After scoring massive praise in Captain America: Civil War and a lot of hype for his solo outing Spider-Man: Homecoming, it appears Spidey’s time in the MCU will be short-lived. In an interview, former Sony president Amy Pascal noted that their partnership with Disney could come to an end after the Homecoming sequel. “One of the things that I think is so amazing about this experience is that you don’t have studios deciding to work together to make a film very often,” Pascal explained. “In fact it may never happen again, after we do the sequel. Because Sony, and Disney, and Marvel all decided that the right thing to do was to allow Peter Parker and Spider-Man to be in the MCU and to work with the Marvel guys and have them produce this film”. This would make a lot of sense, given the announcement of a Venom movie and a Black Cat/Silver Sable team-up. Read more about that story here.
As if that wasn’t enough Spider-Chat, a rumour landed online yesterday that speculated Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts may make an appearance in Spider-Man: Homecoming. It will be the first time we’ve seen the character since Iron Man 3 back in 2013. Read more about that story here.
Rock “The Dwayne” Johnson has revealed at CinemaCon that their Jumanji sequel will be titled Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and some plot details were revealed via footage shown. We won’t post it here in case of spoilers, but you can read the footage description here.
WE ALL FLOAT
Get ready to be scared of clowns once again, as the first trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King’s It landed online yesterday. If you’re brave enough, you can watch it here.
WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?!
Speaking of trailers, and the new trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes will be released later on today, and you can watch a sneak peak of it here.
During a presentation at CinemaCon, Disney has revealed that next year’s sequel to Wreck-It Ralph is going by the title Ralph Breaks the Internet, and as rumoured it will see John C. Reilly’s Ralph venturing out into the world wide web. We saw some concept art for the movie earlier this year, and it looks like it will be a lot of fun. You can read more about that story here.
THERE GOES TOKYO – AND EVERYWHERE ELSE!
Following last week’s poster for Godzilla: Monster Planet [check it out here], a batch of character images have been released revealing the six main characters in Toho’s upcoming Godzilla anime feature, along with a brief bio for each. Read all of those bios here.
Producer and star John Boyega has taken to Twitter to announce that filming has wrapped on Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action blockbuster. Read more about that story here.
This is a lot of fun; Tom Jolliffe explores the movies that came out 30 years ago in 1987 including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, Evil Dead 2, Predator, Running Man and Masters of the Universe. Read that article here.
Originally published March 30, 2017. Updated November 30, 2022.
