16 posts tagged ‘jon favreau’
All the Big Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films We're Excited for in 2024
Gizmodo,
In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and… Read more...
The Mandalorian's Cinematic Prospects May Not Just Be One-Offs
Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed Din Djarin will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni’s New Republic-era movie still potentially called Heir to the Empire, the Mandalorian will star in The Mandalorian & Grogu, which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure. Read more...
All the Shocking Star Wars News of the Week, and More
Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all… Read more...
What the Mandalorian & Grogu movie reveals about the future of Star Wars
AV Club,
This week’s announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film added one more major project to Lucasfilm’s already crowded Star Wars slate. While we don’t have many details about The Mandalorian movie at this point, what we do know shows where the studio is focusing its resources, and where the Star Wars franchise is… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. explains how making Iron Man was a little bit indie
A little over four years ago (!), Martin Scorsese made a now-infamous pronouncement: Marvel movies are “not cinema.” In fact, they’re more like theme parks, in the Killers Of The Flower Moon director’s eye. That first shot kicked off a war as virulent as the one the Avengers had to fight against Thanos himself. It’s… Read more...
The most disappointing TV shows of the year, Starz' surprisingly solid programming, and more from the week in TV
A guy with a cool eyepatch named Danish Graves once said: “We have our own reality.” That, more than anything, might be Fargo season five’s mission statement. For weeks, we’ve watched Dorothy bob and weave past threats and kidnappings. She’d had to explain herself to those increasingly desperate to, if not help, then… Read more...
Marvel's What If…? season two review: A fun, familiar return
Season one of Disney+’s What If…? was a somewhat rare bit of general joy from Marvel Studios—not much more than good times and Easter eggs for MCU fans who like the idea of seeing familiar characters and storylines remixed into something fresh. So it’s fitting the show’s second season is airing around the holidays… Read more...
Baby Yoda Comes to Life in Exclusive Clip From The Mandalorian's Home Release
Cast your memory back to season one of The Mandalorian, to the first moment you glimpsed Baby Yoda—even before Star Wars marketing nudged fans into calling the character “the Child,” and before we learned his name was “Grogu.” This clip from Disney Home Entertainment’s The Mandalorian Season 1 and Season 2, out today,… Read more...