A New “Star Wars” Movie is Part of Disney’s Upcoming, Reshuffled Film Slate
We’ve already written about how Deadpool 3, the eagerly-anticipated pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, will now hit theaters six months earlier than originally scheduled, yet it’s but one move that Disney recently released. As the studio readjusts its upcoming slate due to the writer’s strike, they’ve added a new Star Wars film to the schedule. Let’s take a closer look at some of the key moves.
“Deadpool 3” Release Date Moved Up Six Months
Disney recently announced a whole host of changes to their upcoming film slate, with major releases moving for both live-action Disney remakes and pending Marvel movies. A bit of bright news in this release date musical chairs is that the long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will be coming to theaters earlier than expected.
Deadpool 3 will now arrive on May 4, 2024,
Gina Prince-Bythewood, MPA Creator Award Recipient, Tells Her Story
An elite force of female soldiers, the Agojie, is all that stands between the African Kingdom of Dahomey and the combined forces of the Oyo Empire and Mahi people. The Oyo and Mahi plan to raid Dahomey villages and sell their captives to European slavers. We open on a Mahi village where raiders heat their machetes over a fire at night. Their leader hears something in the tall grass surrounding them and quiets his men,
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Ciara Whaley on Recreating That Strong 90s Style
With the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, director Steven Caple Jr. wanted to evoke the experience of growing up a kid in the 90s. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts begins in Brooklyn in 1994, and from the settings to the costumes and the era-defining hip-hop, everything evokes the style and sensibilities of the period.
The story takes place after the happenings of 2018’s Bumblebee, which is set in 1987.
How the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Visual Team Created a Mesmerizing Multiverse
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released five years ago, its web of 2D and 3D animation became a box office hit and went on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. Incredibly, the return of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) in Across the Spider-Verse has lived up to the hype, earning over $270 million worldwide in ticket sales (at the time of publication).
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Composer Daniel Pemberton Reveals a Few Score Secrets
Daniel Pemberton knows how to create energy. The composer, who’s frequently worked with filmmakers Aaron Sorkin, Danny Boyle, and Guy Ritchie, is a musician with an ear for the eclectic and electric. For proof, look and listen no further than his lush score for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Pemberton scores different universes, Spider-Men and Spider-Women—and everything Spider-Inbetween. The thematic throughline is capturing the journey of Miles Morales’ (voiced by Shameik Moore) as he swings across the multiverse.
A 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Animated a Scene in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
This has to be one of the best stories we’ve come across all week. Dare we say we’ve been ensnared by how lovely it is?
Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been hailed as a masterpiece, a stunning, emotional tour de force of animation, filmmaking, and storytelling. And one of the people who count themselves among the artists to bring this kaleidoscopic fever dream into reality? The 14-year-old artist Preston Mutanga,
“Flamin’ Hot” Editor Kayla Emter Spices Up Eva Longoria’s Tasty Biopic
If you’re craving a feel-good underdog story with a kick, bite into Flamin’ Hot. The spicy Cheetos flavoring that has become a pop culture icon started with the passion of Mexican-American Frito-Lay janitor Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia). Told from his sizzling perspective, Eva Longoria’s directorial debut is technically a biopic but has the DNA of a 90s snack commercial. It’s colorful, bursting with energy, and instantly addictive.
“Something we always kept track of is Richard and his energy and his excitement and his passion,” editor Kayla Emter explained.
New Images From Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon” Reveal Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Charlie Hunnam & More
A slew of new images from Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon have arrived, revealing fresh looks at the film’s stars, the production design (led by Stefan Dechant and Stephen Swain, which included building an actual village in the Santa Clarita canyon outside of Los Angeles), and the wardrobe from costume designer Stephanie Portnoy Porter. The images include looks at Sofia Boutella’s Kora, the mysterious woman whose mission to recruit warriors to save a distant,
Zack Snyder’s Sci-Fi Epic “Rebel Moon” Will Release as Two Movies & Have Director’s Cut
Prepare yourself for Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon—which won’t be a single film but possibly the start to a Rebel Moon universe.
Snyder revealed to Vanity Fair that his plans for his long-simmering sci-fi project have been expanding, and the Rebel Moon that premiers on Netflix on December 22 will be but part one of Snyder’s larger narrative.
The universe of Rebel Moon is something Snyder has been thinking about since he was in college.
