TV, Movies & Home Theatre News - Page 63

Pixar has just released the first official trailer to Toy Story 4, which sees the iconic characters of the beloved franchise returning for another adventure. Check it out:

We know that Woody meets up with Bo Peep again in Toy Story 4, which is going to have fans of the franchise happy, as well as lots of tears shed during the movie I'm sure. We do get to see in the new Toy Story 4 trailer a new character called "Forky", which Bonnie adds to her collection of friends and I think plenty of hilarious antics will happen from this character alone.

Disney Pixar explains Toy Story 4's synopsis: "Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy".

In a move that could fuel an entire new generation of cinema, Paramount Pictures has sent a letter to cinemas across the US asking to kick off a series of tests to see what is the fastest frame rate their projectors and screens support.

The reason? Paramount wants to see Ang Lee's new movie 'Gemini Man' in 120FPS, as he shot the movie in the super-FPS format. Back in 2016, Lee released Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk in 120FPS but there were only 12 cinemas across the entire world that could handle the 120FPS speeds, and only two of them were in the United States.

Gemini Man would be an exciting movie to kick off the 120FPS craze, with Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Benedict Wong starring. Paramount is confident in the movie, which will drop on October 11. The letter that the studio sent to cinemas however, claims the high frame rate (HFR) version of the movie is a "turnkey experience" for cinemagoers.

Disney and Marvel have just dropped a new trailer to Avengers: Endgame, which has some spoilers in it so if you want to go into it fresh, please do not watch the trailer. If you want to be spoiled, at least a little, then you know what to do.

We get to see a bunch of new shots, characters, interaction between characters that have never met in the MCU (or ever), and more. The new Endgame trailer has a cool moment between Thor and Captain Marvel at the end, the latter of which stars in her own movie that is currently in theaters.

Spoilers below:

Ryan Reynolds has been all over high-profile movies recently with the release of Deadpool 2, and upcoming Pokemon: Detective Pikachu.

Could you imagine Ryan Reynolds playing Uncharted's Nathan Drake? Well, it almost happened whether you think Reynolds would be a good fit for the role or not. According to an interview with screenwriter and producer Joe Carnahan, Reynolds was "very, very close" to playing Nathan Drake in an R-rated Uncharted movie.

Above you will find an episode of The Mutuals on the Discussing Film YouTube Channel where Carnahan talked about his script for the upcoming movie. He says that it is "more skewed to an adult audience" and that Reynolds was about to take the role before he opted out for the role of Deadpool instead. I can't say that I'm upset with the decision of Reynold's choosing Deadpool of Nathan Drake, as I can't really see another actor filling the shoes of Deadpool after Reynolds' performance.

To celebrate the release of 'Overlord' on home video, we have ten Blu-ray copies of the season to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Home Entertainment!

Nothing can prepare you for the mind-blowing mayhem that is Overlord. Mega producer J.J. Abrams creates an insanely twisted thrill ride about a team of American paratroopers who come face-to-face with Nazi super-soldiers unlike the world has ever seen.

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The speculation can now be put to bed as Amazon have officially revealed that their upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show will be set in the 'Second Age' of Tolkien's Legendarium.

Amazon created a dedicated "The Lord of the Rings on Prime" Twitter account to share updates with fans about the coming TV show. Poetically, the account started off their tweeting with "I wisely started with a map"which is quote from J.R.R Tolkien himself. The page then proceeded to post images of a map and slowly over time it reposted the same image but with updated locations on the map. Eventually, the account posted a link to the map on the Amazon website with the caption "Welcome to the Second Age".

Now what does this mean for the TV show story-wise? and how is this going to influence what we are going to see in season 1? If the second age is the chosen setting for the TV show, we will most likely see a great display of the rise and fall of Numenor. We can see Numenor at the bottom left of the map, and its inhabitants, the Numenorians landing on Middle-Earth and the struggles of fighting Sauron throughout the Second Age. The first season should also give us a overview of the relationship between Middle-Earth's Elves and the landing Numenorians, eventually moving into the settling of Arnor and Gondor. Within the entirety of this article I have provided a much better explanation video of the Rise and Downfall of Numenor.

