Ant-Man and the Wasp may have chronicled the story of Scott Lang, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne attempting to rescue the long-lost Janet van Dyne from the Quantum Realm, but along the way it also subtly sowed seeds for the debut of two teams from Marvel’s comics -- teams that could be part of the as-of-yet unrevealed Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Young Avengers After the day was […]
Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds kicked off Poland's legendary weekender last night (July 4) Of Arctic Monkeys’ twelve thousand festival dates in 2018, Open’er will make them feel most at home. It’s the closest the European festival circuit has to a Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino. Set on a glitzed-up landing strip in northern Poland, it’s a place where surreal high art meets […]
Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado has earned around $23 million in its first five days of release, putting the $35m-budgeted Black Label Media actioner on the path to profitability. Sony picked up the Sicario sequel and (the terrific) Only the Brave after Lionsgate decided not to release them domestically. Lionsgate will still distribute Sicario 2 in some overseas territories, but I digress. The relative success of Day of the Soldado is a win for Sony Entertainment in two […]
We’re still a few weeks away from the August 9th unveiling for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9, but details have begun to trickle out about one of the biggest changes reportedly coming to the iconic S-Pen stylus: Bluetooth, spotted by Droid Life in the Note 9’s FCC filing. The filing just confirms that the new S-Pen will have Bluetooth functionality in some way, but people have speculated on Twitter that Samsung will be using it as a multi-purpose […]
The global phenomenon that was “Avengers: Infinity War” was such a juggernaut at the box office, it’s poised to propel the latest “Ant-Man” movie into a sizeable midsummer hit. Disney predicts “Ant-Man and the Wasp” will gross roughly $80 million in its debut weekend — the same amount two other trackers are currently estimating. Already that’s much higher than the $57.2 million debut of the first “Ant-Man.” But studio estimates […]
The Foo Fighters frontman talks about everything from the glories of Meg White to the loss of Tom Petty and why he could never replace Neil Peart. Dave Grohl had a day off in Memphis yesterday, so he dropped by Graceland, which got him thinking about Elvis Presley as just another kid with a guitar trying to deal with “the effect that young stardom can have.” But unlike Presley and certain […]
When you see Ant-Man and the Wasp, keep your eyes peeled on the Quantum Realm. It may hold the keys to the future. “Like the first movie there are clues in the Quantum Realm to other possibilities and things,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told io9. “I’m talking frames [of film].” In the first Ant-Man, fans long believed that when Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) went into the Quantum Realm, there were a few […]
Summer 2018 shows signs of strength beyond the usual blockbusters. But will the box office sustain beyond its great first half? It depend how one defines sustain. The biggest openings — including Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” next weekend — are likely behind us and make up the bulk of the long haul. It will take some better-than-expected results from the rest of the forthcoming releases to keep up the pace. Two […]
John Krasinski’s Sunday Night Prods. is producing the biopic at Universal. Matt Damon is in early talks to star as disgraced billionaire Marc Rich in Universal's The King of Oil. The studio optioned Daniel Ammann's book The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich for John Krasinski’s Sunday Night Prods. Krasinski, who is red hot after directing the horror hit A Quiet Place, will produce the biopic that sheds new light on […]
