Resume: Tye Sheridan

 

Tye Sheridan is finally making his return to Last Resort Films with him starring in Black Hole, his first film for the studio since Season 8. For this edition of Resume, we will take a look at the filmography of Black Hole star....


















Season 4

Home Again
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Writer: Chad Taylor



Budget: $26,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $28,869,096
Foreign Box Office: $22,896,404
Total Profit: $6,118,180




The first LRF project for Tye Sheridan was a supporting role in Home Again, which will forever be a trivia answer as Chad Taylor's first film with the studio. In the film, Sheridan played a friend of the one of the main characters, played by Timothee Chalamet. The film performed well with critics and managed to scrape a profit together.



Season 6

Deprogramming
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Lon Charles



Budget: $19,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $39,997,252
Foreign Box Office: $25,717,029
Total Profit: $17,859,770



Next up for Sheridan was a co-starring role in Deprogramming, about a young man who is abducted from a cult and deprogrammed by Casey Affleck's character. Tye received rave reviews for his performance, garnering his only GRA nomination (for Best Supporting Actor) for his performance.



Season 7

Ranger
Director: Scott Cooper
Writer: John Malone



Budget: $45,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $66,228,624
Foreign Box Office: $45,723,077
Total Profit: $3,281,229


Just one season later, Tye Sheridan joined John Malone regular Alden Ehrenreich in his western about the Texas Rangers. Sheridan played a country bumpkin who joins the Rangers. The film is still one of the highest grossing westerns produced by the studio.



Season 8

Queen Mary
Director: Eli Roth
Writer: Alex Conn



Budget: $25,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $19,901,855
Foreign Box Office: $24,225,979
Total Profit: -$10,999,968


Next for Sheridan was a leading role in the horror project Queen Mary. The cast was stacked with popular and talented young actors playing a group making a YouTube video about a haunted boat. Even with all the talent involved, Queen Mary ended up a critical and financial flop.


Up Next: After Black Hole, Tye Sheridan's schedule is mostly clear, although he does have one upcoming horror project he is in talks to star in.


Review:

• Highest Grossing Film: Ranger ($111,951,701)
• Most Profitable Film: Deprogramming ($17,859,770)
• Most Awarded Film: Deprogramming (6 nominations)
• Best Reviewed Film: Deprogramming (Metascore: 82)

Release: The Life After

 

The Life After
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Director: Robbert Eggers
Writer: Meirad Tako
Producer: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Denzel Washington, Adrien Brody, Alicia Vikander, Whoopi Goodberg






Budget: $32,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $14,006,769
Foreign Box Office: $31,997,382
Total Profit: -$21,866,111

Reaction: After a strong Round 9, this round is off to a rough start. It looks like Denzel Washington's name recognition has not translated to success at LRF so far (more on that in the next Box Office Breakdown).

"Meirad is the ruler of the weird, The Life After is no exception. While not a great film, I can commend Meirad on the crazy, weird angle that he has taken with the sci-fi genre, who would’ve thought humans would be used as plants, food and pets for aliens. A bit choppy and the pacing if well off, but the mind blowing, weirdness of it all almost erases that. Not a great film and not a terrible film, if you’ve enjoyed Meirad’s other ventures into the weird you will enjoy this one." - J. Darrell Ellington, Behind the Camera

"The Life After is more strange than scary and more confusing than unique or original. There are some strong visuals thanks to Meirad Tako's imagination and director Robert Eggers' eye behind the camera, but the plot doesn't make enough sense for the visuals to matter." - George Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Of the cast, only Adrien Brody seems to understand the strangeness of the story. Denzel Washington feels too stoic, Vikander too blank, and Whoopi was just Whoopi. The casting isn't the only problem though, with the story not making much sense. For most of its running time, it is just strange - but not in an entertaining way. The ending almost makes up for everything before it though. If the first half of the film was more like the second, the filmmakers might have had something fun on their hands." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press

Rated R for violence, disturbing images and language

Top 10 John Malone Adaptations

 

Sherman J. Pearson here for another edition of Top 10. With 7 Golden Reel Awards for Best Adaptation, it is always an event when a new adaptation written by John Malone is set to debut. Black Hole, due out later this round, is the latest so I decided to take a look at all of the Malone-penned adaptations.

Note: I have not yet viewed Black Hole as of the writing of this article, so is not on the list for that reason.

