Welcome to the Cinema Squad Podcast – Episode #25!

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This episode we discuss:

CINEMA SQUAD 8/7/16

UPDATES, CORRECTIONS, & TIDBITS

• CORRECTION FROM LAST WEEK: We stated that Isaac Assimov wrote “Dune” but it was actually Frank Herbert.
• First trailer released for Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk”
• “The Secret Life of Pets 2” has a release date of July 13, 2018.
• “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2” has a release date of Nov. 16, 2018
• Willem Dafoe to voice Ryuk the Shinigami in “Death Note”
• Ruby Rose to join “Meg”
• Angelina Jolie Pitt drops out of “Murder on the Orient Express” remake
• Peter Block has the rights to “Pumpkinhead” reboot
• Anthony Mackie has joined the “Untitled Detroit Riots Project”
• Daisy Ridley to star in “Chaos Walking”

The Box Office Report

• 1st with $135-Million is Suicide Squad
• 2nd with $22-Million is Jason Bourne
• 3rd with $14-Million is Bad Moms
• 4th with $11-Million is Secret Life of Pets
• 5th with $10-Million is Star Trek Beyond

THEATER – NETFLIX – OR NEVER  
Opening next weekend we have “Pete’s Dragon” – “Sausage Party” – “Florence Foster Jenkins” – “Hell or High Water” – “Blood Father”

The HOT List – The hottest stories from the previous week in Movie News:

• Disney is rebooting “Splash” with Channing Tatum & Jillian Bell
• MGM developing a remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” with Rebel Wilson
• Joel Edgerton to join Jennifer Lawrence “Red Sparrow”
• Mel Gibson & Sean Penn to star in “The Professor and the Madman”
• Sony adapting “Peter Rabbit” with James Corden & Rose Byrne
• Rami Malek to co-star with Charlie Hunnam in the remake “Papillon”

TRIVIA – CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
With the first trailer of “Dunkirk” released this week, we finally got our first look at Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited return.  Let’s celebrate this awesomeness with some C-Nolan Trivia!

Develop, Ditch or Turnaround

• Mark Wahlberg to star in “Home Invasion” for Paramount Pictures
• Netflix has picked up the movie rights to “13 Minutes”
• Benedict Cumberbatch to star in “Rogue Male”
• Reese Witherspoon to star in the indie drama “Home Again”

Closing Segment:  SUICIDE SQUAD *SPOILERS* REVIEW