Available to rent on many streaming services – perfect during these warm days of summer 2020 – comes the film YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT.
In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room), Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
Check out the trailer now and rent the movie on June 19.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.
(from left) Susanna Conroy (Amanda Seyfried) and Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) in You Should Have Left, written and directed by David Koepp.
In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.
Kevin Bacon as Theo Conroy in You Should Have Left, written and directed by David Koepp.
Based on the novel by best-selling German literary sensation Daniel Kehlmann (Measuring the World), You Should Have Left is written and directed by David Koepp (Stir of Echoes). The film is produced by grandmaster of terror Jason Blum (The Purge and Halloween franchises), Kevin Bacon and Dean O’Toole (Walk Like a Panther), and is executive produced by Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Derek Ambrosi.
(forefront, from left) Kevin Bacon and writer/director David Koepp on the set of You Should Have Left.
Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal
Content Studios, are adapting Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade
into a television series for Whannell to direct.
The series, which Whannell co-created and will executive
produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter),
picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe
with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imaging a world in which the
government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity.
A writer’s room has commenced to write and adapt the series’
first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season
of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh.
The film, which Whannell wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure in the form of a computer chip implant called STEM. The implant provides its host with heightened physical abilities, allowing Grey to exact revenge on those responsible for his wife’s death. (review)
The film was produced for $5 million and grossed more than $16 million at the global box office. It was also the recipient of the 2018 SXSW Audience Award.
Leigh Whannell most recently directed The Invisible Man starring Elisabeth Moss for Blumhouse and Universal. The box office smash grossed over $122 million globally and is Certified Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes with a 91%.
Previously, he wrote the first three Saw films, co-creating the lucrative horror franchise with director James Wan. Whannell recently signed a first look deal with Blumhouse for both film and television, after successful collaborations with the studio on the Insidious franchise, Upgrade and The Invisible Man. The Upgrade series is the first project to be developed under that deal.
Jason Blum (Halloween, The Good Lord Bird) and Brian
Kavanaugh-Jones from Automatik will executive produce alongside Whannell and
Walsh. Whannell and Walsh co-created the series. The series is a co-production
between Blumhouse Television and UCP.
Blumhouse Television and UCP previously co-produced USA
Network’s The Purge series as well as the upcoming The Wilderness of Error for
FX.
Leigh Whannell is represented by CAA and Myman, Greenspan,
Fox, Rosenberg, Mobasser, Younger & Light.
Tim Walsh is represented by Paradigm and Pacific View
Management.
Focus Features will now release Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO in theaters on Friday, April 23, 2021 domestically in North America.
See Edgar Wright’s tweet about the release date change.
Wright tweeted, “Haunted by someone else’s past, but we’ll see you in the future… It’s true, #LastNightInSoho is not quite finished yet due to Covid 19. But, I’m excited for you all to experience it, at a big screen near you, on April 23, 2021.”
It has moved off of September 25, 2020. Universal Pictures International will release internationally.
About LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
The Edgar Wright directed, London-set psychological thriller stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Emma), Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Jo Jo Rabbit), Matt Smith (The Crown), Michael Ajao, Synnøve Karlsen, Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, and Rita Tushingham.
Edgar Wright and Penny Dreadful scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns co-wrote the screenplay, produced by Nira Park, Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Wright. Focus Features and Film4 co-financed the film.
John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.”
Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.
Warner Bros. Pictures is distributing “Tenet” worldwide and has slated the film for a July 17, 2020 release.
The international cast of “Tenet” also includes Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, with Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh. Nolan wrote and directed the film, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 70mm film to bring the story to the screen.
“Tenet” is produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan. Thomas Hayslip served as executive producer.
Nolan’s behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Jennifer Lame, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The score is composed by Ludwig Göransson.
“Tenet” was filmed on location across seven countries. Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production, a Film by Christopher Nolan, “Tenet.”
Forever is harder than it looks. Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Greg Rucka and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE & BASKETBALL, BEYOND THE LIGHTS), THE OLD GUARD is a gritty, grounded, action-packed story that shows living forever is harder than it looks. Coming to Netflix on July 10.
After global passionate fan calls to action and the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement, HBO Maxand Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that it will exclusively world premiere Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of the Warner Bros. Pictures/DC feature film Justice League in 2021.
Snyder surprised fans with the news this morning during a live online commentary of his film Man of Steel with Henry Cavill.
#ReleaseTheSnyderCut first became a passionate rallying social media cry among fans in 2017 and has not let up. From countless press articles and hundreds of thousands of social media mentions, it became a powerful global movement among cinephiles and comic book fans.
