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First Official Trailer for GODZILLA VS. KONG Highlights Epic Kaiju Showdown!

Will humanity survive a clash of the titans? Watch the official trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong, coming to theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max.


What’s your theory on why Godzilla is acting crazy?
 
What’s your theory on why Godzilla is acting crazy?
This all ties up to the post-credits scene in Godzilla: King of Monsters where Charles Dance acquired Ghidorah's severed head.

1. Due to some gene tampering using Ghidorah's remains, Charles Dance and company managed to somehow control Godzilla and make him destroy a bunch of cities. Remember, Dance and company believe that a lot of humans need to die to restore balance on Earth.

Or

2. Dance and company managed to make Mechagodzilla or a Doomsday version of Godzilla and this creature is the one responsible for rampaging across cities and Godzilla is the one being blamed for it.

Either way, Mechagodzilla is sort of confirmed in the trailer as eagle eye viewers can see some hints to its existence.
 
Full Trailer for RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON; In Theaters and Disney+ on March 5th

Raya and the Last Dragon takes us on an exciting, epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people. However, along her journey, she’ll learn that it’ll take more than a dragon to save the world—it’s going to take trust and teamwork as well.

 
First Official Trailer for GODZILLA VS. KONG Highlights Epic Kaiju Showdown!

Will humanity survive a clash of the titans? Watch the official trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong, coming to theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max.



No way Kong could stand a chance vs King G. Using MMAth, Godzilla beat King G, so Godzilla should easily beat Kong. I'm betting this movie will be ridiculous.
 
First Official Trailer for GODZILLA VS. KONG Highlights Epic Kaiju Showdown!

Will humanity survive a clash of the titans? Watch the official trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong, coming to theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max.


This, more than almost anything makes me hate the current state of the world. I can't think of a movie I need to see in the theatre more than this. But I ain't setting foot in one of those fuckers this year.
 
George Clooney in Talks to Star in Legendary's BUCK ROGERS Live-Action Movie

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George Clooney may be heading into the future. The actor-turned-filmmaker, currently in the awards sphere with Midnight Sky, is circling Legendary’s adaptation of classic pulp hero Buck Rogers in potential multiple capacities.

Legendary is currently developing a prestige limited series that is being written by Brian K. Vaughan with the goal of launching a film and an anime off-shoot if the initial series is a success.

Clooney has boarded the project as executive producer, along with his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov. The project is being developed as a potential starring vehicle although insiders insist there is currently no acting deal in place.

Clooney and Heslov have joined Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford, whose credits include Transformers and Real Steel, to produce along with Flint Dille, the grandson of the original Buck Rogers creator.

The character of Rogers first appeared in a story titled Armageddon 2419 and published in a 1928 issue of pulp mainstay, Amazing Stories. Written by Philip Francis Nowlan, the story told of a man who is trapped in a coal mine during a cave-in, falls into suspended animation and Rip Van Winkle-style wakes up almost 500 years into the future. There, he is enlisted to help fight a war between several gangs in what was once America.

Rogers was turned into a comic strip — titled simply Buck Rogers — in 1929 by the John F. Dille Co., whereupon the character’s popularity exploded across the country. Soon, toys, radio plays, comic books and a movie serial starring Buster Crabbe followed.

The last time Rogers was prominently onscreen was in the late 1970s with NBC’s short-lived series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century that starred Gil Gerard and Erin Gray. The series introduced a robot sidekick named Twiki and a talking computer named Dr. Theopolis.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-clooney-joins-buck-rogers-series-for-legendary
 
George Clooney in Talks to Star in Legendary's BUCK ROGERS Live-Action Movie

2qOJKuD.jpg


George Clooney may be heading into the future. The actor-turned-filmmaker, currently in the awards sphere with Midnight Sky, is circling Legendary’s adaptation of classic pulp hero Buck Rogers in potential multiple capacities.

Legendary is currently developing a prestige limited series that is being written by Brian K. Vaughan with the goal of launching a film and an anime off-shoot if the initial series is a success.

Clooney has boarded the project as executive producer, along with his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov. The project is being developed as a potential starring vehicle although insiders insist there is currently no acting deal in place.

Clooney and Heslov have joined Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford, whose credits include Transformers and Real Steel, to produce along with Flint Dille, the grandson of the original Buck Rogers creator.

