Welcome to the Cinema Squad Podcast – Episode #42!

The Cinema Squad is a weekly Movie News Podcast brought to you by insiders currently working within the film & tv industry.  On this episode, we are discussing the week of March 6th – 12th 2017.  Our special guest this week is writer/director/editor MIKE MENDEZ!!

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This episode we discuss:

CINEMA SQUAD 3/12/17

• New trailers released for: “Geostorm,” “Rough Night,” “Atomic Blonde,” “Fate of the Furious,” “Wonder Woman” and “Baby Driver.”
• Zazie Beetz cast as Domino in “Deadpool 2”
• T.J. Miller joins Kristen Stewart’s “Underwater.”
• Kerry Washington, Nathan Fillion & Lea DeLaria added to “Cars 3.”
• Danny DeVito & Eva Green to join “Dumbo.”
• “Avatar 2” December release “Not Happening.”
• Release date of Oct. 12, 2018 for “First Man.”

THE BOX OFFICE REPORT
1st with $61-Million is KONG: SKULL ISLAND
2nd with $38-Million is LOGAN
3rd with $21-Million is GET OUT
4th with $10-Million is THE SHACK
5th with $8-Million is THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE

THEATER – NETFLIX – OR NEVER
Opening next weekend: “Beauty and the Beast” – “The Belko Experiment” – “Song to Song”

THE HOT LIST

• Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks & Meryl Streep in “The Post.”
• Hugh Jackman & Noomi Rapace to star in Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.”
• Sony has won a bidding war over the spec script “Marian” for actress Margot Robbie.

TRIVIA – HORROR MOVIES
With “The Belko Experiment” coming next weekend, and in honor of our special guest Mike Mendez (who has written & directed several horror/thriller projects), I thought we’d dig into some Cinema Squad horror movie trivia.

DEVELOP, DITCH, OR TURNAROUND

• Jason Momoa to star in “Just Cause” based on the Square Enix video game.
• Imperative Entertainment to release Macon Blair’s next film “The Shitheads” with Tracy Morgan & Luke Wilson.
• Dakota Johnson to star in “Unfit.”

CLOSING SEGMENT – INTERVIEW WITH GUEST MIKE MENDEZ