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 [...]
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 [...]
See update below in bold paragraph. Another day, another delay. Does anyone honestly think this will be the last one? Of course not. AMC Theatres, the nation's largest movie theater chain, announced that they will now reopen on July 30, roughly two weeks after they had originally planned to be fully operational. The move is [...]
We're starting to see a pattern here. For the second time this month, Warner Bros. has announced that they will delay yet again the release of Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated blockbuster Tenet. Originally slated for July 17, the WB first bumped it to July 31 as COVID-19 cases began to rise in June. Now, that COVID [...]
Regal Cinemas is catching the classics craze. The 2nd largest theater chain in North America, Regal Cinemas has joined AMC Theatres (the 1st) and Cinemark (the 3rd) as national multiplexes that will lean heavily on Hollywood's blockbuster catalog to woo patrons back to movie theaters in July. Regal also announced similar safety protocols, including 50% [...]
Life finds a way. And in the age of the Coronavirus, so does Steven Spielberg. Twenty-seven years after its original 1993 release, Jurassic Park was the highest-grossing movie in U.S. theaters over the third weekend of June 2020. That's more of a fluke than a legitimately impressive feat, given the pandemic circumstances, but it's still [...]
Well that was fast. Less than 24 hours after announcing their reopening safety guidelines, AMC Theatres has reversed course on their most controversial one: now, they will require all patrons to wear a face mask. Previously, AMC only mandated that their employees must wear face masks. For their moviegoers, the was choice optional unless state [...]
Awards season just shifted from winter to spring, and the Oscars will essentially kick off the summer movie season. For most of its history, the Academy Awards were held primarily between late-March and mid-April. As the culture sped up in the social media age, so did the awards calendar; in 2004, the Oscars moved to [...]
They're going to make us wait even longer. On the same day, Warner Bros. announced the delay of its biggest 2020 summer tentpoles: Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Patty Jenkins' DC sequel Wonder Woman 1984., and Lana Wachowski's Matrix 4 which reunites stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Originally slated for release (respectively) on July 17 and [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 