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Mark St. Cyr & Sonja O’Hara Leading Indie TV Pilot

Exclusive: With greenlight-chasing television producers continuing to take tips from independent film production, a pilot starring Mark St. Cyr (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) and Sonja O’Hara (Doomsday) is launching. 300 Feet Tall, billed as magical realism meets musical drama, will also star 12-year-old neurodivergent stage actress Colette Goodman and Drew Moerlein (Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra). Filmed in primarily in Redqood National Park, the pilot follows Mika (O’Hara), who, having suffered physically and mentally at the hands of her partner, Glenn (St. Cyr), is forced to come to terms with her choices when she is transported to a mythological land where she meets a younger version of herself (Goodman). Michelle Vezilj created and directed the pilot, which is being shopped to networks and streamers this summer. Kelly Price is the executive producer, with Moerlein, Kathy Sue Holtorf...

Exclusive: David Koechner (Anchorman) has been tapped for a major supporting role in Tender, a crime thriller from writer-director Adam Hoelzel (Beast of Burden), currently shooting in Los Angeles.

Specifics as to Koechner’s role are under wraps. As we were first to report, Jesse Garcia and Jess Weixler star in the pic about a couple struggling with a failing marriage and mounting debts that stumbles upon a hidden fortune of gold within the walls of their home, leading them to concoct a risky plan to sell it and solve their financial troubles.

Others in the cast include Robert Longstreet, Shakira Barrera, Mark St. Cyr, Sonja O’Hara, Keli Price, Stephen Ellis, Robert Peters and Alexander Cubis.

Sofia Rovaletti, O’Hara, Farrell Ingle, Keli Price, Theo Bucksey, Roy Hsu and Grayson Hay are producing alongside Corey Moosa, David Hopwood, Michael K. Dwyer’s A Group of Ferrets, and Juan Pablo Reinoso’s Firebook.

Exclusive: Jesse Garcia (Flamin’ Hot) and Jess Weixler (Teeth) have signed on to star in Tender, a crime thriller set to enter production in Los Angeles this week.

Written and directed by Adam Hoelzel (Beast of Burden), the film centers on a couple struggling with a failing marriage and mounting debts that stumbles upon a hidden fortune of gold within the walls of their home, leading them to concoct a risky plan to sell it and solve their financial troubles.

Others in the cast include Robert Longstreet (Sorry to Bother You), Shakira Barrera (Glow), Mark St. Cyr (The Menu), Sonja O’Hara (Mid-Century), Keli Price (Murder at Hollow Creek), Stephen Ellis, Robert Peters (Lincoln) and Alexander Cubis (Tyler Perry’s Ruthless).

Sofia Rovaletti (Mid-Century), O’Hara (Doomsday), Farrell Ingle (Subject 19), Keli Price (Bandit), Theo Bucksey (Morrow Road), Roy Hsu and Grayson Hay will produce alongside Corey Moosa (Margin Call...

Network: Disney+

Episodes: 38 (hour)

Seasons: Four

TV show dates: November 8, 2019 -- August 9, 2023

Series status: Ended

Performers include: Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Dara Reneé, Frankie Rodriguez, Mark St. Cyr, Kate Reinders, Joe Serafini, Saylor Bell Curda, Adrian Lyles, and Liamani Segura.

TV show description:

A musical drama series, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series follows a group of drama students and faculty members at East High, the Utah high school where the original High School Musical movie was filmed. Read More…...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for the fourth and final season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” now streaming on Disney+.

The Wildcats of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” have taken their final bow.

The Disney+ extension of the popular movie musical trilogy concluded this week with an eight-episode fourth season that found its cast performing a stage — or rather, basketball court — production of 2008’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.” Members of that film’s original cast returned to East High to shoot the fictional “High School Musical 4: The Reunion.”

Although the original films have had a presence since the pilot episode — the series is set at the high school where the films were shot — the final season is the show’s most meta endeavor yet.

“I think that’s one reason we wrapped up the show, or why I wanted to wrap up the show,...

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 4 teases returns from Troy, Gabriella, and Sharpay. The main characters find out that their school will be used to film High School Musical 4: The Reunion, where they'll all be cast as extras. The original HSM actors Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, and Kaycee Stroh will make appearances in the series, reprising their roles.

