Sam Mendes will launch 4 motion pictures about The Beatles in the identical month, the director introduced Monday, with Paul Mescal taking part in Paul McCartney and Barry Keoghan portraying Ringo Starr in “the first bingeable theatrical experience.”
The “four-film cinematic event,” hitting theaters in April 2028, will every concentrate on a unique member of the legendary British pop quartet, with Harris Dickinson taking part in John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
“Each one is told from the particular perspective of just one of the guys. They intersect in different ways — sometimes overlapping, sometimes not,” Mendes informed the CinemaCon movie show conference in Las Vegas.
“They’re four very different human beings. Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply. But together, all four films will tell the story of the greatest band in history.”
Filming is about to start, and is predicted to take greater than a yr, stated Mendes. The actual order wherein the flicks might be launched has not but been revealed.
“I’d been trying to make a film about the Beatles for years, but I had temporarily given up,” defined “American Beauty” Oscar-winner Mendes. “I just felt the story of the band was too huge to fit into a single movie, and that turning it into a TV mini-series just somehow didn’t feel right.”
The announcement got here firstly of the CinemaCon commerce conference, the place movie show house owners collect yearly in Las Vegas to listen to Hollywood studios’ plans for the approaching months and years.
While 2025 had been broadly touted because the yr that the film business would bounce again, the field workplace has to date endured a horrible begin, reeling from high-profile flops like Disney’s live-action “Snow White” and sci-fi “Mickey 17.”
The $1.3 billion taken in North America receipts to date is seven p.c beneath an already lean Q1 2024, which was itself derailed by the earlier yr’s large Hollywood strikes.
All that is roiling an business that has by no means totally returned to pre-pandemic revenue ranges, and had informally adopted the motto “Survive till ’25.”
So CinemaCon on the Caesars Palace on line casino is a key likelihood for Hollywood to current upcoming movies to theater house owners — and, hopefully, encourage a little bit of confidence that the nice occasions are coming again.
The occasion kicked off Monday night time with a presentation from Sony Pictures.
As properly as sharing news about Mendes’ “Beatles” motion pictures, the studio unveiled details about its wildly standard “Spider-Man” movies.
A brand new live-action movie starring Tom Holland, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” was confirmed for July 2026, whereas animated film “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” obtained a June 2027 launch date.
The studio additionally teased this summer time’s “28 Years Later,” a long-in-development apocalyptic horror sequel from Danny Boyle, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.
Boyle nodded to hypothesis concerning the subsequent actor to play James Bond by joking that Taylor-Johnson “may or may not be the next Bond” — and the way Fiennes “probably should have been.”
Later within the week at CinemaCon, Amazon MGM will give a significant presentation, simply days after unveiling new producers for the 007 franchise it spent billions of {dollars} buying.
Warner Bros. might be determined to recuperate from flops like “Mickey 17” and “The Alto Knights” — a Robert De Niro movie that took simply $5 million worldwide on its current opening weekend, regardless of having price $45 million to make.
The studio has a mouth-watering lineup, together with Leonardo DiCaprio movie “One Battle After Another,” and a significant new “Superman” movie that it hopes can revitalize its total flagging DC superhero franchise.
In a near-annual custom, Paramount will showcase its newest “Mission: Impossible” movie, prompting the inevitable rumors of a Tom Cruise look on the stage of the on line casino’s large auditorium.
Other studios resulting from current this week embrace Universal Pictures, with its newest “Jurassic World” and “Wicked” sequels, and Lionsgate, house of Keanu Reeves’ many “John Wick” motion pictures.
Disney, with an ever-growing roster of Marvel superheroes and a brand new “Avatar” sequel due in December, will wrap up the occasion on Thursday night time.
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