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Hindustan Times
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Netflix unveils In Your Dreams trailer: Release date, voice cast, synopsis and all you need to know
Sometimes, your dreams are all you have. And sometimes they are all you want to run away from. Netflix's upcoming animated film In Your Dreams tries to capture the bizarre middle ground—the one where dreams spiral into chaos, comedy and just enough emotions to make you care. The trailer for In Your Dreams is loud, wild, and full of food… literally. Released by Netflix on Thursday, the teaser kicks off with a pair of siblings finding an old book titled The Legend of the Sandman. From there, it turns into a rollercoaster ride through a candy-coloured dream world, all while Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams plays in the background. Think zombie breakfast food, floating pancakes, or that weird situation where you are suddenly naked in public. Yes, they have put it all in. At the heart of In Your Dreams are Stevie and her brother Elliot. The two are not just trying to survive this surreal dreamland - they are on a mission. If they can push through the madness (which includes a very sarcastic stuffed giraffe and the queen of nightmares herself), the mysterious Sandman has promised them something pretty big: their dream of having a perfect family. From the looks of the trailer, the animation by Kuku Studios is quirky, colourful and a little chaotic. You can feel the energy pop right off the screen. Between doughnut towns and shadowy monsters, the visuals walk a fine line between dream and disaster. Check out the trailer below: The film features a voice cast as diverse as the dreams themselves. Craig Robinson lends his voice to Baloney Tony, the cheeky giraffe with a mind of his own. Simu Liu, Cristin Milioti, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Elias Janssen, Omid Djalili, Gia Carides, SungWon Cho and Zachary Noah Piser round out the cast. The creative team behind the film is just as impressive. In Your Dreams is directed by Alex Woo and co-directed by Erik Benson, from a script the duo wrote together based on a story by Woo and Stanley Moore. It is produced by Timothy Hahn and Gregg Taylor, with music composed by John Debney. Making a movie about dreams isn't new. But actually, finishing one? That's rare. Speaking to Variety during a footage screening and panel discussion at Netflix on June 6, Alex Woo said, 'A dream movie in the animated space has sort of been a white whale. I think every animation studio in the world has had a dream movie in development at some point over the last couple decades, but none of them have ever been made, because I think nobody could figure out how to give a dream movie stakes.' He added, 'I really wanted to make a movie that explores the question of: What do you do when your dreams actually don't come true? How do you find hope? How do you keep moving forward in life?' ALSO READ: Netflix announces Stranger Things animated spinoff Tales From '85: Release window, characters and more A: The animated comedy is set to premiere on November 14. A: Stevie and Elliot are the central characters - two siblings navigating a surreal dream world. A: Yes, the film is a comedy adventure packed with fun visuals, emotional moments and lots of playful chaos - perfect for family viewing.
Telegraph
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Marilyn Manson: The controversial ‘Antichrist Superstar' brings his sell-out tour to London
By conventional norms of contemporary culture, this brief UK tour by Florida industrial heavy metal musician Marilyn Manson should not be happening. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, should have been cancelled some time ago. The 56-year-old has faced shocking sexual abuse and assault allegations in recent years, including by his former fiancé, the Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood. In January a three-hour Channel 4 documentary called Marilyn Manson: Unmasked laid bare these claims. But this sold-out concert at the 5,300-capacity concert at Hammersmith Apollo was heaving with black-clad devotees, the fullest I've ever seen the west London venue. Shows in Newcastle and Wolverhampton are sold out too. Manson denies the allegations and has not been charged with any crime, and last month a years-long investigation was dropped by California prosecutors. In December, Manson's new album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1, even entered the top 40. 'He's as popular now as he always was, isn't he?' said fan Andy Parsons, 45, who'd travelled up from Cornwall with his wife. 'If he was like Gary Glitter, it's a different world. He's been convicted, he's evil. But innocent until proven guilty in this country. And I love his music, so…' Outside in the smoking area, Mandy, in her thirties, agrees. 'You either believe him or you don't. And everything's been dropped. It's only in the press because of who he is. People only care because he's controversial,' she says. 'Innocent until proven guilty, though, isn't it?' repeats her husband. Controversial. That's one word for Manson's shock rock shlock. The goth-androgyny demigod is known for his white make-up, coloured contact lenses and lank hair as much as for album titles such as The Golden Age of Grotesque and Antichrist Superstar. Here, a curtain dropped amid red and white strobes and smoke to reveal Manson in a black leather outfit and vertiginously-heeled boots. The backdrop was a crepuscular forest. He hollered over grinding, pounding music defined by pace, pitch and dark textures in front of a sea of phones. Filming not moshing, how very 2025. Someone invaded the stage. Before the glam stomp of Disposable Teens, Manson defiantly shouted, 'London! They tried to take me away from you and they failed.' The roar was deafening. The discordant sonics of Tourniquet approximated the feel of having one applied – clever, really – while Meet Me In Purgatory pulsed with post-punk energy. Was this a person or persona on stage? Occasionally Manson pulled poses like a demonic Struwwelpeter, suggesting the latter in a theatrical tradition stretching back to Victorian freak shows. But then he covered Eurythmics' 1983 hit Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and screamed the line 'Some of them want to be abused' and – innocent though he is – I felt deeply uncomfortable. Cancellation is a spectrum, and musicians seem to avoid it more than those in other professions. Michael Jackson is still revered while poor old Gregg Wallace is marooned up the cancellation canyon. Funny old world. This was a hard gig to get my head around. Everyone I chatted to was kind, polite and rational. But I couldn't get past the situation. I started to question whether I was simply illiberal and suspicious. But then, actually, I just felt a bit sorry for the man on stage: a middle-aged end-of-pier gothic Widow Twankey with a misplaced sense of triumph. Meet me in purgatory? No thanks. I think I'll leave you there.
