has a unique opportunity to speak to the passion and courage of those who risked it all as they raced to freedom. We are honored to bring our creative vision to this thrilling project.”
“Underground depicts a raw and revolutionary chapter in the American story. We wanted an artist who could help us find the light through the darkness, and John Legend was a perfect fit,” said Misha Green and Joe Pokaski. “We are beyond excited to be working with John, Mike, and Ty at Get Lifted. They stand without peer at the intersection of music and television – we couldn’t think of better producing partners.”
Filming is currently underway in Baton Rouge, LA. WGN America is aiming for a 2016 premiere.
Details on Underground, Courtesy of WGN America:
In the gripping, original series Underground, bravery, ingenuity and power take center stage as plantation slaves band together in the fight of their lives for their families, their future…and most importantly, their freedom.
Aldis Hodge is Noah, a restless slave who organizes a small team of fellow slaves on the Macon plantation to plan an escape. Jurnee Smollett-Bell plays Rosalee, a shy house slave with a powerful inner strength and courage. Christopher Meloni is August Pullman, a secretive man who walks a tightrope between morality and survival. Alano Miller as Cato, a cunning, charismatic man despised and feared by his fellow slaves. Jessica de Gouw is Elizabeth Hawkes, a socialite who shares the abolitionist ideals of her husband, John (Marc Blucas), a lawyer whose principles clash with the legislation he’s sworn to uphold.
Elizabeth Rodriguez as Liza and Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ (Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3 / AMC)
AMC provided a peak inside the new zombie apocalypse series Fear the Walking Dead at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, bringing the cast and executive producers down to the sold-out fan fest to show off the first full-length trailer and to answer questions about The Walking Dead spin-off. Fear the Walking Dead takes place in the time period immediately before and during the days when Sheriff Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead was in a coma. Fear the Walking Dead focuses on the start of the outbreak and how ordinary people reacted to the bizarre notion that zombies were not only real but also killing off the human population.
Teamed up for roundtable interviews, executive producer Greg Nicotero and actors Lorenzo James Henrie (‘Chris’) and Elizabeth Rodriguez (‘Liza’) discussed the freedom of being able to create a world that doesn’t exist in the comic books.
Greg Nicotero, Lorenzo James Henrie, and Elizabeth Rodriguez Roundtable Interview:
What sets this apart from The Walking Dead is it’s the early days of the outbreak. What’s exciting about telling this part of the story?
Lorenzo James Henrie: “I think what’s most exciting is you get to really take a chance of in The Walking Dead, the coma happens and you wonder what happened while that was taking place, so you really get to discover with this family what’s going on. And the audience knows so it’s exciting to watch that journey with them. It’s like a Hitchcock movie.”
Greg Nicotero: “Listen, a lot of people talk about the show and they’re like, ‘It’s a slow burn.’ When you have anything like this where the audience knows more than the characters, watching them make the right decisions and the wrong decisions, it’s like, ‘What are you doing?! Why would you go near that guy? Why would you let that happen?'”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “It’s exciting in a different way. Yeah, there’s going to be a lot of people yelling at their televisions.”
Greg Nicotero: “AMC should put microphones in the TVs so they can record them.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “‘Don’t! No! Bad idea.'”
Greg Nicotero: “We should totally do that.”
Is this stage of the epidemic a different animal for you, Greg?
Greg Nicotero: “Absolutely, and that was done by design. Even when we did the first round of makeup tests, I was being a little more bold with what the zombies should look like, and Robert [Kirkman] and Dave [Erickson] said, ‘No, man. Imagine this. It’s like Amy in season one. When Amy dies in Andrea’s arms and her eyes open up. You still sense a humanity in her face.’ It’s one of the most beautiful scenes we’ve shot in six years of her cradling her sister and the eyes open and you’re like, ‘Maybe this is the one time when they’re not going to turn.’ And it’s like a newborn baby…she just tries to weakly lift herself up and bite her.
