Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on the occasion. (Image courtesy: AFP)
Las Vegas:
Celebrating its a hundredth 12 months, Warner Bros unveiled a packed lineup of recent big-screen movies at CinemaCon on Tuesday, from a live-action Barbie comedy to Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg’s remake of The Color Purple. The historic Hollywood studio additionally used its presentation on the annual Las Vegas gathering to tease a “10-year plan” to relaunch its DC superhero movies, which embrace beloved characters akin to Batman and Superman.
David Zaslav, who spearheaded final 12 months’s company merger of Warner and Discovery, took to the stage personally to courtroom an viewers predominantly made up of theater house owners.
“We don’t want to do direct-to-streaming movies,” mentioned Zaslav, whose predecessor was slammed for releasing Warner movies immediately onto its streaming platform HBO Max – not too long ago rebranded as Max. “We’re in no rush to bring the movies to Max.”
Across a two-and-a-half-hour presentation, Zaslav and fellow Warner bosses introduced out A-list stars together with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.
Robbie and Gosling co-star in Barbie, out July 21, which finds the ever-present blonde doll residing in a dreamlike, pink-hued world, earlier than someday beginning to query her too-perfect actuality and travelling to real-life Los Angeles.
“Everyone knows Barbie, and she’s never been on the big screen before,” mentioned director Greta Gerwig, who drew inspiration from “The Wizard of Oz” in addition to disco music tradition.
“They made life-size Barbie houses… everything was extraordinary,” she mentioned.
Gosling mentioned making the movie was “like a fever dream,” explaining: “I was living my life, and then one day I was bleaching my hair, shaving my legs and wearing bespoke neon outfits and rollerblading down Venice Beach.”
Oprah Winfrey took to the stage to introduce her and Steven Spielberg’s new model of “The Color Purple,” out Christmas Day.
The film relies on the Broadway musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about Black ladies enduring trauma, sexual abuse and racism within the rural Deep South within the early twentieth century.
“The reason why it’s not your mama’s ‘Color Purple’ – but your mama’s gonna really like it — is because the musical factor is so dynamic, and the magical realism is so perfected here,” mentioned Winfrey.
Winfrey starred within the earlier 1985 movie, incomes an Oscar nomination for finest supporting actress, and is a producer on the brand new model.
Chalamet launched footage from two new movies wherein he stars. He seems in Wonka, set for December launch, as a younger, idealistic model of Roald Dahl’s well-known chocolatier, whose efforts to launch a magical sweet empire are blocked by a sinister “chocolate cartel.”
Chalamet described the “bizarre” strategy of capturing the origin story – which concerned “a lot of swimming in pools of actual chocolate.”
He additionally returns for Dune: Part Two,, the second and ultimate a part of Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel, which is due out in November.
Austin Butler, Lea Seydoux, Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh be part of the solid for a sequel that Villeneuve described as an “action-packed epic war movie.”
’10-year plan’
The presentation was rounded off with Warner’s “DC Universe” of superhero movies. The DC films, although widespread, have in latest instances suffered from varied manufacturing points and casting U-turns, and been largely overshadowed by the rival, record-grossing Marvel movies.
James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) and Peter Safran (Aquaman) have been not too long ago introduced in as new heads of the division. This 12 months, the studio will launch The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Though these movies have been made underneath Warner’s earlier regime, Gunn mentioned they are going to “lead perfectly into the DCU slate that we have coming up starting in 2024.”
Superman: Legacy, directed by Gunn, is already scheduled for July 2025. Safran mentioned the longer term DC films can be “vast, interconnected and filled with promise and possibility,” and promised he and Gunn are “cracking into” the universe’s “first chapter.”
Zaslav, a self-professed “lover of DC,” informed the viewers that Warner has a brand new “10-year plan” for the titles.
CinemaCon, which runs till Thursday at Caesars Palace, offers Hollywood studios an opportunity to showcase their upcoming movies to movie show bosses – whereas wheeling out the business’s largest stars to whip up pleasure.
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