Is 2021 going to be the year the giant shark movie experiences a full-blown renaissance? From the looks of things, it appears to be a yes in terms of quantity and nothing else, but we’re not so sure about the quality.

This year has already seen the release of Sharks of the Corn, which did indeed try to position itself as a cross between Jaws and Children of the Corn, so take that information as you will. Shark Island is on its way to VOD at some point over the next couple of months, too, and another self-explanatory entry in the subgenre is China’s Huge Shark, summing up the premise of the film rather neatly.

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Tommy Wiseau is even joining the resurgence, with Big Shark set to mark the cult hero’s first directorial effort since The Room, and there’s also Sylvester Stallone voicing King Shark in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad to look forward to. If that still wasn’t enough, Australian thriller Great White is expected to release this summer and has already been confirmed for a 2022 Shudder debut, while it’s got a new full-length trailer for good measure as well.

The plot follows a pair of seaplane operators and their passengers making their way to a remote island, but after experiencing some technical difficulties, they end up trapped with a bunch of hungry aquatic carnivores looking to add them to the menu. It might be a low budget effort, but the ‘inspired by true events’ tag gives it a hook, and there’s certainly plenty of atmosphere to be found in the footage that makes Great White look as though it could be the year’s shark attack movie to beat.

A core rule of slasher movies is that you should never assume the killer is dead; they will always find some way to come back. The same can also go for the victims, and a concept trailer for the new Scream combines the two, bringing back Stu and Randy.

Stu’s motivation in the original was never properly addressed, seeming to aid Billy purely for the joy of killing since, as is observed, “it’s a lot scarier when there’s no motive,” and was killed when Sidney pushed a TV onto his head, electrocuting him. Randy, meanwhile, was one of its survivors, but was murdered halfway through the sequel by Billy’s mother (“Randy spoke poorly of Billy and I got a little knife happy”). Despite this, he turned up in Scream 3 by way of a video recording that pre-empted his fears of both his own inevitable death and that the closing chapter of the trilogy would soon rear its head.

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The trailer uses footage from each of the movies and the TV show (along with some other sources) to suggest that the Ghostface slayings have become so ingrained in popular culture that they’re a source of inspiration for aspiring murderers, commenting on how entitled fandoms have become in deciding the direction in which the things they purport to love should actually go, with the two formerly dead characters playing important roles in realizing this. It also partially takes inspiration from The Following, a TV series created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson about a preposterously widespread cult of serial killers, amplifying the notion that literally everyone is a suspect.

The very existence of the first Scream was intended to lovingly poke fun at how formulaic slasher films had become, and this version of the franchise’s continuation attempts to take things in a new direction. Stu and Randy, who were each there at the beginning, would certainly be best placed to offer different perspectives on how the saturation of online obsession has affected what was in the beginning a simple story.

A new trailer for Netflix’s Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness series has finally arrived and needless to say, it teases a nightmarish adventure for the animated show’s heroes.

Leon and Claire, two of just a handful to survive the Raccoon City incident in 1998, both return in this latest addition to the franchise and have seemingly found themselves embroiled in yet another war against bioterrorism. Taking place almost a decade after the pair’s escape from Umbrella’s playground populated by millions of unwitting test subjects, the protagonists, now with several years of experience under their belts, strive to maintain peace in a world constantly threatened by the reemergence of black market bioweapons.

In 2006 – two years after his encounter with the Los Illuminados – Leon, still a government agent, is tasked with investigating a hacking incident targeting the White House. In attempting to learn of the perpetrators’ intentions, the former R.C.P.D. officer is set upon by a horde of the undead and escapes, later reuniting with Claire, who has herself been investigating strange occurrences while overseeing construction of a welfare and relief facility.

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Where the story goes from here, we’ve no idea, but judging from today’s first proper teaser, it looks as if the duo will have their work more than cut out for them. Given the close proximity of its setting to Resident Evil 4, we’d certainly be surprised if the show wasn’t connected in some way to the events that transpired in rural Spain, though we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness releases this July exclusively on Netflix and will be accompanied at a later date by a live-action series featuring the daughters of Albert Wesker. See here for everything we know so far about the latter.

Blockbuster action sequel Fast & Furious 9 was one of the first major releases to be pulled from the calendar as the Coronavirus pandemic swept across the globe, and it’s finally set to hit the big screen fourteen months later than intended when Dominic Toretto and his family roar back into theaters on June 21st.

Under normal circumstances, the ninth installment in the hugely popular franchise would comfortably sail past a billion dollars at the box office, but there are no guarantees that business will have returned to normal by then. However, it’s still set to pull in a massive amount of money, especially when the lucrative Chinese market is back up and running, with the previous two entries both earning over $390 million in that one territory alone.

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It’s also setting up the grand finale, with Justin Lin set to direct the tenth and eleventh Fast & Furious movies, which will draw the main saga to a close. There’s also the repeated teases from several key cast members that F9 will finally realize a long-held ambition for fans and take things to outer space, which is so absurdly ridiculous that it’s going to be awesome.

At this point, you already know if you’re in or out for Fast & Furious 9, and the latest trailer isn’t going to change your mind in the slightest looking at the vehicular carnage on display. It’s big, loud, dumb, stupid and bombastic, which in this case is meant as a glorious compliment. It’s a brand shamelessly built on nothing but fan service and upping the ante, and the sort of ludicrous escapism provided by the franchise is something audiences have been crying out to see for the longest time.