“What a bunch of a-holes.” A great line from the first trailer that hooked fans on the little-known Guardians of the Galaxy. Nearly a decade later, those same a-holes have become household names and are about to go on their last mission together in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The film will be the last MCU project for director James Gunn (and at least one of the Guardians) as he transitions to his new role as the co-chair of DC Studios; however, according to Gunn, it won’t be the last time he teams up with some of the talented cast members.
In an interview with Empire, Gunn expressed his love for the cast of the Guardians and his interest to work with (some of) them again. “This cast are like my family,” explained Gunn. “I cannot tell you how close I am to Chris Pratt and Pom [Klementieff] and Dave [Bautista] and Zoe [Saldaña] and Karen [Gillan]. But I also know I will work again with all those people individually again. Probably at my other job.” Unfortunately, it looks like Gunn’s brother, Sean, will have to look elsewhere for work.
In reality, there’s not a major studio in operation that wouldn’t want to work with any and all of the actors Gunn listed. Pratt and Saldaña are already A-listers with their own franchises outside of Guardians, Gillan’s star continues to climb, Bautista has sought out more and more serious roles and Klementieff will be featured in the nextMission: Impossible film. Outside of Saldaña, the actors have Gunn and the success of the Guardians franchise to thank for their bountiful opportunities. With Gunn preparing to unveil at least a portion of the new DCU slate, it’ll be worth watching to see if he’s already carved out any roles for the talented Guardians.
In a series of #NetflixSavetheDates tweets, Netflix rolled out its 2023 film slate which includes some impressive talent in front of and behind the cameras. Here’s a month-by-month breakdown of what’s coming from the streamer in 2023!
January
27th-You People
Kenya Barris makes his feature directorial debut in You People which examines “an interfaith, culture-clash twist on the relationship rite of passage.” Jonah Hill plays Ezra Cohen who meets and falls in love with Lauren London’s Amira Mohammed. But in the twist you never saw coming, Ezra’s “progressive and semi-woke” Jewish parents (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny) and Amira’s conservative Muslim parents (Eddie Murphy and Nia Long) get involved and hilarity (probably) ensues.
February
10th-Your Place or Mine
From the mind of the Brosh McKenna, the writer of The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses, comes the answer to the question you never asked nor needed answered: what happens when romcom overachievers Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher make a romcom together? Your Place or Mine will answer that question by forcing the two together when Kutcher’s Peter and Witherspoon’s Debbie, besties who have known each other for years, “take over each others’ homes and responsibilities for a week, they realize that maybe they’ve been living the life they think they should, instead of the one they really need.”
March
10th-Luther: The Fallen Sun
The great Idris Elba returns to his greatest role as detective John Luther. Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley will share the screen with Elba as he does “whatever it takes to catch a killer.”
31st-Murder Mystery 2
The dynamic duo of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are back for the sequel to 2019’s Murder Mystery. The cleverly titled Murder Mystery 2 will see the clumsy amateur dicks take on an “even more mysterious case” than they solved in Murder Mystery.
May
12th-The Mother
J-Lo is still making movies and in Niki Caro‘s The Mother, she portrays “a female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she gave up years before.” Misha Green and Peter Craig join Jenny from the Block in the action-thriller.
June
1st-Extraction 2
Stuntman turned director Sam Hargrave reunites with Chris Hemsworth to tell the next chapter in the story of Tyler Rake in Extraction 2. “After barely surviving the events of the first movie”, Rake is tasked with another deadly mission: rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they’re being held. Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Bessa reprise their roles as Nik Khan and Yaz Khan and are joined by Olga Kurylenko, Daniel Bernhardt and Tinatin Dalakishvili.
July
21st-They ClonedTyrone
John Boyega, Netflix mainstay Jamie Foxx, and Teyonah Parris star in the directorial debut of Juel Taylor. The film is “a timely and mind-bending thriller” that sees a “series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.”
August
11th-Heart of Stone
Peaky BlindersTom Harper directs Gal Gadot in Heart of Stone. Gadot plays Rachel Stone, a secret agent who “lives off the adrenaline” and finds herself as “the only one standing between world peace and global destruction.