We used that really as a really good guide for our freshly turned, but that was the intent right out of the gate. You’re not going to look and go, ‘Oh my God, there’s something wrong with that person. They don’t look right.’ It’s gotta be like, ‘Hmm…,’ you just see it in a crowd. Even in the trailer, you can see just like the shot of a homeless guy standing in a park walking a little slowly. There were a couple scenes that were written that ended up being put aside for probably a future draft or future episodes that were just fantastic. We just couldn’t find time to shoot them all. Just something as easy as somebody seeing a baby in the back of a car and being like, ‘Oh my God, someone left a baby.’ Stuff like that and how different that would be if you realized.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “That somebody knows and the people in the car don’t. The parents don’t. Which is one of the things that all of us struggle with in this world. At one level are they still our friend, our family, our parent? Who are these people? You have histories. It’s not clear that they’re not humans.”
Is there an intense paranoia in an urban situation?
Greg Nicotero: “Well, when we were prepping the pilot, Adam Davidson, the director, and I talked about Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a really great blueprint for just changing camera angles where the first part is shot with traditional angles and then things start getting a little more dramatic in terms of even how you’re shooting things, building that paranoia, and the idea that the people that are next to you aren’t who they were or who they appear to be. So we’ve played up that aspect of it quite a bit.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “But in the story, it’s first accepting that. Who accepts that? Who’s in denial? What does that take away from us in having to make decisions. And so because we don’t have the rules, it’s not black and white. So, along the way you see us have to compromise and change our values. I think we lose a part of who you are. You’re constantly reinventing yourself only because you have to, because of the choices you have to make to survive. So it’s really beautiful. We do a lot of that in this. I think the fans are going to connect with those questions.”
Things that make you a decent person in one world.
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “Well, you think so but you see us, you see the devastation. When you have values and you put against life or death and all of a sudden you have to make a choice, and then you’re not that person you were two seconds ago, are you? So I can’t imagine that a piece of who you think you are, who you were for this long, doesn’t die. Then, there’s another one. A character says to me at some point, ‘You have to make choices between bad choices and worse choices. What’s it gonna be?’ There’s no good choices. No choice you make, you’re going to be left with, ‘Well, that was good. I feel good about myself.'”
Is the completely blank page exciting?
Lorenzo James Henrie: “Yeah, yeah. I mean, it is different from the comic book element because it’s so focused and grounded in story that you really can dive into each one of the character’s arcs and just explore each one of those elements.”
Greg Nicotero: “The trick too is that our actors on Walking Dead are like, ‘Well, I know how I die in the comic book. Am I going to die in the same way on the show?’ And we try to keep that evolving and changing. Herschel didn’t die the way he died in the comic book. So, it is interesting when we’re shooting the comic book because characters that are cast know, ‘Oh, I know how I die. I know when I die,’ and then when we change it up. But having the blank page is the undiscovered country. It’s the uncharted worlds where we can go wherever. That’s very exciting.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “I have to say that as we were getting the scripts, we would get two scripts at a time. It would be 11pm on a Saturday and you’d be like, ‘Oh, I’ll read it tomorrow,’ and you couldn’t. You couldn’t sleep.”
Lorenzo James Henrie: “No, you’d read it that night.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “And we literally would call, I spent a lot of time late calling like, ‘Oh my God, I cannot believe what you have to do. I’m so jealous.’ And then he’d be like, ‘Oh please, you’re doing this and doing that.’ Like literally genuine excitement and jealousy of what other people had to play and live through.”
Greg Nicotero: “The good thing is we give great things for everybody to do.”
Lorenzo James Henrie: “Everyone gets a good chunk of meat.”
Greg Nicotero: “No pun intended.”
How is it filming in Los Angeles? Is it harder to keep the storylines balanced in LA?
Greg Nicotero: “Well, I don’t know. I don’t know about that because in Georgia, we’re on a location every day. People know where we are. People drive up. They watch us film every day. There’s guys with telephoto lenses that take pictures of everything we do. I’ll walk on set and by the time I get home, there’s pictures of me on set from that day covered with fake blood going, ‘Looks like somebody must’ve died today because Greg had blood on him.’ So there are people that just watch everything we do. There’s an anonymity to Fear right now which I think benefits the show.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “And also working in LA, there’s so many productions.”
Greg Nicotero: “People don’t care in LA. They’re like, ‘Oh, shooting another f***ing movie.'”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “They’re, ‘This street is closed? My parking.'”
You’re also shooting in Vancouver.
Greg Nicotero: “We shot the pilot in LA and then we shot the other five episodes in Vancouver, and then we’re doing pickups right now. We’re shooting.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “We’re doing all the exteriors so that we’re still keeping all of what LA, the elements of LA that are in it, will still be LA.”
