Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, directed by Denzel Washington, based on a play, about an ex-convict baseball player, who works as a garbageman and must maintain his family. He has got a tough life. This movie shows his relations with his sons, wife, friends and brother. It is a simple film, about life, relationships between people; it is about their lifetime.
This movie is all about dialogs. It is filled with long scenes of Denzel's character Troy telling some story about his past or some scenes of dialogs with his wife or sons. This movie is all about acting. I think that every performer in this film did a great job, I never felt, that someones acting was out of place or bad.
The most difficult thing about this movie is, that I couldn't sometimes understand the accent, but it is OK. Everyone in the movie does a fantastic job of bringing this hard to make movie to life, which some will find boring, but the director did everything to make it as entertaining as it could have been. And I was into it, I didn't feel bored; sometimes this movie really hooks you by its depth and thought.
I think, that this film deserves an Oscar nomination, and it is a very complex motion picture to make. It felt like a good story, successfully transferred to the big screen.
There were some flaws, but they are not important in this case, because it is not an easy task to make a movie based on a play. I just want to say, that this is pure art, created by two wonderful actors.
Warner Brothers started shooting their reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise with a new lead Alicia Vikander, who recently won an Oscar for Tom Hooper's 'The Danish Girl'. On first images from the set, we can see Vikander already in action, the production is already underway on full and hopefully a nice cast, not only including Vikander, but Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu and Dominic West with the director Roar Uthaug will bring quality to the movie. This video game adaptation will hit theaters on Match 16, 2018. https://twitter.com/vikanderonline/status/828665837728985091/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
World War Z 2, starring Brad Pitt is a sequel to the 2013's hit, grossing $ 540M globally, so it is no surprise, that we have got it. Variety reports, that this movie was supposed to come out on June 9, 2017, but now shifted to a different release date, which is not provided. The extra time will help to develop the script, and the new release date is sometime in 2018 or 2019. That might whether hurt the movie or make it better. The long delay might damage the popularity of this property, but a more advanced script can bring a lot more quality to the movie.
I think that this is a good move, so Brad Pitt would bring David Fincher to direct. The first movie was so solid and good, that it was a big surprise, when it opened. And I hope, that another two or more years of anticipation will pay off.
A new Life trailer with Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson dropped online.
Movie synopsis is:
Six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The crew determines that the sample contains a large, single-celled organism - the first example of life beyond Earth. But..things aren't always what they seem. As the crew begins to conduct research, and their methods end up having unintended consequences, the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
The previous trailer set a storyline of an astronaut group, which finds life on Mars. It was more like a combination of Alien (1979) and Gravity (2013), with so great action and horror elements.
The second trailer teases us with more lighter tone, which reminds me of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and the same 'Alien', when we see, how the crew teams up to destroy the life organism in order not to let it reach the Earth. Then we see a similar escape pod sequence with Jake Gyllenhaal just like in 'Gravity' with Sandra Bullock. So this movie seems to be well made, but it consists of three different movies I have already seen, so I don't think I will love it as much as somebody else will, who is not familiar with this plot. So that is my only concern, but I still hope, that it will be original and entertaining
During the Super Bowl there are always a lot of little TV spots, making us, movie fans and usual movie goers excited about those movies. As it is a tradition, now we get a lot of great ones in one day, it is hard to catch everything what is coming out.
The firs one which I saw was a TV spot for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and I think, that it is the best TV spot ever. It was brilliant.
The second one I checked out was for 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales'. Now, everyone think, that all you need to make a fantastic trailer is to put Johnny Cash song in it and cut it well. And it is true, the trailer is awesome. And I bought it. I thought it was fantastic and epic in a way, so there is a room for excitement. For many people it is a Transformers situation, when trailers are great, but movies - not so much, but I am confident enough, that this Pirates of the Caribbean will be a solid film. I just that guy, who grew up on these movies, in 2000's and that was my childhood, so if you dislike this franchise, then think of it as my guilty pleasure. The forth one was not so good though.
The movie I am not very much into is Baywatch. It comes in May, and it is a reboot of the known thing, so I am not surprised, that somebody is really waiting for it. Of cause it has Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in it, and Zac Efron fits his role, but all the commercials were sloppy, trailers and jokes - cliched. So even this TV spot didn't entertain me. I will watch it of cause, just for Dwayne Johnson, but trailers still were just OK to bring more people to the theaters.
Super Bowl commercial for John Wick was nice, the movie is already shown to the critics, and gets reviews just as good as the first chapter had, so on this TV spot we saw just the same thing, as we saw in the trailers. And I loved how they played on the Valentines Day, just like Deadpool did last year. I think the marketing campaign fro this movie doesn't give anything away, releasing the same shots from the previous trailers, and not revealing too much, considering that it revealed already enough. I am still very excited about this movie, I will be the first who will watch it.
The Fate of the Furious TV spot was insane, just like the first trailer. It showed exactly the same storyline, as the full trailer, and it still pointing on Dom going rogue. I don't know how they are going to explain this, but I am afraid that they are just out of good ideas, and now they are pulling some bad script of just to make money. By the way, the cast of this movie is incredible: Charlize Theron, Kurt Russel, Jason Statham and the original cast. But the title is just too bad, it is cheesy.
