Amazon MGM Studios introduced many upcoming titles to CinemaCon, together with Crime 101, Verity, and Thomas Crown Affair.
CinemaCon retains rolling, people! Different big-ticket objects on show at Amazon‘s CinemaCon panel embrace Michael B. Jordan’s Thomas Crown Affair. Jordan directs, produces, and stars within the newest model of the story. The venture is taking pictures in London with Bradford Younger on the digicam. Thomas Crown Affair comes out in 2026.
In the meantime, Verity is Michael Showalter’s venture, starring Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett, and Dakota Johnson. Verity is predicated on It Ends With Us creator Colleen Hoover’s novel, revealed in 2018. The CinemaCon crowd noticed a trailer with Hathaway taking part in a well-known creator 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 won’t 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 referred to as Mercy (Rebecca Ferguson) arrests him, and he has 90 minutes to show his innocence utilizing digicam footage from the town. Chris says Mercy appears to be like like a brilliant high-tech model of Timur’s display life films. This facet of the movie might flip folks off, however others could like it. It appears to be like 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 within the close to future when capital crime has elevated” and follows “a detective who’s accused of a violent crime and compelled to show 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 consists of Hugh Jackman’s new joint, Three Baggage 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 venture 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 venture has a star-studded solid, with Bryan Cranston and Brett Goldstein starring.
Put together for an schooling as a result of Amazon is able to train you about Crime 101. The newest 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 right down to the LA locale. Crime 101 appears to be like very slick. Nevertheless, it additionally appears by-product 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.
Primarily based on the novella by Don Winslow, Crime 101 follows “a collection of excessive degree jewellery thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Freeway which have gone unsolved for years, principally as a result of the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls ‘Crime 101.’ Police attribute the thefts to the Colombian cartels, however Detective Lou Lubesnick’s intestine says it’s the work of only one man. Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is on the lookout for that fabled last final rating and Lou breaks all the foundations 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 Colour Purple), and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Poolman).
Our editor-in-chief, Chris Bumbray, is within the CinemaCon crowd and says After the Hunt appears to be like 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 (Depart the World Behind) stars as a university professor who finds herself at a private {and professional} crossroads when a star pupil ranges an accusation in opposition to one among her colleagues and a darkish secret from her personal previous threatens to return to gentle. 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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