Top 10 John Malone Adaptations
10. V
9. Supergirl
8. Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
7. Torso
6. Superman: The Man of Tomorrow
5. Flicker
4. To the White Sea
3. Risico
2. Death Dream
1. The Prisoner

Now Showing: The Life After

 

The Life After
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Director: Robbert Eggers
Writer: Meirad Tako
Producer: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Denzel Washington, Adrien Brody, Alicia Vikander, Whoopi Goodberg

Plot: Scientist have always been eager to explore the vast galaxy, they have been researching so that human can progress as a specie and by progress mean human should be able to contact other species out there, and, not long ago, the scientist finally shocked the human race by their achievement to contact some kind of creature from outer space.

The scientist however still cannot figure where did the reply come from, but from their calculation the assumed it came from a distant galaxy named GN-108036. As an honor to what they did, the scientist received medal of honor by the president of America and other honors from all of the world leaders.

Tyrone (Denzel Washington) is a homeless, he lived near the Smith household, John (Adrien Brody) and his wife Sarah (Alicia Vikander) harass him everyday. No one care about him but himself. One day he met a homeless conspiracy theorist, Kendis Young (Whoopi Goldberg), she is a funny and energetic woman. She have been talking about the alien lately and it just pissed the Christian mind of Tyrone.

Tyrone sincerely believe that there is no such thing as alien, if there is one, they would be written in the bible, every time Tyrone said it, Kendis just “Fuck Off” him.

Not long after the latest preach by Tyrone, there is a news that say, Scientist have received new message by the outer creature, they say the creature want to come in peace, they also said that they are afraid of weapon and hoped that earth can turn down its defense.

Kendis told the story to Tyrone and as always he preached about his believe, John who is a scientist himself, heard in and felt offended, he approached them but they just ran off, afraid if John will throw something at them as usual, see they run, John just shout at them that they should stop talking about something that they don’t understand.

6 month passed, in the middle of the night, a UFO came down from the sky, it became a huge news, billion of people watch it either directly or from tv. Tyrone was speechless and he immediately pray to the lord to save all of human, he can feel something is not right. Kendis in other hand make the “I Have Told You Dumbass” gesture to Tyrone.

3 hours without movement, suddenly the UFO shoot green light, everyone in the world can see that and a minute after that the lost their consciousness and fell to the ground.

Tyrone woke up, he found himself half buried in a black matter that look like soil, near him is John and Sarah, he can’t speak, he can’t talk or movie so are they, they can only move their eyes, when Tyrone look at them he can clearly see pain in their eyes, they want to be free, they don’t want to stuck there.

They stay there motionless, in silence and pain for years, they do not age physically only mentally, Tyrone in his last sanity beg to god to kill him, he beg to be kill everyday in the last 50 years. And maybe today his pray have an answer.

Suddenly there are shakes that can be feel, something like a hand came down from the sky and pick up John and Sarah, it also adjust Tyrone’s place so he can see that they actually inside a room, a regular room like a house.

John and Sarah maybe already knew about it, but they cant speak about it.

Tyrone can see a very big green weird creature taking Sarah and John, it put Sarah in another soil while it put John inside a small cage. They pour some liquid on Sarah and John, from Sarah body grew hands and she started to look like a plant while John, after he was poured with the liquid he starts to bark and act like a dog.

For another years, Tyrone can see them being treated nicely, Tyrone can see the pain that was always on there eyes is no longer there, they finally accept their fate.

One day, they big creature came to Tyrone to pick him up, it bring him to something that looked like a kitchen, it put him near Kendis, for a second there is relieve on her eyes when she saw him but the pain came back not long after that.

It picked her up, take her out of her soil and cut her open. Tear came down from his eyes, and now it is his turn when the knife-like thing cut him open, he could not feel anything as if he is numb to all the pain in the world but he still suffer, he suffer silently. No pain can be more hurting than Suffering.

In Development

 

El Dorado: To round out its cast, El Dorado has added Barry Pepper (Days Without End, The Lady in the Lake), Alexa Demie (Batman Beyond, "Euphoria"), Rachel Nichols (Breach, Inside) and Brazlian Victoria's Secret supermodel Lais Ribeiro. Pepper will play a geographer on the expedition to the fabled city, Demie will play a Brazilian local, Nichols will play the wife of Ron Livingston's character, while Ribeiro's role is being kept under wraps. Antonio Campos directs from a script by Billy Cruder.

