Movie news of the outgoing week.

For the first time in movie history, the top 10 box office movies of 2024 are all sequels.

Keira Knightley in major franchises is not to be expected.

Official photo from the set of the movie The Materialist .

Josh Brolin threatens to quit the movie, a sequel to Hobbs and Shaw and photos from the set of Guy Ritchie’s new series. This and much more in the article. Let’s discuss the news for November 25 – 30.

For the first time in movie history, the top 10 box office movies of 2024 are all sequels.

It looks like this at the moment:

Puzzle 2 – $1.698 million.

Deadpool and Wolverine – $1.337 million.

Ugly Me 4 – $968 million.

Dune: Part 2 – $714 million.

Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire – $571 million.

Kung Fu Panda 4 – $547 million.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, $451 million.

Venom: The Last Dance – $439 million.

Bad guys all the way down – $404 million.

Planet of the Apes: A New Kingdom – $397 million.

Keira Knightley in major franchises is not to be expected.

The actress, in an interview with The Times of London, described her experience in Pirates of the Caribbean and noted that she no longer wants to be involved in the franchise.

It’s amazing how one thing can enrich and destroy at the same time. I had problems in my life because of them, but it was thanks to them that I got the opportunity to act in the movies for which I was nominated for an Oscar: Pride and Prejudice and The Imitation Game. They were the most successful roles of my career, but they were also the cause of public humiliation. It’s all mixed up in my head.
Time passes very quickly. It’s years of your life, you don’t control where you film, how long you film, what you film.

Official photo from the set of the movie The Materialist .

This is a romantic comedy that will tell the story of an elite matchmaker. She matches couples perfectly until she becomes part of a toxic love triangle, as business becomes jeopardized.

Premiering next year.

Another addition to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s new movie.

This time Charlize Theron has joined the project. The full cast looks like this: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron.

Plus, as Variety reports, plot details are being kept secret, and all descriptions of the movie that are online to date are incorrect.

Josh Brolin has said he will quit the movie if Denis Villeneuve doesn’t win an Oscar for the second Dune .

If Denis Villeneuve doesn’t get a nomination this year, I’m quitting movies. The second part of Dune came out better than the first. While watching it, I felt like my brain had been dissected. It’s just filigree work, and Denis is one of the best master directors out there. If the Academy Awards have any sense, the Academy will recognize it.

Denzel Washington, on the other hand, thinks Ridley Scott is the one who deserves the statuette.

Ridley deserved a statue a long time ago. How can he still not have an Oscar? It just doesn’t make sense, I don’t believe it.

But that’s not all. Samuel L. Jackson expressed his point of view on the Oscars. Only, unlike his colleagues, he did not criticize, just gave out the base.

People say it’s an honor to be nominated for an Oscar. But we’ve been in this business long enough to know that’s not true. The honor is to win. Most people won’t even remember the nominees. It all comes to an end, and everyone has a hard time remembering who won in the first place.

Jackson himself was only nominated once for Pulp Fiction. But in 2021, he won an honorary Oscar.

It doesn’t feel like an honorary Oscar. I earned it, I worked for it. I can name four other times when I could have or should have won, but I’m fine with it. This award is mine, it’s got my name on it.

Arcane’s universe will continue to expand.

The second season of the animated series is over, but that doesn’t mean that the League of Legends universe will just be let go. The animated series is a huge critical success, and therefore projects will be coming out. According to showrunner Christian Linke, a new project has been in development for a year.

According to him, there are plans for three series about Noxus, Ionia and Demasia at once. We are waiting for more details.

Filming on the Christy Martin movie is complete.

To mark the occasion, Sydney Sweeney posted these photos. The first one shows her with Christy Martin herself, and the second shows the glove that Christy signed for her.

Tom Cruise shares footage from the set of Mission Impossible 8 .

It shows Tom performing another difficult stunt, this time underwater.

The first reviews for the movie Perfect Stranger have surfaced .

Timothee Chalamet masterfully embodies Bob Dylan with ease and focused determination. In some moments, his performance is hypnotizing,\

Film critic Scott Menzel believes that Chalamet gave his best performance of the year . From noted:

This is a true masterpiece in which Chalamet has never been this good before. His acting is not just his voice and looks, but all the little nuances and mannerisms that he captures with amazing accuracy, embodying the image of Bob Dylan. Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger also gave superb acting performances.

