Disney continues with live action versions of their popular animated films. First up for 2020 will be Mulan. For those new to title, it is about a young Chinese maiden who disguises herself as a male warrior. The trailer doesn’t give too much away, and I think it has some of the best directional sound effects (swords swishing through the air) found in a trailer in a long time. Turn it up and enjoy.
Release Date: July 24, 2020 (North America)
Director: Niki Caro
Writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Stars: Yifei Liu, Jason Scott Lee, Donnie Yen
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) is the sequel to Maleficent (2014). In Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and her goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as a mysterious new force enters the equation. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) is in cinemas on October 18, 2019.
Release Date: October 18, 2019 (North America)
Director: Joachim Rønning
Writers: Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elle Fanning
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
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Just completed a DTS:Neural Up-Mix of Trailer 3 of Hobbs and Shaw (2019). I am a little scared that this trailer is showing way too much information – actually the other trailers have showed a lot of the movie as well, I almost feel like there is little left to see in the actual film. Hopefully they held a few things back. The Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) page has been updated with trailer 3 if you want to check it out.
Thank you all for your patience over the last few months, it has been a crazy spring. I have been working behind the scenes to make some site improvements. I am happy to say that things are getting back to normal, and I do have a bunch of new trailers to post. I meant to put this up a few weeks ago, but it didn’t happen. I got my hands on a foreign language 4K version of Trailer 1 – and like the 4K IMAX Avengers: Endgame trailer I have swapped out the foreign titles for upscaled English from the 1080p master. You will see a lot more detail in the non title scenes. The file is big – 1.2 GB @ 80 Mbps.
Head on over to the Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019) page to get the first trailer in 4K with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
I will soon be removing some of the older .mp4 files to make room for new trailers. If you are interested in the .mp4 trailers of the following films, please get them now. They will be removed by the end of the week. The corresponding .mkv versions will remain for now.
If you are having MCU withdrawal after Avengers: Endgame, the good news is that there is a new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). And as a WARNING about SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Endgame in the new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home. If you have not yet watched Endgame and want to stay spoiler free, do not watch this trailer until you have watched Endgame.
Remember back on January 27 when I said the first trailer would drop on April 12 at 2 PM ET?
It has been a long wait, but we now have our first look at the final chapter of the Star Wars Skywalker Saga. Also of note is that this will be the last Star Wars film scored by John Williams, who has composed all the films in the Skywalker Saga. It makes a fitting end to a 42 year saga.
With J.J. Abrams back in the director’s chair after delivering what fans had long wanted in Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) it will be interesting to see how the finale plays out, especially considering that there were some big diversions in Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017). Hopefully this won’t be a remake of Return of the Jedi, and I really expect that it won’t be. But if this is the end of the Skywalker Saga, it will need to have a conclusion for Kylo Ren – since he is the last Skywalker. I guess the question will be – does he turn to the light and find redemption, saving the resistance and restoring freedom to the galaxy?
I just love a good Luc Besson movie, but let’s be honest…it can be hit or miss. What I always enjoy is a film that has a kick ass female heroine who could give John Wick a run for his money. Luc Besson films usually make use of a distinct music score, and the first trailer for Anna is no exception. Upmixed using DTS-Neural Surround trailer 1 for Anna has all the things that make a cool trailer. It looks fantastic, it has some really intense action, and the electronic music just pounds away. You can get the first trailer for Anna (2019) here.
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The good news – we have the second Avengers Endgame trailer in 4K. The bad news – it is not in the IMAX aspect ratio, but the Scope aspect ratio of 4096×1716. I know that IMAX released the IMAX ratio on YouTube, but I have been unable to get a high quality source. If you have a 4K display, then this version should be an immense upgrade over the 1080p version previously released. As I did with Trailer 1, I switched the titles cards (The Avengers Endgame Logo and Release Date Information at the end) with the 1080p source upscaled to 4K. I did that because the 4K source was not English. The other change related to the audio. Since the source was not English, I multiplexed an adjusted version of the English audio from the 1080p trailer. It was adjusted to play at 24fps to match the 4K video, instead of the 23.978 frame rate of the 1080p version. As mentioned in earlier posts, I did not do a 10 bit HEVC encode because I am unable to encode HEVC at a high bit rate (greater than 10 Mbps) without introducing some playback issues such as jittering. Therefore, I am sticking with the AVC 8 bit encode. I did however, increase the bit rate for this 4K version to 40 Mbps to improve the overall image quality. I am really happy with how it looks, and I think you will too.
We are now less than a month from the release date and my son and I are totally stoked for it. I really appreciate that these trailers for Endgame have not given away too much information and the movie should have a lot of surprises. You can get the 4K trailer 2 at the Avengers: Endgame (2019) page as a .mkv with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 or a .mp4 with AC3 5.1
This one is currently in my home cinema playlist and will be for quite some time…at least until we get the first trailer for Episode IX.
