By George Robbins
Just this previous weekend, we saw the release of a film that we never would have imagined that we would actually end up seeing any time soon, ‘Borat 2.’ The movie was suddenly announced after it was discovered that people noticed actor Sacha Baron Cohen dressed as the titular character driving around in a used car. It turns out that the film was not only already done filming, but also that the movie was screened for executives and was in the process of being developed enough that it would be available for people to watch it. The question after that was just how were they going to screen the film for audiences and how would the film turn out. It turns out that we did not have to wait long to find out as, just after it was announced that the film actually existed, Amazon announced that the film would be available on Prime Video for people to watch.
Not only was it announced that it would be available on Prime Video, but it was also announced that the movie would be out on the platform before the end of October. Thus, on Friday October 23rd, ‘Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm,’ or simply ‘Borat 2,’ was released to the public. Although the movie was released on Prime Video and it is free to Prime users, the fact remains that there is a subscription for Prime that must be paid to watch the film. Just like any other Prime titles, this is nothing new, but it was a surprise to find out that the movie actually performed exceedingly well even though it was released in such a way. So how do they actually measure that metric, they base it on viewership, and more specifically, the number of people signed into their accounts to watch the film.
What came as a result of this check in viewership is the fact that ‘Borat 2’ managed to outperform the movie ‘Mulan’ when comparing the two films’ opening weekends. The release of ‘Mulan’ was one that ended up being plagued by a variety of different issues, but even so, the film performed relatively well on Disney+. Despite the number of controversies that ended up surrounding the movie, the fact remains that the movie did actually manage to raise viewership on the platform despite the issues people had with the film. While suffering overseas in China where they had hoped the film would do well, it actually managed to make Disney+ even more poignant as a platform, especially in the view of Disney themselves. This has even helped Disney to shift their main focus to streaming some of their upcoming titles as well instead of waiting for theaters to become a viable option.
Considering how much of an increase Disney reported to their sight after the release of ‘Mulan,’ it is sort of surprising to hear that ‘Borat 2’ ended up being so successful in getting high viewership numbers. At the same time, it isn’t all that surprising because not as many people were excited about the release of ‘Mulan’ as they were for ‘Borat 2.’ This is mainly because no one thought that ‘Borat 2’ would ever exist in their lifetimes considering what was said already about the retiring of the character. Also, a good portion of the people who saw ‘Mulan’ were just trying to see how well the movie held up as a live-action version of the original animated film whereas people watching ‘Borat 2’ just wanted to experience the new film. In either case, these two releases have been a huge plus to digital releases as a whole and are helping the current market.
By George Robbins
This year has been an arduous one and it isn’t quite over yet, but that doesn’t mean that once the year ends that things will not be any easier for us. We have been blaming this year itself for everything that is going wrong, but just because the number of the year is going to change doesn’t necessarily mean that the year itself will be better. The truth is that we are going to be stuck with this pandemic until some form of vaccine is found and from how things have been going thus far, it may be awhile yet. Hence, we need to start looking forward to how we are going to deal with the pandemic and its affects going into next year. One industry that has shown that they are trying to make the best of this whole situation is the movie industry as a whole.
The film industry is one of the industries that has had a relatively rough go of things ever since this whole pandemic began back in March earlier this year. At first, just like any other businesses, everything involved with the film industry had to shut down when the pandemic first began. This was a shared struggle that literally every public business had to contend with as the pandemic first started. What followed were months where pretty much nothing was allowed to happen and it was up to individual governments to allow businesses the opportunity to reopen their doors. Unfortunately for the movie industry, most of what they do is considered high-risk in regards to the spread of the virus, so they ended up being near-last on every single list.
Since every facet of the film industry essentially ended up being last on every single list when it came to who was allowed to reopen or resume business, they sort of fell behind. It really isn’t anybody’s fault that this is how things turned out as it was simply the natural progression of how the rules work during this pandemic. Of course not allowing high traffic locations or operations to resume would be the natural course of events after what we have seen happen so far. Eventually though, movie productions were slowly given the green light to resume their filming processes and movies that hadn’t started filming yet ended up becoming planned out ahead of time. Movie theaters, which are the backbone for movie studios making back their money on films, and then some, were simultaneously given the green light to reopen.
