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MARVEL PHASE FOUR ON SDCC 2019

Full Marvel Studios Schedule 2020-2021

1. Black Widow - May 1, 2020

It’s directed by Cate Shortland

The movie takes place after ‘Captain America: Civil War’ and it will reveal Budapest Story

Taskmaster will be the antagonist of the movie

Cast:

Scarlet Johansson - Natasha Romanoff

Florence Pugh - Yelena Belova

Rachel Weisz - Melina Vostokoff

O. T. Fagbenle - Rick Mason

Ray Winstone - TBA

David Harbour - Alexei Shostakov

Description of an unreleased footage presented on SDCC 2019:

"Footage goes back to the Age of Ultron flashbacks. Cut over to scenes from Avengers, Civil War. She narrates and says she got this family because of it. She's made mistakes. She betrayed Tony by stopping Black Panther. The Marvel Studios logo plays.

BUDAPEST. She goes in a spiral staircase, entering a room with a gun. "I know you know I'm out here," she said. "Wanna talk like grown ups?" She comes face to face with Pugh's character and they aim at each other as Pugh backs into a kitchen. They end up in a fight with their hands, destroying the kitchen. Black Widow tries to hold her down and gag her with a towel but ends up getting tossed over. Cabinets are destroyed. A knife is pulled out. The score is reminscent of the Winter Soldier appearing in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. A magnificent fight follows in the living room as the women end up trying to choke one another out with a curtain. Natasha calls her "sis" and they have a drink. Cut to motorcycle chases. Gun fights. Running through streets. Jumping through windows. "I got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out." Taskmaster, complete with a logo on a shield and mask takes shots from her and blocks them. The two fight on a bridge at night after a logo plays -- they move very similarly."

2. Falcon And The Winter Soldier - Fall, 2020

The show will be streaming exclusively on Disney Plus

Baron Zemo will return, he will have a purple mask

Anthony Mackie revealed he had his fitting for his own Captain America suit

Cast

Anthony Mackie - Sam Wilson

Sebastian Stan - Bucky Barnes

Emily VanCamp - Sharon Carter (to be confirmed)

Daniel Brühl - Zemo

3. Eternals - November 6, 2020

The movie is directed by Chloé Zhao

The film follows a race of immortal aliens sent to earth by the Celestials to protect mankind from the Deviants

Cast

Richard Madden - Ikaris, an Eternal powered by cosmic energy

Angelina Jolie - Thena, a warrior who, in recent years, was recruited by Ikaris to help stop “The Dreaming Celestial” from awaking in his sleeping place beneath Los Angeles

Don Lee - Gilmagesh

Salma Hayek - Ajak

Kumail Nanjiani - Kingo

Lauren Ridloff - Makkari

Brian Tyree Henry - Phastos

Lia McHugh - Sprite

Kevin Feige noted at the panel that Ridloff will portray the MCU’s first deaf hero.

4. Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings - February 12, 2021

The movie is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Real Mandarin returns as the antagonist

Cast

Simu Liu - Shang-Chi

Tony Leung - Mandarin

Awkwafina

5. WandaVision - Spring, 2021

The show will be streaming exclusively on Disney Plus

Feige: If you thought that logo was strange, wait until you see this show. It’s unlike anything we’ve done before.

Olsen: It’s gonna get weird, we’re gonna go deep, we’re gonna have lots of surprises and we’re going to finally understand Wanda Maximoff as the Scarlett Witch

Feige: I can’t tell you how exciting and different and strange that show is going to be.

Bettany: “I have no idea. Last thing I knew I died in Infinity War so I literally have never been this confused in front of this many people” … Every time we get to do this the stories get richer and richer and this is the richest of all… I hope you love it because this is going to be surprising and weird.

Adult Monica Rambeau will star in the show

Cast

Paul Bettany - Vision

Elizabeth Olsen - Wanda Maximoff

Teyonah Parris - Monica Rambeau

6. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness - May 7, 2021

Scott Derrickson will return as a director of the movie

‘Marvel’s first scary movie’ - Scott Derrickson

Scarlet Witch will star in the movie as ‘WandaVision’ will tie directly into the movie

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch - Stephen Strange

Elizabeth Olsen - Wanda Maximoff

7. Loki - Spring, 2021

The show will be streaming exclusively on Disney Plus

“This series will tell you what happened to Loki right after that,” Feige said at the panel, referring to stealing Tesseract in ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Cast

Tom Hiddleston - Loki

8. What If...? - Summer, 2021

The show will be streaming exclusively on Disney Plus

“All of those set in stone MCU scenes and experiences you’ve seen before, you will see different versions of them in this,” Marvel President Kevin Feige explained.

The show is animated, but Marvel has assembled a gigantic voice cast of MCU stars that will reprise their big-screen roles.

Cast includes

Jeffrey Wright - The Watcher

Michael B. Jordan - Killmonger

Sebastian Stan - Bucky Barnes

Josh Brolin - Thanos

Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner

Tom Hiddleston - Loki

Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury

Chris Hemsworth - Thor

Hayley Atwell - Agent Peggy Carter

Chadwick Boseman - T’Challa

Karen Gillan - Nebula

Jeremy Renner - Clint Burton

Paul Rudd - Scott Lang

Michael Douglas - Hank Pym

Neal McDonough - Dum Dum Dugan

Dominic Cooper - Howard Stark

Sean Gunn - Kraglin

Natalie Portman - Jane Foster

Taika Waititi - Korg

Toby Jones - Arnim Zola

Djimon Hounsou - Korath

Jeff Goldblum - Grandmaster

Michael Rooker - Yondu

9. Hawkeye - Fall, 2021

The show will be streaming exclusively on Disney Plus

Clint Burton will be mentoring Kate Bishop, who hasn’t been casted yet

Cast

Jeremy Renner - Clint Burton

10. Thor: Love and Thunder - November 2, 2021

Taika Waititi will direct a movie

Natalie Portman will return to play Jane Foster who will be able to wield a hammer and become a female Thor

Valkyrie will be the first LGBT superhero and as Asgard’s new ruler seeks out a Queen to rule alongside her.

