It’s been another busy week for movies as we leave summer behind and enter the festival season.
From first trailers for highly anticipated movies like Mickey 17 to filming updates and release date announcements, there’s been a lot going on and we don’t blame you if you missed some of it.
If you’re heading for a cinema trip this weekend, you can still watch September’s biggest release, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to Tim Burton’s beloved classic. You can also catch Kate Winslet’s biopic Lee and James McAvoy‘s psychological horror remake Speak No Evil.
If you’re staying home though, Netflix has some great additions too, and of course, you can check out the very best the streamer has to offer with our lists of best thrillers, best comedies, best horror movies, best action movies and best family movies.
While you decide what you’re watching this weekend, here’s the biggest movie news you might have missed this week.
The first trailer for Mickey 17 dropped this week, featuring multiple Robert Pattinsons having an existential crisis in space.
Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi film, based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey 7, is set to be released on January 31, 2025. It was originally going to be released in March 2024, but it was indefinitely delayed after the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes affected production.
The movie also stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.
The Thursday Murder Club has officially wrapped!
Netflix has shared a behind-the-scenes cast and crew group photo for the upcoming murder mystery film, based on Richard Osman‘s beloved novel of the same name.
The snap features many famous faces, with cast members Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie posing alongside the film’s director Chris Columbus.
The Witcher has set a return date on Netflix, but not as fans expect.
A one-off event, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is an animated movie where Doug Cockle reprises his award-winning video game portrayal of Geralt of Rivia. It’s produced by The Witcher TV show’s creator Lauren Schmidt Hissrich.
Netflix announced this week that the movie will launch on February 11, 2025.
Following his Oscar win, Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy is releasing a new Ireland-based film, Small Things Like These.
This week we got a first-look trailer for the film, which is based on the bestselling short novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.
Also starring Game of Thrones‘ Michelle Fairley, Kin actor Clare Dunne and Emily Watson, the movie follows dad and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who questions the comings and goings of young girls at a Catholic convent close to his yard.
Paddington Bear is going on tour in the UK and Ireland! Well, sort of.
To promote the release of Paddington in Peru in November, this week Hugh Bonneville announced Paddington Visit, a series of hand-painted statues that will be situated at benches here, there, and everywhere.
In a short announcement video, Bonneville said: “I am thrilled to reveal we are going to be unveiling a number of benches across the UK, all featuring a statue of our beloved bear.”
Peaky Blinders boss Steven Knight has revealed in which time period Netflix’s upcoming movie will be set.
“It’s set in the Second World War and it’s really good,” Knight teased during an appearance at the Royal Television Society’s London Convention (per Deadline).
Fans of the television series will know that Cillian Murphy’s character Tommy Shelby served in World War I as a sergeant major, and received medals for gallantry and bravery.
However, viewers saw the long-lasting psychological effects the war had on Tommy, as he regularly suffered from nightmares and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Cillian Murphy will reprise his role as Tommy in the big-screen follow-up to the popular BBC series.
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Mireia (she/her) has been working as a movie and TV journalist for over seven years, mostly for the Spanish magazine Fotogramas.
Her work has been published in other outlets such as Esquire and Elle in Spain, and WeLoveCinema in the UK.
She is also a published author, having written the essay Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: Nicky, la aprendiz de bruja about Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.
During her years as a freelance journalist and film critic, Mireia has covered festivals around the world, and has interviewed high-profile talents such as Kristen Stewart, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more. She’s also taken part in juries such as the FIPRESCI jury at Venice Film Festival and the short film jury at Kingston International Film Festival in London.
Now based in the UK, Mireia joined Digital Spy in June 2023 as Deputy Movies Editor.
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