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What more could the heart want than a sweeping romantic drama dealing with grief, loss, love, and music? The Greatest Hits is a fantasy romantic drama film written and directed by Ned Benson, the Hulu film follows the story of a young woman Lucy who had a picture-perfect romance but an accident took him away from her. But she gets a second chance when she discovers that she can travel back in time through the music they love, but her excursions in her past are interfering with a new love interest. The Greatest Hits stars Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, and Justin H. Min in the lead roles with Nelly Furtado, Andie Ju, Austin Crute, Tom Yi, Bryan Ferry, and Retta starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the sweeping love story and the time-traveling drama in The Greatest Hits, here are some similar films you could check out next.

Shark Bait: "A group of spring breakers are enjoying the trip of a lifetime on the sandy beaches of Mexico. As the sun rises after a night of partying, they steal a couple of jet skis and race out to sea. But bravado and bad decisions lead to a terrifying accident. Stranded miles from shore, the true horror begins when the group realizes they've drifted into shark-infested waters. With no way back and one friend badly bleeding, the group must quickly figure out how to survive the predator lurking in the waters below."

Directed by: James Nunn

Written by: Nick Saltrese

Starring: Holly Earl, Jack Trueman, Catherine Hannay, Malachi Pullar-Latchman, Thomas Flynn

In Theaters and Available on Digital and On Demand May 13, 2022

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Night Caller: "Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin's Night Caller.

Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, Odeya Rush, Dermot Mulroney | Written and Directed by Iris K. Shim

Sandra Oh fears she’s turning into her mother in Umma, the Sam Raimi-produced debut from writer-director Iris K. Shim. Using horror tropes to explore various elements of personal trauma, it’s light on scares, but compensates with strong character work and an emotionally engaging central dynamic.

Oh plays Amanda, a first-generation Korean-American woman who lives with her home-schooled teenage daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) on a remote farm where they sell their own organic honey, with the help of a kind-hearted local shopkeeper (Dermot Mulroney). As the film begins, their main problem is that Amanda’s apparent allergy to electricity has begun to impact Chrissy’s burgeoning social life, especially after she befriends the shopkeeper’s visiting niece (Odeya Rush) and suddenly needs a phone for the first time in her life.

This is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.

Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.

The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain. Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month. Deadline review here.

Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron,...

It’s an eternal middle-aged anxiety: “I feel like I’m turning into my mother.” And it’s given a most literal rendering in Iris K. Shim’s supernatural horror exercise “Umma,” in which Sandra Oh stars as a rural beekeeper inhabited by the vengeful spirit of her estranged mom. But while that premise might sound like the makings of a tongue-in-cheek body-swap fright-fest, “Umma” has far heavier issues on its plate, which proves both its chief virtue and its ultimate undoing, as it never manages to thread the needle between its horror setpieces and the more serious themes of generational trauma lying beneath.

Set in an unnamed stretch of American farmland, “Umma” opens on Amanda (Oh), a resourceful first-generation Korean American who has managed to construct a stable life selling organic honey to a devoted online fanbase of influencers. Not that she knows what the terms “influencer” or “online...

Becoming your mother, through the inevitability of time and genetics, is a scary prospect for some, but in “Umma,” a woman must contend with being possessed by her mother and, along with that, years of abuse and generational trauma.

In Iris K. Shim’s debut film, Sandra Oh stars as Amanda, a Korean American woman who has escaped all semblance of her past and is raising a precocious daughter on a remote farm. Amanda and Chrissy are as tight-knit as a mother and daughter can be; they read together, they work together, they hum together. On the farm, they harvest honey from a handful of bee colonies, which they package themselves and give to their friend Danny (Dermot Mulroney) to sell at his shop. It’s a steady, quiet life, but Amanda is haunted by memories of abuse at the hands of her mother (Meewha Alana Lee) — or her “umma,...

Sony Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming horror ‘Umma’ starring Sandra Oh.

Umma, which is the Korean word for “mother,” follows Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Written and directed by Iris K. Shim, the film stars Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi with Odeya Rush and Dermot Mulroney.

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The film hits cinemas on March 25th.

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“Umma” is the new supernatural horror feature, written and directed by Iris K. Shim, starring Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee and Tom Yi, produced by Sam Raimi, opening March 18, 2022:

“…’Amanda’ and her daughter live on a rural farm, raising bees and living without modern technology.

“Then when Amanda receives the cremated ashes of her estranged mother, it unleashes a vicious spirit intent on taking her body for itself…”

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"Her anger will grow as long as she remains in this box." Sony Pictures has revealed the first trailer for an intriguing new horror thriller titled Umma, the first narrative feature directed by a filmmaker named Iris K. Shim. They just scheduled this for wide release on March 18th in a few weeks, getting some horror into theaters right away. The story involves a Korean immigrant named Amanda, who lives a quiet life with her daughter on an American farm. But when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her mother. Sandra Oh stars as Amanda, with a cast including Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, and Tom Yi. And best of all - it's produced by Sam Raimi! Glad to see him supporting filmmakers on the rise. Oh yeah this looks extra creepy, and it...

