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]]>Pixar’s sequel about the family of superheroes is definitely living up to its incredible name already proving to be a box office smash hit.
The film opened to a whopping $180 million from 4,410 theaters in the US and Canada during its opening weekend making it the biggest domestic debut of all time for an animated film. Incredibles 2 knocked previously record holder, Finding Dory, which scored $135.1 million in 2016.
Variety reports that the film now stands as the eight-biggest domestic opening of all time.
Brad Bird reprised his role as director and writer for the sequel, released 14 years after the original hit the screen. The original opened to $70.5 million in November 2004.
Incredibles 2 picks up right where the original left off. Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) recruited to help “bring supers back into the sunlight” to restore the public’s trust in superheroes. That leaves Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) to stay at home to look after Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack.
Check box office June 15-17 figures below:
1. Incredibles 2 — $180 million
2. Ocean’s 8 — $19.6 million
3. Tag — $14.6 million
4. Solo: A Star Wars Story — $9.1 million
5. Deadpool 2 — $8.8 million
6. Hereditary — $7 million
7. Superfly — $6.3 million
8. Avengers: Infinity War — $5.3 million
9. Adrift — $2.1 million
10. Book Club — $1.9 million
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]]>The women of Hollywood made history this year as the most popular films of 2017 in North America featured female leads.
Topping at number one was the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise Star Wars: The Last Jedi with whopping $533.1 million at the box office. The second largest grossing film was Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast and closing the top three was DC Comics’ Wonder Woman with $504 and 412.6 million respectively.
According to box-office, female led films were top three was back in 1958 with South Pacific, Auntie Mame, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Last Jedi was dubbed the most feminist of the Star Wars franchise yet, with strong female roles including trainee Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) and the late Carrie Fisher in her final performance as Princess made General, Leia.
The live-action remake of the 1991 Disney hit starred Emma Watson as Bell. While a Disney princess, she takes charge of her destiny and refuses to conform to social dictates and in essence turning a beast into a love stricken puppy.
Finally, Wonder Woman doubly succeeded as a female-led film. Starring newcomer Gal Gadot who portrayed a role model heroine, Wonder Woman is also the highest-grossing live-action movie ever directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.
Hopefully powerful portrayals of female characters isn’t a fleeting moment but rather a new Hollywood zeitgeist.
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]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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]]>The service lets its customers keep all film purchases in a single location and access them on TVs, laptops, or mobile devices with ease. Over the last seven years, most of the biggest movie studios used Ultraviolet’s services for this, but Disney decided to keep developing their own platform.
Today, the list of major studios interested in joining Disney’s service includes Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures.
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]]>Annabelle: Creation, however, still has the lowest opening installment of the series behind Annabelle’s $37.1 million, The Conjuring’s $41.9 million, and The Conjuring 2’s $40.4 million. The film’s opening with $35 million means that it has topped holdovers such as Dunkirk, which is holding steady in second place with an estimated $11.4 million after 4 weeks in theaters.
Directed by David F. Sandberg, the movie tells the story of a grieving doll maker and his wife, both with a haunted past. The couple welcome into their home a nun and several children from a run down orphanage. Currently, reviews from audiences and critics are mixed with a 68% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Coming in third is the computer-animated comedy, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature with an estimated $8.9 million over the weekend. While the figure is good enough for third place, it doesn’t look like the film will re-create the original’s success, which opened with $19.4 million in 2014.
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]]>The only original cast member reprising its role from the 1994 original is James Earl Jones, who will voice Mufasa, King of Pride Lands, husband of Sarabi and father of Simba. Woodward and Kani will join the already casted, Donald Glover as Simba, Billy Eichner as Timon, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, and John Oliver as Zazu.
Directing the new Lion King is Jon Favreau. Much like he did in The Jungle Book, performance-capture technology and computer-generated imagery will bring the animals characters to life.
The Lion King will hit theaters July 19, 2019.
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]]>“He’s a great actor and a great guy, [with a] great sense of humor,” Harrelson said. “I think a lot of humor comes through what he’s doing. I think it could be one of the funnier Star Wars movies.”
In recent months, the project has faced some serious on-set drama as the film’s original directors, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, were fired from the project in June.
The two-time Oscar winner Ron Howard was tapped to direct the remainder of the production soon after. Harrelson said the movie is still going strong under its new headship.
“Fortunately, the force is still very much with us,” the 56-year-old actor said. “It’s great that Ron came along when he did.”
The untitled Young Han Solo film won’t be released any time soon, but Harrelson’s new drama, The Glass Castle, will be out next month. The film is based on a real-life memoir and Harrelson plays the role of an imaginative but alcoholic father to a young woman named Jeannette Walls, portrayed by Brie Larson.
The actress opened up about how they brought realism to the challenging family dynamic.
“I think what makes a powerful story is the universal aspect of it, the side of it that you feel like kind of goes beyond the specifics,” Larson said at the junket. “My upbringing wasn’t anything like Jeannette’s, but the sense of complication and misunderstanding and love that comes with growing up in a relationship with your family is, I think, very normal.”
Larson and Harrelson have actually had a close connection outside their current project. It was Harrelson who introduced his co-star to fellow Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone – who had both previously worked with him. The ladies soon became close friends and Harrelson told ET it was apparent that they’d all get along.
“There’s a lot of similarities. They’re all super talented, very smart, very funny, and kind of dazzling people, each of them!” he shared. “It was pretty clear they’d all get along.”
The Glass Castle hits the theaters on Aug. 11. As for Han Solo project, it is set for release in May 2018.