Cast

Chris Hemsworth - Thor

Natalie Portman - Jane Foster

Tessa Thompson - Valkyrie

Other News

Kevin Feige confirmed ‘Black Panther 2’, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’, ‘Captain Marvel 2’, ‘Fantastic Four’ and ‘Blade’ starring Mahershala Ali in a lead role.

My thoughts:

It’s all so amazing! Can you believe that we are getting 3 movies and 4 shows in 2021? It’s crazy. And those titles! Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor : Love and Thunder. Perfection! I know that there is a possibility that the titles may change but I hope that they won’t. The logos will probably change though as they did before. But still. Those announcements are so very marvelous 😍. Oh I am waiting for D23 even more!

#disney #mcu #marvel studios #loki #sdcc 2019 #sdcc #thor love and thunder #shang chi and the legend of the ten rings #the falcon and the winter soldier #hawkeye #black widow #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #wandavision #blade #eternals #logo

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Ant-Man 3: First Look at Kang the Conqueror

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We’ve known for quite some time that Jonathan Majors would be playing the villainous Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third film in Peyton Reed’s trilogy about Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and their crew of MCU misfits. This film is particularly notable because it’s the first to feature one of Marvel’s most legendary villains, the ever-confusing time traveler, Kang the Conqueror.

As with so many first looks at new characters and designs from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this one has hit social media as a photo of a shirt worn by the crew, which features a battle-damaged Ant-Man helmet and the reflection of a menacing figure clad in purple and green (the traditional colors of so many Marvel villains created in the 1960s).

It’s especially cool because even from this blurry first look at Kang, it’s clear that we’re getting a very comics accurate look for him on the big screen. It also drives the point even further home that Majors’ He Who Remains, the eccentric, powerful weirdo at the end of all things in the season finale of Loki, was indeed a very different variant of Kang himself.

Kang the Conqueror is one of Marvel Comics’ oldest villains, both in continuity and just in terms of publication history. His actual history gives Den of Geek writers an utter migraine every time we try to unpack it, but he may or may not be a 31st Century descendant of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four fame who became a time travel enthusiast, a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt (as Fantastic Four villain Rama-Tut), a weird old time wizard named Immortus, and in between as an Avengers-bothering baddie known as Kang.

How long has he been kicking around the Marvel Universe of the comics? He first showed up way back in 1963 in Fantastic Four #18 as Rama-Tut before taking on his more familiar Kang form a year later in Avengers #8, both by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Considering that the MCU leaned directly into the weirdness of all the potential variants of Kang across the timelines (there’s also a Council of Cross-Time Kangs in the comics, so put that in your purple and green pipe and smoke it) with Majors’ Loki appearance, we don’t expect them to go particularly easy on us with him in Quantumania.

Check out a peek at his screen look here…

A first look at Kang The Conqueror in #AntManandTheWaspQuantumania via a crew shirt! (via: @MyCosmicCircus) pic.twitter.com/11zNzZlyTy

— Marvel Updates (@MarvlUpdates) December 2, 2021

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opens on July 28, 2023, so unless he shows up in a post-credits scene somewhere along the way, it’s probably going to be a little while before we get a better look at Kang. But at least for now fans can rest assured that he’ll be faithful to his original Jack Kirby design.

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The full schedule of upcoming MCU Phase 4 movies can be found here.

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The Weekend Warrior 8/13/21 - CODA, FREE GUY, DON’T BREATHE 2, RESPECT, THE LOST LEONARDO, WHAT IF, and More!

Well, that was kind of a disappointing last weekend as James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad pretty much tanked at the box office, making less than Birds of Prey did back in February 2020 with all sorts of backseat analysis explaining why it didn’t do well as anyone, other than a scant, few thought. I mean, I’m still kind of stunned, even though COVID and the Delta variant seem to be losing steam as far as being news. It certainly didn’t help that HBO Max decided to release the movie concurrently on HBO Max on Thursday at 7pm.

The nice thing about this week is that we have three new movies, none of which are on streaming or On Demand at the exact same time, so if you want to see any of them, you’ll have to put on your N96 masks and get yourself to theaters. Two of the three movies are originals, while the third is a sequel to quite an original horror movie from about five years back. All of them are pretty good, actually. We’ll get to them soon...

But first, let’s start with this week’s “The Chosen One” and it’s gotta be Siân Heder’s CODA i.e. “Child of Deaf Adults,” which will play in select theaters and on Apple TV+ starting Friday. If you hadn’t heard, it was the belle of the ball at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize and Audience Award alike. Heder previously directed Tallulah and is the showrunner on Apple’s Little America, but this really is a very special film that I’ve enjoyed on repeat viewings now.

It stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, the sole hearing person in her family of Gloucester fishermen, who are out every day on the sea making the latest catch in their nets. Ruby has other aspirations, and when she joins the school choir, the teacher, Mr. Villalobos (Eugene Derbez) sees talent in Ruby that he thinks might get her into the Berklee College of Music. Ruby has to weigh that with her family’s need to have her as an interpreter while dealing with the other fishermen of the town.

