Directors, Joe & Anthony Russo, were at Wizard World New Orleans over the weekend and the duo teased how ambitious Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and 2 will be.
“We have so many characters we’re dealing with. We’re breaking ground on ‘Avengers: Infinity War.’ We have a board with 67 characters on it,” said Joe Russo.
What villains will Thanos bring with him, the Red Skull?
Up next for the brothers, Captain America: Civil War is set for release on May 6, 2016.
2016
May 6: Captain America: Civil War
November 4: Doctor Strange
No Date: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Netflix
No Date: Marvel’s Iron Fist – Netflix
2017
May 5: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
July 28: Spider-Man
November 3: Thor: Ragnarok
No Date: Marvel’s The Defenders – Netflix
2018
February 16: Black Panther
May 4: Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1
July 6: Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019
March 8: Captain Marvel
May 3: Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2
July 12: Inhumans
The latest trailer for The Coen Brothers’ Hollywood throwback comedy Hail, Caesar! is pretty much just Ralph Feinnes being hysterical. Fiennes is director Laurence Lorenz, and he is torturing his hayseed leading man, played by Alden Ehrenreich, trying to get just a… simple… phrase right.
Four-time Oscar®-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Fargo) write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum, Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
The comedy is produced by the Coen brothers under their Mike Zoss Productions banner alongside Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
I’m a sucker for old Hollywood comedies and dramas, and with The Coen Brothers behind the camera, I couldn’t be more sold. Hail, Caesar! hits theaters February 5.
The music of Star Wars has always been one of the franchise’s strong suits, and the soundtrack to The Force Awakens was no exception. A major selling point of the film was the promise of a new score by John Williams, and he did not disappoint.
Now, Disney has submitted Williams’ soundtrack for awards consideration. It’s available online in its entirety, including 13+ minutes of previously unreleased music.
Courtesy of John Williams Fan Network
John Williams Fan Network reports that Disney has submitted the score to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for their consideration at the 88th Academy Awards. JWFAN also supplies direct links to download the tracks in MP3 format.
The rumour mill immediately started turning as fans took this to mean The Killing Joke movie was getting the dream team back for one last outing. For those unaware, Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill have been the voice of Batman and The Joker together in television, film and computer games since 1992. Their first outing together was Batman: The Animated Series and over the years have worked together on work such as The New Batman Adventures, Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited (Hamill voiced The Trickster on this one). In games, they have voiced Batman and Joker in the Batman: Arkham series.
There has been a buzz about The Killing Joke movie since Collider reported that Hamill had confirmed he would be reprising the role of The Joker. During the article, it’s confirmed Hamill has already recorded his part for the film. The Killing Joke is an award-winning graphic novel, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland which tells the story of how the Joker believes anyone can turn crazy if they have one truly bad day. The person Joker tries to test this on is Commissioner Gordon, with Batman trying desperately to stop him. The novel also has what some believe the closest thing to an origin story for the Joker, with the novel jumping between the two timelines.
While Mark Hamill has been quite open with his involvement in the movie, Kevin Conroy has yet to confirm his and even replied to a tweet about his by saying “no, no killing joke movie planned.” This could just be to throw people off the scent until an announcement hopefully comes soon.
Fingers crossed that we get the partnership that we are hoping for.
What do you think? Would you like to see them team up again for one last outing or do you have another actor in mind that you would like to hear as Batman? As always please let me know your thoughts in the comments.
If The Witch is anywhere near as nerve-jangling as the trailers have been, horror fans are in for something special. This most recent trailer shows us a little more of the film, but remains perfectly oblique and incredibly unsettling.
Here is the trailer:
The Witch has been around for a year now, premiering at Sundance last winter to rave reviews. Robert Eggers’ film has since been picked up and, rather than getting a limited release, will be released wide February 19. Here is the official synopsis:
In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New England wilderness circa 1630.
New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest — within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately — animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, family members accuse teenage daughter Thomasin of witchcraft, charges she adamantly denies. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
Writer/director Robert Eggers’ debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival — winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God-fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hysteria. Told through the eyes of the adolescent Thomasin — in a star-making turn by newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy — and supported by mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score, THE WITCH is a chilling and groundbreaking new take on the genre.
A24 studio cemented itself as an exciting new indie studio in 2015 with Ex Machina and Room to its credit. With The Witch kicking off 2016, A24 is starting things off right.
Disney released the first look at Princess Leia in Star Wars: Rebels, Julie Dolan will voice the princess in the premiere of season two, “A Princess in Lothal” that will air January 20.
Executive producer Dave Filoni talked with TV Insider about how they wanted to introduce the character to Rebels.
“We thought we had an opportunity to show her learning to be a leader, experimenting with the personality that becomes the stronger more resolute character you see in A New Hope. One of the complex challenges of depicting Leia in Rebels is that we have to remind the audience that at this point she is part of the Empire. She doesn’t believe in the Empire, but she is acting the part, almost a double agent,” said Filoni.
In the clip below, Kanan and Ezra don Stormtrooper armor to welcome a new ally: Princess Leia.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 begins filming next month and it appears that Benicio Del Toro will not reprise his role as the Collector in the sequel.
Del Toro spoke with ComingSoon.net about the James Gunn sequel.
“I don’t think so,” Del Toro said when asked about The Collector returning. “They would have told me, I hope… I do hope to play that character again at some point.”
This doesn’t rule out a cameo, as Del Toro next project is produced by Disney as well. Filming begins on Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII.
