Paramount Pictures has released an effectively chilling trailer for the upcoming horror thriller A QUIET PLACE.
Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds, a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.
Hoo-boy is this ever creepy. How do you keep a newborn baby quiet, never-mind a child with a toy?!
Plus, are these Aliens? Monsters? And who is hunting them? And why don’t they just leave???
After watching this “end-of-the-world, looks like an M. Night Shyamalan film” trailer, never mind how much I love John Krasinski, April 6 can’t arrive soon enough!
A QUIET PLACE opens in theaters April 6, 2018.
Left to right: Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds in A QUIET PLACE, from Paramount Pictures.
The Mane 6 are Joined by Fun New Friends Voiced by an All-Star Cast in this Magical Adventure Arriving on Digital December 19 and Blu-ray™ Combo Packand DVD on January 9 from Lionsgate
Join the “truly magical adventure” (Mike Reyes, CinemaBlend)of the Mane 6 and their new friends when My Little Pony: The Movie comes home on Digital December 19 and on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand January 9 from Lionsgate. Best friends Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity team up in their most epic adventure yet! This new installment of the global phenomenon features the Mane 6 voices of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” accompanied by Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy, Into the Woods, 2015), Primetime Emmy® winner Kristin Chenoweth (Best Supporting Actress, “Pushing Daisies,” 2009), Golden Globe® nominee Liev Schreiber (Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama, “Ray Donovan,” 2017), Michael Peña (The Martian, Ant-Man franchise), Sia, Taye Diggs (Chicago, “Private Practice”), Golden Globe® nominee Uzo Aduba (Best Supporting Actress – Television, “Orange Is the New Black,” 2016), and Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise).
When a dark force threatens Ponyville, the Mane 6 go on a journey beyond Equestria to save their beloved home and they meet new friends and exciting challenges along the way.
Directed by “My Little Pony” veteran Jayson Thiessen (“My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”) and including original music and songs performed by Sia, Taye Diggs, Zoe Saldana, Kristin Chenoweth, and Emily Blunt, My Little Pony: The Movie is full of music, fun, and laughter for the whole family. The My Little Pony: The Movie Blu-ray and DVD include all-new special features, including a deleted scene, a music video, three featurettes starring the Mane 6, an exclusive Equestria Girls Short and a Hanazuki short, and will be available for the suggested retail price of $29.95 and $39.99, respectively.
BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES
Deleted Scene
Equestria Girls Short
“Baking with Pinkie Pie” Featurette
“Making Magic with the Mane 6 and Their New Friends” Featurette
“The Journey Beyond Equestria” Featurette
“I’m the Friend You Need” Music Video (Sung by Taye Diggs)
Paramount Pictures has released a first look at their upcoming film A QUIET PLACE, starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Noah Jupe & Millicent Simmonds.
In addition to starring, Krasinski directs the supernatural thriller, in cinemas next year.
The Oscar nominated Blunt (SICARIO) and Krasinski have been married since 2010. Considered to be one of the cutest couples in Hollywood, his is their first movie together, making it his third directorial effort following 2016’s THE HOLLARS and 2009’s BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN.
A dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 – Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity – embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home.
The film has an all-star voice cast including Emily Blunt, Kristin Chenoweth, Liev Schreiber, Michael Peña, Sia, Taye Diggs, Uzo Aduba and Zoe Saldana. The movie features original music and songs performed by Sia, Diggs, Saldana, Chenoweth and Blunt. Lionsgate is releasing MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE in theaters nationwide on October 6, 2017.
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From L to R: Fluttershy (Andrea Libman), Spike (Cathy Weseluck), Rainbow Dash (Ashleigh Ball), Pinkie Pie (Andrea Libman), Rarity (Tabitha St. Germain), Princess Skystar (Kristin Chenoweth) and Applejack (Ashleigh Ball) in MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE. Image Courtesy of Lionsgate and Hasbro.
Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to the Banks home after many years and uses her magical skills to help the now grown up Michael and Jane rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives in MARY POPPINS RETURNS, directed by Rob Marshall.
Here is the first glimpse of Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins in MARY POPPINS RETURNS, the all new sequel to Disney’s 1964 film “Mary Poppins.”
Directed and produced by Rob Marshall, MARY POPPINS RETURNS also stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer and Julie Walters with Colin Firth and Meryl Streep.
The film, which introduces three new Banks children, played by Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and newcomer Joel Dawson, also features Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury.
The film is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original novels) and is drawn from the wealth of material in PL Travers’ additional seven books. In the story, Michael (Whishaw) and Jane (Mortimer) are now grown up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen (Walters), living on Cherry Tree Lane. After Michael suffers a personal loss, the enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Miranda), uses her unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Mary Poppins also introduces the children to a new assortment of colorful and whimsical characters, including her eccentric cousin, Topsy (Streep).
The film is produced by Marshall, John DeLuca and Marc Platt. The screenplay is by David Magee based on The Mary Poppins Stories by PL Travers with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman writing all new songs and Shaiman composing an original score.
Please feel free to share with your readers. MARY POPPINS RETURNS will be released in U.S. theaters on December 25, 2018.
Production on MARY POPPINS RETURNS, the all new sequel to Disney’s 1964 film “Mary Poppins,” has commenced at Shepperton Studios.
The film, which stars Emily Blunt (“The Girl on the Train,” “Into the Woods”) and Emmy, GRAMMY and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton,” “Moana”) and is directed and produced by Oscar nominee, Emmy and DGA Award winner Rob Marshall (“Into the Woods,” “Chicago”), is scheduled for release December 25, 2018.
The film also stars: Ben Whishaw (“Spectre”), Emily Mortimer (“Hugo”) and Julie Walters (“Harry Potter” films) with Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) and Meryl Streep (“Florence Foster Jenkins”).
In addition, Dick Van Dyke plays Mr. Dawes Jr., the chairman of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, which is now run by William Weatherall Wilkins (Firth).
MARY POPPINS RETURNS introduces three new Banks children, played by Pixie Davies (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”), Nathanael Saleh (“Game of Thrones”) and newcomer Joel Dawson.
The film is produced by Marshall, Emmy® winner and Golden Globe® nominee John DeLuca (“Chicago”) and Oscar® andTony® nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Marc Platt (“La La Land”).
The screenplay is by Oscar nominee David Magee (“Life of Pi”) based on The Mary Poppins Stories by PL Travers with Oscar nominee and Tony winner Marc Shaiman (“Hairspray”) and Emmy nominee and Tony winner Scott Wittman (“Hairspray”) writing all new songs with Shaiman composing an original score.
Amongst Marshall’s award-winning creative team are Oscar®-winning director of photography Dion Beebe, ASC ACS (“Memoirs of a Geisha”); two-time Oscar-winning production designer John Myhre (“Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Chicago”); three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell (“The Young Victoria,” “The Aviator,” “Shakespeare in Love”); Oscar-winning hair and make-up designer Peter Swords King (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”); Oscar-winning set decorator Gordon Sim (“Chicago”); Oscar-winning production sound mixer Simon Hayes (“Les Misérables”); and Emmy® nominated editor Wyatt Smith (“Doctor Strange,” “Into the Woods”). The film is choreographed by Marshall and DeLuca with Joey Pizzi (“Chicago”) serving as co-choreographer.
MARY POPPINS RETURNS is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original novels) and is drawn from the wealth of material in PL Travers’ additional seven books. In the story, Michael (Whishaw) and Jane (Mortimer) are now grown up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen (Walters), living on Cherry Tree Lane. After Michael suffers a personal loss, the enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Miranda), uses her unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Mary Poppins also introduces the children to a new assortment of colorful and whimsical characters, including her eccentric cousin, Topsy (Streep).
PL Travers first introduced the world to the no-nonsense nanny in her 1934 book “Mary Poppins,” which Disney adapted for the screen and released in August, 1964.