Even though movie theaters were given the green light to reopen their doors to the public, they were still considered high risk and they weren’t all given permission. Some governments took even longer to allow theaters to reopen their doors given the high risk areas they are in, but eventually they relented. Of course, there were rules that were made up to follow new health and safety guidelines that have been put into place that theaters also had to adhere to. Even though things were set up to be difficult for theaters to follow, they still managed to come up with ways to reopen to the public. Thus, they then spent a fair bit of time trying to come up with something that would bring people back as no new films had released yet. This is where a large majority of their issues then came from and it has unfortunately affected how the film industry as a whole now functions.
After movie theaters were able to reopen their doors all over the place, the problem they faced was even bigger than anticipated. It turns out that movie theaters need new movies to show to the public otherwise people will have no reason to go out to theaters. So despite being able to open up, theaters remained closed for the most part because they needed studios to give them films that they could show to the public. Thus a dance began wherein theaters simply waited until studios decided on a release date for their films and studios waited for theaters to open before they decided on a release. Finally, after about a month of this, AMC broke the stalemate and decided that their theaters would all reopen by the middle of August.
This whole dance between studios and theaters began when there was a surge in virus cases that got everyone rightfully worried about what would happen next. After AMC decided that they would be opening up regardless of what happens, Warner Bros. was the first studio to follow suit by saying they would finally release their new blockbuster ‘Tenet.’ For a long time, they were trying to decide exactly when they were going to release this film because of the aforementioned surge and the dance that happened. With all of that going on, they decided to release the film first internationally and then they would follow-up in the near future with a domestic release. Luckily for them at the time, they wouldn’t have to wait long as they released the film in both markets one week after the other.
Considering the fact that it was the first time since the pandemic began that there was a new blockbuster, it could be seen both ways as both a good and bad thing that the movie brought in $150 million in those two weeks. Good because it did a good job of bringing in a fair amount with everything that has been going on, and bad because in both markets it only brought in that much while being the aforementioned first blockbuster since March to release. It is debatable as to whether the first two weeks were really all that great but in comparison with what followed, it most definitely was. For a few weeks following the film’s release domestically, the box office dropped tremendously to the point where many would probably consider it to be a failure. The movie needs a lot of money back in order for it to even break even but after only the third week domestically it was barely bringing in a few million.
With the, what some would consider, failed release of ‘Tenet’ many studios immediately pulled out most of their films from this year’s line-up. They have either decided to put their movies on the backburner for now with no official release dates, or they have picked dates that go well into some time next year. What happened with ‘Tenet’ was simply fear from the public that going out to a movie theater presents a large risk of becoming infected and even with the new rules in place for theaters, this fear is not unfounded. It has been awhile now since ‘Tenet’s’ launch, but the fact remains that it is still clear on many people’s minds that theaters are in trouble after this. Regal Cinemas even closed up all of their theaters because they didn’t want to lose anymore money with people no longer coming in.
Despite everything that is happening within the movie theater industry right now, the larger film industry is trying their best to move forward with their plans. There are still many films in the making that have not stopped being worked on, save for those with temporary shut downs due to confirmed Covid-19 cases. Ever since filming productions had resumed, many projects have been working very hard to finish up as soon as possible. Whether this be just to save time for post-production or preparing for more planned projects coming up, there is no doubt that the production side of the industry is working very hard. Even though their films will not end up releasing for quite awhile still, studios are still building up their repertoires in order to have catalogs of films available for when theaters eventually manage to reopen, and they can actually bring people in.
