Both Marvel and its biggest competitor DC Comics continue to keep us busy with their movies. After the photos, we have now just arrived at the first trailer for the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which is coming to cinemas in 2016. Ben Affleck as the newly minted Batman and Henry Cavill, who repeated the role of Superman. “Are you bleeding?” Batman asks Superman. Oh, 2016, come on.
Although we never asked for it, in 2016 the adaptation of Ben-Hur, the timeless classic from 1959 that won 11 Oscars and starred Charlton Heston, is coming to the big screen. Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) took the director's baton this time. Ben-Hur, the biblical story about a betrayed Jewish prince and a wealthy merchant, which initially came to life in the form of a book, experienced two film adaptations, and now there is a third one in the pipeline, in which Morgan Freeman will also star.
The students of two secondary schools - Ravne na Koroškem gymnasium and Trgovska akademija from Velikovac - filmed the film Bergmandlc, a futuristic horror film that is the result of Slovenian-Austrian cooperation and is based on the story of the mining legend Perkmandeljec. The film had its premiere in Klagenfurt, and soon the film by young filmmakers will also be screened in Slovenia.
Birdman, a comedy directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (also known as the director of Biutiful (2010), 21 Grams (2003) and Amores perros (2000)), will open the 71st Venice Film Festival on August 27.
Blade Runner is the sequel to the legendary 1982 film that is always on the top list for sci-fi fans. Excesses are promised this time by an excellent cast, in which we find Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto. Promising!
The Blair Witch Project (The Blair Witch Project) is a cult horror film from 1999, which, like the movie Seagull, chased people out of the woods. At Comic Con in San Diego, the news that her sequel is coming - a Blair Witch movie - came like a bolt from the blue! The filmmakers successfully hid the project under the working title The Woods and outwitted everyone! To make sure it's not an unsalted joke, they also brought the first trailer with them, which you can already watch. The film hits theaters on September 16, 2016.
The American film Bone Tomahawk mixes genres that don't often come together. It is a western and a horror film. In it, Kurt Russell demonstrates his entire spectrum of acting knowledge, which we will be able to admire at the end of the year in another western, namely Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful 8. Even earlier, we will see what he prepared for us at the dictation of S. Craig Zahler, who is also responsible for the film's script.
Boulevard is the last film of the late Robin Williams, whose fate has been hanging in the air for a long time, although it received a warm reception at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In his latest role, Williams plays Nolan Mack, a middle-aged bank clerk and lonely man who lives a monotonous life, but it turns upside down when he stops a young prostitute Leo (Roberto Aguire) and begins to learn who he really is.
In the time of happy December, he especially needs some carefree fun, and the movie Office Christmas Party is perfect for such a thing. It is an entertainment comedy with a stellar cast, in which Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, who already impressed in the movie How to Get Rid of the Boss, join forces again, but this time they are dealing with the craziest Christmas party in town, with which the employees want to save their jobs.
In Bridge of Spies, the movie giants, director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Terminal) will join forces for the fourth time. It is a political espionage thriller from the Cold War era, based on real events, with the help of two other giants of the film industry, namely the Coen brothers (No Room for Old Men), who signed the script together with Matt Charman.
More and more Hollywood studios are hesitant to invest tens of millions of dollars in film projects, but they are welcomed with open arms by Netflix and Amazon, which show films on their platforms and send them to cinemas through external partners. It is an increasingly common phenomenon. Martin Scorsese's next project The Irishman will also grow in this way, as did Beasts of No Nation, and the films 13th and Manchester by the Sea. The film Bright with Will Smith, which takes place in the near future, also follows this path. In it, Smith relives his days chasing down mean boys and monsters. Even now, he is a cop who lives among strange creatures.
Behind the rain the sun shines (2013), American Deception (2014) and Sniper (2015) and Burnt (2016?). Bradley Cooper has always been in the running for an Oscar for the past three years, but the statuette eluded him each time - twice for the main role and once for the supporting male role. With his next project, the film Burnt, where he plays a troubled chef who has had everything and lost everything, will he finally lick the cream more than just his dessert in the film and also pick up the most prestigious acting award? Is 2016 the year of Leonardo DiCaprio after all?