Hollywood Hotline - Week of April 18, 2025
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Howdy Hotliners,
If you haven’t seen A MINECRAFT MOVIE yet might I suggest a double-feature this Easter Sunday of A MINECRAFT MOVIE and SINNERS? MINECRAFTSINNERS? (Full disclosure: I’m good friends with one of the MINECRAFT filmmakers ;). Very happy him. Solid family film. SINNERS I’m seeing for a future Lodgecast so stay tuned for that future episode! Very excited for that one. Seems like a solid family film as well, but for slightly older Lost Boys.
TOP STORY:
Robert Zemeckis Finally Put Out to Pasture with First Netflix Movie
“Based on the Liv Constantine novel, the story follows a con artist (Lopez) who targets a wealthy couple — the Parrishes — as her next victims. She infiltrates the pair by befriending the wife and seducing the husband, with the master plan of becoming the next Mrs. Parrish, only to discover that the wife’s life is far more complicated than she could have imagined.”
Oh how the mighty have fallen. But I get it. Money’s tight. And you’re used to painting on a mo-cap canvas. Gotten used to that A-list craft service and catering. Where else you gonna go? Watch Jennifer Lopez not be available to do press for this film because she gets called up to testify in the impending P. Diddy Racketeering/Sex Trafficking Trial.
Without further ado, let’s check the Hotline:
FUTURE FILMS:
Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro Join Robert Zemeckis in Same Netflix Pasture
“Based on North’s New York Times bestselling novel, THE WHISPER MAN revolves around a widower crime writer who, after his 8-year-old son is abducted, looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”
Eat your heart out Michael Mann! Finally, Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro in the same movie. Opposite each other. I think. Hope they share more than one scene together!
Jesse Eisenberg Following Up A REAL PAIN with A STREETCAR NAMED MARGE
“[Julian] Moore plays a “shy woman who is unexpectedly cast in a community theater musical production, going to extremes as she loses herself in the role.”
This is going to be an A24 musical. Will be interesting to see (and hear).
Steve Buscemi & Aidan Quinn Adapting Sam Shephard Play into Film
“The two-hander follows a pair of old friends, Byron and Ames. With bourbon in hand, and sitting on the front porch, they chew over decades of friendship and rivalry.”
Sounds pretty real. Oren Moverman (RAMPART 2011) directs. No distributor yet.
“There can be only one! JK! JK! There can be more than one!”
One of the Superman’s is remaking HIGHLANDER with one of the JOHN WICK directors for Amazon.
Yup. That’s a sentence I just typed out. I’m sure it’ll be great. Can’t be any worse than the original, right?
Michael Shannon To Play Football Coach
Yup. That’s a sentence I just typed out. I’m sure it’ll be great. Does Michael Shannon even know what football is?
TRENDY TV:
JK, JK,the IP Machine is an animal that hungers for blood.
Kevin Kline and Laura Linney Doing Their Own SCHITT’S CREEK
“AMERICAN CLASSIC centers on Broadway star and notorious narcissist Richard Bean (Kline), who suffers a spectacular public meltdown and returns to his hometown and the family-run theater where he first became aware of his own brilliance. When he arrives, he is shocked to discover that his father, the former artistic director, has lost a step and that the once-respected theater, now run by his brother Jon (Tenney) and his wife Kristen (Linney) has become, by necessity, a low-rent dinner theater serving roast beef and murder mysteries. He decides to save the town, the theater, and the world by presenting a great American classic on the dinner theater stage, directed by and starring, of course, Richard Bean.”
For MGM+. Not sure what service that is? Amazon channel? Anyone? Anyone?
Lindsay Lohan Back on Top! (in TV)
“COUNT MY LIES novel by Sophie Stava, [is being adapted by] former THIS IS US executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger…when compulsive liar Sloane Caraway fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet (Lohan) and Jay Lockhart, it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode —with potentially catastrophic consequences for all.”
For Hulu. Sounds southern gothic. Sign me up for some of this sweet tea!
PACIFIC RIM Live-Action Series is the Middle-Aged Millennial POWER RANGERS
Who says Prestige TV is dead? Peak Prestige Roaring back, baby!
COMING SOON:
EDDINGTON - Beau is Afraid of Being Sheriff So He Runs for Mayor
28 YEARS LATER - Has it really been that long? Damn do I feel old. This is giving me 2025 vibes
HIM - I thought this was a movie about those “Hims” pills at first? Love seeing Marlon Wayans outside WHITE CHICKS
THE LIFE OF CHUCK - Did I see Mia Sara’s name in the credits???
SHARP CORNER - What if ‘Lou Bloom’ from NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) but a dad in a house by the side of the road?
THE ROSES - Re-telling of THE WAR OF THE ROSES (1989) although I’m not so sure about this casting
THE FOUR SEASONS - I’ve seen the original 1981 Alan Alda movie, which was as bad as this trailer looks
If you can’t make it to MINECRAFTSINNERS this Easter Sunday then fire up the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM on the old YouTube and put a little pep in your step in the kitchen whilst making brunch!
Until next week, Hotliners! Thanks for calling in.
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