Amazon MGM Studios introduced many upcoming titles to CinemaCon, together with Crime 101, Verity, and Thomas Crown Affair.
CinemaCon retains rolling, of us! Different big-ticket objects on show at Amazon‘s CinemaCon panel include Michael B. Jordan’s Thomas Crown Affair. Jordan directs, produces, and stars within the newest model of the story. The undertaking is taking pictures in London with Bradford Younger on the digital camera. Thomas Crown Affair comes out in 2026.
In the meantime, Verity is Michael Showalter’s undertaking, starring Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett, and Dakota Johnson. Verity relies on It Ends With Us writer Colleen Hoover’s novel, printed in 2018. The CinemaCon crowd noticed a trailer with Hathaway taking part in a well-known writer and Hartnett as her husband. She’s now paralyzed, and Dakota Johnson is a author doing her biography. Johnson turns into infatuated with Hartnett, however Hathaway’s Verity may not be paralyzed and is likely to be hiding a darkish secret! Dun dun dunnnn!
In Timur Bekmambetov’s Mercy, Chris Pratt is accused of murdering his spouse. An AI program known as Mercy (Rebecca Ferguson) arrests him, and he has 90 minutes to show his innocence utilizing digital camera footage from town. Chris says Mercy appears like an excellent high-tech model of Timur’s display life motion pictures. This facet of the movie may flip individuals off, however others might like it. It appears uncommon. It could possibly be cool. It could possibly be horrible. The jury stays out.
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Wished) and scripted by Marco Van Belle (Arthur & Merlin), Mercy tells a narrative “set in the near future when capital crime has increased” and follows “a detective who is accused of a violent crime and forced to prove his innocence.” Chris Pratt (The Electrical State) stars alongside Rebecca Ferguson (Dune), Annabelle Wallis (Malignant), and Kali Reis (True Detective: Night time Nation). The movie is about to be launched on January 23, 2026.
Amazon’s presentation contains Hugh Jackman’s new joint, Three Luggage Full: A Sheep Detective Film. What? Let me clarify. Within the film, Jackman is a sheep farmer unraveling a homicide thriller. Say no extra. I’m in! Oh. Would you like extra? Okay. The undertaking co-stars Emma Thompson. The movie seems family-oriented. To be clear, it’s not animated. It’s giving The Full Monty vibes. There are many cute sheep, however they’re CGI and could possibly be voiced by film stars. Amazon didn’t reveal this, however the undertaking has a star-studded solid, with Bryan Cranston and Brett Goldstein starring.
Put together for an training as a result of Amazon is able to educate you about Crime 101. The most recent movie from Bart Layton is giving Warmth vibes. Chris Hemsworth is a robber like De Niro’s Warmth character. He’s pursued by a dogged detective performed by Mark Ruffalo. In the meantime, Barry Keoghan is a psychopathic, stuck-up man. Halle Berry performs an insurance coverage agent. Once more, it’s very harking back to Warmth, proper all the way down to the LA locale. Crime 101 appears very slick. Nonetheless, it additionally appears spinoff because it’s completed so clearly within the Michael Mann fashion. Hemsworth, Keoghan, and Berry look nice. The jury is out, however it’s SO harking back to Warmth.
Based mostly on the novella by Don Winslow, Crime 101 follows “a series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway that have gone unsolved for years, mostly because the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls ‘Crime 101.’ Police attribute the thefts to the Colombian cartels, but Detective Lou Lubesnick’s gut says it’s the work of just one man. Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score and Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101.” The movie stars Chris Hemsworth (Avengers: Doomsday), Mark Ruffalo (Mickey 17), Barry Keoghan (The Batman), Halle Berry (By no means Let Go), Monica Barbaro (A Full Unknown), Corey Hawkins (The Coloration Purple), and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Poolman).
Our editor-in-chief, Chris Bumbray, is within the CinemaCon crowd and says After the Hunt appears provocative, with Andrew Garfield taking part in a really anti-woke function. Within the preview, Garfield’s character will get into an argument with Ayo Edebiri, who accuses him of rape, and Julia Roberts doesn’t know who to imagine. Each have compelling tales, with Garfield saying she’s destroying his profession whereas Edebiri appears to be taking part in a variety of playing cards. However Roberts has a variety of darkness in her previous, too. Chris says that After the Hunt feels heavy on its critique of cultural wars.
Luca Guadagnino directs After the Hunt, an intense dramatic thriller written by Nora Garrett. Julia Roberts (Go away the World Behind) stars as a school professor who finds herself at a private {and professional} crossroads when a star pupil ranges an accusation towards one in all her colleagues and a darkish secret from her personal previous threatens to come back to mild. Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Andrew Garfield (We Reside in Time), Michael Stuhlbarg (Bones and All), and Chloë Sevigny (Russian Doll) additionally star within the movie, which is slated to hit restricted theaters on October tenth earlier than opening broad on October seventeenth.
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