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The premise of G20 is inherently silly. There’s no getting past it. It might as well be called ‘Viola Davis: Action President’. Because this is a movie where Viola Davis is not just any Potus — her Danielle Sutton is arguably more combat-ready than her own security detail, forced to spring into action, take down the baddies, and save several other world leaders when a G20 summit in Cape Town is hijacked by crypto-bro terrorists. America, fuck yeah!

Frankly, it should veer on the side of bad-stupid. Instead, solid action, zippy pacing, and the undeniable star power of Davis herself tips G20 onto the right side of good-stupid – an undemanding but entertaining throwbacky romp that takes itself just seriously enough. While the material here is much lighter than, say, Widows or The Woman King, Davis attacks it with much the same gusto. She’s believable as both President and tactically...

Prime Video's latest action movie G20 sees Viola Davis kicking some serious terrorist butt as U.S. President Danielle Sutton in what promises to be one heck of a thriller. Along for the ride is her co-star, Anthony Anderson, who portrays the First Gentleman, Derek Sutton. As we all know, there's already been a Black family in the White House by way of the Obamas, yet for some, the idea is still something they struggle with. For Anderson, however, he believes that the Black representation in the film "shouldn’t be a surprise" at this point.

Speaking with MovieWeb's own George Edelman, Anderson was joined by his fellow G20 stars Marsai Martin and Christopher Farrar to discuss various aspects of their new action movie. The subject of Black representation came up, and how everyone went about handling it in the Prime Video flick, which premieres on April 10. The portrayal of...

In G20, Viola Davis joins the pantheon of action heroes tasked with saving the world from a catastrophe. The Oscar-winning actress plays Danielle Sutton, a steely veteran, mother of two and president of the United States. When we meet the leader of the free world, she’s tensely battling with her 17-year-old daughter Serena (Marsai Martin) after the angsty teenager snuck out to party at a Georgetown bar.

How Serena managed to outwit her Secret Service agents and end up on the late night news shows vexes Sutton, who’s trying to maintain a flawless and relatively low-key reputation as the first Black woman president of the North American nation. In that way, G20, directed by Patricia Riggen and streaming April 10 on Prime Video, feels like a relic of a timeline in which Vice President Kamala Harris’ future in the Oval Office seemed all but assured. The film weaves the...

From “The Woman King” to Madam President, Viola Davis’ growing roster of fierce commander-in-chief roles reveals a star who takes the words “leading lady” literally, no matter what skepticism audiences may show. The internet seems to have rolled its collective eyes at the idea of Davis in ’90s-style action showcase “G20,” but there’s no actor on earth who could play such a gung-ho U.S. president without some degree of blowback … since there’s no president in U.S. history who’d stand a chance against a G20 summit-disrupting psycho determined to crash the global economy. (Supply your own tariff joke here.)

Clearly reflecting the other candidate in the most recent election, Davis does a fine job of embodying Danielle Sutton, a war hero whose military training and protect-the-little-guy instincts make her an ideal foil for the ruthless Rutledge (Antony Starr). Rutledge has a plan to turn $70 million in...

Viola Davis is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of her new action flick!

The 59-year-old Egot winner wowed in a shimmering red dress at the premiere of her movie G20 on Thursday night (March 27) held at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramon Rodriguez, Antony Starr, Douglas Hodge, Angela Sarafyan, Christopher Farrar, MeeWha Alana Lee, Noxolo Dlamini, Gideon Emery, Theo Bongani Ndyalvane, and Sabrina Impacciatore.

Keep reading to find out more…Anthony and Marsai also had the support of their former black-ish co-star Miles Brown!

Here’s the synopsis: “When the G20 summit comes under siege, U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Davis) becomes the number one target. After evading capture by the attackers, she must outsmart the enemy to protect her family, defend her country and safeguard world leaders in this action-packed thrill ride.”

G20 will be...

Viola Davis, who plays U.S. President Danielle Sutton in upcoming action thriller feature “G20,” says she didn’t model the role after anyone in particular.

“There was no one that I could model her after,” she told Variety Thursday before the awards ceremony for the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, where she will be honored for her career as an actor and producer.

The film, produced by Amazon MGM Studios and MRC Film, sees terrorists take over the G20 Summit, with Sutton bringing her statecraft and military experience to defend her family, fellow leaders and the world.

Sutton was “a completely fictitious character that was born out of the imagination of several writers,” she said. “It was the sort of thing you’d imagine as a kid, just playing the most heroic character you could possibly play, and you create Danielle Sutton, who was a war hero...

