Blockbusters, Prestige Oscar Contenders, an unqualified Masterpiece, and one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history. Welcome to The Final Week of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Due to unforeseen but necessary shifts in my personal calendar (which caused me to miss my entry for this series last week), I’m needing to cut short this curated alt-Summer Movie [...]
The theatrical window for exclusive first-run movies just got dramatically shorter. Kind of. And despite my philosophical reservations about it, this is actually a great deal. In a major move that marks the first step in dramatically redefining the movie theater business model and its entire industry, AMC Theatres and Universal Studios announced an agreement [...]
When they said imminent, they meant it. Last Monday, Warner Bros. announced that they were indefinitely delaying the release of Christopher Nolan's Tenet. Along with that, however, they stated that a new release strategy was imminent, suggesting it would involve an initial international rollout that would platform globally as nations and territories became available. Today, [...]
https://youtu.be/g_Kg6Cxwn18?t=2286 It's a blur. It's a tease. It's Black Superman. Director Zack Snyder debuted the first tease of Superman in Black Suit from his upcoming "Snyder Cut" of Justice League. The DCEU filmmaker's highly-anticipated original vision of the movie -- which underwent substantial rewrites and reshoots with writer/director Joss Whedon before it was released theatrically, [...]
Monday was Tenet. Yesterday Mulan. Today its two of 2020's biggest sequels. Actually it was late last night. Just before bedtime Thursday, Paramount released a statement confirming that they are indeed moving their two biggest 2020 titles to 2021. A Quiet Place Part II, which had been slated for September 4, 2020 will now open [...]
On Monday, when Warner Bros. indefinitely delayed the theatrical release of Tenet, I said that their one decision would set off a far-reaching, industry-wide ripple effect that would begin this week. That started today with Disney. In an expected move, Walt Disney Studios yanked their live-action remake of Mulan from its August 21 release. The surprise [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPGeAYo3yU Well this is excellent. In a year where we've seen the entire summer movie season collapse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now officially guaranteed to get one of those summer movies this summer -- albeit at the last possible date and on a less-than-desired platform. Bill & Ted Face the [...]
A week ago, I predicted that Tenet would be bumped from mid-August to October 2. Boy, I was way off. In a normal world, the Tenet news we'd be hearing today are reports of its boffo opening weekend box office. Instead, Warner Bros. announced that they have indefinitely delayed the release of director Christopher Nolan's [...]
Nolan Blockbusters, Christmas in July, and much more. Welcome to Week 12 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I am curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies, and dramas and comedies in-between. With the multiplexes still closed, these are classics you can [...]
Tenet is scheduled to open nationwide on August 12. That's in one month. There's no way that's happening. The rest of 2020? A month ago things looked promising, especially for the holiday season. Even bullish. Now, in mid-July, it's time to resign ourselves to a bleak outlook for the rest of the year. Here are [...]