Patrick Wilson’s “Insidious: The Red Door” Unleashes Final Trailer
The original cast of the Insidious franchise return for one final, horrifying chapter in Insidious: The Red Door, and the final trailer teases the hell that awaits. You’d think that it would be hard to spook Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson), a man who has seen just about every kind of supernatural demon and has lived—somehow—to tell the tale. His mettle will be tested in The Red Door, however,
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Review Round-Up: Fan-Favorite Maximals & Human Story Supercharge Blockbuster
With director Steven Caple Jr.’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts just a few days away from stomping into theaters, the reviews are starting to take shape (bad pun intended) for the seventh installment in the alien robot franchise. The verdict? Thus far, it seems as if Caple Jr. and his cast and crew have managed to breathe new life into this mega-narrative about the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, with Earth caught right in the middle.
Meet the Maximals in New “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Teaser
“We’ve seen the Maximals in graphic novels, and we’ve seen them in cartoons, but we’ve never seen them in live-action,” says Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. at the top of this new look at the beastly robots in his new film. Rise of the Beasts will offer audiences a chance to see what these creatures are made of, and why they’re such a key cog in the larger Transformers universe.
“The Flash” New Images Tease Michael Keaton’s Batman and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl
As we speed ever closer to The Flash‘s June 16 premiere date, Warner Bros. has dropped three new images that highlight the power trio—well, really, power foursome—that will be trying to save the world in Andy Muschietti’s upcoming film. The images reveal Batman (Michael Keaton), Barry Allen/the Flash (Ezra Miller), a different Barry Allen/the Flash (the same Ezra Miller), and Supergirl (Sasha Calle). These three—er, four—will be the superteam at the center of the film thanks to Barry’s meddling with the past and various multiverses in his effort to speed through time to save his mom.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” IMAX Film Prints Are 11 Miles Long & Weigh 600 Pounds
Christopher Nolan is arguably IMAX’s best living advertisement. While there are only 25 IMAX theaters in the United States, Nolan has repeatedly used large-format IMAX cameras on his films for years, committed, as he has said time and time again, to give audiences the most immersive experience possible. Now, with his upcoming historical epic Oppenheimer nearing its premiere date, we’re learning a lot more about the lengths Nolan will go to capture his film on IMAX—about 11 miles long worth of film prints.
Dwayne Johnson Officially Returning for New “Fast and Furious” Movie – But It’s Not “Fast 11” or “Hobbs & Shaw 2”
If you’ve seen Fast X, you saw the genuinely surprising post-credits scene in which Dwayne Johnson reprised his role as Luke Hobbs after a years-long hiatus from the franchise. Now, the man himself and Universal have made it official—he’s officially returning to the franchise for a new Fast and Furious movie.
But here’s the catch—it won’t be in Fast 11 or Fast 12, the upcoming Vin Diesel-led films,
How Christopher Nolan Utilized IMAX Cameras for “Oppenheimer”
“Oppenheimer’s story is one of the biggest stories imaginable,” says writer/director Christopher Nolan at the top of this new look at his upcoming historical epic about the father of the atomic bomb. “Our film tries to take you into his experience, and IMAX, for me, is a portal into a level of immersion that you can’t get from other formats.”
Nolan has long deployed IMAX cameras to achieve his vision, from the streets of Gotham in his Dark Knight trilogy to his war epic Dunkirk to his time-skipping head-tripper Tenet.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Producers Tease Live-Action Miles Morales & Animated “Spider-Woman” Movies
How confident are the folks behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse that they’ve got another hit on their hands? How about confident enough that producer Amy Pascal told Variety the third film in the trilogy, next year’s Beyond the Spider-Verse, is but one of the Spider-Verse projects they’ve got cooking.
Pascal revealed they’re also working on an animated, standalone Spider-Woman film and a live-action Miles Morales movie.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Review Round-Up: Web-Slinging Bliss in Truly Epic Sequel
We are two days away from the premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which means the reviews are now out, and the question of whether they could possibly top the Oscar-winning 2018 original seems to have been answered. That first film—so insanely ambitious in content, tone, storytelling, and style—set the bar extremely high. It introduced us to Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a young Brooklynite whose adventures across the Spider-Verse as he becomes Brooklyn’s one and only Spider-Man were dazzlingly realized,
“The Little Mermaid” Hair Designer Camille Friend on Creating Ariel’s Locks From Halle Bailey’s Natural Hair
When director Rob Marshall cast Halle Bailey to play Ariel in the new live-action film The Little Mermaid, he knew it was important to both bring mermaid energy and believability to everything about this updated version of the character, and that included Halle’s hair. Of all the memorable aspects of Ariel from the 1989 animated feature, her redheaded, flowing locks became one of the most iconic.
Marshall enlisted hair designer and educator Camille Friend to create an equally iconic design for Ariel’s hair in the new film,
