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17 hours ago
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Watch: Judy, Nick attend therapy in 'Zootopia 2'
July 30 (UPI) -- Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a new trailer for Zootopia 2, its sequel to the 2016 animated film Zootopia. The preview, which dropped Wednesday, features the rabbit Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) and her police department partner, fox Nick (Jason Bateman), in group therapy. "We are functioning fine, better than fine," Judy says, adding they don't need to be there. Their boss, Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), thinks differently, however, and forces them to attend the therapy program. "It doesn't take long for their partnership to be put to the ultimate test when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mystery tied to the arrival of a venomous snake in the animal metropolis," an official synopsis reads. The voice cast also includes Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster and Quinta Brunson. The film arrives in theaters Nov. 26. Solve the daily Crossword
Telegraph
3 days ago
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The new Avatar trailer fills me with despair
I'm trying to think of the nicest thing I can say about the new Avatar trailer and I suspect this is probably it: it definitely looks like more Avatar. Subtitled Fire and Ash, the third of five instalments of James Cameron's shimmery late-career opus will slosh into cinemas worldwide this coming Christmas – when Disney presumably expects it to join its predecessors in the ranks of the highest-grossing films ever made. (The original and the first sequel, The Way of Water, currently occupy the first and third places on that chart respectively.) However much organic excitement for another Avatar sequel any of us actually encounter in the wild, it's highly likely it will be the year's most successful film – even if the trailer, which has already generated countless reaction videos, left me cold. What was most striking (and depressing) about the two minutes and 25 seconds of new material in the clip – which cinema-goers can currently experience in front of screenings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the rest of us can watch on YouTube – was how little any of it seemed to add to the existing Avatar deal. So with apologies to the various TikTokers and influencers claiming otherwise, what we saw could not be described in good conscience as 'freaking insane'. Front and centre are the cosmetic updates which have been installed since Avatar 2.0 – and perhaps it's this immersive travel-brochure material, rather than the meandering plot about tribal squabbles, the repelling of Earthling invaders, and a religion centred on a sort of purple Wi-Fi tree, that has made the series such a global phenomenon. This instalment apparently concerns a war between two previously unseen Na'vi tribes: the peaceable Wind Traders, who drift about in flying airships, and the red-skinned Fire People, who live in a Mordor-like ashy landscape and ride around on flying beasts. The money is on them to be baddies – at least until the remnants of the invading Earth forces show up again, at which point an uneasy Pandoran alliance will presumably be struck. Controversially-slash-foolishly, I suspect the astonishing popularity of the two previous films sprung from different places. In every respect bar technologically, the 2009 original was a blockbuster blowout as Hollywood used to make them in the 1980s and 90s: it was essentially Dances with Wolves transposed to space, and gave audiences their final chance to experience neoclassical Cameron craftsmanship – in the brand new 3D format he'd developed specifically for the occasion, no less – at the very moment the franchise era took hold. But then Avatar disappeared for 13 years – and returned, still banging the 3D drum the industry had otherwise largely abandoned, having reinvented itself as a franchise movie. Unlike its predecessor, The Way of Water was simply a jumbo dose of truly borderless escapism but not actually about anything beyond itself. (I defy anyone who sat through it to describe anything of narrative interest that actually happened in it apart from the whale hunt near the end.) And that latter approach is what Fire and Ash appears to be replicating. Volcanoes, not oceans, are clearly the signature backdrop this time around, all rendered in mineral-water-crisp 3D computer graphics, and in frame rates that vacillate between a purring 24 and slippery 60 per second. A few new bizarre beasts of burden have also been added to the Avamenagerie, including a big airborne stingray with wiggly bits coming out of its mouth and a sort of jellyfish that the Sully clan flies around in, like a sentient hot air balloon. But three years on from The Way of Water, the modus operandi hasn't seemingly altered a jot. The trailer promises more teeth-baring tribal melodrama, wildly expensive virtual nature documentary sequences, some jump-and-shoot forest battles that look like the bestselling video-game of 2045, and digitally rendered characters whose faces' astounding visual intricacy is only surpassed by their supreme slappability. 'You cannot live like this, baby – in hate,' Sam Worthington's Jake Sully tells his bride, Zoe Saldana's Neytiri, in one contextless excerpt, enunciating the word 'baby' like Lena Lamont's elocution coach in Singin' in the Rain. 'Your goddess has no dominion here,' hisses a shaman (perhaps?) from Pandora's stern-looking, red-painted mountain tribe – presumably referring to Sigourney Weaver's Teenage Na'vi Jesus-like character (Kiri te Suli Kireysi'ite to you, or so says Wikipedia), who apparently spends the entire film gazing beatifically at CGI fronds. Amid the flurry came two moments of despair. One was the return of Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch, the electrifyingly charismatic human villain from the first film, in the identikit Na'vi body, which I forgot he'd transferred into in the second. The other was the reappearance of Spider, Quaritch's rebellious and dreadlocked teenage son, family friend of the Sullys, and essentially the most annoying gap-year kid in the galaxy. He's glimpsed at death's door (good), and also jumping across a series of falling slabs, like Sonic the Hedgehog. Aside from the awful Spider, I counted a grand total of one shot that featured human beings, and which may or may not foreshadow the journey from Pandora to Earth that is supposed to take place in Avatar 4, coming in 2029. Of course there's no reason for either Cameron or Disney to change a single element of the Avatar recipe, since The Way of Water won an Oscar and made $2.3bn. Even so, this trailer's proud sameyness grates on a spiritual level. The original Avatar was so valuable in part because it barked a defiant last hurrah for original blockbusters. But the series it went on to spawn seems to have succumbed harder than any of its contemporaries to the deathless curse of more of the same.