The film, which was directed by Robert Stevenson and starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, was the top-grossing film of that year and nominated for 13 Oscars, winning five.
However, the subsequent adventures of Mary Poppins remained only on the pages of PL Travers’ seven additional books, which she published between 1935 and 1988.
A recent divorcée (Emily Blunt) fantasizes about a couple (Luke Evans and Haley Bennett) whose house she passes each day on her commuter train ride. Soon, she becomes entangled in a mystery involving not only the couple, but her former husband (Justin Theroux) and his new family. Rebecca Ferguson co-stars. Tate Taylor directed this psychological thriller, which was adapted from the 2015 best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins.
Questioning everything she knows, a woman must face her terrifying past in the wake of a darkly mysterious event to piece together the truth in the provocative thriller, The Girl on the Train. Based on USA TODAY’s 2015 Book of the Year and the #1 New York Times Bestseller by Paula Hawkins, the suspense comes home when The Girl on the Train arrives on Digital HD January 3, 2017 and 4K Ultra HD™, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand January 17, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures.
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The Women Behind The Girl : Author Paula Hawkins and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson discuss their thoughts on writing the novel, the adaptation process and the importance of maintaining character integrity. Director Tate Taylor discusses working with these two incredible writers to make sure his vision for the film was represented in the script.
On Board The Train: A behind-the-scenes look at the strong ensemble cast of The Girl on the Train. Director Tate Taylor and Producer Mark Platt discuss the specific nuances associated with each of the cast members’ performances and Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Allison Janney, Laura Prepon, Lisa Kudrow, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans and Edgar Ramirez take fans through the process of creating their incredible characters.
The big screen adaptation of the bestselling THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN has been subject of considerable buzz, seeming to promise a GONE GIRL-like thriller. There are indeed some parallels to that earlier film adaptation of a bestselling thriller but maybe less than you might expect.
Like GONE GIRL, this story is part psychological thriller and part crime mystery. Also like that earlier film, as you get to know these characters, you discover they are not what they at first seemed, nor is the situation what is seems at first either. But anyone expecting a taut mystery will be disappointed. Instead, director Tate Taylor (THE HELP) delves into the characters’ inner make-up and complex relationships. While Tate does give the audience moments of heartbreak (and some psycho-sexual sparks as well) as we get glimpses into troubled lives, how it all links to the plot is not always clear.
The film is more a psychological exploration of its characters – at least until, like in a French movie, everything happens at the end.
Whatever the film’s shortcomings, it is not for lack of effort on the part of Emily Blunt, who brilliantly plays the central character Rachel, with a raw emotion and heartbreaking sincerity that lifts the film.
Rachel rides a train as she commutes to New York City, a daily ride that takes her past a particular neighborhood of nice suburban homes. Every day, she sits in the same car on the same side of the train and near the window, so she can watch this one couple on their back porch. In her voyeuristic obsession, Rachel daydreams a whole story for this couple, one of true love, while she sketches them in the notepad she carries with her. One day, Rachel sees something unexpected on the couple’s back porch, and shortly after, the woman goes missing.
It is an intriguing premise. Who has not indulged in a little people-watching on a routine commute, or even daydreamed. But this story takes what seems to start as an imaginative woman’s daydream and morphs it into both voyeurism and obsession.
Rachel is sure what she saw is a clue, but she is not the stable person she appears to be at first. Rachel has a tenuous grip on reality, fueled by her heavy drinking and frequent blackouts, someone prone to drunk-dialing her ex several times a day. Rachel imagines the couple living the perfect life she longs for, and her attachment to her fantasy and her growing belief in it are disturbing.
With a puffy, tear-streaked face, Blunt breaks our hearts as Rachel, stumbling self-destructively and piteously through her broken life, while indulging her fantasy about a couple she sees on her daily train commute. She has been living with her friend Cathy (Laura Prepon) since the divorce but instead of getting her life together, it is unraveling. In the book, Rachel is a chubby gone-to-seed character, even a creepy one, but Blunt’s performance makes her a more sympathetic character, although still clearly a mess.