Here is the confirmed cast for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2; Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, and Pom Klementieff. Kurt Russell has yet to sign on with the project as Star Lord’s father.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 will be in theaters on May 5, 2017.
Having been speculated on in the past couple weeks, Marvel Studios have made it official by naming Creed and Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler to direct the upcoming Black Panther.
Photo: Marvel Comics
Coogler made a serious impact with his debut feature Fruitvale Station in 2013 and resurrected the Rocky franchise with Creed, both starring Michael B. Jordan. Black Panther will be part of the Marvel Studios Phase 3 slate of films that include Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and culminating in the 2 part Avengers: Infinity War.
Anyone concerned that Coogler’s resume isn’t meaty enough to handle this need not be concerned. Both Fruitvale Station and Creed were met with widespread critical acclaim, and Sylvester Stallone just netted a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his reprisal of Rocky Balboa
Black Panther tells the story of T’Challa, the young king of the African nation of Wakanda, who will make his first cinematic appearance in Captain America: Civil War. While plot details are scant, the synopsis given is that T’Challa will be assuming the mantle of Black Panther while investigating the death of his father, who was found dead due to mysterious, and possibly treacherous circumstances.
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther will be released February 16, 2018.
Disney and Lucasfilm have looked at thousands of actors for the role of young Han Solo, today Variety is reporting that list is down to 12 men.
The rumor mill initially reported that Disney was looking for a teenage Solo, but the list of actors lends to a 20 to 25-year-old smuggler.
According to Variety, Kathleen Kennedy and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller will begin testing the group that includes Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Dave Franco, Jack Reynor, Scott Eastwood, Logan Lerman, Emory Cohen, and Blake Jenner.
A casting announcement is expected in next few weeks as it appears that Disney would like the actor to make a cameo in Star Wars: Rogue One.
Star Wars: Rogue One is directed by Gareth Edwards, and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen (IP Man), Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen of Hannibal fame, Alan Tudyk (as a motion capture character), and Riz Ahmed.
Rogue One tells the story of resistance fighters who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star.
The film will be in theaters on December 16, 2016.
The untitled young Han Solo film is set for release on May 25, 2018.
It’s difficult to keep up with advances in space exploration technology, especially considering the confusingly technical nature of these advances. So in order to keep apprised of these changes and report on them with folksy charm, I’ve enlisted the help of a standard model J-573 Mark Twain robot. As with other J-series models, this 573 unit has retained its caustic wit program but, thankfully, its political correctness meter was adjusted in 2010 to weed out the use of any contextually inappropriate verbiage. So, here “he” is to talk about preparations for the launch of NASA/NOAA‘s GOES-R satellite:
The model J-573 Mark Twain robot: a miracle of modern robotics
“I arrived in Littleton, Colorado on the tenth day of the new year with a great deal of expectation. Besides being thrilled at the prospect of seeing an elementary school named for my non-robotic counterpart, during my journey through Colorado my wireless system intercepted a mess of advertisements noting the exceptional qualities of the Lockheed Martin Autonomous Systems facility at which NASA and NOAA’s GOES-R satellite is being prepared for its imminent launch. Upon crossing the town line, my hydraulic lift system seized—I can only imagine why, although I had been trekking across these United States in the dead of winter clothed in nothing but a thin coat of wind-resistant oil-based varnish and a mathematically-perfected bow tie. My hydraulic disorder was, thankfully, short-lived though as upon my arrival at the Autonomous Systems facility I was treated to a complimentary fluid change and inspection. After my tune-up was complete I scanned the facility’s computer network for data on the purpose and progress of the GOES-R satellite’s construction and launch. The facility’s computer having also been assembled in the town of Florida, Missouri, I must admit that we chatted a fair bit.
J-573:
Good day! I’ve been wondering: what is the purpose is of NASA/NOAA’s GOES-R satellite project?
The GOES-R is the latest edition in the GOES project
ASM (Autonomous Systems Mainframe):
THE GOES-R SATELLITE WILL ALLOW SCIENTISTS AT NASA & NOAA TO BETTER STUDY AND FORECAST ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA. THE “R” SERIES IS THE MOST RECENT INCARNATION OF THE GOES (GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES) PROJECT, THE FIRST OF WHICH WAS LAUNCHED ON OCTOBER 16th, 1975.
J-573:
Wonderful, just wonderful. Is there anything more that you can tell me about the project?
ASM:
IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTATION WILL OFFER ADVANCED IMAGING WITH INCREASED RESOLUTION AND FASTER COVERAGE FOR MORE ACCURATE FORECASTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA LIKE: SEVERE STORMS, FOG, FIRE, AEROSOLS AND VOLCANIC ASH, AS WELL AS REAL-TIME MAPPING OF LIGHTNING ACTIVITY. THE INSTRUMENTS WILL ALSO ENABLE NOAA’s SPACE WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE FORECASTS OF SPACE WEATHER HAZARDS. SCHEDULED LAUNCH: OCTOBER, 2016.
J-573:
Well that would certainly be welcome. If I’d been able to accurately predict today’s weather, I might have applied a thicker varnish before engaging my drive shaft on such a cold, windy day. Autonomous Systems Mainframe, do you think that this project will reawaken the public’s latent interest in space exploration?
ASM:
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
J-573:
Too true. Too true.
Having completed the business portion of our interview, the Autonomous Systems Mainframe and I relaxed, both by performing complex computations and by partaking in a fine bottle of Stranahan’s, the Autonomous Systems Mainframe the former and I the latter.”
*Autonomous Systems Mainframe’s interview answers are paraphrased from this article from nasa.gov.