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]]>The post “Incredibles 2” shatters records with $180m box office opening appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>Pixar’s sequel about the family of superheroes is definitely living up to its incredible name already proving to be a box office smash hit.
The film opened to a whopping $180 million from 4,410 theaters in the US and Canada during its opening weekend making it the biggest domestic debut of all time for an animated film. Incredibles 2 knocked previously record holder, Finding Dory, which scored $135.1 million in 2016.
Variety reports that the film now stands as the eight-biggest domestic opening of all time.
Brad Bird reprised his role as director and writer for the sequel, released 14 years after the original hit the screen. The original opened to $70.5 million in November 2004.
Incredibles 2 picks up right where the original left off. Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) recruited to help “bring supers back into the sunlight” to restore the public’s trust in superheroes. That leaves Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) to stay at home to look after Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack.
Check box office June 15-17 figures below:
1. Incredibles 2 — $180 million
2. Ocean’s 8 — $19.6 million
3. Tag — $14.6 million
4. Solo: A Star Wars Story — $9.1 million
5. Deadpool 2 — $8.8 million
6. Hereditary — $7 million
7. Superfly — $6.3 million
8. Avengers: Infinity War — $5.3 million
9. Adrift — $2.1 million
10. Book Club — $1.9 million
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]]>The women of Hollywood made history this year as the most popular films of 2017 in North America featured female leads.
Topping at number one was the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise Star Wars: The Last Jedi with whopping $533.1 million at the box office. The second largest grossing film was Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast and closing the top three was DC Comics’ Wonder Woman with $504 and 412.6 million respectively.
According to box-office, female led films were top three was back in 1958 with South Pacific, Auntie Mame, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Last Jedi was dubbed the most feminist of the Star Wars franchise yet, with strong female roles including trainee Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) and the late Carrie Fisher in her final performance as Princess made General, Leia.
The live-action remake of the 1991 Disney hit starred Emma Watson as Bell. While a Disney princess, she takes charge of her destiny and refuses to conform to social dictates and in essence turning a beast into a love stricken puppy.
Finally, Wonder Woman doubly succeeded as a female-led film. Starring newcomer Gal Gadot who portrayed a role model heroine, Wonder Woman is also the highest-grossing live-action movie ever directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.
Hopefully powerful portrayals of female characters isn’t a fleeting moment but rather a new Hollywood zeitgeist.
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]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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]]>The service lets its customers keep all film purchases in a single location and access them on TVs, laptops, or mobile devices with ease. Over the last seven years, most of the biggest movie studios used Ultraviolet’s services for this, but Disney decided to keep developing their own platform.
Today, the list of major studios interested in joining Disney’s service includes Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures.
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]]>Annabelle: Creation, however, still has the lowest opening installment of the series behind Annabelle’s $37.1 million, The Conjuring’s $41.9 million, and The Conjuring 2’s $40.4 million. The film’s opening with $35 million means that it has topped holdovers such as Dunkirk, which is holding steady in second place with an estimated $11.4 million after 4 weeks in theaters.
Directed by David F. Sandberg, the movie tells the story of a grieving doll maker and his wife, both with a haunted past. The couple welcome into their home a nun and several children from a run down orphanage. Currently, reviews from audiences and critics are mixed with a 68% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Coming in third is the computer-animated comedy, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature with an estimated $8.9 million over the weekend. While the figure is good enough for third place, it doesn’t look like the film will re-create the original’s success, which opened with $19.4 million in 2014.
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]]>The only original cast member reprising its role from the 1994 original is James Earl Jones, who will voice Mufasa, King of Pride Lands, husband of Sarabi and father of Simba. Woodward and Kani will join the already casted, Donald Glover as Simba, Billy Eichner as Timon, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, and John Oliver as Zazu.
Directing the new Lion King is Jon Favreau. Much like he did in The Jungle Book, performance-capture technology and computer-generated imagery will bring the animals characters to life.
The Lion King will hit theaters July 19, 2019.
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]]>“He’s a great actor and a great guy, [with a] great sense of humor,” Harrelson said. “I think a lot of humor comes through what he’s doing. I think it could be one of the funnier Star Wars movies.”
In recent months, the project has faced some serious on-set drama as the film’s original directors, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, were fired from the project in June.
The two-time Oscar winner Ron Howard was tapped to direct the remainder of the production soon after. Harrelson said the movie is still going strong under its new headship.
“Fortunately, the force is still very much with us,” the 56-year-old actor said. “It’s great that Ron came along when he did.”
The untitled Young Han Solo film won’t be released any time soon, but Harrelson’s new drama, The Glass Castle, will be out next month. The film is based on a real-life memoir and Harrelson plays the role of an imaginative but alcoholic father to a young woman named Jeannette Walls, portrayed by Brie Larson.
The actress opened up about how they brought realism to the challenging family dynamic.
“I think what makes a powerful story is the universal aspect of it, the side of it that you feel like kind of goes beyond the specifics,” Larson said at the junket. “My upbringing wasn’t anything like Jeannette’s, but the sense of complication and misunderstanding and love that comes with growing up in a relationship with your family is, I think, very normal.”
Larson and Harrelson have actually had a close connection outside their current project. It was Harrelson who introduced his co-star to fellow Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone – who had both previously worked with him. The ladies soon became close friends and Harrelson told ET it was apparent that they’d all get along.
“There’s a lot of similarities. They’re all super talented, very smart, very funny, and kind of dazzling people, each of them!” he shared. “It was pretty clear they’d all get along.”
The Glass Castle hits the theaters on Aug. 11. As for Han Solo project, it is set for release in May 2018.
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