Month: November 2021

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $44 million in receipts this weekend. Coming in at No. 2 is Eternals with $10.8 million, followed by Clifford the Big Red Dog at No. 3 with $8.1 million, King Richard at No. 4 with $5.7 million and Dune at No. 5 with $3.1 million.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is directed by Jason Reitman, and is a sequel to the iconic 1984 movie Ghostbusters, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman. The film stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts and Paul Rudd, and follows what happens when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town and begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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Jonah Hill will portray late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia in a new biopic directed by Martin Scorsese. Garcia died in 1995, although the surviving members have carried on as Dead & Company with the assistance of John Mayer. Alongside Hill and Scorsese, surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann are attached to the project as executive producers. The film will be released on Apple TV+, as part of Scorsese’s ‘first-look deal’ with the streaming service.

Scorsese has helmed a number of rock documentaries over the years, including 2017’s Long Strange Trip about the Dead.  This film marks the first time he’s directed a rock biopic, and will also marks a reunion between Hill and Scorcese, who first worked together on The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are back as Neo and Trinity in a new poster for the upcoming film The Matrix Resurrections. Co-stars include Jada Pinkett-Smith reprising her role as Niobe, Priyanka Chopra, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Brian J. Smith, Telma Hopkins, Eréndira Ibarra, Max Riemelt and Toby Onwumere.

In the poster released on social media, Neo extends his hand outward and is joined by Trinity and a younger Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) alongside other new characters.  Neo and the others are all wearing sunglasses and donning trench coats.  The tagline reads: “Return to the source.”

The Matrix Resurrections is coming to theaters and HBO Max on Dec. 22. Lana Wachowski, who previously helmed the three previous Matrix films with her sister, Lilly Wachowski, is the director of The Matrix Resurrections.  Lana Wachowski also penned the script with David Mitchell and Aleksander Hemon.

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Netflix shared a teaser and first-look photos for Season 4 of Ozark. The teaser features moments from the show in reverse, as Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) reflects on the “snowball effect” of ones actions.  He says in the trailer: “Human beings make decisions, they commit acts and that makes things happen. It creates a snowball effect — cause other people to make decisions. The cycle continues and the snowball keeps rolling.”

The first-look photos ask viewers to “look closely” at the images, which include a shot of Marty (Bateman) kneeling before a person with a gun. Ozark also stars Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner and Julia Garner. The series follows Marty and his family as they relocate to the Lake of the Ozarks region of Missouri after a money laundering scheme gone wrong.

Ozark will return for its fourth and final season in 2022.  Season 4 will be split into two parts, with Season 4, Part 1 set for release Jan. 21.

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Spider-Man faces multiple villains who have arrived from different universes in the latest trailer for Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.  In the trailer (seen here), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) explains to Spider-Man (Tom Holland) that visitors from other universes are arriving due to him botching a spell that would have made Peter Parker’s secret identity secret once again.

Spider-Man battles Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina, reprising his role from 2004’s Spider-Man 2, which starred Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man).  Spider-Man is also confronted by Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin from 2002’s Spider-Man, Thomas Haden Church’s Sandman from 2007’s Spider-Man 3, Rhys Ifans’ The Lizard from 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and Jamie Foxx’s Electro from 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Andrew Garfield portrayed Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man movies. The inclusion of villains from past franchises has led many to believe that Maguire and Garfield will be returning in Spider-Man: Far From Home, though these rumors have not been confirmed.

Spider-Man: Far From Home, directed by Jon Watts, debuts in theaters on Dec. 17.

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Focus Features shared a teaser trailer for the upcoming new film Downton Abbey: A New Era, featuring Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham.

The preview shows Violet (Smith) share with her family that she once had a romance with a man before her son Robert (Hugh Bonneville) was born. Violet has now inherited a villa in the French Riviera. The Crawley family is seen visiting France, with Charlie Carson (Jim Carter) joking, “They better be warned the British are coming.” Also starring in the film is Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley, with Michelle Dockery as Mary Crawley, Laura Carmichael as Edith Crawley, Sophie McShera as Daisy and Lesley Nichol as Mrs. Patmore.

Downton Abbey: A New Era is the sequel to the ITV series Downtown Abbey, which aired for six seasons from 2010 to 2015, and to the 2019 film Downton Abbey.   The film opens in theaters March 18.

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