A new clip from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 4 teases returns from Troy, Gabriella, and Sharpay. In the upcoming final installment of the hit Disney+ show, the characters of Hsmtmts return to East High for their senior year, at which point they find out that the school is being used to film the long-awaited High School Musical 4: The Reunion, and that they'll all be cast as extras. Continuing the meta streak of the series, several actors from the original High School Musical franchise will be making appearances.

Disney Branded Television and Disney+ Hotstar released the teaser for the Disney+ Original series ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’, revealing that the Wildcats will take their final bow this summer. From Disney Branded Television, the Emmy-nominated television series was inspired by the hugely popular ‘High School Musical‘ movies, which first aired on Disney Channel in 2006 and 2007, and theatrically in 2008.

Earlier today, series creator and executive producer Tim Federle (a DGA and Emmy nominee for “Better Nate Than Ever”) – who will continue a multi-year overall deal with Disney Branded Television said in a social post, “After four years at East High, it’s time to graduate. This will be our final, endgame season.”

Federle continued, “This show brought the most extraordinary cast – and crew, and collaborators – to my life. To the fans, who embraced our super-meta series: we “don’t not love you.” We can’t wait to share...

Disney+’s teaser trailer for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series confirms that the upcoming fourth season will be the show’s final season. Season four will drop all eight episodes on Wednesday, August 9, 2023.

The final season brings back High School Musical stars Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, and Kaycee Stroh as themselves. Plus, the show will wrap up with a major meta twist that finds East High hosting High School Musical 4: The Reunion.

Series creator and executive producer Tim Federle took to social media to discuss the final season: “After four years at East High, it’s time to graduate. This will be our final, endgame season,” stated Federle. “This show brought the most extraordinary cast – and crew, and collaborators – to my life. To the fans who embraced our super-meta series: we ‘don’t not love you.’ We can’t wait to...

The fourth season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” will be its last. All episodes in the eight-episode installment will premiere on Disney+ on Aug. 9.

“After four years at East High, it’s time to graduate. This will be our final, endgame season,” series creator and executive producer Tim Federle wrote on Instagram. “This show brought the most extraordinary cast — and crew, and collaborators — to my life. To the fans, who embraced our super-meta series: We ‘don’t not love you.’ We can’t wait to share this epic fourth act with you all.”

Federle, who also directed the 2022 film “Better Nate Than Ever,” based on his novel of the same name, will continue his multi-year overall deal with Disney Branded Television.

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“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series...

We’re All in this Together, at least until August 9, when High School Musical: The Musical: The Series final season arrives on Disney+. Based on the worldwide phenomena released in 2006 that completely changed the perception of musicals for an entire generation, the show premiered on the House of Mouse streaming platform in 2019, expanding the universe of East High. And now it's coming to an end.

On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the series will end its run with the upcoming fourth season, which debuts in less than two months. Disney+ also released the first trailer offering the first official look at the new episodes:

As it happened in the third film in the Kenny Ortega-directed trilogy, the Wildcats return from their summer vacation at theater camp to get through their last year of high school before life takes them their separate ways to go to college and fulfill their dreams.

“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” is coming to a close. The teen musical comedy’s upcoming fourth season will be its last on Disney+.

The met series is set at the high school where the original “High School Musical” movies were filmed and centers on a group of teenage musical theater lovers who decide to mount a production of “High School Musical.”

In Season 4, which premieres on Aug. 9, the Wildcats return to East High after an epic summer at Camp Shallow Lake and prepare a stage production of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.” But plans are disrupted when Principal Gutierrez announces that Disney has decided to make the long-awaited “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” movie on location at their beloved high school.

Series regulars include Joshua Bassett as Ricky, Sofia Wylie as Gina, Dara Reneé as Kourtney, Julia Lester as Ashlyn, Frankie Rodriguez as Carlos, Kate Reinders...

The trailer for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 4 previews a very meta reunion in what is announced to be the show's final season. In the upcoming installment of the hit Disney+ show, the characters return to East High for their senior year, at which point they find out that the school is being used to film the long-awaited High School Musical 4: The Reunion movie, and that they'll all be used as extras. Continuing the meta streak of the series, several actors from the original HSM franchise will be making appearances.

