Poor Creatures, a new film by Yorgos Lanthimos with Emma Stone, and All of Us Strangers, with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, are also on the list
2024 is already among us and with a bunch of new features for cinephiles, from new productions, such as Poor Creatureswith Emma StoneIt is Rivalswith Zendayato highly anticipated sequences, such as Dune: Part 2, Deadpool 3 It is Joker: Folie à Deuxwith Joaquin Phoenix It is Lady Gaga. Below, check out a selection of Rolling Stone Brazilof ten outstanding international cinema releases this year:
Poor Creatures
Yorgos Lanthimos It is Emma Stone repeat the partnership of The favoritefeature film from 2018, in Poor Creatureswhich officially arrives in Brazilian cinemas at the beginning of February, after appearing at the 25th edition of the Rio Festival, which took place in October last year.
In the film, based on the book of the same name by Alasdair Graythe young Bella Baxter (stone) is a child in a woman’s body, who was brought back to life by the intriguing scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe, The headlight). Tired of being trapped in her creator’s mansion, she is seduced and convinced by the lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight: Secrets Revealed) to travel and discover the world alongside you.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for February 1st.
Bob Marley: One Love
Made by Rita Marleywidow of Bob MarleyIt is Ziggy It is Cedella Marleychildren of the artist, Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music career of Bob Marleyincluding the fight to defend peace and the shooting attack suffered in 1976. Kingsley Ben-Adirin One Night in Miami… (2020) and Secret Invasion (2023), the artist lives in the film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard: Creating Champions), based on the script written by the director himself together with Zach Baylin (Creed III) It is Frank E. Flowers (Shooting Stars).
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for February 12th.
All of Us Strangers
Based on the book Strangers (Strangersin free translation), by the Japanese writer Taichi Yamada, All of Us Strangers tells the story of Adam (Andrew Scott, Fleabag), a 40-something screenwriter who lives alone in a nearly deserted skyscraper on the outskirts of London. One night, he is approached by one of his few neighbors, Harry (Paul Mescal, Aftersun), who invites him to spend the night together, after noticing him watching him on a few occasions.
Insecure about issues in your own life, Adam he rejects the boy’s initial advances, but the drunken flirtation makes him decide to revisit the past. He returns to the house he lived in as a child and meets his parents, with whom he has deep conversations, which have been pending since their death in a tragic car accident.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for February 29th.
Dune: Part 2
After following Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet, Wonka) and his family accepting to control the desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune, which is part of an intergalactic feudal empire commanded by noble families, we will see the young man gathering an army of Fremen to fight the relentless Baron Vladimir Harkonne (Stellan Skarsgård, Thor: Love and Thunder), in Dune: Part 2sequel to the 2021 hit.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for March 14th.
Rivals
Directed by Luca Guadagninoin Call Me By Your Name (2017), Rivals put Zendaya (Euphoria), Mike Faist (Love sublime love) It is Josh O’Connor (The Crown) in a love triangle. In history, Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) is a tennis player who goes to great lengths to be successful on and off the court.
She ends up becoming her husband’s coach, art (Faist), who has accumulated defeats in the sport, and the redemption of the former champion takes a surprising turn when facing Patrick (O’Connor), former best friend of the tennis player and ex-boyfriend of Tashi.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for April 26th in North American cinemas, but with no confirmed release date in Brazil.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
In Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagaprelude to Mad Max: Fury Roada feature film from 2015, we go back to the past to discover the past of Angrylived by Charlize Theron in the original feature and by Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) in the novelty. “When the world collapses, young Furiosa is kidnapped from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of the biker horde led by Warlord Dementus”says the film’s synopsis.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for May 24th.
Deadpool 3
For now, there is not much official information about Deadpool 3in addition to the already confirmed returns of Ryan Reynolds as the Chatterbox Mercenary and Hugh Jackman as the antihero’s great enemy, the Wolverine.
Rumors suggest that the new one would adapt one of the craziest stories in Marvel comics, in which Deadpool massacres all his publishing colleagues, but changing the target would actually be his former home, Fox’s Marvel Universe.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for July 25th.
A Quiet Place: Day One
In A Quiet Place: Day Onethe first feature film derived from the franchise A Quiet Placereleased in 2018, we follow a woman experienced by Lupita Nyong’o (Us) trying to deal with the first moments of the terrible alien invasion of sound-sensitive monsters in New York, one of the noisiest cities in the world.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for June 28th in North American cinemas, but there is still no confirmed release date in Brazil.
Joker 2
After the success of Jokerreleased in 2019, the expectation for the sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, still without an official title in Brazil, is huge. In the new, Joaquin Phoenix come back to live Arthur FleckO Jokerand gains the company of Lady Gaga such as dr. Harleen QuinzelThe Harley Quinn. Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but rumors suggest that Joker 2 It will be a musical.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for February 1st.
Gladiator 2
More than twenty years after the film’s release, Gladiator will get a sequel in 2024, with Paul Mescalin Aftersun, as the protagonist. Little is known about the story, but we know that Mescal will play Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) It is Maximus (Russell Crowe), survivor of the previous film.
Denzel Washington (Training Day), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus) It is May Calamawy (Moon Knight) are some of the names confirmed in the cast of Gladiator 2.
WHEN DOES IT PREMIERE? Scheduled for November 22nd in North American cinemas, but there is still no confirmed release date in Brazil.
Source: Rollingstone
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