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SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run forgoing theatrical release

After being one of the multiple movies to be delayed due to the global pandemic earlier this year, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is joining the likes of Scoob! and Trolls World Tour to skip a theatrical release and head straight to on demand instead, according to Variety.

RELATED: Nickelodeon Announces SpongeBob Cast Table Read Special!

The third installment in the film franchise of the hit Nickelodeon series had originally been slated for a May 22 release before being delayed until August 7 and though many studios, such as Warner Bros., are holding out hope that cinemas will be ready to go come the next two months, Paramount is choosing to play it safe and skip the theatrical release. In addition to on demand, the film will follow up the digital release by heading to stream exclusively on ViacomCBS’ platform CBS All Access in the States in early 2021.

“We are thrilled to have The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run, a premier, first-run movie from one of ViacomCBS’ biggest brands, join CBS All Access’ expanding slate of franchise content from across ViacomCBS,” Marc DeBevoise, chief digital officer at ViacomCBS and president and CEO of ViacomCBS Digital, said in a statement. “This launch will be perfectly timed with our continued expansion and planned rebranding of the service in early 2021, as we welcome SpongeBob and the gang from Bikini Bottom to the service in the biggest way possible.”

The film, previously titled It’s a Wonderful Sponge, will be the first 3D computer-animated SpongeBob movie, which is being described as a love letter to SpongeBob’s original creator Steven Hillenburg, who passed away last November, as well as the fans of the show, not to mention the fictional residents of Bikini Bottom.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will feature a score by Hans Zimmer and original songs by Ali Dee. The film will also be featuring the voices of Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) and Reggie Watts (Tuca & Bertie). In addtion, pop star legend Cyndi Lauper and co-writer Rob Hyman are working on original songs for the film. It is being produced by Paramount Animation in collaboration with Nickelodeon Movies and United Plankton Pictures.

RELATED: Kamp Koral: SpongeBob SquarePants Spinoff Greenlit by Nickelodeon

Since its debut in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has become the most widely distributed property in Viacom International Media Networks history, seen in more than 208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. This marks the third feature-length Spongebob adventure, after 2004’s The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, and 2015’s Sponge Out of Water.

The project is being directed by Tim Hill and produced by Ryan Harris with choreography by Mia Michaels

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Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 trailer gives BTS look at animated sequel

Ahead of the six-part docuseries’ debut on the streaming service this week, Disney+ has unveiled the trailer for Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2, giving audiences a special behind-the-scenes look at the record-breaking sequel. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

RELATED: Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 Six-Part Series Coming to Disney+

With the clock ticking and less than a year until the world premiere of Frozen 2, the creative team opened their doors to cameras for a six-part series to reveal what it takes to create the biggest animated film of all time. For the first time, cameras capture the challenges and breakthroughs, the artistry and complexity of creating a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film.

Pick up your physical copy of Frozen II here!

Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 is set to premiere on Disney+ on Friday, June 26, while Frozen II is currently available for streaming on the latest platform now!

Frozen 2 saw the return of stars Kristen Bell (The Good Place), Idina Menzel and Josh Gad (Murder on the Orient Express), as well as the additions of Sterling K. Brown (This is Us) and Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld).

Why was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she’ll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In Frozen, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. In Frozen 2, she must hope they are enough.

The film is helmed by Academy Award-winning team—directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck with Peter Del Vecho serving as a producer. It also features music from Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

RELATED: Rise of Skywalker Threepeats at #1 While Frozen II is Animated King: 

The first film was the smash hit of 2013, landing as the highest-grossing animated film of all-time and the highest-grossing film of the year with over $1.2 billion grossed worldwide. Frozen received rave reviews from critics and audiences, winning Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Let It Go,” which also reached the top five on the Billboard 100.

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2.5/10

Cast:

Bella Thorne as Arielle Summers

Jake Manley as Dean Taylor

Amber Riley as Elle

Michael Sirow as Kyle

Marisa Coughlan as Janet

Written and Directed by Joshua Caldwell

You can order your copy of Infamous here!

