Film: Spring Arts Preview 2024
metroweekly.comBarbenheimer. Barbie, listed in our 2023 spring movie preview, and Oppenheimer, which was not, had yet to assert their primacy over the year’s box office and pop culture conversation.Few conceived those two films would spark a phenomenon that rippled through media, fashion, merchandising, music, and awards show after awards show after awards show.After all the hype and hot takes, red carpet looks, historic victories and milestones, the Barbenheimer convo only really finally abated with the Oscar wins that shuffled Barbie, Ken, and Oppy off the stage in March, ushering cinema into the spring/summer season.Now, new cinematic fascinations await, new soundtracks of the summer, your next new favorite character or performance, some star-making smash that’ll keep the world talking until 2025.
Somewhere on this list, or left off of it, is the 2024 film you’ve been waiting for, and your wait is almost over.Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — Two of the biggest box office titans of all time team up (again) to kick off the spring/summer blockbuster season, and take down a new subterranean threat to all life on the planet.
Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard returns, with stars Rebecca Hall as a badass Kong whisperer, and Brian Tyree Henry as a conspiracy podcast host whose paranoid speculations in the last movie turned out to be not so outlandish.
What unknown creatures in the MonsterVerse will they lead us to next? A warrior band of Kong-like apes appears to be only a hint of the weirdness that awaits deep inside the Hollow Earth. (3/29)Dogman — Gun-slinging French filmmaker Luc Besson loads up both barrels for this New Jersey-set action thriller starring Nitram‘s Caleb Landry Jones in another freakout role.
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