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Focus Features Sets Fall Theatrical Day & Date For Sundance Pick-Up ‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’
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Focus Features, Peacock, and Monkeypaw Productions have set Sept. 2 as their theatrical day-and-date release date for Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. The studios picked up the movie from Daniel Kaluuya’s 59% Productions in early February out of Sundance and made it known that it would go in cinemas and on Uni’s sister streaming service Peacock.
The movie follows the proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch, Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall), who carries an immense responsibility on her shoulders. After a scandal involving her husband, Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), the church is forced to close temporarily, leaving Trinitie struggling to manage the aftermath. Now Trinitie and Lee-Curtis must rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith by all means necessary to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is from the sibling duo the Ebo twins, writer-director Adamma Ebo and producer Adanne Ebo, who made their feature film debut here with production company Pinky Promise. The pic is an adaptation of their previous short film of the same name. Oscar winner Kaluuya produces with Amandla Crichlow; alongside the Ebo twins. Pinky Promise’s Jessamine Burgum and Matthew Cooper; Rowan Riley; Kara Durrett; and Hall and Brown. Monkeypaw’s Jordan Peele executive produced.
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Focus Features Unveils 20th Anniversary Reel, Commemorative Swag Bag
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFocus Features has lined up an emotional tribute reel and some primo swag to celebrate its 20 years of prestige indie filmmaking.The Comcast-owned unit run by Peter Kujawski released a heart-tugging compilation featuring its most celebrated movies –including the Oscar-nominated “Brokeback Mountain,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Lost in Translation,” “Milk,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “Phantom Thread” and this year’s contender “Belfast.” In its lifetime, Focus has stacked 143 Academy Award nominations and netted 26 wins. Fourteen of those noms have been for best picture.In addition to unveiling a new logo marking the milestone, the studio is gifting talent, filmmakers and industry insiders with Away luggage packed with a selection of 20 Focus titles, Lingua Franca sweaters embroidered with iconic lines from their biggest hits, and, naturally, champagne.
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The Skinny Confidential Founder Lauryn Bosstick Shares Why You Should Shave Your Face and Meditate
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‘Russian Doll’ Sets Season 2 Premiere Date: Watch The Announcement
The long-awaited return of “Russian Doll” is finally here.
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Natasha Lyonne, which dropped its first season in early 2019, will premiere its sophomore installment on April 20, the streaming service announced Monday. The announcement was made in a trippy 30-second video featuring Lyonne in various states and settings.Season 2 is set four years after Nadia (Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality’s time loop together. According to the official synopsis, the series will «continue to explore existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens.» Discovering a fate even worse than endless death, the new season finds Nadia and Alan digging deeper into their pasts through an unexpected time portal located in one of Manhattan’s most notorious locations.
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‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Set for Labor Day Opening in Theaters and on Peacock
Angelique Jackson Let the church say “amen.” “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul” will open for film worshippers on Labor Day weekend.Focus Features, Peacock, and Monkeypaw Productions announced that the movie, from Daniel Kaluuya’s 59% Productions, will be released in theaters and begin streaming on Peacock on Friday, Sept.