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Breaking: Disney Has Delayed ‘The New Mutants’ and ‘Antlers’ Indefinitely
The dominos have begun to fall as festivals are being canceled and studios are closing their doors. This morning Paramount Pictures pulled A Quiet Place Part II from their release schedule and now Disney is following suit.
20th Century Studios/Marvel’s The New Mutants and Searchlight’s horror pic Antlers are off the release schedule, reports Deadline, adding that Disney is now looking at potential 2020 dates in regards to where the titles would be scheduled next.
This is a heavy blow for the Josh Boone-directed The New Mutants, which was finally getting a theatrical release on April 3rd after a nearly two-year delay. Is there a world in which the film just drops onto Hulu or Disney+?
In the film, “Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.”
The mutants include Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin, also known as Magik; Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie, a.k.a. Cannonball; Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair, a.k.a. Wolfsbane; Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa a.k.a Sunspot, a mutant with the ability to absorb and channel solar power; and Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar, the Native American telepath also known as “Mirage”.
Alice Braga also stars as Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a medical doctor who has the ability to generate a protective bio-field around herself but also has more going on than she lets on.
As for the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers, directed by Scott Cooper, the film was slated for release on April 17th and had all kinds of hype going into its release.
Based on the short story “The Quiet Boy” by Nick Antosca (“Channel Zero”), in Antlers, a small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.
With all of the studios delaying their spring releases, could Lionsgate’s Antebellum (April 24) and Spiral (May 15) be next? We put an email into the studio to find out.
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Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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