TV, Movies & Home Theatre News - Page 59

In May, Pokemon Detective Pikachu starring Ryan Reynolds hit cinema's. The movie was met with large amounts of fan support and now those fans will soon be able to own their very own copy of the film.

The above Twitter post has been found on the official Pokemon Detective Pikachu Twitter page and has revealed that on the 23rd of July, Pokemon Detective Pikachu will be available to digitally download.

For fans that would prefer actually being able to gold the movie in their hands (physical form), Pokemon Detective Pikachu will become avaialble on Blu-ray on the 6th of August. If you wish to pre-order the film, head on over to the Pokemon Detective Pikachu website here.

Rick and Morty season 4 is being craved by fans, and the release of the fourth season is not even that far away for the mainstream. But for attendee's of the Adult Swim Festival, they will get a special early sneak peak.

According to an announcement from Deadline, the long-awaited fourth season of the hit TV show Rick and Morty will have a special showing at the Adult Swim Festival in Los Angeles. The Adult Swim Festival will be held across two days and run from Friday, Nov. 15 (Saturday) to Nov. 16. Deadline says that there will be a "never-before-seen screening" on the second day of the festival.

While Deadline doesn't mention whether or not this will be an early screening of the first episode of season 4, I have a sneaky suspicion this might be an early screening. Adult Swim has described this years festival event attractions as a "one-of-a-kind 360 degrees fan experience". Rick and Morty season 4 will debut sometime in November.

The release of Dragon Ball Super: Broly was welcomed by Dragon Ball fans across the globe, and we can see the support for the film was in strong form as it amassed 124.5 million in gross earnings. So how about a sequel?

In a recent interview with Akiyo Iyoku, the head of Shueisha's Dragon Ball Room, a sequel for Broly was brough up and Iyoku says the team is "steadily making preparations for the next Dragon Ball movie." While Iyoku doesn't reveal any specific details for the follow-up film, he does say that "things will probably head in a completely different direction next time around."

At the moment there has been no solidified release date for the next movie, but Iyoku does say that he is very excited for fans of the series/films to see "what's coming up next" as he believes "whatever comes next will be even more incredible".

Now that Toy Story 4 is hitting cinemas we are finding out that the latest movie in the franchise has become the most successful in its opening weekend across the entire Toy Story franchise.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the projections for Toy Story 4's opening weekend were much higher at $165 million, much less than the $118 million that it did in its opening weekend. If we compare this to Toy Story 3 from 2010 opening with $110.3 million, Toy Story 4 is performing quite well and is yet another win for both Pixar and Disney.

Pixar is no stranger to flying way above inifinty, and beyond with The Incredibles 2 pulling a huge $182.7 million in its opening weekend, Finding Dory with $135.1 million and is just behind Shrek the Third and its $121.6 million -- Toy Story 4 comes in just behind with $118 million. Toy Story 4 is also the third movie to open at over $100 million in 2019, behind Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel -- both Disney owned movies.

The Lord of The Rings movies by Peter Jackson are some of the best fantasy movies on film, so imagine turning down the role of one of the lead characters Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Russell Crowe did, and he doesn't loose sleep over it either.

In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Russell Crowe discussed some of the movies has turned down in his career and how some of those movies would of defined more of his career. One of those movies was Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings films, as Crowe explained to Stern that "I didn't think Peter Jackson actually wanted me on the film; I think he was forced into talking to me. There was a moment in time where everybody wanted me in everything."

He continued to explain: "And he's a fellow New Zealander; so I can hear his voice. I'm talking to him on the phone. And it's like, I don't think he even knows what I've done. My instinct was that he had somebody else in mind, which turned out to be Viggo Mortensen. And he should be allowed to hire the actor that he wants." Stern mentioned after the explanation that Crowe was actually offered 10% of the movies gross earnings, which would of obviously made him quite wealthy considering how much the movies grossed over time.