A bunch of shots from The Count of Monte Cristo .

Another adaptation of the novel is a joint product of France and Italy. The role of Edmond Dantes was played by Sam Claflin. The series also stars Jeremy Irons, Robin Gere and Poppy Corby-Touch.

It premieres on December 11.

The series Day of the Jackal has been given a sequel.

In its first week on Sky Atlantic, the project garnered 3 million views, the best debut of any series on the channel in the last two years. On Peacock service in the first weekend Day of the Jackal was among the top five original series in the United States. Naturally, the success needs to be consolidated, and the series was given a second season.

Ben Affleck thinks AI won’t be able to take over Hollywood.

Artificial intelligence can write a beautiful verse that sounds exactly the way you want it to. However, it will never be able to create a masterpiece on the level of Shakespeare.
When you have multiple actors on stage, they can interact and create something new. This is something that is not available to artificial intelligence at the moment and probably won’t be available for a long time.
Artificial intelligence can be compared to an artisan. Artisans can learn how to make furniture by observing and repeating the process. This is exactly how artificial intelligence models work; they do not create anything new.
Craft is the ability to work, and art is the ability to stop. I think it will be very difficult for artificial intelligence to know when to stop. After all, it is a manifestation of the taste that humans have, but that technology does not have.

A few shots from the movie Mufasa: The Lion King .

The premiere is Dec. 20.

Hobbs and Shaw will get a sequel.

Right now, Chris Morgan is working on the script.

The release schedule is a matter to be discussed with the studio management. We regularly discuss what projects will be released and when, but the final decision rests with those who have the appropriate authority.
I am indeed working on a script that will tell the new adventures of Hobbes and Shaw. However, I need to see how the work goes before I can share details. But I’m very excited about the possibility.

Filming on the Ray Donovan spin-off has begun.

Guy Ritchie works without a day off, and just as soon as he finished filming Young Sherlock, he immediately went to shoot a new series.

The series will star Tom Hardy, whose character’s name is Harry Da Souza and he is the official middleman in settling the Harrigan family’s affairs. Pierce Brosnan plays Conrad Harrigan, the London-based head of a successful Irish crime family. Helen Mirren plays Maeve Harrigan, Conrad’s wife and the matriarch of the family.

The first photos from the shoot are in.

Fede Alvarez is in no rush to produce the sequel to Alien: Romulus .

That’s what we all – both the studio and myself – want. In my opinion, it’s very important to find the right plot for the sequel. My screenwriter Rodo Sayagues and I have a few ideas, but we will start working only when we are sure that we have a really decent movie. Right now we are in the process of finding a story that will meet the expectations of the audience and will not disappoint the fans of the franchise.

Slumdog Millionaire may get a sequel.

Production company Bridge7 has acquired the rights to the sequel and series adaptation of the movie. No further information is available yet.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the set of Rest in Peace .

In the story, during a murder investigation, a detective and a group of police officers find a stash of millions of dollars. After that, the level of trust among them begins to fall and dilemmas arise.

Joe Carnahan is directing the movie for Netflix, which also stars Scott Adkins, Sasha Calle, Teyaana Taylor, Kyle Chandler and more.

Vin Diesel on the complexity of producing the new Fast and Furious .

In one ear Universal whispers to me – we need Fast and Furious X2 by March 2026. In the other, Comcast says we need two movies for the finale.
Then the writer of Fast and Furious 5 sends me this shot and says – we need to see Dom and Hobbs settle their differences.
I just want to get back to real street racing, real stunts… and the reunion of that beautiful brotherhood.

Ridley Scott has made it to the top ten highest-grossing directors.

Thanks to the good collections of the second Gladiator, Scott is in tenth place on the list with total collections for all films of $4.5 billion. Also in the top ten are Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, David Yates, Michael Bay, Peter Jackson, the Russo brothers, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg.

Currently, Ridley’s highest-grossing movie is The Martian ($630 million). The second Gladiator may well overtake it, as it has already earned $314 million.

James Gunn reports that filming on the second season of Peacemaker is complete.

The filming of the second season of Peacemaker has come to an end . The last cast members to finish are Steve Agee, Tima Meadows, Sol Rodriguez and Brandon Stanley. I want to thank the entire cast and crew. It was an amazing experience. After nine months of filming, I am relieved to take a break, but at the same time realize how much I will miss all of you!