Prepare for some good ol’ 2000s nostalgia in the course of the spring and summer time film season. From April to June, Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 and Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies are set to return to theaters.
The previous is extra concrete, and was formally introduced earlier within the week. Beginning April 12, Dreamworks will put Shrek 2 again in cinemas forward of its twentieth anniversary on Could 19. The 2004 film was a landmark piece of cinema again within the day, and might be the most effective animated motion pictures ever. Throughout its theatrical run, it earned $935 million and have become the highest-grossing animated movie on the time.
Shrek 2 would additionally go on to attain two Academy Award nominations—one for Finest Animated Movie, the opposite for Authentic Tune (“Accidentally in Love” by Counting Crows)—and launch the Puss in Boots spinoff movies. At time of writing, it’s not clear how lengthy this re-release will keep in theaters, however Fandango and AMC have already got tickets able to pre-purchase, and AMC goes as far as to make tickets $5. What’s higher than this?
As for Spider-Man, latest Cinemark listings present the webhead’s motion pictures can be regularly doled out across the similar time. The primary Spider-Man from Sam Raimi can be re-released on April 15, adopted by its sequels on April 22 and April 29, respectively. They’ll be adopted by Andrew Garfield’s Superb Spider-Man 1 and 2 (May 6 and May 13), then the three Tom Holland-led trilogy of Spider-Man: Homecoming (May 20), Far From Residence (May 27), and No Means Residence (June 3) will wrap issues up.
Why Spider-Man? Columbia Footage, which has produced every of the three sub-series and varied offshoots just like the Spider-Verse movies and Madame Web, turned 100 this previous January. Spider-Man is related to Sony, for higher and worse, so why not use that to make some extra cash? It hasn’t been formally revealed but, however that may doubtless change within the subsequent few weeks.
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