Canadian action star Ryan Reynolds may be currently working on Marvel’s “Deadpool 3,” but that doesn’t mean he can’t line up other big projects for the future. He’s reportedly set to reunite with Skydance Media for a new film at Apple Original Films, as Deadline reveals he’ll star alongside director/actor Kenneth Branagh in “Mayday.”

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The action-adventure flick hails from “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filmmaking duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who had some decent success recently with their fantasy-comedy based on the beloved table-top role playing game.

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Grace Van Patten has had a year that most young actresses dream about. She delivers a much-discussed performance on Hulu’s hit series “Nine Perfect Strangers” and counts an acclaimed 2021 Sundance selection among her credits. “Mayday” gives Van Patten a role that is just as complex and layered as her ‘Strangers’ character. Karen Cinorre’s directorial debut is a fantasy built upon timeless classics like “The Wizard of Oz.” Set in a dreamlike world grounded in sad truths, the film contemplates themes ranging from trauma to feminism.

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There are probably quite a few women around the world that would fantasize about being transported to a play where females are in control and the men are pawns in their own little game. That’s the world of “Mayday,” but things aren’t as great as they might seem.

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With “Mayday” arriving everywhere this week, we’re thrilled to give our readers a chance to see an exclusive clip from the upcoming feature.

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Trust us when we say we hope there’s a day when the words pandemic and COVID-19 are never written on the pages of this website again, specifically in any intros to any features. However, the reality is that the collective disruption of 2020 was difficult, and it made 2021’s release schedule something of a log-jammed shitshow. That Delta variant could play havoc with things too, but we’re all starting to learn to live with a world that’s in flux. 

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All that said, the delays of 2021 have had their pluses.

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One of the interesting breakouts of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was “Mayday” from first-time feature-length filmmaker Karen Cinorre, a dreamy fairy tale of female revenge and perhaps, #MeToo going too far. The film stars Grace Van Patten, a young woman pushed around in life who is mysteriously transported to another land where she meets a group of female rebels battling against male soldiers.

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Female trauma’s been given a serious workout in cinema, liberally exercised in the fantasy genre of late. The celebrated “Promising Young Woman,” while dark satire, uses hot pink revenge fantasy to acerbically explore unresolved trauma (its we live in a society bias nicely unpacked here), and fellow Sundance film, “The Blazing World,” attempts to fall down the rabbit hole of make-believe and similar flight-or-flight responses to emotional scars, only to grotesquely exploit it with its awkward tumble.  

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S.O.S distress calls, fantasy escape from trauma, and forever wars that need to be fought all swirl together in “Mayday,” a dreamy and surreal new feminist fairy tale and revenge film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The feature-length filmmaking debut of writer/director Karen Cinorre, “Mayday” centers on Ana, a young woman who is mysteriously transported to an otherworldly and dangerous island. Upon her rescue, she is recruited into a murderous army of girls engaged in an endless conflict that lies between a treacherous ocean and a jagged coastline.

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Every year is a good year to stan female directors, but 2021 has cooked us up a real feast. Acting veterans like Rebecca Hall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, and Halle Berry are finally claiming their director’s chairs on feature films, while arthouse icon Jane Campion is returning to hers after 12 years. Foreign language directors like Lucile Hadžihalilović and Ildikó Enyedi are making their English-language debuts, and French juggernaut Mélanie Laurent is working on two releases back to back.

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The fact there are even 72 selections for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival is something of a miracle. The fall festivals had the benefit of movies that mostly shot before the pandemic hit in March. Outside of three selections originally set to debut at Cannes (a silver lining for Sundance), most of the narrative pictures premiering in January were shot at least partially after the virus hit North America. When there is a will, there is a way.

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