2025 has been filled with some great horror movies! From the recent 28 YEARS LATER and SINNERS, to PRESENCE, FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES and ASH, just to name a few, now comes the highly anticipated WEAPONS.
Warner Bros. Pictures has dropped a new trailer that gives us a few more clues into the mysterious story, along with some terrifying new scenes. This looks so GOOD!!
From New Line Cinema and Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind Barbarian, comes a new horror/thriller: Weapons.
In the April 2025 EW interview with the director, he says: Similar to Barbarian, a surface-level logline description about missing kids is but the tip of a massive and wildly complex iceberg.
“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is not the movie,” the filmmaker divulges. “The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier s— than that.”
Photo by Quantrell Colbert/JOSH BROLIN as Archer in New Line Cinema’s “Weapons,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
The film stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.
Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker’s creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock, editor Joe Murphy and costume designer Trish Summerville. The music is by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger.
New Line Cinema Presents A Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures Production, A Zach Cregger Film, Weapons. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally beginning 6 August 2025.
“JAWS: See It Before You Go Swimming.” 50 years ago this weekend, movie goers at their local cinemas were introduced to Bruce, the great white shark and the movie spectacle would never be the same.
The trailer’s ominous narration said, “There is a creature alive today who has survived millions of years of evolution, without change, without passion and without logic. It lives to kill – a mindless eating machine. It will attack and devour anything. It is as if God created the Devil and gave him Jaws.”
June 20, 1975 and the Summer Blockbuster was born. Opening night and I was a 9-year-old kid sitting in the theater on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington, CT and brutally scared by what would later become my FAVORITE FILM OF ALL TIME. (Hey, that’s how we rolled in my house). After that evening, I became very wary of going down to the shore. 50 years later my love affair with the film is still passionate, even borderline obsessive.
Winner of 3 Oscars including Best Score, Editing and Best Sound and nominated for Best Picture (classy AMPAS!), today fans celebrate the 50th anniversary of JAWS. It was the summer movie, and rated PG, that put Spielberg officially on the map and scared many, including this Connecticut native, from going swimming in 1975. While being one of the most quoted movies ever, including the memorable, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” and filled with unforgettable scenes, without a doubt Quint’s soliloquy is one of the finest in film history.
Director Steven Soderbergh on this scene: “As is well-documented, it went through many, many iterations. But the audacity of stopping the movie — for nine minutes — to have that scene! It starts out as a very funny scene and then morphs into something much darker. It is just still amazing to contemplate today. Can you imagine, in the middle of a Star Wars movie, a nine-minute dialogue scene? It’s unthinkable. And so, again, the fact that Spielberg understood this. He’s like, “We’ve got to do it, and this is the time to do it. The night of day one when you need a breather — we’re going to give you that breather, but then we’re going to slip this other thing in there too, something that’s going to make Quint an unforgettable character, through a story that is also unforgettable and true.”
In his review Roger Ebert wrote: “Jaws” is a great adventure movie of the kind we don’t get very often any more. It’s clean-cut adventure, without the gratuitous violence of so many action pictures. It has the necessary amount of blood and guts to work — but none extra. And it’s one hell of a good story, brilliantly told.”
Watch the original review from Siskel and Ebert – it only plays out of the right speaker/earbud, headphone.
NBC is all set to ring in the 50th anniversary of Jaws with a 3-hour telecast of the original summer blockbuster scheduled for this Friday, June 20 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The feature presentation will be preceded by a special introduction from director Steven Spielberg.
Lorraine Gary was present for the screening for “Jaws” during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at The Egyptian Theatre on April 26, 2025 in Hollywood, California.
Watch the interview with author Peter Benchley and actor Roy Scheider right before the movie’s release.
At the Hollywood Bowl.
See our story from 2018 and check it out this July 5.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary year of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will present Jaws: The Exhibition, the museum’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to a single film, and the largest exhibition ever mounted showcasing Universal Pictures’ landmark summer blockbuster, which earned three Academy Awards® and was nominated for Best Picture.
On view from September 14, 2025, through July 26, 2026, in the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, Jaws: The Exhibition will translate the movie into a multi-gallery experience for audiences of all ages. It features scene breakdowns, interactive experiences, behind-the-scenes stories, and some 200 original objects, many never before put on public display, including from the personal collections of Steven Spielberg and the Amblin Hearth Archive, the NBCUniversal Archives & Collections, and the vast Academy Collection.
