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Geek Tyrant
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
TALK TO ME Directors Tease 'Horrific' Sequel, Calling One Scene 'One of the Best Things' They'll Ever Shoot — GeekTyrant
While promoting their new nightmare-fuel feature Bring Her Back , directors Danny and Michael Philippou dropped a blood-soaked tease about the long-awaited sequel to Talk to Me , the breakout horror hit that turned a mummified hand and 90 seconds of possession into a wildly disturbing theatrical experiences. During their appearance on The Boo Crew Podcast (via Bloody Disgusting), the brothers revealed they're currently sitting on two versions of the Talk to Me 2 script, and both are obviously heading into dark territory. Danny explained: 'Two different sets of characters that are in two different places. I'm equally excited about both. There's one scene in one of them that I think will be one of the best things I ever shoot.' That's a big claim coming from a filmmaker whose debut film was filled with shocking and hardcore brutal visuals involving demon-possessed teens. Michael backed up the hype, giving us a glimpse into the scale of their twisted ambition: 'It's so horrific. I'm like, 'This is insane,' and I've already started talking to people. I'm like, 'How can we pull this off practically?' So those conversations are happening, but it's about stepping away from the world and then coming back into it super reinvigorated. So that's why we didn't do that next.' Well, I'm excited to see what they are teasing here! Rather than jump straight into the sequel, the brothers chose to take a detour with Bring Her Back , another emotionally-charged ghost story. But, Talk to Me 2 is still a high priority. In fact, Danny hinted they're likely to make one more original horror film first. 'I'm writing another horror movie at the moment, which I adore so much. And it feels like it's huge. So there's that. And then [it] would be Talk to Me 2.' The first Talk to Me followed 17-year-old Mia ( Sophie Wilde ) as she tried to contact her dead mother and spiraled into supernatural chaos thanks to a crew of teens who treat summoning spirits like a party trick. Needless to say, things get grim pretty fast. No release date for Talk to Me 2 yet, but if they pull off what they're planning, we might be looking at a sequel that not only lives up to the first, but surpasses it in brutality and ambition.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Horror Thriller ‘Bring Her Back' Gets Streaming Date, Report Says
Jonah Wren Phillips in "Brink Her Back." A24's acclaimed horror thriller Bring Her Back is reportedly coming soon to digital streaming. Rated R, Bring Her Back opened in theaters on May 30. The official logline for the movie reads, 'A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.' Directed by Talk to Me filmmakers Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, Bring Her Back stars The Shape of Water Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, Sora Wong and Liam Damons. Bring Her Back is expected to be released on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, July 1, according to When to Stream. While the streaming tracker is generally accurate with its PVOD reports, When to Stream noted that A24 has not announced or confirmed the release date of Bring Her Back and it is subject to change. When Bring Her Back arrives on PVOD, it will be available on a variety of digital platforms including Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video and YouTube. The digital purchase or rental prices for Bring Her Back are yet to be announced. Generally, digital purchase prices range from $19.99 to $29.99 and rental prices are from $14.99 to $24.99 for 48 hours. How Did Audiences And Critics React To 'Bring Her Back'? Bring Her Back has earned $18.9 million in North American theaters and $2.8 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $21.8 million to date. The film had a $17.5 million production budget before prints and advertising costs, according to The Numbers. Bring Her Back earned an 89% 'fresh' rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 184 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the film reads, 'A domestic nightmare that draws its most profound scares from Sally Hawkins' deranged performance, Bring Her Back is an exemplary chiller that reaffirms directors Danny and Michael Philippou as modern masters of horror.' In addition, Bring Her Back has a 79% 'fresh' score on RT's Popcornmeter based on 1,000-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary for the film reads, 'Bring Her Back is a harrowing motion picture that may gut the bravest of horror buffs, reiterating that the Philippou brothers are here to slay.' Bring Her Back is expected to arrive on PVOD on July 1.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
First-time actor Sora Wong delivers breakout performance in 'Bring Her Back'
[Source] Australian teenager Sora Wong, who has limited vision due to her coloboma and microphthalmia, makes her acting debut in the A24a horror film 'Bring Her Back,' directed by Danny and Michael Philippou. The 14-year-old was cast as Piper, a blind girl, after her mother spotted a casting call on Facebook for an actor with visual impairment. In an interview with People, Wong said she had never acted before but decided to audition at her mother's encouragement, not expecting to land the role. 'One of the main reasons why I was drawn and really determined to try and achieve this character was because I related to her in so many ways,' she said. 'And I thought it was really important and amazing that I got to portray someone who I could relate with." In the film, Piper and her stepbrother Andy (Billy Barratt) are placed with a foster mother (Sally Hawkins) following their father's death. As the story unfolds, the siblings uncover a disturbing secret about their new guardian. 'Bring Her Back' debuted over the weekend to positive reviews and currently holds a 'certified fresh' rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. It earned a spot in the top five at the domestic box office during its opening weekend, grossing $7.1 million. Trending on NextShark: This story is part of The Rebel Yellow Newsletter — a bold weekly newsletter from the creators of NextShark, reclaiming our stories and celebrating Asian American voices. Subscribe free to join the movement. If you love what we're building, consider becoming a paid member — your support helps us grow our team, investigate impactful stories, and uplift our community. ! Trending on NextShark: Download the NextShark App: Want to keep up to date on Asian American News? Download the NextShark App today!
