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Screen Rant
: The Kissing Booth 3: Why Elle Shouldn't Go To Harvard Or Berkeley
In The Kissing Booth 2, Elle gets accepted to Harvard and Berkeley and has a choice to make. But here's why neither school is the best fit for her.
The Kissing Booth 3 is expected to address the big cliffhanger at the end of The Kissing Booth 2 about Elle's (Joey King) college decision, but Elle shouldn’t go to Harvard University or to the University of California-Berkeley. Following the release of the first film and its sequel, the teen rom-com movie series on Netflix will wrap up this summer upon the release of The Kissing Booth 3 in August. While it might make sense given the nature of the genre for Elle to go to Harvard to be with her boyfriend Noah (Jacob Elordi) instead of going to Berkeley, the film's final installment should go a different route with her storyline.
Following the events of The Kissing Booth, where Elle and Noah become an item after a fundraiser, the sequel saw the couple experiencing some problems with their long-distance relationship. Elle and new student Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez) also started to develop a mutual attraction after training for a dance competition together. Not only that, but Elle got caught in the middle of some tension between her childhood pal - and Noah's brother - Lee (Joel Courtney) and his girlfriend Rachel (Meganne Young). Things smoothed over by the time Elle, Lee and Rachel graduated, but the movie introduced a big question at the end as to where Elle will go to college. It's clear that she doesn't know what to do, and that's why neither option seems like the right choice.
The right choice is for Elle to not go to Harvard or Berkley because she needs to make her own decision about her future. With Noah off at Harvard in Kissing Booth 2 and urging her to apply and be closer to him, it seems like Elle didn't really make the decision to apply on her own. She and Noah had some reconciliation in The Kissing Booth 2, but the problems with their relationship, like lack of communication and trust, aren't so easily solved. If Elle goes to Harvard, those issues will be at the forefront of their relationship, and Elle will be without the company of her family and her best friend. It's a big move to make for an unstable relationship.
But it's not the right decision for Elle to go to Berkeley in The Kissing Booth 3 either. When Elle and Lee were kids, one of the rules they determined for their friendship pact was that they would go to the same college one day. Lee was obviously happy to go forward with this and ended up getting accepted to Berkeley. Originally, Elle had the same idea, but only because she hadn't really considered any other options. Elle also knew that her mom had met Lee's mom at Berkeley and they became best friends, so it's a meaningful place for their families. If she decided to go to Berkeley, she would be forsaking her relationship with Noah since it's unlikely that the pair could endure more long-distance. This might be best for Elle, but her choice to attend Berkeley shouldn't just come from a childhood decision, especially since she and Lee already broke some of the other rules from their pact.
Ultimately, Elle should choose a different college in The Kissing Booth 3. Her decisions throughout the series are frequently made based on what other people will think. This happens with Lee and Noah in particular, who both have a strong influence on those decisions. It's time for Elle to be proactive and do what's best for herself, especially when her future is at stake. Although it might be a little late in the game for her to apply to a different school, it wouldn't be impossible. This choice would make for a more unpredictable ending to The Kissing Booth 3 and create some better character development for Elle as the series comes to an end.
From
Just Jared Jr
: Joey King Shares New 'The Kissing Booth 3' Poster: 'End of an Era'
The Kissing Booth 3 is almost here and the official poster was just released!
Star and executive producer Joey King shared the new image on Instagram on Thursday (July 1).
“The end of an era,” she captioned the photo, citing the tag line.
In the third and final installment, it’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she’s facing the hardest decision of her life: whether to move across the country with her dreamy boyfriend Noah or fulfill her lifelong promise to go to college with her BFF Lee. Whose heart will Elle break?
Joey, Jacob Elordi, Joel Courtney, Meganne Young, Taylor Zakhar Perez and Maisie Richardson-Sellers will all be back.
If you remember, the second and third movies were filmed back-to-back in 2019.
Check out a small teaser clip from the upcoming Netflix movie!
The Kissing Booth 3 will be out on August 11th. Stay tuned for the trailer.
From
Forbes
: A ‘Super 8’ Sequel? J.J. Abrams Has Ruled It Out, But The Cast Is Open To Revisiting Their Characters
Super 8, J.J. Abrams’ most personal film to date, celebrated its 10-year anniversary earlier this month. To celebrate the milestone, I caught up with nearly everyone involved with the production (including Abrams himself) for a special retrospective on the coming-of-age film that tips its hat to the iconic Spielberg/Amblin movies of yore.
Now that we’re a decade on from the project’s release, I asked Abrams if he had any interest in revisiting the world of Super 8 in any capacity — whether it be in the form of a direct sequel or something only tangentially connected (à la the producer’s anthological Cloverfield universe).
“I don't think so — that movie feels like a beginning, middle, and end to me,” Abrams said. And you really can’t blame him for feeling that way. Super 8 works best as a standalone tale of love, loss, aliens, and most importantly, filmmaking.
With that said, I couldn’t help but ask some of the cast members where they’d like to see their characters as adults if “Super 9” (it definitely wouldn’t be called that) was to become a reality. After all, there is most definitely is a precedent for a group of friends reuniting as adults after going through a shared supernatural experience as kids.
