![]() ![]() Sadly, Vanessa Bayer does not appear to have a role in this one. The material represents a change of pace for filmmaking team Will Speck and Josh Gordon, better known for broad comedies like Blades of Glory and Office Christmas Party. Seemingly in the tradition of one-word sci-fi survival dramas like Moon and Gravity comes Distant, in which an astronaut (Anthony Ramos) gets marooned on an alien planet and can communicate only with another, equally stranded/screwed space traveler (Naomi Scott) who is trapped in an escape pod. Young citizens of the town compete to beat back the specter and win passage out of their cursed burg two teenagers (Emyri Crutchfield and Casey Likes) team up for a shot at the ultimate prize. An Airbnb mishap results in a normal but presumably motormouthed fellow (Hart) being confused with a professional assassin (Harrelson) - a role once intended for Jason Statham!ĭavid Slade makes his first full-length feature film since Twilight: Eclipse, and his first non-vampire feature since Hard Candy, with this adaptation of a horror novel about a supernatural figure named “Sawtooth Jack” who haunts a small town every year. Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson go gunning for that Hitman’s Bodyguard cash in an action-comedy of mistaken identity, directed by Hitman’s auteur Patrick Hughes. Eichner co-wrote the movie with director Nicholas Stoller given the presence of Stoller, and producer Judd Apatow, along with Eichner’s comic bona fides, expect something relatable but laugh-out-loud funny like Forgetting Sarah Marshall or The Five-Year Engagement. ![]() Jaume Collet-Serra reteams with Johnson after their success with last year’s Jungle Cruise.īilling itself as the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio, Bros eclipses the usual coming-out narratives in favor of following two commitment-phobes (Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane) stumbling toward a possible relationship. ![]() Johnson’s Black Adam shares powers with Shazam (though presumably his non-superheroic identity is not a teenage boy), and here seems set to square off with other DC heroes including Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo) and Hawkman (Aldis Hodge). The future archnemesis of Zachary Levi’s Shazam gets his own pre-spinoff in Black Adam, a project that’s been earmarked for Dwayne Johnson for over a decade - well before the Shazam! movie came to fruition in 2019. The movie looks at least partially inspired by The Long Halloween, and goes all-in on the rogue’s gallery, featuring the Riddler (Paul Dano), the Penguin (Colin Farrell), and Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), among others. Instead, director Matt Reeves (who made the two most recent Planet of the Apes pictures) seems to have crafted a creepier and more gnarly version than either the operatic Snyder version or the crime-movie Mann version. Though this creepy-looking take on the Bat is already leading to multiple HBO Max spinoffs, it has nothing to do with the current DC multiverse, where Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck’s versions will meet later this year. Remember when eight years passed between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins? The days of waiting nearly a decade for a reboot are long gone Robert Pattinson’s inaugural turn as the Caped Crusader arriving four and a half years after the character’s most recent appearance in Justice League actually marks the longest span of Batman-free cinemas since those post-Clooney days. You’ll notice a lot of the undated titles hail from Netflix streaming services don’t often call their release date shots as early as those releasing in theaters. Here are 50-plus titles with tentative release dates, plus another 20 or so that don’t yet have dates but will likely arrive before this time next year. (while virtually every other holiday release underperformed or outright bombed).īut between streamers and the still-surviving theatrical business, there will be plenty of movies to watch in 2022, no matter how they’re released into the world. No matter how studios try to time their release strategies to avoid COVID-19 surges or take advantage of relaxed restrictions, they don’t seem to come out quite right - and sometimes those mismatches don’t seem to matter, as when Spider-Man: No Way Home became the biggest blockbuster in years just as the Omicron variant was sweeping the U.S. ![]() Movie-release calendars always exist in a state of flux, but that’s become doubly true in our two-years-and-counting pandemic era. ![]()
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