“I want to thank HBO Max and Warner Brothers for this brave gesture of supporting artists and allowing their true visions to be realized. Also a special thank you to all of those involved in the SnyderCut movement for making this a reality,” said Snyder.
“Since I got here 14 months ago, the chant to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut has been a daily drumbeat in our offices and inboxes. Well, the fans have asked, and we are thrilled to finally deliver. At the end of the day, it really is all about them and we are beyond excited to be able to release Zack’s ultimate vision for this film in 2021. This could never have happened if it weren’t for the hard work and combined efforts of the teams at HBO Max and Warner Bros. Pictures,” said Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, Warner Media Entertainment and Direct-To-Consumer.
“When Zack and Debbie shared the extraordinary vision of where Zack wanted to take Justice League, my team and our counterparts at Warner Bros. took it as a mission to solve the many issues that stood in the way,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer at HBO Max, President, TNT, TBS and truTV. “Thanks to the partnership at Warner Bros. and the relentless pursuit of the entire WarnerMax team we are able to deliver this incredibly exciting moment for Zack, the fans and HBO Max.”
“Thanks to the efforts of a lot people, we’re excited to bring fans this highly anticipated version of Justice League,” said Toby Emmerich, Chairman, Warner Bros. Pictures Group. “This feels like the right time to share Zack’s story, and HBO Max is the perfect platform for it. We’re glad the creative planets aligned, allowing us to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut.”
In Justice League, fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
The Justice League screenplay is by Chris Terrio, story by Chris Terrio & Zack Snyder, based on characters from DC, Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The film’s producers are Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, with executive producers Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Jim Rowe, Ben Affleck, Wesley Coller, Curtis Kanemoto, and Chris Terrio.
Below are the highlights from the watch party on Wednesday morning:
The filmmaker brought a pile of storyboards from the film.
Mentioned his love of Hans Zimmer’s opening cue and how “Kryptonian animals took notice of Kal’s birth” in his explanation of storyboards. “They are the bible of the movie.”
“Kryptonian Council wardrobe was inspired by original Planet of the Apes movie. Art nouveau was the theme for the set and spacecraft and architecture of council chamber.”
“Wanted to connect Jor-El the planet and ancient qualities with flying creature and the natural order.”
“Genesis chamber concept was based on the art of the culture – Russell Crowe was shot in a pool in Vancouver and was a physical set.”
“The moon was broken long ago by Doomsday – he could be brought into this cinematic universe and I liked the character. Have him involved in the movies, if there was movies and to plant some Easter Eggs – for later.”
“Finding Earth and knowledge prior was a way to plant notion that they knew of it. Chance that the codex is an ancient Krypton DNA with various levels of DNA could be stored. Visually symbolic of an organic thing and had a text of thousands of years of info – like an artifact of religious nature, like monks.”
“Lots of fertility symbols in Jor-El’s and Lara’s chambers. All armor costumes was CGI – couldn’t move well with physical costumes especially during fight between Zod and Jor-el. Guns were made by WETA. Joseph Campbell’s quote is on Superman’s costume. “And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
Snyder said it shows, “A hero’s journey and spiritual enlightenment and a cool way to think about the world and Superman’s journey.”
“There were talks about only speaking Kryptonian early on with subtitles on Krypton. Couldn’t be as immersive or accessible but had a Kryptonian alphabet early on.”
“Some of the set was real during Zod and followers banishment to the Phantom Zone. Some of the beautiful set was CGI. Super fun sequence to see ship go into the Phantom Zone.”
Snyder originally wanted the House of EL symbol or logo on the front of the ship for audiences to see as it came to Earth.
“We had cooperation with Dept. Of Defense and Coast Guard.” The scene when Clark is underwater, the helicopter shot was real and Snyder was in it during filming..
“Lot of out of focus shots – to flesh out details of this natural world in reference to Superman and notion of an alien living among us. His way in and a close connection for Superman.”
“Photographed Kent’s Farm near Batman’s house – physical connection and was inspired to be Wayne’s home. Iconic pickup truck that was seen in a movies. Pa Kent and Young Clark was shot over many days for lighting purposes. A beautiful scene between the two actors and iconic reveal of Jonathan letting Clark know he is Superman and the reveal of the ship hidden in the barn. “You are my son” is a powerful flashback and memory of Clark’s.”
“I loved the notion that Clark was hitchhiking in one scene – he knew that something was important was happening as he tries to make his way in the world.”
“Amy Adams was an awesome Lois Lane and was blessed to get her to play the part. Special person and friend.”
