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Exclusive: Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith has boarded the Matt Walsh indie comedy action movie The Unexpecteds as an EP with the title receiving a Oct. 14 digital release via Mvd Entertainment Group.

The Unexpecteds follows Gary (2x Emmy nominee Walsh) and his friends as they seek revenge against a social media influencer who scams them out of their life savings. Directed and written by Alejandro Montoya Marin, the pic won the Best Comedy Award at the third annual Smodcastle Film Festival.

The movie also stars Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man From Toronto), Chelsea Rendon (Vida), Francisco Ramos (Gentefied), John Kaler (The Wrong Guy) and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez (Transformers: One) in this action-comedy.

Montoya Marin is known for being part of Robert Rodriguez’s original TV series Rebel Without A Crew. Alejandro De Hoyos produced under his Alta California Pictures. The movie will be available for pre-sales on Sept. 16.

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Following the streaming success of her Netflix original film, Trigger Warning, Jessica Alba is returning to the action genre once again as the lead in a new spy thriller, The Mark.

Per Deadline, Alba is set to lead The Mark, a new action spy thriller from director Justin Chadwick. Written by Ronnie Christensen, The Mark follows Eden (Alba), an "enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission. When Eden pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage, his life is turned upside down," per the official synopsis. Currently, no other stars are attached to the project, but production on the film is set to begin in July. There is no official release window for The Mark.

After a five-year absence from movies, Alba returned to the limelight in 2024 with Trigger Warning, a Netflix original action movie that became a streaming success in the weeks after its release on the platform.

The Alejandro Montoya Marin directed and written movie, The Unexpecteds, won the Best Comedy award at the third annual Smodcastle Film Festival.

The movie stars Veep 2x Primetime Emmy nominee and Hangover actor Matt Walsh, Alejandro de Hoyos, Chelsea Rendon, Francisco Ramos, Jason Konopisos-Alvarez, Jerry Bednob, Natasha Leggero and Laura Patalano and follows a group of friends who seek revenge against a social media crypto influencer who has scammed them of their life savings. The comedy is 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and first had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle Film Festival celebrates cinema in Central New Jersey with a diverse lineup of films, including features, short films, animations, and documentaries, as well as filmmaker panels and meet and greets.

Marin shared his excitement, exclaiming “Winning Best Comedy at Smodcastle is a dream come true. As a lifelong fan of Kevin Smith and Clerks,...

Trigger Warning, starring Jessica Alba, is an action-packed film with some big twists, despite receiving negative reviews. The film's plot revolves around Parker uncovering the truth behind her father's murder and exposing the corrupt Swann family. Ezekiel Swann's fate is ambiguous, but it's implied that Parker killed him, contributing to her mission of ending corruption in the town.

Netflix's Trigger Warning, starring Jessica Alba in the lead role of Parker, debuted on June 21, 2024. Directed by Mouly Surya in what is her first English-language feature, the film is action-packed, with several plot twists throughout. Despite seeming appealing on paper, the film was blasted by critics, with Rotten Tomatoes awarding it a dismal 22% on its Tomatometer. However, defying its negative reviews, Trigger Warning has gone on to dominate Netflix's charts, claiming the number one spot on Netflix's Global Top 10 list.

Trigger Warning's storyline centers on the death of Parker's father,...

Trigger Warning defies critics with global Netflix success despite low Rotten Tomatoes rating. Alba's role as a Special Forces commando in a gritty narrative captivates viewers on Netflix. Trigger Warning's rise to top viewing charts raises concerns about disconnect between critical reception and viewership.

Jessica Alba's latest film, Trigger Warning, has defied critical expectations to become a global sensation on Netflix. Despite a low 20% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has soared to the top of the streaming service's viewership charts.

Directed by Mouly Surya in her first English-language feature, Trigger Warning introduces viewers to a gritty narrative where Alba plays a former Special Forces commando who takes over her late father's bar. The plot thickens when she finds herself up against a local gang, leading to a showdown that tests her combat skills and strategic acumen. The ensemble cast supporting Alba includes notable names like Anthony Michael Hall,...

Jessica Alba is no stranger to action movies, with a starring role in the sci-fi series Dark Angel. However, even for a seasoned actor, crafting the perfect action sequences, like the ones seen in Alba's latest Netflix film Trigger Warning, is never an easy feat.

Speaking to ComicBook, Alba explained the creative process that went into the film's hand-to-hand action scenes. "We talk a lot. We talk a lot about all the details," she said. "I actually felt like we leaned further into the intention and the motivation of the character every step of the way. So then nothing was in vain and nothing felt silly. I think that was the biggest thing. We just needed a purpose for everything to be happening the way it was happening. And once we nailed that, the action can be as wild and cool and choreographed."