I didn’t know what to expect when I saw this at Sundance back in January, and it still surprised me when I rewatched it again, because it’s a movie that involves a lot of elements that shouldn’t necessarily work, between the fishing and the singing and all the ASL between the amazing ingenue, Ms. Jones, and the deaf actors playing her family, including the one and only Oscar-winning Marlee Matlin. If not for these disparate elements, Coda might be a fairly standard indie family drama, but Heder finds just the right balance of showing how these disparities in Ruby’s life make it hard for her to pursue her dreams.

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo from Sing Street plays the classmate who Ruby is set up with to perform a duet at their high school recital, and of course, he also becomes an unwitting love interest. Unfortunately that’s the aspect of the film that’s the weakest, because Jones’ scenes with Matlin and the other actors, including Derbez, as well as Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant, as Ruby’s father and brother, are just so powerful and moving even if they’re all in ASL with no dialogue or even incidental score.

Coda is Heder’s second film after Talllulah, a movie starring Elliot Page that never really connected with me, but Coda is such a strong and exceedingly crowd-pleasing film that I have to imagine that this would connect with everybody. I’m not sure if Apple’s gonna be able to get this movie all the way to Oscar night, but I do like its chances for Adapted (?) Screenplay, and maybe Matlin and Kotsur Supporting? I don’t know, because it’s so early and hard to tell, but hopefully the decision to wait so long after the virtual Sundance won’t hurt this movie as it hurt other Sundance award-winning films. Coda is just a joy that I’m sure will be many people’s favorite movie.

You can read my interview with Ms. Heder over at Below the Line.

Incidentally, in last week’s column, I talked about the 20th New York Asian Film Festival, but I didn’t realize that it was only running at Film at Lincoln Center for a week before going down to the SVA Theater on 23rd Street, and you can check out the schedule of movies playing there at the official site. And of course, there’s still the Virtual Festival that’s running through August 22. Also, Fantasia is still going on in Montreal, and I still haven’t had time to watch very much. What can I say? I suck.

Let’s get to some wide releases, shall we?

First up and probably the most likely to win the weekend is Ryan Reynolds’ new action-comedy, FREE GUY (20th Century Studios), directed by Shawn Levy and co-starring Jodie Comer from Killing Eve. The high-concept comedy has Reynolds playing Guy, a bank teller, who actually is a non-player character in a video game called “Free City” that’s kind of a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite. When he meets Comer’s character in the game, he falls mady in love and decides to do whatever it takes to get on her level. (Get it?) In doing so, Guy ends up becoming a hero for Free City, as well as a viral sensation across the globe as gamers thrill to Guy’s adventures.

Free Guy is Ryan Reynolds’ first live-action starring role theatrical release since…. Oh…. the action-comedy sequel The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife a little under two months ago. Considering that barely made half of what its predecessor did, and that’s with Reynolds sharing the screen with Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek, one wonders if his draw as an A-lister can be maintained during a pandemic. Before that, you’d have to go all the way back to 2018’s Deadpool 2 for a fully live Reynolds movie, because he wasn’t seen as himself for most of his role in and as Detective Pikachu. Of course, Reynolds’ unmistakable voice was back in DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age, the sequel to the 2013 blockbuster that made the ballsy move to be one of the first movies to open during the pandemic. It grossed $58.6 million in theaters, which was slightly more than Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and even more than the Warner Bros. sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.

This is also a big movie for Jodie Comer, who won an Emmy and was nominated for two Golden Globes for Killing Eve, but hasn’t really been in too many movies, other than playing Rey’s Mum in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Later this year, she’ll star in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and may possibly be back in the awards game again, we’ll see. The movie also stars Lil Rel Howery, who seems to be everywhere and in everything these days, as well as Taika Waititi who is super-hot right now due to 2019’s Jojo Rabbit, and his various television projects, as well as having a small role in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad last week.

In some ways, Free Guy is gonna be a test for a lot of things, the first one being whether Reynolds is a big enough draw when not playing Deadpool to get people into theaters, just as people are starting to get skittish again about going into movie theaters. More importantly, it will show whether not having a movie on streaming or VOD means that people who want to see it will put aside their fears and return to theaters… like they did with F9 and Black Widow and Godzilla vs. Kong. Is an original non-franchise movie like Free Guy enough to get people interested in getting their butts off the couch and into a far more comfortable movie theater seat? (I’m being facetious, if you didn’t guess.)

After The Suicide Squad last week, I’m really not sure whether I can trust my own instincts, but I also don’t want to lower my prediction to something ridiculous out of fear that the pandemic really is destroying any chance of the box office fully recovering. One thing working in Free Guy’s favor, besides its PG-13 rating is that it’s not available on streaming and VOD. Anyone who has been intrigued by the film’s great reviews will HAVE to go out to a movie theater to see it or else, they’ll have to wait 45 days.

Maybe if this opened last month, I could see it open in the $30 million to $40 million range, but with things being the way they are, I’d probably go with high $20 million, so close to $30 million but not quite.

You can read my review over at Below the Line, and I’ll have an interview with the film’s Production Designer, Ethan Tobman, fairly soon.

Also opening Friday is the horror sequel DON’T BREATHE 2 (Sony/Screen Gems), starring Stephen Lang as the blind former Navy Seal who terrorized a bunch of kids who broke into his house in 2016’s Don’t Breathe.