“Glacier face and tunnel was twenty feet down – cool physical set. 20,000 years ago Kryptonians landed – on the computer is the surface of Mars and thought about having Doctor Manhattan in the scene. Easter Egg from Watchmen movie.”
“Big sci-fi spaceship coming out of the ice was cool. Shot
Lois on the Glacier in a day and went on location.”
Daily Planet and Metropolis was shot in Chicago.
History lesson between Jor-El and Kal. A liquid history lesson that was state “sponsored showing the propaganda of the planet. Gave Crowe his reveal of the House of El on his chest/costume. “
“Superman still had codex inside so it’s possible to rebuild the destroyed Krypton – so in a way Zod was right in saying Kal has the power too. Ancestor of the House of El’s family black suit is different than the red and blue inclusive suit the public sees.”
Snyder says the “First flight concept with him jumping first and realizes his power – be amazing and knows his responsibility that comes with his power. His fist down scene and he knows what’s happening – and his first flight.”
Shot at Kent Farm over many days.
Spaceship coming out of the Phantom Zone – design of it is a nonstandard flying saucer.
Snyder said he liked the idea of Clark drinking a beer. “You are not alone” and POV shot by Kal. Had a 1950’s sci-fi classic invasion story.
“Clark grew up in Kansas and part of who he is culturally – symbolically and the philosophy book. Had aspirations. He has respect and believes in his father, and farming is noble. But his destiny lies beyond. Grapples with it in the church scene and conversation with the priest. What will he be asked and sacrifices and asked to give – gives himself to what will be morally right.”
“Floating Superman facing the army. And then ludicrous to be in handcuffs but he knows its right – the idea of it. He understands that it would make humans feel better. Moral dilemma.”
“Human characters around that are also heroes. Shot outdoor scenes at Edwards AFB.”
“Interesting first contact with a Kryptonian and the dropship. Found throughout the galaxy. Sci-fi docking port. It’s an invasion film in a lot of ways.”
“Shows Superman is vulnerable when he gets onto the ship – world engine. Shows Zod and crew watching how they got out of the Phantom Zone. Zod is a genius and is able to transport them to Earth and they discover the old outposts and dropships. They want to transform Earth into a new Krypton, into an alien world. Transforming earth and superman into one of Zod’s followers.”
“Smallville battle was fun to shoot – a fight between Kryptonians on Earth. Multi Jor-els as AI’s in scoutship was a favorite sequence.”
“Shows Lois to the escapepod was exciting with all the Jor-Els.”
Snyder said the “Superman iconic reference to a ‘Savior’ as he falls is a powerful.”
Shot the IHOP scenes partially in Vancouver and Illinois.
Some wire work some CGI – tricky on the day of the battle in
Smallville.
Iconic scene where Chris Meloni acknowledges that Superman “is our friend” is a favorite.
Process of terraforming and notion that the idea of what’s happens to humans is strong and real consequence and when they call Superman.
Deborah Snyder joined Zack Snyder in viewing room.
Fight between Zod and Superman for the survival of Earth. “Favorite Hans Zimmer music cue is the Superman theme – simple and emotional. The first few notes is so cool and iconic. We used it in Batman v Superman. You know its him and a way to reprise the emotion over the 2, potentially 3 movies.”
“Shot inside a hangar in a real cargo plane at Edwards AFB with Lois – a spaceship for real inside the plane. The real AF guys had to strap it down and they were in the scene. It was fun to hear how the plane really worked. The cockpit was a set.”
“The fly-in was one wires with the actors, Superman and Lois – no CGI. Very tricky.”
“Shannon was wearing a full CGI costume, even with the dirt in his hand and was complicated. Both said Shannon was very funny between takes and they were lucky to get him for the role.”
“Destruction of Metropolis was complex from lighting to CG to shooting it. Lexcorp logo was fun to put in and reference – a bigger world,” said Snyder.
Zod running up the building was their favorite part – he cant fly
yet. And then sheds his armor – Zod is stronger than his armor.
“Difficult to shoot this scale through the city. Wayne industries logo on the satellite. Bruce Wayne is around in the city. He is looking up at the battle.”
Deborah said, “Superman saves the family and it was very controversial to kill Zod. But he ends up alone and we can debate but the real question, his legacy and he has chosen us over his people from Krypton. Torn a piece and reminiscent to not save his own people.”
Last day of shooting in the desert with Cavill was the final shot. Deborah added, “He looks so iconic here.”
And then Henry Cavill joined the pair on the VERO screening along
with a Q&A.
