Bad Bunny To Play Marvel’s El Muerto In Upcoming Sony Movie
The “I Like It” hitmaker will be the first Latino actor to headline a live-action Marvel movie.
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With the all female redo of “Ghostbusters,” once again, a black actress instead of a studio executive or a powerful director, like Paul Feig, would appear to be bearing the brunt of some controversy tied to accepting a large studio paycheck. In what could be categorized as another case of blaming the victim for a larger societal problem, “Ghostbusters” actress and SNL comedienne Leslie Jones would seem to be on the short end of a rapidly burning stick when it comes to her portrayal of the sole Ghostbuster of color in the remake of the longtime “Ghostbusters” franchise. Actor Ernie Hudson, the African American actor who portrayed Winston Zeddemore, the original “fourth” and only non-white Ghostbuster, has recently gone on record with his conflicting emotions when it came to playing his part thirty years ago in the breakout comedic hit. Before filming, Zeddemore was originally sold to Hudson as a potentially “career-changing” role equipped with an Air Force and demolitions background that was just as impressive if not as geeky erudite as those of his white ghost busting counterparts, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis who were all scientists. However, once Hudson arrived on set his part was severely diminished to the point of being just an ordinary guy looking for a paycheck. In a telling reveal of what hasn’t changed in the playbook, Leslie’s character, Patty Tolan, Zeddemore’s female doppelganger is not only the only non scientist Ghostbuster, but in a truly less than timely rewrite, Tolan is an actual “token black” due to the fact that her job outside of being a Ghostbuster is literally working in an NYC toll booth where she gives tokens to other people who actually do have important places to go and things to do all over New York City. In the Sophie’s choice that befalls those such as Jones and also actress Zoe Saldana, who has also recently been persecuted in social media for her less than ideal casting as African American civil rights icon Nina Simone in “Nina,” the choice to respond and be found at fault, or be silent and be found at fault is neither good nor particularly ideal from any view. However, perhaps because Jones is a comedienne, and familiar with dealing with a heckler or two, she has wisely chosen to respond via twitter, and doing so, has done quite well in her defense – whether one chooses to believe in the overall merit of her argument or not in light of the bigger picture. To her credit, Jones starts out by quoting an actual fan that contacted her who is in fact an African American tollbooth clerk: Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg I received this from a MTA worker: Hey Leslie, thanks for being you. A question was asked by a news writer about your role on your new movie 10:02 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg black actresses. This was my response: I work for the MTA in that role as a Token Boof Clerk and I was happy to see my job, something whic 10:02 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg provides me with plenty of jokes, a great perspective on society, and a birds eye view of horrible s### that I witness everyday on screen. 10:03 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg . (I wished Leslie would have hooked me up…a joke) however, the fact that my position as a clerk is the most abused by society, I feel 10:03 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg boof have folk thinking I’m invisible, that I’m not a college graduate, and a producer, comedian, writer, actor, etc. I’m a verb. I’m not a 10:05 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg I love my job and I enjoy engaging people with information infused with humor. Leslie is a comedian. She’s a larger than life personality 10:06 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg and it’s the first thing we see no matter what role she gets. As she grows, she will be able to tap into all her greatness. I am supporting 10:07 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg supporting this movie because I see me. I hope you receive all that’s for you. You looked so cute in the uniform. Congrats Sis. I’m proud 10:07 PM – 3 Mar 2016 Moving on from there, Jones does quite a good job speaking for herself in a straight forward assessment of her responsibility as an entertainer, the studio’s responsibility and the actual work she gets paid for in an argument that doesn’t end with her when it comes to Hollywood and how the stories we want to see are actually created and sold: Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg Why can’t a regular person be a ghostbuster. Im confused. And why can’t i be the one who plays them i am a performer. Just go see the movie! Leslie Jones @Lesdoggg ITS NOT A MAN, WOMAN, RACE, CLASS THANG!! ITS A GHOSTBUSTER THANG!! AND AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED WE ALL GHOSTBUSTERS!! STAND TALL!! It’s hard to argue with Leslie Jones’ sentiment in her last all caps tweet, because yes, in theory and in pretty much everything else, we all want to be Ghostbusters. But to the same point, in the year 2016, one also has to admit that it is likely very much a “race thang” if thirty years later it’s still inconceivable for just one of the scientific or extraordinary Ghostbusters up on the screen to be the single dark berry out of an otherwise extremely mauve bunch. Clearly that is one ghost that we as a larger society have not quite busted once and for all.