The original movie, which starred Jane Levy, reuniting with director Fede Alvarez after the two remade Evil Dead for producer Sam Raimi, opened in late August, on the fourth weekend of the original Suicide Squad, in fact, and it knocked the movie out of the #1 spot. Its $26 million opening in 3,000 theaters was impressive for the time, partially because late August has never been great. It stayed #1 for a second weekend, over Labor Day, and it ended up grossing $89.2 million in North America, which is great for an R-rated horror film.

Levy isn’t around for the sequel and Alvarez has moved into a co-writer/producer role for his creative partner, Rodo Sagayes, to take over the directing reins, but honestly, I’m not sure how many people will know or care, because Lang’s character and the film’s violence and chills are it’s real selling point. Like many horror movies, there isn’t much in terms of star power other than Lang, but that has never really hindered the success of a horror movie in the past.

As with every movie I cover in this column, there’s the pandemic in the room and whether that might hold people back from going to theaters. I wish there was a way to calculate the effect that’s had on moviegoing, because it seems to affect movies differently. For instance, the recent The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was able to open with $24.1 million just two months ago, although that was down from the $40 million of the previous two chapters. So that’s about a 40% drop-off in a similar five-year gap between movies. (Actually, it’s kind of strange that 2021 is replicating 2021 with three sequels to movies from five years earlier.) There’s no denying that the number of Covid cases are way up since June and movie theaters are still being painted as the “enemy” even though no significant cases have been traced back to the movies.

We also have to look at Sony’s last horror sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, which I quite enjoyed, but it ended up opening with about $10 million less than the original movie a few years back. We can probably expect Don’t Breathe 2 to have a similar pandemic drop-off even if it’s another movie that won’t be on streaming or VOD this weekend.

I think Don’t Breathe 2 should be good for around $15 million this weekend since it’s catering towards a young audience that’s a bit more devil-may-care about going out to theaters. It will also probably appeal more to older single guys than something like Free Guy, which seems different enough to pull in a different audience.

My review will be posted over at Below the Line later on Thursday, plus I have a bunch of interviews coming, including this one with Rodo Sayagues and Fede Alvarez.

Next up is RESPECT (MGM), the long-awaited Aretha Franklin biopic (for those that didn’t see Genius, like me, I guess), starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul. The movie directed by Liesl Tommmy was supposed to be released in January to take part in last year’s Oscars race, but I guess MGM wanted to make sure it got a proper theatrical release, which wasn’t possible since NYC and L.A. movie theaters didn’t reopen until March after the cut-off. But MGM had already decided to push the movie back to the summer in hopes of having more theaters able to play the movie, which is kind of true now?

It’s been a while since we’ve seen JHud in a high-profile theatrical release, and unfortunately, the last one was 2019’s Cats, a movie in which she probably was the best thing, although it still only grossed $27 million domestically, a flat-out bomb. Before that, she provided her voice for the animated blockbuster Sing in 2016, and then a bunch of smaller movies before that. She’s joined in the movie by the likes of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Titus Burgess, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, and Audra MacDonald, quite an impressive array of talent that shows how many wanted to be involved with this project. Director Liesl Tommy is making her feature directorial debut after directing a ton of theater and TV shows like The Walking Dead and Jessica Jones.

Even so, it’s obviously that the ongoing popularity of Aretha Franklin, especially since her death in 2018, is going to go a long way into getting people into theaters, which includes a lot of older black women who really haven’t had much to get them out into theaters in recent months. Will this be enough?

Before Respect was delayed from its original January release, many thought that Hudson would receive another Oscar nomination for her performances. Having not seen the movie at the time of this writing, I can’t confirm or deny those chances. If that’s still the case, then releasing the movie towards the end of the summer (similar to The Help, successfully, and The Butler, not so much) is an odd decision rather than just holding the movie for festival season by holding until next month.

Either way, I think the love Aretha’s fans have for the Queen of Soul as well as Hudson’s fans, Respect should be good for between $8 and 10 million this weekend -- hard to pinpoint exactly without knowing how many theaters MGM is getting for it against the stronger summer movies.

Mini-Review: I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Respect, even after seeing the trailer a couple dozen times in front of other movies, but it’s a respectable biopic that cover 20 years in the life of the Queen of Soul from singing at a young age in her father’s church to returning to church for the gospel records as captured in the recently-released doc, Amazing Grace.

But first, we go back to 1952 where Aretha is a young girl (played by Skye Dakota Turner) is uncertain of her future as she’s being ordered about by her preacher father (Forrest Whitaker) and trying to find direction. The movie casually sets up the fact that young Aretha was sexually abused by a family friend, and maybe she got pregnant, too? It’s hard to tell and maybe a little odd since she would only have been 10 at the time, but it’s something that will be brought up (just as subtly) over the course of the film.

Jennifer Hudson takes over as Aretha as she turns 19 and goes to New York City to start recording, meets Marlon Wayans’ Ted White, makes him her manager and marries her, which basically has her going from one abusive man in her father to another one. It feels like the movie spends a long than normal time on the ‘60s, which is when Franklin’s career really took off with “Respect” and then a series of hits that took her all around the world. That whole time, she’s dealing with Ted’s abuses and jealousy while trying to write and record those hits, before her dark demons return and she starts drinking heavily.

As you might imagine, you go to see Respect to see how well Jennifer Hudson pulls off the Queen of Soul, and she’s an incredibly complex character that needs a nuanced performance, which Hudson tries to pull off by bringing different aspects of her life into different scenes.

