![]() ![]() His new feature sounds significantly more ruminative - a memoir of a documentary looking at his hometown of Recife, where some of his previous films have taken place. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sci-fi-tinged sertão western Bacurau was the best film of 2020. (He is the Beekeeper after all.) -Bilge Ebiri Pictures of Ghosts But one assumes that actual bees will also be involved at some point and that Statham will use those bees to kill someone, maybe by opening a door and unleashing the bees on them or covering up a bee-filled pit with some grass and sticks and then making that person chase him and step on the grass and sticks, which will break, sending them tumbling into the pit, or maybe he’ll fill an elevator with bees and then hit the LOBBY button and then when the elevator arrives at the Lobby floor where the bad guys are waiting the doors will open and the bees will attack, or maybe he’ll drive a boat onto a giant beehive and the bees will envelop Statham and the bad guy but they’ll only kill the other guy because Jason Statham is a friend to all bees. In The Beekeeper, he plays a former operative who used to belong to a secret international organization called the Beekeepers. Jen Chaney The BeekeeperĪfter becoming somewhat more family friendly in recent years with big franchise pictures, Jason Statham seems to be getting back to his R-rated killin’ ways. Just kidding, all this means is that this version stars Reneé Rapp and features a lot more musical numbers. The trailer for this screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, based on the film that inspired a generation to turn October 3 into a national holiday, announces this won’t be “your mother’s Mean Girls.” This is a fair thing to say, since obviously anyone who saw the original as a teen in 2004 is definitely a parent now. So consider this just an appetizer for the year of cinematic feasting to come. There’ll be many more to get excited about in the weeks and months ahead as festivals uncover new gems, distributors snap up and roll out fresh acquisitions, and still-unannounced films pounce on the calendar. Wicked: Part One.īut take this as a hint not to glaze over the undated section toward the bottom, where festival favorites like Richard Linklater’s Hit Man (already a Vulture favorite), Annie Baker’s A24 coming-of-age dramedy, Janet Planet, and Radu Jude’s hilarious Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World are lurking, waiting to seize on already-building buzz. Elsewhere, we’ve got Joel Coen’s solo directorial debut, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, and at least one Vulture senior writer’s “most anticipated work of art since the Obama years” (her words), a.k.a. ![]() There are still plenty of locked-in 2024 films to look forward to - Bong Joon Ho’s first since his Best Picture winner Parasite, the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s desert space epic, Dune, and Luca Guadagnino’s saucy tennis drama, Challengers, for a start. ![]() Anyway, this is to explain why the preview below may look sparse in terms of hard-and-fast release dates. It’s profound humility in the face of an uncertain world, surely, that explains the presence of “Untitled Alien Event Movie” and “Untitled Venom Sequel” on the calendar. In all fairness to the movie studios whose 2024 slates are a mystifying assembly of undated, untitled mystery projects, it’s increasingly difficult to guess what’s going to happen next week, let alone next November. Photo: Vulture Photos: Working Title/Focus Features, Jasin Boland/Warner Bros., MGM, Warner Bros.
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