Universal Pictures had arguably the best overall presentation of the week, showcasing a very promising upcoming slate with extremely strong new footage from a handful of major upcoming blockbusters, including Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Glass, First Man, and Halloween.
Read my recap of the Universal Pictures presentation, which includes a full detailed footage description of the Fallen Kingdom footage, below:
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The Secret Life of Pets 2
Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish kickstarted the Universal presentation by introducing Illumination Entertainment, who went on to reveal the voice cast for The Secret Life of Pets 2, which is due out summer 2019.
In an unexpected announcement, they revealed that Harrison Ford has joined the cast, which will make this the first animated role ever for the legendary actor. Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Nick Kroll, and Pete Holmes have also joined the cast in key roles. Meanwhile, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Eric Stonestreet, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, and Bobby Moynihan will all reprise their roles from the first installment.
The Minions 2
Universal and Illumination then confirmed the development of a new Minions movie and while we didn't see much else, they did confirm that it's currently eyeing a summer 2020 release. Kyle Balda and Brad Ableson are co-directing with a script from Brian Lynch.
Look for it in theaters July 3, 2020, which is more or less the same release window as the previous four films in the franchise.
Sing 2
Universal and Illumination continued on to confirm the development of a sequel to their 2016 smash hit, Sing and said it's still in the very early stages of development. They previously announced a December 25, 2020 release date, which it seems like they'll still meet, but don't be surprised if this ends up getting delayed ever so slightly.
A director has yet-to-be revealed, but we can probably expect most, if not all, the cast to return to voice their respective characters.
The Grinch
Next up was our first new footage of the day as Universal and Illumination shared a new extended trailer for The Grinch, featuring a new look at the animated antihero, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch (Avengers: Infinity War), as he gets up to no good during the Christmas holiday.
The footage gave us a rare sneak peek into his origin story, which sees him grow up in an orphanage, and then flashforward to present day where he's seen living alone with a friendly dog that he repeatedly takes advantage of. There's a scene where the pair play chess and since he's losing, he distracts the dog and tosses a few of his pieces off the board to gain the upperhand. Then, of course, when Christmas rolls around, he decides to take matters into his own hands.
Halloween
It's been a long time since Laurie Strode first crossed paths with Michael Myers and now, forty years after their first encounter, the duo are back on the bigscreen for an adventure that looked every bit like the true sequel fans have been clamoring for since the 1978 classic.
Jamie Lee Curtis, in a stunning red pant suit, gave us an introduction for the new Halloween film, which she admits is "hella scary," and will "scare the living s**t out of all of you."
The trailer opens with a group of investigators approaching a captive Myers, hoping to get more insight into his past crimes, but get no reaction. They try to show him his mask, but instead of getting anything from him, every other inmate begins to act out, hooting and howling, at its mere sight. We then cut to a scene of Laurie's granddaughter and her friends talking about the various different versions of the story they've heard before we cut to the star of the piece, a much older Laurie Strode, talking to an investigator and sharing something unexpected. She tells him that she's been praying that Myers would escape captivity for years just so that she could kill him herself, revealing a small montage of her transformation into a Sarah Connor-esque heroine, and then, right on cue, we see a prison transfer bus crash and news reports that Myers has escaped.
We don't get to see his first victim, but he does enter a ladies' room and drops a bunch of bloody teeth into a stall with a young women screaming in terror. Laurie is seen trying to send her family away, but they don't seem to understand magnitude of the threat and then we see her protecting her granddaughter, shooting at what looks to be Myers, but only turns out to be a reflection. Laurie tells someone that the boogeyman is real and the final scene is a babysitter (Virginia Gardner) putting a young kid to sleep and then going to close the closet door, which she fails at thrice before opening it to see what was blocking it and I won't tell you who's standing there, but just be prepared to scream.
Glass
"First name: Mister. Last name: Glass."
Director M. Night Shyamalan and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Sarah Paulson were next onstage to bring us our first look at one of the most highly-anticipated films of 2019, the upcoming superhero thriller Glass. Jackson gets the honors of introducing the trailer, "It's about time I got the title role in my own motherf**king movie," which was met with a round of applause.
The trailer opens with a voiceover from Dr. Ellie Staple (Paulson), a psychologist that specializes in a very specific kind of delusion of grandeur, treating individuals that suffer from believing that they are superheroes. We cut to Glass (Jackson), Crumb (McAvoy), and Dunn (Willis) all sitting there looking at her slightly skeptical. It's unclear how they all got to this treatment facilitiy, but Dunn does appear to be there voluntarily whereas the other two are clearly prisoners.
We're given a few brief flashbacks to Unbreakable and also see The Horde holding four high school cheerleaders captive somewhere and telling them that the beast is coming, which is terrifying to say the least. We even get to see some more of Crumb's personalities slip through while he's in captivity. Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor-Joy) also returns in the trailer and, in a surprising twist, is seen briefly visiting Crumb in captivity, which might just be a misdirect.
The trailer ends with Glass telling Crumb that he wants to meet the beast and then aligning with him in a nefarious plot, which will also once again pit them against both Dunn and Cooke.