The next PlayStation showcase is this week, Sony has confirmed. The latest State of Play presentation will kick off on Tuesday with updates on over a dozen games across PlayStation 5 and PS VR 2 as the company caps off a busy month filled with Astro Bot, the PS5 Pro reveal, and the 30th Anniversary Collection…
The next PlayStation showcase is this week, Sony has confirmed. The latest State of Play presentation will kick off on Tuesday with updates on over a dozen games across PlayStation 5 and PS VR 2 as the company caps off a busy month filled with Astro Bot, the PS5 Pro reveal, and the 30th Anniversary Collection…
With a presidential election fast approaching in the U.S. and tensions at an all-time high, now feels like the perfect time to release a political satire with humor, drama, and the undead. Today, Bleecker Street unveiled the studio’s Rumours trailer, depicting a meeting of the minds that turns into a fight for survival in the face of genuinely bizarre circumstances.
Here’s the official synopsis for Rumours courtesy of Bleecker Street:
Richochetting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.
Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ronaldo Ravello, and Zlatko Buric also star alongside Blanchett, Dance, and Wikiander in this strange tale of political maladroitness, personality clashes, walking dead, and a giant brain pulsating inside a forest.
In Bleecker Street’s Rumours trailer, seven dignitaries assemble for what appears to be a posh brunch before getting pulled into a Silent Hill-like mist where putrid bodies walk the grounds, and madness begins to infect the unsuspecting party. Left with no choice but to band together if they want to survive, Rumours blends political satire with gross-out horror, Sherlockian mystery, and dark humor during a time when world leaders must put their differences aside to survive the ebb and flow of change.
Liz Jarvis, Phillip Kreuzer, and Lars Knudsen produce, with Ari Aster, Cate Blanchett, Phyllis Laing, Jorg Schulze, Jow Neurauter, Tyler Campellone, Adrian Love, Michael O’Leary, Andrew Karpen, and Kent Sanderson executive producing.
What do you think about the Rumours trailer? Who will survive this dark and strange night? We’ll find out when Rumours comes to theaters on October 18.
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When we get to the fast-approaching end of 2024, and folks start talking about what ought to be crowned Game of the Year, lots of people are inevitably going to say Helldivers 2. Since its release in February, the third-person co-op shooter has been one of the most heavily played games of the year. Its fans are a reall…
When we get to the fast-approaching end of 2024, and folks start talking about what ought to be crowned Game of the Year, lots of people are inevitably going to say Helldivers 2. Since its release in February, the third-person co-op shooter has been one of the most heavily played games of the year. Its fans are a reall…
Somehow, October is right around the corner, which means 2024 is rapidly approaching its end. After the whirlwind of amazing releases that was 2023, some thought this year would be relatively slow on the game front, and yet game after good game keep dropping. That’s why it might come as a shock to you that Prince of…
Somehow, October is right around the corner, which means 2024 is rapidly approaching its end. After the whirlwind of amazing releases that was 2023, some thought this year would be relatively slow on the game front, and yet game after good game keep dropping. That’s why it might come as a shock to you that Prince of…
Each year, The Pokémon Company holds a competition to find a new illustrator for their Pokémon TCG cards. Only in the last couple of years has this been opened to entrants from outside of Japan, and with that has come controversy. However, after a tumultuous period, the finalists for this year’s contest have finally…
Each year, The Pokémon Company holds a competition to find a new illustrator for their Pokémon TCG cards. Only in the last couple of years has this been opened to entrants from outside of Japan, and with that has come controversy. However, after a tumultuous period, the finalists for this year’s contest have finally…
David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it HERE) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Deadline reports that Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025.
In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh, “an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time. Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drive him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings.”
Diane Kruger (National Treasure, Inglorious Basterds, In the Fade), Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker), Sandrine Holt (Homeland, House of Cards), Al Sapienza (The Sopranos, Reacher), Elizabeth Saunders (From, Mary Kills People), and Jennifer Dale (Coroner, Into Invisible Light) are also in the cast.
The Shrouds was produced by Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It’s an SBS, Prospero Pictures & Saint Laurent Productions Film, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates in association with Sphere Films, Crave & CBC Films with the support of Canal +, OCS & the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée.
Sideshow/Janus provided the following statement: “Building on a long history with David Cronenberg that has included releases of Videodrome, Scanners, The Brood, Crash, Dead Ringers, and Naked Lunch, Janus Films and Criterion are very proud to be working with Sideshow and Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello to premiere The Shrouds, a major new work by the Canadian master in the United States. Cronenberg is at his wittiest, most personal and romantic in this thought-provoking thriller with knockout performances from Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.“
Are you looking forward to The Shrouds, and are you glad to hear that it has secured 2025 U.S. distribution through Sideshow and Janus Films? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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