There are some scenes that don’t work as well as others, and it feels like there’s a bit of time-crunching or futzing around so that at a certain point, her father seems to be de-aging, although I was just as impressed (possibly even moreso) with Forrest Whitaker, whose performance as Aretha’s father is more than just a full-on villain despite his violent treatment of his daughter. Wayans is also good and almost unrecognizable at first, and there are a few other nice performances in there as well, including Marc Maron as record label head Jerry Wexler.

But the performances Hudson gives as Franklin are goosebump-inducing, leading up to the recording of her record-selling gospel record as depicted in the aforementioned doc.

A fairly decent representation of Franklin’s little-known life leading up to her fame, Respect probably succeeds the most when Jennifer Hudson is performing as the Queen of Soul, but she’s also created a fairly moving portrait with strong dramatic moments that far outweigh any of the film’s issues. Rating: 8/10

With that in mind, this is how I see the weekend looking with two of the new movies bumping Suicide Squad down to third place where it will be facing off against Respect.

1. Free Guy (20th Century/Disney) - $28.5 million N/A

2. Don’t Breathe 2 (Sony/Screen Gems) - $15 million N/A

3. The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros.) - $10 million -62%

4. Respect (MGM) - $9.6 million N/A

5. Jungle Cruise (Walt Disney Pictures) - $8.7 million -55%

6. Old (Universal) - $2.5 million -36%

7. Black Widow (Marvel/Disney) - $2.4 million -39%

8. Stillwater (Focus) - $2 million -39%

9. Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros.) - $1.3 million -43%

10. The Green Knight (A24) - $1.1 million -56%

Donnie Yen stars in Bennie Chang’s RAGING FIRE (WELL GO USA), which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival on Monday and at Fantasia in Montreal on Tuesday, and I’m not going to review this, because honestly, it’s such a cookie-cutter Hong Kong police action-thriller that I’m not sure I really have much to say about it, so I won’t.

On the other hand, I do have more to say about Andreas Koefoed’s documentary, THE LOST LEONARDO (Sony Pictures Classics), the Leonardo being Da Vinci, the master artist behind the Mona Lisa and many other works. Since I don’t really follow the world of art, I really didn’t know about the Salvator Mundi painting found about 10-12 years ago that was thought to be an original Da Vinci worth in the hundreds of millions, often dubbed “The Male Mona Lisa.” But it’s also a painting that was surrounded by controversy due to the 5-year restoring job that may have left very little of the original painting.

As the film began, I was groaning a little about sitting through another movie of art experts and historians talking about how important a find this is and why it’s either great or horrible, depending on who is being interviewed. Eventually, the film gets more interesting as it starts getting into the idea of selling it. After being sold to a wealthy Russian oligarch by an unscrupulous Swiss art dealer who made a nice profit on it, the painting ends up being auctioned by Christie’s, and the story just keeps getting more and more interesting as it goes along.

While I’m not one to go ga-ga over any painting by Da Vinci or otherwise, I do like a good mystery or suspense-thriller, so good on Koefoed for realizing about halfway through this movie that the talking heads will never be as interesting as actual footage. And that’s what happens here, too. I actually feel a little ignorant that I wasn’t aware this was going on as it was, maybe because I don’t really follow the art world in that respect. Maybe I just missed it, so it’s good that Sony Classics (who loves making movies about art) is giving this a fairly high-profile release following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival a few months back. In that sense, The Lost Leonardo is quite a gem.

Heinz Brinkman’s USEDOM: A CLEAR VIEW OF THE SEA (Big World Pictures) is a somewhat intriguing doc about the Baltic island of Usedom, the location of a number of imperial German health resorts, beaches and such, and how the Jews were kicked out by the Nazis before Usedom was split into a German and Polish half after WWII. I wish I could get into this more, but I just have a limited mental capacity for a lot of German talking heads.

Which brings us to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s THE MEANING OF HITLER (IFC Films), the new doc from the team behind Gunner Palace, which looks at the cultural fascination with Hitler and Nazism and the recent rise in white supremacy, antisemitism and the “weaponization of history itself.” I don’t know what that last part means, because I got so swamped this week that I didn’t get to watch this, and like another recent doc on the subject of Naziism and the Holocaust, I just couldn’t get into the right head space to hit play on this doc. Maybe I’ll watch it sometime down the road.

Similarly, I didn’t get around to watching Dutch filmmaker Jim Taihuttu’s THE EAST (Magnet Releasing), which I may like as a fan of Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch WWII films, and I probably should give this a look, but I just ran out of time this week. It’s about a young Dutch soldier who joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain called “The Turk,” and it takes place in the Indonesian War of Independence after World War II.

As far as TV goes, Wednesday sees the debut of Marvel Studios’ WHAT IF...? on Disney+. I’ve seen the first three episodes, and I was a pretty big fan of the comics in the ‘70s (sadly, part of the giant collection that I sold a few years back), and I guess this is okay. The first episode is the one with Haley Atwell voicing “Captain Carter” i.e. Peggy Carter gets the Super Soldier Serum, which is one of the more obvious What Ifs that could possibly done, so that we can get another “women are as good as men, and they need to be heard” storyline that’s in 90% of the Marvel movies already. On the other hand, the first episode does include the voices of Sebastian Stan and others, so it’s quite a coup in that sense, but whoever wrote it, clearly doesn’t understand that people spoke differently in the ‘40s. I liked the 2nd episode, a mash-up of Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy, which is a fun idea that brings together a lot of great characters -- including Chadwick Boseman’s last voice performance -- but again, hearing the voices just isn’t the same when the writing isn’t as good as the movie. I feel like the animation for the show is okay, maybe not quite on par with some of the great Batman or Superman cartoons we’ve gotten over the years. On the other hand, the entire series features the great voice of Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher, acting kind of like the Rod Serling for the series, much like the Watcher does in the comics. I also dug the music by Emmy winner Laura Karpman (Lovecraft Country), and I’ll watch the rest of the series as it debuts, but I’m not sure it’s as much a rush to see each episode to avoid spoilers as with Loki or WandaVision.

