Robert Port is a filmmaker who earned enormous praise for his 2003 Oscar-winning short film Twin Towers, which depicts two brothers (one a firefighter and one a police officer) remembered for their bravery in New York on September 11th 2001. Working as a producer in television for a number of years, he has now made his feature directorial debut with
Recon, based on the critically acclaimed novel
Peace by Richard Bausch.
Recon is a tense thriller taking us to Italy in 1944, following four American soldiers on a gruelling ascent of an Italian mountain during the final days of the Second World War. Haunted by their evil sergeant’s cold-blooded murder of an innocent woman, they have only a local Italian man of uncertain loyalty to lead them off the mountain alive.
Local Titles Cushion Nordic Box Office Plunge in 2020
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Due to COVID-19 cinema lockdowns or restrictions, box office in the Nordic region plummeted in 2020 year-on-year by 64% in Sweden, 57.6% in Iceland, 57% in Norway, 54% in Finland, and 47% in Denmark.
The dearth of new U.S .tentpoles, combined with strong domestic titles such as “Another Round,” allowed homegrown movies to punch all-time record market shares in Denmark (50.4%), Finland (41.1%) and Norway (35.6%).
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Last year, Highlife musician got the last laugh over his critics when the remix of his song
Asew was used in a
Netflix holiday movie titled
Jingle Jangle, starring the likes of Forest Whitaker.
Before that feat, Bisa Kdei had had to grapple with talk that he was washed out and his career was all but over so when the news about his song being part of Jingle Jangle s soundtrack came out, it was all good news for his fans.
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Later this year, the titular Suicide Squad will be reborn with James Gunn s upcoming standalone sequel/soft reboot,
The Suicide Squad. While David Ayer s 2016 film wasn t wildly praised, it grossed a whole lot of money at the box office, primarily thanks to its splashy marketing and its all-star ensemble, which includes Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, and Jared Leto. It s certainly a lively cast of characters, though only a few will return for the DCEU s newest cinematic installment.
While this new movie will disregard a lot of elements from the original, including a few key characters, there s still a loyal fanbase for David Ayer s first film, and they re likely wondering what the