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THE BULLETIN • MARCH 4 - 10, 2021
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“Movie: 2067”
“Movie: Then Came You”
From Australia comes this 2020 sci-
fi drama set in the titular year, when
the Earth’s air becomes unbreathable
and a message from the future sends
a man on a mission to an unknown
world to save humanity. Kodi Smit-
McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, Leeanna
Walsman and Deborah Mailman head
the cast for writer/director Seth Larney
(“Tombiruo”).
Kathie Lee Gifford stars in this 2020
romantic comedy as Annabelle, a
lonely widow on an around-the-world
trip with her husband’s ashes to visit
the places they loved from the movies.
But her first stop in Scotland acquaints
her with an engaged innkeeper (Craig
Ferguson) and changes her life forever.
Phyllida Law and Ford Kiernan also
star.
Checking in with
TYLER HOECHLIN
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Movie: Possessor”
“Movie: Made in Italy”
Andrea Riseborough (“Mandy,”
“Brighton Rock”) stars as an elite
assassin who uses brain-implant
technology to take control of other
people’s bodies and carry out hits on
targets in this 2020 sci-fi actioner
from director Brandon Cronenberg
(“Antiviral”). Christopher Abbott,
Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and
Jennifer Jason Leigh are also in the
solid cast.
Actor James D’Arcy (“Agent Carter”)
wrote and made his feature directorial
debut with this engaging 2020
comedy-drama starring Liam Neeson
as a celebrated artist who tries to
reconnect with his estranged son
(played by Neeson’s real-life son,
Micheál Richardson) while the two of
them are in Italy to repair and sell a
home that belonged to the former’s late
wife. Valeria Bilello also stars.
The chance to play Krypton’s most famous native may
be a dream job, but had it come to him earlier, Tyler
Hoechlin might have turned it down.
“It’s a big commitment,” he notes, but he ultimately
accepted the role he now plays in “Superman & Lois”
Tuesdays on The CW (and, in Canada, CTV Sci-
Fi Channel). Hoechlin first had the role in recurring
appearances on “Supergirl,” then played it in the
“Arrowverse” crossovers “Elseworlds” and “Crisis on
Infinite Earths” ... joined for those by the Lois Lane to his
Man of Steel, “Grimm” alum Elizabeth Tulloch.
“When you do series TV, it’s not six weeks, it’s not eight
weeks – it’s a majority of the year, and hopefully, multiple
years,” reasons Hoechlin, who knew that firsthand from
his work on “7th Heaven” and “Teen Wolf.” “I wanted to
have time to really figure out what I wanted to do, and to
have the freedom to go from one project to another.
“I did that for a time, then everything kind of fell into
place around the same time,” the friendly Hoechlin adds.
“They were thinking this was something they might
actually get done, and I was ready to commit to something
long-term again. It just worked out for everybody.”
When Hoechlin started playing Superman, a super-series
of his own wasn’t part of the plan. “They just wanted
to have a fun salute to the character on ‘Supergirl’,” he
recalls, “then it kind of evolved over the years. It’s been
such a great experience, I’ve really, thoroughly enjoyed it.
And I’ve been really lucky to work with a lot of incredible
people along the way.”
Birthdate: Sept. 11, 1987
Birthplace: Corona, Calif.
Current residence: Los Angeles
Marital status: Single
Other television work includes: “Legends
of Tomorrow,” “Batwoman,” “Arrow,” “The Flash,”
“Supergirl,” “Another Life,” “The Sticks,” “Match
Game,” “Hollywood Game Night,” “Teen Wolf,”
“Castle,” “My Boys,” “Lincoln Heights,” “Grizzly
Rage,” “CSI: Miami,” “7th Heaven”
Movie work includes: “Palm Springs,” “Can
You Keep a Secret?,” “Then Came You,” “Bigger,”
“The Domestics,” “Fifty Shades Freed,” “Stratton,”
“Undrafted,” “Melvin Smarty,” “Charlie Brown:
Blockhead’s Revenge,” “Hall Pass,” “Open Gate,”
“Solstice,” “The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed Into
Heaven,” “Road to Perdition,” “Train Quest,” “Family
Tree”