The second trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings author biopic movie titled 'Tolkien' has been released, showcasing some brand new scenes from the movie.

The trailer has been released onto FoxSearchlight and begins with lead actors Nicholas Hoult who players Tolkien, and Lily Collins who players Tolkiens partner, Edith Bratt. The trailer begins with Tolkien explaining to Bratt that he is fascinated with language, so interested that he even went on create his own through his stories or legends. Bratt then asks Tolkien to recount a story for her, we are then thrown back into the early stages of Tolkien's life while the older Tolkien narrates over his yourself's adventures.

We see many scenes from different stages of Tolkien's life, such as him growing up, going to war, the struggles of romance, the bonding of brotherhood and most importantly, the creation of the very well known 'fellowship.' The movie will be concentrating closely on the 'fellowship' that was formed during Tolkien's time in school and how it extended to the battlefield of World War 1. There will also be some concentration on the relationship between Bratt and Tolkien and how she helped shape him into the man he became and how that influenced the writings in his legendary books. Tolkien is directed by Dome Karukoski and is planned to hit theaters on May 10.

At the start of this week we saw some very strange live-action images leaked for a supposed Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Now one of the original creators of Sonic has voiced his opinion on the images.

It certainly is hard to say that the live-action image renders of Sonic look fantastic, I mean Sonic isn't even wearing his iconic gloves... Yuji Naka would also agree, as the co-creator of the original design of Sonic The Hedgehog has taken to Twitter to voice his opinion on the matter. Saying "Is this a 'Sonic' movie? I feel that it is important to look at the whole body visual of Sonic and head, body, and stomach. Did you not get a little more balance?" - translated with Microsoft.

Naka continued on his Twitter spree saying that the leaked images could of been on purpose to gauge how fans of the series would react to the design. Naka also expresses his concerns with too much bad word of mouth, saying that it could potentially hurt the Sonic The Hedgehog's intellectual property. In my opinion, I would say that the design for Sonic needs to be changed and also I wouldn't be surprised if the 'leaked images' were leaked on purpose to gauge the communities response. This type of 'trial by fire' actions are typical from large companies that are unsure of which direction to take, or to just purely increase hype.

The day is almost here folks, the final season to Game of Thrones is almost upon us, and today we have been blessed with its official trailer.

The trailer is red hot right now viewer-ship wise, it has made it to YouTube's #5 spot on trending and passing an already a staggering 10 million views just within the last 12 hours of release. The trailer begins with a panicked Ayra that is running from an unknown something or someone. We then see the Golden Company arriving at Kings Landing, then the trailer skips to the unsullied marching towards Winterfell with Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.

The latter half of the trailer we see what appears to be the battle for Winterfell with Jamie Lanister yelling on a fire coated battlefield and then a snap to Jon Snow and some other soldiers making a retreat somewhere. It is likely that the battle of Winterfell will be within the first couple of episodes of Game of Thrones' season 8, so many of the mysteries surrounding the trailer will be uncovered very soon. The final season for Game of Thrones begins on April 14th.

Back in December, there was a teaser from the producers of 'The Fast And The Furious' for a live-action Sonic movie. The movie titled 'Sonic The Hedgehog' has quite an odd looking Sonic...

At the start of December, we saw the teaser video that only showcased the silhouette of Sonic but that video did raise some eyebrows to size of Sonic's legs and overall odd-looking appearance. Looking at Sonic in live-action is very strange, and especially in the different images of him in the second image that appears in the entirety of this post. The second image showcases Sonic in a variety of different poses, and also is described as a character that is "Chill & Likable" and also is "Mischievous but not Malicious".

I will have to see a proper trailer for the upcoming movie before I make any full opinions on the design, as there isn't a trailer this could not be the final design of Sonic either. The live-action movie is planned for release sometime in November, as more information is released I will be sure to update you.