{"id":16419,"date":"2018-07-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-week-in-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-joker-ryan-reynolds-announced-a-home-alone-semi-remake-and-more\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T06:00:00","slug":"the-week-in-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-joker-ryan-reynolds-announced-a-home-alone-semi-remake-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-week-in-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-joker-ryan-reynolds-announced-a-home-alone-semi-remake-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Movie News: Robert De Niro Joined &#039;Joker,&#039; Ryan Reynolds Announced a &#039;Home Alone&#039; Semi-Remake and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/week-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-39joker39-ryan-reynolds-announced-39home-alone39-semi-remake-more\/23962?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/week-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-39joker39-ryan-reynolds-announced-39home-alone39-semi-remake-more\/23962?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"The King of Comedy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/robertdeniro-lead.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span>Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>BIG NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>Robert De Niro joined DC&#8217;s standalone Joker movie: <\/b><span>Robert De Niro, star of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> and <em>The King of Comedy<\/em>, has joined the cast of the DC Comics villain spin-off <em>Joker<\/em>, which is said to be inspired by Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> and <em>The King of Comedy<\/em>. And he&#8217;s playing a character clearly modeled after one from the latter. Read more <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/robert-de-niro-joins-dcs-standalone-joker-movie-heres-everything-we-know-752982\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/astarisborn-lead.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>GREAT NEWS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>Toronto and Venice Film Festivals announced this fall&#8217;s big awards contenders: <\/b>Even if you&#8217;re not able to attend the big fall film festivals, you have to get excited for the movies they&#8217;ve just announced because the best of them will be released in theaters soon enough and could be major awards contenders. Find out which ones to put on your radar, including the Coen Brothers&#8217; latest, which is now a movie, not a TV series, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/when-and-where-to-find-this-falls-big-awards-contenders-753333\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chalamet\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201807\/fan_ryanreynolds_blog_20180726.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>SURPRISING NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>Ryan Reynolds is sorta remaking <i>Home Alone<\/i>: <\/b><span>Wait, what? Yes, that&#8217;s right, <em>Deadpool<\/em> star Ryan Reynolds is producing a new twist on the plot of <em>Home Alone<\/em>, only this time it&#8217;s centered on a grown-up (not likely played by Reynolds) who is also a paranoid stoner and it&#8217;s called, of course, <em>Stoned Alone<\/em><\/span><span>. <\/span><span>Read more <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/ryan-reynolds-to-produce-stoned-alone-heres-everything-we-know-753336\">here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TDK\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/Fan_ryanreynolds_deadpool2_20180717.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>COOL CULTURE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>Deadpool and His Super Duper Band: <\/b>Speaking of Ryan Reynolds, at Comic-Con, Fox released a video promoting the upcoming home video release of the <em>Deadpool 2 <\/em>Super Duper Cut, and it&#8217;s literally just Deadpool participating in an animatronic band&#8217;s lip-sync cover of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;9 to 5.&#8221; Watch it below. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aquaman\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/AMN-0new2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>James Wan explains the <i>Aquaman <\/i>trailer: <\/b>We met with <em>Aquaman<\/em> director James Wan during Comic-Con, and he gave us a lengthy explanation of everything in the movie&#8217;s first trailer, which debuted last weekend. Read that interview <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/exclusive-aquaman-director-james-wan-explains-the-films-first-trailer-753329\">here<\/a> and check out the <em>Aquaman<\/em> trailer and more from Comic-Con below.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/img.playbuzz.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop\/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_lossy,w_640,c_limit\/v1531867692\/r3k4xufkdrosvnpm8rpi.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><strong>MUST-WATCH TRAILERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Aquaman <\/i>could be the coolest Worlds of DC movie:<\/b> The first trailer for DC&#8217;s <em>Aquaman<\/em>, starring Jason Momoa, who is returning as the titular underwater superhero last seen in <em>Justice League<\/em>, dropped during Comic-Con, and it looks epic and awesome. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201805\/fan_shazam_fbbanner_blog_20180522.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Shazam! <\/i>looks amazing!:<\/b> Warner Bros. and DC also unleashed the first trailer for <em>Shazam!<\/em> at Comic-Con, and it&#8217;s a lot lighter fare than we&#8217;re used to from the Worlds of DC franchise, more laughs but still plenty of amazing and fun superhero spectacle. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201708\/fan_godzilla_blog_20170821.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Godzilla: King of the Monsters <\/i>is going to be huge:<\/b> <em>Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/em>, the sequel to the 2014 <\/span><span><em>Godzilla<\/em> remake, also premiered its first trailer during Comic-Con, teasing its addition of classic creatures Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/Fan_jamesmacavoy_glass_20180717.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Glass <\/i>promises a perfect follow-up to <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em>:<\/b> Comic-Con also saw the debut of the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s <em>Glass<\/em>, the sequel to both <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em>, and it seems sure to please fans of both of those previous installments of the original superhero trilogy<\/span><span>. