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101 Studios will release the family comedy “The War With Grandpa” on Sept. 18 wide in conjunction with financier Brookdale Studios, starring Robert De Niro and “Pete’s Dragon” breakout Oakes Fegley. The movie was scheduled to be released on February 23, 2018, by The Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films. However, just a month before its release, it was pulled from the schedule and was later pushed back to October 20, due to principal photography location changes.

For the obvious Weinstein-related news, the film was pulled back from them and sold to the producers. Now the film is finally expected to hit theatres in September. Tim Hill-directed family comedy follows a young boy who devises a series of outrageous pranks in an attempt to make his grandfather move out after he was forced to give up his room for him. The movie co-stars Cheech Marin, Uma Thurman, Eugene Levy, and most notably, Christopher Walken.

If Walken and De Niro share a scene, this will be the first time they do since “The Deer Hunter” (1978). De Niro is fresh from two Best Picture Oscar-nominated films with “Joker” and “The Irishman” and is now expected to work with Scorsese and David O. Russell again, also collaborating for the first time with James Gray for a new project. With his career back on acclaimed films on track, hopefully, “War with Grandpa” won’t earn him any mixed reviews considering his recent “Grandpa” role in “Dirty Grandpa” wasn’t so beloved.

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Jim Carrey previewed his new book in a new interview with The New York Times ahead of its July publication. The book which is titled “Memoirs and Misinformation” tells the story of a fictionalized Jim Carrey searching for meaning in Hollywood. Years after acting success and is billed as “semi-autobiographical novel”.

In the book, Carrey is in an existential crisis and trying to find meaning in Hollywood’s self-obsessed culture. He also deals with movie offers like Mao Zeoding and something else about eco-terrorism and so on. Several actors like Nicolas Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anthony Hopkins will also have their fictionalized versions.

“It’s satire and parody but also done with reverence.

Most of the people in this book are people whom I admire greatly,” says Carrey. Tom Cruise also appears here under the name “Laser Jack Lightning” for legal reasons. Carrey says “That’s just us poking fun at the litigiousness of Hollywood. I know Tom Cruise He may sock me, but hey, I’ll take the beating for a piece of art.

I think he’s going to love it.” The actor’s novel, co-written with Dana Vachon is available to purchase from 7 July.

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Pablo Larrain has achieved great success with “Jackie”. Now he’s back to a biopic about a celebrated woman of the political world again. This time his film “Spencer” will be about Princess Diana’s life and she’s going to be portrayed by Kristen Stewart. Stewart had been on a hot streak between 2014 and 2017.

Recently she seems to slow down, some of her recent film choices didn’t work but critics still love her performances and praised her accent work on her recent biographical takes in “Lizzie” and “Seberg”. So probably she’ll pull this off successfully as well. Another hot news of the week was that Neon, the slowly rising studio has now bought the US rights to the film.

This is good for its awards chances considering “Parasite” just won the Best Picture this year, also distributed by NEON. Chilean filmmaker was also supposed to end filming “Lisey’s Story” with Julianne Moore for AppleTV+ then coronavirus happened. “We were [shooting] for six months in a row and we had a few weeks left, and we had to stop.

So I guess we’re wondering and seeing how we restart, how are those conditions. I don’t have clarity today,” Larraín said. As for “Spencer”, it’s expected to start filming early next year. Pablo certainly keeps himself busy.

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Margot Robbie and her “Birds of Prey” writer Christina Hodson are teaming up again. This time for a new “Pirates of the Caribbean” film but to make things clear. While the plot details are unknown, it’s safe to say that it is separate from the already announced reboot that is going to be handled by Ted Elliott and Craig Mazin.

“Pirates” producer Jerry Bruckheimer is expected to produce both films. It is said to be a wholly original story with new characters under the “Pirates” moniker. The franchise itself had always been commercially successful. The critics hadn’t been too kind to the sequels & they started to get tired of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow. Who is not expected to be in any of those two films (but who knows, maybe he’ll surprise).

Robbie is going strong in general, she’s fresh from two Oscar-nominated films; “Bombshell” (for which she was nominated as well) and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. She’s next to be seen in James Gunn’s “Suicide Squad” and also supposed to collaborate with Greta Gerwig-Noah Baumbach duo for a “Barbie” film.

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Christopher Nolan’s much anticipated new film “Tenet” is now delayed again. As the theatres are not expected to open in July not just in LA & NY but around the many parts of the globe as well. Even earlier this year, when most films were announcing their postponement, it was widely reported that Christopher Nolan is very insistent on the July release date and has convinced Warner Bros to release the film at that time.

The movie was initially slated to arrive in theaters on July 17 but was later postponed until July 31. Now it’s delayed again and it will be released on Aug. 12. However, it may still seem too early because the pandemic has not been slowing down around the world. Since the movie costs 200$ million dollars, theatres opening in the US alone may not be enough even and that’s not the sole reason.

Nolan is well-known for trying to avoid spoilers as much as possible. So having long gaps between release dates in the world may be a problem for the usual marketing strategy. Nolan’s films are also often considered to be great theatrical experiences by his fans and these are all among the many reasons why there’s no way “Tenet” getting a VOD release instead of theatrical one.

The question is when will we get to experience it since further delays are possible given the current climate. Of course, cinema lovers are hoping it’ll be experienced in theatres but when there’s enough of a safe environment. Soon later, news came up that Disney has also moved “Mulan” to August 21, and just like “Tenet”, it’s possible to move on again.

MGM has also moved “Bill & Ted Face the Music” back two weeks to Aug. 28 to avoid opening against “Tenet.”

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There had been a lot of Will Smith-related news recently, some good and some bad. The good news is Warner Bros, Apple, MGM, Lionsgate & Universal have all made offers to buy his new project with Antoine Fuqua. Smith is supposed to play a runaway slave. Who escaped to the Union Army during the Civil War and outwitted bounty hunters over 10 days through the Louisiana swamps, masking his scent with onions.

The production is expected to start in early 2021. As for the bad news, his other new project “King Richard” is now being sued. The movie that will tell the story of Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena Williams, is now a subject to controversy as Richard is being sued, along with Warned Bros and Will Smith’s production company.

According to TW3 Entertainment & Power Move Multi-Media, Richard Williams sold the rights to his life story to them first, well before Warner Bros. came on the scene. Smith will probably handle the situation and the film itself seems to be another baity role for him. Smith most recently starred in “Bad Boys for Life”, the third installment in his famous “Bad Boys” series. Currently the highest-grossing film of the year. It is also the highest-grossing installment of the series and the biggest January release of all time.

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Woody Allen is back again with a new film. It should be no surprise that it’ll premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival. Spain’s most prestigious film festival since the story sets in there. The film, which is titled “Rifkin’s Festival” follows an American couple attending the festival. They both start an affair with different people. At least that’s what we know, so far.

Allen’s recent films have rarely got strong positive reviews. The allegations against him in the early 90s surfacing again due to #MeToo made him facing trouble at financing his movies in America or casting high-profile American actors. Unsurprisingly, he gathered a mostly European cast for this one.

It’s not his first film to open the festival. In 2004, “Melinda and Melinda” was the opening night film of the festival. Allen himself received a career achievement award that year. We’ll see if Allen is back to his form as not any of his films since “Blue Jasmine” has received universal acclaim. His latest “Rainy Day in New York” did pretty fine at the box office around the globe. It may be another hit for him, but it’s a question if US audiences will ever get a chance to see the film or not.