If this is the result of Dark: Phoenix, then I'd say the X-Men finale box office dud was a net positive. Inspired to make an all-female action film, actress Jessica Chastain approached her Dark: Phoenix director / producer Simon Kinberg to collaborate with her on the concept. They have and now are, and the result is [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ON04GCwKs The first teaser for the new Mulan is already the best live action Disney remake of the year, even though we won't see the full movie until 2020. Rather than taking the safe risk-averse route of a shot-for-shot CGI rehash, director Niki Caro (Whale Rider) looks like she'll be telling and crafting the story [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=qGqiHJTsRkQ Rian Johnson did it, with the all-star cast in the movie theater. That's the reveal in this first trailer for Knives Out, Johnson's follow-up to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The writer/director of such critically-acclaimed films as Looper and Brick has returned to his own new material, this time in a classicly-styled Agatha Christie-ish murder mystery [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxcF-r9Ibs&feature=share In Christmas 2017, the Jumanji reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was one of the bigger surprises to come out of Hollywood recently, especially as it blew up at the box office even while Star Wars: The Last Jedi dominating screen space. Whenever you can go toe-to-toe with a property of that size, you've [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b736ZM_KfEk Absolute insanity. This is exactly the level of slick, choreographed, physics-defying ridiculousness that I want from a Fast & Furious movie, driven by the best, most entertaining oil & water tandem in the franchise -- Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham -- with Idris Elba and Mission: Impossible's Vanessa Kirby along for the crazy. Hobbs [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7eN5iloyk Roland Emmerich is returning to a battle in the skies, but instead of sci-fi space invaders he's jumping back to America's counter attack to Pearl Harbor. Using the same title as the 1976 film about the same event, Midway uses the latest digital effects to depict the harrowing action of warfare in the decisive [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJ6Ir_H2xI Another Lion King ad, another confirmation that Disney plans on giving us the exact same movie from 25 years ago but simply in a different form. Playing again in a virtual shot-for-shot (and note-for-note) duplication, the visuals of this TV ad focus on Mufasa mentoring Simba at key moments while we hear Beyoncé Knowles-Carter [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP86-TR6IME Just when I think I may have over-gushed about the original Trolls in my 3 1/2 star review, this sequel trailer comes out in all of its vibrant glory and I stop questioning my initial instincts. Like the funtastic DreamWorks hit before it, Trolls World Tour boasts a level of visual splendor and detail [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYJ_BJJbzI Netflix sure knows how to keep a surprise and then pop it on the culture. Their latest cool project to come out of nowhere -- which is scheduled to drop in a week! -- is a short film from arguably the greatest director on the planet right now, Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AaSMfXHbA As far as upcoming Brad Pitt performances go, all of the pop culture oxygen is, understandably, going to be around Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. But for me, this is the one I'm ancticipating more. Ad Astra is a NASA-based sci-fi adventure that leans heavily into the philosophical, and it comes [...]
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