The character of Rogers first appeared in a story titled Armageddon 2419 and published in a 1928 issue of pulp mainstay, Amazing Stories. Written by Philip Francis Nowlan, the story told of a man who is trapped in a coal mine during a cave-in, falls into suspended animation and Rip Van Winkle-style wakes up almost 500 years into the future. There, he is enlisted to help fight a war between several gangs in what was once America.

Rogers was turned into a comic strip — titled simply Buck Rogers — in 1929 by the John F. Dille Co., whereupon the character’s popularity exploded across the country. Soon, toys, radio plays, comic books and a movie serial starring Buster Crabbe followed.

The last time Rogers was prominently onscreen was in the late 1970s with NBC’s short-lived series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century that starred Gil Gerard and Erin Gray. The series introduced a robot sidekick named Twiki and a talking computer named Dr. Theopolis.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-clooney-joins-buck-rogers-series-for-legendary
 
CLOVERFIELD Sequel in the Works with The Batman TV Spinoff Showrunner

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Cloverfield, the J. J. Abrams-produced horror hit released in 2008 that launched filmmaker Matt Reeves on the path of genre auteur, is getting a sequel.

Abrams’ Bad Robot banner and Paramount Pictures have tapped rising British scribe Joe Barton to pen the script for the project, which, unlike its predecessor, will not be in the found footage format, according to sources.

Abrams will produce along with Bad Robot head of film, Hannah Minghella. Reeves is not involved in the project.

Cloverfield was a monster movie, shot in the then-popular found footage style to reflect the growing ubiquity of video cameras. It followed a group of 20-something New Yorkers as they try to navigate the city during an attack by a giant monster. The movie was made under-the-radar and used a viral marketing campaign to tease out interest. The tactic worked: The movie, made for $25 million, had a massive opening weekend of $40 million and went on to gross $172 million worldwide.

It begat a "Cloverfield universe" which saw two more modestly-budgeted movies, 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox, released in 2016 and 2018, respectively. Those movies were originally developed as separate movies but were folded under a Cloverfield banner tying them to a linked story with science fiction and monster themes. When Paradox disappointed critcally after being sold off to Netflix and with Abrams’ attention seemingly focused on his deal with WarnerMedia, it was presumed that the Cloverfield franchise was laid to rest. (But no brand in Hollywood ever truly dies, right?)

Details of the take are being kept hidden under Central Park.

Barton created and wrote the East-meets-West crime drama Giri/Haji BBC Two/Netflix. But he recently made headlines when he stepped in as showrunner for HBO Max’s Batman-themed Gotham City Police Department crime show after Terence Winter, the previous showrunner, departed over creative differences.

In the can for Barton is Invasion, an alien invasion movie that stars Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer that will debut on Amazon.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...s-with-batman-tv-spinoff-showrunner-exclusive
 
Official Trailer for New DC Animated Movie JUSTICE SOCIETY: WORLD WAR II

Justice Society: World War II finds modern-day Barry Allen - prior to the formation of the Justice League - discovering he can run even faster than he imagined, and that milestone results in his first encounter with the Speed Force. The Flash is promptly launched into the midst of a raging battle - primarily between Nazis and a team of Golden Age DC Super Heroes known as The Justice Society of America. Led by Wonder Woman, the group includes Hourman, Black Canary, Hawkman, Steve Trevor and the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. The Flash quickly volunteers to assist his fellow heroes in tipping the scales of war in their favor, while the team tries to figure out how to send him home. But it won't be easy as complications and emotions run deep in this time-skipping World War II thriller.

 
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/v...-voters-not-nominating-cronenberg-1234614540/

Saw this article with Viggo Mortensen. He talks about working with David Cronenberg and how underrated he is as a director. Was music to my ears since I've always dug his films.

But the interesting thing was he's talking about working with him again on his upcoming movie, which is apparently going "a little bit back to his origins" and is some sort of body horror movie mixed with film noire elements. Sign me the fuck up.

Mortensen describes his upcoming Cronenberg movie as returning to the director’s body horror origins, Mortensen describes his upcoming Cronenberg movie as returning to the director’s body horror origins, plus having elements of a “film noir story
 
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Super Bowl Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's New Horror Thriller OLD

This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day.

 
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