Grayson: A couple of familiar faces are reportedly set to appear in Taron Egerton's Dick Grayson spin-off film. Madelaine Petsch (Bunker 17, Batman: Arkham) and Jonathan Pryce (Mexican Gothic, Teen Titans) are reportedly set to reprise their roles as Batgirl and Alfred, respectively. The filmmaking duo Daniels is helming the film based on a script by Jimmy Ellis.

Haven: Haven is also completing its cast with the additions of Richard Jenkins (Resident Evil 3, Girl in the Fog), Richard Kind (Free Spirit, Suburbicon), Odeya Rush (Kansas City, Umma) and Stephen Root (Winter's Displeasure, Harrelson). They will all play residents of the perfect small town, Haven. Ben Stiller is directing the darkly comedic drama from a script by John Malone and Chad Taylor.

RoboCop Versus The Terminator: Writer Joshua Collins (EarthBound, Gigantor) is tackling Frank Miller's cult comic miniseres RoboCop Versus The Terminator for his third film. Robert Rodriguez (Blue Beetle, Road Rash) is set to direct the sci-fi/action project. Patrick Wilson (Sinatra, Burnt Dreams) is set for the title role of Alex Murphy / RoboCop. He will be joined by Lupita Nyong'o (Mass Effect 3 - Part 2, Kindred) as the female lead, a resistence fighter sent from the future to destroy SkyNet.

Bringing About Discord: Writer Jacob Jones (Super Grover, Arizona) has another animated film on the way called Bringing About Discord. Adam Sandler (Broadway, A Reputation) will voice the title character, a pet lizard named Discord. Elizabeth Banks (Pressing Luck, Maledicta) and Zach Galifianakis (The Powerpuff Girls, Don't Hang Up) are also set to lend their voices to the project, as a mouse and a doctor, respectively. Genndy Tartakovsky (Oh Deer, Greenwater Amusements) is directing the film, marking his third collaboration with writer Jacob Jones.

Silver Sable: Diane Kruger (The Black Cat Strikes Again!, Cape Torment) is set to reprise her role as the mercenary Silver Sable from The Black Cat Strikes Again! in her own solo Marvel Universe film. She will be joined in the project by Til Schweiger (Atomic Blonde, Charlie Countryman) and Betty Gilpin (The Tomorrow War, The Hunt). Gilpin will play a relative of Silver's, while Schweiger will play the leader of the U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. military unit. Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang, Kings) will helm the film. Jimmy Ellis (Who Watches the Watchmen, Northrock) wrote the film with the help of producer Chad Taylor
(Broadway, The Black Cat Strikes Again!).

Premiere Magazine #219

 

The Roundup with Jeff Stockton (Season 22 Round 9)

 

There is now just one round and three films left of the roller coaster that has been Season 21. Here's The Roundup....

3. Box Office
After last round's piss-poor box office, the studio is obviously going to be thrilled about this round's outcome. Next round is looking pretty solid as well with the fourth Batman film from APJ finishing off the season.

2. Fantastic Four: Doom
The action was a bit light, but the film was still a fun time at the movies. Kudos to Orlando Bloom's fun villainous performance, which was easily the highlight of the film (probably followed in second place by the introduction of SHIELD to the LRF Marvel Universe through Joe Mazzello's character).

1. Caesar Part II
Was there any other option than putting Caesar Part II as #1 here? It's another nearly perfectly executed epic from Malone and Taylor that resulted in not only stellar reviews but equally stellar box office. I can't wait to see what Chad and John cook up for the conclusion of their trilogy.

3. Hair
Hair was fine overall as an adaptation of a famous musical with a pretty and young cast, but it was far from I've come to expect from writer Lon Charles.

2. Fantastic Four: Doom
Like Hair, F4: Doom was not a bad film. I'm just hoping there is more action for the characters in the future. Since I feel like we've only gotten a couple big action scenes between the two F4 films.

1. N/A

On Location (Season 22 Round 9)

Hair
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA

- New York City, New York, USA

Caesar Part II
- Rome, Italy

- Izmir, Turkey

Fantastic Four: Doom
- Buffalo, New York, USA

- Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office Breakdown (Season 22 Round 9)

 

Hair
Budget: $32,000,000
Total Box Office: $89,017,897
Total Profit: $16,239,123

Caesar Part II
Budget: $200,000,000
Total Box Office: $617,056,032
Total Profit: $111,894,946

Fantastic Four: Doom
Budget: $180,000,000
Total Box Office: $727,944,517
Total Profit: $234,008,559









Box Office Facts
Hair
The Musical genre has been a bit iffy for the studio over its history. Hair is the 13th Musical film released by the studio, and the 8th to turn a profit.

