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  • ‘The Dark Tower’ beams out new international trailer

    ‘The Dark Tower’ beams out new international trailer

    All hail the Crimson (Stephen) King! Sony has released a new international trailer for THE DARK TOWER, coming to Australian cinemas 17 August 2017!

    We only get a few more glimpses of the adaptation/sequel in this trailer, with much of the footage familiar for Constant Watchers at this point. Even so, it provides a good overview of the world and its major players.

    READ MORE: Page to Screen: Reading THE DARK TOWER in context

    There are other worlds than these. Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER, the ambitious and expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors, makes its launch to the big screen. The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

  • Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ trailer arrives with epic style

    Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ trailer arrives with epic style

    Just over a month after we all wigged out over Medusa’s hair, Marvel and ABC have released the first full trailer for the upcoming INHUMANS series. Debuting on IMAX screens worldwide on 1 September 2017 for a 2 week window, the 8-episode series will follow in the US Fall from 29 September. No Australian release date has been confirmed as yet.

    INHUMANS explores the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family including Black Bolt, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them. Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed forever.

    The trailer shows us Gorgon (Eme Ikwuakor), Karnak (Ken Leung), Black Bolt (Anson Mount), Medusa (Serinda Swan), Crystal (Isabelle Cornish), and Maximus (Iwan Rheon), the traditional members of the Inhuman Royal Family, in action. We also get to see the teleporting dog thing Lockjaw for the first time in action. Check out the trailer below.

  • ‘American Made’ trailer sees Tom Cruise and Doug Liman reunite

    ‘American Made’ trailer sees Tom Cruise and Doug Liman reunite

    Universal Pictures Australia has sent over the local trailer for AMERICAN MADE, the next film to star Tom Cruise following the studio’s tentpole The Mummy. In Australian cinemas on 24 August 2017, and on 29 September 2017 in the US, you can check it out below.

    In Universal Pictures’ AMERICAN MADE, Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman, in this international escapade based on the outrageous (and real) exploits of Barry Seal, a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history.

    AMERICAN MADE is produced by Imagine Entertainment’s Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), Cross Creek Pictures’ Brian Oliver (Black Swan) and Tyler Thompson (Everest), Quadrant Pictures’ Doug Davison (The Departed), and Kim Roth (Inside Man).

    American Made - poster (Universal Australia)

  • ‘Supergirl’ promo for ‘Wonder Woman’ is a Multiversal dream

    ‘Supergirl’ promo for ‘Wonder Woman’ is a Multiversal dream

    While DC Entertainment have drawn a line between their television universe and the DC Extended Universe, the well established existence of a Multiverse has always left the crossover open as a possibility. A new promo for the WONDER WOMAN film, featuring the cast of CW’s Supergirl, brings us one step closer. Or at the very least, has a little fun with the concept. 

    To the tune of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Terri Hatcher, and 1970s Wonder Woman Lynda Carter strut into a bar showcasing some pretty serious footwear. In the guise of Kara Danvers, our hero Supergirl gives a pretty serious indication that she has encountered the DC Extended Universe’s Wonder Woman at some stage in her travels. Check it out in the player below. 

    While this is by no means confirmation on anyone’s part that the universes are connected, it’s certainly fun to think of it that way. After all, The Flash has spent two season dipping in and out of the Multiverse, including multiple visits between Supergirl’s Earth-38 and Barry Allen’s Earth-1. In addition to the the four-way crossover with Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow last year, we also saw Supergirl travel to Barry’s dimension for a musical crossover. At the very least, someone is having fun with the DC Extended Universe, and it may as well be DC themselves.

    Directed by Patty Jenkins, WONDER WOMAN is the fourth film in DC Extended Universe, a series that began with Man of Steel, and continued with Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. It hits Australian cinemas on 1 June 2017 from Roadshow Films.

  • ‘Blade Runner 2049’ trailer is mysteriously beautiful

    ‘Blade Runner 2049’ trailer is mysteriously beautiful

    The long-awaited trailer for BLADE RUNNER 2049, the sequel to the 1982 Ridley Scott classic Blade Runner, has arrived. Teasing just enough information to hook us back into the world of replicants and ‘Runners, this one looks set to be your basic pleasure model.