25th-Lift
Director F. Gary Gray looks to be revisiting his Fast and the Furious days in Lift. An international heist crew is recruited to prevent a terrorist attack and must pull off the heist on a plane mid-flight at 36,000 feet! Lift boasts an incredible cast led by Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Vincent D’Onofrio with Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno and Sam Worthington joining along.
October
13th-Damsel
Millie Bobby Brown stars in Oscar-nominee Juan Carlos Fresnadillo‘s (28 Weeks Later) subversive Damsel. The film, co-starring Angela Bassett, Robin Wright and Nick Robinson, will follow Brown as a damsel in distress who “realizes that no one is coming and that she must save herself.”
27th-Pain Hustlers
Directed by Harry Potter universe vet David Yates, Pain Hustlers stars Emily Blunt, ChrisEvans, Andy Garcia and Catherine O’Hara. Blunt stars as a single mom who “falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs”
November
17th-A Family Affair
Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Joey King star in a romcom that tells the story of a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss. A Family Affair was directed by Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese.
22nd-Leo
An animated “coming-of-age musical comedy”, Leo stars Adam Sandler and Bill Burr. The film, which tells the story of the last year of elementary school as seen through the eyes of a lizard who is a class pet, Leo is directed by Robert Marianetti, David Wachtenheim and frequent Sandler collaborator Robert Smigel.
December
8th–Leave the World Behind
Written and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, Leave the World Behind is a “tense thriller about two strangers who interrupt a family’s vacation bearing news of a mysterious blackout.” Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la lead the ensemble cast.
22nd–Rebel Moon
Director Zack Snyder space opera is loaded with talent. Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher and Staz Nair star alongside Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins. Rebel Moon tells the story of a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius (Skrein). The desperate civilians dispatch Kora (Boutella), a young woman who has a mysterious past to seek out warriors from nearby planets to help them challenge the regent.
Walter Hamada, who previously served as the head of DC Films, has officially launched his new production company, 18hz Productions. The main focus of this endeavor from Hamada is to provide high-quality horror content to Paramount Pictures.
Hamada will be joined in this big project by Nathan Samdahl, a key figure in producing 2022’s critically acclaimed horror film Smile during his tenure at Paramount. He will fulfill the role of Senior Vice President of 18hz Productions. Additionally, the company has appointed Nick Romano as its Creative Executive to help bring its horror visions to life.
Nick is a true horror fan and his passion for the genre is contagious. Together they will be instrumental in making 18hz the home for horror.
-Walter Hamada
The studio’s name is a subtle nod to the mysterious frequency of 18.98hz, also known as the “ghost frequency“, which is below the range of human hearing. Still, it has been rumored to induce hallucinations related to paranormal sightings.
Nathan’s work on hit genre movies like Paramount’s Smile, 10 Cloverfield Lane and A Quiet Place as well as his extensive filmmaker relationships make him the perfect addition to the team. I’m lucky the stars aligned and I was able to get him.
Walter Hamada
Samdahl discovered and oversaw the production of the horror project Smile while at Players but left due to layoffs. The movie was released and became a hit, grossing over $216 million worldwide. Romano rejoined Hamada from New Line, where he had worked as a CE. He started his career at ICM Partners and graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in screenwriting.
Production on Daredevil: Born Again is set to kick off in February and as the cast begins arriving in New York City, another member has joined the mix. According to Deadline, Book of Mormon’sNikki M.James has boarded the project in an unknown role.
Though James’ role is unknown, Marvel Studios has been searching for a Black actress, 40-49, to play a “loyal” but potentially “ruthless” character whose success is described as “self-made.” In 2011, James won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Nabulungi in Broadway’s The Book ofMormon. She recently appeared in four episodes of Apple TV’s Severance after roles in The Good Wife and BrainDead.
Daredevil: Born Again was unveiled at SDCC ’22 as an 18-episode event starring Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio. It was originally slated to debut on Disney Plus in the Fall of 2024.
