Il Super Bowl è l’evento televisivo americano per eccellenza e durante le inifinite pause di gioco, gli spot assumono un ruolo determinante. Non solo quelli puramente commerciali, ma anche quelli cinematografici, che lanciano tutti i film in uscita prima dell’estate.
Questa è una carrellata sui migliori della serata.
Cominciamo dal thriller spionistico Red Sparrow con Jennifer Lawrence, diretta da Francis Lawrence. Assieme a loro Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker e Jeremy Irons. In uscita il 2 marzo.
Dominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat. When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.
Passiamo quindi all’horror distopico A Quiet Place, diretto da John Krasinski con la moglie Emily Blunt come protagonista.
A family living on a farm hides from a supernatural evil attracted to sound by avoiding making sound and communicating in sign language.
In uscita il 6 aprile.
Arriviamo ad uno dei re del Box office, Dwayne Johnson, con Skyscraper, una sorta di nuovo Die Hard.
Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary’s “Skyscraper” as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building…above the fire line.
Nel cast ci saranno anche Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Pablo Schreiber, Byron Mann, Hannah Quinlivan, Noah Taylor, Jason Day, Byron Lawson. Dirige Rawson Marshall Thurber.
In sala dal 13 luglio.
Con una mossa a sorpresa, Netflix ha rilasciato contemporaneamente il trailer di The Cloverfield Paradox, terzo capitolo della serie antologica, unitamente al film, disponibile subito dopo il Super Bowl!
Diretto da Julius Onah e scritto da Oren Uziel e Doug Jung, il film è ambientato nello spazio ed è interpretato da David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ziyi Zhang, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl and Chris O’Dowd.
In the near future, a group of international astronauts on a space station are working to solve a massive energy crisis on Earth. The experimental technology aboard the station has an unexpected result, leaving the team isolated and fighting for their survival.
E ora veniamo ai pezzi grossi: cominciando da Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ambientato 4 anni dopo gli eventi descritti da Jurassic World ed in uscita il prossimo 20 giugno.
Questa volta alla regia c’è lo spagnolo Juan Antonio Bayona. Nel cast ritorna Jeff Goldblum a vent’anni di distanza da Il mondo perduto.
It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.
Il 4 maggio si vedranno invece gli Avengers con Infinity War. Anthony e Joe Russo hanno convocato tutti sul loro set, compresi i Guardiani della Galassia, all’insegna del bigger & better
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment – the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
Considerando il numero degli attori coinvolti e la durata ipotizzabile, qualcuno sarà presente solo a livello subliminale… Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pratt, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Samuel L. Jackson, Dave Bautista, Colbie Smulders, Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Chadwick Boseman, Elizabeth Olsen e Paul Rudd.
Secondo film antologico A Star Wars Story, Solo arriverà sugli schermi il 25 maggio prossimo, diretto da Ron Howard e non più dalla coppia di Lego Movie.
Alden Ehrenreich nei panni di Han Solo, Danny Glover in quelli di Lando, e poi Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany, Joonas Suotamo.
Tante novità nel cast tecnico: Bradford Young (Arrival, 1981: indagine a New York) sarà il direttore della fotografia, Pietro Scalia il montatore, John Powell ha realizzato le musiche.
Questo è il primissimo spot. In serata verrà rilasciato anche il trailer integrale.
Il 27 luglio, in piena estete torna anche la IMF di Tom Cruise con il sesto episodio di Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.
Nel cast ci saranno anche Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames.
Christopher McQuarrie ha scritto e diretto in solitaria.
Chiudiamo la carrellata con la serie tv più attesa dell’anno. La segretissima seconda stagione di Westworld ricomincerà il 22 aprile prossimo. Sempre con Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood e Jeffrey Wright.
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