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Wednesday 29 March 2017
‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Blade Runner’

footage kicks off CinemaCon

LINDSEY BAHR bumping up the release film when he was 13 or 14.
AP Film Writer of Edgar Wright’s “Baby “I saw everything that stole
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Iron Driver” to June 28 from its from it first,” the actor said.
Man just put Spider-Man in planned August release. “I was just blown away by
time out. Ryan Gosling was on hand how influential this film had
Sony Pictures on Monday to preview the “Blade Run- been, not only in film but in
unveiled the second trailer ner 2049” trailer in advance my reality as well.”
Ryan Gosling, a cast member in the upcoming film “Blade Run- for “Spider-Man: Home- of its Oct. 6 release. The se- The studio also previewed
a first look at “The Dark
ner 2049,” poses during a photo call backstage at the Sony Pic- coming” at CinemaCon, quel to Ridley Scott’s semi-
tures Entertainment presentation at CinemaCon 2017 at Caesars featuring Tom Holland, the nal 1982 dystopian Los An- Tower,” out July 28, an ad-
Palace on Monday, March 27, 2017, in Las Vegas. newly anointed web-sling- geles epic picks up with a aptation of Stephen King’s
Associated Press er, being put in his place new cop, Gosling’s Officer seminal saga starring Idris
by Robert Downey Jr.’s K, on a mission and look- Elba as Roland the Gun-
more seasoned Tony Stark. ing for advice from Harrison slinger and Matthew Mc-
Conaughey as the Man
The film, out July 7, picks up Ford’s Rick Deckard. in Black. The gritty fantasy
with Holland’s Peter Parker “I had your job once,” Ford takes audiences from the
returning to high school af- says in the trailer. “I was real world where a young
ter the events of “Captain good at it.” Director Denis boy, Jake (Tom Taylor), has
America: Civil War,” and Villeneuve’s vision was dark visions of the Tower and the
wanting to immediately and stylized, and very much Gunslinger before sliding
get back into the action as in the vein of Scott’s film. It’s through a portal to another
a new threat emerges from not, as Sony Chairman Tom reality. Dwayne Johnson
Michael Keaton’s Vulture. Rothman noted. However, and Jack Black were on site
The annual gathering of little was revealed about as well to tease “Jumanji:
theater owners, exhibi- the secretive plot which is Welcome to the Jungle,”
tors and Hollywood studios said to expand the mythol- a sequel to the 1995 Robin
kicked off Monday eve- ogy and continue the story. Williams pic about a board
ning at Caesar’s Palace in Rothman spoke nostalgi- game that gets a little too
Las Vegas with Sony Pic- cally of the power of see- real. The film, set in the
tures’ presentation of their ing “Blade Runner.” present day, takes every-
upcoming slate, featuring “I saw the future, of man day high school students
new looks at everything and movies both,” Roth- into a body swapping situ-
from “Blade Runner 2049” man said. “Like millions ation with the characters
and “Jumanji: Welcome to around the world, I longed in the game (i.e. the nerdy
the Jungle” to the Stephen for more ever since.” kid in the game becomes
King adaptation “The Dark Gosling, who was only 2 Dwayne Johnson and the
Tower.” The studio also an- when the original came beautiful popular girl be-
nounced that they were out, remembers seeing the comes Jack Black). q

Documentarian Ken Burns making

film on Muhammad Ali

heavyweight champ, who
died last June. Burns, his
daughter Sarah and David
McMahon collaborated
for a PBS documentary on
Jackie Robinson that de-
buted last year.
The tentative plan is to air
the Ali film in 2021.
Sarah Burns said the out-
pouring of good will at
Ali’s death made it easy
to forget how divisive it
was when the former Cas-
sius Clay took the Ali name
when he converted to Is-
lam and refused to join
This 1966 file photo shows world heavyweight boxing champion the Army during the Viet-
Muhammad Ali. nam War. She said film-
Associated Press makers want to exam-
NEW YORK (AP) — The late announced Tuesday that ine what influenced Ali’s
Muhammad Ali is getting he and two partners will choices and how he stuck
the Ken Burns treatment. make a two-part, four- with them despite public
The PBS documentarian hour film about the former condemnation.q