The Academy Museum will celebrate the exhibition opening with a screening of Jaws on September 14. At the same time, the Academy Museum Store will launch an exclusive line of Jaws merchandise, including a commemorative 50th anniversary vinyl pressing of John Williams’s Oscar®-winning film score in collaboration with Mondo, apparel, accessories, posters, and more.
“The Academy Museum celebrates film history and with this exhibition we can bring never-before-seen movie experiences to a public audience,” said Academy Museum Director and President Amy Homma. “This exhibition will create a space where the worldwide community of Jaws fans can gather and relive the movie while giving new audiences the joy of discovery.”
Senior Exhibitions Curator Jenny He, who has curated the exhibition with Assistant Curator Emily Rauber Rodriguez and Curatorial Assistant Alexandra James Salichs, said, “It has been absolutely rewarding to engage with so many outstanding collaborators to tell the story of Jaws through an exhibition, which is as thoughtful and revelatory as it is immersive and thrilling. All of us at the Academy Museum are deeply grateful for the invaluable support and insight we have received, working with Steven Spielberg’s personal archive at Amblin, the collection at Universal Pictures, numerous private collectors, and many of the Jaws filmmakers.”
The exhibition will follow the structure of the film, taking visitors from the opening credits to the film’s gripping conclusion. Expanding on the three-act structure of the film, the story is told in six sections: “The Unseen Danger,” “Amity Island Welcomes You,” “Sunday at the Beach,” “The Shark’s Rampage,” “Adventure Ahead,” and “Into the Deep.” The final gallery of Jaws: The Exhibition explores the enduring impact of the film.
The Unseen Danger
The first gallery transports audiences into the film’s iconic opening scene and immediately foregrounds the indelible score by John Williams. Visitors experience the shark’s first attack through production objects, set photography, and an interactive recreation of the sand dune where the movie’s first victim, Chrissie Watkins, is discovered. This section also introduces the exhibition’s behind-the-scenes stories with a display of how Steven Spielberg brought Jaws to life.
Amity Island Welcomes You
In “Amity Island Welcomes You,” visitors learn about the team behind the film, including producers Oscar-winner Richard Zanuck and Oscar nominee David Brown, Oscar-nominated production designer Joe Alves, and co-screenwriters Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, who developed the screenplay based on Benchley’s best-selling 1974 novel. A section about location scouting reveals the place behind the movie’s imaginary Amity Island. Among the objects featured in this gallery is the original Zanuck/Brown Productions sign that hung outside the Jaws production office on Martha’s Vineyard.
Sunday at the Beach
This gallery explores how the film’s director of photography, Oscar nominee Bill Butler, and his cinematography team heightened tension and conveyed anxiety on screen as the shark threat in the story became more apparent. A recreation of the film’s beach cabanas serves as the backdrop for an interactive opportunity to experience the movie’s famous dolly zoom effect, heightening the emotion of the moment when Police Chief Martin Brody realizes the shark has just attacked. Original objects on view include the zoom lens used to film the famous shot.
The Shark’s Rampage
Original set decoration materials and props fill this gallery, which dives into the sequences of the film when the shark claims more victims, including fisherman Ben Gardner, whose prop head will be on display. Visitors also learn about two of Steven Spielberg’s key collaborators—film editor Verna Fields and composer John Williams—who won Academy Awards for their work on Jaws . This section additionally showcases the work of casting director Shari Rhodes, whose choice of supporting actors from Martha’s Vineyard and the Boston area led to such memorable performances as Lee Fierro’s portrayal of Mrs. Kintner. Notable objects in this section include a chalkboard drawing by production designer Joe Alves recreated especially for this exhibition to bring to life Quint’s introduction in Jaws; a Moviola used by Verna Fields; an interactive display in which visitors can play the pulse-quickening alternation of the musical notes E and F that signals the shark’s approach, part of John Williams’s main title theme; and remastered Super 8 home movie footage taken by Steven Spielberg during the production of Jaws.
Adventure Ahead
In “Adventure Ahead,” visitors prepare to enter Act III of the story with Brody, Quint, and Hooper, as portrayed by Oscar nominees Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw, and Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss. Photos and schematics show the design and construction of Quint’s shack, the launching point for the three men aboard the Orca in pursuit of the shark. Objects on view include the original shark weathervane from Quint’s shack on loan from production designer Joe Alves. Another highlight is the mandible of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) borrowed by Alves in 1973 from the California Academy of Sciences for research during pre-production.
