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Cut to Christmas morning, when young Billy (Chance Hurstfield,
The Package, Good Boys) opens a gift from Santa, only to find a lump of coal inside. Billy is not amused. In fact, he is outraged to the point of hiring Goggins' Skinny Man to kill Santa Claus, aka the titular Fatman. Billy demands the big man's head as a trophy, but Skinny Man warns him that heads rot and mold. When Billy next demands his beard, the hit man refuses: "I'm not shaving off a dead man's beard." (Skinny Man is clearly not fond of his client, since the caller ID for Billy is "Little Turd.") The trailer features several other amusing scenes, such as Cringle introducing a visitor to one of his reindeer, Donner. ("You're lucky it wasn't Blitzen. She'll tear your package clean off.") The elves put on quite a dessert-centric spread for the military troops, insisting the sugar helps keep them young. And Goggins seems to be having a blast playing Skinny Man: building up his weapons cache, brushing up on his mixed martial arts, and taking a few practice punches at a cartoonish Santa head target.
Later this month, the Toronto International Film Festival will continue its tradition of screening a fair share of awards contenders before they reach general audiences. But some titles without planned release dates — like the Mark Wahlberg drama “Good Joe Bell” or the Massachusetts-filmed “I Care A Lot” — may sit on the shelf as studios wait until theaters are back in full swing before committing to a marketing push.
In spite of it all, the fall movie season looks like it will be an exciting one, filled with delayed blockbusters, Oscar hopefuls, and a number of movies filmed here in the Bay State. Here are 25 movies that are supposed to come out in the remaining months of 2020. Just don’t hold it against us if studios decide to delay a few of these titles (again).
Christopher Nolan is known for producing imaginative blockbusters that are best experienced on the big screen, including “Inception,” “Dunkirk,” and “Interstellar.” With a budget of $200 million,” which is in theaters now, could be Nolan’s biggest project yet. An ambitious sci-fi spy thriller, “Tenet” stars John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) and Robert Pattinson (“Twilight”) as intelligence agents attempting to stop the destruction of the planet by a villainous billionaire (Kenneth Branagh, “Dunkirk”) who has learned how to “invert” time.