Hitting Netflix this week is the limited series, BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR (Netflix), starring Rosa Salazar, Eric Lange, and Catherine Keener. The tagline is: “Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar) comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hit men, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive.”

Also, TITANS Season 3 debuts on HBO Max, but since I haven’t watched seasons 1 or 2 yet, it might be some time before I get to it.

Next week looks like it could be a bit of a dog with four or five new wide releases but nothing that really jumps out, plus I’ll be in Atlantic City all next weekend, so who knows how much I’ll be able to watch or write about?

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Os 10 filmes de terror mais esperados de 2021

2021 será um ano cheio de produções para quem ama filmes de terror! Os estúdios estão cheios de estreias e as plataformas de streaming com várias novidades, mas prepare o coração porque muitas vão te fazer dormir com a luz acesa, hein?! A CH separou os 10 títulos mais esperados pela galera e que você precisa ficar de olho!

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1. Invocação do Mal 3: A Ordem do Demônio

O segundo filme da saga Invocação do Mal foi aos cinemas em 2016 e, desde então, a galera espera pela continuação, mas parece que finalmente está chegando a hora! O longa vai contar mais um caso real solucionado por Ed e Lorraine Warren. Ao invés de uma casa assombrada, vamos acompanhar a possessão demoníaca de Arne Cheyenne Johnson, que se defendeu das acusações de homicídio alegando que foi possuído. O caso é conhecido popurlamente como O Diabo Me Fez Fazer/Me Obrigou.

O elenco conta, novamente, com Patrick Wilson e Vera Farmiga e é direção ficou por conta de Michael Chaves. A produção ainda não teve seu primeiro trailer divulgado, já que sua estreia foi adiada pela pandemia, porém é esperado que o lançamento aconteça em junho deste ano.

Invocação do Mal 3 teve sua estreia adiada por conta da pandemiaDivulgação/Warner Bros.

2. The Northman

Que elenco, viu? The Northman ainda não entregou muitos detalhes sobre seu enredo, mas chama atenção por ter um time poderoso que gravou a produção durante a quarentena. Com direção de Robert Eggers, o filme é estrelado por Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Bjork, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke e Claes Bang.

Sabemos que o longa vai acompanhar uma história de vingança viking no século 10, tendo a Islândia como cenário. Em entrevista ao site Collider, Nicole disse que sua personagem é bem desafiadora e que ficou “aterrorizada” com as filmagens. A data de estreia ainda não foi oficialmente definida.

3. Um Lugar Silencioso – Parte II

A continuação do sucesso dirigido por John Krasinski e estrelado por Emily Blunt também faz parte da longa lista de projetos adiados pela pandemia. Na sequência, vamos acompanhar a família Abbott mais uma vez. Após enfrentarem as criaturas no último filme, eles precisam se aventurar no mundo exterior e acabam descobrindo que elas não são as únicas ameaças rondando por aí.

O filme está previsto para estrear em 22 de abril de 2021.

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4. A Lenda de Candyman

Fãs de Jordan Peele, preparem-se para mais uma produção incrível. Com direção de Nia DaCosta, o filme vai contar a história da lenda de um espírito assassino conhecido como Candyman devastou a população de um bairro de Chicago. Anos depois, o local foi renovado e se tornou habitado por pessoas de alta classe. Acontece que o espírito retorna e elas terão que lidar com ele.

O longa estreia em 26 de agosto de 2021.

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5. Last Night in Soho

Estrelado por Anya Taylor-Joy, de O Gambito da Rainha, e dirigido por Edgar Wright, o filme vai acompanhar a vida de uma jovem que, misteriosamente, volta à década 60 de Londres. Lá, ela encontra sua maior ídolo, mas o que ela não previu foram as consequências que toda essa situação poderia trazer e os desdobramentos do tempo vão cada vez mais desmoronando tudo pela frente.

O filme está previsto para estrear em outubro deste ano.

Some news – my new film @lastnightinsoho will now be coming out later in the year. I know some of you may be disappointed, but my hope is more of you will be able to experience it as we intended; in the dark, on a big screen, with an audience. See you at the movies…10/22/21 pic.twitter.com/9DH4alnEyv

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6. Espíritos Obscuros

Produzido por Guillermo del Toro e dirigido por Scott Cooper, o filme vai narrar a história de uma professora que procura ajudar um de seus alunos, mas acaba descobrindo que ele tem um segredo bem assustador. Baseado no conto de terror The Quiet Boy, escrito por Nick Antosca, o filme promete assustar bastante.

O longa estreia ainda este ano e já ganhou trailer. Confira:

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7. The Forever Purge (Uma Noite de Crime 5)

Fãs de The Purge, o último filme da franquia está cada vez mais próximo. O longa vai se passar logo após os acontecimentos de 12 Horas Para Sobreviver – O Ano da Eleição, terceiro filme da saga que foi lançado em 2016. James DeMonaco esteve novamente na linha de frente do projeto.

