There are four major cinema releases in the UK this week, and we have all the details for you.
2023 was a massive year for cinema, with the summer period flourishing thanks to the releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer. The movies were released around the same time and many cinema-goers actually did the double-feature, which was affectionately named 'Barbenheimer'.
Barbie became the most successful movie ever directed by a solo female director, earning $1.44 billion at the box office, while Oppenheimer made $953m. No pressure for the movies that follow, in 2024, then...
Sony's Spider-Man universe is expanding with the upcoming releases of Madame Web as well as Venom 3 and Kraven the Hunter.
Official premise of Madame Web:
'Cassandra Webb is forced to confront her past while trying to survive with three young women with powerful futures who are being hunted by a deadly adversary.'
Madame Web cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Adam Scott, Emma Roberts and Zosia Mamet.
Bob Marley: One Love is a 2024 biographical musical drama film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, and Zach Baylin. It is based on the life and work of reggae legend Bob Marley.
Official premise:
'Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.'
Bob Marley: One Love cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Daniel Melville Jr., Sevana, Hector Lewis, Tosin Cole, Aston Barrett Jr., Jesse Cilio and Michael Gandolfini.
One of the most talked about horror movies of 2023 was the outrageous slasher Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Directed, produced and written by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the movie reimagined the characters from Winnie-the0Pooh. In that version, they were not the cuddly, loveable friends of Christoper Robin, but rather feral, psychotic humanoid animals whose thirst for violence made this one of the goriest films of recent memory.
The official premise of number 2 reads:
'Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl and Tigger take their fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.'
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 cast: Scott Chambers, Ryan Oliva, Eddy MacKenzie, Lewis Santer, Marcus Massey and Simon Callow.
The Promised Land is a joint German-Danish production directed by Nikolaj Arcel from a screenplay by Arcel & Anders Thomas Jensen.
Official premise:
'In 18th-century Denmark, impoverished war hero Capt. Ludvig Kahlen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. This beautiful but forbidding area is under the rule of Frederik De Schinkel, a merciless nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. As a new community starts to settle in, De Schinkel swears vengeance, leading to a violent and intense confrontation between the two men.'
The Promised Land cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh, Jakob Lohmann, Morten Hee Andersen, Magnus Krepper and Felix Krame.
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