Yeon Sang-ho’s hit zombie thriller, Train To Busan, is getting a sequel, which will be called Peninsula. The film isn’t a direct sequel per se but more of an extension of the universe revealed in the first film. According to a recent interview, the director states the film takes place four years after the original. “It is in the same universe, but it doesn’t continue the story and has different characters. Government authority has been decimated after the zombie outbreak in Korea, and there is nothing left except the geographical traits of the location.” Peninsula doesn’t have a release date at the moment.
Chinese Cinemas Slowly Open
After massive closures across the country for several weeks, Chinese movie theatres are slowly opening their doors once more. This is seen as a positive sign as it hints that life is slowly getting back to normal after the Coronavirus pandemic that swept the nation. The opening of 500 cinemas is a small number but it may allow studios to regroup some of their losses from major releases. According to Deadline, films that will be released in the coming weeks include re-release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Wandering Earth and films such as 1917, Dolittle, Ford vs Ferrari and Bad Boys For Life, which release dates were postpone during the lockdown.
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Walking Dead Season 10 Finale Delayed
Fans of zombie series, The Walking Dead
will have to wait a while more to see the season finale of the current season.
As the entertainment industry comes to grips with production delays, AMC too
has announced that its hit zombie series has run into some difficulties in
concluding the story arc of its tenth season. As such, the channel has
officially announced that The Walking
Dead Season 10 will send with its 15th episode on 5 April. The
abrupt ending may well throw fans off but they will get closure of sorts as the
panned finale will appear as a special episode later in the year.
Timeline For The Trench Revealed
Although Aquaman 2 is still in pre-production, Warner Bros. is still working on expanding the underwater universe set by the hit superhero film. The Trench, which was revealed as a terrifying deep-sea abyss inhabited by horrific creatures in Aquaman, will be the subject of a spinoff film produced by James Wan. According to a recent Tweet by Aquaman 2 writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the setting for the spinoff takes place between the two Aquaman films. But he was quick to add that “some pieces of the film are still being worked out.”
Netflix Announces Angry Birds Series
The characters from Rovio’s hit video game, The Angry Birds, are heading to Netflix to star in their own new animated series. According to details released by the streaming service, the new animated series will centre on Red, Bomb & Chuck as tween birds. The show will be set at a summer camp, where the trio square off with the obnoxious Pigs on the other side of the lake, who seem hell-bent on causing as much mayhem as possible. Angry Birds: Summer Madness, which will consist of forty 11-minute series episodes, is set to arrive in 2021.