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Before' Co-Star Judith Light Talks Teaming Up With Long Time Friend Billy Crystal For Apple TV+ Psychological Thriller
Written by Sarah Thorp, Apple TV+'s latest psychological thriller Before follows Eli (Billy Crystal), a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light), is charged to take care of a troubled young boy who has a mysterious and haunting connection to Eli's past. While struggling to make sense of the connection, Eli also begins experiencing intense hallucinations involving Lynn's death, which might not be as clear-cut as it seems. Eli digs deeper into the hidden life of the wife he thought he knew, only to find that Lynn is haunting him from beyond the grave. Here, Light speaks to Deadline about mindfulness, reincarnation and working with her cast and crew to bring this spine-tingling dynamic to life. More from Deadline 'Slow Horses' Season 5 Gets Fall Premiere Date On Apple TV+; First Look Photos Show Nick Mohammed In Guest Role Breaking Baz: 'Bring Her Back' Star Billy Barratt Says He Performed Best In The Horror Pic After Being Locked Alone In A Room Without His Phone Jonathan Tropper Extends Apple Overall Deal As His 'Your Friends And Neighbors' Sets Premiere Record DEADLINE: Once upon a time, you played a real-life murderer, Audrey Marie Hilley, inalongside David Ogden Stiers. And lately, you've been in other spooky things like , and the upcoming . I'm wondering what your personal taste is. Are you a horror fan when it comes to picking roles? JUDITH LIGHT: I've never thought about it put together like that. I personally have trouble watching horror. I don't necessarily watch it, but I choose it for the character; I don't choose it for the genre. When Ryan Murphy asked me to do American Horror, it was a really interesting character, so I wanted to take on that role. The AMC Ridley Scott piece is an extraordinary character, like nothing I've ever played before. So, for me, I'm always looking for what the character is. And yes, I did that with David Ogden Stiers; God rest his soul, such a dear, dear man. He was amazing. And The Menu was me being able to work with Mark Mylod, Ralph Fiennes and the rest of that incredible cast. DEADLINE: Is there anything inspiring you right now? Or anything you wish you could have starred in? LIGHT: I would say Adolescence, that piece that was just extraordinary. I would've loved to have been in that, that's for sure. And my friend Noah Wyle, who is doing The Pitt, is pretty spectacular. I would have also loved to do the Ewan McGregor show A Gentleman in Moscow; I am always in awe of him. Of course, he did that Ryan Murphy piece, Halston, as well. I appreciate the way he chooses his work. It's the same thing for most of us actors. You choose for the character and who you're going to be working with. That's the barometer for some of us who choose in a particular way. DEADLINE: So, what was it about ? There's a lot going on with supernatural elements, topics of mental health and reincarnation. When you received this script, what made you say yes? LIGHT: I didn't get a script. Billy [Crystal] called me and said, will you come over and meet with me and [creator, showrunner] Sarah Thorp? So, I went over, and we talked about exactly what you pointed out. You can certainly call the show spooky to one degree. There's this little boy Noah [Jacobi Jupe] who was scratching at his door, crawling through the dog door, to get connected to him, and you don't know why. Then you're dealing with someone who has mental issues. But the real context of this whole piece was reincarnation. And I've always been interested in that, and Billy, Sarah and I talked about that. At the time, she had written some things, but I hadn't seen anything just yet. I just knew sometime, someplace, somewhere, I was going to work with Billy. When the time came, I was in and wanted to be part of the production. And the two characters that we play, Eli and Lynn, you don't really understand the relationship between the two of them, which so much of the show hinges on, which is the intimacy and the love that they have carried with them through centuries. And that's what I found incredibly compelling. DEADLINE: And briefly on the mental health topic of it all. You've been in the business for a long time. How do you keep yourself mentally healthy? LIGHT: I don't have self-care days, but I do have self-care. I do meditation. I do yoga. There's always a workout every morning. There's always exercises, like Tai Chi or Qigong. I'm always looking to see if I'm staying conscious. There's always a part of me that's always aware of whether or not I'm operating from the 5% frontal part of my frontal lobe. Or am I operating from the past in the back of my brain? There's a lot of studies that have been done about this that most of us drag around our lives from our old history that didn't actually even come from us. But am I staying present to who I am, the way I'm being in the world, how I'm connecting with people? That there's always an awareness of that. And when I find myself taken out in some way, which I often am, I mean to whatever degree we all are, because life presents so many different issues for us to deal with, that I sort of pull myself back to center as best as I can. So, I meditate twice a day. And that really makes a difference; that really helps. And I believe that we all have … there's something else, there's another energy that we can call on. I don't know, some people call it God or a universal connection. There's always something about that for me, because I feel energy so strongly, I do have to take care of myself. When you're doing your work, you have to be present. When you're in a scene with somebody, you have to be present. If you're in a relationship with somebody, you'd better be present. You'd better not be dragging a whole bunch of stuff around with you, or that complicates the relationship. DEADLINE: Are you one of those actors that takes your role home with you? Or are you pretty good about clocking in and clocking