Within hours of that win, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company swooped in and acquired the rights for an English-language remake. For example, in the Best International Feature category, Thomas Vinterberg’s film about Danish day-drinking educators, Another Round (Certified Fresh at 92%), was expected by many to win, and it did. LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO REMAKE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER ANOTHER ROUNDĪs with pretty much every year of the Academy Awards, this week’s ceremony had both snubs and surprises, but people tend to talk less about about the winners that weren’t so surprising. Kong.” Whatever it ends up being, this sequel is at least a few years away, as Wingard is expected to direct both his Face/Off sequel and the live action ThunderCats before it.Ģ. Of course, the tease of Son of Kong also suggests the existence of a “Mrs. Given all those factors, Legendary has indeed begun talks with director Adam Wingard about a sequel that is rumored to be titled Son of Kong, which would be a direct reference to the 1933 sequel (Rotten at 42%) with a very different premise than we’re likely to see (since Kong: Skull Island did not feature the Carl Denham filmmaker character). Kong also beat the first week viewing numbers for the heavily promoted Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The pandemic almost certainly did leave a pawprint on the box office, but $406 million and counting (globally) is still pretty great, and on HBO Max, Godzilla vs. It was for that reason that many fans expected that the “Monsterverse” was probably going to end there (and also due to fears that COVID-19 would keep the box office down).
Kong (Certified Fresh at 75%) was the fourth. Once upon a time, when Legendary Pictures first struck a deal with Japan’s Godzilla home company Toho to make English-language films, it was for four movies, of which Godzilla vs. KONG MONSTERVERSE WILL CONTINUE, POSSIBLY WITH SON OF KONG Marvel Studios has not yet announced a release date for Captain America 4, but it’s unlikely to be anytime before 2023.ġ. For more insight into where Captain America 4 might go next, check out this interview with Spellman. Captain America 4 also doesn’t have a director yet, but many people online are suggesting that the show’s director, Kari Skogland, should return to helm this feature as well. Technically, no casting has been done yet for Captain America 4, but Anthony Mackie is almost certainly a sure thing, and some of the other of the show’s characters, like Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl), Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp), Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), and U.S. Captain America 4 will very much be a creative continuation of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as its showrunner (and head writer) Malcolm Spellman will be co-writing the film with Dalan Musson, one of the show’s staff writers. For those still reading, because obviously, that spoiler warning totally worked, you now know that the star of Captain America 4 will be Anthony Mackie, formerly known as The Falcon (or to some, Black Falcon), who took over as Captain America by the end of the show. If you haven’t seen or finished that show yet, just stop here and enjoy wondering how Marvel will bring back Chris Evans as the title character.
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(Photo by ©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)įirst off, we absolutely need to put a big, fat SPOILER WARNING here for the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. This WEEK’S TOP STORY CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 IS OFFICIALLY IN THE WORKS