I’m happy to offer DC area readers the chance to attend a free early screening of Supergirl, the latest from DC Studios! The film stars Milly Alcock as Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El! Also in the cast are Jason Momoa, David Corenswet, Eve Ridley, Emily Beecham, Matthias Schoenaerts, David Krumholtz.
SYNOPSIS: When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Supergirl reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion for an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
The screening takes place on Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:00pm at Regal Majestic. If you’d like to attend, RSVP at the Warner Bros. site here. Please remember, all screenings are first come first served and you’ll need to arrive early to ensure seating. Enjoy the show!
Remember Clive Owen? He’s mostly avoided large-scale features since 2019’s Gemini Man, although he did have a small role in last year’s Daisy Ridley-led actioner, Cleaner. But now Owen’s back, and confirming to Variety that he’ll star in Radioactive, the next film from The Tribe director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi.
World of Reel spoke with Slaboshpytskyi, who said Radioactive will “tackle the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”, established shortly after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Slaboshpytskyi won international acclaim in 2014 with his breakout film, The Tribe, about an organized crime ring inside of a school for deaf students. However, it’s been tough going for the filmmaker since, as he’s not done another movie. He’s currently attached to direct The Tiger, a stalled project expected to star Alexander Skarsgard and Dane DeHaan.
As for Owen, he’s kept busy on the small screen on such miniseries as Monsieur Spade and A Murder At the End of the World. But it’ll be good to see him back on the big screen, and his signing should help Slaboshpytskyi get Radioactive off the ground. He’ll be seen soon in the Paramount+ series Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey.
Home is where the heart is, right? But in horror movies, the home is often the thing that is terrifying or even seeking to destroy its occupants. Such is the case in Netflix’s sci-fi horror, The Last House, starring Past Lives‘ Greta Lee and recent Oscar nominee Wagner Moura.
The Last House is directed by Louis Leterrier, best known for The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk, and Fast X. Most interesting for me is the screenplay by Matthew Robinson, writer of other great genre films including Love & Monsters, and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
Here’s the synopsis: A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.
Also in the cast are Gabriel Barbosa, Emma Ho, Noah Alexander Sosnowski, and Riley Chung.
Summertime belongs to Steven Spielberg, and he’s done it again with Disclosure Day, an original blockbuster UFO thriller led by Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor. The film opened at $44M domestic, plus another $48M internationally for $92M overall. Reviews were solid but not spectacular, with critics holding it at 80% and audiences at 73%. It’s been something of a cold spell for Spielberg, as this counts as his first original box office hit since Minority Report in 2002.
2. Obsession– $19M/$188.3M
The horror hit of the year, Obsession, had its biggest dip at 25%, a shockingly low number after five weeks in theaters. The film now has $188M domestically, more than $20M more than The Mandalorian & Grogu, and $286M worldwide. It actually jumped up two spots because Scary Movie and Masters of the Universe crashed so hard.
3. Scary Movie– $14.5M/$84.5M
Last week’s #1 movie, Scary Movie, plummeted back to Earth, dropping 73% from last week for just $14.5M. The rebooted horror spoof now has $84M domestically and $173M globally.
4. Backrooms– $11.2M/$160M
5. Masters of the Universe– $8.6M/$46.7M
6. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu– $4.7M/$165M
Lionsgate released the most buzzed-about action movie of the year, The Furious, into 1,251 theaters for $2.7M. Not bad for a Pan-Asian martial arts spectacle with no recognizable name stars. But what the film had going for it was strong word of mouth since its premiere in Toronto (you all know how I feel about it), and incredibly positive reviews at 97% from critics. Audiences were similarly dazzled, giving it a 95% score.
Like a lot of you who read this site, my wheelhouse is action movies, martial arts flicks in particular. Joe Taslim has been on my radar for a long time, for delivering incredible, bone-crunching performances in everything including The Raid, The Raid 2, The Night Comes for Us, Fast & Furious 6, and Mortal Kombat. He’s been part of some of the biggest and best action franchises in history, but he really comes into his own in The Furious, which I’ve been saying since its world premiere last year is the best martial arts movie since The Raid 2.
Look, I could rave about The Furious some more, but you know where to find my review. Taslim brings his extensive judo experience and dramatic skills to the role of Navin, a grieving journalist trying to track down his missing wife, a journalist who disappeared while investigating human traffickers. He joins up with enraged father Wang Wei who is bent on destroying the criminal syndicate that has kidnapped his daughter.
After speaking with director Kenji Tanigaki last week (which you can find here), I was lucky to spend a few minutes talking with Joe Taslim, as well. We talked about his martial arts and athletic background, and how it kept him prepared for the intense physicality of The Furious. We also talked about how the film is elevated by its emotional heart and grounded story, which informs the incredible, breathtaking fights.
The Furious is in theaters now. Check out the interview below.
George Miller is looking for one last ride with Mad Max, the post-apocalyptic hero he introduced nearly fifty years ago. According to Puck, Miller was recently in Los Angeles shopping to studios one last Mad Max movie, with a potential plan for its future without him at the helm.
The report says Amazon, Universal, and Sony Pictures are the most interested parties, while the franchise’s longtime home, Warner Bros., has passed on it. Damn. WB has been behind five Mad Max movies, including the most recent, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, released last year.