Tom Hanks film “A Man Called Otto” will be released on Christmas Day, and Sandra Oh’s “Umma” is set to arrive in theaters on March 18, Sony announced on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Jack Black comedy “Oh Hell No” has been pulled from the release schedule. Additionally, Adam Driver’s “65” from producer Sam Raimi has been pushed back a year to April 14, 2023.

“A Man Called Otto,” is a comedy starring Hanks that’s an English-language remake based on the Swedish book and film “A Man Called Ove.”

Marc Forster is attached to direct, and David Magee is writing the script based on Fredrik Backman’s book. Ove has been renamed Otto for the Americanized film version of the story.

Hanks plays the title character Otto, who is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, and who gives everyone in his neighborhood a hard time...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Raimi Productions and Starlight Media’s supernatural horror film Umma, starring Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh, who also serves as executive producer.

Iris K. Shim, wrote the screenplay and will make her feature film directing debut. Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee and Tom Yi also have joined the cast.

Umma, which is the Korean word for “mother,” follows Amanda (Oh) and her daughter living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

The pic is the first project produced by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi of Raimi Productions through their development deal with Starlight Media. Starlight CEO Peter Luo is serving as executive producer and Starlight Media is co-financing the film with Stage 6 Films.

Universal's low budget horror thriller / sci-fi pic The Purge impressed with a solid $16.7 million million Friday debut, easily covering its $3 million budget. Starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, the James DeMonaco-directed-and-scripted film also added $1.5 million from foreign territories as it heads towards $33+ million weekend gross. The film also includes Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Adelaide Kane and Tom Yi. Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller and Jason Blum produce. In second, 20th Century Fox's Shawn Levy comedy The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Rose Byrne, turned in a decent $6.5 million and should end off with close to $20 million come Sunday estimates.

Universal Pictures' The Purge has started off its box office debut with a Thursday night take of $3.4 million, reports Variety. The film starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey is pegged to top the charts this weekend ahead of 20th Century Fox's Shawn Levy comedy The Internship, frontlined by Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Rose Byrne. The Purge from Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum, opens in 2,536 theaters and also includes Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Adelaide Kane and Tom Yi. James DeMonaco directs and writes the low budget horror sci-fi thriller.

Universal Pictures' The Purge has 3 fresh clips up from the thriller helmed and written by James DeMonaco which opens in theaters on May 31st, 2013. The film also includes Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Adelaide Kane and Tom Yi. This reunites DeMonaco with Hawke after the two worked together on Assault on Precinct 13 which DeMonaco scripted. The Purge is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister), Platinum Dunes’ partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), as well as Sébastien Kurt Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13).

James DeMonaco's The Purge gets a second poster, adding to the intriguing gallery of images we've summed up so far. De Monaco helms and scripts here, with a cast including Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Adelaide Kane and Tom Yi. The Universal Pictures release opens in theaters on May 31st. If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? In The Purge, a speculative thriller that follows one family over the course of a single night, four people will be tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their home. In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity—including murder—becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help.

James DeMonaco's The Purge gets a first poster, adding to the intriguing gallery of images we've summed up so far. De Monaco helms and scripts here, with a cast including Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Adelaide Kane and Tom Yi. The Universal Pictures release opens in theaters on May 31st. If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? In The Purge, a speculative thriller that follows one family over the course of a single night, four people will be tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their home.

The nominees are in for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, with The Hunger Games and Bridesmaids neck-in-neck with eight nominations each, including the categories "Movie of the Year," "Best Cast" and "Breakthrough Performance." Fans will have the "Power of the Popcorn" in their hands as winner voting opens today, May 1 at 8Am Et/5Am Pt, at MovieAwards.MTV.com and will stay open through Saturday, June 2nd. As in previous years, the category of "Movie of the Year" will remain an ongoing battle throughout the live show when the 21st annual 2012 MTV Movie Awards airs live on Sunday, June 3rd at 9pm Et/Pt on MTV from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.

The 2012 MTV Movie Awards will put the spotlight on one of the most diverse roster of nominated films in years for the show. Featuring a broad array of movies that resonated with our audience this year, the...

Six actresses - Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig - from the hit comedy Bridesmaids will be presenters at the 84th Annual Academy Awards, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today.

McCarthy received her first Oscar nomination this year for her supporting role in the film, and Wiig also became a first-time nominee for the film's original screenplay. All six will be making their first Oscar show appearances.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

Bridesmaids was released May 13th, 2011 and stars Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair, Maya Rudolph, Tom Yi, Elaine Kao, Michael Hitchcock, Kali Hawk. The film is directed by Paul Feig.

There has been a bit of controversy surrounding a sequel to the smash hit summer comedy Bridesmaids. On January 4th, Universal Pictures claimed they would move forward on a follow-up, even though creator and star Kristen Wiig didn't want to be involved.

A few days later, co-star Melissa McCarthy said that a Bridesmaids 2 simply wouldn't happen without their leading lady on board. Now, producer Judd Apatow has chimed in with his thoughts.

Here is what he had to say.

