Shia LaBeouf joins Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded $100 million sci-fi epic Megalopolis

Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has joined the ensemble cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s self financed, $100 million epic feature, adding to the beleaguered actor’s mounting list of comeback projects.

Shia LaBeouf joins Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded $100 million sci-fi epic Megalopolis

According to Variety, also set to join the feature film are Talia Shire, Coppola’s sister, Jason Schwartzman (Shire’s son), Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar. Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film in the 1980s, and the legendary Godfather and Apocalypse Now director is financing the dream project himself. The film’s official logline reads, “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love.”

The all-star Megalopolis cast already includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once starring Michelle Yeoh to release in India on September 16, 2022

Ever since the film opened in the United States in early 2022; everyone in India has been eagerly waiting for this kung-fu flick’s Indian debut. Everything Everywhere All At Once is being brought into India by Impact Films.

Everything Everywhere All At Once starring Michelle Yeoh to release in India on September 16, 2022

According to its founder and CEO Ashwani Sharma, “We were very clear right from the beginning that we are going to release this film on big screens rather than going straight to digital platforms as this film is a rare cinematic experience which needs to be enjoyed only in theaters. It’s not coming on any OTT anytime soon as we may not license it before Academy Awards nominations are revealed.”

He further adds,” CBFC has passed the film without any cuts thereby ending the reservations and curiosity of several audiences who were worried as to what might get chopped off. It’s now the same version that’s being watched worldwide”.

It’s the story of an exhausted Chinese American Woman who is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. When the film opens, we meet Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) as a harried laundromat owner, living above her business in a cramped apartment and facing a mountain of paperwork amid an audit from the IRS. She is stressed about her aging father (James Hong) coming to stay and struggles to listen to both her grown daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) and her tender-hearted husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). But while meeting with an IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis), a strange occurrence involving her own husband pulls her into a multidimensional adventure that puts the fate of every universe in her hands—and also forces her to confront who she is to herself and her family. At the core it’s a Mother Daughter Story and connects at an emotional level. It’s a rare film which has so many genres encompassed in its more than 2hours 20 minutes duration that a viewer gets exposed to Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy and Science Fiction; all at the same time. It’s a treat for the fans of Multiverse and has no other comparable film of its type.

Written & Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels; they have been writing and directing together for over a decade. They’ve developed a reputation for combining absurdity with heartfelt personal stories. Oftentimes they incorporate a unique brand of visual effects and visceral practical effects into their genre blending projects. They are known for the feature film SWISS ARMY MAN starring Daniel Radcliffe which went on to win the Directing Award at Sundance, received multiple nominations and gained a large cult following. “If our script was a prayer, then our movie was a miracle, and the hands doing God’s work belonged to the film crew/family.” Daniels, the directing-duo on #EverythingEverywhere. “We could say a million things about it, but the most simple, honest thing is it’s about a mom learning to pay attention to her family in the chaos,” says Kwan. “One of our favorite things to do is make people feel emotional while looking at something that is absurd,” Scheinert says. “Whenever we can pull that off it’s just like, oh, what a fun feeling! We feel emotion, but we also feel this kind of mischievous joke has been pulled.”

The real star of the film is Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh who gives her performance of the lifetime. Michelle Yeoh is recognised as one of the greatest and the most successful actresses from the east post the success of Crazy Rich Asians. In Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh is unkempt, emotionally flayed, and put through the multiverses ringer in a role that is entirely singular within a prolific, decades-long international career. Daniels offered Yeoh a new way to see herself on-screen. “I love working with younger directors because they don’t see you in the conventional way,” Yeoh says. “They want to peel that onion and see what other layers there are, and then start throwing crazy things at you.”

In the film, Evelyn being played by Michelle becomes a Neo-like chosen one specifically because she is the single-most failed version of all her potential selves. “That gives her superpowers to be able to defeat the bad guy,” Kwan says. “But,” Scheinert notes, “Mostly she gets distracted by all these lives that she wished she had led.” “It really felt like the script came alive when it became about the mom and it was Michelle as the lead,” says Scheinert. For Evelyn, she has to confront a multiverse on the brink of collapse—an extreme manifestation of the sensory overload that the modern world is increasingly defined by—to see the family that has always been there. “You have to go to the end of the world to find out what really matters to you: your daughter, your husband—would you make another choice?” Yeoh ponders.

The film is produced by Jonathan Wang and Russo Brothers; Anthony Russo & Joe Russo. Impact Films release, Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan among others, in cinemas from 16th of September 2022.

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Dulquer Salmaan, Sunny Deol, Pooja Bhatt, R Balki to unveil Chup trailer on September 5, 2022; motion poster out

After launching the impressive teaser of R Balki’s Chup, the makers of the romantic psycho thriller will be launching the trailer of the highly-anticipated movie on 5th September, 2022.

Dulquer Salmaan, Sunny Deol, Pooja Bhatt, R Balki to unveil Chup trailer on September 5, 2022; motion poster out

Interestingly, the makers have consciously decided to reveal intriguing motion posters of Chup (from 1st September onwards) on the social media, as an exciting countdown till the trailer launch.

The teaser of R Balki’s Chup featuring Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan and Pooja Bhatt has piqued everyone’s curiosity and already built huge anticipation around the film wondering what’s it all about.

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Chup is directed by R Balki and produced by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Anil Naidu, Dr. Jayantilal Gada (PEN Studios) and Gauri Shinde. The original story is by R Balki, screenplay and dialogues are co-written by R Balki, critic-turned-writer Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani.

Dr. Jayantilal Gada (Pen Studios) presents the film and all India distribution is by Pen Marudhar. The director of photography is done by Vishal Sinha and music composers are S D Burman, Amit Trivedi, Sneha Khanwalkar and Aman Pant. The songs are penned by Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi, Swanand Kirkire. Pranab Kapadia and Anirudh Sharma are the co-producers of the film.

Also Read: Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan, R Balki’s Chup to release on September 23; Amitabh Bachchan to make debut as music composer

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Aparshakti Khurana roped in as the host of Ultimate Kho Kho 2022 championship

Aparshakti Khurana could have been seen onscreen in a sports-based movie like Dangal, a movie based on professional wrestling, but in real life, he has been roped in for Ultimate Kho Kho 2022, which will be telecasted by a major television network. Although Kho Kho is one of the home-grown indigenous sports, not many stars seem to be associated with the game. The actor is more than happy to lend his support to this game to shine more light on it and wants to continue doing his bit to bring to the forefront the game and the many players behind it.

Aparshakti, whose latest movie Dhoka Round D Corner’s teaser, starring R Madhavan, Darshan Kumar, and Khushali Kumar, was recently released, says, “Sports have been a very integral part of my life, right from childhood. It does not just help in physical health but also helps develop one’s mental strategy. I have been a part of the Haryana U-19 Cricket Team and I still play football with the All-Stars team. Also, my first film was based on wrestling. Now it is an honour to host the Ultimate Kho Kho Leagues’ opening season. The league has so many talented players, as the championship goes on I am sure people are going to be hooked till the finals. It is important that we support home-grown sports and take them to new heights and build a great audience base for them. We must pride in our culture and home-grown sports such as these are part of the community at large”.

The championship, which has around six teams, is being hosted in Pune. The names of the teams are Chennai Quick Guns, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Khiladis, Odisha Juggernauts, Rajasthan Warriors, and Telugu Yoddhas. The ongoing league will go on until September 4.

Also Read: Aparshakti Khurana to play a Kashmiri terrorist in Dhoka D Round Corner; learns Kashmiri and sheds weight to essay the role

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