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Jessica Alba's newest action film is the undisputed champion this week on Netflix, taking the top spot away from Richard Linklater's latest film, Hit Man.

Trigger Warning premiered on Netflix on June 21, and immediately climbed to the top to become the number one movie on the platform. Trigger Warning stars Alba, Anthony Michael Hall, Tone Bell, Mark Webber, Jake Weary, and Gabriel Basso. The official synopsis for the film reads, "A Special Forces commando uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she returns to her hometown looking for answers into her beloved father's death." Helming the movie is Mouly Surya, director of 2017's Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, and is written by Josh Olson, John Brancato, and Halley Wegryn.

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Netflix's Trigger Warning is an action thriller with a low Tomatometer score but high streaming success. Trigger Warning was filmed in various New Mexico cities. Albuquerque Studios was utilized for some scenes when the cast couldn't film on location.

Netflix's Trigger Warning revolves around a highly skilled Special Forces commando who finds herself in the crosshairs of a dangerous crime syndicate in her hometown state, which is where the entirety of the movie was filmed. The 2024 action thriller, directed by Mouly Surya and written by John Brancato, Josh Olson, and Halley Gross, is being described as a John Wick replacement film featuring Jessica Alba in the leading role, despite Trigger Warning's negative reviews. Nevertheless, it's topping the Netflix charts, which is good news for the cast and crew after so much time was put into making the movie.

Trigger Warning's Tomatometer score is 24 percent and its Audience...

Mouly Surya's direction elevates this weak script, making it visually appealing despite its shortcomings. Alba is fine as an action star, but her performance is not nearly as charismatic as it should be. Trigger Warning is filled with stereotypes, a slow pace, and a buildup that is disappointing.

Jessica Alba headlines Netflixs latest JLo-coded actioner, Trigger Warning (2024) , from screenwriters John Brancato, Josh Olson, Halley Gross, and director Mouly Surya. The film follows Special Forces commando Parker (Alba) as she finds out about her fathers sudden death while being on active duty overseas. She returns home and becomes his bar's owner, bringing her face-to-face with her former boyfriend and his troubling family, The Swanns. While this tension-filled reunion is difficult enough for the grieving daughter, Parkers search for answers gets more dangerous as she faces a violent gang attempting to run her hometown with illegal weapons.

Trigger Warning (2024)

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Jessica Alba's Trigger Warning receives a low Tomatometer score, continuing her streak of critical failures. The Netflix thriller stars Alba as a Special Forces operator in a bar takeover amidst gang warfare. Despite Trigger Warning boasting a quality cast, it fails to break Alba's decade-long Rotten streak.

Trigger Warning isn't enough to save Jessica Alba from an increasingly damning Rotten Tomatoes streak. The latest Netflix thriller stars Alba as a Special Forces operator struggling against brutal gang warfare after taking over her late father's bar. It was released on June 21. Trigger Warning's extensive cast is filled with respectable actors, including Alba, Anthony Michael Hall, Mark Webber, and Jake Weary. Unfortunately, it does not appear to have thrilled critics.

While Alba undoubtedly hoped for positive results, her latest movie is another critical disaster. It is Alba's eighth movie in a row that failed to earn a positive Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Jessica Alba takes the action genre head-on with her newest movie, Trigger Warning, Now streaming on Netflix, the film was fun for Alba, as it gave her a chance to utilize some of the skills she'd picked up from her time filming Dark Angel at the start of her career.

Alba and Trigger Warning director Mouly Surya spoke about the Netflix movie in a new interview with Cbr's Kevin Polowy. It was discussed how Alba's role had some fans thinking back to when she starred in Dark Angel, the cult classic series from the early 2000s. She shared how the series opened the door for her to take on action roles like the one she has with her newest film. Alba also said how she enjoyed getting to fall back on the skills she'd learned on Dark Angel while revealing what was totally new for her with Trigger Warning.

Jessica Alba is the real deal as an action star, dominating great fight sequences in Trigger Warning and making her character, Parker, instantly likable. Anthony Michael Hall impresses as a powerful senator, oozing sleaze and making a strong villain. Mark Webber is great as well, though some supporting performances are pretty thin. Trigger Warning has weak subplots, an overbearing score, and often feels more like a TV show than a movie.

There are movies where you sit and wait for certain iconic scenes simply because you know they're coming, and they're worth the wait even if they're few and far between. The movie may not be a masterpiece, but it has at least one of those "wait for it" scenes that you anticipate with glee, awaiting a joke, a death, or a twist. Or in the case of Trigger Warning, an action scene or two.

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The new Netflix action movie Trigger Warning features a robust cast of new and familiar faces alike. Jessica Alba leads the movie as Special Forces officer Parker. The cast also includes The Breakfast Club's Anthony Michael Hall and The Night Agent's Gabriel Basso.