O filme está previsto para estrear no dia 9 de julho.

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8. Espiral – O Legado de Jogos Mortais

Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rock e Max Minghella são os protagonistas do novo longa. A produção acompanha a trajetória de Marcus, Zeke e Willem, que tentam desvendar uma série de assassinatos, mas tudo muda quando Zeke se envolve no jogo do próprio assassino.

O filme estreia em 14 de maio de 2021.

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9. O Homem nas Trevas 2

Após o sucesso do primeiro filme, O Homem nas Trevas retorna este ano. Fede Alvarez, que dirigiu o projeto anterior, assina apenas como co-roteirista da nova produção ao lado de Rodo Sayagues, que foi o responsável pela direção desta vez. O longa vai se passar meses após a primeira invasão e Stephen Lang retorna para reprisar o papel.

O filme está previsto para estrear ainda em 2021.

10. Halloween Kills

A novo filme de Halloween vai se passar quatro décadas dos eventos anteriores e Jamie Lee Curtis está presente na nova produção. Judy Greer e Andi Matichak também estrelam o longa, produzido pelo famoso Jason Blum e dirigido mais uma vez por David Gordon Green.

O filme deve estrear em, como o nome indica, outubro, hahaha!

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The Maximoff Anomaly has been resolved at the end of WandaVision, but the show forgot to answer two big mysteries in the series. Marvel Studios' first Disney+ offering was generally successful; despite a more divisive ending, it was a great way to kick off MCU Phase 4 following the events of the Infinity Saga. While it was not the universe-changing show that it was initially perceived to be, it set the stage up for some of the franchise's upcoming projects without losing sight of its core narrative. However, amidst a myriad of plot twists and red herrings, it may have accidentally left some pressing questions unanswered.

While it started as something very different from the typical MCU fare, WandaVision episode 9, "The Series Finale" ended the same way its movie counterparts did — with a final battle, this time, between witches, Agatha Harkness and Wanda. Throughout the whole ordeal, Vision found himself facing off with the resurrected version of himself dubbed white Vision, while Tommy and Billy each had a chance to showcase their respective powers. In the end, Wanda officially becomes the Scarlet Witch in the MCU, but not before she decided to end the Hex and bid her made-up family goodbye. Admittedly, not everyone's a fan of how things wrapped up for the project with some disappointments over the string of teases that didn't get any payoff. But more than Evan Peters' reveal as Ralph Bohner and Mephisto's non-involvement, there were also certain elements in WandaVision that didn't get any resolution.

Related: WandaVision Ending Explained: Biggest Reveals & MCU Future Setup

There are two major mysteries that WandaVision left unanswered. First is the identity of Jimmy Woo's missing witness protection person, which was what originally drew him into the story. Debuting in Ant-Man and the Wasp as Scott Lang's home arrest officer, the FBI agent flew across the country to New Jersey after reports that a witness in the organization's protection program living in Westview went missing. Considering the effects of the Hex, the local police and anyone who knew said person suddenly didn't have any recollection of them once they disappeared alongside the whole town. Granted that the WandaVision finale had a lot of stories to cover, the show could've at least circled back to the mystery even if they didn't have plans to answer it right away, just to demonstrate the series didn't totally forget about it.

Secondly, it's unknown what exactly happened to the S.W.O.R.D agent who became a beekeeper upon entering Westview. The trailers for WandaVision highlighted the arrival of the mystery man who was eventually revealed to be Agent Franklin in episode 4; at this point, the show just established what Wanda's pocket reality was from the outside world's perspective. Following Monica Rambeau getting accidentally sucked into the bubble, S.W.O.R.D. tried various ways to infiltrate the magical barrier in an effort to reach out to her, as well as, know what's exactly happening inside it. But, due to Wanda's powers, everything that's able to come in transformed into something that fit in the time setting of Wanda's alternate reality. Franklin hasn't been seen ever since his emergence from the manhole, prompting Wanda to rewind time and propel her fantasy reality to the '70s.

Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility that Marvel Studios still has every intention to answer these lingering questions from WandaVision. They're known to play the long game and as previously mentioned, WandaVision set up several upcoming MCU Phase 4 projects. More than the beekeeper's whereabouts, however, it's Jimmy's witness protection person who has a higher chance of factoring in the franchise's future storytelling. Who knows, Peters' Ralph Bohnner's persona might ultimately be fake, revealing him to be the said mysterious person. This way, the actor can still return to the universe moving forward.

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MCU: 10 Characters We Never Expected To See Again Who Are Returning In Phase 4

Following this year’s Comic-Con and Disney’s D23 Expo, the full slate for the MCU’s Phase 4 has been announced. There have been plenty of delightful surprises, like the casting of Kit Harington as the Black Knight or the Disney+ series confirmed for Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight.

RELATED: 10 Characters Who Should Probably Retire From The MCU Soon

In addition to all the new characters being added to the franchise, some that we thought had been forgotten by Marvel Studios have been confirmed to be returning... in some form or another. From a female Thor to resurrected dead characters, you just can't (usually) keep a comic book character down, can you?

10 Jane Foster

MCU fans became so bored with Jane Foster’s one-dimensional characterization and bland romance with Thor that no-one batted an eye when she was nowhere to be seen in Thor: Ragnarok and the couple’s off-screen breakup was mentioned. The least interested of all was Natalie Portman, who had grown sick of being given no interesting dialogue, if she was given any dialogue at all.

