This week Disney made two changes to its summer 2015 film
lineup.
Previously scheduled for a Nov. 6, 2015 release, Marvel
Studios’ “Ant-Man” has now been bumped to the summer date of July 31, 2015. The
Edgar Wright helmed film will hit theaters just two weeks after Warner Bros.
untitled “Man of Steel” sequel.
Relatively unknown to the public, Ant-Man is the
superhero guise of Biophysicist Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym. After creating a chemical
substance that enables him to alter his size, Pym created a helmet that allows
him to communicate with ants, subsequently becoming the hero knows as Ant-Man.
While this new date gets “Ant-Man” away from the next
installment of the James Bond film series, it pins the film into an already
highly competitive 2015 summer. Hopefully, Disney’s confidence in the film will
show at the box-office come 2015.
Speaking of confidence or the lack thereof, Disney has
decided to push the reportedly titled “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell
No Tales” from its July 10, 2015 date. The fifth installment of the “Pirates of
the Caribbean” series is now slated for a 2016 release date.
Apparently rumors have surfaced that co-directors Joachim
Ronning and Espen Sandberg have ordered rewrites to the script, which has
delayed production.
That being said, the quality of the sequels has dipped
since the mostly beloved first film. Personally, my expectations aren’t too
high but who knows, I might be surprised by the final product.
Similarly, Universal Pictures had news of their own this
week. The studio has set their fourth installment of the “Jurassic Park”
franchise, now titled “Jurassic World” for the release date of June 12, 2015.
Back in March, it was officially announced that “Safety
Not Guaranteed”- an excellent and charming film-director, Colin Trevorrow was
set to direct. However, production was delayed after rewrites were done on the
script. Deeming it impossible to reach their release
The addition of “Jurassic World” to the summer film slate
of 2015 is going to make it an unbelievable time at the summer box-office. I
couldn’t be more excited to see what this film adds to what Steven Spielberg
started twenty years ago. The film seems to be in very capable hands with Trevorrow;
that being said, who doesn’t want to see dinosaurs roaming in today’s world, I
know I do.
Easily the biggest film announcement made this week was
by Warner Bros. After the world wide
success of the “Harry Potter” franchise, it seems that we’ll be getting a new
film series revolving around J.K. Rowling’s “World of Witchcraft and Wizardry.”
Rowling herself is onboard to make her screenwriting debut, penning the script
to her book “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”: the fictional textbook used
by students at Hogwarts.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be an
original story set in New York 70 years prior to the events of “Harry Potter.”
The film series will focus on the author of said textbook, Newt Scamander.
This is definitely exciting news to all the fans of
Rowling’s “Harry Potter.” It will be fascinating to see the expanded universe
that Rowling has created hit the big screen in the near future.
Until next time, this has been Matinée Idol.
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