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‘John Wick’ Spinoff ‘Ballerina’ Set To Release June 2024
An upcoming spin-off of the popular movie franchise John Wick will feature a ballerina-turned-assassin as the main character. The theatrical release date for Ballerina has been set for June 7th, 2024.
Ana de Armas, known for her role in No Time to Die, will play the lead role in Ballerina. The movie will also feature appearances by Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Anjelica Huston.
Ian McShane is set to reprise his role as Winston, the owner of The Continental, in the upcoming John Wick spinoff Ballerina. However, the major announcement is that Keanu Reeves will also make an appearance as the iconic character John Wick, alongside Ana de Armas.
The movie’s co-writer Shay Hatten told Collider that Reeves’ role will be more than a cameo. “We got him to be in it for a good chunk,” he said.
“He’s a real character, and it’s not just kind of a one-piece cameo. He’s got… well, I shouldn’t say too much, but he’s in the movie in a way that I think people are going to be really excited by.”
Anjelica Huston will also make an appearance in the movie as The Director, a character who previously appeared in John Wick: Chapter 3 as the manager of the ballet where John was trained. It’s likely that De Armas’s character will also be trained there.
Deadline reported on December 13, 2022, that Norman Reedus, best known for his role in The Walking Dead, has joined the cast of Ballerina in an undisclosed role.
When I learned about the John Wick spinoff featuring a ballerina-turned-assassin, my mind immediately went to the mesmerizing video installation “En Puntas” by artist Javier Perez.
In the video, ballerina Amélie Sgarra performs an incredible dance while standing en pointe on a grand piano, wearing a pair of pointe shoes customized with sharp kitchen knives that extend beyond the toe box.
Can’t you just imagine some epic fight scenes with a pair of ballerina slippers like that!
Len Wiseman, known for directing films such as Underworld and the TV series Swamp Thing, will be directing the first spinoff movie of the John Wick franchise. The script for the new movie was written by Shay Hatten, who also wrote for John Wick: Chapter 3.
While the spinoff is in the works, John Wick: Chapter 4 is still bringing in some big bucks, with a global box office revenue of $245 million and positive critical reviews.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Alien: Romulus’ With RC Facehugger
Happy Alien Day! To celebrate director Fede Alvarez who is helming the latest sequel in the Alien franchise Alien: Romulus, got out his toy Facehugger in the SFX workshop. He posted his antics on Instagram with the following message:
“Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody!”
To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, April 26 2024 has been designated as Alien Day, with a re-release of the film hitting theaters for a limited time.
Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the franchise and is currently in post-production with a scheduled theatrical release date of August 16, 2024.
In other news from the Alien universe, James Cameron has been pitching fans the boxed set of Aliens: Expanded a new documentary film, and a collection of merch associated with the movie with pre-sales ending on May 5.
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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