Infamous Review:

At some point in every Disney kid’s career, they feel the need to try and break free from their family-friendly image into more mature material. Some stars, such as Cole Sprouse, Vanessa Hudgens, and Brenda Song, were able to find this path while others are still struggling to make that transition and the past few years has seen Bella Thorne try her hand, with her latest effort coming in the form of Joshua Caldwell’s new thriller Infamous. However, much like some of her unfortunate fellow House of Mouse graduates, she still has yet to find the one project to help propel her to mature stardom, as this modern-day take on Bonnie and Clyde proves to be a real snoozefest from start to finish.

Infamous is the story of two young lovers who rob their way across the southland. Arielle (Bella Thorne) is a down on her luck dreamer who longs for popularity. Dean (Jake Manley) is an ex-con working for his abusive father. The two have an instant connection, and after the accidental death of Dean’s father, they are forced on the run. In an attempt to gain social media clout, Arielle livestreams their exploits and robberies, gaining them viral fame but ultimately leading them towards a tragic ending.

The film doesn’t start off on an interesting or wholly original note, with the moody Arielle lashing out at her absentee mother and her disgusting boyfriend and finding a connection in fellow outcast Dean. One finds herself ridiculed by her friends and family for her promiscuity while the other is ostracized by the whole town for his criminal past and while the latter shows interest in bettering his life and staying on the straight and narrow, he’s pulled into a dangerous world by the former. While the script flips the gender norm on its head of the woman being seduced by the life of crime and initially presents Arielle as a more sympathetic character, it quickly loses this steam as the two embark on their journey.

Similar to the 2012 crime thriller Spring Breakers, the film has some important themes of the dangers of modern-day superficiality and over-attachment to social media, and though it has a more set endgame for its characters than the Harmony Korine-helmed hit, it still feels similar in its style and handling of these themes. Even if audiences didn’t connect to the characters in the opening act before they begin their crime spree, we’re still meant to enjoy their robberies as they’re glorified on-screen with upbeat pop music and plenty of slow-motion editing during robberies, but this feels very counteractive to its messages. Unlike Natural Born Killers, which glorified its couple’s crimes to an uncomfortable degree, this film never takes off or escalates in a way in which we want to fully stand with or against them, only glorifying them without meaning.

The chemistry between Thorne and Jake Manley is certainly there and in some scenes, it radiates accordingly, but the majority of the film still finds Manley trying hard to ape the cool bad boys of the past, from Nicolas Cage’s turns in both Wild at Heart and Valley Girl to John Travolta in Grease. Give him some gel-slicked hair and more leather attire and he’s no different from any tough guy of the ’50s and sadly his performance doesn’t help break this stereotype or set his character apart.

Thorne is certainly proving herself a capable artist in less family-friendly fare and though her character is mostly full of stereotypes and unlikable, she does a better job of bringing her to life than her male costar. In some of her warmer and comedy-skewing moments, she proves to be a charming lead, but for the majority of the film, she just proves to be a medium-lit bulb at the bottom of a 100-foot-deep well.

With a plot clearly taking from countless Bonnie and Clyde interpretations and 2012’s Spring Breakers and a cast of wholly uninteresting and unoriginal characters, Infamous leaves audiences begging the question of why this film exists and why Caldwell didn’t strive for a better balance of thematic storytelling and slick style.

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Joel Schumacher, Batman Forever & Lost Boys director, dies at 80

ComingSoon.net is disheartened to bring the news (via The Hollywood Reporter) that Joel Schumacher, legendary director of the acclaimed vampire horror comedy The Lost Boys and Batman Forever, has passed away at the age of 80 after a year-long fight with cancer.

RELATED: Iconic Batman Scribe Denny O’Neil Passes Away

Schumacher’s near-50-year career began as a writer, having penned the script for 1976’s cult musical drama Sparkle and acclaimed comedy Car Wash, as well as the 1978 cult classic The Wiz starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson before making his directorial debut on the widely-panned sci-fi comedy The Incredible Shrinking Woman. He would begin to find some success behind the camera with 1985’s St. Elmo’s Fire before helming The Lost Boys, which helped launch him further into the spotlight.

