Welcome to the Cinema Squad Podcast – Episode #22!

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This episode we discuss:

CINEMA SQUAD 7/17/16

UPDATES, CORRECTIONS, & TIDBITS

• Trailers released for: “Loving,” “La La Land,” “Other People,” “The Hollars,” “Rules Don’t Apply,” & “A Monster Calls”
• “The Founder” moving release date to December 16, 2016
• “Life of the Party” releasing May 11, 2018
• Lionsgate is re-launching its “Saw” franchise
• Universal is eyeing Javier Bardem to become Frankenstein’s Monster

The Box Office Report

• 1st with $50-Million is Secret Life of Pets
• 2nd with $46-Million is Ghostbusters
• 3rd with $11.1-Million is Tarzan
• 4th with $11-Million is Finding Dory
• 5th with $7.5-Million is Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates

THEATER – NETFLIX – OR NEVER  
Opening next weekend we have “Star Trek Beyond” – “Ice Age: Collision Course” – “Lights Out” – “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie”

The HOT List – The hottest stories from the previous week in Movie News:

• New behind-the-scenes footage of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
• Chiwetel Ejiofor to play Peter the Apostle in “Mary Magdalene”
• Ben Stiller to star in “Brad’s Status”
• Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, and Milla Jovovich to star in Rob Reiner’s “Shock and Awe”
• Oscar Isaac to star in Steven Spielberg’s “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara”

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson to make her live-action directorial debut with “Darkest Minds” for Fox
• Warner Bros. developing a movie based on the BuzzFeed article “Brother Orange.”
• Bill Kunstler to adapt the screenplay for the movie version of “Castle Hangnail”
• Director Steve Pink has signed on to write and direct “Rent a Hero”

Closing Segment:  Comic Con Stories