I am 34 years old and I will still randomly blurt out a soundbite from a game that was released when I was seven. A “That’s my sister!” will escape my lips when I reunite with my younger sibling after not seeing her for months, or I’ll utter an “I like candy, everybody likes candy” while walking through the…
Vertical Entertainment has just sent over the trailer to their official Venice and TIFF selection — the tense thriller The Order. Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The History of the Kelly Gang, Assassin’s Creed) is in the director’s chair. Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s novel The Silent Brotherhood, The Order stars Jude Law (Closer, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), Nicholas Hoult (Superman, Renfield, Mad Max: Fury Road), and Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One, X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud).
The official synopsis reads,
“For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and the public panicked throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the attacks become increasingly violent, FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) becomes convinced that the robberies are the work of a domestic terrorist gang that plan to use the loot to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government.
Based on a true story, The Order follows Husk and his team into the tangled world of white supremacists to try to head off a violent uprising that could shatter the nation. As the militia builds a war chest of over $4 million, Husk pursues the malevolent racist Bob Mathews to a final bloody standoff that will go down in U.S. history.”
Law plays “a lone FBI agent stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, who believes the crimes were not the work of traditional criminals. He thinks the disturbance is the work of domestic terrorists with a charismatic leader (Hoult).” Alison Oliver, Odessa Young, Sebastian Pigott, George Tchortov, Victor Slezak, and Marc Maron also star as primary cast members.
“I am looking forward to working with Vertical on the release of The Order,” Kurzel told Deadline. “It was a privilege getting to work with such an extraordinary cast and crew on such a thrilling script by Zach Baylin, a story from the past speaking so directly with the present.”
Our EIC, Chris Bumbray, got to view the movie at TIFF and glowed about it in his review, “Kurzel made a pretty slick thriller that would play well in theatres. It’s lean and mean enough that, in another era, it would have been a big-budget studio film. Thrillers like this used to be a lot more common, so it’s refreshing to see a throwback like this, which reminds me (in the best ways) of the kinds of studio-made thrillers I loved watching growing up in the nineties.”
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The announcement that SNK’s Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui would be the first characters from a non-Capcom series to be playable in a Street Fighter game was big news. Terry was released on September 24th, 2024 and we’ve been ecstatic to play the beloved character in his trademark red and white outfit. But that’s not…
The announcement that SNK’s Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui would be the first characters from a non-Capcom series to be playable in a Street Fighter game was big news. Terry was released on September 24th, 2024 and we’ve been ecstatic to play the beloved character in his trademark red and white outfit. But that’s not…
Forrest Gump gets a bad rap. In hindsight, it’s easy to dismiss Robert Zemeckis’s film, which starred Tom Hanks as the simple (but sweet) title character as cheesy. This is especially true if you compare it to the movies it beat at the Academy Awards that year – Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption – both of which have gone on to become unchallengeable classics. But the fact remains that Forrest Gump was a monster hit in 1994, with it the second highest-grossing movie of the year (behind The Lion King) and a signature role (for a while) for star Tom Hanks.
In this adaptation of the Winston Groom novel, Forrest Gump bears witness to most of the defining events of the second half of the twentieth century, including the Vietnam War, Watergate, and, eventually, the AIDS Crisis. The film was a landmark in VFX, as Tom Hanks was able to be inserted into old news footage to make it look like he met JFK, Lyndon Johnson, John Lennon, and Richard Nixon, all of which seems quaint nowadays—but in ’94, it was mind-blowing.
Yet, when many of us look back at the movie, the scene we remember most has less to do with VFX and more to do with the character’s unique impact on those around him. In this episode of Scene Breakdown, our host Kier Gomes breaks down the movie’s famous running montage, where a brokenhearted Gump goes on a cross-country run, inspiring, among other things, the famous catchphrase “sh*t happens.”
Check out the episode embedded above and let us know in the comments if you think Forrest Gump stands the test of time.
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Few things are harder than trying to get your friends into tabletop RPGs. The rules are complex, set up can be a pain in the ass, and you’ll need to carve out more than a couple of hours of time for a proper play session. Sunderfolk, the first video game from developer Secret Door—one of two studios under ex-Blizzard…
Few things are harder than trying to get your friends into tabletop RPGs. The rules are complex, set up can be a pain in the ass, and you’ll need to carve out more than a couple of hours of time for a proper play session. Sunderfolk, the first video game from developer Secret Door—one of two studios under ex-Blizzard…
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is Nintendo’s big game for the Nintendo Switch this holiday season. How is the platforming duo’s latest RPG spin-off adventure shaping up? According to a new string of previews, it’s about as delightful as you’d expect, though perhaps missing that spark that might take it to the next level…
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is Nintendo’s big game for the Nintendo Switch this holiday season. How is the platforming duo’s latest RPG spin-off adventure shaping up? According to a new string of previews, it’s about as delightful as you’d expect, though perhaps missing that spark that might take it to the next level…
While the strike last year from the Writers Guild of America brought Hollywood to a standstill, there is one production company that is remaining to be a complication with the union. That company is Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films. Lerner is an alum of the notorious Cannon Films studio, which famously went bankrupt under mismanagement. Millennium continued the tradition of genre films with lower budgeted action fares like the Expendables franchise, Olympus Has Fallen, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and Drive Angry.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the Writers Guild has recently sent out a warning members not to work with Millennium Pictures since the studio is not a signatory to its 2023 union agreement contract, whose term is three years. The top executive officers of the union stated in a Wednesday message to members,
We are writing to alert you that WGA members are prohibited under Working Rule 8 from performing writing services for, or optioning or selling literary material to, Millennium Pictures, Inc. (Millennium), or any affiliate thereof.”
The statement continues, “The Guild has had to bring a significant number of claims against Millennium over the years for the company’s failure to pay writers initial compensation and residuals, as well as failure to pay writers within the timeframe established in the MBA.” As a result, “The Guild has determined that Millennium is not financially responsible and requires the posting of an adequate bond before it can become signatory. Millennium has, to date, refused to do so.”
The last entry in the Sylvester Stallone action ensemble franchise, Expend4bles, received an underwhelming response from audiences, but Dolph Lundgren somewhat teased that Sly may still work on a follow-up. When Lundgren was asked if he’d return for another round, he responded, “Yeah, if Sly’s in charge. I think he’s working on his version of another chapter with these guys. If he’s in charge, then yeah, I’m sure it would be fun to work on it.“ This comes after he noted the problems behind the scenes with the last film, “That project had issues from the beginning, and it usually starts with the script. It really didn’t have a good script. I’m not playing the lead, so it’s hard for me to weigh in on some of those issues, but I know Stallone wasn’t involved, like he usually is. He just played a character in it, and when he’s in charge, the quality is going to be pretty good, it doesn’t drop below a certain level. But he wasn’t involved, so I think the problem was with the script, and then the director was replaced, like, a month before shooting.”
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