THE GREEN ROOM

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* Mind of a Country Boy by Luke Bryan: Eighth album by the American country music artist; follows 2020’s Born Here Live Here Die Here; includes the singles ‘Country On’ and ‘Love You, Miss You, Mean It’.

Movies

* The Wild Robot (with the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara) – animated sci-fi adventure; a robot (Nyong’o) is stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck.

* Megalopolis (starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne) – sci-fi drama; an idealist architect (Driver) goes up again a conservative mayor (Esposito) committed to a regressive status quo in New Rome.

* Saturday Night (starring Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien) – biographical comedy drama; based on the true story of what happened in the minutes leading up to the 1975 premier of Saturday Night Live.

* Abruptio (with the voices of James Marsters, Hana Mae Lee, Christopher McDonald, Jordan Peele, Sid Haig, Robert Englund) – adult puppet horror; a man (Marsters) wakes to find an explosive device implanted in his neck and must carry out heinous crimes to stay alive.

AWARDS

76th Primetime Emmy Awards

Winners:

• Outstanding Comedy Series: Hacks
• Drama Series: Shõgun
• Limited or Anthology Series: Baby Reindeer
• Reality Competition Program: The Traitors
• Talk Series: The Daily Show
• Scripted Variety Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
• Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart – Hacks
• Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Hiroyuki Sanada – Shõgun
• Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Anna Sawai – Shõgun
• Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer
• Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country

For the complete list of nominees and winners, visit emmys.com.

SPOTLIGHT

The Killer’s Game

Cast: Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Terry Crews, Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Pom Klementieff, and Ben Kingsley

Director: J. J. Perry

Tagline: Winning is all in the execution.

• Action comedy; after a hitman (Bautista) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take a hit out on himself, only to find out that he was misdiagnosed.
• Based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Jay Bonansinga.
• Had been in development since the 1990s, with various iterations considered over the years, but all eventually came to a standstill. The current project took shape in 2023.
• Has grossed around US$4 million on a $30 million budget; has been deemed a box-office bomb.
• Has received negative reviews from critics who found it tedious and repetitive.
• Score composed by Roque Baños.