This previous week, IndieWire’s senior reporter Brian Welk was on the bottom at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to preview studios’ upcoming choices by means of the remainder of the 12 months. As 2025 comes down off a bumpy 2024 on the field workplace, studios like Warner Bros., Common, Lionsgate, Disney, and Paramount are all hoping to convey audiences again to theaters for the 12 months’s massive tentpoles.
On the most recent episode of IndieWire’s “Display screen Discuss” podcast, Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio evaluation what was seen (and never seen) throughout the Las Vegas presentation. We’re equally enthusiastic about Paul Thomas Anderson’s bold motion comedy “One Battle After One other” (Warners, September 26), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who it appears received’t be returning to a different movie whose information overtook CinemaCon: David Fincher’s “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood” sequel, written by Quentin Tarantino, for Netflix. Anne argues that Tarantino is passing the challenge on to Fincher as a way to keep away from making the movie his supposed tenth, and sure received’t pressure Netflix’s hand into giving the movie a extra plum theatrical window. Ryan is skeptical will probably be made in any respect.
Elsewhere at CinemaCon, we’re eagerly anticipating Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” — starring Julia Roberts as a college professor weathering an abuse accusation from one in all her college students, Ayo Edebiri, towards one other colleague, Andrew Garfield. Amazon MGM Studios releases the hot-button drama October 10, presumably after fall competition play. The script, from first-time function author Nora Garrett, was a scorching property amongst readers lately. Guadagnino and his solid (sans Roberts) confirmed up in Vegas to current the film with an prolonged first look.
Anne is flipping for Apple and Sony’s massive guess on 4 Beatles films from director Sam Mendes, starring Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. 4 of the most well liked main males on the market will now be taken off the market to movie these 4 films over the subsequent a number of years.
This week, we additionally have a look at what may seem on the Cannes lineup, saying Thursday, April 10. Try our want listing of 33 films we fairly count on to premiere in France this Might, from Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” to Lynne Ramsey’s “Die, My Love” and Mescal and Josh O’Connor within the homosexual romance “The Historical past of Sound.”
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