The trailer for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 4, which will drop all eight episodes on August 9, has been unveiled by Disney+.

The teaser, included above, offers a preview of the returning HSM actors Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, and Kaycee Stroh. The preview overall offers an exciting glimpse...

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is gearing up for one last production.

The series will end with its fourth season, Disney+ and showrunner Tim Federle announced Wednesday. Season four is set to premiere on Aug. 9 with a binge release of all eight episodes. The series also released a trailer for the final season.

“This series was always about found family, and about making something you love with people you love. In other words, it was a tribute to theater kids,” Federle said in a statement. “I can’t wait for our dedicated fan base to watch this world-class cast take a final bow.”

Watch the trailer below.

In an Instagram post about the final season, Federle wrote, “This will be our final, endgame season. This show brought the most extraordinary cast — and crew, and collaborators — to my life. To the fans who embraced our super-meta series, we ‘don’t not love you.

Class divides have plagued us almost since the dawn of civilization, since the very first groups of humans separated themselves according to the haves and have-nots. From the caveman with the biggest stick to the CEO with the largest bank account, things really haven't changed all that much. In the 2022 dark comedy "The Menu," those who have spent their whole lives in servitude finally get a chance to turn the tables in a truly bizarre tableau.

In the film, directed by Mark Mylod, a group of wealthy, privileged diners visit an exclusive island restaurant called Hawthorne for a once-in-a-lifetime dining experience. The whole meal is planned in advance from start to finish (no substitutions) and has a story that goes along with it, all created by the eccentric but brilliant Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes in a brilliant performance). Slowik uses the evening as a way to punish his guests, his employees,...

HBO Max has cooked up a slate of several classic films as well as a few newer ones arriving this January. “The Menu” (2022) arrived early in the month after releasing theatrically in November before Thanksgiving. Danny DeVito’s “Matilda” (1996) can contend with Netflix’s new movie musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book. And while Tom Hanks’ latest role “A Man Called Otto” has hit the box office, several of his films have landed at various streamers if you’re hankering for more after the tear-jearking feature film.

Hitting the sweet spot for dog movie lovers is “Marley and Me,” starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, and the animated wonder “The Book of Life” is also newly added.

Here are some of the best new movies to stream on HBO Max in January 2023.

“Matilda” (1996) (Sony Pictures)

The 1996 version of Roald Dahl’s classic book arrived on HBO’s streaming service...

While the Chef ultimately accomplished his gory plan in The Menu, Margot was eventually spared, with her being allowed to leave towards the end. Released on November 18, 2022, The Menu garnered positive reviews, as the movie navigated themes of alienation from work, artists’ dying passion, and the intelligentsia’s pretentiousness. From the onset of the thriller comedy, Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance as the no-nonsense Margot complemented Ralph Fiennes’ clever and creepy embodiment of Chef Julian Slowik. Although The Menu attempted to explore the characters’ backstories and motives individually, it was Margot and Chef Julian’s connection that pushed the narrative forward – albeit unexpectedly.

What started out as an exclusive, once-in-a-blue-moon dinner experience at Hawthorn quickly turned into a night of secrets unraveled, schemes executed, and grudges unloaded. Apart from disclosing his traumatic childhood and sharing disturbing commentaries, Chef Julian was instrumental in revealing the darkest truths behind The Menu’s cast...

Searchlight Pictures gave their darkly comedic psychological thriller The Menu a theatrical release last month (you can read our review Here and watch our interview with stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult Here), and it has been more successful than I would have expected it to be. It has earned more than 59 million at the worldwide box office. And next month, it’s heading into viewers’ homes. The Menu will be receiving a digital release on January 3rd, with a Blu-ray release to follow on January 17th.

Scripted by Will Tracy (Last Week with John Oliver) and Seth Reiss (Late Night with Seth Meyers), The Menu is set

in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu, with some shocking surprises.

Taylor-Joy (The Witch) and Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road...

The Menu is a comedy horror movie directed by Mark Mylod, starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Fiennes’ performance and the photography save the day in this film as the story at all times maintains a freezing distance to its characters. If that is deliberate or not, will remain a mystery.

