Culture Creative is out with THE HORROR EXPERIENCE by Joseph Muscat. When a teenage girl escapes Mr. Mephisto’s clutches, she finds herself hunted by a killer.
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“Without the extensive buildup of backstory [from the book], Art3mis essentially loses her own storyline and purpose and, in doing this, Artemis’ sole purpose becomes a visual totem used as fodder for the obsessive male gaze,” writes Sabrina Cognata.
“There’s one sequence here that Spielberg to pay tribute to not one but two artists he adores, and he recreates a specific film to such a startling degree that it made me dizzy. It is stunning work, and even now, a few days later, I can’t really believe what I saw. That’s one reason I consider Spielberg the greatest commercial filmmaker of all time,” writes Drew McWeeny.
The trailer is set to a cover of “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, which is a fitting pair for a film about entering a fully immersive video game.
Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke star alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Hannah John-Kamen, Lena Waithe, Letitia Wright and Oscar winner Mark Rylance.
The adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel will be released on March 30. It stars Tye Sheridan (Mud), Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller and Simon Pegg.
Don’t be surprised if the cast is overshadowed by the appearance of pop culture icons such as the Iron Giant, Freddy Krueger and the DeLorean from Back to the Future, not to mention references to Akira.
The director has assembled a really interesting ensemble that includes Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg and Oscar winner Mark Rylance.
She will join the Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller and Mark Rylance for the Steven Spielberg film based on Ernest Cline’s best-selling sci-fi novel.
Mark Rylance is close to pushing the start button on Ready Player One at Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies actor is in negotiations for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.
Simon Pegg is in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. He would join previously cast Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn.
Tye Sheridan has landed the coveted lead role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, and DreamWorks are collaborating to make the film based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline.
Steven Spielberg has found his villain for the feature adaptation Ready Player One offering the role of the main antagonist to Ben Mendelsohn. He would star opposite Olivia Cooke who was previously cast as the female lead.
The indie starlet is in talks to play a virtual treasure hunt in Steven Spielberg’s next directing project
Spielberg has signed on to direct the upcoming Warner Bros. sci-fi film.
The “Interstellar” director may take on some problems closer to home.
The super hero movie scribe will pen the adaptation.
Production moves forward with new scribe!
Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.
Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.
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