Stephen King established the ground rules with the Losers Club in It — a novel that’s helped fuel the recent boom of ‘80s nostalgia (projects like Stranger Things owe as much to King as they do to Spielberg and even Super 8, which was ahead of the retro curve by a good six years).
“Before he [Abrams] finished his sentence, I would say, ‘Whatever you wanna do, I’m in.’ I would absolutely do that,” Joel Courtney, who played Super 8’s doe-eyed protagonist, Joe Lamb, tells me. “For Joe…I would just want to see him continuing to grow. Mostly just having a relationship with his father and for his sake, I hope Alice [Elle Fanning’s character] is in there somewhere. Some sort of relationship. Or maybe they broke up and she got with Charles. Who knows?”
“I think I’d be amazing to get the gang back together,” adds Riley Griffiths, who played Joe’s best friend, Charles Kaznyk. “I would hope to see Charles still doing his thing! Maybe making a professional version of The Case and bringing Martin back as the lead once again. I think that would be hilarious. The whole incident no doubt left a profound impression on his life and I would assume his filmmaking would reflect that. It would be fun too see if his bossiness has carried over/became problematic in his adult life and to watch him work through that.”
Gabriel Basso, who portrayed the nebbishy Martin, says he’d “like to see him be more comfortable with his own weakness and character.”
“Just because he was sort of quiet and freaked out a lot and got punked a lot,” the actor continues. “I think it’d be cool if he came back and he was just the same guy, but his weaknesses [wouldn’t be] as glaring. He’d have that gnarly scar from when the tank blew up the house and he’d know there were aliens. So his understanding of putting his life in context of what it is wouldn’t bother him that much. I just think it’d be cool to see someone who’s like, ‘Yeah, f*** you, I know aliens exist.’ He sort of has a trump card on anyone giving him crap about his glasses or whatever.”
And what of the group’s resident pyromaniac, Cary — played by Ryan Lee? “I’m in. I would never tell J.J. ‘No,’” Lee says. “I would love to see Cary with all of his fingers still intact. I would love to maybe see that he got a haircut. And yeah, maybe Cary settled down and went the more traditional route. Not so sustainable with all the fireworks.”
From
Cultured Magazine
: From Beginner’s Luck to Rom-Coms, Joel Courtney Stays Curious
Sarah Harrelson: What was your first acting job?
Joel Courtney: Super 8 (2011).
SH: And you were the lead!
JC: It was actually my first audition. I was 14 years old. My end-all, be-all goal for the summer was that I would get a commercial and make 100 dollars. And then I auditioned for Super 8 and they basically asked me not to audition for anything else because they didn’t want me on the market for other work. I ended up doing something like 13 callbacks over the span of three months. It was hysterical. I remember that when I finally booked the job I was already a week into eighth grade and was like, “No, you guys are too late!”
SH: Even though you were very young, were you at any point nervous about getting it? Did you understand how big a role that was?
JC: I knew that J.J. Abrams had done Alias (2001-2006) and Lost (2004-2010) and I was a huge fan of his work. I was 14 so I was watching all those shows with my brothers and my dad. When I auditioned, J.J. actually walked in from like a side office and came over to see me. My dad’s jaw hit the floor. It was a secret that J.J. was the director for the project. I still didn’t really appreciate the gravitas of the situation that I had stumbled into, and that was an extremely good thing.
SH: And is there anything that you learned on that set that you still implement?
JC: There was so much that I learned on set that it’s hard to lock down one thing, but maybe the notion that curiosity is king.
SH: Gucci is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. If you live that long, how would you celebrate your 100th birthday?
JC: Surrounded by family. I’d probably want to do some sort of costume party from 100 years ago and really just appreciate the people who have been around me. Also, Gucci, 100 years! Let’s go!
From
DigitalSpy
: The Kissing Booth star returns to Netflix for new rom-com
The Kissing Booth star Joel Courtney is returning to Netflix for a brand new romantic comedy project called Players.
The Hollywood Reporter announced the new casting, which includes Courtney, Work It's Liza Koshy and Ibiza's Augustus Prew. The three of them are joining previously announced cast members Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Damon Wayans Jr (New Girl), and Tom Ellis (Lucifer).
The movie will focus on a sports writer played by Rodriguez, who hooks up with players without creating emotional attachments, but ends up falling for one of the people she gets with, played by Ellis.
Trish Sie, who previously directed Pitch Perfect 3, will get behind the camera for this one, while Rodriguez is serving as one of the producers.
Earlier this month, Rodriguez starred in a dystopian thriller for Netflix called Awake. We at Digital Spy thought that the movie, which featured the star as a former soldier turned drug-dealing mum, was full of overt religious symbolism and unnecessary violence, but was also rather boring.
If you have seen it and want to make sense of the ending, we've got you covered.
Meanwhile, the third and final Kissing Booth movie will be premiering on Netflix in August and bring an end to all of the personal and emotional dramas for Elle, Noah and the rest of the gang.