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spacetime coordinates: 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts
Black Friday is an American horror comedy film directed by Casey Tebo. It stars Devon Sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck, Michael Jai White, and Bruce Campbell (who serves as producer). (wiki)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi, it is the 25th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). (wiki)
Red Notice is a 2021 American action comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Dwayne Johnson Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. With a $200 million production budget the film became the most-viewed film on Netflix during release day.
spacetime coordinates: 1995 – 1999 Memphis, Tennessee > Uninhabited Island in the South Pacific
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. (wiki)
Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.
spacetime coordinates: 2016 Johannesburg, South Africa
Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. It stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Ninja, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, and Sigourney Weaver. The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificial general intelligence law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.
Blomkamp said he “wrote Chappie as a trilogy” and expressed interest in making sequels if they were “economically feasible”. As of November 2016, no sequels are planned. Blomkamp said the film did not perform well enough. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: St. Louis > San Francisco (ten years have passed since a solar flare destroyed the ozone layer, increasing temperatures to 150 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) and turning the planet Earth into a largely-uninhabitable wasteland scorched by ultraviolet radiation, and subject to extreme weather events.)
Finch is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film directed by Miguel Sapochnik. The film stars Tom Hanks and Caleb Landry Jones. (wiki)
Oats Studios is an independent film studio started in 2017 by Oscar-nominated South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9) – imdb.
The studio was created with the goal of distributing experimental short films via YouTube and Steam in order to gauge the community for interest and feedback as to which of them are viable for expansion into feature films.
Actors featured in the films include Sigourney Weaver, Carly Pope, Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Kellan Lutz, Michael Rogers, Jose Pablo Cantillo, and Dakota Fanning. (wiki)
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