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Happy Friday, folks!

Last night, I took a break from watching Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Carrie series and Netflix’s upcoming Sam Bankman-Fried series The Altruists — both of which remain under embargo — and headed to a theater for my last chance to see Andrew Patterson’s honey-dipped crime movie, The Rivals of Amziah King, on the big screen.

Matthew McConaughey and Angelina LookingGlass star in this sticky-fingered caper, which features one of the worst titles I’ve ever seen. Hats off to the financiers who took a flyer on that one!

To be fair, Amziah King is a flavorful tale with real soul, and though it tells a fairly standard revenge story, it does so in a unique world we haven’t really seen before. The movie is full of musical sequences that help lift the energy, though in the end, the tone is kind of all over the place, and Patterson doesn’t quite get this story to the emotional place it needs to go. I found it a mixed bag, and I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone, but it’s worth a look on VOD — just be warned that your mileage may vary.

I also caught the new Jason Statham action movie Mutiny, which delivers exactly what you’d expect from a new Jason Statham action movie — namely, Jason Statham kicking ass and saying very little. This time, he’s on a cargo ship whose captain (Roland Møller) is tied up in human trafficking. Statham teams up with a blonde lady (Annabelle Wallis) to take down the bad guys, and he’s as vicious as ever. One guy gets both a metal lock and a knife through the same cheek.

The meat-and-potatoes film hails from director Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precinct 13), and it’s the very definition of a guilty pleasure. If you know what you’re getting into, you won’t be disappointed, though Mutiny doesn’t stand out like The Beekeeper or the Crank movies, either.

Statham’s next movie should follow him as he tracks down who accidentally uploaded a pristine copy of the movie on Prime Video this week, several days ahead of its theatrical release. Was it a clever PR ploy, or a costly mistake that distributors are going to have to pay for even though this error appears to have been Amazon’s fault? Stay tuned…

As tough as Statham may be, he won’t pose any threat at the box office to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is expected to defeat Sony’s own Insidious sequel this weekend, though kudos to Blumhouse for keeping that franchise alive, as it still performs well ($25 million domestic opening).

Moving on, I have a quick update on Wednesday night’s newsletter, in which I wrote about two hot packages that were making the Hollywood rounds of late. Yesterday, Deadline reported that one of those projects, Dolly All the Time, had landed at Sony’s 3000 Pictures. The trade also confirmed the attachments I reported — Temple Hill and screenwriter Gemma Burgess.

No credit from Deadline, of course, but that’s not why I do this, folks. I do it for you guys. Besides, the trade broke the Sony element fair and square. So, Dolly fans, who do you think should play the protagonist? If you’ve read the book, email me your thoughts… and I’m also curious who you think should direct WB’s adaptation of Theo of Golden, which will star two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. That’s a plum gig right there!

Elsewhere, Michael B. Jordan isn’t the only one getting a love interest in Miami Vice ‘85, as Deadline’s Justin Kroll reports that Camila Morrone will romance Austin Butler in Universal’s big-budget crime film. I was a big fan of Morrone’s work in the Netflix series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, so I love this choice, and can easily see her opposite Butler.

In addition to celebrating The Odyssey as the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, Universal also landed the sci-fi movie Paradox Inc. from Tuner director Daniel Roher and producers Lord & Miller.

Based on the upcoming book by author Forrest Brazeal, Paradox Inc. concerns the race to create the first time machine for consumers — though in Big Tech’s haste, the technology doesn’t behave as expected. The premise sounds interesting enough, and Roher is a director to watch, or at the very least, listen to, given the way he used sound design to help tell the story in Tuner, which I liked but didn’t quite love.

What else happened since I last saw you? A24 has started screening Adam Wingard’s Onslaught for a lucky group of select critics. No invite for me, even though I’m an OG Wingard fan, but that’s okay — I’ll live.

It sounds like Charles Melton can live without the X-Men movie, which he has shunned in favor of a mentor role in Destin Daniel Cretton’s live-action Naruto movie. Meanwhile, Netflix pushed his Greg Kwedar movie Saturn Return to 2027. Rachel Brosnahan and Will Poulter co-star in that one, which sounds promising.

We’ve also seen a lot of movie trailers this week, from Dune: Part Three and Whalefall to Jordan Firstman’s A24 movie Club Kid and Angelina Jolie’s revenge thriller Without Blood. But none of them, for my money, was as effective as the trailer that Warner Bros. Clockwork released for its restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils, which will go out with an NC-17 rating this fall. This is one of the best trailers of the year, and if this is what we can expect from Clockwork, then I say bring it!

Speaking of bringing it, physical media maestro Bill Hunt is the Magic Man today, reporting that Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days — one of my all-time favorite movies — is finally getting a 4K release after being largely unavailable on physical media for years. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is your chance! Co-written by none other than James Cameron, this film was way ahead of its time…

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