In 2020, Millie Bobby Brown proved she was more than just Eleven from ‘Stranger Things’ for Netflix, playing the character of Enola Holmes in the first movie named for her. It was a big success for the streaming service, and we already knew that a sequel was on the way.
At this year’s big TUDUM virtual event, Netflix offered the first full trailer for the new movie.
The first movie found Enola taking her first steps in her detective brothers’ path, using her genius intellect to figure out why her mother went missing and how it all ties into a conspiracy around a mysterious young lord.
Here’s the plot for this one… Fresh off the triumph of solving her first case, Enola Holmes (Brown) follows in the footsteps of her famous brother, Sherlock (Henry Cavill), and opens her own agency — only to find that life as a female detective-for-hire isn’t as easy as it seems.
Not only are there the sexist bores who don’t believe a young woman can run such a business, there are all the customers who show up hoping that she can connect them with Sherlock.
Resigned to accepting the cold realities of adulthood, she is about to close shop when a penniless matchstick girl offers Enola her first official job: to find her missing sister.
Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes in Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes 2.’
But this case proves to be far more puzzling than expected, as Enola is thrown into a dangerous new world — from London’s sinister factories and colorful music halls to the highest echelons of society and 221B Baker Street itself. Since the case appears to intersect with one that has been vexing her sibling.
As the sparks of a deadly conspiracy ignite, Enola must call upon the help of friends — and Sherlock himself — to unravel her mystery. The game, it seems, has found its feet again!
Behind the camera is the same team as the 2020 movie – director Harry Bradbeer and writer Jack Thorne, once again adapting Springer’s ‘Enola Holmes’ book series. And, of course, some credit goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the Sherlock Holmes characters from which ‘Enola’ draws its inspiration.
This sequel promises to be just as packed with action and comedy, with more of the to-camera asides from Enola as she makes her way through this latest adventure.
‘Enola Holmes 2’ will debut on Netflix on November 4th.
Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes in Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes 2.’
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(L to R) Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, and Louis Partridge as Viscount Tewkesbury in Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes 2.’
Co-starring Henry Cavill as Sherlock, Sam Claflin as eldest brother Mycroft and Helena Bonham Carter as her troubled mother Eudoria Holmes, it was a hit for the streaming service and naturally spawned talk of a sequel, not least because the movie adapted Nancy Springer’s book series, which meant other stories were available.
The first movie found Enola taking her first steps in her detective brothers’ path, using her genius intellect to figure out why her mother went missing and how it all ties into a conspiracy around a mysterious young lord.
Here’s the plot for this one… Fresh off the triumph of solving her first case, Enola Holmes (Brown) follows in the footsteps of her famous brother, Sherlock (Cavill), and opens her own agency — only to find that life as a female detective-for-hire isn’t as easy as it seems.
Resigned to accepting the cold realities of adulthood, she is about to close shop when a penniless matchstick girl offers Enola her first official job: to find her missing sister.
Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes in Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes 2.’
But this case proves to be far more puzzling than expected, as Enola is thrown into a dangerous new world — from London’s sinister factories and colorful music halls to the highest echelons of society and 221B Baker Street itself.
As the sparks of a deadly conspiracy ignite, Enola must call upon the help of friends — and Sherlock himself — to unravel her mystery. The game, it seems, has found its feet again!
Behind the camera is the same team as the 2020 movie – director Harry Bradbeer and writer Jack Thorne, once again adapting Springer’s ‘Enola Holmes’ book series. And, of course, some credit goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the Sherlock Holmes characters from which ‘Enola’ draws its inspiration.
Netflix and the filmmakers will, of course, be hoping to avoid the legal troubles that followed the release of the original. The Conan Doyle estate brought a lawsuit claiming that the “warmer” Sherlock as portrayed by Cavill is drawn from stories that are still under copyright. The case was eventually dismissed, though in a way that points to a settlement being paid. With luck, that’ll ensure that Enola stays out of the courtroom this time – at least, off the screen.
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If you’re curious as to what new movie this week might be best for you, Moviefone is here to help you find it and watch it. This week’s recommended films include a superhero do-over, a couple of deep dives into real-life scandals, a couple of stories about strained friendships, a gory anthology, and killer pants. Here are the movies we’re suggesting this week:
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (HBO Max)
Henry Cavill as Superman in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
Back in 2017, ‘Justice League’ was one of the most highly anticipated superhero movies of the year. Featuring most of DC Comic’s heavy-hitters, it landed with more of a thud than a bang. While fans were supportive overall, their knowledge over the troubled production that Zack Snyder had to leave due to family tragedy left them feeling like there had to be a better movie in there somewhere. Over the years, fans grumbled about #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, and Warner Bros studios listened. In a move rare for the entertainment industry, fans got their way, and Snyder got more cash to shoot more material the way he originally intended. The result is 242 minutes of superheroic goodness, with more complete backstories for the characters and entirely new scenes never before enjoyed by the hardworking fans.
Watch It If: You want to know more about The Flash and Cyborg, you’re excited to enjoy all the talk about “boxes” like it’s for the first time, and you’re trying to make up for lost time watching the smash-smash-boom-boom that we haven’t gotten over the past year with all these film delays. Oh, AND you love f-bombs. There are WAY more in this version.