Into the Deep
This immersive gallery brings visitors into the open ocean, culminating in the film’s climax. A recreation of the Orca showcases original set decoration and props, including Quint’s “fighting chair.” Re-recording sound mixer Robert L. Hoyt’s Academy Award for Jaws will be on view in this gallery, representing the monumental achievement of the sound team in working at sea. A full-scale diagram showing the magnitude of the 25-foot shark is accompanied by original concept illustrations, original mechanical schematics, and rarely seen photographs outlining the making of the shark (nicknamed Bruce by Steven Spielberg, after his lawyer Bruce Ramer). The sole surviving full-scale model of Bruce is the largest object in the Academy Museum’s collection and currently hangs outside the 4th-floor exhibition space, where it will remain on view during the exhibition. Highlights of the objects in “Into the Deep” include never-before-displayed photographs taken during production by boom operator Frank Meadows, donated to the Academy Collection on the occasion of this exhibition and an interactive model produced by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB EFX Group that gives visitors a chance to operate Bruce for themselves.
The Enduring Impact of Jaws
The exhibition concludes with a look at the film’s monumental impact on the film industry, popular culture, and society at large. Elements of the gallery discuss how Jaws upended the industry’s distribution models and revolutionized film marketing. Original theatrical release posters, art prints, and vintage and contemporary merchandise on view showcase the film’s global reach and continued influence.
Among the many other rare objects on view in Jaws: The Exhibition are concept illustrations by production designer Joe Alves, a costume worn by Roy Scheider as Brody, original shark design schematics by design engineer Frank Wurmser, and a screen-used prop dorsal fin.
Jaws: The Exhibitionwill be the museum’s fifth large-scale exhibition in its Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, following Hayao Miyazaki (2021–22), Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971 (2022–23), John Waters: Pope of Trash (2023–24), and Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema (which closes July 13, 2025). The exhibition’s advisory group comprises of ocean conservationist and marine policy advocate Wendy Benchley; Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC J.D. Connor; sound mixer Peter J Devlin; and editor Terilyn A. Shropshire.
Exhibition Credit: Jaws: The Exhibition is supported by Howard and Mirjam Berger, the Givenchy Family, Emma Koss, The Yeardley Smith Foundation, and Richard Talley.
Image Credits: (L-R) Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC; Courtesy of Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC.
20th Century Studios has released the first trailer for SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE starring Jeremy Allen White.
The film chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works – a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Director Scott Cooper, who wrote the script for the screen based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere” by Warren Zanes, said, “Making ‘Springsteen’ was deeply moving as it allowed me to step inside the soul of an artist I’ve long admired – and to witness, up close, the vulnerability and strength behind his music. The experience felt like a journey through memory, myth, and truth. And more than anything, it was a privilege to translate that raw emotional honesty to the screen, and in doing so, it changed me. I cannot thank Bruce and Jon Landau enough for allowing me to tell their story.”
Starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, the film is written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere” by Warren Zanes. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” also features Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug; Odessa Young as love interest, Faye; Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mom, Adele; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin; and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller.
Arriving only in theaters October 24, 2025, the film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber. Tracey Landon, Jon Vein, and Zanes executive produce.
We’ve got your first look at the upcoming comedy LONDON CALLING starring Josh Duhamel, Jeremy Ray Taylor (IT CHAPTER ONE), Rick Hoffman and Aidan Gillen.
After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man.
In theaters September 19, watch the brand new trailer.
Check out the brand new trailer for THE NAKED GUN.
Only one man has the particular set of skills… to lead Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father’s footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy).
Joining the case are cast Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston.
The “Naked Gun” film series is the hilarious slapstick comedy franchise starring Leslie Nielsen (a comedy god) as the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin. The films are known for their rapid-fire jokes, visual gags, and parody of police procedural tropes.
For those who have never seen the 3 previous films, you can stream them on Paramount +. Prepare yourselves for COMEDY GOLD!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988): This was the first film in the series, directly spun off from the short-lived but critically acclaimed TV series “Police Squad!” It follows Drebin as he tries to thwart an assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth II.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991): The sequel sees Drebin entangled in a plot involving a scientist specializing in solar energy.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994): The third installment has Drebin going undercover to stop a terrorist plot to detonate a bomb during the Academy Awards.
All three films combined have a worldwide box office total of $477,091,186.
