Гипнотик (Hypnotic)

Ооо, Беня неожиданно тут выплыл.

Родригес конечно последнее время напрягает меня. Но ладно, дам шанс.

Съемки стартуют через месяц в Остине, штат Техас

Теперь старт съемок, которые перенесли в Ванкувер (Канада), запланирован на октябрь

Производство под угрозой закрытия

Продюсеры боевика «Гипнотик» с Беном Аффлеком в главной роли подали в суд на страховую компанию, которая отказалась продлевать полис на фоне пандемии коронавируса. Если ситуацию не получится урегулировать, производство картины могут отменить.

 

Как сообщает Variety, продюсеры намерены судиться с компанией Chubb National Insurance. В их заявлении указано, что страховщик нарушил условия договора, по которому обязался перенести срок действия полиса в случае необходимости.

 

Картину «Гипнотик» планировали снимать ещё в апреле этого года, но производство пришлось отложить из-за эпидемии коронавируса. К работе над картиной хотят вернуться в октябре. При этом страховка на случай болезни или гибели исполнителя главной роли Бена Аффлека и постановщика фильма Роберта Родригеса действует только до 28 октября 2020 года. Как подчеркивается в иске, компания Chubb National не намерена учитывать перенос съёмок из-за пандемии, хотя изначально обещала продлевать сроки действия полиса, если это потребуется.

 

Продюсеры отметили, что вряд ли смогут продолжить работу над лентой, если страховая компания не изменит своего решения.

Родригес и Аффлек конечно балдеж, жду.

Надеюсь не отменят.

зы. а вообще жду сиквел Алиты от Родригеса.

Возможно, начнут снимать весной

Also, we understand that Solstice is moving forward with its feature productions, i.e. Hypnotic in the spring and The Plane starring Gerard Butler.

Съемки в Остине стартуют 20 сентября

К Аффлеку присоединилась Алиси Брага

Съемки в Остине стартуют 20 сентября

 

К Аффлеку присоединилась Алиси Брага

Ура.

Роберт Родригес в интервью Collider

Rodriguez’s next film is an original thriller called Hypnotic, which will star Affleck and Alice Braga and follows a detective who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program. This is an original film written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein, and when Collider’s own Steve Weintraub spoke with Rodriguez recently about Happier Than Ever, he asked about the status of Hypnotic. The Alita: Battle Angel filmmaker revealed that while the film has been delayed due to pandemic, they’re planning on starting production in six weeks:

“It was supposed to shoot last April and COVID pushed it like six months, then it pushed again because COVID came back strong. Now we're, fingers crossed, shooting in six weeks. We’re hard prepping, so I could be shooting that in the next six weeks.”

While Rodriguez declined to get into plot specifics, he offered a tantalizing tease of what kind of movie Hypnotic is and said he’s been dreaming up the project for the last two decades:

“It's like a Hitchcock thriller on steroids. That's all I can say. As soon as you see the first trailer, you'll go ‘I got it. I'm there.’ It's that kind of a movie. A lot of twists, a lot of turns. Very exciting. It’s a not everything you see is real-type movie and it's got a great cast. It’ll be very energetic. It's one of my favorite stories. I started writing it back in 2002. So it's one of the ones I've had the longest that I've been wanting to do. I'm very excited that we finally might be making it.”

Rodriguez explained how the pandemic impacted the production of the film:

“We're casting now. It was hard to start casting until we knew for sure we were going because the delta variant showed up and we thought this thing's going to push again. Because it's an independently financed film. Like Disney Plus could be like, ‘Oh, we need this product. We're filming no matter what.’ But you have an independent film, you have to get insurance. Insurance companies are very wary right now for this variant that could shut a movie down because then they're out of money. They'll be out a lot of money. So understandably it's risk. So, that we're going is really exciting because it's going to be fun to shoot and it's going to be a fun film.”

The filmmaker also spoke a bit about the COVID protocols that will be in place when filming begins, noting that he’s going to be doing a lot of the jobs himself on the film akin to his earlier movies where he was his own cinematographer and composer. However, he's got some familiar help:

“My son now is my full-time composer. My other son is my co-writer/producer. My daughter is doing storyboards. My other son's doing the animatics, because he's using his game engine stuff that he designed the sets for Heroes with. And then my other son edits with me. So, it's a family affair.”

К Аффлеку и Браге присоединилась Хала Финли

Съемки в Остине стартуют 20 сентября

27 сентября

Присоединились Дайо Окенийи и Уильям Фихтнер

Solstice Studios Shuttering? Top Execs Laid Off As Indie Becomes Hollywood’s First Corporate Covid Fatality

Solstice Studios is terminating most of its key executives, a move that was announced to staff Monday morning. Deadline hears that among those who are out are founding CEO Mark Gill, production president Lisa Ellzey, founding marketing chief Vincent Bruzzese, distribution head Shari Hardison and international sales topper Crystal Bourbeau. This follows a round of layoffs last December of about 20 people.

 

The company will continue with just 10 staffers left, and they will oversee the completion of Hypnotic, which is now in production with Robert Rodriguez directing and Ben Affleck and Alice Braga starring. Those staffers are expected to stay on through fall 2022. I’m told the company will be shuttered after that.

 

“Solstice is not closing,” a company spokesperson said this morning. “It is being streamlined and will focus entirely on getting ‘Hypnotic’ produced and released. To that end, there will still be 10 people working at the company going forward.

 

” ‘Hypnotic’ is fully funded and in production now. Principal photography is scheduled to be completed November 19. Post-production is set for completion on July 15, 2022.

 

“Solstice is targeting a wide theatrical release in North America in September or October 2022 on a minimum of 2,000 screens. The U.S. release will either be handled by a team purpose-built by Solstice for this picture—or by a third-party U.S. distributor.

 

“Solstice is targeting a concurrent international theatrical release of the movie to be handled by independent distributors in territories all around the world who have pre-bought the movie.”

 

The statement is nearly identical to one sent to staff today by Solstice CFO Shaun Williams.

Фильм станет вторым (после Неистового) и последним проектом Solstice Studios. А планов было громадьё...

ахахахахахахаха лол

что ж, придётся ждать) всё выглядит как снотворное, но такая новость раззадорила)

и, получается, Lionsgate, отказавшийся от The Plane с Батлером, снова забрал его к себе. какая ирония

Съемки в Остине (15 октября)

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Остин (10 ноября)

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The Curious Journey Of Big-Budget Ben Affleck Movie ‘Hypnotic’ Will Continue At The EFM As U.S. Release Plans Emerge

Late last Thursday night, an email went out to international buyers trumpeting that the film’s U.S. buyer had finally been found: Ketchup Entertainment.

 

Ketchup is a boutique financier-distributor whose last stateside release in 2019 was family film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond. It has never released a film of Hypnotic‘s budget or screen commitment. The company’s CEO Gareth West was involved in setting up the financing for Solstice Studios and is an executive producer on Hypnotic along with other financiers such as Ingenious Media.

 

It wasn’t exactly the special sauce international buyers had been hoping for.

 

The plan is for Ketchup to “release the film in coordination with a number of former Solstice executives” this summer, across at least 2,000 screens.

 

What has been the reaction among buyers? “We were concerned about this movie being on the shelf for so long, and this has done nothing to allay that concern,” one told us. “I’ve spoken to at least one major buyer who is looking to get out of their deal. I hope it isn’t dumped at the end of August,” they added.

 

Another simply replied: “A $70M Ben Affleck and Robert Rodriguez action film with Ketchup at the helm? Hmmm.”

 

Hopefully, everyone is pleasantly surprised come Friday (and the summer release). But there may be one or two plot twists to come.