Greg Nicotero: “It’s challenging and once the show airs, then people know who these characters are and it’ll be a little…”
Lorenzo James Henrie: “It wasn’t too crazy down in Vancouver.”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “We try to have a different name. We’re not like, ‘Fear the Walking Dead, make a left!’ Fans will find things, but it’s not at that level yet. Also, I was joking about I’m going to have to spend a lot more money taking Uber when I get back to New York after this airs. There’ll be no more subways for me. It’s going to have to be wigs and Ubers.”
Do you think about the level of fame that happened to The Walking Dead that’s potentially on your doorstep?
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “I don’t think about that. I think about the work. Everything else is outside of your control. You can’t ever prepare yourself for it, other than the Uber. That’s about as much, and I did that yesterday.”
Lorenzo James Henrie: “No, I think it’s part of the job. You’re expected to do all that stuff. But for me, I grew up with a brother that was in a pretty big series so I kind of was behind the scenes my whole life. I’ve seen it and I think it was good for me to see that before, if that happens. I don’t expect it to.”
Greg Nicotero: “It’s tricky. I’m with the guys every day. I’m with Andy [Lincoln] and Norman [Reedus]. We were in the pool, Andy and I were in the pool in the hotel and there were people videotaping us playing with my kids. I went over to the person. We don’t want our children up on the internet. We need some privacy. So I would just go and say, ‘Hey guys, do you mind not posting that?’ We were sitting in the hot tub and there’s a guy behind me in the hot tub like this. And I was like, ‘Dude, do you mind not?’ Then you feel like a jerk. I’m a fan too and I love fans and I love being part of it, but it does change your world. I love when people approach me. They come up and they love the show, they love my work. They’re very sweet and respectful, but it does change things. It just makes it challenging.”
Lorenzo James Henrie: “The best is at the airport when you’re waiting in line and someone is just recording you. You’re eating something…”
Elizabeth Rodriguez: “Lorenzo did a beautiful moment right before we finished Vancouver where there was a fan outside the hotel. He was like, ‘You guys! I had my first fan moment. I signed an autograph, I took a picture.’ It was so beautiful and look at him, right? So I was like, ‘Oh, that’s so good.’ But I’ve been like, ‘Let me tell you something, if you start changing and letting this get beyond who you are right now, I’m going to have to take you away and shock it out of you absolutely.’ Because that’s the thing you don’t want, for it to change and it become about an ego and you abuse that. But it was so exciting. He got to the hair and makeup. He was like, ‘Guess what just happened?’ You can never have that again, you know?”
The cast of ‘Spotlight’ (Photo Courtesy of Open Road Films)
Open Road Films has unveiled the first trailer for the dramatic movie Spotlight starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, Brian D’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, and Billy Crudup. The film is based on a true story of abuse in the Catholic Church and was directed by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor). McCarthy also co-wrote the script with Josh Singer (Fringe, The Fifth Estate).
Spotlight will hit theaters on November 6, 2015.
The Plot:
Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
Directed by Academy Award-nominee Thomas McCarthy, Spotlight is a tense investigative thriller tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.
Amadeus Serafini and Willa Fitzgerald in MTV’s ‘Scream’
MTV wants more of Scream, the horror series inspired by the movie franchise. The network announced they’ve ordered a second season of the series which has been generating big ratings and lots of interest on social media. According to MTV, 21 million people have checked out the show from executive producers Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jill Blotevogel, and Jaime Paglia. Wes Craven, Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley, Marianne Maddalena and Cathy Konrad are also involved as executive producers.
“It has been a wonderful experience working with Bob Weinstein and his team who are such connoisseurs of this genre and we are thrilled by how our viewers have responded to the reinvention of Scream. We look forward to another season filled with suspense, horror and more twists and turns,” stated MTV Executive Vice President of Series Development and Head of Scripted Programming, Mina Lefevre.
“We couldn’t be happier Scream has been renewed for a second season and that we have a wonderful working relationship with Doug Herzog, Stephen Friedman, Susanne Daniels, Mina Lefevre and her team,” said Bob Weinstein. “The Scream franchise has been such a huge part of our history and to watch it evolve, find a new generation of fans and succeed at MTV makes this all the more sweet. We promise even more scares, surprises, romance and of course kills in season two.”
