#INTERVIEW: “MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY”

After its intitial theatrical release, MY SPY would go on to find new life on Prime Video during the Pandemic, becoming the third-most streamed title of 2020 upon its release on the streaming service. Fans now get an eagerly-anticipated Sequel from Director Peter Segal (50 First Dates, Get Smart), MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY reuniting Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in their roles as JJ and Sophie. This time around, Sophie‘s high school choir jets off to Italy in a performance for the Pope. Originally meant as a bonding experience between stepfather and stepdaughter, the duo find themselves at the entangled in a terrorist plot that could end the world!

Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal also return, with new Cast additions Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg.

We got to join a chat modeated by Director Segal and stars Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman and Ken Jeong.

Production on this Sequel to the 2020 hit took the Cast and Crew to Italy and South Africa. They commented on their travels. Most of them got to go on a Safari, except one!

Coleman: Yes! We all went on a Safari! (pointing to her and Jeong)

Bautista: I didn’t get to go on a Safari. Remember, I had only the one weekend off and it rained.

Jeong: We barely had any time off. It was Easter weekend I think, and everybody went of to the Serenghetti.

Segal mentions that there is a lot of action in the Movie and asks the Cast about their training for it.

Bautista: I’ve been working my whole life! I didn’t have to train at all!

Jeong: Watching Dave do this and working with the Stunt Coordinators, it was amazing to watch because as a fan of Dave from the WWE, him just seguing seamlessly into ‘I’ll take over!’, or ‘I can do this part!’, it’s incredible to watch. Flula did an amazing job as well! He’s so under-rated, so happy for him.

Segal: I remember one day Dave when you were approaching Flula in a Pope mobile. He was in the Pope Mobile and you were on a motorcycle and you were kinda surprised why there wasn’t a stunt driver because it was Flula actually driving! He blasted out of what was supposed to be the Vatican garage without even an inch on each side of the side-view mirrors to get out of there, one and done.

Segal asks the Cast what it was like working with new additions to the Cast including Anna Faris, Flula Borg and Craig Robinson.

Bautista: Super talented, versatile and improv – they all brought something extra to table. They just chipped in a bit of their own personality and it really showed and came across. I’ve known Anna for years, so super comfortable with her, but never really met Flula or Craig.

Jeong: Fit in like a glove!

Segal: What did you work on with Anna?

Bautista: I knew Anna from working on Guardians of the Galaxy with Pratt.

Segal: I forgot about THAT one! I saw Anna Faris on a talk show yesterday. She said the Cast was close that it was intimatiding for her. How do you become new member of a family?

Bautista: Everyone feels that way coming in new – she fit right in.

One of the themes of the Film is Sophie‘s character beginning to come of age. Chloe Coleman comments on this and her character’s first kiss at the end of the Movie.

Segal: Chloe, when I originally pitched this to you, you weren’t all that into it because of the whole boy thing. It took a couple years to get this movie going.

Coleman: I think inititally Sophie was a little more boy crazy than in the Movie. I remember reading one of the drafts and she’s kissing a dummy, asking JJ ‘How do I go in for my first kiss?’. And if I had to do this, I would’ve freaked out! I think we got the perfect balance though. When you become teenager, you do think it’s gross. Sophie‘s reserved and if it’s something special and new, something she doesn’t understand, that’s what she’s scared of. She doesn’t know how to be a teenager and a high schooler, she had no friends in the first movie and now she does. She’s expanding her life in a new way.

Segal: Was that actually your first kiss? Because I would’ve felt bad with all the pressure!

Coleman: That was so mean, because we were checking the camera, we get more takes of it and then you said, ‘Now we’re going to start filming’ and you were filming the ENTIRE time! So you got double the amount of takes you actually shot!

Segal: Because I felt bad because I thought you and Taeho K were going to be very nervous, so I said we were just practicing!

Coleman: I knew it!.

Segal asks the Cast what ideas they have for a third film in the Franchise.

Bautista: Sophie’s gotta be in college
Coleman: Where does she go to college?
Bautista: This all depends on when Amazon pulls the trigger
Segal: A wedding for Mr. Kim?
Jeong: That would be incredible, not to spoil anything!

MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY arrives July 18, 2024 on Prime Video Canada.

(Photo/video credit: Prime Video)

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “KNOCK AT THE CABIN”

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN is back with some thrills in KNOCK AT THE CABIN, coming early next year to theatres. See this new Trailer.

Synopsis:

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista (Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise), Tony award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter), Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth, Fleabag), BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Persuasion, Old), newcomer Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn (Little Women, Landline) and Rupert Grint (Servant, Harry Potter franchise).

Universal Pictures presents a Blinding Edge Pictures production, in association with FilmNation Features and Wishmore Entertainment, an M. Night Shyamalan film. The screenplay is by M. Night Shyamalan and Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman based on the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. The film is directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock (Split, Glass) and Ashwin Rajan (Servant, Glass). The executive producers are Steven Schneider, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos and Ashley Fox.

Universal Pictures Canada release #KnockAtTheCabin is in theatres February 3, 2023.

(Photo/video credit: Universal Pictures Canada)

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR SEASON 2 OF “SEE”

The new Trailer for Season 2 of SEE has premiered. The new season of the Toronto-filmed Series premieres later this Summer on on Apple TV+.

Synopsis:

“See” takes place in the far future and humankind has lost its sense of sight. In season two, Baba Voss is fighting to reunite his torn-apart family and get away from the war and politics that surround him, but the more he moves away, the deeper he gets sucked in, and the emergence of his nemesis brother threatens his family even more.

Joining the Cast are Dave Bautista (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) as Edo Voss, the brother of Momoa’s character, Baba Voss. New series regular cast members joining Bautista this season include Eden Epstein (“Sweetbitter”), Tom Mison (“Watchmen”), Hoon Lee (“Warrior”), Olivia Cheng (“Warrior”), David Hewlett (“The Shape of Water”) and Tamara Tunie (“Flight”). 

SEE Season 2 arrives August 27, 2021 on Apple TV+.

(Photo/video credit: Apple TV+)

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “BLADE RUNNER 2049”

Positioned confidently in this year’s high-profile final quarter, the new Trailer for BLADE RUNNER 2049 has just surfaced and we’re really in for a slick, sophisticated, futuristic fantasy.

Synopsis:
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve, #BladeRunner2049 stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana De Armas, MacKenzie Davis, Sylvia Hoeks, Lennie James, Carla Juri, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.

See the Trailer:

Warner Bros. Pictures Canada release BLADE RUNNER 2049 Friday, October 6, 2017.

(Photo/video credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Canada)

#FIRSTLOOK: SAM MENDES REVEALS CAST, TITLE + RELEASE DATE FOR “BOND 24”

Much speculation has circled surrounding the casting of the upcoming BOND 24 Film, but rumours were put to rest earlier this morning at London’s Pinewood Studios as Director Sam Mendes unveiled not only the title and release date of the upcoming Sony Pictures release, but also its Cast!

Starring in SPECTRE, which is an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, once again is Daniel Craig who has helped revive the Franchise to much critical and commercial success. The Villain is to be played none other than by two-time Oscar Winner, Christoph Waltz in the role of Oberhauser. Andrew Scott, known best for his work in Sherlock and this year’s Festival Darling, PRIDE, also joins the Cast with Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Monica Belluci (The Passion of the Christ).

The Synopsis for SPECTRE  is as follows:

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

See Mendes’ announcement below:

Sony Pictures release SPECTRE on Friday, November 6, 2015.

(Photo/video credit: Sony Pictures)