https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=240&v=m74pkFkg7e0 With each subsequent look at Disney's new live action Winnie the Pooh adventure, it keeps getting sweeter and sweeter. Christopher Robin puts a Hook twist on the old series of fables by A. A. Milne, with Christopher (Ewan McGregor) having grown up to become a family-neglecting workaholic. As this 4-minute preview shows, Pooh finds [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkg3h8PCVU When DC debuts two different first-look trailers on the same day - and SHAZAM! is the more promising one by a considerable margin - that's not a good omen. Fresh out of Comic-Con comes the first preview for Aquaman, the latest entry from the DCEU that's desperate to match the Wonder Woman mystique. This [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=vvFybpmyB9E A brand new trailer fresh out of Comic-Con is where you'll find the action, magic, and spectacle of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. This second Potterverse prequel shifts from 1920s New York to Paris as its hero, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is tasked by young Dumbledore (Jude Law) to lead the fight against [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=173&v=go6GEIrcvFY Okay, this looks waaaaay better than I was expecting. Proving to be more than DC's comic alternative to Marvel's Ant-Man, this first trailer for SHAZAM! showcases a smart origin story with character-driven comedy (and not just set-up/punchline jokes). Sort of a Superman-meets-Big conceit, Zachary Levi stars as the adult version of the title character. He begins [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=wVDtmouV9kM The WB knows how to do monster movies. 2014's Godzilla was a well-metered character-driven setup to the studio's new Monster-verse, with nostalgic 80s era filmmaking sensibilities. The first trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters leans in ever more to the Spielbergian sense of awe and wonder while also ramping up the spectacle. It [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=172&v=95ghQs5AmNk Unbreakable is a pop cinema masterpiece. Split isn't, but it was an exhilarating return-to-form for M. Night Shyamalan after one of the most spectacular rises-and-falls in movie history. Now, after the twist in Split revealed that Night had brought us back into the Unbreakable-verse, he completes the trilogy with Glass, named after Samuel L. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=90&v=anKVhZU7D1s In the warm-fuzzy wake of Paddington 2 and Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Disney's live-action Winnie the Pooh movie called Christopher Robin looks to be another feel-good film to lift our spirits in these divisive times. Ewan McGregor stars as a grown-up Christopher who reconnects with his stuffed animal friends from the 100 Acre [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYm7mYd0SgE Paramount is getting serious about animation. After a couple of attempts with mid-range budgets like The SpongeBob Movie and Sherlock Gnomes, Paramount Animation studios is launching its first $100 million feature film. A Spanish-American collaboration with Madrid's Ilion Animation Studios, Wonder Park looks to compete with the blockbusters from Pixar, Illumination, and Blue Sky. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEw2uHUYUPk It may be too soon to anoint Timothée Chalamet as the best actor of his millennial generation, but it sure seems like a credible leap to take after watching the first trailer for Beautiful Boy. Based on the two memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff, the 22-year-old Chalamet delivers on the magnetic potential he [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=L8LWUyUy7jM Just call it Despicable Green. Illumination Entertainment, the makers of the Despicable/Minions franchise and other hits like The Secret Life of Pets and Sing, is set to release their second Dr. Seuss feature (following The Lorax) with The Grinch. In this first full-length official trailer (following a previous teaser) we see that this adaptation [...]
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