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The Courier (In Theaters)
Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Courier’
One day, British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a regular guy, and the next, he’s a Cold War spy who has no idea what he’s gotten himself into. Based on a true story, Wynne finds himself working with the CIA (Rachel Brosnahan), MI-6, and a Soviet Officer (Merab Ninidze) to potentially avoid the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Watch It If: Your day-to-day video conferences and “putting a pin in it” conversations are making you long for a higher purpose. Also recommended for fans of Benedict Cumberbatch who disappointed he didn’t show up in ‘WandaVision’ like we all expected.
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Happily (In Theaters and On Demand)
Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé in ‘Happily’
Tom (Joel McHale) and Janet (Kerry Bishé) are the kind of couple that makes everyone’s eye muscles ache from rolling skyward so much. They’re so in love and totally attracted to each other, and it doesn’t even seem to have cooled off in the years they’ve been married. Naturally their friends hate them. And when a mysterious stranger (Stephen Root) shows up, their love and loyalty is put to the test–not just for each other but to their friends. They end up with dark secrets at a retreat, surrounded by people who might want to put a stop to the lovey-dovey nonsense forever.
Watch It If: You want to discourage your spouse to ever accept social invitations ever again, and for deep cut indie comedy fans of Charlyne Yi (‘Knocked Up’, ’30 Rock’).
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Last Call (In Theaters and On Demand)
Jeremy Piven in ‘Last Call’
Jeremy Piven plays a man who has lost his zest for real estate and life in general. When he gets called back to his old neighborhood in Philly, he faces a tough decision as he reconnects with the faces from his past: does he find the energy to breathe new life into his family owned bar, or does he sell out to a land developer who wants to plop a casino there instead?
Watch It If: You’ve wondered where Piven and Jamie Kennedy have been the last couple years, and if you also struggle with reconciling the reality of the present with the memories of the past.
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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (Netflix)
Rick Singer, the subject of ‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal’
It was only a matter of time before this film was released, showing the tangled web of deceit woven by numerous parents of varying privilege to get their kids into college. Part documentary, part reenactment using actual FBI wiretaps, the film stars Matthew Modine as Rick Singer, the man who orchestrated admissions for numerous kids at Ivy league schools in exchange for payments adding up to $25 million over seven years. His method was to lie about the sports they were involved in and fake their SAT tests, and it was highly effective. It was also highly illegal, and most famously sent actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to prison for approximately seventeen minutes.
Watch It If: You miss gossiping with the neighbors about people in the neighborhood you know are up to something, and if you want to feel smug satisfaction about your kid getting into college the old fashioned way–by putting off their essays until last minute and asking you for the application fee.
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Slaxx (Shudder)
The demonic denim in ‘Slaxx’
This is a movie about a pair of jeans that murder sales associates at a trendy jeans store. There’s nothing else you need to know.
Watch It If: You’ve spent the entire last year in comfy pajama pants and want to feel completely justified in keeping that energy going, you love tongue-in-cheek comments about capitalism veiled in bonkers premises, or at any time you’ve said “these pants are killing me.”
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Phobias (In Theaters and On Demand)
Martina García in ‘Phobias’
Produced by Radio Silence, the producers behind ‘Ready or Not,’ this film features a crazed doctor looking to weaponize fear using unethical methods (just what we need, right?). Leonardo Nam (‘Westworld’) plays one of five patients suffering from extreme phobias (his is technology) who is a caregiver for his ailing father. When he gets a shot at taking on the doctor, he and the other patients have to figure out how to manage their fear and focus on the real enemy.
Watch It If: You’re in the mood for gory horror, and you want a taste of what we might be in for with the next entry in the ‘Scream’ franchise also produced by Radio Silence.
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Still wondering what to watch? We’ve put together this playlist of all the trailers for this week’s new movies:
If you were impressed with Henry Cavill’s “arm gun reload” in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” stand back for his extra-pumped reveal in the first trailer for Netflix fantasy series “The Witcher.”
Cavill stars as monster hunter Geralt of Rivia who wields a mean sword and is handy with a rope. It’s based on the writings of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski (and not the video games it also inspired, according to SyFy.)
In the trailer, we also meet the show’s other main characters.: Anya Chalotra as Yennefer, a sorceress and Geralt’s lover; and Freya Allan as Ciri, princess of a conquered nation and a potential Witcher herself.
“I’m a big gamer. I’ve played the games a lot,” Cavill told the crowd in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con today. “There was something about Geralt that struck a chord with me. He’s not your average hero. He’s a hard exterior, real-world type person and at the same time, deep down, he’s a real hero.”
Cavill also revealed that he did his own stunts for the series. “It’s very important for me that you know it’s Geralt and it’s not some guy doing Geralt stuff but it’s me in there,” he told the audience before showing a clip of his character cutting through a throng of armored soldiers.
Allan said of her character, “She’s had a very sheltered upbringing and as a result she’s incredibly naive to what the real world is. A huge part of her journey is putting herself in other people’s shoes. It’s clear from the start that she has this might and drive but she has to find a new kind of drive to look past the horrific things she sees. It’s a journey of discovery.”
