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Trailer Teases ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ 40th Anniversary Re-Release
This means something. This is important.
Sony celebrated the long 4th of July weekend in totally unexpected fashion by unleashing a teaser trailer for *something* related to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That teaser, titled ‘This Means Something,’ features clips from the movie along with an air traffic control radar animation of a UFO being spotted; along with the trailer, the brand new website WeAreStillNotAlone.com was launched.
Naturally, many began speculating that either a sequel to the 1977 sci-fi masterpiece or a reboot of it was in the works, but neither appears to be the case. Rather, Variety confirms that the classic film is returning to theaters in celebration of its impending 40th anniversary.
The Richard Dreyfuss-starring Close Encounters hit theaters in November 1977, but the site notes that the re-release is heading into select theaters for one week beginning on September 1st. By clicking over to the aforementioned website, you can sign up to be notified when more details are revealed.
In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dreyfuss played a line worker who has an encounter with a UFO and then feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness… where something spectacular is about to happen.
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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