AmazonMGM studios, who recently got the rights to the James Bond, 007 series have announced that Dune~2020 director Denis Villeneuve will helm and produce the next movie in the long running series.

The Last movie, No Time To Die was released in 2021 after a year delay due to the COVID 19 cinema closures and it saw the end of the Broccoli era and the Daniel Craig series of movies.

Since then online retailer Amazon has bought MGM Studio who co-owned the rights to the series and have taken full controll of the movie rights.

Getting director Villeneuve in to direct and produce potentially means that Amazon are taking the series in much darker direction.

Its still early days yet and a script needs to be written, as well as a title announcement etc., and there has been no announcement yet of who will even play the title character after the departure of Craig in the last movie.

No idea of a release window as the director is in production of the third Dune movie Dune Messiah currently.

Via Variety

Disney have kicked off their big entertainment conference in Los Angeles this weekend and the big announcements have already started with the title for Avatar 3 and The Incredibles third sequel announcement.

The third in the Avatar series directed James Cameron and using state of the art 3D effects will be called Avatar: Fire and Ash and follows Avatar: The Way of Water which is the third highest grossing movie of all time behind the original Avatar which is the highest grossing movie of all time.

The movie is due for release across the globe staring from December 19th 2025.

Disney have also announced a sequel to The Incredibles, which is imaginatively titled Incredibles 3 at the moment, the movie follows Incredibles 2 which was released in 2018.

No release date has been set for the threequel yet!

Check out the announcement trailer for upcoming movie Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which can be viewed in full if you scroll down this page.

Movie breakdown

• It stars among others Daniel Craig (Hotel Splendide) who returns as Benoit Blanc.
• It is written and directed once again by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
• The rest of the cast is yet to be announced.
• The UK release date is sometime in 2025
• And the release date in North America is also 2025

Synopsis for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Benoit Blanc returns to solve another Knives Out Mystery.

Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.

Starring Denzel Washington the third movie in the TV show adaptation The Equalizer, The Equalizer 3 is given a 15 age rating in the UK for strong violence, injury detail, threat, language.

Denzel Washington stars as the title character, the actor has appeared in over 50 movies including Crimson Tide and A Soldiers Story, the movie also stars Dakota Fanning from films such as War of the Worlds and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.

The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua who has previously brought us The Replacement Killers and Bait among other movies.

Movie Synopsis

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: The Equalizer 3
• BBFC age rating: 15 Certificate
• Reason: strong violence, injury detail, threat, language
• Release date: 1st September 2023
• Runtime: 109 minutes (1 hours 49 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • Antoine Fuqua
• Starring:
  • Denzel Washington
  • Dakota Fanning
  • David Denman

BBFC movie page

Avatar: The Way of Water spends a 6th weekend at the top of the North American box office as Puss In Boots: The Last Wish goes back up to number 2.

Highest new movie of the weekend is Missing~2023 at number 4 while there is also a new entry for That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond at number 8 with $1.4 Million and The Son at 15 with $239,855.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 20th - 22nd January 2023

James Cameron proves that the first Avatar wasn't a one off as the sequel nears the $600 Million mark after adding $20 Million on its 6th weekend of release.

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks US box office
• It has spent 6 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It grosses $20,000,000 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $598,276,353 over 6 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is the 13th top grossing movie of all time in the US.
• The movie is a sequel to Avatar which took $551,741,499 at the box office after 6 weeks of release.

Going back up the box office is the sequel movie from the Shrek universe of movies as the Antonio Banderas starring movie takes $11.5 Million on its 5th weekend of release.

• The movie goes up the chart to number 2 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $11,500,000 over the weekend, a 14% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $126,460,470 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Puss In Boots which took $135,430,092 at the box office after 5 weeks of release.

A new franchise in the horror genre is born as the Gerard Johnstone directed movie takes $9.8 Million over the weekend as M3GAN 2 gets an announcement.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $9,800,000 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $73,287,510 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

A spiritual successor to the 2018 movie Searching which is the top new movie at number 4 with a $9.3 Million debut.

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks US box office chart.
• It grosses $9,300,000 over the weekend
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Searching which took $388,769 at the box office after 1 weeks of release.

Tom Hanks proves he is still a box office draw as his latest movie spends a 4th weekend inside the top 5 with a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $9,000,000 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $35,346,249 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023