Nicholas Hoult is murderous in new Kill Your Marafiki trailer 

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Nicholas Hoult chases gold records with a black heart in the new 'Kill Your Friends' trailer

A new trailer for the satirical film arrived Monday, spotlighting the late-’90s Britpop scene and those trying to make it big on the business side. Hoult plays an ambitious A&R man named Steven Stelfox. Threatened with precarious job security, he’s determined to land a big act to keep the drug-filled adventure of a career going.

The movie is based on John Niven’s 2008 book of the same name and has drawn comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis’ 

 trailer offers some similarities to Christian Bale’s turn in 

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The film, also starring James Corden, Georgia King, Ed Skrein, and Rosanna Arquette, is due for release April 1 in theaters and on VOD. See the trailer above.

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