After helming a number of polarized films including the cult favorite Flatliners, Schumacher would begin his hot streak with the well-received crime thriller Falling Down in 1993 and continuing with the 1994 adaptation of John Grisham’s The Client, 1995’s Batman Forever and 1996’s adaptation of A Time to Kill before it came to an end with 1997’s Batman & Robin. The next few years would see him struggle to recapture that streak with the poorly received 8MM, Flawless and Bad Company while delivering occasional critical successes such as Phone Booth, Tigerland and The Phantom of the Opera.

RELATED: Lord of the Rings & Alien Star Sir Ian Holm Passes Away at 88

Many fans and collaborators took to Twitter to mourn Schumacher’s passing, some of which include:

RIP Joel Schumacher. Why is his (and Michael Douglas’) estimable Falling Down so underseen today?

— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) June 22, 2020

Me playing a sad sax solo for the memory of Joel Schumacher. RIP pic.twitter.com/5UQJSWgFzK

— Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) June 22, 2020

Batman, yeah, whatever. Joel Schumacher was the director of Phone Booth, a phenomenal movie, one of the most subtle & savage political allegories to come out of Hollywood since 9/11. JS’s director’s commentary on the DVD hints at aspects of the movie not usually talked about. RIP https://t.co/r7Q8DLuYjO

— Kevin Williamson (@williamsonkev) June 22, 2020

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— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 22, 2020

(Photo Credit: Getty Images)

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David F. Sandberg returning to horror for The Culling

After stepping away from the horror genre for the DC Extended Universe hit Shazam!, on which he’s currently developing the 2022 sequel, David F. Sandberg is set to return as he has signed on to helm the religious thriller The Culling at Lionsgate!

RELATED: Not Alone in Here: Watch David F. Sandberg’s Newest Short Horror Film!

The film, which is coming from Stephen Herman’s spec script, will follow a troubled priest who confines himself to a remote cabin in the middle of the woods where he attempts to make a last stand against the demon that terrorized his family when he was a child.

Sandberg and wife Lotta Losten are set to produce the film through their newly formed Mångata production banner alongside Chris Bender and Jake Weiner for Good Fear Content, with the latter’s Scott Stoops set to executive produce. Lionsgate’s Aaron Janus will oversee the project alongside Aaron Edmonds.

Sandberg broke out in 2013 with his hit horror short Lights Out, which Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema acquiring the rights to the short for a feature-length adaptation, on which the 39-year-old Swedish filmmaker would make his feature directorial debut. After receiving strong reviews from critics and becoming a box office smash, Sandberg would reunite with producer James Wan and New Line for his second feature, Annabelle: Creation, which became the  highest-grossing and best-received installment in the Conjuring spin-off franchise.

RELATED: Fear Agent: Seth Rogen, David F. Sandberg Adapting Comic for Amazon

While being stuck at home during the global quarantine, Sandberg has been working on the highly-anticipated Shazam! 2 as well as crafting two new shorts, Shadowed and Not Alone in Here, with Losten, both of which received rave reviews from horror fans.

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CS Video: Infamous interview with Bella Thorne

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star and executive producer Bella Thorne (The Babysitter, Assassination Nation) to discuss her role in Infamous, a modern-day take on the Bonnie & Clyde tale for social media-hooked audiences. The interview can be viewed in the player below!

RELATED: Exclusive Infamous Clip Starring Bella Thorne & Jake Manley

Infamous is the story of two young lovers who rob their way across the southland. Arielle (Bella Thorne) is a down on her luck dreamer who longs for popularity. Dean (Jake Manley) is an ex-con working for his abusive father. The two have an instant connection, and after the accidental death of Dean’s father, they are forced on the run. In an attempt to gain social media clout, Arielle live streams their exploits and robberies, gaining them viral fame but ultimately leading them towards a tragic ending.

Click here to rent or purchase the film now!

The movie also stars Amber Riley (Glee, Straight Outta Compton). The film is written and directed by Joshua Caldwell and produced by SSS Entertainment and Lucidity Entertainment.

RELATED: Infamous Trailer & Poster Starring Bella Thorne & Jack Manley

Infamous is produced by Shaun Sanghani of SSS Entertainment alongside Colin Bates and Michael Jefferson of Lucidity Entertainment and Scott Levenson in association with Vertical Entertainment, Beer Money Worldwide, and El Ride Productions. Thor Bradwell is producer. Sanghani also financed the picture via his financing arm SSS Film Capital.

