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I expect we'll get our first look sometime in April. That's when the new Omen movie comes out (another Fox property) and April 26 is Alien Day (LV-426).

TIL: Sarah Watson, key-makeup artist for The Northman and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is working on this movie.

I desperately hope this merger doesn't go through.

It's not Gunn I'm worried about. It's his boss...

My vote is on Milly. Fantastic actress and she's already in the Warner Bros family.

I'm curious to see how they adapt this 😆

Hasn't been revealed. But they had a film scheduled for that date and now it's vacant.

Pixar is more or less Disney's strongest (or least damaged) brand going into 2024: - Marvel has lost a lot of its goodwill between the VFX drama, less-than-stellar box office, and the disastrous reception to Secret Invasion forcing them to rethink their whole strategy. - WDAS just removed their next film from November 2024, probably to re-evaluate and do some much-needed soul searching. It's probably no coincidence that they're re-releasing Soul, Luca, and Turning Red in theaters to make up for how empty their slate is.

Saw this yesterday. Easily the best Illumination movie since Despicable Me 2. Very formulaic but sweet, charming, and to the point. Will play well with families over the holidays.

The level of pressure on this movie is astonishing. It has to: - Help get the ball rolling on a rebooted franchise. - Begin restoring trust in a damaged brand - Revive an iconic character for general audiences - Help not put WB deeper in the hole

I hate everything about this news, even if it doesn't come to fruition. We've already seen how much chaos the Discovery merger caused.

A non-polarizing foundation that feels like it was planned out. That's the key difference. Granted, with how increasingly chaotic things are at Warner Bros, there's immense pressure on this movie to deliver and then some.

That feels like an appropriate runtime. Yet weirdly, I was expecting something within the 3+ hour range.

I know the tracking for this isn't great, but Elemental proved to us that opening weekend isn't always the end of the story. If this has decent reviews, it should do just fine.

My mistake. The article says nationwide.

It is. Variety confirmed it.

Is this obviously a way of having something in theaters due to strike delays? Yes. Is it still great news? Also yes.

I'm of the opinion that all the Alien movies are good or at least entertaining outside of AVP:R. Hell, I find myself watching Resurrection more often than 3 because it's more enjoyable and doesn't depress me. This sounds like it'll be a tense, back-to-basics entry in the series.

Sounds promising enough.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/warner-bros-discovery-bosss-payday-is-toast-2023-11-27/

Excellent choice. Just how I imagined Jimmy Olsen.

Excellent casting decision. And Nicholas Hoult being turned down for prior DC heroes almost makes him perfect for the role considering that inadequacy is one of Lex Luthor's main motivations.

We've been seeing it for the last seven years: - JL and SS were reshot because WB was surprised by the negative reception to BvS. - Snyder being forced to reshoot JL and being forced our by WB? Because they wanted a course correction. - JL failing to even crack $100M on OW? A direct result of audiences feeling burned by BvS, the film setting it up. Josstice League didn't kill the DCEU, it was proof that it had already been dead. - WW, The Batman, Joker, and AM were hits despite the baggage the brand had, in part, because they had positive word of mouth. They're the exception, not the norm. - The reason why James Gunn and Peter Safran were brought in (after numerous regime changes)? Because the main franchise had so much baggage that the only option was to start anew.

This seems like it could be pretty significant....