Though December still has a few more days to go, the recent rumor of a Frozen 2 trailer dropping by the end of the month isn’t looking too promising right now, but for what it’s worth, we just might have received our first look at the highly anticipated Disney sequel anyway.
James Wan’s Aquaman is shaping up to be every bit the box office success domestically that its record-breaking overseas performance suggested, with the movie now surpassing the first week gross of last year’s Justice League.
Last week, IMDb released a ranking of the most anticipated films of 2019 based on data from their site, and it came as a slight surprise to see Captain Marvel ranked at the top spot, just ahead of Avengers: Endgame, not to mention the complete lack of Star Wars: Episode IX in the Top 10. This new ranking from Fandango, on the other hand, took the more direct approach of simply polling more than 3,500 moviegoers on their most anticipated releases, and the result seems a little more in line with what you’d probably expect.
No matter what fresh development comes our way, you can pretty much guarantee that the Marvel fanbase will find some way of fighting about it, so when Netflix announced over Christmas that Avengers: Infinity War was available to US users on their site, perhaps it only figures that a social media debate broke out about one little word in the synopsis.
The Stormtrooper cameo has become a tradition of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy that allows Lucasfilm to give roles to any random celebrities they feel like in a way that doesn’t distract from the drama. Daniel Craig, for example, wore the white helmet in The Force Awakens, while Prince William and Harry had similar roles in The Last Jedi. As for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX, it's reported that TV chef Jamie Oliver has managed to get in on the action.
With the second proper trailer for Captain Marvel dropping earlier this month, we probably shouldn’t expect to see a whole lot of new footage from Carol Danvers’ big screen debut until the film itself arrives in cinemas. Still, if you want a quick recap of the interplanetary action to come, this new TV spot, viewable above, offers a 30-second summary of our heroine’s origins.
The references to the wider DCEU found in the new Aquaman movie may be few and far between, but it seems that James Wan’s picture contains more nods to Arthur Curry’s old Justice League co-stars than initially meets the eye. And since we’re going to be talking about one such Easter Egg that lies at the very end of the film, spoilers lie ahead.
Earlier this year, Avengers: Infinity War put a serious damper on the old stereotype of Marvel being the bright and cheery flipside to the dark and moody DC, between the film's ridiculously high body count and arguably the gloomiest ending in all of superhero cinema.
Black Panther was widely embraced as an important moment for diversity in superhero cinema, and seeing how phenomenally well the movie did in terms of box office figures, critical reception, and from the look of things, awards season attention, it’s probably in Marvel Studios’ best interest to continue making progress when it comes to onscreen representation.
Though Zack Snyder’s directorial run in the DCEU looks to have ended with last year’s Justice League, the filmmaker continues to offer new material from his three installments in the franchise, including this new photo of the Caped Crusader from the set of 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
