https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mNMvz85NG8 Well, sort of a first look, Kind of. But not really. The new TV spot for The Grinch - Illumination Entertainment's feature-length adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story - didn't seem to provide any footage from the actual film. Rather, it was tailor made for the program it bought ad time in: the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNW0B0HsvVs Y'all, Ron Howard's got this. It took long enough, but the wait for the first Solo trailer was worth it, and made the final reveal all the more thrilling. After a tumultuous production that saw a switch in directors nearly five months into shooting - firing the comedy team of Phil Lord and Christopher [...]
https://youtu.be/7qJnpCsVR6A There's a new dino in the neighborhood, and he's about to break loose in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the sequel to the insanely successful 2015 franchise reboot. From director J.A. Bayona and executive producer Steven Spielberg, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return in what looks to be the most chilling, horrifying Jurassic flick [...]
https://youtu.be/wb49-oV0F78 If someone wants to make an argument that Mission: Impossible is the best franchise in movies today - better than Marvel, Star Wars, or anything else - they sure have a strong case. Latest evidence: the first trailer for Mission: Impossible - Fallout, the sixth film in the amazingly durable and continually inventive blockbuster series, anchored [...]
https://youtu.be/0AWUKX5D_ak We could really use a patron saint of pop culture, one who could steer us toward a virtuous north star and away from our crass impulses and divisive toxicity. My choice would be for Mr. Rogers. A new documentary about Fred Rogers life and work is about to debut at the Sundance Film Festival. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=MFWF9dU5Zc0 Eight women can do the job of eleven men. Sounds about right. Ocean's 8 is the all-female reboot of Ocean's 11, with Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett taking the lead. Produced by Ocean's Trilogy helmer Steven Soderbergh and directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seasbiscuit, Pleasantville), this slick heist movie co-stars Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=IC_lnyn2R2Q On August 21, 2015, three young Americans thwarted a terrorist attack on a train headed for Paris. Clint Eastwood just directed the movie of their story, The 15:17 to Paris, and it stars those actual three men: Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone. As casting stunts go it [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=o3oL9-lGNog All Marvel movies should be required to have Japanese narration with subtitles, like in this Black Panther trailer for the Japan market. The cool quotient goes up instantly. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Creed helmer Ryan Coogler, Marvel's Black Panther opens in the United States on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=cSp1dM2Vj48 Whoa, this is heavy, Doc. After a ten year break from big budget blockbusting, Steven Spielberg returns with Ready Player One, the adaptation of the popular YA novel phenomenon. Set in 2045, it's a young man's journey through OASIS, the future version of the internet that has gone full-blown VR. In it, there's an [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=143&v=vn9mMeWcgoM Blockbusters find a way. After the retro reboot Jurassic World became an unexpected box office behemoth, raking in over $200 million its opening weekend on its way to a mammoth haul of $652 million domestic (4th best ever) and $1.6 billion worldwide, nothing was going to make this franchise extinct any time soon. But [...]
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