One such studio that is working very hard to ensure that they have content ready to roll out to the public after the pandemic is over, or at least handles better, is Marvel Studios. The folks behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, have continued to work hard even now to try and get their upcoming films worked on. As we all know by now, they have their projects split up into Phases that we have seen play out over the years, but this pandemic has thrown them off just a bit. While much of what they have planned is still scheduled to release in relatively the same way, their movies have all had to adjust in some way shape or form. The order that we may see those upcoming films worked on and released may end up being changed as time goes on. Despite that, it is clear that we will be seeing a lot of work going into those upcoming films soon and this next year may just end up being a big one for the MCU.
While no MCU films were able to be shown on the big screen this year, we know that they were certainly not slouching and they have been working on their upcoming films. Just recently, they even announced that they finished filming ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ and that it is now entering post-production phase. This upcoming year is going to be an even bigger and more important year for them in terms of production since we still aren’t sure how things are going to turn out with this pandemic. What we already know is that they plan on starting production for ‘Ant-Man 3’ in June despite it not even having been announced as part of their next phase. We also know that they will be working on TV shows that will premiere on Disney+ such as ‘Moon Knight’ which has just been announced with actor Oscar Isaac taking the leading role.
With all of this in mind, the next production that they will be putting all of their work towards is ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ which is the much-anticipated fourth Thor film. While we are still none too sure about what the main plot of the film will focus on, some bits and pieces have been floated out there since the announcement of the film. The story will see the return of one Jane Foster played by Natalie Portman and some believe, with hints from the actress, that this movie will see her character become the female Thor to some degree. She has already stated that Foster will wield the mighty hammer Mjolnir in the upcoming film, but whether or not this is true will remain to be seen when more information about the movie becomes available. We also don’t quite know what the name of the villain for the upcoming film will be either.
Things are starting to come together for the upcoming film as actor Christian Bale has recently arrived in Australia to prepare for the upcoming production. While we may not know who the villain for the upcoming film will be, we do know that Bale will be the one playing the role of the villain in this upcoming film. We also know that the film is meant to start filming in early 2021 and more specifically than that, it will begin filming in January. Needless to say, their preparing for the film now is helping out a lot in the long run as it will make it easy for them to transition into actually starting the production. That is to say that many people just need to hope that things go smoothly until then and that the production will not need to be halted in any way.
The truth of the matter right now is that things are still highly volatile at the moment due to the pandemic. We never really know what will happen on a day to day basis as some things just seem to keep getting worse and worse as time goes on. Despite this fact, Marvel Studios is continuing to do well and they are making sure that when all of this is over, for the most part, that we will have something to see on the big screen that lets us know they are working hard no matter what. The film industry hasn’t halted and they have been doing their best so that we will eventually get entertainment that we’ve been hoping for all of this time. Although ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ is still a ways off from release, knowing that they will soon be working on the film is nothing short of exciting.
By George Robbins
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, is now a massive worldwide franchise that focuses on the superheroes we all know and love from the Marvel Comics. The comics themselves have been around for many years now and even though the MCU only began back in 2008, superhero movies have been around far longer than that. Studios have been working on superhero films for years, but they could never quite land a solid hit with their films. Some films have become popular over the years with Sony’s ‘Spider-Man‘ in 2002 and Fox’s ‘X-Men‘ in 1999 being ranked as some of the best Marvel films outside of the MCU. That being said, there have not really been any Marvel films outside of the MCU that have done well with audiences.
After the start of the MCU, audiences discovered that there could actually be good shared universes for superhero movies. No longer would there be standalone superhero films where nothing of true consequence ends up happening. While the sequels for the aforementioned films played off the consequences of their original films, it is more interesting now to see how other heroes play off of another heroes consequences. Needless to say, the MCU has managed to mold together a universe where it is possible for us to see characters get their own stories while simultaneously sharing a universe with other heroes that have their own stories nearly flawlessly. There are some plot holes that have arisen over time, but fans have managed to largely overlook them as the MCU continues to deliver pretty strong stories.
Even if the stories begin to feel a little copy and paste in the long run, the stories themselves are unique to each character and show how they deal with their own problems. Not to mention, the interweaving of various characters’ stories is becoming more and more regular in the MCU which makes it possible for more interesting stories to be told. This makes it all more interesting in the long run with many new MCU films playing off of these dynamics that occur as a result. Multiple personalities are now able to take to the screen and show us a story that we are sure to remember in the future. Now that the MCU has grown to such massive proportions it has become much more normalized for their to be multiple forms of media involved with it.