Keanu Reeves truly is The One, as he is hot-as-hell right now starring in the incredibly successful and equally awesome John Wick trilogy, he has a huge role in one of the most-hyped games ever in Cyberpunk 2077, and now Marvel is talking with him about everything.

In an interview with ComicBook.com, Marveu Studios president Kevin Feigi said that the company has been talking with Keanu on "almost every film we make". Feigi added: "We talk to Keanu Reeves about... I don't know when, if, or ever he'll join the MCU, but we very much want to figure out the right way to do it". Rumor has it that Keanu could be involved in The Eternals, something we should hear about soon if it happens.

Keanu is already one connection away from Marvel Studios in that he stars in Toy Story 4 which is about to open, which is made by Pixar and also owned by Disney, just like Marvel Studios.

E3 2019 - Netflix have snapped up a brand new exclusive that will eventually come to their platform, 'The Division' starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal.

During the Ubisoft E3 2019 press conference, we learned that Netflix will be the platform to bring fans the upcoming Division movie. At the moment there is no solidified release date, but we do know that David Leitch will be taking the reins as the movies director. Leitch has also directed the upcoming 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' and was a producer for the John Wick.

Writing wise, The Division movie will have Rafe Judkins who is also working on the upcoming Uncharted movie that is starring Avengers: Endgame and Spiderman actor Tom Holland. Back in 2016 Ubisoft spoke out about The Division movie, saying "In addition to starring in the film, both Chastain and Gyllenhaal will be a part of the development process through their production companies, Freckle Films and Nine Stories, respectively. The pandemic-stricken streets of The Division are filled with countless stories of love, loss, treachery, and heroism, but we'll have to wait to find out what avenues the film will explore." At the moment, there isn't a known release date for The Division movie.

Naughty Dog's Uncharted series is one of the titan franchises on PlayStation, and has served as a staple franchise in action/cinematic video games. What about a fully-fledged movie though?

Uncharted fans can release their excitement scream now as that very thing is happening and Sony have confirmed it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony's Uncharted movie starring Spider-Man actor Tom Holland will be released in cinemas around the world on December 18th, 2020.

The movie is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Jonathen Rosenberg and Mark Walker are the last known people to write the screenplay draft. At the moment there is no confirmed information on how the movies will relate to the video games, all there is to go off of is that the movies will be centring in on a young Nathan Drake, hence Tom Holland being casted back in 2017.

It was back at the end of May that we heard about the running for the next actor to pick up The Caped Crusader. Since then, it has been confirmed that Robert Pattinson will take role of Batman, and stick with it for the next three Batman movies.

This news has come from from Deadline, who has said that they have heard from sources close to Warner Bros. that there is three Batman movies currently in preparation. Matt Reeves who directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes will be directing the trilogy with the first movie being scheduled for release on June 25, 2021 under the title "The Batman".

Originally, Batman v. Superman star Ben Affleck was set to direct and play Batman in the upcoming movies. Instead, Affleck decided to hang up the cape and has step away from his directing position and the character entirely, saying "tried to direct a version of it, but couldn't crack it." Deadline also mentions that the movie will be produced by Dylan Clark, who also produced Reeves' Planet of the Apes films, and to expect an official announcement for the upcoming film "imminently".

A new piece of news has come out about the coming Sonic the Hedgehog movie starring Jim Carrey. The news confirms that the film will be delayed and that designers will be taking a second look at Sonic's appearance.

Back in early May, the official trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was released and unfortunately it was met with a considerable amount of scepticism on the design choice of Sonic. Many fans believed that Sonic's design was terrible, the Blue Blur didn't feature his iconic gloves, oversized shoes/feet and had a human-like appearance.

This fan critizism wasn't taken lightly, and actually resulted in the movies director Jeff Fowler recognizing that some improvements to Sonic had to be made before the movie released this November. Shortly after the trailer debuted, Fowler took to Twitter to announce that Sonic would be re-designed and that Paramount and SEGA are dedicated to making Sonic look the best that he can be.