Of course, the house Rachel watches is not really a random location. It is a few doors down from the home she once shared with her now ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux), where he still lives with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their baby.
While Rachel is at the center of the plot, the whole film really focuses on three main female characters. Megan is the blonde-haired young woman Rachel watches We get to know her through sequences where she interacts with her husband Scott (Luke Evans) and especially with her psychiatrist Dr. Kamal Abdic (Edgar Ramirez). Likewise, we get to know Anna in scenes with her and Tom, sketching out their relationship, sometimes flashing back to when Tom was still married to Rachel.
The film starts out well enough but then seems drift. Near the beginning, the main three women in the story are introduced with titles for “chapters,” a device used in the novel, followed by a sequence in which we delve into their lives and psychological background. But the chapter device is quickly abandoned in favor of jumping back and forth in time, transitions again marked by titles, and jumping between the three characters’ story lines. The effect, intended or not, is to disorient the audience, as to what is going on and when.
The cast includes Allison Janney, who is almost unrecognizable as tough policewoman Detective Riley. Lisa Kudrow also appears in the film, as Rachel’s ex’s former boss Martha, in a couple of pivotal scenes, and Darren Goldstein plays a mysterious man on the train in a couple of other key scenes.
The acting is good throughout but things often seems off in this film. Tom’s new wife Anna is a blonde like her neighbor Megan, and the resemblance between the two is close enough that the audience may have trouble telling the characters apart early on. That may be intended to hint at a reason behind Rachel’s obsessive fantasy about Megan but it is not clear.
It is one of several sort of odd casting choices, another being casting Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez (HANDS OF STONE, THE LIBERATOR) as psychiatrist Dr. Kamal Abdic. Ramirez speaks with a Hispanic accent,yet the character he plays has a Bosnian name and seems to be Bosnian.
Much of what we learn about the characters is touching, even heartbreaking, but how it all connects to the main plot is not always clear. After developing as a drama with a languid pace, director Tate suddenly trades it for a more pulse-pounding thriller style, in which several things crystallize in rapid succession.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is an uneven drama, unfurled slowly until everything happens at the end. The film is a mixed-bag, and whether someone likes it or not might partly depend on whether they liked the novel. Either way, what THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN does offer is greatly elevated by a strong performance from Emily Blunt.
3 out of 5 stars
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN opens in St. Louis, Friday, October 7th
Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez and Lisa Kudrow star in DreamWorks Pictures’ THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, from director Tate Taylor (The Help, Get on Up) and producer Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, Into the Woods).
In the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN opens in theaters on October 7.
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN has been rated R (Restricted – Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian) for violence, sexual content, language and nudity.
Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Prepon star in DreamWorks Pictures’ THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, from director Tate Taylor (The Help, Get on Up) and producer Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, Into the Woods).
The new trailer and poster for the upcoming film has debuted. Check out the latest preview below.
In the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
Based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel, The Girl on the Train is adapted for the screen by Erin Cressida Wilson.
Wilson wrote and produced on the first season of HBO’s Martin Scorsese/Mick Jagger series, “Vinyl,” and began adaptations of “The New Winter” for Working Title and Universal, as well as “Maestra” for Amy Pascal and Sony Pictures. She is currently doing production work for DreamWorks’ “Ghost in the Shell,” for director Rupert Sanders and Scarlett Johansson.
Other screenplays include “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Nicole Kidman and “Chloe,” directed by Atom Egoyan – starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried – produced by Ivan & Jason Reitman. Wilson collaborated with South Korean director Park Chan Wook on “Stoker” at Fox Searchlight, produced by Michael Costigan and Ridley and Tony Scott. She reteamed with Jason Reitman on “Men, Women & Children,” starring Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN opens in theaters October 7.