While all of the outside content for the MCU has been decidedly turned into alternate canon by Disney, there has really been no show that is a part of the MCU yet. That is, yet, because Disney is now producing a whole slew of shows for the future that are centered around the MCU and will include characters that may end up being official parts of it as time goes on. Even though, in the very near future, we will be seeing shows for characters that we know and already recognize from the films, there will eventually be shows centered around entirely new characters. As Disney has already decided to make other shows non-canon for the MCU timelines, we will likely see new versions of them being produced in the future. In the meantime, however, it seems they are going to focus on characters they have in their films and characters that haven’t been seen yet on screen.
Most recently, we have discovered that they are even working on a character for a new show that many people would not recognize and that is ‘Moon Knight.’ This character is certainly a unique one to turn to when making a new show about a character that has yet to be seen on screen, but it will be fascinating for the same reason. Considering how many people have been a part of the MCU already, it was just a question of who they would get to play the character. Disney did not have to look too far as they found Oscar Issac who is known by Star Wars fans as Poe Dameron in the Sequel Trilogy. Considering how many actors Disney now has at its disposal, it is no surprise that they decided to simply circle back to one of their other casting choices for a previous project to find someone play an MCU character.
By George Robbins
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, more commonly referred to as the MCU, is home to various characters from the Marvel Comics that many people grew up with. If not for those comics, many people would not have an outlet for the things they love and it is without a doubt responsible for generations of people now loving the superhero genre. Superheroes have existed outside of comic books, but their success as a whole genre can be boiled down to the success of the comics. Most specifically, superheroes draw their success in media from the DC and Marvel comics and they have continued to do so even today with comics being renewed on a regular basis. Unlike those comics though, the MCU has a set storyline and it isn’t being retconned as time goes on.
Very much unlike the comics they are based upon, the MCU films are in it for the long haul because the already established universe can’t necessarily just hit a reset button. In the context of the story, it is very much possible for them to do so with help from McGuffins such as the infinity stones, or something like them. Something, in universe, that could completely reshape the universe that we have seen thus far on screen is what it would take to “retcon” the MCU as a whole. Comic books, being an entirely different medium, can just suddenly decide to hit the reset button whenever they feel that the storylines are getting stale. With this in mind, we can kind of rejoice in the fact that what we get to see on screen will always have its own place and that they won’t just decide to begin anew.
Before the MCU was officially established, superhero movies did nothing but hit the reset button because of the various people making the films. For the longest time, numerous titles were given to different studios who went off and made their own versions of different characters from the Marvel Comics. What followed was a generation of movies featuring various characters from the comics and the films were not regarded very well for the most part. Some of the films ended up being popular with fans, but the vast majority of them left a lot to be desired from the populace. As such, when ‘Iron Man‘ first released in 2008, a new generation of superhero movies began and most of the MCU films that followed were popular among fans.
With the start of the MCU, we saw a vast resurgence in older, but popular characters making their return to the big screen in some way which built up the first phase of the MCU. Without the first phase of the MCU, the future films that we would end up getting for the shared universe would not have been successful. After they proved that there could, in fact, be a shared superhero universe and that it could be well-received by the general public, they started bringing in more characters from the comics that many casual fans didn’t know about. The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Ant-Man,’ and ‘Doctor Strange’ are among that group and, despite not being known by many casual fans, they have been accepted by fans into the MCU because of how well done the characters are. This wouldn’t have even been possible if it weren’t for the first phase paving the way and giving an opportunity for the characters to shine.
