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We finally get a sneek peek at Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of “Aladdin” as the film’s first teaser trailer was released during Thursday Night Football.

The film is set to star Mena Massoud as the title character, a penniless teen smitten with the Sultan’s daughter Princess Jasmine played by Naomi Scott.

Massoud recently who appeared in “Jack Ryan” series from Amazon Video as Ryan’s colleague Tarek Kassar. He was cast in the role on July 2017.

Directed by Guy Ritchie, who also wrote the screenplay with John August, the film also features Will Smith playing the role of Genie, and Marwan Kenzari as Jafar.

This week, Will Smith also revealed its first poster in a post on Facebook featuring the story’s iconic lamp. “Choose wisely,” the tagline says. Smith posted: “LEMME OUT! 🙂 Can’t wait for y’all to see Me BLUE!.”

New characters such as Prince Anders and Dalia are set to be played by Billy Magnussen and Nasim Pedrad respectively.

Similar to recent Disney remake Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin is set to feature songs from the animated 1992 original. That film’s soundtrack was created by composer Alan Menken and songwriters Tim Rice and the late Howard Ashman.

“Aladdin” is set to be released on Nov. 24, 2019.

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Paramount has released a brand new poster and the first trailer for its “Pet Sematary” remake. The film of course is the latest Stephen King adaptation set to hit the big screen after the massive success of “It” from last year. The original novel was published in 1983, and was adapted by King himself into a 1989 film.

The terrifying trailer shows the Creed family moving into a rural farmhouse. “It’s definitely not Boston,” says the father Louis, played by Jason Clarke. Throughout the trailer pervades the disturbing drumming sound, initially from a group of marching kids wearing animal masks.

“Sometimes dead is better,” the film’s tagline says on the creepy poster. Its an iconic quote, also spoken by the character Jud Crandall in the 1989 film, is prominently featured in the trailer’s intro. Jud is played in this remake by John Lithgow.

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer co-directs the film. “Pet Sematary is set to be released on April 5, 2019.

Here is the film’s synopsis:

Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.

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Keanu Reeves is back in the sci-fi genre in Entertainment Studios’ “Replicas,” an upcoming thriller from director Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Nachmanoff last directed a full length film in 2013 with the Arnold Schwarzenegger starred “The Last Stand.”

Based on the creepy trailer, the film seems to have plenty of horror elements. Here we see Reeves’ Will Foster character attempt to bring back his family to life after a tragic car accident. “We’re going to replicate the human mind,” says Reeves’ Will Foster. “We are going to take his biological brain, imprinted that of a synthetic brain.”

But as see in the clip, things go horribly wrong and violent after synthetic body and the human mind struggle to co-exist. “Who am I,” the replica says.

Reeves has had success in the sci-fi and thriller genre before including the highly successful “The Matrix” film series, 2008’s Scott Derrickson directed “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.

He’s had career revival the past few years following the success of the neo-noir action thriller “John Wick” (2014) and its sequel “John Wick: Chapter 2” (2017).

“Replicas” also stars Alice Eve, John Ortiz. The film has not been given an official US release date. A peek at its IMDB page shows the film lands in a few European countries later this year.

Here is the film’s (spoilerific) synopsis:
In this sci-fi thriller, neuro-scientist William Foster (Keanu Reeves) is on the verge of successfully transferring human consciousness into a computer when his family is tragically killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect them, William recruits fellow scientist Ed Whittle (Thomas Middleditch) to help him secretly clone their bodies and create replicas. But he soon faces a “Sophie’s choice” when it turns out that they can only bring three of the four family members back to life.

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Universal Pictures has launched the international trailer for the Ryan Gosling starrer “First Man” and it features some of the more thrilling aspects about the astronaut’s journey into space. “The most dangerous mission in human history,” it says on the trailer.

The film is getting plenty of acclaim lately after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, including Gosling for his role as Neil Armstrong, the astronaut referred on the film’s title as the first man to walk on the moon.

The film is based on the book “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong” by James R. Hansen, and is written by Josh Singer, who won an academy award for Best Original Screenplay for Spotlight.

This is Gosling and director Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to “La La Land,” which earn a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations last year.

“First Man” is set to be released by Universal Pictures on October 12, 2018.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures’ First Man, the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong’s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself—of one of the most dangerous missions in history.

Written by Academy Award® winner Josh Singer (Spotlight, The Post), the epic drama of leading under the pressure of grace and tragedy is produced by Wyck Godfrey & Marty Bowen (The Twilight Saga, The Fault in Our Stars) through their Temple Hill Entertainment banner, alongside Isaac Klausner (Love, Simon) and Chazelle. Steven Spielberg, Adam Merims and Singer executive produce, while DreamWorks Pictures co-finances the film.

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Giving new life to the E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic holiday story, Walt Disney Pictures has just released the final trailer for “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and it looks magical.

“The legend you know has a dark side,” it says on the trailer, where the film’s young lead Clara is lead to a trip into the four realms: The Land of Snowflakes, The Land of Flowers, The Land of Sweets, and the mysterious last realm ruled over by Mother Ginger.

This latest big screen Disney adaptation is full of stars in the cast, which includes Mackenzie Foy (as the lead in the movie as Clara) Keira Knightley the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Helen Mirren as the villainous Mother Ginger. Also in the film are Matthew Macfadyen, Eugenio Derbez, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, and Morgan Freeman.

There is also enormous talent behind the camera of the film, with Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III, Captain America: The First Avenger) and academy award nominated director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat) co-directing.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is set to release “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” on November 2, 2018.