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/week-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-39joker39-ryan-reynolds-announced-39home-alone39-semi-remake-more\/23962?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Week in Movie News: Robert De Niro Joined &#039;Joker,&#039; Ryan Reynolds Announced a &#039;Home Alone&#039; Semi-Remake and More\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/week-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-39joker39-ryan-reynolds-announced-39home-alone39-semi-remake-more\/23962?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/week-movie-news-robert-de-niro-joined-39joker39-ryan-reynolds-announced-39home-alone39-semi-remake-more\/23962?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"The King of Comedy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/robertdeniro-lead.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span>Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>BIG NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>Robert De Niro joined DC&#8217;s standalone Joker movie: <\/b><span>Robert De Niro, star of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> and <em>The King of Comedy<\/em>, has joined the cast of the DC Comics villain spin-off <em>Joker<\/em>, which is said to be inspired by Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> and <em>The King of Comedy<\/em>. And he&#8217;s playing a character clearly modeled after one from the latter. Read more <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/robert-de-niro-joins-dcs-standalone-joker-movie-heres-everything-we-know-752982\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/astarisborn-lead.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>GREAT NEWS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>Toronto and Venice Film Festivals announced this fall&#8217;s big awards contenders: <\/b>Even if you&#8217;re not able to attend the big fall film festivals, you have to get excited for the movies they&#8217;ve just announced because the best of them will be released in theaters soon enough and could be major awards contenders. Find out which ones to put on your radar, including the Coen Brothers&#8217; latest, which is now a movie, not a TV series, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/when-and-where-to-find-this-falls-big-awards-contenders-753333\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chalamet\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201807\/fan_ryanreynolds_blog_20180726.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>SURPRISING NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<b>Ryan Reynolds is sorta remaking <i>Home Alone<\/i>: <\/b><span>Wait, what? Yes, that&#8217;s right, <em>Deadpool<\/em> star Ryan Reynolds is producing a new twist on the plot of <em>Home Alone<\/em>, only this time it&#8217;s centered on a grown-up (not likely played by Reynolds) who is also a paranoid stoner and it&#8217;s called, of course, <em>Stoned Alone<\/em><\/span><span>. <\/span><span>Read more <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/ryan-reynolds-to-produce-stoned-alone-heres-everything-we-know-753336\">here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TDK\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/Fan_ryanreynolds_deadpool2_20180717.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>COOL CULTURE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>Deadpool and His Super Duper Band: <\/b>Speaking of Ryan Reynolds, at Comic-Con, Fox released a video promoting the upcoming home video release of the <em>Deadpool 2 <\/em>Super Duper Cut, and it&#8217;s literally just Deadpool participating in an animatronic band&#8217;s lip-sync cover of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;9 to 5.&#8221; Watch it below. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aquaman\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/AMN-0new2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b>James Wan explains the <i>Aquaman <\/i>trailer: <\/b>We met with <em>Aquaman<\/em> director James Wan during Comic-Con, and he gave us a lengthy explanation of everything in the movie&#8217;s first trailer, which debuted last weekend. Read that interview <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fandango.com\/movie-news\/exclusive-aquaman-director-james-wan-explains-the-films-first-trailer-753329\">here<\/a> and check out the <em>Aquaman<\/em> trailer and more from Comic-Con below.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/img.playbuzz.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop\/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_lossy,w_640,c_limit\/v1531867692\/r3k4xufkdrosvnpm8rpi.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><strong>MUST-WATCH TRAILERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Aquaman <\/i>could be the coolest Worlds of DC movie:<\/b> The first trailer for DC&#8217;s <em>Aquaman<\/em>, starring Jason Momoa, who is returning as the titular underwater superhero last seen in <em>Justice League<\/em>, dropped during Comic-Con, and it looks epic and awesome. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201805\/fan_shazam_fbbanner_blog_20180522.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Shazam! <\/i>looks amazing!:<\/b> Warner Bros. and DC also unleashed the first trailer for <em>Shazam!<\/em> at Comic-Con, and it&#8217;s a lot lighter fare than we&#8217;re used to from the Worlds of DC franchise, more laughs but still plenty of amazing and fun superhero spectacle. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201708\/fan_godzilla_blog_20170821.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Godzilla: King of the Monsters <\/i>is going to be huge:<\/b> <em>Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/em>, the sequel to the 2014 <\/span><span><em>Godzilla<\/em> remake, also premiered its first trailer during Comic-Con, teasing its addition of classic creatures Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/fandangoblog\/Fan_jamesmacavoy_glass_20180717.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span><b><i>Glass <\/i>promises a perfect follow-up to <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em>:<\/b> Comic-Con also saw the debut of the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s <em>Glass<\/em>, the sequel to both <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em>, and it seems sure to please fans of both of those previous installments of the original superhero trilogy<\/span><span>. Watch it below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}