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Chris Johnson Says Titans Are Super Bowl Bound After Predicting Ravens Upset
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nobody anticipated the Titans to mess Lamar Jackson along with the Ravens… that is, no one except Chris Johnson… and he informs TMZ Sports his previous group is going to pull ANOTHER huge mad!!
Mike Vrabel‘s team came off with all the 28-12 dub over Baltimore at the divisional round of the playoffs on Saturday (they had been 10 point underdogs)… 1 week after shooting down Tom Brady along with the Patriots.
CJ2K states the Titans ai not completed however,’cause he informs us Tennessee is going to shoot down Patrick Mahomes and also co. from the AFC Championship game and hit a few tickets to Miami.
“Man, listen, the Ravens had a volatile crime too,” CJ informs us. “We went there and we all did everything we needed to perform. We held them to 12 points. Thus, we gon’ do exactly the identical thing this week”
CJ — that had been so pumped about the triumph, he made t-shirts — jokes that he is becoming so great with his predictionshe warrants a TV deal!!
“I have been right on your mind. I have been calling it weekly.”
We asked Johnson what it is gonna have to prevent a crime that only put up 51 points about the Texans… and he states that the Titans just gotkindly adhere into the script.
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“Man, we will move in there and do our thing . We gon’ play decent defense, we gon’ run the ball and also this weekwe gon’ get some recipients (to) step up and make some plays.”
“We gon’ do this game program together. Get it directly. We go do exactly what we have ta do”
Hey, he had been correct the first two times…
“Rumba Therapy” stars Dubosc as a man in his 50s who lives alone after having abandoned his wife and baby decades earlier. He sets off to reconnect with his daughter (Louna Espinosa), who has become a dance teacher. He signs up for her classes, even if he hates dancing.
Like “Rolling to You,” “Rumba Therapy” is a crowd-pleaser weaving comedy and emotion, and centering on a flawed protagonist who draws empathy from the audience.
“Rumba Therapy” is one of the few movies that Gaumont is producing in-house. “Rolling to You,” which was also produced in-house by Gaumont, was a major hit in France where it sold 2.5 million tickets, as well as abroad where it grossed $25 million.
“Rumba Therapy” will start shooting in May and will be released in France by Gaumont during the first half of 2021.
Gaumont is also attending Berlin’s European Film Market with the promo of Xavier Giannoli’s “Lost Illusions.”
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Leonine Takes All Rights to ‘Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Street’ for Germany and Austria (EXCLUSIVE)
German media firm Leonine has closed an all-rights licensing deal with Pathé Films on “Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road” for Germany and Austria.
The feature film, based on the characters created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, marks the fifth live-action adventure of Asterix and Obelix, and will take the two Gallic heroes to China.
The screenplay was written by Philippe Mechelen and Julien Hervé (“Looking for Teddy,” “The Magic Tuche”), together with Guillaume Canet, who will also direct the movie and play the role of Asterix. Gilles Lellouche is attached to star as his companion Obelix.
The film is produced by Trésor Films, Pathé Films and Les Enfants Terribles.
Leonine, formed from the merger of Tele München Group, Universum Film, i&u TV, Wiedemann & Berg Film and W&B TV, will release the film theatrically via its own distribution outfit in Germany.
I’ve bought this good friend who makes his personal garments. Not the generic sort reduce from dowdy prairie-dress patterns, however stylish, design-it-yourself clothes that look higher than most something you’d discover on a ready-to-wear rack. I determine he’s the one individual I do know who’s not responsible of contributing to the type of sweatshop distress writer-director Michael Winterbottom assaults in his scattershot new satire “Greed,” a piece of Swiftian apoplexy that provides frequent collaborator Steve Coogan — kitted out in pretend tan and freakishly white choppers — an opportunity to chew the surroundings after which some. He’s actually bought the tooth for it.
Coogan performs Sir Richard McCreadie, whose identify rhymes with “grasping,” the person behind a model referred to as Monda, however there’s no actual thriller about whom he’s skewering. The movie’s large fats goal is the billionaire backside feeder Sir Philip Inexperienced, answerable for Topshop and half a dozen different retail labels (the British equal of worse offenders Zara and H&M) which have turned the exploitation of developing-world employees into an empire of low cost — and awful — low cost style. At the very least, that’s the gist of the joke right here, though one can’t assist wishing that it have been funnier.
Granted, it might be laborious to be extra vicious, because the movie amplifies the bewildering egotism of Inexperienced’s 50th-birthday bash, an extravagant toga social gathering thrown on the island of Cyprus, the place he dressed as Emperor Nero and surrounded himself with lots of of wealthy sycophants, to be collectively serenaded by Rod Stewart. Within the film, McCreadie and ex-wife/co-owner Samantha (Isla Fisher) plan an identical shebang, going by the record of pop stars to see which they’ll afford to fly out to Mykonos, the place the style mogul plans to fete his candy 60.
