Nearly six years after Captain Steve Rodgers handed Sam Wilson, Aka The Falcon, the shield in “Avengers: Endgame” (well, at least in real years, not MCU years), Wilson (Anthony Mackie) will finally appear in his first solo movie, “Captain America: Brave New World.” Not due in theaters until early 2025, with “Deadpool & Wolverine” in theaters soon, Marvel is not missing a beat, releasing the trailer now, which means it’ll undoubtedly played nationwide in movie theaters before the Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds-led film.

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Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster “Captain America: Brave New World” isn’t due in theaters until February 2024, but as you may have noticed by now, companies like McDonald’s are already advertising the film, and various pieces of marketing have revealed some early spoilers (beware, spoilers discussed below in this article). The issue, it seems, is that “Captain America: Brave New World” was initially scheduled for release this summer, with a date that once included May 3, 2024, and a subsequent date for July 26, 2024.

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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire? Are the rumors of “Captain America: Brave New World” true? What rumors? Well, “‘Captain America: Brave New World” was once a summer 2024 movie set right in the heart of July. However, after the strikes, Marvel Studios revamped their entire schedule, moving “Deadpool 3” into that July position even though its production shoot—which is still going on now as we speak—wasn’t complete and ‘Brave New World’ had finished its principal photography.

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Phase 5 of the MCU finally gets underway next month with “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.” And while it remains unclear how much that movie sets up the rest of the MCU’s next chapter, Marvel fans anticipate Phase 5 will bring its fair share of changes. For example, take “Captain America: New World Order,” which sees Anthony Mackie‘s Sam Wilson officially take over the shield and helmet from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers.

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More news from the MCU front today, as “Captain America 4” has found its director. And The Hollywood Reporter reports that it’s none other than Julius Onah, director of 2018’s “The Cloverfield Paradox” and 2019’s “Luce.” It’s the Nigerian-American filmmaker’s first rodeo with Marvel Studios, but he’ll be in good company on the new movie.

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According to Variety, “Samo Lives” comes from filmmaker Julius Onah, and he’ll write, direct, and produce the biopic with “Cyrano” star Kelvin Harrison Jr.

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Critics out of Sundance this year have been talking about Julius Onah’s new film, “Luce.” Leads Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Tim Roth bring their A-game in this thrilling drama that is certain to create a conversation surrounding its themes of privilege, and accountability where its characters are concerned.

‘Luce’: Julius Onah’s Powerfully Constructed Psychodrama Of Race & Social Politics Is Brilliantly Tense [Review]

Luce Edgar (Kelvin Williamson Jr.

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At the heart of the upcoming thriller “Luce” is a battle between the title character and his high school teacher. Not a physical struggle, but instead, a battle of wits and psychology, as the two people attempt to convince the other characters, as well as the audience, about who is right and who is wrong. It’s a battle that is beautifully acted thanks to Octavia Spencer and her co-star Kelvin Harrison, Jr.

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If you’re a fan of quality film scores, you probably were amazed by last year’s work by composers Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow on the sci-fi film “Annihilation.” The score for that film, accompanied by Alex Garland’s visuals, was one of the best of 2018. And now, the duo is back with a new score, this time for the upcoming dramatic thriller “Luce.”

And in honor of the soundtrack’s impending release in August, coinciding with the film, we are thrilled to be able to present our readers with an exclusive first listen to a couple of tracks from Salisbury and Barrow’s score for “Luce.” And as you can hear, the composers have returned with another unique, beautiful score that perfectly accompanies the film.

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In two short years, Trump’s toxic America, has turned race, privilege, and class into incendiary topics while amplifying intolerance, and Julius Onah‘s powerfully constructed “Luce,” mixes all these socio-political subjects into a provocative Molotov cocktail that shatters, burns and leaves no easy answers.

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A dissecting, and even confrontational, look into the American Dream, “Luce” features at its core a married couple going through a series of shocking, ambiguous and difficult-to-describe events involving their adopted African-American son, a straight-A student and all-star athlete.

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There is not a moment wasted in “The Cloverfield Paradox,” and that includes its surprise, Super Bowl Sunday release on Netflix, with only a thirty-second TV spot dropping during the game to prepare audiences. Within the opening minutes of the latest addition to the franchise, we’re told everything we need to know: with Earth facing a massive energy crisis, Hamilton (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), with the encouragement of her husband Michael (Roger Davies), puts aside the pain of a personal tragedy, to embark on a last ditch effort to save all life on Earth.

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Earlier this month, we debuted the first installment of our On The Rise series for this year by looking at the actors and actresses we’re tapping for big things to come. But looking at the talent in front of camera only tells a small portion of the story: they wouldn’t be anywhere without the people who actually make the movies.

It’s an infectious feeling to walk out of a film and know that you’ve watched the start of what promises to be an enormously exciting career, and the emergence of new voices is one of the things that makes the movies so exciting.

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