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Paramount Owns the ‘mother!’ Controversy in This Excellent New Trailer!
OMFG do I love this new television spot that’s running for Paramount Pictures’ mother!, which most definitely is the most divisive and subversive film in years. The trailer confidently boasts, “Some people love it, some people…don’t,” which I guess is easy considering it bombed* at the box office.
Fans annihilated Darren Aronofsky‘s film, which received a dreaded “F” as its CinemaScore, all the while Paramount backed the film up by calling it “audacious and brave.” Our very own Joe Lipsett called it a “bold, fascinating, and divisive experience.” No matter, I love that the studio is owning this and now going to use it as a marketing tool. Fuck yeah, man, wear it as a badge of honor!
Where do you stand? Talk below.
*It didn’t really bomb, per se, as New Line Cinema’s IT just took so much of the box office that it left nothing else for the other films. Math.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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