THE NAKED GUN opens in theatres August 1, 2025
Paul Walter Hauser plays Ed and Liam Neeson plays Frank in The Naked Gun from Paramount Pictures.
Less than a month away and the amazing promotional campaign for James Gunn’s SUPERMAN is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… SUPERMAN!
Check out the Big Blue all over the world in the latest marketing of the film, hitting cinemas on July 11. Looking forward to the logo showing up stateside – the shield would look perfect on The St. Louis Arch, The Empire State Building, The Golden Gate Bridge and the ultimate – The Statue of Liberty!
“Superman,” DC Studios’ first feature film to hit the big screen, is set to soar into theaters worldwide this summer from Warner Bros. Pictures. In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind.
DC Studios heads Peter Safran and Gunn are producing the film, which Gunn directs from his own screenplay, based on characters from DC, Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
The film stars David Corenswet (“Twisters,” “Hollywood”) in the dual role of Superman/Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult (the “X-Men” movies, “Juror #2”) as Lex Luthor. The film also stars Edi Gathegi (“For All Mankind”), Anthony Carrigan (“Barry,” “Gotham”), Nathan Fillion (the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, “The Suicide Squad”), Isabela Merced (“Alien Romulus”), Skyler Gisondo (“Licorice Pizza,” “Booksmart”), Sara Sampaio (“At Midnight”), María Gabriela de Faría (“The Moodys”), Wendell Pierce (“Selma,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), Alan Tudyk (“Andor”), Pruitt Taylor Vince (“Bird Box”) and Neva Howell (“Greedy People”).
“Superman” is executive produced by Nikolas Korda, Chantal Nong Vo and Lars Winther. Behind the camera, Gunn is joined by frequent collaborators, including director of photography Henry Braham, production designer Beth Mickle, costume designer Judianna Makovsky and composer John Murphy, along with composer David Fleming (“The Last of Us”) and editors William Hoy (“The Batman”) and Craig Alpert (“Deadpool 2,” “Blue Beetle”).
DC Studios Presents a Troll Court Entertainment/The Safran Company Production, A James Gunn Film, “Superman,” which will be in theaters and IMAX® nationwide on July 11, 2025, and internationally beginning 9 July 2025, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, with Austin Butler and Emma Stone, here’s a first look at the trailer for EDDINGTON.
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
“A lot of these characters are dueling political ideas converging into different, isolated people,” Aster says. “I wanted to make a sort of American genre epic with updated archetypes. But it felt important that the movie be sympathetic to all of these characters and to their fears. These are normal people who are flawed, but who believe they’re standing up for what’s right, and what they’re feeling is not wrong, it’s just that it all comes out in really weird, distorted and frightening ways. There are deep structural inequalities that have always been here and they’re obviously still here. There is a terrible problem out there, and a lot of these right-wing conspiracies borrow from left-wing conspiracies of the 1960s and 70s, and the people who are gripped by them are not wrong and they’re not crazy. They’ve just been driven crazy by this system and the way that they’re haunted by it.”
A scene from 11 REBELS. Courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment
If you’re in the mood for Japanese period action drama, 11 REBELS delivers plenty of swordplay and bloodshed in a dark, complicated story. It’s 1868. The Emperor is trying to unite the country under his rule. But a bunch of warlords in one region choose to resist and keep their autonomy. They need one of their peers, the head of the strategically-vital Shibata territory, to join them.
He thinks theirs is a losing cause and wants to side with the Throne. They threaten to invade him before the Emperor’s army arrives if he doesn’t don their team jerseys. His samurai honchos devise a plan to have criminals defend a key fort and bridge to stall the Emperor’s forces, while disguised as members of the coalition. That appeases the warlords without pissing off the Emperor, buying time until the royal forces can trounce the locals.
Ten condemned criminals are selected, including one who’d killed the samurai that raped his wife. They’re promised clemency for serving, and managed by a handful of samurai. You now have the elements in place for a combo of Sparta’s stalwart 300, and The Dirty Dozen playing defense, as they are severely outnumbered and outgunned. Soldiers and rifles and cannons, oh my!
The result is 2 ½ hours of combat and squabbles among the defenders with varying degrees of loyalty, skill and motivation. Several characters are fleshed out among the bedraggled protagonists to arouse viewer empathy. A few have story arcs in how the dire circumstances of the several-day siege affect them.