The cast of season one includes Willa Fitzgerald, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Carlson Young, Amadeus Serafini, John Karna, Connor Weil, Tracy Middendorf, and Jason Wiles. Bella Thorne played the first murder victim, dying within the first eight minutes of episode one.
Warner Bros Pictures has released the official trailer for The 33, based on the incredible true story of 33 men trapped deep underground for 69 days in a Chilean mine. According to the studio, the film was shot with the cooperation of the actual miners and is based on the book Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar and Jose Rivera’s screen story. The cast is led by Antonio Banderas and includes Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bob Gunton and Gabriel Byrne.
Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon, Girl in Progess) directed the dramatic thriller which was shot in Chile’s Atacama desert near where the actual disaster took place.
The 33 opens in theaters on November 13, 2015.
The Plot:
In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope. But 200 stories beneath the surface, in the suffocating heat and with tensions rising, provisions—and time—were quickly running out.
A story of resilience, personal transformation and triumph of the human spirit, the film takes us to the Earth’s darkest depths, revealing the psyches of the men trapped in the mine, and depicting the courage of both the miners and their families who refused to give up.
Abigail Breslin is a huge fan of horror movies and when the opportunity arose to join the cast of Fox’s Scream Queens from American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy, Breslin knew she’d found the perfect TV series to be a part of. Breslin keeps busy with work in feature films, however during our roundtable interview at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, Breslin talked about why she was willing to commit to a series.
“I have thought about it because I feel like TV is so strong right now, especially, and I feel like there are so many good things going on television-wise. But I knew that I wanted to do something that would be the right thing and something that I would feel really happy about doing and a character that I felt I could play all the way through,” explained Breslin. “And so, when I got the call that Ryan [Murphy] wanted to meet with me about a TV show I was immediately, ‘Okay, this is the person that I want to work with.’ I’m a huge fan of his; I’m a huge fan of American Horror Story anyway.”
“When I met with him he was just like talking to me for an hour just about nothing, and I was just telling him about my friends, my life. He’s like, ‘Hey, I’m doing this show called Scream Queens. What kind of character do you want to play?’ I was like, ‘I want to play a mean girl because I’ve never done that before.’ He was like, ‘There’s a group of girls called the Chanels and you can be Chanel #5.’ I was like, ‘Okay, cool,’ and then the meeting was over and I was like, ‘Wait. I don’t know if that went well.’ We barely spoke about it. And so once I got the call saying, ‘You’re coming to New Orleans. You’re doing the show,’ and I was like, ‘Yes!'”
Self-professed horror movie fanatic Breslin went on to explain what sets Scream Queens apart: “I am one of those people who will watch something and then get angry about it if it’s not right. I’m intense, so I can totally relate. That’s what I love about this is I feel like horror and comedy are both genres that have super, super strong followings and super strong fan bases. It’s kind of cool that we have…it’s a perfect mixture of both on our show and so I feel like a lot of different people can relate to it and get into it.”
The series also offers Breslin a chance to play a mean girl, something she loved being able to sink her teeth into. “I’m Chanel so I’m in KAPPA. I’m one of Emma’s minions. I play Chanel #5, and so she is horrified that the new pledges are being let in. She’s a little bit crazy, a little bit intense,” explained Breslin. “It’s been really fun to play her. I’ve never gotten to play a mean girl, so that was something I was really excited about doing.”
Breslin also appreciated the fact the show keeps the audience – and, actually, the actors – guessing as to who is the killer. “I think that that’s kind of the reason that the show is so interesting is because no one knows who the killer is and everybody has a reason why they could be the killer, and everyone has a reason why they couldn’t be. For me, I’m reading the script and I’ll be like, ‘Hmm, okay, maybe she’s doing this.’ And then I flip the page and like, ‘No, she couldn’t, because that.’ And then I’m like, ‘But wait…she could.’ It’s crazy. The way that they’ve written it is so smart in the sense that you really don’t know. You’re thrown off completely all the time and it’s been fun to play with,” said Breslin.
It’s also been fun to hang around with her fellow Scream Queens cast members. “I think that it’s interesting because people are like, ‘Would you ever join a sorority?’ And it’s like, ‘No,’ but I kind of feel like this is kind of – I’m not in college right now because I’m working and so I feel like I’m having the college experience and we’re all kind of sorority sisters. It sounds lame, but it’s true,” said Breslin, laughing. “We’ve just all become really close. Mostly our conversations are about boys and drama and friends.”