After an introductory montage of disgusting self-aggrandizement meant to ascertain McCreadie as a sleazeball con artist, the movie introduces the businessman’s hapless biographer, Nick (David Mitchell), by whose eyes we’re meant to expertise the vaguely documentary-style proceedings. Whereas Nick’s anticipated to write down a puff piece, the movie provides audiences a extra unfiltered glimpse at McCreadie’s inside world, full with biting flashbacks — through which Jamie Blackley performs the already ruthless younger Richard — knowledgeable by fictional interviews with numerous pals and cohorts.
Shot on digital video and edited with MTV-style aggressivity, “Greed” feels at occasions like an indignant PowerPoint presentation, bombarding audiences with guilt-inducing information concerning the trendy style business: “The world’s 26 richest males personal as a lot wealth because the poorest 3.eight billion,” laborers in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh earn as little as 800 rupees a day, the business is inherently sexist and so forth. The soundtrack to such revelations? Abba’s “Cash Cash Cash.” Winterbottom doesn’t thoughts being overly on-the-nose about all this, throwing in a cheesy subplot about attempting to chase off a bunch of Syrian refugees who’ve camped out on the seaside adjoining the positioning of his island social gathering. He even writes in an immigrant assistant named Amanda (Dinita Gohil), whose mom died in a manufacturing unit fireplace again dwelling in Bangladesh.
Amanda serves a key operate within the movie however doesn’t learn like an actual individual — a disgrace, as a result of she’s essentially the most likable character — and the concept she’s obliged to work a second job in a London sweatshop appears outrageous. That type of real-world hardship feels incongruous together with her presumably well-paid gig at Monda, and a defiant contradiction of the broad caricature that’s McCreadie’s household drama: His celebutante daughter Lily (Sophie Cookson) is taking pictures a rigged actuality present, whereas his barely-old-enough-to-shave son Finn (Asa Butterfield) has Oedipal designs on Dad’s supermodel girlfriend (Shanina Shaik). The scene-stealer right here is Shirley Henderson as McCreadie’s outrageous old-crone mom, viciously encouraging behind a layer of droopy prosthetic pores and skin.
Whereas this circus unfolds round him, McCreadie focuses on his birthday, demanding {that a} small area be custom-built on Mykonos, full with dwell lion. It’s a catastrophe ready to occur, and the inevitable query appears to be: Will “Greed” go as far as to let the lion assault the company? Or higher but: Aside from Nick, is there anybody amongst this craven throng of 1-percenters whom Winterbottom would save? As public opinion awakens to the true value of capitalism, such “kill the wealthy” comedy appears prone to be the place the pendulum swings subsequent.
However at the same time as gleefully excessive as “Greed” will get with its critique, I doubt that two hours of merciless cut-downs aimed toward a wealthy bozo most People haven’t heard of will do a lot to change client habits. Most individuals already know the way low-cost style works, and so they store anyway. “Greed” merely pokes enjoyable at how the house owners spend their cash (as in a montage of these cheesy celeb videograms, that includes customized birthday greetings from the likes of Colin Firth and Keira Knightley, who might or might not have been in on the joke).
The true thrill of “Greed” is getting to look at Winterbottom and Coogan re-reteam for the type of reality-skewing caricature that kicked off their working relationship nearly 20 years earlier with 2002’s faux-factual Manufacturing facility Information sendup “24 Hour Occasion Folks.” Coogan as soon as once more goes large and broad, dishing out a blistering barrage of specific insults (“I’m not a gynecologist, however I do know a c— once I see one”), the likes of which we’ve come to affiliate with Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci, his accomplices on “I’m Alan Partridge.”
The actor’s all the time been a fast wit, and his timing couldn’t be higher. So why does a lot of “Greed” really feel petty? If Inexperienced’s something like McCreadie in actual life, he’s bought thick sufficient pores and skin to resist such heckling, however there’s one thing a bit too straightforward in most of Winterbottom’s critique. “It’s all a part of the model,” McCreadie explains at one level, suggesting that the borderline-criminal act of asset stripping the corporate with the intention to dwell massive might be written off as a type of advertising and marketing. “It provides a bit sparkle to a $10 social gathering costume.” Or not. Winterbottom goals to tarnish that false phantasm, launching the comedic equal of an animal rights activist paint-bombing a fur coat. The emperor is bare, “Greed” needs us to understand, however except we conform to radically rethink our personal wardrobes, does it make any distinction?