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Walt Disney Studio’s latest film in the Star Wars saga is officially the top grossing film of 2017 in North America. As of Sunday, December 31, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has grossed $517 million, ahead of the studio’s own Beauty And The Beast which ended its theatrical run at $504 million.
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The motion posters showcase the film’s three pivotal characters, Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), while the trailer shows some of the footage previously released by Disney as well as a look at Meg Murry’s mother Dr. Kate Murry (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
The film tells the story of Meg Murry who, after learning her astrophysicist father is being held captive on a distant planet deep in the grip of a universe-spanning evil, travels the cosmos to save him. Joining her in the rescue adventure through space are his highly intelligent younger brother Charles, and their friend Calvin.
Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel of the same name, the epic adventure was first adapted for a 2003 television film.
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ stars Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Mindy Kaling, Deric McCabe,Levi Miller, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, André Holland, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, and Oprah Winfrey. The screenplay was written by Jennifer Lee.
Set to be one of the year’s biggest blockbuster hits, ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ opens March 9th, 2018.
.@RWitherspoon is Mrs. Whatsit ✨ Welcome to 2018, warriors. pic.twitter.com/UDth9uKceT
— A Wrinkle In Time (@WrinkleInTime) January 1, 2018
.@Oprah Winfrey is Mrs. Which ✨ Welcome to 2018, warriors. #WrinkleInTime pic.twitter.com/VKeaXu7iyA
— A Wrinkle In Time (@WrinkleInTime) January 1, 2018
.@MindyKaling is Mrs. Who ✨ Welcome to 2018, warriors. #WrinkleInTime pic.twitter.com/PTUCuGW7rQ
— A Wrinkle In Time (@WrinkleInTime) January 1, 2018
At midnight, we tesser to 2018 💫 #WrinkleInTime pic.twitter.com/KiZhfrpHMf
— A Wrinkle In Time (@WrinkleInTime) December 31, 2017
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The upcoming musical fantasy sequel takes place 25 years after the original 1964 film “Mary Poppins”, which featured Julie Andrews in the role of Mary Poppins.
Set in 1930s Depression-era London, “Mary Poppins Returns” stars Emily Blunt as the titular magical and loving nanny while Broadway’s “Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Poppin’s lamplighter friend Jack who’s an apprentice to Bert (originally played by Dick Van Dyke) from the original film. Meryl Streep is also in the film as Mary’s cousin Topsy Turvy-Poppins.
The sequel will see Poppins, the former nanny of now grown-up Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw), re-visiting the family after Michael suffers a personal tragedy and needing the help of their former nanny.
The fun-looking image shows Poppins and Jack taking the three children of Michael Banks, John (Nathanael Saleh), Annabel (Pixie Davies), and Georgie (Joel Dawson) on an adventure ride by laying a ladder across the seat of a bicycle.
The film reunites director Rob Marshall with Disney’s hit musical “Into the Woods” producers John DeLuca, and Marc Platt. Loosely based on the books by P. L. Travers, the screenplay was written by David Magee. Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury co-star in the sequel.
Mary Poppins Returns is set to hit theaters Dec. 25, 2018.
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— Oh My Disney (@OhMyDisney) December 28, 2017
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Still, to do it in mere 3 weekends is impressive. As of today, Wednesday Dec 28, boxoffice.com is reporting that the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy is at $444.9 million domestically after another $21.5 million on Wedneday.
As 2017 draws to a close, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is expected to lead the upcoming weekend once again, with estimates around $57 million per boxofficemojo.com. That should be enough to surpass Beauty and the Beast’s $504 million and end the year as the top grossing domestic film, just in time before New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Overseas, Luke Skywalker and company is just as potent: the film is expected to cross $900m today and will join the $1 billion club in the next few days, most likely and quite fittingly on Sunday, the last day of the year.
The Last Jedi’s boxoffice haul marks the third year in a row that a Star Wars film closed the year on top after 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and last year’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
Other films also making noise are Dwayne Johnson’s action comedy “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” and Universal’s “Pitch Perfect 3″, the third and final film in the Pitch Perfect trilogy. Both are expected to finish strong this weekend in the 2nd and 3rd spot respectively.
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Butler plays a tough cop in the recently released heist action thriller film from director Christian Gudegast.
The film sees Butler as on-edge Los Angeles cop Nick Flanagan, going after a group of dangerous outlaws planning a major heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Los Angeles. “You’re not the bad guys, we are,” Butler confessed in trailer.
The shoot-em-up film does seem like a modern-day version of the 1995 Michael Mann classic “Heat,” as advertised on the movie’s facebook page, and that hopefully will be a good thing. Here we see Butler mirroring Al Pacino’s Lt. Vincent Hanna as he pursues the bank robbery crew. Whether someone is actually going to step into De Niro’s role, we will soon find out.
