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  • Netflix’s ‘Mute’ Trailer Takes Alexander Skarsgard, Paul Rudd to the Future

    The future is now on Netflix.

    The streaming service dropped the first trailer for its upcoming movie, “Mute,” from director Duncan Jones (“Moon,” “Source Code”). The sci-fi project is a labor of love for Jones that has been in the works for over a dozen years.

    Alexander Skarsgard stars as a mute bartender searching for his missing girlfriend in the grim, shadowy streets of near-future Berlin. Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux play irreverent U.S. Army surgeons who get involved with his journey, all while pursuing a mission of their own.

    Jones has described the story as a “sci-fi ‘Casablanca,’” with noir elements in a “Blade Runner”-like dystopian world. The movie is set in the same universe as the director’s “Moon” and Sam Rockwell makes a cameo as his character from that film.

    The project has been in development so long that Jones even called it his “Don Quixote,” referencing Terry Gilliam’s famously doomed attempt at a film adaptation.

    “Mute” begins streaming Feb. 23 on Netflix.

  • ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3 Trailer Teases the End Is Near

    The end is near for “The Leftovers.”

    HBO unveiled the trailer for the third and final season of the critically acclaimed drama. It’s a haunting, disorienting video, set to the Beach Boys song “Don’t Worry Baby.” If you didn’t think the Beach Boys could sound grim, well, you were wrong.

    The trailer shows glimpses of Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), seemingly back to police work in Jarden, Texas. Carrie Coon also returns as Nora, as does Regina King and Kevin Carroll as the Murphys. But much of the season will be set in Australia, where Kevin travels to see his father.

    It looks like the show will also check in on familiar faces, including Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, and Liv Tyler.

    Here’s the official synopsis released by HBO:

    The new season, created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, finds the Garvey and Murphy families coming together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to help better explain that which defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing their journey Down Under.

    The eight-episode final season of “The Leftovers” premieres Sunday, April 16 on HBO.

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  • Justin Theroux Goes to Oz in First Look at ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3

    “The Leftovers” is going Down Under!

    The critically acclaimed HBO drama started in upstate New York and then moved to Texas in its second season. For its third and final season, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) heads to Australia. As creator Damon Lindelof told Entertainment Weekly, “Australia is the end of the world geographically and our show is about the end-of-the-world emotionally. And there’s also something about Australian cinema — it’s primal, ancient and spiritual — that felt like it fit ‘The Leftovers,’ whether it’s ‘Mad Max’ movies or ‘Walkabout,’ or ‘Waking Fright’ or Peter Weir movies.”

    EW also has the first image from the new season, which premieres in April:

    THE LEFTOVERSSeason 3Theroux as Kevin Garvey and Scott Glenn as Kevin Garvey Sr. in AustraliaKevin goes to Australia for a brief trip, but ends up pulled into a complicated situation by his father (Scott Glenn). And since this is the final season, Lindelof said fans can expect that the eight episodes will be “building toward something conclusive.”

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