    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

    What’s immediately striking about the trailer is that it has the same grand sense of world building and city design that dwarfs the characters at the centre of it. The perpetual rain of the original is contrasted with the dryness of the desert that peppers the short piece, one that builds on the future noir of the existing world.

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 is released in Australia on 5 October 2017 from Sony, and in the US on 6 October from Warner.

  • ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ trailer arrives

    ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ trailer arrives

    Keep calm! The full trailer for KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE has arrived online from 20th Century Fox, and it carries on with the same levels of fun as the original film. Hitting US cinemas on 22 September 2017, and then a week later on 28 September 2017 in Australia, it already looks even more explosive than the first film. You can check the trailer below. 

    The sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, the surprise hit of 2015, sees the heroes face a new challenge. When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organisation in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents’ strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organisations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that’s becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy…

    Directed by Matthew Vaughn from a script by Jane Goldman and Vaughn, and based on the original comic by Mark Millar, the massive cast includes Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Sir Elton John, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges…and Colin Firth. Not even death can stop a Kingsman it seems. 

  • ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ teaser trailer arrives with a smash

    ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ teaser trailer arrives with a smash

    You really can’t go wrong when you open a trailer with Led Zeppelin. The highly anticipated teaser for THOR: RAGNAROK has arrived from the land of the ice and snow, and it’s god a hell of a sense of fun about it. 

    With the exception of a small cameo in Doctor Strange, it’s been a couple of years since we’ve seen Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on screen. In Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok – the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization – at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger – the Incredible Hulk!

    The trailer seems to continue much of the humour from director Taika Waititi’s series of ‘Team Thor’ shorts, including that priceless final line of the teaser. The rest of the reel is a perfect blend of familiar characters and fast-cutting action.

    THOR: RAGNAROK drops in Australia on 26 October 2017, followed by a US release on 3 November, from Disney.

    Thor: Ragnarok poster

  • Blue Sky’s ‘Ferdinand’ trailer will charm your pants off

    Blue Sky’s ‘Ferdinand’ trailer will charm your pants off

    Blue Sky Animation (Ice Age) and 20th Century Fox have added a new animated film to our Boxing Day release slate with FERDINAND, a retelling of the Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson children’s tale. Arriving in Australia on 26 December 2017, it opens against Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi in the US on 15 December. Now that’s a bullish move.

    The official synopsis:

    [stextbox id=”grey” bgcolor=”F2F2F2″ mleft=”5″ mright=”5″ image=”null”]FERDINAND tells the story of a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. Set in Spain, Ferdinand proves you can’t judge a bull by its cover. From Blue Sky Studios and Carlos Saldanha, the director of “Rio” and inspired by the beloved book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, “Ferdinand” is a heartwarming animated comedy adventure with an all-star cast that includes John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Anderson and many more.[/stextbox]

    The story was previously adapted by Walt Disney in 1938 as Ferdinand the Bull, which went on to win that year’s Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

  • ‘It’ trailer makes us terrified of storm drains again

    ‘It’ trailer makes us terrified of storm drains again

    Roadshow Films has just dropped the IT official teaser trailer, ensuring that our childhood coulrophobia has returned in force. Is there a word for fear of storm drains? It’s probably just IT. 

    New Line Cinema’s horror thriller IT, directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.

    IT stars Bill Skarsgård as the story’s central villain, Pennywise. An ensemble of young actors also star in the film, including Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer and Nicholas Hamilton.

    IT is released to Australian cinemas on 7 September 2017.

  • ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ trailer delivers a powerful truth

    ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ trailer delivers a powerful truth

    “The next generation would be justified in looking back at us and asking what were you thinking?” Paramount has dropped a trailer for the follow-up to the 2006 environmental documentary, which releases in Australia on 24 August 2017.

    Delivering a power missive to both Donald Trump and Elon Musk in equal measure, former Vice President Al Gore continues to rage against the machine with his speaking tour that is now more salient than ever. Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant – as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.

    The visuals alone make this trailer worth watching, but with a US administration that threatens to deny climate science and defund the EPA, it’s incredibly clear who AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER is inconvenient for.