The series also gives Breslin the opportunity to work with Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis, an actress who knows her way around the genre. Asked what it’s been like to work with Curtis, Breslin replied, “You know, it’s always intimidating when you go to work with somebody you’ve always seen in films and you’ve looked up to and admired. It’s definitely nerve-wracking, but she is just the coolest, chillest person. She’s just so nice. She’s always giving us little gifts and writing us little notes. She’s so chill. She really wrangled us and takes care of us, and it’s really nice.”
Syfy is revving up Blood Drive, a new grindhouse genre series from executive producers John Hlavin and David Straiton. Syfy and Universal Cable Productions just announced the series and revealed it will consist of 13 episodes.
“This highly stylized roller coaster ride is a throwback to 1970s grindhouse cinema. With its fast-paced thrills and indie feel, Blood Drive will make an exciting and edgy addition to Syfy’s growing slate of original scripted series,” stated Syfy and Chiller President Dave Howe.
“The grindhouse cinema style remains largely untapped in television. The combination of gritty action and dark humor can push the envelope in some fun and unexpected ways,” stated Jeff Wachtel, Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and President, Universal Cable Productions. “Blood Drive has all these elements and more. We’re excited to partner with John Hlavin and David Straiton to bring this cool, action-packed series to life.”
In addition to executive producing, Straiton (Bates Motel, Hemlock Grove) will direct the series. The pilot was written by James Roland.
The Plot: “Set in a near-apocalyptic future, the 13-episode series centers around LA’s last good cop who is forced to join a twisted, gory cross-country death race — with cars powered by blood and a dangerous femme fatale partner who sees people as fuel.”
Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff and Bailey Chase star in ‘Longmire’ (Photo by Cathy Kanavy / Copyright 2013 / A&E)
Netflix revived Longmire for a fourth season following its cancellation on A&E and now we know when we’ll get to see the new season. The streaming network confirmed Longmire, starring Robert Taylor, Bailey Chase, Katee Sackhoff, and Lou Diamond Phillips, will arrive on September 10, 2015.
The ten new episodes will also feature Cassidy Freeman and Adam Bartley, with Gerald McRaney and Ally Walker guest starring.
The Plot: “Based on the novels by bestselling author Craig Johnson, the fourth season premiere of Longmire picks up moments after season three’s exciting finale. Walt Longmire (Taylor), having found out who was behind the murder of his wife, succumbs to his darker impulses and takes off in pursuit of the killer with murder on his mind. Meanwhile, Branch Connally (Chase), the deputy who Walt fired for erratic, violent behavior, believes he has already figured out who the real culprit is. But during his confrontation with this suspected killer, a gun goes off. Now the audience will finally learn what happened, and whether Walt can be stopped before he makes a fatal choice.”
Netflix also announced Aziz Ansari’s Master of None will be available to subscribers beginning November 6, 2015. Ansari co-created the series with Alan Yang and stars in the comedy alongside H. Jon Benjamin, Eric Wareheim, Lena Waithe, Noel Wells, and Kelvin Yu.
The Plot: “Based on the comedic viewpoints of Aziz Ansari, the show follows the personal and professional lives of Dev (Ansari), a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and both sweeping in scope and intensely personal, Dev’s story takes him through subjects as diverse as the plight of the elderly, the immigrant experience, and how to find the most delicious pasta for dinner.”
In other news, Netflix hasn’t yet given a premiere date to With Bob and David, the four-episode comedy starring Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, or to Marvel’s Jessica Jones starring Krysten Ritter and David Tennant. However, we can expect to see those two shows along with Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas starring Bill Murray sometime in the fourth quarter of 2015.
So what if it’s a little early to be thinking about Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other winter holiday you choose to celebrate? Sony Pictures apparently wants to put us all in the holiday mood with a restricted trailer for the bro-centric comedy The Night Before. Directed by Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies, 50/50) from a screenplay he wrote with Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir, The Night Before finds 50/50 co-stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen teaming up with Anthony Mackie to play three BFFs who are allowed out for one final wild Christmas night of partying before they have to move on with their adult lives and family responsibilities.
The cast also includes Lizzy Caplan, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, and Mindy Kaling.
The Night Before opens in theaters on November 25, 2015.
The Plot:
Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they’re entering adulthood, the tradition is coming to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracka Ball – the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.
