While we’re not expecting an announcement confirming Doctor Strange 2 until later this month, characteristically, Marvel has been hard at work on the sequel for some time now.
Production may have halted on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but principal photography on the only other post-Phase Three project currently in development, Spider-Man: Far From Home, is right in the thick of it, and yesterday, a familiar face decided to stop by the set.
During the roughly eight-month-long lull between the release of Justice League and San Diego Comic-Con, WB went back to the drawing board and boy howdy, did the Big Six studio benefit from the time off. What with the unveiling of the first Shazam! teaser, some unpolished Wonder Woman 1984 footage and the first Aquaman trailer, the newly minted Worlds of DC was unrecognizable. Thankfully, though, WB hasn’t entirely disposed of the old guard.
With the addition of the Best Popular Film category - which will honor “outstanding achievement” in blockbuster and genre cinema - AMPAS has (reluctantly) welcomed the ever-expanding realm of comic book movies into award season, and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther appears to be the frontrunner.
Jessica Chastain may have wrapped principal photography on Andy Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two, but Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) is, evidently, still hard at work. Although it’ll be quite a while before the titular jester is shimmying and shaking again on the big screen, just yesterday, the malevolent entity was spotted in Port Hope, Ontario, perched atop a familiar landmark.
After Disney terminated filmmaker James Gunn, and Marvel halted production on the project, you’d figure it couldn’t get any worse for the twenty-fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, unfortunately, there’s a very good chance Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is in much more peril than initially thought.
Although it didn’t feel like it, Avengers: Infinity War had us sitting in the theatre longer than any other Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. With an enervating two and a half hour runtime, though, and countless people to recognize, it was damn near impossible to catch each and every credit as they ascended the screen. Thankfully, then, an eagle-eyed Redditor has a screen grab from the nineteenth MCU instalment that just might tickle your funny bone.
Earlier this year, it looked as if Star Trek 4 had plotted a trajectory and began proceeding toward principal photography at warp speed. Unfortunately, the project came to a screeching halt last month when Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pine abandoned the Enterprise over a salary dispute, and the starship has been floating directionless in the void of space ever since.
With the release of The Nun so close that you can practically feel the frosty exhale of Valak the Defiler on the back of your neck, the marketing blitz for the “darkest chapter” in The Conjuring universe has ramped up, and director Corin Hardy is here to ensure you don’t get an ounce of sleep until opening weekend.
