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TGIF: The Belko Experiment Releases New Trailer and Song
The Belko Experiment has just released a new trailer and exclusive song from the film’s soundtrack. Seems like a good way to wrap up your work week.
The Belko Experiment is like a wild combination of Battle Royale and Office Space, as written by James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy).
The massive cast includes John Gallagher Jr. (Hush, 10 Cloverfield Lane), John C. McGinley (Office Space), Tony Goldwyn (Ghost), Michael Rooker (Slither), Josh Brenner (Silicon Valley), Sean Gunn (Super), Adria Arjona (Person of Interest), and Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station). Director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) amps up the brutal and oddly comedic energy to make the film truly fun.
If you haven’t heard (read?) the premise, 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
We all know that the office environment can be kind of a bummer. But you know what’s worse? When you’re suddenly pitted against your fellow coworkers in a bloody battle for survival. Talk about a case of the Mondays (I’m sorry, I hate myself already).
For all its blood, tension and terror, The Belko Experiment really is just a lot of fun. I was able to see it at TIFF this year, and I remember alternating between edge-of-my-seat rapt attention and gleeful fits of giggling. It’s a high-octane thriller that doesn’t waste any second of action.
The film is, at times, genuinely shocking. If you’re familiar with Greg McLean’s other films (the Wolf Creek series specifically), you’ll know that the man knows how to work with violence. And it’s definitely violent, with a diabolical premise that drives the suspenseful game of survival of the fittest.
I genuinely cannot wait to see it again. The Belko Experiment hits theatres Friday, March 17, so get ready to put down those expense reports for a wonderfully insane way to start off the weekend.
With the release of a new trailer (#3 here, people), they’re really keeping on top of the updates. Earlier today, of one of the songs from the soundtrack (a Spanish language cover of California Dreamin’ by the Mamas and the Papas, sung by Gabriela Terán), was made available for purchase through Amazon.
It’s not dramatically different from trailer #2, but we do get a few additional scenes with new tidbits of information. Hopefully the trailers will make you as excited for the March release as I am.
You can check out the brand new trailer below.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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