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J.K. Simmons says his next J. Jonah Jameson cameo has already been filmed

Earlier this month, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons revealed that fans should expect more of his return as J. Jonah Jameson in future MCU/SUMC films following his surprise appearance in the post-credits scene of last year’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. In a recent interview on SiriusXM‘s The Jess Cagle Show which you can listen to below, the Marvel alum continues to tease fans about his future appearances in upcoming Marvel movies, confirming that he has already finished filming his next cameo. However, it remains unclear if his new cameo would be featured in a new MCU movie or perhaps another SPUMC movie.

“Well yeah, [I’ll be back as Jameson] that’s the short answer,” Simmons said. “There is a future for J. Jonah Jameson after a several-year hiatus. He showed up very briefly for those who were wise enough to stay through the credits of Far from Home… There is one more JJJ appearance in the can, and from what I’m hearing there’s a plan for yet another. So hopefully JJJ will continue now and forever.”

RELATED: David Koepp Discusses Scrapped Spider-Man Trilogy Plans

Tom Holland will return for the film as the titular wall-crawler, and it remains to be seen what villains he’ll go up against in the trilogy caper. Given the ending of Far From Home, however, any number of his rogues gallery are likely eager for a fight. The third installment to the MCU’s Spider-Man films will also feature the return of Zendaya (Euphoria, Dune) as MJ. Holland’s Spider-Man is also set to appear in another Marvel Studios film per the new agreement.

The third Spider-Man film from Marvel Studios is set for a November 5, 2021 release, officially adding another addition to the already crowded Phase 4 release slate. Sony’s upcoming Spidey slate includes Venom: Let There Be Carnage, starring Tom Hardy and directed by Andy Serkis, as well as Jared Leto’s in-the-can Morbius, a Kraven the Hunter film, and a spinoff featuring Silver Sable and Black Cat. Should these films interact with the MCU and Tom Holland, it remains to be seen, but the door seems open.

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Michael Keaton in talks for The Flash movie as Batman!

The DC Extended Universe solo Flash film has been in the works for nearly five years now and has seen a number of writers and directors come and go and with the film on track with Andy Muschietti behind the camera, The Wrap has brought word that the film will feature a major component in the form of Michael Keaton returning as Batman!

RELATED: Andy Muschietti Confirms The Flash Movie is Still Based On Flashpoint

Sources report that the 68-year-old performer is currently in talks with Warner Bros. to reprise his star-making role for the long-awaited project focused on the red speedster in an effort to introduce audiences to the concept of the multiverse, while noting that negotiations are in “the very early stages.” The multiverse is a concept that has underlined most of the DC Comics, with The CW’s Arrowverse using the idea for connecting Supergirl to its other series and helping with the annual crossover events, most notably last year’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. The network also utilized this event to connect the small screen world with the big screen as Ezra Miller’s Flash met up with Grant Gustin’s and confirmed the existence of Justice League and Wonder Woman.

It’s currently unknown how the script is looking to toy with the idea of the multiverse, especially in future DCEU films, but sources are confirming that should Keaton return to the role 30 years after we last saw him in it, it will not affect Matt Reeves’ highly-anticipated The Batman and that the studio is still considering Robert Pattinson as the future of the Dark Knight franchise. Additionally, The Hollywood Reporter adds that if talks go through, Keaton could end up playing Batman in multiple movies “in a mentor capacity” similar to Nick Fury in the MCU, with Batgirl being one of the possible projects.

If these talks make, sources say Keaton could end up playing Batman in a mentor capacity, a bit like Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury, and appear in multiple movies. BATGIRL is one of the possible projects. https://t.co/3FTuQQplZn

— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) June 22, 2020

Keaton first took on the cowl in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, which proved a critical and commercial hit and helped pave the way for the comic book genre’s future box office domination. and his performance has largely been considered one of the best iterations of the character, despite initial hesitation from fans. He would return to the role in 1992’s Batman Returns with Burton directing, and after the financial success and continued positive reviews, the studio began development on a third installment, though quit after Burton was pushed out and replaced with Joel Schumacher, who would go on to direct Val Kilmer in Batman Forever and George Clooney in Batman & Robin.