It’s not Portman’s fault that Jane was so uninteresting; the writers failed her. Now, after reinvigorating the Thor character with a dose of comedy in Ragnarok, Taika Waititi is looking to do the same for Jane Foster as she takes on the mantle of Thor in 2021’s Thor: Love and Thunder.

9 Vision

In one of the final scenes in Avengers: Infinity War, Vision died twice. First, Scarlet Witch removed the Mind Stone from his head and destroyed it to stop Thanos from getting it. Then, Thanos used the Time Stone to reverse time and ripped the Mind Stone out of Vision’s head himself. Vision wasn’t anywhere to be seen in Avengers: Endgame, even with all the time travel and new timelines being created, and for all intents and purposes, he’d be forever dead.

Still, he’ll be co-starring in a series with Wanda Maximoff called WandaVision on Disney+. One fan theory is that Wanda will use her magical mutant powers to manipulate reality and bring him back to life, albeit creating “the Multiverse of Madness” in the process.

8 Sharon Carter

As great as Emily VanCamp was in the second and third Captain America movies, it became awkward when her character Sharon Carter – the niece of Peggy Carter – drummed up a romance with Steve Rogers. It’s especially creepy now that Steve has gone back in time and married Peggy.

RELATED: The 5 Best (And 5 Worst) Couples In The MCU

Still, none of that can be blamed on VanCamp. Marvel is giving her a second chance in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, in which she’ll have a supporting role.

7 Agent Woo

Randall Park was hilarious in Ant-Man and the Wasp as Agent Jimmy Woo, the FBI man-in-black assigned to keep an eye on Scott Lang while he was under house arrest. Woo’s interactions with Scott about close-up magic and whether or not a dinner invitation had been extended were hysterical, and one of the highlights of the movie.

However, since it was such a small part, no-one was expecting him to take on a larger role in the MCU’s future. Lo and behold, in Disney+’s WandaVision, he’ll be back in an unspecified capacity, possibly as the FBI agent assigned to watch over Scarlet Witch.

6 Loki

Loki seemingly completed his character arc in Avengers: Infinity War. After years of villainy or heroism as a cover for villainy, he finally did something undeniably heroic. He came after Thanos with a blade to save his brother. He ended up getting killed in the process, but he’d finally learned to be good after discovering that Thor thought the world of him.

RELATED: 5 Things Confirmed For Loki's Disney+ Series (& 5 Fan Theories)

However, in Avengers: Endgame, after he evaded capture and stole the Space Stone, he created a new timeline in 2012 where anything can happen – and we’ll see what does happen in a Disney+ series in 2021. This will be an interesting turn for the MCU. The show will essentially present a hypothetical character arc for Loki, starting from scratch with entirely different events.

5 The Mandarin

In the comics, the Mandarin is Iron Man’s arch nemesis. Jon Favreau wanted to introduce him in the first movie, but decided against it, comparing him to Emperor Palpatine – slowly build to a big reveal in the third movie. However, after helming the first two Iron Man movies, Favreau handed the reins over to Shane Black, who featured the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, but totally botched it.

The Mandarin we came to fear and anticipate across months of posters and trailers turned out to be a soccer hooligan. Marvel is looking to rectify that with the real Mandarin, due to show up in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

4 Helmut Zemo

Baron Zemo is an exceptional MCU villain for two reasons: 1) his plan was a success, as he managed to tear the Avengers apart almost irreparably, and 2) he did it without any superpowers or special gadgets. He was left alive at the end of Captain America: Civil War, since Black Panther saved him from killing himself and told him, “the living are not done with you yet.”

However, it did seem like the MCU was done with him. As it turns out, that’s not true. He’ll be back next year in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to terrorize Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes.

3 Monica Rambeau

Earlier this year, Captain Marvel introduced us to a young Monica Rambeau, played by Akira Akbar, Carol Danvers’ best friend’s daughter who idolized her. There was every chance that this was setting her up for a future as a superhero, since the character has taken on various superhero alter egos in the comics.

RELATED: WandaVision: 10 Fan Theories About Monica Rambeau's Role

The MCU has so many characters and it has so many forgotten teases like this that it didn’t seem likely that Monica had a future in the franchise. Thankfully, that’s not the case and she’ll be appearing as an adult in WandaVision, played by Teyonah Parris.

2 Darcy Lewis

Kat Dennings played Darcy Lewis as the comic relief in the first two Thor movies. After those two, she disappeared. As Jane Foster’s best friend, since there was no more Jane, there was no more need for Darcy. It’s a shame, because the third Thor movie was the one that turned the franchise into 100% comic relief. She would’ve fitted right in.

With Jane returning to the MCU in Thor: Love and Thunder, Darcy will also be reappearing, but not alongside her. She’ll instead be showing up in Disney+’s WandaVision, which is being described as 50% comic book spectacle and 50% sitcom.

1 Black Widow

This one is only true for passive moviegoers who hadn’t been keeping up to date with Marvel’s announcements. Anyone in the know was aware that Black Widow was getting a solo movie in 2020 months ago. For those fans, the surprise was when the character was killed off in Avengers: Endgame – and it was definitely, definitively permanent, too, because it was a sacrifice on Vormir to secure the Soul Stone for Earth’s mightiest heroes.

For the most casual fans, the surprise is her return. Her first standalone outing will kick off Phase 4 next year, and of course, it’ll be a prequel – but maybe not an origin story.

NEXT: 10 Supporting MCU Characters That Could Return In A Big Way

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