Even in the glut of Netflix content, some projects prove too troublesome for the streamer to release. Variety reports that after myriad post-production delays, Netflix won’t complete or release “The Mothership,” a sci-fi movie starring Halle Berry. The film wrapped filming back in 2021, but Netflix won’t finish work on the movie, shelving it permanently.

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“The Mothership” would have been the directorial debut for Brish screenwriter/playwright Matt Charman, best known stateside for co-penning Steven Spielberg‘s 2015 feature “Bridge Of Spies” with the Coen Brothers.

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Immovable objects meet unstoppable forces. Netflix may not be the best platform when it comes to promoting its original titles, but when that original film happens to feature a retired assassin played by Jennifer Lopez, odds are you don’t need to put a ton of money into the marketing budget. Audiences have been hungry for more Lopez ever since her scene-stealing turn in 2019’s “Hustlers,” and the seeds planted in that performance – and the subsequent media cycles it inspired – are being paid off in 2023 with films like “Shotgun Wedding,” and now, “The Mother.”

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In the first trailer for “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez plays a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before while on the run from dangerous men.

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After years of agony, drama, and studio fighting with mixed results to show for it in the end (at best), if filmmaker Zack Snyder gleans one takeaway from his terrific new zombie thriller, “Army Of The Dead,” it’s that he should steer completely clear of superhero films for the rest of his career and focus on original features. And maybe just zombie ones. Snyder’s best movie since his debut, the zombie film “Dawn Of The Dead” (2004), “Army Of The Dead” is really compelling and deftly navigates a lot of different tones, even if it quickly leaves more interesting ones behind.

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A heist movie with zombies? It’s an enticing mash-up that raises the stakes to the risks and rewards inherent in both genres. That’s the premise of Zack Snyder‘s latest film, “Army Of The Dead,” set to hit Netflix this May.  

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“It is a full-blown, balls-to-the-wall zombie heist movie, so it’s genre-on-genre in a great way,” Snyder recently told EW.

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“Army of the Dead” marks Zack Snyder‘s return to a zombified world since his directorial debut, 2004’s remake of George A. Romero‘s “Dawn of the Dead.” While the two films are unrelated, they’ll undoubtedly share the same fast-paced, unrelenting action violence that first put Snyder on the Hollywood map.  

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The movie follows a group of mercenaries in Las Vegas who venture out of the quarantine zone to pull off a bank heist during an outbreak of the undead.  Dave Bautista leads the soldiers-for-hire.  Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Garret Dillahunt, Raul Castillo, Omari Hardwick, Tig Nataro, and Matthias Schweighöfer round out the large, multicultural ensemble cast.

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Audiences have grown to love Tyler Perry films over the director’s prolific decade-plus filmmaking career. Primarily known for his various ‘Madea’ films, the writer-director does sometimes venture off the franchise that put him on the map to tell more straightforward stories. And in his latest, “Nobody’s Fool,” Perry sadly treads on familiar PG-13 comedy territory, but is thankfully saved by yet another strong performance from Tiffany Haddish.

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PARK CITY – Even if you are intimately familiar with Boots Riley’s musical career and progressive politics it cannot prepare you for his bold directorial debut, “Sorry To Bother You,” which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night. Even if you read the official synopsis that informs you the film takes place in an alternate reality and it’s classified as “Sci-Fi” and “Fantasy,” you are not prepared. 

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