Should Keaton’s deal be finalized and the filmmakers go through with the multiverse concept, the plan is to have The Flash act as a direct sequel to Batman Returns and borrow from the acclaimed 2011 crossover storyline “Flashpoint,” exploring what his version of Batman has been up to in the years since.

RELATED: WB Shuffles The Batman Release Date, Plus The Flash & More!

Warner Bros. first revealed that their Flash film would be inspired by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert’s Flashpoint comic as early as 2017. The studio even went so far as to change the movie’s title to Flashpoint. But following last month’s announcement of the film’s 2022 release date, it doesn’t sound like this is still the case.

It’s probably for the best that the filmmakers are going to make changes to Johns and Kubert’s original Flashpoint arc. After all, the story has already been brought to life in animated form and in the Arrowverse. In 2013, Warner Home Video released Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. A few years later, The CW’s The Flash aired its own version of the story during the show’s third season. With this, it makes sense that Warner Bros.’ film division would want to make something that stands out from prior adaptations. Plus, the timeline tampering could also be used a means of fixing continuity issues within the DCEU.

The Flash is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 1, 2022.

What are you hoping to see from the movie’s interpretation of the Flashpoint story? Let us know in the comment section below!

Recommended Reading: Flashpoint

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CS Video: You Should Have Left interview with Kevin Bacon & Amanda Seyfried

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon (City on a Hill) and Amanda Seyfried (Scoob!) to discuss their roles in the Blumhouse psychological thriller You Should Have Left, in which Bacon reunites with Stir of Echoes writer/director David Koepp. The interview can be viewed in the player below and you can order your copy of the movie here!

RELATED: You Should Have Left Featurette Debuts Ahead of Thursday Release

In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room), Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.

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In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.

In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.

RELATED: Kevin Bacon & Edgar Wright Have Some Encouraging Ways to Help

Based on the novel by best-selling German literary sensation Daniel Kehlmann (Measuring the World), You Should Have Left is written and directed by David Koepp (Stir of Echoes). The film is produced by grandmaster of terror Jason Blum (The Purge and Halloween franchises), Kevin Bacon and Dean O’Toole (Walk Like a Panther), and is executive produced by Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Derek Ambrosi.

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Ferris Bueller Reunion Set for Reunited Apart With Josh Gad

After 34 years since the theatrical release of John Hughes’ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986, the main cast of the iconic teen comedy film are officially set to reunite on the final episode of Josh Gad’s quarantine digital show Reunited Apart. The announcement also came with the release of the teaser which you can check out below, featuring a preview of the virtual reunion.

See you all a week from today for our FINAL episode of #ReunitedApart – #SaveFerris – https://t.co/PtdorqAZ6O pic.twitter.com/dfCbVtxgmf

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) June 21, 2020

RELATED: CS Interview: Director Howard Deutch Looks Back On Pretty in Pink

Joining Gad in the new episode are Matthew Broderick (WarGames, Godzilla, Election), Alan Ruck (Succession), Mia Sara (Legend, Timecop) and Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing), who portrayed the roles of Ferris, Cameron, Sloane and Jeanie, respectively.

Directed and written by John Hughes, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is considered as one of the most iconic teen movies to date because of its memorable lines and themes that every young generation could relate to. Since its release, it’s legacy and influence continues to live on until today as it became a staple into pop culture.

RELATED: Back to the Future Cast & Creators Reunite on Reunited Apart with Josh Gad

Hosted by Gad, every episode of Reunited Apart will showcase one of the many incredible charities working to provide resources to those most desperate for them during these incredibly difficult times. Previous episodes featured reunions from the casts of The Goonies, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, Splash and Ghostbusters.

Reunited Apart with Josh Gad is directed by James Merryman who co-produces along with Meghan Monaco. The web series is executive produced by Taylor Stuewe and edited by Will Newell. The theme song is sung by Kate Anderson who co-created the theme song along with Elyssa Samsel. Opening credits are by Ryan Kravetz.

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