"We're still promoting Bridesmaids 1; when the fog clears, we'll see if there is an idea worth doing. People like to send up projects without thought. (It's) not just, you know, how much money we could make? That usually leads to Jaws 3D."

For the time being, Kristen Wiig remains focused on other ventures, as she is currently working on a second, non-related project with her Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo. Hopefully the...

Bridesmaids was one of the biggest box office success stories of 2011, grossing $288 million worldwide from just a $32 million budget. Naturally, Universal PIctures wants to move forward with a sequel. Though, they may have to do it without Kristen Wiig.

Actor Jon Hamm revealed in September that Kristen Wiig does not want to do a sequel to Bridesmaids, and nothing has changed since then. Here's what the actress had to say, revealing she is working on another project with her Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo.

"We aren't working on that. Annie and I aren't planning a sequel. We are writing something else."

It isn't known why Kristen Wiig does not want to return, although an insider claims that the actress and other key cast members may have been offended by their $100,000 bonuses, which is seen as low due to the overwhelming success of the comedy. Kristen Wiig refused to comment on her bonus.

Bridesmaids was easily the surprise comedy hit of the summer, taking in a whopping $284 million worldwide from just a $32 million production budget. While a sequel to such a successful movie seems inevitable, it appears that star Kristen Wiig isn't interested. Here's what her co-star, Jon Hamm, had to say about a Bridesmaids sequel.

"I don't think Kristen is going to do it. They need to lock [Wiig] up before me."

Director Paul Feig and actress Melissa McCarthy have both expressed interest in returning for a sequel, but it seems Universal may need to convince Kristen Wiig to return first. Kristen Wiig also co-wrote Bridesmaids with Annie Mumolo, so they may need her to return for scripting duties as well. Jon Hamm also said he enjoyed how much heart they put into Bridesmaids.

"I had a feeling that it was going to be a great movie. I have ultimate confidence in Kristen to be funny.

Ellie Kemper stars alongside Kristin Wiig and Maya Rudolph in this blockbuster comedy, on Blu-ray and DVD today!

The smash hit Bridesmaids has arrived on Blu-ray and DVD. To celebrate, we caught up with one of the Bridesmaids herself, Ellie Kemper, who plays the innocent Disney World loving Becca in this raucous laugher. Below is our conversation, which spans this blockbuster comedy, her role as Erin on Season 8 of The Office, her role in the upcoming big screen adaptation of 21 Jump Street, and the possibility of a Bridesmaids 2.

Here's what she had to say.

How has the response been from last Thursday's Office Season 8 debut? I was a little bit surprised, myself...

Ellie Kemper: What were you surprised about?

Ed Helms took me completely off guard. I really didn't think that was the direction the show was headed. That came in from left field for some of us...

Ellie Kemper: That's right!

The blockbuster summer comedy Bridesmaids will hit the home video shelves on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu Ray/DVD Combo Pack on September 20. After the enormous theatrical success of this comedy, we are celebrating the home video release by giving away copies of the DVD to our readers. You know these discs will go fast, so enter this contest today.

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Thirty-something Annie (Kristen Wiig) has hit a rough patch but finds her life turned completely upside down when she takes on the Maid of Honor role in her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) wedding. In way over her head but determined to succeed,...

Chicago – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, we have 5 DVDs up for grabs in advance of the highly anticipated home entertainment release of the “R”-rated comedy “Bridesmaids” starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne!

“Bridesmaids” will release on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 20, 2011 from Universal Home Entertainment. The film also stars Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair, Tom Yi, Elaine Kao, Michael Hitchcock, Kali Hawk, Joe Nunez, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Jill Clayburgh, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper from director Paul Feig and writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo.

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“Bridesmaids” will release on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 20, 2011 from Universal Home Entertainment.

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Breakout star Melissa McCarthy chats with us about her scene-stealing role in the new Paul Feig comedy Bridesmaids, where she plays opposite Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph as a man-hungry single woman looking for some action at her soon-to-be sister-in-law's wedding. We find out firsthand what its like to become an overnight success, as well as get details on her upcoming lead in a new comedy that finds her stealing the Stanley Cup. Check out our exclusive interview below.

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Bridesmaids was released May 13th, 2011 and stars Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair, Maya Rudolph, Tom Yi, Elaine Kao, Michael Hitchcock, Kali Hawk. The film is directed by Paul Feig.

Bridesmaids is still enjoying a successful theatrical run and, although it is a little early for the DVD release, a new gag reel has surfaced. Click on the video player below to watch this three-minute reel featuring scenes that didn't quite make it into the movie with Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and many more.

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Bridesmaids was released May 13th, 2011 and stars Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair, Maya Rudolph, Tom Yi, Elaine Kao, Michael Hitchcock, Kali Hawk. The film is directed by Paul Feig.

Bridesmaids arrives in theaters nationwide on May 13 and you know we have to celebrate this new comedy from producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig. We have a new contest lined up where we're giving away a Bridesmaids t-shirt and a $25 movie theater gift card. These prizes will surely go fast, so enter this contest today.

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This spring, producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig invite you to experience Bridesmaids. Annie, a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian, and a group of colorful bridesmaids on a wild ride down the road to matrimony.