There were quite a few projects that ended up on the cutting groom floor due to the Fox merger with Disney. While there’s always the shame about losing out on what could’ve been, there are also some projects that already seemed a bit doomed from the get-go. New Mutants managed to survive the ordeal and there was also a Channing Tatum-led project that was just about to get the camera rolling when the merger happened.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum got a chance to reflect on the project that never got a chance to get made, and he believes that they didn’t like “the tone of the movie” at the time. Not just that but he also holds hope they might want to make it after all.
It got swallowed up into Disney by way of Marvel when they bought Fox…and ultimately I just think that the tone of the movie we wanted to make was very far from what they wanted to do—or, you know, maybe they’re waiting to see how they do it with us or without us.
Channing Tatum
He also highlights that while he’s trying to “spiritually, emotionally” let go of the project, he and his team still call Marvel Studios “every once in a while” to potentially get the project going.
We call every once in a while, but we’ve got to spiritually, emotionally, kind of mentally let it go.
Channing Tatum
It seems very unlikely that Tatum will get the chance to bring this project to life, but there would be some fun in having him at least play the role in an upcoming multiverse storyline. Mutants aren’t likely to have a major franchise in the Multiverse Saga outside of Deadpool 3, but there’s a good chance they could give him a cameo in that film or even in Avengers: Secret Wars later down the line.
Mark your calendars, as the highly anticipated third part of Attack on Titan‘s final season is set to air on March 3rd in Japan. As it’s a simulcast it’ll be available in the States on March 4th. It’ll be a part of this year’s Spring lineup of new anime releases, but MAPPA has revealed it’ll release in two parts with the second half released later in 2023. The mention of a “special broadcast” may hint that this isn’t multiple episodes but rather a special.
We’re pleased to announce the release date of Attack on Titan: The Final Season. Our initial goal was to broadcast the entire Final Season on March 3rd 2023. However, in the production process, the workload became must larger than expected. After consulting with the production committee, we’ve decided to release the Final Season in two parts
Studio MAPPA
Although there might be some theories that the studio divided the season into two parts because they want to potentially “milk” the franchise, this is not a first for MAPPA. This situation happened before when they took hold of the series after its third season, because of the magazine’s problems with Wit Studio. Sadly, this is another case of history repeating itself, as MAPPAmight have bitten off more than it can chew once again.
Attack On Titan was quite the hit when it was first released worldwide and there’s a lot of excitement to see how they will wrap up the series. Yet, the series has also lost its momentum having to stretch out the last few seasons, especially after a long hiatus before continuing after its initial success. Still, there’s excitement
Only Murders in the Building has become one of Hulu’s newest hits and has slowly started to grow its already impressive cast throughout the last few seasons. The series is led by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in the leading roles. Yet, the series made a big splash when Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd, joined for the series’ third season. Selena Gomez jokingly shared a video on TikTok to highlight the cast on set including Rudd joining in for the fun. Yet, there was one major new addition that might have everyone quite excited.
At the end of the video, the one and only Meryl Streep appears and jokes around with the others from the Hulu Original. While it’s not said outright, her addition being highlighted by the official Twitter account and her being there on set confirms that Streep will have a role of some kind in the next season.
Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Paul Rudd, and- MERYL STREEP. Only Murders in the Building Season 3 🎬 #OMITBpic.twitter.com/kO1wGvLsMv
— Only Murders in the Building 🕵️♀️🕵️♂️🕵️♂️ (@OnlyMurdersHulu) January 17, 2023
It’s definitely a clever way to reveal her involvement, especially with the popularity of the series with younger audiences. Generation Z is the main focus on TikTok and it seems quite fitting that they’re using this cheeky way to get some fans hyped up for the legacy actress joining the franchise. Only Murders in the Building features a fun concept that allows almost any actor or actress join, and it’ll be exciting to see who Streep might end up playing. Guess we’ll have to wait a bit until we find out.
Marvel’s Avengers has left a bitter taste with players, as its release was quite messy and there were some concerns about the general trend of superhero properties exploring Games-as-a-Service offerings. Even Gotham Knights seemed to struggle with its multiplayer focus and the attempt at expanding the franchise with its long-term multiplayer offerings. Now, the next superhero release from Rocksteady is seemingly heading down a similar rocky road.
