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Watch shut in daily wire8/13/2023 “These are real movies!” he boasted in a prescreening round-table confab, protesting a tad too much. ![]() ![]() The Daily Wire, the conservative media concern co-founded by filmmaker Jeremy Boreing and perennial talking head Ben Shapiro, is attempting to address the yawning quality gap between conservative movies and workaday cinema, producing and distributing what can, for lack of a better word, be deemed “real movies.” It’s a term Boreing himself used recently, introducing the new movie Shut In-the first feature film produced by The Daily Wire. Beyond their rough and ready production values and fluky humor-who can forget the intrepid D’Souza in 2016’s Hillary’s America, skulking through Democratic Party HQ, slipping into a storage room chock-full of state secrets, unguarded but for a “DO NOT ENTER” sign?-they suffer a more fundamental flaw: They are, at least for anyone not already predisposed to their message, impossible to take seriously. They are, to borrow an academic term, paracinema: not so much a part of cinema as movie-like artifacts that exist beside it, like soft-core pornos and old state-subsidized hygiene films. Those low-rent Steve Bannon and Dinesh D’Souza documentaries, or Christian blockbusters about the scourge of atheism (like the God’s Not Dead series, now in its fourth instalment), constitute their own strain of camp. Their first project together, “Run Hide Fight,” scored 300,000 viewers during its live premiere in January 2021 and a 93% positive audience rating on the review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes.Self-consciously “conservative” movies inhabit a strange category. “Shut In” marks the third collaboration between The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend producers Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk (Bone Tomahawk). Caruso is a good director and this is based on a very hot Black List script. And Sonny Bunch, Washington Post columnist and culture editor for The Bulwark, said, “D.J. “Conservative media company The Daily Wire is seemingly serious about growing its film and TV ambitions,” Deadline’s international editor Andreas Wiseman noted at the time. The conservative outlet’s ability to assemble a team with substantial mainstream resumés seemed to impress the entertainment media when the project was first announced. Shot around Nashville and Watertown, Tennessee, Caruso has called “ Shut In” a “brilliant script” and “fiercely independent film.” In August, he revealed he that was thankful for the artistic liberty The Daily Wire provided him while working on the project, saying, “I was given the creative freedom to craft a film that features a flawed, but graceful character that must fight addiction, and dire circumstances to find light in a very dark place.” ![]() DJ Caruso, who previously helmed critically-acclaimed film noirs like “Disturbia” as well as mainstream blockbusters like Vin Diesel’s “XXX: Return of Xander Cage,” directs. Indie film icon Vincent Gallo (“Buffalo 66,” “Arizona Dream”) co-stars as the violent ex holding her and her two children hostage. The conservative media company’s first original movie stars Rainey Qualley, who previously appeared in “Ocean’s 8” and “Mad Men,” as a young, single mother who draws on faith in her struggle against drug addiction. Voltage Pictures is heading up details on international releases, planned for later this year. The Daily Wire dropped its third and final trailer for its upcoming thriller “ Shut In” Tuesday, announcing that the film will debut on February 10 on its streaming service.
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