Ghost in the Shell TV spot. From what we see from this movie - it is going to be ridiculously weird, but is it going to be bad or good weird movie. It definitely going to be so different from what we already seen, and it seems like this movie will be very successful at the box office, so I wouldn't count it off, even if you think, that this is very strange thing, that is going on in that movie. It has Scarlett Johansson in it - it will make a lot of money, and it comes out in March as well, so it makes this year's March one of the most rich month, just like the last year.
Overall, I think this portion of TV spots/trailers was great, everything was pretty awesome.
During a big evening, a lot of trailers drop and they are extremely expensive, so we see some outstanding little videos, like new TV spot for "Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2". This spot has such a fantastic feel, it shows a lot of the stuff, we saw before, but it still introduces the audience to new characters and reminds some people, who is not familiar with Guardians of the Galaxy, the specific details about known heroes.
Great atmosphere created by the clip reminds how cool and amazing first 'Guardians of the Galaxy' was. I am so excited, I think, that this is the best TV spot I have ever seen, it is that good and well made. It is hilarious. Welcome to the Freaking Guardians of the Galaxy!
It is rumored, that a new X-men movie is going to be 'X-men: Supernova' and it is going into production in June. Reported by My Entertainment World. And it already has a synopsis:
Gathered together by Professor Charles Xavier to protect a world that fears and hates them, the X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the most shocking struggle they would ever face. One of their own members, Jean Grey, has gained power beyond all comprehension, and that power has corrupted her absolutely! Now they must decide if the life of the woman they cherish is worth the existence of the entire universe!
It is very hard to tell, if it is really going to be the next movie in the X-men franchise. After a divisive 'X-men: Apocalypse', no one can predict how Fox will decide to proceed with their property. It is obviously going to be more expensive to sigh James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender again, so I think that this movie definitely doesn't even has a script, of cause if they haven's already sighed James McAvoy to return as Professor X. It would be a proper continuation for Apocalypse, but I think money wise, this project is going to be delayed multiple times.
One thing about X-men universe we know for sure - Deadpool 2 is happening no matter what. Who knew even a year ago, that this little Deadpool movie, supported by profits from X-men film franchise, now will support it vice versa, so Fox would keep making the main X-men storyline movies. I wrote it before and I will write it again: Fox owes Ryan Reynolds a lot for making Deadpool and saving X-men franchise (as it appeared to be).
Returning to 'X-men: Supernova', the story will focus on Dark Phoenix storyline, as they already cast and introduced new Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). On paper this movie seems like a great idea, but after what happened with Apocalypse, its bad reception by critics and a big part of the audience, this movie seems like not gonna happen in the next four or even five years. I want to be wrong, I would love to watch a new X-men movie right now, but it just doesn't seem realistic enough to say, that I believe, that 'X-men: Supernova' is starting production in June.
Yesterday on the big evening there were two great 'Logan' TV spots, including this, one minute clip, cut from the movie. It is definitely the first time we saw a fragment from 'Logan'. We pretty much know everything about the tone and the atmosphere of the film, but now we can see by ourselves, how it is actually going to look like in the movie. Such a great clip. I noticed a western feel to it, Hell or High Water (2016) in particular. If the movie is going to be as good as this fragment, then it is great.
I have a strong belief that Logan will be a masterpiece, you can't be sure all the time, but it was shown on Berlin film festival, and no garbage is shown on film festivals, obviously. And another one thing, that makes me confident is that Fox allowed it to be shown on Berlin film festival, so they are confident in the quality of their movie, and it is not that situation, when the studio doesn't even show the movie to critics on the press screenings to hide the fact, that their movie is bad, so the film wouldn't suffer financially.
According to Box Office MojoSplit goes absolutely great, wining it's third weekend in a row, this time over "Rings", which debuted on the second spot. This new M. Night Shyamalan movie beats every expectation and becomes the most unexpected hit of the year. With the budget of 9 million it already cracked almost a hundred in the domestic box office and leading towards 150 million worldwide. It is definitely the last time when we see Split on the first spot, due to 'LEGO Batman' and 'John Wick' coming out on February 10th. 'Rings' did well, it cost $ 25 M. to make and made $ 13M. on it's opening weekend, finishing on the second spot after 'Split'. On the third place is 'A Dog's Purpose' with $ 10,8M, taking strongly Sunday's first spot. This movie is doing pretty well. It cost $ 22M and already grossed $ 42,5 worldwide. Then on the fourth place it is Hidden Figures with $ 10,1M. This movie is an another surprise hit, already made $ 120M domestically and $ 122M worldwide, it is a huge success, considering that it cost only $ 25M to make. And the last fifth spot is taken by La La Land with $ 7,5M. The Oscar buzz is not decreasing and the main contender for the main award is still very strong at the box office.
5. La La Land (Lionsgate/Summit) - $ 7,5M ($ 118,3M domestic total; $ 268,3M worldwide total)
"Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" didn't do well for it's second weekend and grossed only $ 4,5M, but overall it had a solid opening weekend, which brought $ 13,6M. Now it is on almost $ 22M domestically and nice $ 117,5 worldwide total with the budget of $ 40M.
Another movie that had some of my attention was "The Comedian" with Robert De Niro, but it didn't do well ($ 1,1M) just like another opening weekend result for 'Space Between Us'. Teenage action & adventure drama just made $ 3,8M and cost $ 30M to make, so, overall, already clear, that it is a big flop.
