Month: February 2020

When millions of people across the country are watching the same TV network for one major event, movie studios are going to take not and drop trailers for upcoming movies and TV shows. And the NFL’s Super Bowl is the event. Throughout the evening of February 2, there were trailers for a Marvel movie–along with the upcoming Disney+ TV shows—horror flicks, and high-adrenaline action films.

We expect the Super Bowl will deliver plenty more movie trailers to get hyped about and, here, we’ll be collecting them together for your viewing convenience. Keep an eye on this page, as we’ll be adding new trailers as they appear during the broadcast, so this is your go-to place for seeing it all.

A Quiet Place 2

While John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place follow-up didn’t get a new trailer during the big game, there was a TV spot during the pre-game. In the video, we catch a glimpse of what the beginning of the invasion looked like. And director Krasinski reprised his role as Lee Abbott, before he and his family were sentenced to silence in the post-apocalyptic world.

Mulan

While a 30-second spot aired prior to kickoff, the full final trailer for Mulan was released online. The new video doesn’t give a lot more insight into the movie–with what we’ve already seen in the previous trailers–but there are some really cool action sequences there.

F9

While last Friday’s F9 trailer was amazing–primarily because Han is alive again–there was a quick, 30-second spot during the NFL game. The video featured some of the ridiculous action sequences we already saw in the trailer before, including the car swinging from a rope.

Top Gun: Maverick

It’s the highway to the danger zone in the latest Top Gun spot. If you love videos of Tom Cruise’s face while he’s flying a plane, this video is for you.

Black Widow

Black Widow didn’t get a full trailer for the Super Bowl, but there was a new 30-second spot with a few cool moments in it, like David Harbour screaming for some reason. Additionally, there were a couple new shots of Taskmaster.

Minions 2

Find out more about the world of the Minions with a sequel to the 2015 movie with the subtitle “The Rise of Gru.” There is a full trailer for the upcoming movie coming on February 5.

No Time To Die

This may be the last time we see Daniel Craig as James Bond, so let’s take him in while we can. The Super Bowl spot for No Time To Die has a lot of action packed into a 30-second spot.

Hunters

It may not be a movie, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Video original Hunters released a full trailer during the game.

MCU Shows On Disney+

In what ended up being a huge surprise, Disney+ aired a brief commercial for upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows coming to the streaming service. We saw clips from WandaVision, Loki, and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

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The next live-action Dinsey movie is a month away from coming to theaters. Earlier in the week, fans got a sneak peek with a new Mulan teaser, and during Super Bowl LIV, the final trailer for Mulan aired.

While only the 30-second spot aired right before the kickoff of the big game, the full trailer was released online. Coming in at over two minutes, the trailer certainly packs a punch, and you can check it out below.

The film stars Liu Yifei (The Forbidden Kingdom) as the titular character, and Mulan features Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Jet Li (The One), and Li Gong (Memoirs of a Geisha) It’s directed by Niki Caro.

There are a few more live-action remakes coming from Dinsey. The 101 Dalmatians spin-off Cruella–which stars Emma Stone–will be arriving on May 2021. Also in the works are The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Bambi, and a sequel to The Jungle Book. At this time, there is no release date for those films.

For more from the Super Bowl, check out all the commercials from the big game, as well as every trailer that aired. Mulan comes to theaters on March 27.

Phase 4 is right around the corner.

Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to be something entirely new, combining the big-screen spectacles we’ve come to know and love with smaller scale streaming TV shows on Disney+, and the Super Bowl just gave us our first look at the not one, not two, but three of the upcoming MCU shows.

The Disney+ Marvel Super Bowl spot showed us a look at The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and Loki, which will begin rolling out on the streaming service this fall and will continue into 2022. First up is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which will chronicle Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes in a post-Captain America world as they deal with not only the return of Baron Zemo (of Captain America: Civil War fame) but the emergence of US Agent, a new character who will likely pose a threat to Sam Wilson’s stake in the Captain America mantle. The clips shown in the promo gave us our first look at Sam Wilson throwing the shield, Zemo coming face-to-face with Bucky Barnes, and Bucky sporting his newly cut hair.

Next up is WandaVision, a self-described surrealist, “f***king bonkers” journey through the, uh, 1960s flavored sitcom life of Wanda Maximoff and Vision. If the clip is anything to be believed, it looks like we’ll have a lot of wackiness to look forward to–including what may or may not be a pregnant Wanda. Fans of the comics will remember that Wanda and Vision are (strange as it may seem) the parents of two other Marvel characters, Billy Kaplan and Thomas Shepherd (don’t worry too much about the last names for now), who become superheroes in their own rights.

Finally, we got a look at Loki, which features an alternate version of Loki from the Avengers timeline–that is, pre-change of heart, genocidal Loki who was still very much working for Thanos. We saw him flee the scene back in Avengers: Endgame during a kerfuffle with the Tesseract. In case you somehow forgot that this will not be cute, funny Thor: Ragnarok-era Loki, he proudly announces that he’s going to burn this place to the ground in the clip. Yikes.

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the first of the MCU Disney+ shows, is slated to hit the streaming service this fall. WandaVision follows later in the year, and Loki arrives in 2021.