The cast of Netflix's Trigger Warning features more than a dozen key stars. The new action-thriller movie was in development for some time before its 2024 streaming premiere, having been originally acquired in 2016 by Thunder Road Films before it was picked up by Netflix in 2020. Originally a spec script by John Brancato and Josh Olson, who were later joined by Halley Gross for the finished project, the movie was helmed by Mouly Surya, who is best known for Indonesian dramas and thrillers including her 2008 debut Fiksi.

The cast of the new Netflix movie is jam-packed with familiar faces. This includes stars from well-known movies from throughout the history of modern cinema,...

Plot: Special Forces commando Parker is on active duty overseas when she gets called back to her hometown with the tragic news that her father has suddenly died. Now the owner of the family bar, Parker reconnects with her former boyfriend-turned-sheriff Jesse, his hot-tempered brother Elvis and their powerful father Senator Swann, as she looks to understand what actually happened to her dad.

Review: It has been five years since Jessica Alba’s last big screen role. While she led the Bad Boys spin-off L.A.’s Finest alongside Gabrielle Union the year after, Alba has spent the last half-decade working as Chief Creative Officer for The Honest Company, which she co-founded. While she recently stepped down from that role, her work on Trigger Warning goes back to 2021. The three-year road for Alba’s first leading role in a decade should indicate the quality of the finished product. Marketed as being an...

Jessica Alba unleashes her inner Rambo in “Trigger Warning,” wherein her active U.S. military officer gets pulled homeward by tragedy, only to uncover corruption she’ll have to clean up before leaving again. Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s well-crafted first English-language feature is too formulaically contrived to qualify as “elevated genre” or to boast the personal stamp of her prior work. Still, it’s an entertaining, pacey action melodrama that should do well for Netflix, where it launches on June 21.

After two intriguingly conceived but somewhat vague initial features, Surya made an assertive impression with 2018’s “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.” That striking “feminist outlaw Western” distinctively juggled elements of revenge thriller, black comedy and character-driven social critique. Her more conventionally commercial American debut is another vengeance tale driven by a strong-willed, capable female protagonist. But this is also the first film on which Surya has not had a hand in the screenplay.

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Jessica Alba is getting back to her action avatar with Netflix’s Trigger Warning. Featuring intense fight and hand-to-hand combat sequences, the action thriller film tells the story of a Special Forces commando, Parker.

When Parkers returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her father to take ownership of her family’s bar, she realizes the town is controlled by a violent gang and gets into a clash with them.

When will Trigger Warning be Released on Netflix?

Netflix has set the release date of Trigger Warning as Friday, June 21st, 2024. The film will have a runtime of 1 hour and 46 minutes. The trailer for the movie was launched last month, which showcases Parker reeling with the loss of her father, getting at loggerheads with a gang while sensing that her father’s...

The Unexpecteds is one of those films you wish they would remake instead of a classic. That’s not to put the film down. Far from it. You see the potential in writer and director Alejandro Montoya Marin’s first feature-length film. The story is timely and engaging, and the script has some well-timed jokes. However, this comedy caper never quite reaches its potential.

The reason is glaring and obvious—the cast’s flat and wooden performances. And that’s a shame because this “Dumb Money Light” could have been something embraced. If only the cast could have found the heart of the matter, at least enough for the audience to embrace the characters from The Unexpecteds and care.

Alejandro De Hoyos, Chelsea Rendon, Matt Walsh, and Francisco Ramos in The Unexpecteds | Image via Atla California Pictures

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It’s a new month and Netflix is here with some much-anticipated new original movies and TV shows. As always Netflix is proving itself by releasing compelling content month after month on its platform. This month is no different as there will be something new for everyone, from comedy to drama and action to fantasy. So, here are the best new original movies and shows coming on Netflix in June 2024.

Sweet Home Season 3 (June 6)

Sweet Tooth is coming to an end with its third and final season. Based on a DC comic book limited series of the same name by Jeff Lemire, the Netflix series is going to tell its final story on June 6. In Season 3 we will see Gus and his group of friends heading to Alaska to find his mother who is working to uncover the mystery behind the deadly Sick. In his journey to find answers he...

Your browser does not support the video tag. Jessica Alba and director Mouly Surya have opened up about their upcoming action thriller, Trigger Warning, which released its official trailer today. Alba expresses her admiration for strong, femal characters like Ripley from the Alien franchise and Sarah Connor of Terminator fame. Surya found it a "little surreal" working with Alba at first, praising the actress' fiery personality and straightforwardness on set.

Its been over 20 years since Jessica Alba first suited up as the genetically enhanced Max Guevara on television's science fiction drama Dark Angel. And while the Golden Globe-nominee admittedly hasnt done a ton of choreographed fight sequences since, the actress is ready for the challenge in her upcoming Netflix project, Trigger Warning. However, the action thriller did test its star's mettle when it comes to pulling off those larger-than-life on-screen brawls. Alba said in an interview with Tudum:

I havent...

