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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2019 23:39:29 GMT
Charlie's Angels (2019) | Official Trailer #2 | Experience It In IMAX®
Sworn to secrecy, bound by sisterhood. Watch the second trailer for Charlie's Angels now. See the film in IMAX theatres November 2019.
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Post by Admin on Nov 14, 2019 18:46:54 GMT
Kristen Stewart’s character in the highly anticipated “Charlie’s Angels” reboot is “definitely gay,” Elizabeth Banks, the film’s writer, producer and director recently confirmed, after previously refusing to put a label on the character’s sexuality. When the film’s trailer was initially released in June, LGBTQ fans dubbed the reboot “Charlie’s Gayngels” in celebration of the casting of Stewart, a queer actress, as Sabrina Wilson, the hard-partying rebel of the group. Yet, these fans found themselves disappointed when Banks pushed back on speculation that Stewart’s character was queer. “I don’t feel there is a label that fits her,” Banks said of the character in a September interview with Digital Spy. “The only thing that was important to me was to not label it as anything. It’s fine if the media wants to label it, I think that’s OK, but I didn’t do that.” “I mean, she [Kristen] wanted to be gay in the movie and I’m like, ‘Yeah,’” Banks said. “I just wanted to make sure that she was able to present a character that she was fully behind.” Banks added that she wrote a moment in the script in which Stewart flirts with another woman and that she was “all for” Stewart presenting herself as queer in the movie. In the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, a new generation of investigators join together on a mission to protect the public from dangerous technology. The other “angels” include Ella Balinska as Jane Kano, a former military intelligence agent from the United Kingdom, and Naomi Scott as Elena Houghlin, a scientist who trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2019 18:47:12 GMT
In the age of reboots, revivals, and sequels, Elizabeth Banks wants to know why people are criticizing her for creating another chapter in the Charlie’s Angels franchise. In a recent profile in WSJ Magazine, the Charlie’s Angels writer/director/star responded to the criticism she’s been facing for rebooting the franchise with Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska, and Naomi Scott. “You’ve had 37 Spider-Man movies and you’re not complaining!” Banks says. “I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years — I feel totally fine with that.” Charlie’s Angels stars Stewart, Balinska, and Scott as three new angel operatives, while Banks plays a former angel turned Bosley (which is now a rank in the Townsend Agency organization rather than the name of one person). And Banks gave some insight on why Stewart has returned to a mainstream movie franchise after sticking to indie films for so long post-Twilight. “Being in a big franchise allows you to have it all,” Banks says. “I recognize the same thing, it’s almost unfair for women. The best roles are usually in small movies, but then you don’t make any money. It’s okay to want to make money.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2019 7:18:58 GMT
The Townsend Agency and its ass-kicking Angels are back — and now they've gone global. In this latest installment of Charlie's Angels, director Elizabeth Banks delivers a modern take on the series with a brand-new badass trio of Angels: the wild and hilarious Sabina (Kristen Stewart), former MI-6 agent Jane (Ella Balinska), and systems engineer turned Angel Elena (Naomi Scott). After watching their slick crime-fighting and action-packed adventures taking down global villains, it'll make you want to sign up as the latest recruit. (Seriously — Banks, call me.)
To celebrate the return of the iconic franchise, we sat down with the newest Angels to see just how well they remember the first two Charlie's Angels films. The cast quizzed each other on everything from the original film's Angels . . .
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Post by Admin on Dec 15, 2019 18:21:41 GMT
Director Elizabeth Banks’ reboot of “Charlie’s Angels,” despite its aces cast led by Kristen Stewart, came and went from theaters this past November, earning just above $17 million domestically at the box office. However, Stewart, for one, is not “gutted” over the film’s box-office performance, as she explained in a recent interview on The Playlist.
“Well, to be honest with you, I think if I had made a movie that wasn’t good and one that I wasn’t proud of and a lot of people saw it, I would be devastated,” Stewart said. “Luckily I’m not feeling gutted because I really am proud of the movie. And I think that the kind of the climate that we’re living in right now is polarizing and it’s weird and it’s kind of hard to promote a movie like that. And I think trying to have a really complicated, overly politicized feminist conversation in a five minute TV interview about ‘Charlie’s Angels’ … I’m like, ‘Dude, we just wanted to have a good time.’”
Stewart, however, acknowledges that the failure of “Charlie’s Angels,” which cost at least $50 million for Sony Pictures Releasing, has all but killed hopes of a sequel, or a continuation of the beloved franchise in some way. At least this time around. “I’m bummed that we probably won’t make another one, but at the same time I’m really proud of the movie and I’m so happy that it exists and can live in the world. Because I think for a lot of people it’s still kind of important even in a very non-serious way,” Stewart said.
From the outset, the movie was less about smashing box-office records than about delivering a femme-positive message to audiences. As Elizabeth Banks explained to IndieWire in an interview last month, “I think it’s important as a woman and as a filmmaker and as a feminist to recognize that I stand on the shoulders of the women that came before me,” Banks said. “I thought that, thematically, that was really appropriate to ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ I like to say it was not my idea to turn ‘Charlie’s Angels’ from a TV show into a movie, it was Drew Barrymore’s. I’m just building on what she started. The inclusivity and openness of those scenes really matters to me, and I think it really speaks to women about how we should be conducting ourselves.”
No matter for the box-office tanking of “Charlie’s Angels,” as Elizabeth Banks has rebounded her career as a director and will next helm “The Invisible Woman” for Universal, twisting the classic monster story on its head. Stewart, meanwhile, can currently be seen as actress and tragic activist Jean Seberg in Amazon Studios’ “Seberg.”
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