An image leaked for the upcoming game Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League has revealed a rather curious aspect of the game. The image shared by @Mr_Rebs that was seemingly making the rounds on 4Chan reveals that the game will have a Battle Pass. It’s also our first look at a very simple UI structure for a game promising a colorful exploration of the DC Universe.
For those that might not be too familiar with the concept, it’s a type of functionality that recently created a controversy surrounding the release of Overwatch 2. Instead of letting players use the in-universe currency to unlock skins, you have to pay to have access to a list that only unlocks depending on how well you play.
There’s no word if this game was meant to be a GaaS game, as the wording has been avoided quite a bit. But the inclusion of a Game Pass opens that discussion once again, especially if this means we’ll get more content or characters in the future. There is a “Game Mode” inclusion which hints at some multiplayer offerings but there’s still so little we know about the project. The leaked image has been confirmed and we’re left with a few questions until an official statement follows from Rocksteady.
Rumors are a staple of the entertainment industry, especially in the variety of how much or even how little can make the rounds in regard to future releases. Marvel and DC have commonly become the main focus for many rumors due to just how much is involved with these massive and ambitious projects, but it seems that a new project has potentially become the focus of a new rumor.
Netflix has been hoping to establish its new Stranger Things with a variety of projects. Wednesday may have already helped fill the void alongside all the cancelations of projects that could’ve grown to that status. Still, they’ve put a lot of money into bringing two iconic franchises to live-action, One Piece, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Surprisingly, the latter started production long before the manga adaptation, yet we’ve seen nothing so far.
While we’re still waiting for any sign of life on the project, leaker @MyTimeToShineH has taken to Twitter and shared a rather curious bit of information. They have hinted that the series is eyeing a summer release on Netflix. Of course, there’s no actual release date and who knows how far along the series is that it can hit that time window.
There’s also the question of what that might mean for One Piece, as they’d release two of their biggest projects init he same year. They’ll likely want to space them out to avoid any overlap so that they can dominate viewership for as long as possible. If that series was able to showcase some set photos earlier and also relies on a few less special effects work due to no elemental bending being involved, perhaps that series will see an earlier release.
It’s still a rumor for now, but it’s at least something and gives us a potential time window to keep an eye out for. Avatar: The Last Airbender is an ambitious adaptation, especially with the reputation the initial adaptation had from M. Night Shyamalan. Plus, the lack of any promotion does leave some questions on if we’ll see another one-month promotion for a series they hope to take the world by storm. If we get a trailer or tease in the next few months, the summer release seems more realistic.
It’s crazy to think that the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were released 30 years ago. The franchise has been a chlidhood memory many cherish. Recently, the franchise has seen a big boom in popularity once again, especially with the Boom! Studios comic series. They have revisited some familiar characters from the original franchise while also introducing a really interesting multiversal twist on what makes a Power Rangers storyline.
Netflix has been hard at work on its own cinematic universe inspired by the original series, but it seems they also have something quite special in mind. As revealed on Twitter, Netflix will premiere a 30th-anniversary special on April 19th titled Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always. It’ll see the return of some of the show’s original stars including Barbara Goodson, who voiced Rita Repulsa, David Yost, Walter E. Jones, and who knows who else might appear.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always — a scripted, stand-alone 30th anniversary special premiering April 19 — will reunite some of the franchise’s most beloved Rangers, including original stars David Yost, Walter E. Jones, and Barbara Goodson aka the voice of Rita Repulsa! pic.twitter.com/3Jn1qo9vPS
That is not all, as the official Power Rangers account, which shared its own unique anniversary logo, also offered a trailer teasing the new anniversary and some new footage they’ve filmed.
Rangers Reunite! Get ready to celebrate 30 years of action and adventure with an all-new stand-alone special; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always! This incredible event will be streaming globally on Netflix April 19th! #PowerRangers30pic.twitter.com/4cROFd5ATX
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