"Sometimes it feels like our country is at war with itself." Gravitas Ventures has revealed the official trailer for an indie film titled A Great Divide, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jean Shim. This premiered last year at the Bentonville Film Fest, playing at the Heartland & Hawaii Film Festivals as well, though this is the first time we've encountered it. Always good to discover more "where did this come from?" indie gems. The Lee family leave the Bay Area for a fresh start living in the rural expanses of Wyoming, only to encounter hostility, racism, and xenophobia in their new small town community. How they confront these issues will break them – or make them stronger. A Great Divide also focuses on their son Benjamin, played Emerson Min, struggling with his new life. Jae Suh Park and Ken Jeong co-star as his parents, along with MeeWha Alana Lee as Grandma,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American distribution rights to Lou Simon’s “9 Windows,” a modern re-telling of Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic, “Rear Window.”

A modern take on the Hitchcockian classic, “9 Windows” made history as the first feature-length, live-action film shot entirely on an extended reality film stage. The film stars Independent Spirit Award Nominee Michael Forsythe and Michael Paré

“On the day of her graduation, Liza and her parents are driving to a restaurant to celebrate when a truck slams into their car. Eighteen months after the car accident, Liza is unable to walk and lives alone after her parents’ death. Feeling responsible, Liza spends her days trolling vloggers on a local website. Late one night, a new video is uploaded in which a man sets fire to a dog. She reports it to the police, but the police detective, Boyle, cannot be bothered with a misdemeanor.

Exclusive: Westworld‘s Angela Sarafyan has joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studios and MRC’s Viola Davis action thriller feature, G20.

She joins a big roster that also includes Anthony Anderson (black-ish), Marsai Martin (black-ish), Ramón Rodríguez (Will Trent), Antony Starr (The Boys), Douglas Hodge (The Great), Elizabeth Marvel (The Color Purple), Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), Clark Gregg (Painkiller), Christopher Farrar (Home Team), John Hoogenakker (Waco: The Aftermath) and MeeWha Alana Lee (Umma).

Pic is directed by Patricia Riggen (The 33). G20 sees terrorists overtake the G20 Summit, with American President Danielle Sutton (Davis) then bringing all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family, her fellow leaders and the world. Noah and Logan Miller penned the screenplay, with revisions by Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss, and Jason Hall. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar is producing alongside JuVee Productions’ Davis and Julius Tennon.

Sarafyan was a series regular...

After roles in “The Suicide Squad” and “The Woman King,” it’s fun to see Viola Davis fully embrace her blockbuster action phase of her career. And it seems as if she’s not slowing down, as production begins on her next film, “G20,” where she is now going to be surrounded by one hell of a supporting cast.

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According to Deadline, Viola Davis has found the rest of her ensemble cast to co-star with in the forthcoming thriller, “G20.” The report claims Anthony Anderson (“black-ish”), Marsai Martin (“black–ish”), Ramón Rodríguez (“Will Trent”), Antony Starr (“The Boys”), Douglas Hodge (“The Great”), Elizabeth Marvel (“The Color Purple”), Sabrina Impacciatore (“The White Lotus”), Clark Gregg (“Painkiller”), Christopher Farrar (“Home Team”), John Hoogenakker (“Waco: The Aftermath”), and MeeWha Alana Lee (“Umma”).

Continue reading ‘G20’: Anthony Anderson, Antony Starr & More Join Viola Davis In...

Amazon MGM Studios and MRC have rounded out a star-studded cast for their action thriller G20, produced by and starring Viola Davis, which has resumed production. In addition to Anthony Anderson (black-ish), who is coming off of hosting a well-received Emmys ceremony, the list includes Marsai Martin (black-ish), Ramón Rodríguez (Will Trent), Antony Starr (The Boys), Douglas Hodge (The Great), Elizabeth Marvel (The Color Purple), Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), Clark Gregg (Painkiller), Christopher Farrar (Home Team), John Hoogenakker (Waco: The Aftermath) and MeeWha Alana Lee (Umma).

Others joining the cast include Theo Bongani Ndyalvane, Conrad Kemp, Joseph Steven Yang, Emmanuel Castis, David James, Noxolo Dlamini and Gideon Emery.

Directed by Patricia Riggen (The 33), G20 sees terrorists overtake the G20 Summit, with American President Danielle Sutton (Davis) then bringing all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family, her fellow leaders and the world. Noah and Logan Miller wrote the script,...

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,...

Amanda doesn’t want to turn into her mother. No, you don’t quite understand, she really doesn’t want to turn into her mother. As explained away during the jam-packed opening sequence of Iris K. Shim’s “Umma” — and then explained again and again by repeated flashbacks, spooky voiceover, and a generous dollop of second-act exposition — Amanda’s (Sandra Oh) entire adult existence has been built around her desire to avoid her mother’s mistakes. And that opening sequence makes plain that Amanda’s fears are justified: Her mother (MeeWha Alana Lee) used to abuse young Amanda, often using live electricity to burn and shock her only child. That’s where this begins, an early promise the scary — and occasionally, perhaps accidentally wacky — film can’t quite keep flowing.

There’s no question Shim’s setup is a clever one. When we catch up with adult Amanda, she’s...

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...