Cavill and the team discussed his first time in suit. Cavill said,
“It is difficult to forget – I put it on for screen test. So hush-hush and
under wraps. I stepped outside and had that moment when everyone looked and it
felt empowering to be in the Superman suit. It carried an extra magic in that
moment.”
Both Snyders said, “Then we used Chris Reeves suit for the screen
test as Cavill’s suit wasn’t ready. They got it out of storage and it was
handled with white gloves. Reeves is like underwear outside and not heroic
looking.”
Cavill asked if Jor-El’s construct was capable of love – how
advanced was it. Snyder responded, “it’s not a complete person and it would
undercut Jor-El’s sacrifice. A diary he wrote to his son so when he got to
Earth and became Superman, he could talk to him. It carries the message of
love.”
“I’m not personally in control of it – it exists and what I
did with it,” says Snyder when asked about the release of the Snyder cut of
Justice League movie.
“It’s not really up to me, but I would had left it on
thumbdrive in a bathroom.”
Cavill interjects and laughed, “cuz yeah people love picking up a thumb drive in a bathroom”
Cavill also said on the Justice League Snyder cut, “I still love watching MAN OF STEEL and I remember watching the first trailer and what was going on in my life. It changed my career. I would love to see a version of Justice League without the mustache.”
Snyder said, “When Superman came back, he was iconic minus
the beard and that look. It was always my intention to see that version and
implication of the mustache. “
Deborah Snyder added, “we were on this journey with all
these characters from Justice League. To become the team that would have been
amazing.”
“I have it and we have to find a way of showing it one day,”
said Snyder
Cavill then followed up “You should just show it.”
Snyder then shared the logo and said its happening!
Actress, director, producer, author and activist Jamie Lee Curtis has signed a three-year, first look deal via her company, Comet Pictures, with Blumhouse for both film and television. Russell Goldman has also been appointed as Head of Development for film and television at Comet Pictures. Blumhouse and Comet Pictures’s first collaboration is the horror film, Mother Nature, which is centered around climate change. Curtis will direct the film that Goldman and she are writing together.
“I’m 61 and my motto now is: ‘If not now, when, if not me, who?’ I’m excited to have a creative home to explore my own ideas and others. Jason and his team have made me feel welcome. Comet is ready to bring these stories to screen life,” said Jamie Lee Curtis
“Jamie is a force of nature and was a real partner on Halloween. So it’s both an honor and incredibly apt that she’s making her first feature film as a director with Mother Nature,” said Jason Blum, Blumhouse CEO and Founder.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Blumhouse had a wildly successful, global collaboration with the film Halloween, which starred Curtis and was directed by David Gordon Green. The film went on to become the highest-grossing installment in the classic horror franchise at more than $255 million worldwide. The film had the biggest debut for a horror movie with a female lead and the biggest opening for a movie with a 55+ female lead. Two additional films have been slated in the franchise — Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends — which are slated to be released on October 16, 2020 and October 15, 2021 respectively. Curtis serves as an executive producer on all three films.
Russell Goldman is a writer and filmmaker from Virginia who has worked with Curtis and David Gordon Green. Russell’s most recent short film No Comment had an online premiere on Film Shortage in April 2020. His previous short Summer of Connor played at film festivals across the world, including HollyShorts and Frameline43.
It was recently announced that Curtis will star in, direct and executive produce, How We Sleep at Night: The Sara Cunningham Story for Lifetime. The film is a passion project for Curtis who optioned the rights to Cunningham’s memoir last year. Jamie’s previous directing credits include Scream Queens and Anything But Love.
Jamie Lee Curtis is represented by CAA and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner & Klein.
MILITARY WIVES centers on a group of women from different backgrounds whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with their loved ones’ absences, they come together to form the very first military wives choir, helping each other through some of life’s most difficult moments, and quickly find themselves on an international stage. Peter Cattaneo (THE FULL MONTY) directs Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan in this feel-good crowd-pleaser inspired by true events.
Inspired by the popularity of the Military Wives Choirs, the new film Military Wives is loosely based on the real story of a small of group of women who banded together and sparked a worldwide movement that now serves more than 2,300 people across the U.K. and in British military bases abroad.
Producer Rory Aitken, co-founder of 42, was introduced to the phenomenon through choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone’s popular BBC television series “The Choir: Military Wives,” which documented the creation of the second Military Wives Choir in 2011.
The women’s satisfaction with the final screenplay became evident, director Peter Cattaneo says, when several asked to appear in the film as extras. “In the scene where all the soldiers are going off to war, we used as many of them as we could. So when you see that scene, remember that those are real military families saying goodbye.” Although the characters and much of the story is fictionalized, every effort was made to honor the huge sacrifices real military families make every day, says producer Piers Tempest. “I think the best films have a deep truth in them, and that’s what we felt about this story. Nobody talks about them, but military wives are — forgive the pun — the unsung heroes of the armed forces.”
