Category: NEW MOVIES: “Despicable Me 4

NEW MOVIES: July 4-10, 2024, “Despicable Me 4,” “Fly Me to The Moon,” “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot,” “The Secret Art of Human Flight”

DESPICABLE ME 4

DESPICABLE ME 4

Despicable Me 4 is a 2024 American animated comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to Despicable Me 3 (2017), the fourth main installment, and the sixth overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film was directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Patrick Delage (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Chris Meledandri and Brett Hoffman, and written by Mike White and Ken Daurio. It stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Sofía Vergara, Renaud, Madison Polan, Dana Gaier, Chloe Fineman, with Stephen Colbert, and Will Ferrell.

Development of a fourth Despicable Me film began in September 2017. It was officially confirmed in February 2022, with Renaud, Delage, and White attached as director, co-director, and writer, respectively. Production was underway by June 2022. Most of the main voice cast was announced in January 2024, with Hoffman and Daurio revealed as co-producer and co-writer, respectively. Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams returned from previous installments to compose the score and write original songs and themes, respectively.

Despicable Me 4 premiered at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on June 9, 2024, and was theatrically released in Australia on June 20 and in the United States on July 3. Like its predecessor, the film received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Undercover Anti-Villain League (AVL) agent Gru attends a class reunion at his former high school, Lycée Pas Bon, where he reunites with Maxime Le Mal, a former classmate who has a feud with Gru for stealing his talent show act. During the ceremony, Maxime reveals he has enhanced himself with cockroach body parts, and Gru has him arrested by the AVL. Helped by his girlfriend Valentina, Maxime escapes prison and reveals his new invention. This gun transforms people into cockroach hybrids, which he plans to use specifically on Gru’s infant son Gru Jr.

Voice cast

  • Steve Carell as Felonious Gru, a former supervillain turned Anti-Villain League agent; who is Margo, Edith, and Agnes’ adopted father, the biological father of Gru Jr., and Lucy’s husband, who poses as “Chet Cunningham”
  • Kristen Wiig as Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent, Gru’s wife and adoptive mother to Margo, Edith, and Agnes, and Gru Jr.’s biological mother, who poses as “Blanche Cunningham”
  • Will Ferrell as Maxime Le Mal, a French-accented supervillain who seeks revenge on Gru and his family
  • Joey King as Poppy Prescott,[4][5] an aspiring supervillain who has admired Gru for a long time
  • Sofía Vergara as Valentina, Maxime’s femme fatale girlfriend
  • Stephen Colbert as Perry Prescott, Poppy’s father, Patsy’s husband, and Gru’s new neighbor at Mayflower[5]
  • Chloe Fineman as Patsy Prescott, Poppy’s mother, Perry’s wife, and Gru’s new neighbor at Mayflower[5]
  • Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Gru and Lucy’s oldest adopted daughter, who poses as “Bree Cunningham”
  • Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, the previously-retired director of the Anti-Villain League
  • Pierre Coffin as the Minions, the yellow henchmen of Gru, most of them later get jobs at the Anti-Villain League as agents
  • Dana Gaier as Edith, Gru and Lucy’s middle adopted daughter, who poses as “Blair Cunningham”
  • Madison Polan as Agnes, Gru and Lucy’s youngest adopted daughter, who poses as “Britney Cunningham”. Polan replaces Nev Scharrel from the third film
  • Chris Renaud as Übelschlecht, the principal of Lycée Pas Bon
  • Laraine Newman as Melora, a salon customer who was accidentally burned by Lucy
  • Tara Strong as Gru Jr., Gru and Lucy’s biological son
  • John DiMaggio as a Bus Driver

Additionally, Gru’s neighbor, Fred McDade, his mother Marlena Gru, his twin brother Dru Gru, and Dr. Nefario make non-speaking cameos. Several villains from the previous films (consisting of Vector and his father, Mr. Perkins, El Macho, Scarlet and Herb Overkill, Balthazar Bratt, and the Vicious 6) have non-speaking cameos at the end of the film as well.

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FLY ME TO THE MOON

FLY ME TO THE MOON

Fly Me to the Moon is an upcoming American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Donald Elise Watkins, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson. Its plot follows the relationship between a marketing specialist and a NASA director during the 1960s Space Race.

Fly Me to the Moon is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States and Canada by Columbia Pictures through Sony Pictures, Releasing on July 12, 2024, before streaming on Apple TV+ at a later date.[3][4][5]

Premise

During the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, a relationship developed between the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch and the marketing specialist brought in to fix NASA’s public image and stage a “back-up” fake Moon landing.[6]

Cast

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SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT

SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (also simply known as Possum Trot) is an upcoming American drama film directed by Joshua Weigel and co-written by Rebekah Weigel. Actress and activist Letitia Wright serves as executive producer.

Plot

Inspired by a true story, the film follows Donna and Reverend Martin of Possum Trot, Texas, as they ignite a fire in the hearts of their rural church to embrace kids in foster care that no one else would take in. By doing the impossible—adopting 77 children—this East Texas community proved that with determined love, the battle for America’s most vulnerable can be won.

Cast

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THE SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT

THE SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT

The Secret Art of Human Flight is a 2023 American fantasy comedy-drama film written by Jesse Orenshein, directed by H.P. Mendoza, and starring Grant Rosenmeyer.

Plot

The Secret Art of Human Flight is a 2023 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by H.P. Mendoza and starring Grant Rosenmeyer. The film tells the story of a grieving widower who turns to a mysterious self-help book from the dark web, promising to unlock the power to fly12. Quirky and gentle, the movie explores themes of loss and letting go34.

Cast

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