Cinema Squad - Ep. #59 - Guest: Screenwriter & Author GARY WHITTA!!

CINEMA SQUAD 7/23/17
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UPDATES, CORRECTIONS, & TIDBITS
-New trailers released for: “Leatherface,” “ALPHA,” “The Disaster Artist,” “The Snowman,” “The Shape of Water,” “Only the Brave,” “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women,” “Proud Mary,” “Jigsaw,” “Pacific Rim: Uprising,” “Rebel in the Rye,” “Justice League,” "Thor: Ragnarok" & “Ready Player One”
-Storm Reid joins David Oyelowo in “Only You."
-Steven Soderbergh has shot a secret new film.
-Gerard McMurray to direct "The Purge 4: The Island."
-Mads Mikkelsen joins Daisy Ridley & Tom Holland in "Chaos Walking."
-"Shazam!" will be next DC Cinematic Universe movie that will go before cameras.
-"Captain Marvel" will be in the '90s, with Nick Fury & the Skrulls.
-Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen & Walton Goggins join "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
-Noah Hawley developing a Doctor Doom movie at Fox.
-Universal Studios eyeing Channing Tatum to play Van Helsing.
-Todd McFarlane partnering with Blumhouse for new Spawn movie.
-John Heard died while recovering from back surgery.
-Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau, died at the age of 89.
-George A. Romero died last Sunday following a battle with lung cancer.
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THE BOX OFFICE REPORT
1st with $50-Million is DUNKIRK
2nd with $30-Million is GIRLS TRIP
3rd with $21.6-Million is SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
4th with $20.4-Million is WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
5th with $17-Million is VALERIAN & THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
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THEATER - NETFLIX - OR NEVER
Opening next weekend: “The Emoji Movie” – “Atomic Blonde” – “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” – “Brigsby Bear” – “Strange Weather”
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THE HOT LIST
-Felicity Jones to star as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex" for Focus Features & Participant Media.
-Dev Patel to join Ben Stiller in “Chippendales” for Bold Films.
-Andy Muschietti to direct Sony’s adaptation of “Robotech.”
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TRIVIA – POST-APOCALYPTIC FILMS
Post-Apocalyptic films are defined as “denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.” So with “War for the Planet of the Apes” in theaters and in honor of our special guest who wrote the post-apocalyptic film “Book of Eli,” I thought we’d test some Cinema Squad Trivia on Post-Apocalyptic films.
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DEVELOP, DITCH, OR TURNAROUND
-Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman are writing & directing a Mega Man film for Twentieth Century Fox.
-Sony Pictures optioned the rights to Action Lab Comics series Princeless.
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CLOSING SEGMENT – INTERVIEW WITH GUEST GARY WHITTA