Miller’s proposal includes one final movie, along with a possible TV series. After that, Miller would sell the rights to the highest bidder. Again, damn.
The WB thing must hurt, though. The studio has been behind Miller’s franchise since the original in 1979. However, Furiosa was a flop that lost them roughly $120M, so it’s easy to see why they’d turn this deal down. I’m just surprised the thought of owning the property didn’t sway them to reconsider.
Mad Max fans have been hoping Miller could finally complete his much-discussed follow-up, The Wasteland, but WB shot it down after a legal dispute. Tom Hardy was all set to return as Max Rockatansky, and presumably Charlize Theron would’ve, too. It’s unclear if that’s the movie Miller is now trying to make, and if it is, would Hardy and Theron even want to come back? If they don’t, Miller has shown no reservations about recasting, as he did with Anya Taylor-Joy for Furiosa. Then again, that didn’t turn out so hot, did it?
Jennifer Lawrence is kinda picky with the films she chooses these days, but seems to have a comfortable home at Apple. She just finished shooting Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night, an Apple Original starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mads Mikkelsen. And now she’s signed on for another, One Month Mark from playwright/writer/director Sophie Fleur de Bruijn.
The rom-com logline is simple and kind of clever: “She has never made it past a month in a relationship. He has never gone longer than a month without one.”
At this point, De Bruijn is only listed as writer of the original script, while the search for a director is underway. Lawrence will star and produce One Month Mark through her Excellent Cadaver label.
As I said, Lawrence is clearly happy with Apple. This is her fourth collaboration with Apple, following the acclaimed PTSD drama Causeway in 2022, and the award-winning documentary Bread & Roses, which she produced.
Pixar was once considered a groundbreaking animation studio, whose forward thinking led them to films such as Inside Out that nobody could’ve imagined. I think they fell into a comfortable rut of making surefire hit sequels, and lost a lot of that creative energy. But they seem poised to break some fresh ground with Gatto, a new film from Luca director Enrico Casarosa that will look like nothing Pixar has ever done before.
Gatto, about a music-loving black cat ostracized by the people of Venice because, well, black cats are bad luck, will have a totally different animation style than Pixar’s typical CGI. The film will be Pixar’s first hand-painted feaure film, and you can get a look at the gorgeous animation in a new teaser.
While the comparison isn’t perfect, Gatto does remind me of the phenomenal Loving Vincent, an animated film comprised of thousands of stunning oil-painted frames. If successful, I hope Pixar branches out and tries new stuff like this more often.
Gatto will feature voicework from Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne, and will hit theaters on March 5th 2027.
Jenko and Schmidt are back on the beat! Phil Lord and Chris Miller showed the full potential of a TV-to-Film adaptation with 21 Jump Street and its sequel, 22 Jump Street. They took the memorable (for good and bad reasons) cop drama from the ’80s and turned it into two hilarious police comedies, led by Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. It’s been more than a decade, but now Variety reports that a third movie, titled 24 Jump Street, is in the works with Tatum, Hill, and Ice Cube in talks to return as their perpetually pissed-off captain, Dickson. The news was confirmed on social media by producer Neal H. Moritz.
While Lord and Miller are only aboard as producers, the film will have Rodney Rothma, a co-writer on 22 Jump Street, in the director seat. Rothman was a co-director and co-writer on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which Lord and Miller spearheaded for Sony.
Plot details are under wraps. Rothman will co-write the script with Hill and Meghan Malloy. The title 24 Jump Street does make one wonder where 23 Jump Street is, though.
You may recall that Sony was considering a crossover between ‘Jump Street’ and the Men in Black movies. It was an odd meshing of its two biggest franchises, but it was just too crazy to get off the ground. Well, that and the MIB flicks kinda died under their own steam, or lack thereof.
22 Jump Street concluded with a dizzying sizzle reel of fake sequels and spinoffs, that had fans speculating on the future for years. While they were clearly just making fun of Hollywood’s need to extend franchises to ridiculous levels, could we maybe see one of those spoof sequels become a reality?
It’s been a while since I’ve done a casting post about more than one project. The reason is that these films, one set to star Miles Teller, and the other by Jason Momoa, are linked by director John Swab, who is moving forward on two thrillers that are set to be the biggest of his career.
First up, Deadline reports Teller will star in Copperhead, a film that returns Swab to the drug scene following his films Body Brokers and King Ivory. Penned by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, the story “is thrust in motion when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence in West Texas. A veteran detective is then forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.”
Interestingly, Copperhead is financed and produced by Black Label, which is also behind the upcoming Sicario 3, also about the drug war.
Meanwhile, buried in the same report, it’s revealed that Momoa will play outlaw biker gang leader Sonny Barger in Hell’s Angels, which Swab will direct from his own screenplay. Momoa will star and produce the film based on Barger’s popular autobiography, about his time as a founding member of the infamous Hell’s Angels motorcycle club that became counterculture icons throughout the 1960s. Known for their violence and criminal activities, the Hell’s Angels were negatively portrayed by writer Hunter S. Thompson in his 1967 book, Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
Swab has quietly built quite a resume of cop and drug world thrillers, most of them featuring the likes of Frank Grillo and Melissa Leo. Here’s hoping he manages to get both of them for these two films as well. I was highly impressed by King Ivory, and spoke to the cast about working with Swab on it. You can check out that interview below.