Premise

Chef extraodinaire, Julian Slowik, offers a six course dinner at his secluded restaurant to select patrons.

Movie Review

With its pristine photography, and the superb performances, especially by Ralph Fiennes, this horror/thriller, with very faint hints of dark comedy, is visually impressive but does not quite get under one’s skin. It is as cold as the characters in the story.

The Menu (2022)

It is unpleasant by nature – being the thriller/horror movie it is – and the few humorous interjections, while funny, are as cynical as can be, making one laugh but not feel too good about it.

(L-r:) Aimee Carrero, Mark Mylod, and John Leguizamo filming The Menu Image: Eric Zachanowich / Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures The satirical thriller The Menu is populated by people who exemplify the term “love to hate.” The film follows a particularly eventful meal at Hawthorne, an exclusive restaurant on a private island...

Anya Taylor-Joy stars alongside Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult in The Menu, a film from director Mark Mylod (“Succession”) that was released in theaters over the weekend.

Released into 3,211 theaters, The Menu ate up 9 million domestically in its debut weekend, with the darkly comedic horror movie debuting to 15.2 million at the worldwide box office.

The Menu gave Searchlight Pictures its biggest opening weekend since Slumdog Millionaire (’08), and it’s currently #2 on the domestic charts behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Meagan wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Even with bursts of shocking violence, there’s a restraint to the horror and madness. The wit, humor, style, and performances ultimately serve tasty morsels worth savoring. The pacing is as methodical as Chef Slowik’s meal, which means it has a way of dragging on a bit too long without fully satiating.”

The film, penned by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, “is...

Sunday Writethru after Saturday Update: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s second weekend is coming in lower than its projected 70M+ with 67.3M, -63. That’s not necessarily something to get worried about, however, as sources keep telling me this pic’s running time is what’s slowing it down a bit. At the same time, that second weekend is slightly ahead of Black Adam‘s 67M opening weekend.

On the bright side, it’s Thanksgiving week, and if people aren’t seeing Wakanda Forever this weekend, then they’re making an appointment to see it sometime this week, hands down. Furthermore, there was always bound to be a steep drop in the Friday-to-Friday coming off the Veterans Day holiday and previews a week ago, that number being -79 for 17.9M Friday.

Even though the running total for Wakanda Forever at 288M today will be 2 behind Doctor Strange in the...

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Disenchanted, Glass Onion, Wednesday, Devotion and The Menu.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story premiere

Netflix hosted the U.S. premiere of the Knives Out sequel on Monday at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, with writer-director Rian Johnson, producer Ram Bergman and stars Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline and Kate Hudson. Original Knives Out castmembers Jamie Lee Curtis, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell also made an appearance.

(Back) Madelyn Cline, Jessica Henwick, Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Noah Segan, (front) Netflix chief marketing officer content acquisition Marian Lee, Kate Hudson, Netflix global film content acquisition vp Scott Stuber, Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Netflix studio film content acquisition director Nick Nesbitt,...

Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in ‘The Menu’ (Photo by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures © 2022 20th Century Studios)

What should be a most divine dining experience for 11 individuals turns into a night of unexpected terror in Searchlight Pictures’ The Menu. The R-rated film from director Mark Mylod (Game of Thrones) is a dark, sharply crafted horror comedy with a wonderful ensemble cast.

The movie kicks off with the introduction of two of the diners – Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) – waiting on a dock to board a boat that will take them to a remote island. Their destination: Hawthorne, an exclusive restaurant that charges 1,250 a plate and promises to be worth every dollar.

Nine other guests join them onboard the boat including a past-his-prime movie star (John Leguizamo) and his lovely assistant (Aimee Carrero), Lillian; a pretentious food critic (Janet McTeer) and her brown-nosing editor (Paul Adelstein); Anne...

Reservations at Hawthorne are notoriously hard to get. It only seats 12 guests (at 1250 a head) and does a single multi-course dining service per evening. Located on an island that also houses the staff and provides the bulk of the ingredients, it’s considered the best dining experience in the country, possibly even the world. And the chef, well…Chef Julian Slowik’s reputation as a culinary artist, an innovator and a perfectionist precedes him. Walk through the doors of this dining room, with its exposed kitchen and gorgeous views of...

Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John Lequizamo, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang | Written by Seth Reiss, Will Tracy | Directed by Mark Mylod

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy headline this blackly comic satire about an acclaimed chef who gives a group of pretentious diners their just desserts. Essentially, it’s a one-joke movie, but it’s such a beautifully delivered, carefully constructed joke that it deserves to be savoured.

The Menu opens on Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a self-described foodie who has forked out £1200 a head in order to attend an exclusive dining experience on a remote island, with a menu prepared by revered chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). Tyler’s date, Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) does not share his enthusiasm for the culinary delights, but she’s come along for the ride anyway.

As Tyler and...

The Menu Review — The Menu (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Mark Mylod, written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy and starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Reed Birney, Judith Light, Rebecca Koon, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Peter [...]

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“What are we eating? A Rolex?”

So quips Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Mark Mylod’s “The Menu” as she waits with her date, Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a devoted foodie who has landed them a reservation at the exclusive restaurant Hawthorne. Like the opening of Rian Johnson’s upcoming “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” an eclectic, upscale bunch gathers eagerly on a dock to be ferried to a private island.

The movie, like their meal, unfolds as a series of courses, each more elaborate, and sinister, than the last. This is such rarified haute cuisine that entrees are promised that will not just represent food realms like protein and fungi but “entire ecosystems.” A paired pinot wine is said to feature “a faint sense of longing and regret.” Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes), Hawthorne’s celebrity chef, presides over the restaurant less like a cook than a military commander or, possibly,...

Plot: A young couple (Nicholas Hoult & Anya Taylor-Joy) visit an ultra-exclusive restaurant on a secluded island run by a chef (Ralph Fiennes) whose staff has a cult-like devotion to their genius boss.

Review: The Menu was precisely the kind of black-hearted, cynical satire I needed at this midway point at the Toronto International Festival. When you’re watching movie after movie, it’s sometimes easy for one’s eyes to glaze over a bit, but The Menu is an energetic blast that will make even the most cynical audience member wince. It’s a delightfully-squirm inducing satire of wealth and haute-cuisine, with several Grand Guignol moments that even inch it towards the horror genre.

It’s brilliantly written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy and sharply directed by Succession‘s Mark Mylod. Anya Taylor-Joy grounds the film as Margot, a young woman enlisted to join the 1200 a head dinner at the last moment.

(from left): Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Janet McTeer, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, and Mark St. Cyr in the film The Menu. Photo: Searchlight Pictures Even for many self-professed “foodies,” it’s insane to spend a hefty amount on a...

Nicholas Hoult (The Great) did a deep dive into the world of foodies to prepare for Searchlight Pictures’ twisted horror comedy The Menu. Hoult plays one of the guests at an exclusive – and isolated – restaurant who discovers his delicious meal comes at a higher price than anticipated.

“It was very difficult because I had to eat at nice restaurants and watch lots of food shows,” said Hoult, laughing. “It was one of those amazing things that the more of Chef’s Table I watched, the more that I was in awe and amazed by these singular-minded, dedicated chefs who committed their whole lives to their craft. And then I was starstruck because Dominique Crenn, who was the food advisor on the movie and designed the menu, she was on set one day and I’d seen her episode and I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s her!’

And I was...

Searchlight Pictures will be giving the darkly comedic psychological thriller The Menu a theatrical release this Friday, November 18th, and ahead of the film’s release, we had the chance to sit down for an interview with its stars, Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road). To find out what they had to say about their experience working on The Menu, check out the video embedded above!

Our own Chris Bumbray recently had the chance to watch The Menu at the Toronto International Film Festival and gave the film a 9/10 review you can read at This Link.

Scripted by Will Tracy (Last Week with John Oliver) and Seth Reiss (Late Night with Seth Meyers), The Menu is set

in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu,...

20th Century Studios has been low-key delivering some of the most consistent genre entertainment over the last several years. "Ready or Not," "Barbarian," "No Exit," and "Prey" all serve as excellent examples. Oddly enough, this has all coincided with Disney's purchase of Fox, even though many of the movies in question were in the works before that deal took place. And the hot streak is set to continue as "The Menu" -- which hails from the studio's Searchlight Pictures division -- makes its way to theaters this weekend.