Now that the Infinity Saga has ended there are characters which are no longer a part of the MCU- but now that we have seen how other characters that aren’t as well known can be adapted, many new characters have the opportunity to be a part of the MCU. When Marvel Studios announced their plans for their upcoming films moving forward, they announced the huge variety of characters that they have coming to the MCU, but those are not the only characters we will see. Eventually, many fan favorites will end up becoming a part of the MCU as well because slowly, but surely, Disney is managing to unify all Marvel properties under one umbrella. This is how we are now ending up with so many possible cross-over films being set to release over the course of the next few years with many characters now belonging in the same universe.
One of the most interesting parts of the MCU at this time is the fact that we already have an established shared universe where the most powerful heroes have managed to gather up on a number of occasions already. This means that they will now have to work it into the movies how exactly those character fit into everything; including where they have been, what they have been doing, why they didn’t get involved in things before, etc. I believe that, if these things can be explained well, then they can further add to the expanded universe and make it even better than it already was. I think that they need to figure stuff like this out if they ever want to properly integrate characters like the mutants into the MCU in the future, which is most definitely something that they will be trying to do in the not too distant future.
The most common way of dealing with this kind of scenario is actually the most common type of superhero movie there is which is the origin story. While Marvel Studios has already proven that they can weave origins into already existing and unfolding plots, they are just as good as making movies centered around how that hero became what they are now. Considering the fact that much of the upcoming MCU will feature new heroes, we will be seeing a few new origin stories unfold over the coming years. This isn’t really all that much of a surprise, but it is nice to know that we will be getting the opportunity to see how the stories of various characters unfold and how they became the new generation of heroes. Unfortunately, the entire schedule of the MCU has been consistently pushed back due to the pandemic, so it will still be awhile before we get to see the next saga in the MCU start to unfold before our eyes.
A couple of unfortunate events unfolded for the MCU when the pandemic first started which included ‘Black Widow’s’ theatrical release being pushed back and filming for the movie ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ being halted. After a few months, when things started looking like they were going back on track, the announcement was made that ‘Shang-Chi’ was going to be going back into production. This was a stroke of good luck because when they halted production, the movie had only really just begun and no real filming was done for the movie. While things were going well for the production end of the spectrum, the actual release end of things was far from okay because there was a massive surge in virus cases over the Summer which further delayed ‘Black Widow.’ Even after that passed, it was very quickly discovered that movie theaters are in a bad place right now and they can’t really bring customers in because people are afraid of going there and getting the virus.
Now that theaters are on a heavy decline as time rolls on, studios made the decision to further push back the releases of their films. This has inevitably ended up affecting the release of the next few MCU films as their plans were further pushed back more than they ever would have planned for originally. This gives them a lot more time to work on their upcoming films, but it also means that we will not be seeing the new MCU films for quite some time. Fortunately, even if we have to wait a lot longer to see new MCU films, we will know that there was a ton of time spent in post working to make sure the film turned out alright in the end for audiences. They will have a long time to work on ‘Shang-Chi’ as it has apparently finished filming now and, while the theatrical release may be a long time off, the movie will definitely be an interesting origin story that was worked on very hard.
By George Robbins
There has been a lot going on in the world of DC at this moment in time and, given what we’ve learned over the past couple of months, this will not stop any time soon. Ever since the pandemic began we have been hearing about all kinds of DC news and about movies that are currently in the works in some way or another. Not too long after the start of the pandemic, Warner launched their premiere streaming service HBO Max which has been doing a solid job since its launch and with it they brought news of something fans have only really been dreaming of. That something would just so happen to be the long-awaited launch plans for the upcoming Snyder Director’s Cut for the ‘Justice League’ movie. Fans have been awaiting this version of the film for a long time now and we are finally getting the chance to see it be made.
The original ‘Justice League‘ movie was released back in 2017 and it was originally directed by Joss Whedon. While the movie managed to do well financially, it did not turn out as fans expected it to and the movie was not well-received on a critic-basis. Ever since the release of the film, fans have had the idea in their minds that this was not the version of the film that they were originally meant to end up with. With this idea in their minds, they decided to start petitioning Warner Bros. to release the true version of the film made by the original director for the film, Zack Snyder. Snyder was working on the film before he unfortunately had to step away from the director’s chair due to a tragic passing in his family.
