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‘Twilight’ Author’s Alien Invasion Finds ‘Host’
Open Road Films is in talks to acquire domestic rights to Stephenie Meyer’s pic The Host, one of the hot titles at this year’s Cannes market, reports Variety.
Pic, from “The Twilight Saga” scribe and toplining Saoirse Ronan, is eyeing a January start date.
Helmed by Andrew Niccol (who also adapted the screenplay of Meyer’s tome), “The Host,” published in 2008, “revolves around the takeover of Earth by an alien race known as Souls.”
Open Road was founded as a joint venture earlier this year by AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group; Tom Ortenberg came onboard two months ago as CEO. Distrib, which announced its acquisition of “Killer Elite” in Cannes, will pursue mid-range-budgeted pics pegged for nationwide rollouts.
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‘Blink Twice’ Trailer – Director Zoë Kravitz Invites You to a ‘Pussy Island’ Murder Party This Summer
“Soooo… everybody’s dead. How about we start at the beginning,” Channing Tatum narrates the opening moments of the trailer for Blink Twice, which debuted online today.
Directed by Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), and formerly titled Pussy Island, MGM’s upcoming Blink Twice will be released only in theaters August 23, we’ve learned this afternoon.
Watch the official trailer below to begin this strange murder-mystery party.
Naomi Ackie stars alongside Channing Tatum in Blink Twice, with the film’s impressive ensemble cast of familiar faces also including Kyle MacLachlan, Adria Arjona, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, and Geena Davis.
In Blink Twice, “Tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, and sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun-soaked days and everyone’s having a great time.
“No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.”
Kravitz wrote the script alongside E.T. Feigenbaum.
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