This week in trailer-osity: A quick first looks at a new Disney YA franchise; one last look at Hulus YA du jour series, right before the new season drops; a tease for Springsteen on Broadway coming to a living room near you; and extended looks at a slasher-flick sequel, the new film from the director of Moonlight and a noirish miniseries about L.A. serial killers featuring Chris Pine. Watch, and learn.
Artemis Fowl
Here comes Disney with another YA novel series ready for big-screen franchisin! Eoin Colfers book about a 12-year-old supergenius who comes from a long line of supergeniuses and evil ones, at that gets the blockbuster treatment, with the trailer proving that a) Ferdia Shaw certainly looks the part of young Master Fowl, b) director Kenneth Brannagh sure does love those gliding gods-eye overhead shots and c) you can never go wrong with dressing Hong Chau up a magical fairy, laser guns and/or setting a teaser to Radioheads Decks Dark. Its coming to a multiplex near you on Aug. 9th, 2019.
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Happy Death Day 2U
Remember that meta-slasher flick that took a Groundhogs Day-like idea a final girl keeps getting murdered by a killer in a creepy baby mask, then is forced to relive the same day over and over again and turned into a box-office hit? Did you think they would not turn this into a modern-horror series?! The trailer for the sequel has our heroine Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) quickly running through the first movies plot, then explaining that she is now living the best version of her life. Except whats up with that whole crowd of people wearing the baby mask? And what if the loop is not only back but expanding its pool of victims? It comes out Valentines Day, 2019. Take a loved one, then murder them and when the day resets you can just do the whole thing again. (Editors note: Please dont do this.)
I Am the Night
Take one journalist in 1950s Los Angeles make him movie-star handsome like Chris Pine. Add a young woman who runs away and finds herself in the big bad City of Angels, as well as a doctor with a reputation for certain perverse proclivities. Then connect the whole thing to the infamous Black Dahlia murder case and get Wonder Womans Patti Jenkins to direct it. Serves six episodes, that is, because its a miniseries. This true-crime nugget premieres Jan. 28th, 2019. Were already clearing a space for it on next years Top 10 list just in case this is actually as good as the trailer suggests it is.
If Beale Street Could Talk
How do you follow up a masterpiece like Moonlight? You do what Barry Jenkins did, which was use your newfound capital and industry juice to make a pet project come alive. His adaptation of James Baldwins 1974 novel is a swooning take on Harlem life in the Seventies and this final trailer, set to a low-key version of Lauryn Hills Killing Me Softly cover, emphasizes the uplift over the heartbreak. Dont miss this movie. It opens Dec. 14th.
Runaways, Season 2
The Marvel/Hulu teen superhero show is back and more Oedipally driven, telepathic-dinosaur-featuring than ever! If youve been watching this YA show about gifted high schoolers who discover their parents are supervillains, and who realize they must band together and use their own powers to save humanity, then youll understand whats behind those terse looks and cryptic asides. If not, feel free to simply bask in a lot of shots of action sequences, suspiciously glowing characters and sense of apocalyptic doom. Theyre our parents how could they be monsters? one kid asks. We have a poem you may want to read. New season drops on Dec. 21st.
Springsteen on Broadway
So Lets say you didnt get to see the Boss do his one-man show on Broadway: No worries, Netflix has your back. This performance movie of Bruce Springsteens evening of of singin and storytellin captures the legendary run for posterity, with the saint in the city recounting his childhood years, his search for a voice and his discovery of rock and roll as the sound of salvation. The trailer gives you a sense of what to expect if you werent sitting in those sits at the Walter Kerr Theater a man from New Jersey, a guitar and a piano, maybe a came from his wife Patti Scialfa and a whole lot of personal anecdotes. It premieres on the streaming service on Dec. 16th.
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