![]() ![]() ![]() READ MORE: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films He also co-writes the screenplay with actor/writer Johnathan McClain, known for his work on AMC‘s “ Mad Men.” Graham Moore, best known for winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2014’s “ The Imitation Game,” directs “The Outfit,” his feature film debut. Simon Russell Beale, Nikki Amulker-Bird, and Alan Mehdizadoh are also part of the cast. READ MORE: Best Picture Oscars 2022 Predictions & ContendersĪlongside Rylance, “The Outfit” also stars Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, and Johnny Flynn. One promising film coming from Focus in that interim is “ The Outfit.” The upcoming gangster drama stars Mark Rylance as an English tailor who sets up shop in Chicago, only to find that his local clientele comes from one of the city’s vicious crime families. The question is, as with most distributors: will they keep it up through 2022? While Robert Eggers‘ “ The Northman” will undoubtedly make a splash upon release next April, there’s a lot of time between now and then. READ MORE: ‘The Outfit’: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien & Johnny Flynn To Star In ‘Imitation Game’ Writer’s Directorial Debut It’s been a wild and wonky year for theatrical releases, so kudos to them for getting through this rough period unscathed. the releases this year of “ Stillwater,” “ The Card Counter,” and the upcoming “ Last Night In Soho,” it’s safe to say that Focus Features has retained its corner in the US distribution market. The producers of the breitbart-backed movie about hunter biden apparently dropped a full trailer on truth social last night, and it is really something. Pass the popcorn, and then the vomit bag. ![]() “What’s happening in there?” a campy agent-type, played by The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano, says directly into the camera. Just when you thought that was dispiriting enough: Some of the actors break the fourth wall to address the audience to inform us about how bad all this is. (Unsurprisingly, it’s also deeply cruel in its mocking depiction of addiction.) The film appears to have some arty fantasy sequences showing the Biden gang throwing around actual cash. I guess this is the sinister underbelly that far-right types have feverishly imagined for years? Gangster boss Joe and his partying son, doing deals with a syndicate of international criminals-Chinese, Ukrainian, others. His less successful follow-up book included reporting on Hunter Biden.Īs for the trailer: I suppose it’s trying to give me Succession or House of Cards, but with palpably strong “this has got to be a parody, right?” vibes. Schweizer is the conservative author of Clinton Cash, who has worked with Steve Bannon for years. Fox was a noted anti-lockdown activist and ivermectin-enthusiast back home, and also ran a failed bid to become the mayor of London. The film, a febrile fictionalization of the many Hunter Biden conspiracy theories, stars British actor Laurence Fox as Hunter. On Friday night, a trailer for My Son Hunter, a Breitbart-produced film directed by Die Hard actor and CPAC stalwart Robert Davi, dropped on Trump’s financially embattled media platform, Truth Social.Īs incredulous as I was, I’m sorry to confirm it’s real: As Breitbart itself explains, the film represents the company’s “expansion into film distribution” (shudder) and is “a crowdfunded project inspired by the investigative reporting of Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News.” (Full-body shudder). Rudy couldn’t get his Hunter venture off the ground, but another group of filmmakers appears to have finally pulled it off. “The thing I took away from it was, ‘Jesus, these guys are morons,’” one of them explained.īut fear not, movie buffs. The creatives eventually fled the project after squabbling over money and vision. But it did attract the interest of investigators at the FBI, who wanted to know if the former New York City mayor had violated foreign lobbying rules. ![]() Nothing ultimately came of the project, aside from some bad footage. The project, Dan wrote, was “a documentary advancing discredited allegations about Joe and Hunter Biden’s involvement in Ukraine during the Obama administration.” As MoJo reported in 2020, Giuliani had been trying to drum up a cool $10 million for a film that could act as a campaign “kill shot” on Biden, according to one source.īut it’s a tough biz. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ībout a year ago, my colleague Dan Friedman reported that Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ne’re-do-well lawyer and chaos agent, was having a rough time catching a break… in the movie business. ![]()
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