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3 days ago
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‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues' Trailer Sees the Lads Reunite for One Last Gig
They're back! The first official trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues has dropped, and we see the lads from the legendary British rock band reunite for one last gig. In the clip, we see filmmaker Marty DiBergi catch people up with what's happened to Spinal Tap since his first film, This Is Spinal Tap. We then see the central Tap trio of Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) all looking their age and leading rather sedentary lives, in stark comparison to their past lives as stadium rock gods. The trailer then shows us efforts by the band to reunite for one last hurrah, including their efforts to recruit a drummer suicidal enough to play the gig, their merchandising efforts and whether one (or two) of them dying on stage would help boost publicity for the gig and cement their legacy. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' Sets Season 2 Premiere, Casts Fan-Favorite Roles for Season 3 From 'South Park' to George Lucas' First Comic-Con: Inside the Most Anticipated Panels Rob Reiner Teases Paul McCartney, Elton John Cameos in 'Spinal Tap II' The trailer was revealed during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, where Spinal Tap II director Rob Reiner sat down with Paul Feig for a wide-ranging discussion about the beloved first film and the upcoming sequel. Spinal Tap II sees the core cast of Guest, McKean, Shearer and Reiner as DiBergi return. The cast also includes Fran Drescher returning as Bobbi Flekman and Paul Shaffer back as the incompetent record exec Artie Fufkin. The sequel sees Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Questlove, Trisha Yearwood, Chad Smith and Lars Ulrich make cameos as themselves. Spinal II: The End Continues is released in theaters on Sept. 12. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best Solve the daily Crossword
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4 days ago
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Peacemaker Season 2: James Gunn & John Cena's DCU Show Returns in New Trailer
A new trailer for has been released. The first season of Peacemaker premiered on HBO Max in January 2022. Created by James Gunn, the show serves as a spin-off to 2021's The Suicide Squad and sees John Cena reprise his role as Chris Smith. The second season of Peacemaker premieres next month. While the first season took place in the DCEU, which ended with 2023's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Peacemaker Season 2 will now be part of Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU. Gunn has reassured fans many times that the new season will address the continuity change. Check out the new Peacemaker Season 2 trailer below: What happens in the Peacemaker Season 2 trailer? It's Chris Smith versus Rick Flag Sr. in the Peacemaker Season 2 trailer, as the story for the new season revolves around Frank Grillo's character, who is now the director of A.R.G.U.S., wanting revenge for the death of his son. Tim Meadows plays A.R.G.U.S. agent Langston Fleury in the show's next entry, while Michael Rooker appears as Red St. Wild, a hunter who is on a mission to kill Eagly. The cast of Peacemaker Season 2 further includes Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo, Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase/Vigilante, Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt, Steve Agee as John Economos, Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, Sean Gunn as Maxwell Lord, and more. The short synopsis for the new season of Peacemaker reads, 'Peacemaker struggles to reconcile his past with his newfound sense of purpose while continuing to kick evildoer butt in his quest for peace at any cost.' Peacemaker Season 2 premieres on HBO Max on August 21, 2025. The first season and The Suicide Squad, meanwhile, are currently available to watch on the streaming platform. Solve the daily Crossword
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4 days ago
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Peacemaker Season 2 Trailer Previews Next DCU Project After Superman Movie
A new trailer for has been released. The first season of Peacemaker premiered on HBO Max in January 2022. Created by James Gunn, the show serves as a spin-off to 2021's The Suicide Squad and sees John Cena reprise his role as Chris Smith. The second season of Peacemaker premieres next month. While the first season took place in the DCEU, which ended with 2023's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Peacemaker Season 2 will now be part of Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU. Gunn has reassured fans many times that the new season will address the continuity change. Check out the new Peacemaker Season 2 trailer below (watch more trailers and clips): What happens in the Peacemaker Season 2 trailer? It's Chris Smith versus Rick Flag Sr. in the Peacemaker Season 2 trailer, as the story for the new season revolves around Frank Grillo's character, who is now the director of A.R.G.U.S., wanting revenge for the death of his son. Tim Meadows plays A.R.G.U.S. agent Langston Fleury in the show's next entry, while Michael Rooker appears as Red St. Wild, a hunter who is on a mission to kill Eagly. The cast of Peacemaker Season 2 further includes Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo, Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase/Vigilante, Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt, Steve Agee as John Economos, Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, Sean Gunn as Maxwell Lord, and more. The short synopsis for the new season of Peacemaker reads, 'Peacemaker struggles to reconcile his past with his newfound sense of purpose while continuing to kick evildoer butt in his quest for peace at any cost.' Peacemaker Season 2 premieres on HBO Max on August 21, 2025. The first season and The Suicide Squad, meanwhile, are currently available to watch on the streaming platform. Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype. The post Peacemaker Season 2 Trailer Previews Next DCU Project After Superman Movie appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. Solve the daily Crossword
