Meanwhile horror hounds will finally get the long-anticipated third official chapter in The Conjuring franchise, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights, which will finally be bringing lights up on Washington Heights after getting delayed from its original June 2020 release date due to COVID-19. Other blockbusters include Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious and cerebral attempt to adapt Frank Hubert’s epic science fiction novel, Dune, after the same text thwarted David Lynch.Įlsewhere among the releases is a full-on Hollywood musical adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Tony winning Broadway smash. The picture pits the title character of 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters against the supersized King Kong of Kong: Skull Island. Kong, the fourth (and maybe final?) film in Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse.

Other unusually large spectacles coming straight to your living room include Godzilla vs. One also wonders if the movie is primarily seen on HBO Max whether that incentivizes the studio to continue pursuing an R-rating for the picture after Birds of Prey’s lukewarm box office? Margot Robbie is back as Harley Quinn, as is Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, but the film also brings in a stacked ensemble of newcomers, including Idris Elba, John Cena, Pete Davidson, Sylvester Stallone, and more. The film allows the writer-director of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies to try and offer a similar glib sense of humor in a pseudo-sequel/reboot of 2016’s successful (but largely maligned) Suicide Squad.

This includes the next entry in the DC Extended Universe (or whatever it’s called these days), James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. Yet the die is cast, and WB’s stack 2021 line-up is headed to HBO Max for limited one month engagements following their release dates. We will aggressively pursue economic terms that preserve our business.” As for AMC, we will do all in our power to ensure that Warner does not do so at our expense. AMC Theatres fired off a public statement that said, “Clearly Warner Media intends to sacrifice a considerable portion of the profitability of its movie studio division, and that of its production partners and filmmakers, to subsidize its HBO Max start up.

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