NEW IN CINEMAS THIS WEEK

Inside Out 2

Arcadian

Sasquatch Sunset

STREAMING THIS WEEK

Series – Camp Snoopy S1 (AppleTV+) – 14th June

Film – Ultraman Rising (Netflix) – 14th June

Series – House of the Dragon S2 (NOW) – 17th June

Film – Tarot (On Demand) – 17th June

Film – Federer: Twelve Final Days (Prime Video) – 20th June

DUNE: AWAKENING TRAILER

As you may have worked out (or maybe not due to the break I was having when Dune: Part Two was released) I am a huge fan of the Dune universe, so naturally when I found a game was being made, I was all for exploring what I consider to be the most interesting universe I’ve seen for a long time. We’ve not had too much information about the game in recent months but with Summer Games Fest underway there was no better time. The trailer shows what the story of the game will be about. The game takes place in an alternate universe where Paul Atreides wasn’t born, instead of giving birth to a son, his mother gave birth to a daughter and how that changed the universe without Paul to be there as Lisan-Al-Giab. It’s a fantastic trailer that teases what honestly looks like a really interesting story game that I’m very excited to play. Or I was until the end of the trailer reminded me that it was a MMO, and I then thought back to the struggles I had trying to play Star Wars: The Old Republic (which I’ve heard is fantastic), so the jury is out on whether I’ll give a go when it’s released.

PADDINGTON IN PERU TRAILER

Paddington 1 & 2 have gone down in history as not only being fantastically charming films about the loveable bear, but Paddington 2 being one of the highest rated films of all time on Rotten Tomatoes currently sitting with a critic score of 99% (it sat on 100% for a long time, so whoever caused that 1% is just miserable and hates having a good time). The next adventure has been extremely highly anticipated due to the high praise the previous entries have recieved, and the trailer promises a return to that style, as soon as the trailer a smile came across my face as we see our favourite bear trying to get his passport picture taking. The whole film looks a lot of fun which is a relief after the previous director, Paul King left to direct Wonka and the director for this film has primarily directed music videos and adverts. There will be a lot of bums in seats for this one when it is released in UK cinemas 2 months before the rest of the world in November.

MOANA CASTING

The live action Moana has finally found it’s casting for the title role. When the project was announced it was initially confirmed that Dwayne Johnson and Auli’i Cravalho would be reprising their roles from the animated version, but it wasn’t long before Cravalho exited the project seemingly to give way to a more age appropriate actress to take the role which has now been given to Catherine Laga’aia. It has also been confirmed that John Tui, Frankie Adams and Rena Owen will also have roles in the film as Moana’s family.

BLADE CHANGES DIRECTOR AGAIN

It feels like it shouldn’t be as hard as it is for Marvel to be struggling to make Blade happen. Since early pre-production of this film it has been plagued with many changing directors and writers constantly reworking the script, if not entirely chucking it out the window and starting afresh. This week brought a fresh update with director Yann Demange leaving the project, and Eric Pearson (wrote Black Widow) brought on to write the script again. At this stage it will be a miracle if the talent involved in the film still stick around for the project. Mahershala Ali is an extremely talented and multi oscar winning actor, he is very indemand and if Marvel aren’t careful he will leave the project or get tied up in scheduling conflicts with other projects.

MORE NEWS

• Hotel Transylvania, spin-off series Motel Transylvania will follow Drac and Mavis as they set up a new resort in California
• Spongebob Squarepants villain, Plankton is getting his own film on Netflix
• Timothy Olymphant will voice The Terminator in Terminator Zero on Netflix
• Natalie Portman, Emilia Clarke, Margo Martindale and Johnny Vegas will all voice characters in Roald Dahl adaptation, The Twits
• Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane and Tituss Burgess will voice characters in Spellbound
• Zach Snyder’s animated series Twilight of the Gods will premiere in the autumn on Netflix
• A first trailer for chapter 1 of an animated adaptation of Watchmen was released
• Emily Blunt is in talks to star in Steven Spielberg’s UFO film
• Dwayne Johnson’s production company Seven Bucks, has signed a first look deal with Disney, which will involve developing new films that Dwayne Johnson will potentially star in
• Hunter Schafer has joined the cast of Blade Runner 2099
• Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson are being eyed to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s next film about how the white house deals with ballistic missiles heading for America
• Rebecca Ferguson is also rumoured to appear in the Peaky Blinders movie
• Henry Selick will direct a stop-motion adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, describe as almost a sequel to Coraline
• Robert Pattinson will produce, and potentially star in a remake of Possession with Parker Finn set to direct
• Pete Docter says they are working on ideas for a Monsters Inc sequel, but haven’t seen enough to fully start working on it yet
• Nicholas Cage, J.K. Simmons and Giancarlo Esposito have been cast in The Prince
• Tim Meadows has been cast in Peacemaker S2
• Creature Commandos will release in December
• An Adventure Time movie and prequel series is being developed
• First trailer for Sausage Party: Foodtopia was released
• Bad Boys 5 is being discussed
• The Boys will finish with the 5th season of the show, with Gen V likely to have multiple seasons and other spinoffs being planned
• A new trailer for The Wild Robot was revealed
• A first trailer for Arcane S2 was released
• Zach Snyder’s director’s cut of both his Rebel Moon films release with new titles in August
• Erin Kellyman joins the cast of 28 Years Later
• Taylor Swift will not appear in Deadpool & Wolverine
• Yayha Abdul-Mateen II will star in a series adaptation of Man on Fire
• A sequel to Practical Magic is in the works
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has been the highest grossing Monsterverse film
• Julia Butters has been cast in Freaky Friday 2
• Andrew Stanton will direct Toy Story 5
• A teaser for the Among Us series was revealed
• Mikeala Hoover has been as Cat Grant in James Gunn’s Superman
• Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon and Hong Chau will all star in Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective movie, a film that follows a shepeard who reads murder mysteries to his sheep is murdered and the sheep must find out who killed him

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