Zack Snyder, as every fan knew, was the man behind the ‘Man of Steel‘ film which kicked off Warner’s DC Extended Universe, or DCEU. While this shared universe may not have been as financially successful as its Marvel predecessor thus far, it has still managed to bring in a fair bit of money as time has gone on. With that in mind, the films still fair pretty well at the box office and they manage to do pretty well critically. People have come to appreciate the “darker side” aspect of the DCEU since its inception, and fans have realized that Snyder can deliver it fairly well. This is why fans have been wanting to see his version of the film as they knew that if he was in charge of it, then it would have turned out very different from the film we got. Ever since the announcement that he would be putting his version of the film on HBO Max, fans have been excited for its release.
While the movie will be releasing on HBO Max, there are a lot of changes that we will apparently be seeing between the two versions of the story. Perhaps the biggest and most noticeable difference we have learned about is the fact that the film will actually be turned into a 4-part mini-series instead of a 4-hour film. This was something that was discussed during the all-online DC fan event, aptly named DC FanDome where the movie, as well as many other DC details, were discussed at length. Even after that fan event many more details about the impending director’s cut’s release have been made public. This has all served to make fans more and more excited about what seems to be an entirely new “film” for the DCEU.
Fans should absolutely not count on this being a DCEU film, however, because it has already been confirmed that whatever we end up witnessing on screen is not going to be canon. That being said, they seem to be pulling out all of the stops with more than just some special effects editing being done on the film. It turns out that even recently, Snyder has been doing reshoots for the film in order to create entirely new scenes that will be a part of the film. There are now things that will be a part of the film that no one would have ever expected there to be and it is growing into this thing that no DC fan would ever want to miss out on. Some of the more interesting content we have been finding out about is the fact that the film will be adding in characters that were missing from the original film.
We have recently found out that the film will actually include some scene, or scenes, that include the Joker from ‘Suicide Squad.’ That’s right, Jared Leto’s iteration of the Joker is set to make some kind of appearance in the upcoming Snyder Cut of ‘Justice League.’ The movie ‘Suicide Squad’ was not received well by anyone, but there has been a lot of information coming out that studio interference is the reason for why that movie ended up how it did. With the studio calling for apparently constant reshoots to make the film more appealing, not much of the original film was left by the end of filming. This news became public not long after the announcement of the Snyder Cut and the ‘Suicide Squad’ director David Ayer has put out his own petition for a director’s cut to release for his film.
While it is still not known if we will get to see a director’s cut of ‘Suicide Squad,’ especially with the spiritual sequel ‘The Suicide Squad‘ coming up, we will get to see the Joker on screen soon. It was officially confirmed that he will have his part to play in the upcoming Snyder cut and we will hopefully get to see more of what was promised when ‘Suicide Squad’ came out. When it first released, we heard all about Leto’s insane method acting, but his performance didn’t get a chance to shine on screen because most of his scenes were cut from the film. With his appearance in ‘Justice League’ perhaps Leto’s Joker will actually end up being one that fans fall in love with. All we have to do now is wait and see if this ends up becoming a reality when the movie releases some time early next year on HBO Max.
By George Robbins
There are plenty of movies that are in the works at the moment that we have heard about within recent months that are stills a ways off from release. There is nothing much that we can really do about that fact because the pandemic just inherently makes things difficult for us to do anything at all. We can still find excitement in the fact that once there is some kind of vaccine and things can start going back to how they were, we will have a ton of new content available to us. At least now we have the opportunity to just start making a list that is getting longer and longer by the day in regards to the new content that we will have going into next year. Despite everything that is going on, there is always something to look forward to on the horizon.
Movie studios have been working hard to try and establish their timelines for upcoming projects, and for the most part, they have been pretty open about everything. This stems from the fact that the pandemic has made things quite complicated and we are not entirely sure of what the true dates and time windows are going to be. For instance, we don’t know exactly how long it will take to finish a lot of upcoming films, but we know that many of them have been delayed even further for some reason or another. This is because, other than the initial delay that we have seen due to the pandemic shutting down productions, there have been other delays related to the pandemic and other issues. One of the biggest reasons for many delays has been the fact that members of some crews have tested positive.