While social media has been literally “atwitter” with regards to the numerous little moral deaths governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie appears to be suffering silently after endorsing his former GOP rival Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential Nomination, actor Sacha Baron Cohen, star and creator of Borat, Brüno and Ali G Indahouse, is clearly in no danger of falling prey to similar fate when it comes to his new movie “The Brothers Grimsby” – much to the chagrin of Sony Pictures. The dark action comedy from the studio, which also stars Mark Strong and Rebel Wilson, revolves around two brothers cruelly separated in their youth only to be reunited as adults living radically different lives. Set for nationwide release in the U.S. on March 11, 2016, the movie currently contains a joke that is unflattering to Donald Trump, which Sony pictures brass would subsequently like to see gone before the movie hits American shores given The Donald’s status as an undisputed presidential frontrunner. Despite the fact that the joke has scored big overseas with foreign viewers cheering and giving the bit standing ovations, Sony has been trying it’s best to kill the reference but Baron Cohen, who has final cut of the film simply will not allow the change. To add to Sony’s anxieties on the matter, at the film’s U.S. premiere on March 3, 2016 in Los Angeles, Baron Cohen, outfitted in a bright red “Make America Great Again,” Trump campaign baseball hat, pulled no punches when it came to taking jabs at the GOP presidential frontrunner, calling him a “demagogue.” As such, it would certainly seem that when it comes to Donald Trump, Sacha Baron Cohen definitely isn’t indahouse. Feel free to check out the trailer for “The Brothers Grimsby” here:
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COMIC BOOK GEEKS REJOICE! A 4-MINUTE SUPER-PREVIEW OF SPIDEY IS HERE!
Earlier today, (February 6), Sony Pictures held a worldwide event in select cities that allowed fans and movie-goers an exclusive preview of the new trailer and footage from the director Marc Webb’s upcoming film,The Amazing Spider-Man. The event was the perfect opportunity for the film’s creators and Sony Pictures to build anticipation and gauge reactions to the footage from the very people who would be paying to see the film when it hits theaters later this year. The preview event, dubbed “The Untold Story,” began with the The Amazing Spider-Man’s new theatrical trailer, which debuts via an online premiere tonight. The trailer looks great and showcases a large amount of the film’s action as well as the the transformations that both Peter Parker and the film’s villain, Dr. Curt Conners, experience throughout the film. The highly anticipated sizzle reel was next. A description of some of the scenes that the audience was shown is below: Peter Parker gets bullied in school, gets some revenge, and has to be picked up by his Uncle Ben who’s played by Martin Sheen. We then get to see him and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy share some awkward dialogue as he asks her out. We then meet the film’s villain, Dr. Curt Conners, played by Rhys Iffans, in a lab working on experiments to get his arm back. Parker than finds a room at the lab filled with elaborate webs and glowing spiders. Of course, he gets bitten. He then begins to test his powers, after waking up one morning, smashing his alarm clock, and finding himself to be super-strong. This leads to a montage of him accidentally breaking stuff and swinging throughout the city. We get to see brief shots of Parker building his web-shooters, just like in the comics, and then testing them very humorously on a car thief. Next, there was a great scene where Spider-Man is caught by the police, gets unmasked, and proceeds to beat down a large group of officers in a very spider-like way. They never actually get to see his face. Several clips of the Lizard ripping at innocent people, Spidey, and nearby cars and attempting to flip them over is shown. Throughout the reel, it’s hard to get a real good look at the Lizard’s face, although you can make out his large, green, scaly body multiple times. A battle on the Manhattan Bridge follows and Spidey fights back while managing to save all of the cars the Lizard threw off the bridge. One of the last scenes has Parker dressed as Spider-Man outrunning a collapsing building in what looks to be one the central set pieces for the film. Overall, the footage looked amazing, and it appears that a lot of the backlash from some fans for rebooting this franchise so soon will be silenced once the film is released on July 3. Sony Pictures will be debuting the new action-packed theatrical trailer at midnight online. In the meantime, check out the previously released trailer below: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPUTwhP5a8]