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

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.

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The sequel to the 2018 animated, Oscar Winning, Spider-Man: Inside the Spider-Verse easily makes its UK box office debut at the top with a £9.3 Million gross.

The movie knock off Disney's The Little Mermaid~2023 after a single weekend at the top, despite the fact that the live action movie took a very slim 16% fall from its debut last weekend.

The Little Mermaid~2023 itself takes £4.2 Million on its decond weekend of release for a nice £16.2 Million total.

Also new this weekend is the Stephen King written The Boogeyman which makes its debut at number 5 with a gross of £492,070.

A pair of event movie make their debuts at 7 and 8 with Suga/Agust D Tour: D-Day in Japan - Live Viewing opening with a gross of £119,464 and Die Zauberflote: Met Opera 2023 with £104,668 on its debut.

As few more new entries make up the top 15 in the shape of Reality~2023 at 9 with £62,987, Indian movie Zara Hatke Zara Bachke at 10 with £56,925 and finally The Machine~2023 at 14 with £36,377.

The British half term holiday has given Mummies a re-entry at 15 this weekend.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th June 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £9,317,300 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of June
• The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took £2,279,995 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £4,200,000 over the weekend, a 16% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £16,200,000 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,104,303 over the weekend, a 51% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £13,295,382 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £13,064,613 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £994,000 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £34,600,000 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £37,819,438 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £493,000 over its debut weekend

The signs were strong that Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse was going to be a big movie and with a debut gross over $120 Million it surpassed expectation and is now the 7th top debuting movie in June at the North American box office.

The movie takes close to a $100 Million more than its predecessor Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took $35 Million on its debut in 2018.

The Little Mermaid~2023 spends a single weekend at the top of the box office and falls to number 2 this weekend and has taken $186.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.

Second highest new movie this weekend is the Stephen King written movie The Boogeyman which makes its debut at 3 with $12.3 Million.

Holdover movies fill out most of the top 15 until a new entry at 12 for Past Lives which takes $232,266 and at 13 there is a new entry for The Roundup: No Way Out which takes $200,000.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th June 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weekends US box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It has a total gross of $120,500,000 after 1 weekends of release
• The movie is the 7th highest debuting movie ever in June.
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took $35,363,376 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $40,600,000 over the weekend, a 58% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $186,207,067 after 2 weekends of release
• The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at number 3 on this weekends US box office
• It has a total gross of $12,300,000 after 1 weekends of release

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $10,200,000 over the weekend, a 51% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $322,711,454 after 5 weekends of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took $386,571,925 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $9,240,000 over the weekend, a 60% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $128,465,765 after 3 weekends of release
• The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took $141,325,725 at the box office after 3 weekends of release.

Check out the new trailer and poster has been released for upcoming movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.

Get ready for one last ride. - - Watch the brand-new trailer for Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, written and directed by @JamesGunn. Only in theatres May 5. #GotGVol3 pic.twitter.com/PNpLhWsdP4

— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) February 12, 2023

Movie breakdown

• The movie is directed by James Gunn
• It stars Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana among others.
• And has a release date in the UK of 5th May 2023
• While the North American release date is set for 5th May 2023
• It is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
• Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana appeared together in Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame
• James Gunn directed Zoe Saldana in Guardians of the Galaxy

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