No official release date has yet been announced for the series, only that it’s “coming soon.”
Netflix released a set of first look images from the upcoming fantasy series, which stars Henry Cavill in the title role. The streamer also announced that they are bringing the show to San Diego Comic-Con on July 19. The Hall H panel will be moderated by Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”) and feaure cast members Henry Cavill (Geralt), Anya Cholatra (Yennefer), and Freya Allan (Ciri) as well as showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich.
The series is an adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s bestselling novels, which tell the story of “witchers,” hunters who develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle deadly monsters.
Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia is a solitary witcher who is struggling to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.
Henry Cavill will join the list of actors who have played the iconic literary detective Sherlock Holmes. He has boarded Legendary Entertainment’s “Enola Holmes” adaptation, Deadline reports. As the character, he’ll star alongside Millie Bobby Brown and Helena Bonham Carter.
The upcoming film is based on Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes Mysteries series. Her novels center on another detective named Holmes — Enola, the younger sister of Sherlock. Springer created the character for her books, the first of which debuted in 2006.
The movie adaptation’s script was written by Jack Thorne, and Harry Bradbeer will direct. Brown is set to play Enola Holmes, while Bonham Carter will portray her mother. Brown is also producing alongside Paige Brown via PCMA Productions. Meanwhile, Alex Garcia and Ali Mendes are overseeing for Legendary.
Cavill has starred in a number of high-profile projects in recent years. Some of his recent films include “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” “Justice League,” and “Sand Castle.” Additionally, he has a main role in the upcoming Netflix fantasy drama “The Witcher.”
Henry Cavill is sporting a completely new look — and it’s not for Halloween.
Netflix released the first look at the actor in its upcoming fantasy series, “The Witcher.” The photo and video snippet show Cavill wearing a long silver wig to play protagonist Geralt.
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The series is an adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s bestselling novels, which tell the story of “witchers,” hunters who develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle deadly monsters.
Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia is a solitary witcher who is struggling to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.
Netflix also confirmed the rest of the show’s cast, which includes Freya Allan (“The War of the Worlds”) as Ciri, Anya Chalotra (“The ABC Murders”) as Yennefer, Jodhi May (“Game of Thrones”) as Calanthe, Eamon Farren (“Twin Peaks”) as Cahir, Joey Batey (Knightfall) as Jaskier, and Lars Mikkelsen (“House of Cards”) as Stregobor.
Nicolas Cage is known to be a massive Superman fan. He named one of his sons Kal-El, in honor of Superman’s birth name. He sold a copy of Superan’s debut comic for a record $2.1 million. He was supposed to play Clark Kent in Tim Burton’s “Superman Lives.” He finally did get to voice Superman in “Teen Titans GO! to the Movies,” which opened this past summer. But, at age 54, he has yet to play the superhero on screen.
Henry Cavill is possibly out at as the DCEU’s Superman, but Nicolas Cage isn’t interested in picking up his cape. Not anymore.
Cage just talked to The Guardian while promoting his new film “Mandy,” and the reporter mentioned an online campaign to make him the next Superman:
“Oh, I think my Superman days are long gone,” he laughs with a little pat of his belly. He would be an amazing villain in it, I reply. His eyes light up. “Oh, that would be GREAT! I’d make a great Lex Luthor!”
Yes. He could go Full Cage as Lex Luthor.
When he was announced to voice “Teen Titans” we floated the idea of Nic as the DC world’s next Lex Luthor. Crazy minds think alike. There’s no saying DC *has* to go younger with the new Man of Steel (if there is one) so it’s still possible Cage could be an older Superman. If not in the DC Extended Universe, maybe under the same separate banner that is turning Joaquin Phoenix into the “Joker.”
Imagine Joaquin Phoenix and Nicolas Cage hamming it up in the same supervillain film. We don’t even deserve it.
But if “Bond 25” can still attract top name talent like Fukunaga, there’s clearly still life in that shaken martini.
So now we return to the other rumors — who might replace Daniel Craig after “Bond 25.” Everyone under the sun has been mentioned at one time or another, including Henry Cavill.
Now gossip site Crazy Days and Nights has revived the Cavill rumor with a revealed Blind Item:
Blind Items Revealed #5 The producers of this long running franchise don’t care at all about the cloud swirling around the head of this foreign born former superhero. They want to cast him as their next replacement.
It’s clear the producers are busy with the current movie, which just moved its release date to accommodate the new director. We can go back to serious speculation when “Bond 25” is finished; by then, the producers may even have an official announcement on the new person.
They may want to surprise us, like they did with Danny Boyle and then Cary Fukunaga. Or we could indeed get Henry Cavill, or one of the other million names recycled over the past few years. No matter who is picked as the new James Bond, there will be complaints. There were complaints about Daniel Craig, too. (Remember the blond Bond dismay?)
“Bond 25” now has a release date of February 14, 2020. Yes, Valentine’s Day. If Henry Cavill takes the producers to the premiere as his date, then maybe we’ll start to believe this rumor.
