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Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:

Panos Cosmatos’s dark cosmos, Sony’s $26 bn, Leonardo Da Vinci biopic, composer biopics galore, and a chess match.

Let’s go!

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PANOS COSMATOS' DARK COSMOS

Mandy. RLJE Films.

Panos Cosmatos's (dir: Mandy) blood-saturated imagery births new dimensions in cinema.

His debut, Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), locates us squarely into a futuristic commune doubling as an asylum. The watching experience makes one feel like they’re a patient under heavy hallucinogens.

His sophomore cinematic psychosphere, Mandy (2018), is best epitomized by a scene of Nicolas Cage forging a medieval battle axe and then doing a massive bump of cocaine.

Cosmatos will now direct Flesh of the Gods, an ‘80s LA vampire rave drama.

The attachments are insane:

• Flesh of the Gods

  • Starring: Oscar Isaac, Kristen Stewart

  • Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en, The Killer)

  • Producer: Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)

  • Sales Rep: CAA, WME, XYZ Films

Here is the official synopsis:

Married couple Raoul (Isaac) and Alex (Stewart) each evening descend from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into the city’s electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with a mysterious and enigmatic figure known as Nameless and her hard-partying cabal, the pair are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.