https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWP0NwHuhc Previous trailers and featurettes have given us a good look at A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (a.k.a. the Mr. Rogers movie inspired by the true story of a reporter's relationship with the beloved PBS icon), but this latest -- and likely last -- trailer produced for international audiences offers the most concise version of the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szby7ZHLnkA Now honestly, how hard was that? The title rodent of Sonic the Hedgehog (the iconic video game / animation blue-fuzzy speedster) finally looks like himself rather than, you know, a freakish bizarro version. (Here's a side-by-side tweet of the old and new renderings.) https://twitter.com/ThePlaylist/status/1194353126037491712?s=20 Thanks to the huge online backlash against the original monstrosity (which was [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKvQbpDYXU Ruh-roh! Scooby-Doo is remade for the 3D animated CGI modern era. Scoob! -- the new reboot featuring the titular slobbery dog, his best friend Shaggy, and their Mystery Machine gang of Fred, Velma, and Daphne -- are back. The new feature from Warner Bros. will mix flashbacks of a Scooby / Shaggy origin story [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlTsTH_ZxE The Dark Universe is dead, but the horror films they meant to resurrect are finally coming back to life. After the failure of Tom Cruise's 2017 The Mummy (hey, I liked it for what it was), the envisioned MCU-ification of classic horror IPs from the early days of Universal Studios (The Mummy, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc.) [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TojlZYqPUo Pixar is famous for making kids' movies that have a strong appeal for adults, not just emotionally but even philosophically. Well, Soul may be their first offering to be target squarely at the parents. Going a step further than even The Incredibles did (which involved a family), Soul follows the existential afterlife struggle of Joe [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOKOsYW-sc A recent trailer unpacked the premise. Then we finally got our first listen to three of the big songs. Now, tickets are finally on sale for Frozen II and here are three new TV spots to spread the word. The first (above) recaps footage we've mostly seen before, while the other two (below) play up [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x79u230bFU We may have to wait until Christmas to see Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women, but Sony Pictures was nice enough to give giddy Alcott diehards exactly what they want: Laurie and Jo dancing. And it's totes adorbs. In a reunion of Gerwig's Lady Bird, Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan co-star (respectively) as the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6QaLsw8EWY New Places. New Faces. Next Level. That marketing copy pretty much sums up Jumanji: The Next Level, the sequel to the highly successful Welcome to the Jungle franchise reboot. This final trailer showcases more of what the first one teased: an opportunity for Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black to have fun with broad character [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the debut of the final Rise of Skywalker trailer, and we will soon see the end of the entire Skywalker saga. Over forty years in the making, spanning three trilogies and augmented by various and sundry canonical supplements across multiple mediums and platforms, the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK19jmrtWUM Throughout the fall film festival circuit, universal raves have followed Marriage Story and its two lead performances by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, The Meyerowitz Stories, Frances Ha), it follows the breakup of a husband and wife who are on opposite coasts, with [...]