I was lucky enough to see the film at Fantastic Fest and, in one man's humble opinion, I think it absolutely rules. The trailers have been keeping many secrets but, very basically, the film centers on a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) who travel to an isolated island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the acclaimed chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu.

"The Menu" is a new comedy drama feature, directed by Mark Mylod, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo, only in theaters November 18, 2022:

"...a couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the 'chef' (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises..."

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The cast and crew of Mark Mylod’s dark comedy The Menu dismebarked riverside this evening for the film’s UK premiere in London. Directed by Mylod, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo.

The film hits cinemas on November 18th, 2022. Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the carpet, making small talk before dinner, here are their interviews.

The Menu Premiere Interviews

Plot:

A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu and a few shocking surprises.

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"The Menu" is a new comedy drama feature, directed by Mark Mylod, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo, opening November 18, 2022:

"...a couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the 'chef' (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises..."

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If you’re someone who considers themself a foodie (and I totally am), chances are there was a moment in the last few years when you had The Awakening. It may have been when the waiter was describing the veal marrow with beet foam served with baby lettuces from New Zealand. It may have been when you were eating the red snapper that was cooked halfway through, like a rare steak, and you thought, “I love sushi, I love cooked fish, but I’m not sure this is really the best of both worlds.” It may have been when you saw the bill.

Whatever the trigger, that was the moment you looked up from your plate and realized that high-end foodie culture has become a serious annoyance. It’s gotten too fussy, too pricey, too full of itself, too not filling, too avant-garde and conceptual, too tied to The Salvation of the Planet,...

"The Menu" is a new comedy drama feature, directed by Mark Mylod, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo, opening November 18, 2022:

"...a couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the 'chef' (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises..."

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Last month, Searchlight Pictures unveiled two posters for their darkly comedic psychological thriller The Menu, which is set to reach theatres on November 18th. One of the posters focused on the character played by Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) and the other focused on the character played by Ralph Fiennes (No Time to Die). Now a new poster for The Menu has arrived online, and this one features both Taylor-Joy and Fiennes, as well as Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) and several other cast members. You can take a look at it at the bottom of this article.

Our own Chris Bumbray recently had the chance to watch The Menu at the Toronto International Film Festival and gave the film a 9/10 review you can read at This Link.

We’ve been following the progress of this project for over three years now, as it first caught our attention when Alexander Payne was going to direct,...

Anya Taylor-Joy stars alongside Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult in The Menu, a film from director Mark Mylod (“Succession”) that has been described as being darkly comedic.

Searchlight Pictures will release The Menu in theaters on November 18, 2022 (read Meagan’s review here), and the official poster has been painstakingly prepared for us today.

The film, penned by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, “is a darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu. Taylor-Joy will play one half of the couple. Fiennes is playing the chef.”

The cast also includes Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang, and John Leguizamo.

Adam McKay (The Big Short) is producing The Menu for Searchlight.

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Hawthorn is an epicurean’s wet dream. To dine at this restaurant, around which Mark Mylod’s stylishly directed feature The Menu revolves, one must make a reservation several months in advance and fork over 1,250 per person. The eatery is run by stern, world-renowned Chef Slowik (played with quiet severity by Ralph Fiennes) and is located on a remote island somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Their tasting menu changes seasonally, based on both the whims of its progenitor and the land. The restaurant only seats a dozen people. There are no cellphones allowed. They do not take solo diners.

What kind of person wants — or more accurately can afford — to dine at this fine establishment? The filthy rich, of course — the self-absorbed and ghoulish figures for whom it’s impossible to summon an ounce of good will. The Menu gorges on the blunders...

Director Mark Mylod and writers Seth Reiss and Will Tracy carefully construct a multi-course fine dining tasting menu of satirical delights and frights in The Menu. While the sophisticated and dry horror-comedy tantalizes with a feast for the senses and a compelling ensemble cast, The Menu‘s satire lacks bite.

