Need a quick recap on the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Ron Howard Takes Over the Han Solo Star Wars Spin-Off: Early in the week, we got the shocking news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller were stepping down from directing the Han Solo Star Wars spin-off prequel due to creative differences. After a couple days of uncertainty, Ron Howard was announced as their replacement to finish the film. Read more here and here.
MORE UNEXPECTED NEWS
Daniel Day-Lewis is Retiring: One of our greatest actors has decided to stop now while he’s ahead. The three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis will hang up his hat following the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread this Christmas. Read more here.
GREAT NEWS
Jurassic World 2 Has a New Title: With the sequel to Jurassic World hitting theaters in just one year, we finally got the official title: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. What that means, we’re not sure, but we did also learn this week that Jeff Goldblum is writing some of his own dialogue and that the movie will owe a lot to Michael Crichton’s original novels. Read more here and here.
EXCLUSIVE SCOOP
Michael Bay Discusses His First Few Movies: We talked to Transformers: The Last Knight director about his first three movies (Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon), and he shared some personal stories about how they impacted his whole career. Read more here.
COOL CULTURE
The Makings of a Transformers Movie: With Transformers: The Last Knight in theaters this week, a lot of outlets have been helping us out with Transformers franchise recaps, trivia, ingredients and product placement supercuts. Learn more below.
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MUST-WATCH TRAILERS
The Only Living Boy in New York Offers Romance in the Big Apple: The latest from (500) Days in Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb centers on a young man (Callum Turner) who begins a relationship with his father’s girlfriend (Kate Beckinsale). Jeff Bridges, Kiersey Clemons and Pierce Brosnan co-star. Watch the trailer here:
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Stronger Promises a Hearfelt True Story: Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal plays a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in David Gordon Green’s Stronger, the second major movie to come out of the tragedy. Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany co-stars. Watch the first full trailer below.
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Thank You For Your Service Recognizes More Heroes: American Sniper writer Jason Hall makes his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service, another movie based on real-life American heroes in pain. For them it’s PTSD following their military tours in Iraq. Check out the new trailer starring Miles Teller here:
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