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Finn Wolfhard Had No Idea He Was Auditioning for ‘Ghostbusters’

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Excuse me while I chuckle for a second… the filmmakers behind the new Ghostbusters auditioned Finn Wolfhard? Like, they physically made him drive into the studio lot and read some lines in front of a camera like an asshole? He’s fuckin’ Finn Wolfhard, the scene-stealing star of both “Stranger Things” and “It: Chapter One” that should be instantly castable if he’s interested in your movie. And Ghostbusters? He was born for the role, yet he was put through the wringer and didn’t even know what he was auditioning for. That’s funny.

Wolfhard tells MTV at the ongoing CinemaCon:

“It’s all secret. It’s like completely, ya know — I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for when I auditioned for it.”

Mckenna Grace, last seen playing a young Carol Danvers in Marvel Studio’s Captain Marvel, has booked the lead role in Sony’s sequel, it was reported last week. She joins Wolfhard and Carrie Coon (Widows).

In the canonized sequel to the original Ghostbusters films…

“A family moves back home to a small town where they learn more about who they are.”

The story centers on a single mom and her children. Grace will play the daughter, while Coon is in talks to play the mom, and Wolfhard is in talks to play her son.

Sony has slated Jason Reitman’s sequel to be released on July 20, 2020.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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