UPDATE: Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that the next Star Wars will be the one steered by Game of Thrones producers D. B. Weiss and David Benioff. Interestingly, in his statement, Iger said "...the next movie that we release will be theirs and we’re not saying anything more about that.” Notice the term "movie", as in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE Once you get past the MAJOR SPOILER, there's a fun new Spider-Man movie in store in this latest trailer. Also: a better look at Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio. Spider-Man: Far From Home picks up directly where Avengers: Endgame left off, which means the beginning of this film -- and this trailer -- spoils that movie's [...]
For one box office record, The Force is still stronger. After slaying every record held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the first ten days of its release, Avengers: Endgame finally came up short for bragging rights to the best 2nd weekend gross ever. Its $145.8 million domestic haul falls just short of the [...]
To paraphrase Doctor Strange, we’re in the second weekend now. After Avengers: Endgame obliterated opening weekend box office records both domestically and globally (read the long list here), it continued its Thanos-like carnage of marks heretofore set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens back in 2015. Having raked in $357 million domestically in its first three [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for strong sexual content, strong language throughout, and some drug use) Released: May 3, 2019 Runtime: 125 minutes Directed by: Jonathan Levine Starring: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Ravi Patel, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Serkis, Alexander Skarsgård With movies like Knocked Up, Superbad (as scriptwriter), and [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=DmmHvnS0IKM The trailer may start with a song by The Human League, but the movie is all about The Boss. Well, his music anyway. The hot ticket sensation of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival was Blinded By The Light, the latest film from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Her film, inspired by a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czj_28wCZc0 Whoa. We have witnessed many things in the Toy Story franchise, but nothing as bodacious as Keanu Reeves voicing a new action figure. In this TV ad for Toy Story 4, Reeves' stunt man Duke Caboom is given the spotlight. He's another gnarly addition to Pixar's lastest excellent adventure. Toy Story 4 opens on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP1PTOiPVQo To thine own self be true -- especially if you're "re-imagining" a Shakespeare classic. Ophelia, based on the novel by Lisa Klein, tells the story of Hamlet from the perspective of his lover Ophelia, and then takes that tragedy in directions that Shakespeare didn't. Starring Daisy Ridley in the title role, the studio press [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=FvvZaBf9QQI Yikes. Paramount just debuted the first trailer for their Sonic The Hedgehog movie, and it has possibly the worst character-animation I've ever seen in a modern-era studio blockbuster. The tone of the whole movie is strictly for kids, too. That's fine, but it also has limited appeal. At least Jim Carrey is channeling his [...]
For Avengers: Endgame, dusting box office records was a snap. Audiences assembled around the world as Avengers: Endgame -- the final chapter in the first decade-plus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- set a new opening weekend record gross of $1.2 billion dollars. That's double the record set a year ago by Avengers: Infinity War. [...]
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