Caesar Part II
When the first Caesar was released, it was the highest grossing R-Rated film in LRF history (that title was since taken over by Gears of War), and now Caesar Part II is the new title holder.

Fantastic Four: Doom
This Fantastic Four sequel performed marginally better than its predecessor to become the new 6th highest grossing film in the studio's Marvel Universe.



Genre Rankings
Hair
Musical: #10
Drama: #95
Comedy: #31

Caesar Part II
Epic: #1
Historical: #1
War: #1

Fantastic Four: Doom
Action: #32
Superhero: #18
Sci-Fi: #15




Season 22 Round 9
Total Box Office: $1,434,018,446
Total Profit: $362,142,628

Season 22 Totals
Total Box Office: $5,105,689,398
Total Profit: $764,689,334



Season 22 Summary
1. Fantastic Four: Doom : $727,944,517
2. Caesar Part II : $617,056,032
3. Broadway : $333,872,039
4. Batman Beyond : $332,294,606
5. The Black Cat Strikes Again! : $318,018,157
6. Odysseus - Part Two : $292,323,540
7. Elektra : $277,917,031
8. Northrock : $276,349,458
9. Gathering of the Wolves : $276,237,531
10. Who Watches the Watchmen : $212,011,342
11. EarthBound : $209,764,565
12. Tekken: Blood Feud : $201,991,257
13. The Betrothed : $199,913,179
14. Audible : $130,781,100
15. Supercrooks : $98,579,275
16. Hair : $89,017,897
17. Open Hearts : $78,613,118
18. Super Grover : $59,624,115
19. House Without End : $58,911,490
20. The Boy in the Suitcase : $58,481,290
21. OZ : $56,081,290
22. The Only Good Indians : $44,913,788
23. Thrill of the Kill : $33,195,113
24. Gracie : $24,333,310
25. Extra Ordinary : $24,189,007
26. Arizona : $23,022,496
27. Hope, Sadness and Anger : $20,252,855

Release: Fantastic Four: Doom

 

Fantastic Four: Doom
Genre: Action/Superhero/Sci-Fi
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Mark Newton
Based on Marvel Comics characters
Cast: John Krasinski, Sarah Gadon, Jason Segel, Jack Reynor, Orlando Bloom, Sarah Snook, Joe Mazzello, Laura Berlin, Aksel Hennie, Dan Bakkedahl, Robert Patrick





Budget: $180,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $301,387,041
Foreign Box Office: $426,557,476
Total Profit: $234,008,559

Reaction: The first Fantastic Four film was already a hit, and this sequel managed to improve upon the box office numbers a bit in every possible category, so there is certainly nothing to complain about.

"While still lacking in the action department much like the first film, this sequel was at least a lot more fun thanks to the team having their powers throughout and thanks to Orlando Bloom's performance as Doctor Doom. Hopefully an inevitable third film will offer more action and more for its characters to do now that all four heroes and their arch nemesis are all sufficiently set up in the Marvel Universe." - Roger Taggart, Chicago Tribune

"Fantastic Four: Doom is a minor improvement on its predecessor. It has a little bit more action although that could still be improved. Bloom gets to do a lot of scenery-chewing as Doom and Segel works well as the emotional core of the film, but the other cast members get stiffed a bit in the screen time and development departments - especially Reynor's Human Torch, who gets very little to do here. I liked the film, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping for something grander." - Brenton Smalls, Playboy

"Audiences expect big action sequences from superhero films these days, and that is simply something that has been lacking in these Fantastic Four films. Writer Mark Newton showed recently with Ghost Rider that he definitely knows how to write a thrilling action sequence, so I was disappointed that most of the action here felt generic and light-weight." - Cal Crowe, Washington Globe

Rated PG-13 for superhero violence

Comic to Film: Fantastic Four: Doom

For this edition of Comic to Film, we will take a look at the cast to the anticipated sequel to The Fantastic Four from Season 16. The latest Marvel Universe production, Fantastic Four: Doom brings back director Gareth Edwards (Halo 5, The Fantastic Four) and writer Mark Newton (Gears of War, Ghost Rider).