Lin Shaye’s brassy parasycho…whatever she is has always been the best part of the Insidious movies and following her is the smartest way to extend the franchise. Insidious: Chapter 3 took us back to her paranormal beginnings, and now with Insidious: The Last Key we see her unlocking new secrets about the demonic spirits that haunt The Further.
Directed by Adam Robitel, whose prior film The Taking of Deborah Logan is incredible scary and worth checking out, the latest story takes Elise to New Mexico where she investigates a new supernatural disturbance connected to her childhood. This trailer isn’t as much of a slow burn as the earlier one, relying more on jump scares rather than tension building. Hopefully Robitel has found a way to give us a little bit of both, and plenty of the creepy key-fingered demon.
Also starring Angus Sampson, franchise writer/director Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart, Kirk Acevedo, Caitlin Gerard, and Spencer Locke, Insidious: The Last Key opens January 5th.
To be honest I keep forgetting that Bright is coming out until a reminder like this, and that can’t be what Netflix was hoping for when they shelled out north of $90M for the Will Smith/Joel Edgerton supernatural cop thriller. Chalk it up to the Netflix distribution model, which makes winning Oscars and achieving blockbuster status tough goals for the streaming service to achieve. Just based on the budget, the cast, and the premise alone this is a major film to wrap up the year, but it doesn’t seem to be building any noticeable buzz.
Reuniting with his Suicide Squad star, Ayer is going back to the cop genre that he built his career on, only this isn’t your typical “boys in blue” flick. Set in a world where elves, fairies, and ogres share the streets with man, the story follows a mismatched pair of cops as they investigate a case that could alter the world. Noomi Rapace, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramirez, Ike Barinholtz, Enrique Murciano, Jay Hernandez, Andrea Navedo, Veronica Ngo, Alex Meraz, Margaret Cho, Brad William Henke, Dawn Oliveri, and Kenneth Choi make for one of the best casts Netflix has ever put together. It’s no Mudbound, but that’s still pretty good. Here’s the synopsis:
Set in an alternate present-day, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human, and Jakoby, an orc) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately alter the future as their world knows it. Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.
I think this has the potential of severely misreading the animus people have towards law enforcement today, and the “fairy lives don’t matter” joke it cracks might be the first of many groan-worthy moments. I’m a fan of everybody involved, though, with the exception of screenwriter Max Landis, so if it sucks he’ll get all the blame.
Despite a lot of turnover at DC Films following Justice League‘s poor box office, the upcoming slate of movies remains virtually untouched. That means somewhere down the line we’re going to get Flashpoint, starring Ezra Miller’s ADD-afflicted Barry Allen that Warner Bros. loved and audiences seemed kinda split on. But the film has had issues getting off the ground ever since director Rick Famuyiwa split, and it looks like there may be one other major change happening to it.
Kiersey Clemons was cast as Barry Allen’s gal Iris West some time ago, and she actually shot a scene for Justice League that ended up being dropped. Ever since there have been rumors her role would be recast with a brand new actress ahead of Flashpoint. It makes sense; Clemons joined only because she wanted to reteam with Famuyiwa, who she worked with on Dope. Well now Batman-News says that that scene is being reshot with some random actress, to be included in the Justice League Bluray special features. So Flash will no longer be saving Iris he’ll be saving some bystander.
If the only scene Clemons shot is being redone with a new actress it’s a pretty good sign that she’s out. That’s okay because this gives them a chance to recast Clemons as the new Poison Ivy or something, right? If she’s going to be in the DCEU I’d much rather it be in a more proactive role. And who exactly is shooting this sequence, anyway?
Isn’t it amazing that ten years since the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe we’re going to get a 1-2 punch of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War? Shouldn’t things be quieting down by now? Shouldn’t we be getting bored of the superhero movies? But nope, Marvel won’t let us and 2018 may be their most exciting year yet. While I’m reluctant to see too much of either of these films before they hit theaters, if the trailers are as good as the new international cut for Black Panther that’s okay by me.
I don’t know if they can ever hope to beat the first Black Panther teaser for just sheer jaw-dropping awesomeness, but this one comes close. For some reason the Japanese trailers are always better! The best thing about it, and everything we’ve seen from the film so far, is that it doesn’t look like a comic book movie at all. It reminds me of Christopher Priest’s incredible run on the comic, which didn’t resemble your standard superhero monthly at all. It was part politics, part espionage, part history lesson, and yes, a little bit of beat ’em up action too. I see a little bit of all those things in Ryan Coogler’s film and that is worth getting pumped over.
Here’s the synopsis: Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” follows T’Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king—and Black Panther—is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis, and more, Black Panther opens February 16th 2018.