Director Kazuya Shiraishi, cinematographer Naoya Ikeda, and whoever choreographed the fights are the real stars. The rundown fort sits atop a stark mountain with a narrow rope-and-plank bridge spanning the deep gorge separating it from the larger part of mainland. One would think that simply destroying the bridge, as per THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI and a slew of WW II movies would have been a quick and easy delaying tactic. But their orders included preserving the thing for its vital economic value after the war. The priority was yen over men.
Fight scenes play out with savage intensity, including generous servings of splatter, spray and severed limbs or heads… in graphic detail. There’s little special-effects enhancement of the mayhem, giving the clashes a gritty, relatively realistic feel. Similarities of costumes and dim lighting for nighttime battles make it hard to tell who’s on which side in some parts. But those sequences are hard-core enough to satisfy most genre fans. Even if the plot holds few surprises, viewers won’t be bored with how events play out. That’s about as good as it gets among such fare.
11 REBELS, in Japanese with English subtitles, is available on digital format, 4K and Blu-ray from WellGo USA starting Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend …
Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good.
Watch the first trailer now.
Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and starring the spectacular returning cast, led by Academy Award® nominated superstars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices.
Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).
Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.
As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives.
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
Ariana Granda is Glinda in WICKED FOR GOOD, directed by Jon M. Chu.
Wicked: For Good also stars Emmy nominee Bowen Yang and Bronwyn James as Glinda’s fawning assistants, Pfannee and ShenShen and BAFTA and Grammy nominee Sharon D. Clarke (Caroline, or Change) as the voice of Elphaba’s childhood nanny, Dulcibear.
The filmis produced by returning Tony and Emmy winning powerhouse Marc Platt p.g.a. and by multiple Tony winner David Stone. The executive producers are Stephen Schwartz, David Nicksay, Jared LeBoff, Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The first film, Wicked, released in November 2024, earned 10 Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, and won the Oscars® for Costume Design and Production Design. To date, the film has grossed $750 million worldwide.
Wicked: For Good is based on the generation-defining musical stage play withmusic and lyrics by legendary Grammy and Oscar® winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, from the bestselling novel by Gregory Maguire. The screenplay is by Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox. The film score is by John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in WICKED FOR GOOD, directed by Jon M. Chu.
Sony Pictures has released 4 new character posters for 28 YEARS LATER.
Tickets are now on sale on Fandango for the next installment of the hugely popular zombie franchise 28 Years Later,premiering in theaters on Friday, June 20.
Zombie superfans can own a piece of the outbreak with a 28 Years Later Collector’s Bundle which includes a ticket to 28 Years Later and an exclusive poster for $40!
Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new “auteur horror” story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. The film stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes.
This film is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for the following reasons: strong bloody violence, grisly images, graphic nudity, language and brief sexuality.
In a recent interview with IndieWire, Boyle said of Cillian Murphy and the now planned trilogy, with the next film slated to be 28 Year Later: The Bone Temple, helmed by Nia DaCosta:
It doesn’t take a genius to work out there’s going to be a big role for Cillian Murphy in it. Yeah, a significant role. All I can say, because I know the idea of the story, which has been mapped out, it is clever. It is a very smart use of him.
There is a very satisfying introduction of him in the second film, and when I saw it, the way [Nia had] done it, I was like, “Oh, yeah, that’s pretty good.” Because I’ve seen a rough cut of it. They’re doing a test of it in July. The whole Sony Corporation hasn’t turned its attention to that film yet.
I remember asking Nia DaCosta [about this new trilogy], “What do you think it’s about?” It won’t necessarily end up being about this because films change, but I said, “What do you think it’s about?” And she said, “Well, I think the first one is about the nature of family. The second one’s about the nature of evil. And the third one is about the nature of redemption.”
That’s our ambition. It is ambitious, and it’s going to be set in England, and there aren’t going to be American soldiers arriving to save it, because we know you’re not sending American soldiers anywhere anymore. It’s going to be a homeland-made and executed and completed, really. It’s a big story, but about these characters who are much as they were in the first film.
Cillian is playing the same character. He will be playing the same character. And, as you’ve seen, the characters are Jodie and Aaron and eventually Ralph in this film and Jack right at the very end.”
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Danny Boyle (Director) at the Columbia Pictures’ 28 YEARS LATER Fan Event at Regal Union Square Theater – PICTURED: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Danny Boyle (Director) – PHOTO by: Marion Curtis /StarPix for Columbia Pictures – Regal Union Square Theater