One recent production that was forced to shut down recently was the ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ production which was unfortunate considering how close they were to finishing. Even if there are delays though, it won’t really affect the productions all that much because these things are now being accounted for. There are already enough delays that it really doesn’t matter if anymore end up being tacked on because we are not even sure of when this pandemic will end. Without some kind of ending in sight, we don’t know just how long it will be before movies will have the opportunity to play in theaters again. With the failure of movie theaters over the past couple of months, studios have been deciding to postpone their theatrical releases for a long time.
Many films have had their release dates pushed back for upwards of months to even over a year and a half at this point in time. They have really only been doing this as an effort to create a timeframe where they could release their films if things work out for this pandemic. That being said, there is a lot going on at the moment and it will be awhile before we see any definitive dates come out in reference to new movie releases. Things are going much better on the digital side of things though as release dates are really just more of a formality on that front. Therefore, the digital side of movie releases is becoming more and more serious as time goes on and we will be seeing movies having to decide between what is a better launch platform.
Studios such as Disney are now putting more of an effort into their streaming platform and they will now be deciding on which films to release where. At least for the foreseeable future, during this pandemic, this is how things will be playing out and some of the smaller film titles will be available to the public much sooner than bigger titles. With some releases taking place on the digital platforms, it frees up space and creates less competition for release windows when things start to calm down a bit. This creates a better situation for everyone and makes it possible for studios to get things working as soon as possible. There are plenty of dates currently set for movies releases, but none of them are set in stone; hopefully now, there will be some wiggle room with the freed up space.
One studio that has been working hard to get their dates set up properly has been Warner Bros. who have been trying to make the best out of the hand they were dealt. They set the stage for everything we are seeing now after they had a bad release with their movie ‘Tenet’ where they haven’t made back the money they were hoping for. That doesn’t mean that the movie has been an absolute failure as it is still making some kind of money, just nowhere near as much as it would if there wasn’t a pandemic. Due to this, studios took this as a sign of something bad in the movie theater industry, and thus, the mass exodus of films took place from this year’s line-up. This was probably for the best in the long run as they all would have lost a lot of money with their film releases, so now the industry has been set on a new path.
Warner Bros. followed suit with the other companies and they decided to make things easier on themselves by also pushing back their other releases. Some of those releases were unfortunately pushed back far further than some originally thought they would be and now dates for release are scattered across a couple of years. Movies we were expecting to see this upcoming year have now been lost to 2022 because release dates had to be moved around. This isn’t inherently bad as it makes it so that there is plenty of time to make sure that the films turn out better, but it can be annoying for fans who have been waiting. Even though some films have been moved around due to this, there are others which have managed to maintain their original release dates.
On the list of films that have managed to do this is the movie ‘The Suicide Squad‘ which is still set to release in August of 2021. Even though this date is still obviously subject to change, there is still plenty of hype building for the film since we got some information about it from DC FanDome. Many fans have been skeptical about the movie’s release ever since they first heard about the spiritual sequel, but those thoughts are now moot. The film has many fans now excited which is a double-edged sword of sorts because now that they are excited, they will be expecting something spectacular from the film. The James Gunn directed film has already received a lot of coverage and Gunn has made it known that he has been in complete creative control, so hopes are high that the movie will end up delivering the experience fans are hoping for.
Gunn has already made it known to the public that he was given the opportunity to use whatever characters he wanted for the film, regardless of who they were. Hence, we have already seen that he has pulled out numerous characters that people don’t really know about and managed to make an interesting film about them. On top of this, we have just learned from Gunn that he also has complete control of what happens to said characters and DC doesn’t really have a say in the matter. He has said that whatever happens to those characters, DC cannot protect them and he was given carte blanche to do what he wanted for the sake of the film. That has made the upcoming anti-hero film even more exciting and it is no surprise that people can’t wait for the release.
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