How ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Filmmakers Used Satire and Documentary to Examine Truth

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Zack Sharf For a stretch of time over the summer, you couldn’t log on to social media without seeing photos of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in neon spandex costumes on the set of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Barbie” movie. The leaked set photos, captured by dozens of paparazzi in Los Angeles, broke the internet for weeks. Robbie called the photo leaks “mortifying” during a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” “I can’t tell you how mortified we were, by the way,” Robbie said when Fallon showed a “Barbie” set photo to viewers (via IndieWire). “We look like we’re like laughing and having fun, but we’re dying on the inside. Dying. I was like, this is the most humiliating moment of my life.”

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Rebecca Souw Leonardo DiCaprio could be invited to join the cast of Netflix’s Emmy winning global smash hit “Squid Game” in a future season, series writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said. At a Netflix-hosted congratulatory press conference in Seoul on Friday, when asked if any known Hollywood actor would star in “Squid Game” Season 2, Hwang said: “There will be no known Hollywood actor in Season 2. That’s not in the plan and if the stage changes, maybe in Season 3 – but for Season 2, it is still set in Korea. Leonardo DiCaprio did say he’s a big fan of ‘Squid Game,’ so maybe if time or chances allow, we can ask him to join the games.”

TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has stunned her fans by announcing that she has dropped 11lbs whilst following a new Weight Watchers diet plan that allowed her to indulge in sweet treats. She credits the weight loss program for losing the unwanted weight.

Margot Robbie, saying she doesn’t “mind” them but wants to “move past that”.The actor, who had her breakout role as Maeve Wiley in Netflix series Sex Education, is set to star opposite Robbie in upcoming film Barbie from director Greta Gerwig. Following the casting announcement, many highlighted their similar looks on social media.Speaking to Total Film about the comparisons, Mackey said: “It’s just funny. And I think Margot has had the grace and humour to be able to play on that, and allow me to be in the same film as her – bless her.”Mackey however isn’t entirely sold on the comparisons, adding: “It’s just a joke in real life.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor A discussion on the music of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” and actress-producer Issa Rae will lead the Guild of Music Supervisors 8th annual State of Music in Media Conference on Oct. 1. The event will take place at the LA Film School in Hollywood, and will be an in-person and virtual hybrid event. The programming will focus on discussions about the craft of music supervision, along with topics like “Everything You Wanted To Know About Trailers, But You Were Afraid to Ask.” There will also be networking opportunities with industry leaders and panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, documentaries, games, and more. Program highlights, as described by the Guild, are below. Panel titles and speakers are subject to change; visit https://www.gmsmediaconference.com/ for ongoing updates.

Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (October 5-14) has announced its full line-up, including opening film Scent Of Wind, directed by Iran’s Hadi Mohaghegh, while Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai will be honoured as Asian Filmmaker Of The Year.

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EJ Panaligan editor “Key and Peele” co-creators Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele reunite for leading voice roles in the new teaser for Netflix’s “Wendell & Wild.” The new stop-motion animated comedy horror film from Netflix is director Henry Selick’s first since 2009’s “Coraline.” Based on Clay McLeod Chapman’s unpublished book of the same name, the film follows two demon brothers with scheming tendencies, Wendell and Wild, voiced by Key and Peele respectively, who enlist the help of a 13-year-old named Kat, voiced by Lyric Ross, to summon them back to the Land of the Living. Selick and Peele co-wrote the adapted screenplay. In addition to Key, Peele and Ross, additional cast in the film include Angela Bassett, James Hong, Sam Zelaya, Tamara Smart, Seema Virdi, Ramona Young and Ving Rhames in supporting roles.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” After playing Randall Pearson on NBC’s “This Is Us” for six seasons, Sterling K. Brown was ready to play a completely different character. So, he took on Lee-Curtis Childs, a closeted pastor accused of sexual misconduct who’s relaunching his church, in Adamma Ebo’s satirical comedy “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” Styled as a mockumentary, the film follows Lee-Curtis and his wife’s struggle to reopen their church and the public backlash from Lee-Curtis’ scandal. Regina Hall co-stars as Trinitie Childs, who’s also mired in the controversy as she’s forced to stand by her husband. After the #MeToo movement, the movie echoes many stories of real-life celebrities held to account for their bad behavior, but it now hits home even more as those figures attempt to re-emerge into public life.

Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday.

you can get Peacock Premium for $1.99 a month for 12 months, then $4.99 after that. Peacock Plus, which does not have ads, is $9.99 a month.Trinitie Childs (Hall) and her husband Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown) were once led thousands of congregants at their Southern Baptist megachurch before a scandal forced their church into a hiatus.

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kaluuya is “chilling” on acting following the release of Nope, his latest collaboration with Jordan Peele.

you can get Peacock Premium for $1.99 a month for 12 months, then $4.99 after that. Peacock Plus, which does not have ads, is $9.99 a month.Trinitie Childs (Hall) and her husband Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown) were once led thousands of congregants at their Southern Baptist megachurch before a scandal forced their church into a hiatus.

Film premiere and headlines spilling from a trio of fests in full swing (Venice), just starting (Telluride) and queued up (Toronto) have indie exhibitors and distributors the most hopeful since Covid hit that a stream of new films could fire up the arthouse market.

“Nope” actor will make his screenwriting debut on a futuristic Netflix film, “The Kitchen,” which 59% will also produce.TheWrap sat down with Kaluuya ahead of this film’s release as he discussed his passion for being on a project from early development to post-production, and how he sees acting and producing as the “same intent, just in a different accent.”Kaluuya also gave his reaction to the widespread success of “Nope,” which he filmed during production for “Honk for Jesus,” and why he’s excited that many are “embracing original cinema.”What initially drew you to this project?[The movie represented] what we stand for as a company and new voices, new perspectives, marrying interesting tone with a world that hadn’t really been married before. There was an interesting tone and it just elevated the genre of mockumentary, in terms of the subject matter.

Jack Osbourne is convinced the US government, army and defence contract bosses are covering up their knowledge of UFO technology. The reality TV regular, 36, said it was “ignorant” to dismiss unexplained sightings in the skies as a wacky interest in “aliens”, and believes segments of congress, as well as long-standing generals and CEOs of aerospace and defence corporations, know the full truth about what is behind them – which he suspects is also kept secret from presidents. When asked during an interview on Wednesday (31.