It’s been a fascinating weekend for movies, with two new records being broken. Bad Boys For Life finished on top with $17.7 million, while the two new wide releases opened below expectations, and The Rhythm Section did particularly poorly.

Bad Boys For Life has now earned $148,051,531 in its first 16 days of release, according to Box Office Mojo. As Forbes points out, that makes it the highest grossing film to ever release in January. The spot was previously occupied by a movie you might not have guessed–Paul Blart: Mall Cop, which earned $146,336,178 following its January 16, 2009 release.

There’s a reason for this. January is often a dumping ground for studios, when movies that are obviously not going to be part of the awards conversation or play well over summer are released. Bad Boys For Life has been such a huge success that a fourth movie in the series has already been greenlit.

On the other end of the scale, The Rhythm Section broke a different record–it had the worst opening ever for a movie releasing on over 3000 screens. Going into the weekend, estimates put the film at earning around $5 million, which would have been the fifth worst weekend for a movie opening this wide; instead, it earned just $2.8 million and took the number one spot. The movie earned an average of $918 per screen, which makes it the first movie ever to release this wide and bring in a per-screen average below $1000.

The film earned so-so reviews, and the star power of Blake Lively, Jude Law, and Sterling K. Brown does not seem to have been enough to get this action film off the ground. The weekend’s other new release, Gretel & Hansel, brought in $6,050,830, which still isn’t great–it’s the 18th lowest opening for a movie on over 3000 screens.

Here’s the full domestic top ten for the weekend of January 31 through February 2.

1. Bad Boys for Life: $17,675,000
2. 1917: $9,660,000
3. Dolittle: $7,700,000
4. Gretel & Hansel: $6,050,830
5. The Gentlemen: $6,010,000
6. Jumanji: The Next Level: $6,000,000
7. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker: $3,193,000
8. The Turning: $3,050,000
9. Little Women: $3,015,000
10. The Rhythm Section: $2,800,000

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Super Bowl LIV brought with it a slew of new movie trailers, including one for No Time To Die, the next entry in the James Bond franchise. The movie is expected to be the last with Daniel Craig starring as 007, and it is setting up some big changes for his future.

Exactly what those changes are remain a mystery, but what we do know is that it has something to do with Madeleine Swann, the returning character played by Léa Seydoux. Of course, Rami Malek’s villainous Safin will also play a role. Christoph Waltz appears in the trailer too, so expect to see Blofeld have some part to play in the future of Bond.

No Time To Die is expected to hit theatres on April 10. Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, and Léa Seydoux (who also appears in Death Stranding) play M, Q, Miss Moneypenny, and Madeleine Swann respectively. In an unprecedented move, No Time To Die’s composer has been changed late into production. Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, Blade Runner 2049) has taken over from Dan Romer.

There have been numerous other movie trailers shown during the game, including Mulan, Black Widow, and The Quiet Place 2, among others. You can watch them all in our Super Bowl movie trailer round-up.

Black Widow is Marvel’s next movie, and the start of the studio’s “Phase Four” block of films. It releases on May 1, and alongside the film’s new Super Bowl spot, Marvel has released four new character posters today.

The latest Black Widow posters revealed on Twitter show off the film’s four main characters–Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Rachel Weisz’s Melina Vostokoff, and David Harbour’s Red Guardian. Check them out below.

This is Johansson’s eighth appearance as Black Widow, but the first time she has headlined her own movie. Florence Pugh is currently nominated for an Oscar for her work in Little Women, while David Harbour is best known for playing cantankerous police chief Jim Hopper in Stranger Things. Rachel Weisz is a huge star, who was most recently seen in 2018’s The Favourite.

Also worth noting is that Black Widow is suddenly sporting a lot of earrings, with upwards of nine visible piercings on the one visible ear. Whether this will have any bearing on the plot or character remains to be seen, but odds are that they’re being showcased so that fans have something to speculate on.

It’s also interesting to note that while the other characters appear to be glancing into the distance, Black Widow’s glance is right towards the camera.

This is likely to be Johansson’s last appearance as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe–and since it’s set before Avengers: Endgame, it’s possible that a few other characters will pop up one last time, too. Marvel will also release The Eternals in November.

When it rains, it furiously pours. Hot on the heels of the first trailer for F9, a new 30-second spot for the film has arrived. While it’s mostly made up of footage we’ve already seen, there is a new look at returning character Han (Sung Kang), in his car–where he belongs.

In case you somehow missed the news when the trailer arrived Friday, the first trailer for F9, the ninth installment in The Fast Saga, revealed that not only is Han still alive, but he’s part of the action. Reacting to the trailer release at the Fast and Furious 9 concert, Kang said, “It’s good to be home.”

How is he home, you might be wondering? It’s a great question, but one we’re going to have to wait a while to get an answer to. Of course, that didn’t stop GameSpot from coming up with 14 different ways his miraculous resurrection could be explained.

Of course, the return of Han isn’t all that F9 has going for it. The movie is also introducing Jakob, a character played by John Cena who happens to also be Dom’s (Vin Diesel) long-lost little brother we’ve never heard about before now. How convenient! Get ready for Diesel and Cena to stare at each other angrily for many scenes, in addition to the inevitable scene where they play chicken with their cars.

F9 races into theaters on May 22.