Hugh Jackman is out stumping for his long-awaited, forever in the works P.T. Barnum musical, The Greatest Showman, and because that’s what Collider does they decided to ask him about the Fox/Disney deal. Say wha? Anyway, it’s looking like we may see an announcement of its completion by Christmas time, and Jackman has some thoughts on it. Sadly, they don’t include him coming back to play Wolverine.
“It’s interesting because for the whole 17 years I kept thinking that would be so great, like I would love to see, particularly, Iron Man and the Hulk and Wolverine together. And every time I saw an Avengers movie I could just see Wolverine in the middle of all of them like punching them all on the head. But it was like, “Oh well, that’s not gonna happen,” and it was interesting just when I first saw that headline — it was just the possibility of it and who knows what’s gonna happen, obviously — I was like, “Hang on!” But I think, unfortunately, the ship has sailed for me, but for someone else I would like to see Wolverine in there.”
So definitive, dammit. Makes you miss the old Jackman who used to waffle back and forth about coming back to play Wolverine, and always he would end up popping claw one more time. Can we get that Jackman back, please? Because we’ve waited far too long for this merger to happen for us not to have the Wolverine we love fighting alongside Spider-Man, y’dig?
It’s a Pineapple Express reunion, but perhaps not the one you were expecting. We’ve seen Seth Rogen dabble in drama before, and play a real-life figure, recently in Steve Jobs. Well now he’s about to do it again as one of the country’s most trusted reporters, Walter Cronkite, in a new movie directed by David Gordon Green.
Rogen will play Cronkite in Newsflash, which Green will direct from a Ben Jacoby script. The story takes place right around the time of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and that heartbreaking moment we’ve all seen when Kronkite delivers news of his death to a nation waiting on bated breath. This all went down against the backdrop of office politics as some were looking to axe Cronkite and the entire news division.
Also being sought for roles are Bryan Cranston as CBS president Jim Aubrey, who was known as the “Smiling Cobra” because he could brutally make decisions against those he liked. Mark Ruffalo is being sought for the role of Don Hewitt, Cronkitte’s producer and creator of 60 Minutes. The plan is to shoot in the spring and have the film ready by November 2018, the 55th anniversary of JFK’s death. [Deadline]
I know I know, wasn’t Sylvester Stallone supposed to be directing the sequel to Creed? It sure seemed like it a couple of months ago, but that was clearly premature because Steven Caple, who directed the much buzzed-about (at least on this site) teen drama The Land, is stepping behind the camera.
Caple will be following in the footsteps of previous director Ryan Coogler (now an exec-producer) by making the movie from an acclaimed indie to a major studio production. Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson will of course return, with Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Stallone back as Rocky Balboa. Stallone will also co-write the script with Cheo Hodari Coker that will see the return of Russian brute Ivan Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren. The Russian’s son will factor in, and according to Stallone’s Instagram will be played by a new actor, not Brock Lesnar like in the below image…
A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Dec 11, 2017 at 11:05am PST
I’m excited for this move because I see a similar style and sensibility from Caple that was in Coogler. If a move needed to be made then this is the way to go. Expect shooting to begin soon because Creed 2 opens November 21st 2018.
The Comic-Con Experience in Brazil over the weekend has proven surprisingly fruitful in terms of news. The latest comes from Sony Pictures, who were on hand and dropped some info on their upcoming Venom movie, the one starring Tom Hardy and is expected to launch an entirely new universe, one without Spider-Man but featuring a bunch of his supporting players. So basically, the Venom-verse.
Director Ruben Fleischer was there via satellite, and he revealed the plot would be based on two popular Venom storylines from the comics. The first is 1993’s Venom: Lethal Protector, which I remember for the fabulous Mark Bagley artwork running through the six-issue story. Basically it saw Spider-Man and Venom deciding to call a truce, with the caveat being that Venom can no longer commit crimes. This saw Venom leave New York City for San Francisco, where he and Spidey teamed up against a bunch of symbiote offspring. The live-action movie will also take place in San Fran, so this makes sense.
The second is Planet of the Symbiotes, a 1995 storyline that ran through the Spider-Man comics at the time. It saw Spidey, Venom, and Scarlet Spider (don’t ask, it’s a long story) teaming up to face an invading army of alien symbiotes.
I think we get a pretty good idea of the plot of the movie then, don’t we? A newly-created Venom battles others just like him, proving himself a hero. Or antihero. Whatever. Just don’t expect to see Tom Holland’s Spidey to come swinging by to help, so there will need to be some adjustments made to both of these stories. Perhaps Venom will have a new heroic partner to fight alongside?