out? LIGHT: I'm pretty good about clocking in and clocking out. Again, it goes back to mindfulness. It's like, am I operating from the energy that I just came from, or am I operating right now in the present? How present am I being? And when you're present, a lot of that can stop. I like to listen to people like Anthony Hopkins. He talks about when you go in for the work, you do the work, you know the script, absolutely cold, because then you have the freedom to operate. And it's the same thing with leaving your work. It's like you leave the work and then you come present elsewhere. Sometimes, it requires more effort, attention, awareness and mindfulness than in other times. But I do my best to really just stop because I don't want to bring it home to my husband. Then I'm not being present with him. DEADLINE: Now, back to the Billy Crystal of it all, you both have this tight friendship off-screen. But on-screen, Eli and Lynn don't share that much time together. How did you lean on your dynamic to make these characters work? Especially because the show really does hinge on Lynn. LIGHT: It's so interesting that you point that out. When I went to talk to Billy and Sarah, they said the same thing, that Lynn is the linchpin to all those other relationships. And it's like, how do you play up a person who's dead? Well, you don't think of them as dead. You think of them as alive. Sarah, [writer] Joe Sousa and Billy were aware of that. By the way, Billy was also the producer on this show. How he did this is remarkable to me, and what he did in this role is just so outstanding and stunning. I mean, I would watch him on set, and I would ask him, 'How are you producing and acting in this?' He said basically that he takes one piece at a time, and he delegates and lets other people do the stuff he doesn't need to do. He's really good like that, an extraordinary person, kind and generous. And just an aside here: a lot of people don't think about Billy in terms of the dramatic. When Billy was talking about this project, and Sarah had come to him with this idea about how to make the show work, Billy wanted to play this part. That's his commitment and depth. People don't always think of him in that way. They don't hold in that way, but he's an extraordinary dramatic actor, and, of course, he's an incredibly talented comedian and a great comic actor. However, this drew a beautiful light around him in a way, and his intuition was really guiding him to do this. So, we talked a lot about reincarnation, and it was one of the funny things. It was like I always knew… I would see Billy and say, 'I know him.' You know how it is when you meet somebody and you say, 'I know you.' I just think it's really fascinating. But anyway, Billy was remarkable to be in a scene with, incredible on the set with everyone. The crew adored him, and we were shooting this in the middle of the writer's strike, and then we had to stop, and then we had to come back. So, when they were talking to me about the show and how it would look, it also mattered about the camera work and what the AD was doing. But Billy and I have a connection, so we can always feel that connection. But you really don't get it until the last two episodes of the series where you start to understand what actually happened between them. There was this sense, sensitivity and sensibility of not holding yourself as a ghost, but that you appear because you're needed to appear, to serve where this character, where Billy's character, Eli, is going. And so, we talked a lot about that, and how the presence of Lynn needed to be weighted, substantive, and not sort of woo-woo and ghost-like. So, we did talk a lot about that, and that's what I think makes the show cohesive for him because we did have that dynamic between the two of us. [This interview has been edited for length and clarity.] Best of Deadline 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
Time Out
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Best Movies to Watch: Your Ultimate Guide to New Releases & Streaming
In Cinemas and Theaters This Month Bring Her Back Aussie twins Danny and Michael Philippou made an assured directorial debut with 2022's Talk to Me, and their follow up feels similarly sinister. Plot details are still scarce, but the film stars the always-great Sally Hawkins as a foster mother with some curious interests. In theaters May 30 The Phoenician Scheme Adore Wes Anderson or despise him, your opinion isn't likely to change with his new spy comedy, as it looks precisely like everything else he's done. Benicio del Toro heads a massive ensemble cast in yet another deadpan farce about a billionaire who survives a plane crash only to discover he's got bigger problems confronting him. In theaters May 30 Ballerina Spinning off – or perhaps that should be pirouetting? – from the John Wick franchise, Ana de Armas confirms her action chops as a dancer-turned-assassin out for revenge. Think you'll miss Johnny Boy himself? Never fear – Keanu's here, too. In theaters June 6 The Life of Chuck Horror director Mike Flanagan plumbs the more sentimental end of Stephen King's bibliography with this exploration of the meaning of life – or at least, one life, that of an accountant named Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) – which starts at the end of the world and works it way backward. In theaters June 13 How To Train Your Dragon After the disaster of Snow White and the triumph of Lilo and Stitch comes the year's third live-action remake of a beloved animated film, the DreamWorks classic about a Viking boy and the friendly dragon he must protect from his marauding countrymen. We're betting on a hit. In theaters June 13 Materialists Celine Song follows up Past Lives with what looks like a classic romcom love triangle, involving Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker choosing between rich-guy Pedro Pascal and a lowly caterer, played by Chris Evans. (Tough life, that.) If her previous film is any indication, though, the emotions will be more complex than the synopsis suggests.
