Carlos Cortez's Movie Blog

Creed 2 Release Date Confirmed.  MGM and Annapurna release today that Creed 2 will have a release date of November 21st 2018. Another important note, is that Sylvester Stallone is confirmed to be writing and directing this next installment in the Rocky franchise. Ryan Coogler won't be making a return, perhaps due to him working on Black Panther, or maybe another project, but it seems he doesn't have the time for this next movie. I am very enthusiasic about Stallone wriing and directing this film because he wrote the script for a couple of the Rocky movies and he knows the beloved character as much as a person can. I do wonder how much of a different feel Creed 2 will have with Stallone directing, since you see something like Creed and then the trailers for Black Panther and Ryan Cooglers name is all over it. I do wanna see where exactly Creed 2 will go, whether it be Adonis trying to live up to his name or perhaps deal with something new. In the last Creed movie, we saw h...

Zachary Levi Has Been Cast As Shazam. Three days ago Deadline reported that Zachary Levi has been cast as Shazam in the upcoming DC movie. David F. Sanberg (director of Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation) will direct this solo Shazam film with Zachary Levi to lead, apparently he is well known as the title character for NBC's Chuck. I personally don't know who he is which is actually a good thing in my opinion because we need to see how great this character is. I know Shazam from Kingdom Come and in that amazing comic, Shazam is a force to be reckoned with. Apparently Zachary Levi is a great comedic actor which is good because Sandberg said this Shazam movie will be light-hearted and a lot f fun. So back to Kingdom Come for a quick second, that comic does such a great job presenting Shazam as the only big threat against superman, but also the true hero he is so I highly recommend reading Kingdom Come. So since Zachary Levi isn't well known, is that something to be worr...

Possible Deathstroke Movie By Gareth Edwards. Yesterday in the movie news, Warner Bros. and DC announced that Gareth Edwards is writing and set to direct a Deathstroke movie. If you don't know Gareth Edwards, he's the director for both the Raid Redemption and the Raid 2. If you still don't know who he is, do yourself a favor and watch those two movies, they are some of the best action movies in the past decade. Deathstroke himself is one of rogues of Batman's rogue gallery (he's a bad guy) but he actually ties more into the Teen Titans story. In the Teen Titans cartoon that came out in the early 2000's, he was their main nemesis, and one cool episode was when Robin thought Deathstroke was still alive, but it was all phsycological. Deathstroke is a really cool villian for Batman too because he's a highly intelligent mercenary. So he kind of works both sides of the field, sometimes for good guys but most of the time for bad guys. In the comics, Deathstrok...

Venom Movie Starts Its Production. Two days ago the official Twitter account for the new Venom Movie tweeted out a picture of Tom Hardy on the set of Venom. The tweet just had the caption "Day 1" , so finally this movie is full steam ahead to meet the October 8th, 2018 release date. This is very exciting because there is a lot of curiosity surrounding this film because we're not entirely sure if it will tie into Spiderman, and therefore the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From my understanding, the studio said that this does take place in the same world, but that's all we will get, no tie into Spiderman. The movie is also rated-R and I'm pretty sure Marvel doesn't want to dip their toe into that water just yet. I do believe that the film will reach it's release date, but we sure won't see any trailers for quite a while. We're pretty much a full year away, so perhaps they will do something special at San Diego Comic Con, though they probably won...

Possible Justice League Embargo Lift Date. So today there are rumors running about from this one writer for IndieRevolver who posted that he got an email from Warner Bros. for the Justice League embargo. It pretty much says that the embargo will lift the day before Justice League hits theatres. Now, this hasn't been confirmed by Warner Bros. yet, so take this news with a grain of salt. If this is actually true, then it can be very worrying because putting the embargo lift right before the movie is a red flag. From many past experiences, when a movie puts the embargo pretty much twenty-four hours before it's release means the studio has little to no faith in the movie and pretty much just want to sweep it under the rug. For those of you who don't know what an embargo is, it's pretty much when movie critics are allowed to post their reviews on any form of media. So if a studio like Warner Bros. has a movie come out February 22nd, and show movie critics the film on F...

Official Runtime For Justice League Confirmed. Today several movie theatres released the runtime for one of the most anticipated films of the year. Justice League clocks in at 121 minutes, which is just one minute over two hours. It will be the shortest film in the DC universe, with Suicide Squad just past it. Tickets for the movie also go on sale this Friday so if you're into reserving your seat, that will be your first chance to do so. Now, shall we discuss whether this news is good or bad, to be honest, it's okay. Would I have liked to see a longer movie to spend more time with each character? Yes of course but the general movie audience doesn't think the same way I do. Of course you can argue that if it keeps the audience entertained for that amount of time or another, the runtime wouldn't matter. The point of the runtime being revealed is that we are in the last stretch for the premiere. Whedon as now finished looking over the movie and him and Warner Bros....

My Thoughts On Wind River. For today's blog I wanted to talk about a movie that was never really on my radar, but I heard good things about it. That movie is Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, the movie centers around a murder investigation on an Indian reservation. Jeremy Renner plays a Hunter on the Indian reservation who takes the murder personally and Elizabeth Olsen play an FBI agent that is sent to the reservation on her first assignment. The overall movie is a slow-burn, but it builds very high tension, has an interesting investigation, and gives watchers insight to present indian reservation life. This is actually the directors directorial debut, Taylor Sheridan, wrote the script for Hell Or High Water as well, but he wrote and directed this movie. So I guess first off, I think this is Jeremy Renner's best performance in any film, he plays more of a layer back, calm character but an intelligent hunter. He helps Elizabeth Olsen's character ...