Celebrity Status: Godzilla Vs Cat In The Hat, Amd A Stranger Things Prequel
The Cat in the Hat was no match for the mighty Godzilla. “Godzilla Minus Zero” climbed to the top of box office charts with $31.6 million from 3,254 theaters, a roaring start for a foreign-language epic in North America. Meanwhile, “The Cat in the Hat” stumbled with $20 million from 4,003 locations, a weak debut for an animated movie that’s based on one of the most well-known children’s books of all time.
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“You Can See Everything” has remained a box office juggernaut, powering to $80 million in North America after just four weekends of release. At this rate, A24‘s red-hot movie about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is primed to surpass $100 million domestically, a hugely impressive milestone for a nearly three-hour documentary.
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Danny McBride‘s “G.I. Joe” movie, starring Bradley Cooper, will march into movie theaters in 2028.
Paramount announced on Friday that the film will get a wide theatrical release on Oct. 20, 2028. McBride will direct the reimagining of the “G.I. Joe” franchise — which kicked off with the Hasbro toy line and spawned comic book series, animated series and a trio of live-action films — from a screenplay he wrote with Jeff Fradley and John Carcieri. Cooper is set to star as Duke, one of the franchise’s most iconic characters, but the studio is keeping further plot details under wraps. The film is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, and Zev Foreman for Hasbro Entertainment.
Paramount and (the newly-renamed) Blumhouse Atomic also revealed that the next “Paranormal Activity” movie will debut in the Halloween corridor (on Oct. 22, 2027)
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Stranger Things is returning to Netflix.
The streamer has officially ordered a live-action prequel series to its massive sci-fi hit.
Titled Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, the new series will be set in the 1950s, with production taking place in New Mexico.
Original series creators and showrunners The Duffer Brothers will serve as co-creators, but have otherwise handed over creative duties to longtime Stranger Things writer Kate Trefry, who also penned the Stranger Things: The First Shadow stage play, and Golden Globe-winning director Joe Wright (Atonement), who will helm the first three episodes.
The series will feature an all-new cast and story. Details are being kept under wraps, but the title, 1950s New Mexico setting, and one hint by the Duffers in their statement (“watch the skies”) sure do suggest the show has a UFO/aliens/outer space theme.