Butler and Gudegast previously collaborated in “London Has Fallen” (2016) where Butler starred as a secret service agent while Gudegast wrote the screenplay. “Den of Thieves” marks Gudegast’s directorial debut.
From a script by Gudegast and Paul Scheuring, the film also stars O’Shea Jackson Jr., Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo McRae, and UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway.
Here’s the film’s synopsis:
DEN OF THIEVES is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
Den of Thieves will be released on Jan. 19, 2018.
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This week, Universal Pictures has released the trailer to the effects-heavy epic film, something that Jackson’s name has been synonymous with since helming the series of films based on hobbits and the middle earth.
The trailer features action chases between cities moving on motorized wheels in futuristic, steampunk version of England that is characterized on the novel. Later we see giant mobile London devouring a small village through its flag embellished metal gates.
Intriguingly, it evokes the feel of Mad Max and Pirates of the Caribbean with Howl’s Moving Castle, all thrown in the mix. That is certainly a compliment: Mad Max series is undoubtedly one of the greatest action films in cinema history.
Jackson has written and produced the the post-apocalyptic film, with Christian Rivers directing, his feature debut. Rivers is a Jackson protégé, having worked on storyboards, visual effects on special affects on The Hobbit trilogy as well as served as its second unit director.
Starring Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang, Mortal Engines is set to open on December 2018.
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The romantic comedy musical brings back Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried as mother-daughter pair Donna and Sophie. The trailer reveals a pregnant Sophie (Seyfried) and her worries about being a single mom. “I’m pregnant, but I don’t know how to do this by myself,” she says.
Cher, donning a blonde hair and sunglasses, appears later in the trailer, apparently playing Sophie’s grandmother Ruby. “Grandma, you weren’t invited,” Sophie says. “That’s the best kind of party little girl,” Ruby replies.
Lily James joins the ensemble cast as a younger Donna. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters also star in the film.
The film’s teaser poster was revealed last Wednesday, highlighting the overalls worn by Streep’s Donna character in the original film.
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” opens in theaters in July 20, 2018, just in time for 10th anniversary of the original film.
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BBC Worldwide Americas today announced a new effect for the Facebook Camera Effects Platform, giving users across the globe the ability to undergo the regeneration process for the first time using Augmented Reality. Users can access the effect, created by VFX studio The Mill, through the Facebook app’s camera feature beginning December 18, 2017, just days before the historic on-screen metamorphis of Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi into Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker during the 2017 Christmas Special, Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time. The Special premieres on BBC AMERICA in the U.S. and Space in Canada on December 25, and will be available in theaters nationwide for one night only on December 27, 2017 through a partnership with Fathom Events.
Everyone using the effect will experience the excitement of a regeneration first-hand as they are enveloped in the distinctive golden glow that accompanies the unique process, which allows an alien Time Lord to change into a new body. Users can be part of this iconic moment, that has accompanied each Doctor’s regeneration since the BBC series began in 1963. The Doctor Who camera effect is available worldwide and users can share their experience with friends via Facebook Stories, posting it on their Facebook page, or saving it to share elsewhere.
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Warner Bros. has released the first full-length trailer for the film (below), which provides a first look at what Bullock and crew has in store, as well as one intriguing blink-and-you-miss hint as to what happened to original team leader, Danny Ocean.
The trailer features Sandra Bullock as Danny Ocean’s estranged sister Debbie Ocean, promising a simple life and normalcy at a parole hearing, then later gather a group of ladies to pull off the heist of the century during the star-studded yearly Met Gala at New York City. The target: Hathaway’s $150 million necklace. In addition to the all-female crew, the trailer also features James Corden as Debbie’s confidant.
A sequel of Steven Soderbergh’s trilogy and spin-off of the “Ocean’s” movie franchise, “Ocean’s 8” features an all-star ensemble of female casts including Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Pleasantville), Ocean’s 8 is set for release on June 8, 2018. Ocean’s Trilogy star and director (Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney) now serves as Ocean’s 8’s producers.
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Based on the 2009 gothic novel of same name by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger was written by Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl) and stars Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn) as Dr Faraday, Will Poulter (The Revenant) as Roderick Ayres, Ruth Wilson (The Affair) as Caroline Ayres, and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) as Mrs Ayres.
Abrahamson recently helmed the Oscar-winning film “Room” (2015) received academy award nominations for best picture and director, as well as earned star Brie Larson a best actress honor.
Focus Features will release The Little Stranger on August 31, 2018.
Here is the film’s official synopsis”
THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants – mother, son and daughter – are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.