Italy’s Sveva Alviti (“Dalida”) and U.S. actor Newton Mayenge (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) are attached to star in Cannes-set romantic drama “The Other Side of Fame” to be directed by Erik Bernard (“Free Dead or Alive”).

Alviti is a model and actor who played the iconic Egyptian-Italian singer in the 2017 “Dalida” biopic by French director Lisa Azuelos. In “The Other Side of Fame,” she will play a young woman who becomes romantically entangled in Cannes with an elusive American played by Mayenge, “compelling her to confront the profound choice between the allure of fame and the promise of true love,” according to the project’s synopsis.

Besides Mayenge – who played NBA legend Jim Chones in the HBO series about the Los Angeles Lakers – “The Other Side of Fame” will also feature Alejandro De Hoyos, who recently appeared in action comedy “The Man From Toronto...

Exclusive: Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) is set to appear opposite Lauren Lapkus in Another Happy Day, a postpartum depression comedy marking the feature debut of writer-director Nora Fiffer, which wrapped production last summer in Chicago and will make its world premiere at the Vail Film Festival this Saturday, December 9th.

The film centers on Joanna (Lapkus), a “total nut” who is wearing new motherhood so awkwardly that she remarks candidly “I’m not really a mom, I just have a baby, you know?” This new mom is also an artist who isn’t making any art, and feels truly terrible at taking care of her newborn, as she stumbles through her days. She can’t get her old job back, her old friends have moved on without her, her husband thinks he’s a better mother than she is, she’s terribly sleep deprived, and her baby won’t look at her.

Exclusive: 2x Emmy nominee Matt Walsh (Veep) has signed on to star alongside Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man from Toronto), Chelsea Rendon (Vida), Francisco Ramos (Gentefied), John Kaler (The Wrong Guy) and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay) in the action-comedy The Unexpecteds from writer-director Alejandro Montoya Marín.

Pic follows Gary (Walsh) and a group of his best friends as they seek revenge against a social media influencer who has scammed them of their life savings. De Hoyos is producing for Alta California Pictures, with Kaler, Jasmin Espada, Walsh and Pedro Pano co-producing.

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Exclusive: Oscar nominee Eric Roberts (The Righteous Gemstones) is reteaming with his Runaway Train co-star Danny Trejo as part of the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins, which will also star Shannon Elizabeth and Frank Whaley.

The film tells the story of a woman (Elizabeth) in an abusive relationship with a dirty detective (Roberts) who is helping move sex trafficked girls coming over the Mexican Border. When attempting to save just one truckload before “disappearing forever,” everything goes horribly wrong and she decides to take a different path.

The project hails from Different Duck Films founder Rob Margolies (Bobcat Moretti), who will produce alongside Errol Sack and Julia Verdin. Production is underway in Los Angeles. Roberts is repped by Sovereign Talent Group, Imperial Artists Agency and Miles Anthony Associates in London, manager Eliza Roberts, Empire Agency in Germany and Scott Carlson Entertainment in Canada.

Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson’s “Man From Toronto” is set for an early 2022 release.

Hart, Harrelson, and Kaley Cuoco star in the action-comedy from Columbia Pictures, which will open on Jan. 14, 2022.

The film revolves around a case of a mistaken identity after the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the “Man from Toronto,” (Harrelson) and a stranger, played by Hart, run into each other at an Airbnb. Chaos soon follows as the assassin’s world comes crashing down on Hart.

Rounding out the film’s cast are Ellen Barkin, Jasmine Mathews, Melanie Liburd, Pierson Fode, Lela Loren, Alejandro De Hoyos and Tomohisa Yamashita.

Patrick Hughes, who helmed the action-comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, directed the project. Robbie Fox wrote the script, from a story by Fox and Jason Blumenthal. Blumenthal also produced the film along with Todd Black and Steve Tisch, his partners at Escape Artists.

Season 2 of "bicultural dramedy" web series Ylse (pronounced Eel-Say) kicked off today starting a 12-episode return. Ruth Livier, who's also the creator and lead writer of the series, is back as Ylse, an aspiring TV host working her way up the talk show circuit hoping to one day reach the level of her espoused idol Oprah. For now, however, Ylse is stuck in the dregs of the TV world on a bizarre Spanish language talk show. We've had our eye on this series for a while now, and we're glad to see it back for another season. The series had been picking up fans over the past year which included locking up a distribution deal with LatinHeat.com last fall and scoring the "Best Webisode" award at the 2009 Reel Rasquache Festival. Livier's bilingual script effortlessly jumps from English to Spanish, making the comedy easily accessible even for us Spanish newbies.