Peter Cattaneo (center) directs MILITARY WIVES, a Bleecker Street release Credit:Sean Gleason / Bleecker Street
Looking back at his experience, Cattaneo says he learned a lot from the process of making this film and from the real military wives who inspired it. “Military Wives is at its heart a love song to singing and to music,” he reflects. “It’s about the redemptive power of performance in general and about singing specifically. What I look for in telling stories is a specific world that the audience doesn’t know anything about, but that has universal value. I love nuance and behavior and real people, but it’s actually quite hard to find a cinematic landscape in which to tell those stories. It was a really good shoot in terms of the spirit of the crew and the spirit of the ensemble, but it also turned out to be a personal learning journey. “
See it everywhere May 22.
Rent or buy on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video and other major VOD platforms Free to stream for Hulu subscribers .
Vertical Entertainment has acquired the
North American and UK distribution rights to action thriller The Big Ugly starring Vinnie Jones (Snatch,
Gone in 60 Seconds), Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy), and Malcolm
McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Halloween). The film is written, directed, and
produced by Scott Wiper (The Condemned) with Vinnie Jones also serving as
producer. Also starring Nicholas Braun (Succession, How To Be Single), Leven
Rambin (The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson: Seas of Monsters), Bruce McGill
(Lincoln, National Lampoon’s Animal House), Lenora Crichlow (Fast Girls,
Deception) and Joelle Carter (Justified, High Fidelity). The film will first
release in UK theaters and VOD on July 24th and a week later in US theaters and on VOD on July 31st.
Neeyln (Vinnie Jones) has always been the loyal enforcer for crime boss Harris (Malcolm McDowell) back in London, taking care of problems and people that disrupt his illicit business. When Harris strikes a deal with an old friend – American oilman Preston (Ron Perlman) – they find themselves in the wild hills of West Virginia. Contracts are signed and the whiskey flows in celebration, but overnight Neelyn’s girlfriend disappears, last seen with Preston’s wayward son Junior. Lines are drawn between family and friends, but nothing will stop Neelyn from getting answers — and retribution.
“It
was more than a movie for us to make. (My late wife) Tanya was our staunch supporter on
The Big Ugly. She said ‘go make
the film.’
She pushed us,” says producer/star
Vinnie Jones. At the end of the movie you will see this is
dedicated in Loving Memory of Tanya Jones. The last song by Exile was her
choice. The greatest thing of all this is she got to see a finished Director’s
Cut.”
The deal was negotiated by Peter Jarowey and
Josh Spector at Vertical with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
“This is not your average action-thriller. Scott’s vision and creative collaboration with star Vinnie Jones brings
a dynamic and fresh approach to the genre,” says Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical
Entertainment. “A departure from
any role he’s played before, Jones delivers a standout performance alongside
the star-studded cast. We’re thrilled to bring this film to North American and
UK audiences this July.”
“Vinnie and I are thrilled to join forces with Rich, Peter and the entire Vertical team. They’re innovative and agile in their approach amidst a landscape that seems to be shifting faster than ever before,” says Wiper. “Since we first met, they’ve given us the care and thoughtfulness every filmmaker craves. Together, Vinnie and I have made an honest film about pain, loss, love, hope, and redemption in the hills of Appalachia, West Virginia. That’s The Big Ugly. Vertical Entertainment understands our film, and they know who the audience is. We couldn’t be happier with their game plan and passion.”
The Big Ugly was directed
by Scott Wiper; produced by Vinnie Jones, Scott Wiper, Tarquin Pack and Karri
O’Reilly; co-producers Michael Downey and Nancy Hirami, story by Scott Wiper
& Paul Tarantino, cinematography by Jeremy Osbern; edited by Jordan Downey;
production design by Ren Blanco; costume design by Zachary Sheets;
and composed by Alex Heffes. Grammy award winner Gary Clark, Jr., The Hollies,
J Geils Band, Allan Rayman, Adam Zelkind, Exile, and The Jam are featured on
the soundtrack, supervised by Ian Broucek. The film was executive produced by
4G VISION and Michael Angelo. Legal was handled by Jamie Coghill, Esq. of Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill, LLP.
From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a New Joint: the story of four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) — who return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul’s concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of Man and Nature — while confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War.
Da 5 Bloods will be released on Netflix in United States on June 12, 2020 at 2:00 AM CDT.
