Movie Premieres:
- Perhaps the strangest and most high-concept of all the franchise stars’ many screen appearances, Minions & Monsters sees the little banana-loving pills go Hollywood (and meet George Lucas). Set in 1920s Tinsel Town, the Minions (director and co-writer Pierre Coffin) use black magic to conjure a Lovecraftian blob named Goomi (Trey Parker), who takes them to Monster Island in search of the perfect star.
- Less than a decade after the release of the animated original, and two years after its long-awaited sequel, Disney returns to ancient Polynesia with a live-action remake of Moana. Despite the flesh, blood, and CGI, the story remains the same: Moana (Catherine Laga’aia), hits the high seas with a wise-cracking, musclebound demigod, Maui (a returning Dwayne Johnson), to recover an ancient artifact
- Christopher Nolan’s latest is also his most classically epic. Based on the classic epic, Homer’s Odyssey, Nolan brings his scale, ambition, and practicality to an IMAX-sized adaptation of Odysseus’ (Matt Damon)
- Kevin Hart returns with his Ride Along director for the bachelor party comedy 72 Hours. Hart plays a 40-year-old accidentally added to a random group chat of 20-somethings (Marcello Hernández, Mason Gooding, Ben Marshall, and Kam Paterson). To prove his youth, he joins them in Miami for a three-day bachelor party. Hilarity, presumably, ensues.
- Happy Gilmore for the tennis world, The Dink stars Jake Johnson as a washed-up tennis pro, who takes up pickleball. Mary Steenburgen helps him find his serve again. Written by Sean Clements and directed by Josh Greenbaum, the movie brings a host of ringers to the court, including Ed Harris, Ben Stiller, Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman, and Chris Parnell.
- Five years after cracking the multiverse wide open, Spider-Man: Brand New Day spins a whole new web for Spider-Man. After reversing the events of his whole life to save his friends, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) joins the Punisher (Jon Bernthal) to take on the Scorpion (Michael Mando) and win back his friends, MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon). To do so, he’ll get a little help from Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). Oh, also, there are ninjas.
TV Premieres:
- Adventure Time: Side Quests (Hulu and Disney+, Monday, series premiere) It’s been 16 years since we first met Finn the Human and his magical canine pal Jake the Dog in the Cartoon Network favorite Adventure Time. Nearly two decades later, the duo is delightfully back adventuring across the Land of Ooo in this prequel series, with Sasha Knight voicing young Finn and O.G. series star John DiMaggio returning as his deeply loyal companion. (The cast also includes Tom Kenny as Ice King, Hynden Walch as Princess Bubblegum, Olivia Olson as Marceline, and Niki Yang as BMO.) Good news for fans of the original show: The spinoff will reportedly harken back to the monster-fighting and lighthearted hijinks of the early seasons.
- Elle (Prime Video, Wednesday, series premiere) Created by Laura Kittrell and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, this Legally Blonde prequel series checks in with the blonde and bubbly Elle Woods (played by newcomer Lexi Minetree) six years before the events of the beloved 2001 film. Here, our high school-age heroine is forced to navigate a big move from sunny California to moody Seattle with her parents (June Diane Raphael and Tom Everett Scott), leaving her feeling like a fish out of water when it comes to school friendships and burgeoning romances. The comedy, which has already been renewed for a second season, also stars Chandler Kinney, Jacob Moskovitz, Gabrielle Policano, and the late James Van Der Beek in his final onscreen performance.
- X-Men ’97 (Disney+, Wednesday, season two premiere) Two years ago, Marvel Animation went back to the 1990s with this spirited revival of X-Men: The Animated Series. Now for its second season, the show’s going to the ’90s and beyond: Our merry band of mutants—Cyclops (Ray Chase), Jean Grey (Jennifer Hale), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), and Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith) among them—have been scattered through time, from Ancient Egypt to 3960 A.D. They’ll have to work together to time-travel home and defeat the mutant villain Apocalypse (Ross Marquand).
And That Counts For The July Film And TV Preview On Rina's Gossip Blog! - R.T