Obsessed foodie Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) finally secured a coveted spot at the exclusive Hawthorne Island dining experience run by prestigious Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). The limited seating gets filled by billionaires, renowned food critics, and actors that don’t even bat an eye at the hefty price tag for haute cuisine. But then Tyler swaps in Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) as his last-minute plus one, creating a slight hiccup in the carefully curated menu for the evening. Only Margot seems capable of seeing beneath Chef’s pomp and circumstance to recognize a far more insidious game afoot.

There’s a dry...

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Root Letter’s main story involves a relationship between pan pals. Now, pen pals is an idea that I assume the current younger generation have no idea about, although it’s not a whole lot different to messaging people you may have never met via the Internet. I guess in case some people don’t know ‘pen pals’ are two people that stay in touch and generally become friends via the use of written letters. I think between the ages of about 11 and 13 I had a pen pal who I would eventually meet in person once and we first wrote to each other through the pages of a video game magazine. In Root Letter the two...

"The Menu" is a new comedy drama feature, directed by Mark Mylod, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo, opening November 18, 2022:

"...a couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the 'chef' (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises..."

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Searchlight Pictures has debuted the full trailer for ‘The Menu’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult.

A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu and a few shocking surprises.

Directed by Mark Mylod, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo

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The film hits cinemas on November 18th.

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"The Menu" is a new comedy drama feature, directed by Mark Mylod, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Rob Yang and John Leguizamo:

"...a couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the 'chef' (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises..."

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Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult pay the price for the culinary experience of a lifetime in their new thriller, "The Menu." The film, produced by Searchlight Pictures, stars Hoult and Taylor-Joy as Tyler and Margot, a young couple who visit a remote island for the opportunity to eat at Hawthorne, an exclusive restaurant headed by celebrity Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes).

What begins as a night of culinary exploration planned by one of the most renowned chefs in the world slowly dissolves into a nightmarish series of mind games intended to give the diners a fully immersive dining experience. "The game is trying to guess what the overarching theme of the entire meal is going to be," Tyler says in the trailer released on Aug. 10. "You won't know till the end." For Tyler, a foodie, the evening is an opportunity to indulge his palate. For Margot, who reluctantly tags along,...

Anya Taylor-Joy stars alongside Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult in The Menu, a film from director Mark Mylod (“Succession”) that has been described as being darkly comedic.

Searchlight Pictures will release The Menu in theaters on November 18, 2022, and today brings a brand new official trailer that gives us a better idea what to expect from this one.

For starters, there’s a dark secret simmering beneath the surface of this painstakingly prepared dinner party. And the guests may soon be finding themselves on The Menu…

Watch the official trailer for Searchlight’s The Menu below.

The film, penned by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, “is a darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef has prepared a lavish tasting menu. Taylor-Joy will play one half of the couple.

Our communal chef fantasies take a turn to the dark side with comedy-thriller “The Menu.”

Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Margot, a skeptical diner accompanying her partner Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) to an elite restaurant tucked away on a remote island. The tasting menu, curated by a famed chef played by Ralph Fiennes, has surprising delicacies in store for the guests who may or may not be trapped. A teaser for the film already hinted at the underbelly of a lavish yet mysterious meal. “The Menu” is set to premiere in theaters November 18 from Searchlight Pictures after world-premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Mega-producer Adam McKay is behind the film, with “Succession” director and executive producer Mark Mylod helming the feature. Screenwriters Will Tracy (a writer on “Succession” as well as “John Oliver”) and Seth Reiss (writing supervisor on “Seth Meyers”) penned the film, and Betsy Koch also co-produces along with McKay.

Shaked Berenson’s company sets September 1 US release.

Shaked Berenson’s LA-based distribution and sales company Entertainment Squad has acquired worldwide rights to the dramatic thriller Root Letter from Japan’s Ammo Inc. and California-based Ammo Entertainment and will launch international sales in Toronto.

Emmy-nominated Sonja O’Hara directed from David Ebeltoft’s adapted screenplay based on the video game from Kadokawa Games.

Danny Ramirez from Top Gun: Maverick stars as Carlos, an impoverished teen, who sets off to help an old school pen pal, Sarah, who tells him she has killed someone.

Carlos uncovers a criminal plot involving Sarah’s...