Also starring Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Reid Scott, and Scott Haze, Venom opens next year on October 5th. [Collider]
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Here we go, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has revealed the nominees for the 2018 Golden Globes. As is typically the case for the group, they’ve seen it to anointing a few new faces as future stars. For instance, in the Best Actor Drama category, Call Me By Your Name‘s Timothee Chalamet and Gary Oldman from Darkest Hour were nominated for the first time, while in the Comedy field it’s Get Out‘s Daniel Kaluuya and Baby Driver‘s Ansel Elgort getting their first nods.
Meanwile over on the ladies’ side, the Best Actress Comedy or Musical category sees Margot Robbie in contention for the first time as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in I Tonya. In the Best Actress Drama field all of the nominees are veterans, including Emma Stone for Battle of the Sexes, a film that has been quiet ever since it was released, Jessica Chastain for Molly’s Game, and Michelle Williams for All the Money in the World.
Speaking of Ridley Scott’s reshot kidnapping drama, Christopher Plummer’s performance subbing in for the dismissed Kevin Spacey earned him a Best Supporting nomination, alongside frontrunner Willem Dafoe of The Florida Project. In the Best Picture categories things broke down as expected with the only real surprises what didn’t make the cut. While The Shape of Water looks like a heavy favorite to win in the Drama category, and led all films with seven nominations overall, you won’t find The Florida Project, All the Money in the World, or Phantom Thread in either list. Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Steven Spielberg’s The Post also earned six nominations.
Full list of nominees is below! The Golden Globe winners will be announced on January 7th.
Best Motion Picture – Drama
“Call Me By Your Name” “Dunkirk” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” “The Post” “The Shape of Water”
Best Motion Picture – Comedy
“The Disaster Artist” “Get Out” “The Greatest Showman” “Lady Bird” “I, Tonya”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jessica Chastain, “Molly’s Game” Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water” Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Meryl Streep, “The Post” Michelle Williams, “All The Money In The World”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name” Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread” Tom Hanks, “The Post” Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour” Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Judi Dench, “Victoria & Abdul” Hellen Mirren, “The Leisure Seeker” Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya” Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird” Emma Stone, “Battle of the Sexes”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Steve Carell, “Battle of the Sexes” James Franco, “The Disaster Artist” Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out” Hugh Jackman, “The Greatest Showman” Ansel Elgort, “Baby Driver”
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird” Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water” Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound” Hong Chau, “Downsizing”
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project” Armie Hammer, “Call Me By Your Name” Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water” Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk” Steven Spielberg, “The Post” Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Ridley Scott, “All The Money in the World”
Best Screenplay
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird” Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, “The Post” Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water” Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game”
Best Original Score
Hans Zimmer, “Dunkirk” Johnny Greenwood, “Phantom Thread” Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water Carter Burwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” John Williams, “The Post”
Best Original Song
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul “Remember Me” from “Coco,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez “Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson “The Star” from “The Star,” Mariah Carey, Marc Shaiman “Home” from “Ferdinand,” Nick Jonas, Justin Tranter, Nick Monson
Best Animated Feature Film
“The Breadwinner” “Coco” “Loving Vincent” “The Boss Baby” “Ferdinand”
Best Foreign Language Film
“A Fantastic Woman” “Loveless” “First They Killed My Father” “In the Fade” “The Square”
Best Series – Drama
“The Handmaid’s Tale” “This Is Us” “The Crown” “Game of Thrones” “Stranger Things”
Best Series – Musical or Comedy
“Black-ish” “Master of None” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” “SMILF” “Will & Grace”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Claire Foy, “The Crown” Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Deuce” Katherine Langford, “13 Reasons Why” Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us” Freddie Highmore, “The Good Doctor” Jason Bateman, “Ozark” Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy
Alison Brie, “GLOW” Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Pamela Adlon, “Better Things” Issa Rae, “Insecure” Frankie Shaw, “SMILF”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish” Kevin Bacon, “I Love Dick” Eric McCormack, “Will & Grace” Aziz Ansari, “The Master of None” William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film
Jessica Biel, “The Sinner” Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies” Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette and Joan” Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette and Joan” Reese Witherspoon, “Big Little Lies”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies” Jude Law, “The Young Pope” Kyle MacLachlan, “Twin Peaks” Ewan McGregor, “Fargo” Geoffrey Rush, “Genius”
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies” Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Nicole Kidman, “Top of the Lake: China Girl” Michelle Pfeiffer, “The Wizard of Lies” Shailene Woodley, “Big Little Lies”
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
David Harbour, “Stranger Things” Alfred Molina, “Feud: Bette and Joan” Alexander Skarsgard, “Big Little Lies” Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot David Thewlis, “Fargo”
Best Miniseries or Television Film
“Big Little Lies” “Fargo” “Feud: Bette and Joan” “The Sinner” “Top of the Lake: China Girl”
