Mortal Kombat punching its way to the top of the box office with an opening weekend of $22 million has further reinforced Warner Bros.’ credentials as the kings of pandemic-era cinema. Not only is it the sixth of the studio’s movies to debut at number one since the Coronavirus took hold following in the footsteps of Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984, The Little Things, Tom & Jerry and Godzilla vs. Kong, but the streak is virtually guaranteed to continue when The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It debuts on June 4th.

However, Universal are set to get back into the game in a huge way with a little film called Fast & Furious 9. The next chapter in the blockbuster franchise arrives on June 25th, and to celebrate the occasion, each prior entry in the series with the exception of spinoff Hobbs & Shaw is coming back to theaters every Friday between now and then, with tickets costing absolutely nothing.

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Not only that, but a brand new promo – seen up above – puts Vin Diesel back in the driver’s seat, with the action hero’s signature gravely tones letting everyone know how important going to the movies has been to people all over the world for a century. There’s some brand new footage from F9 on display, too, including a fresh look at a rocket-powered automobile that would be ridiculous in any other property, but is par for the course from The Fast Saga these days.

Having been delayed for fourteen months, fans are champing at the bit to get reacquainted with Dominic Toretto and the gang, so the Fast Friday events should be packing houses across the country until Fast & Furious opens exactly two months from today.

Most fans would probably agree that Captain Marvel doesn’t rank among the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s very best efforts, telling a functional if hardly spectacular origin story for Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, but it certainly didn’t deserve to be the victim of a heavily coordinated trolling campaign that tried to tear the movie down at every opportunity.

Despite a very vocal subsection of so-called ‘fans’ trying to downvote Captain Marvel into oblivion and sabotage its ratings on both Rotten Tomatoes and YouTube, it still rocketed to over a billion dollars at the box office. For some reason, Larson hasn’t proven to be a universally popular member of the MCU’s roster, but she’s here to stay and is widely expected to lead the Avengers the next time Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assemble.

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Her solo sequel is arriving in 2022, and it’s probably safe to assume it’ll be tackling a Skrull infiltration. WandaVision‘s post-credits scene set Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau up for both Disney Plus series Secret Invasion and Captain Marvel 2, and that’s without mentioning she’s got superpowers of her own now as well. Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan is also on board with Zawe Ashton tapped to play a mystery villain, but that’s about all we know so far. And now, a new fan trailer that you can see up above (edited by Billy Crammer) hammers home that notion by being very smartly edited while revealing nothing at all really.

That being said, the presence of rising star Nia Da Costa behind the camera, a script by WandaVision‘s Megan McDonnell and cinematography by Academy Award nominee Sean Bobbitt, who lensed the likes of 12 Years a Slave, Widows and Judas and the Black Messiah, at the very least indicates we’ll be getting a movie that’s visually and narratively superior to its perfectly acceptable predecessor when Captain Marvel 2 hits theaters in November 2022.

If the internet buzz generated by the clip is any indication, then Sony may have stumbled onto a merchandising gold mine thanks to Ghostbusters: Afterlife‘s Mini-Pufts. The footage in question saw Paul Rudd’s Mr. Grooberson discover the sentient marshmallows during a trip to the grocery store, and it looks to have summed up director Jason Reitman’s approach to the franchise he inherited from his father in a microcosm.

Much like the cast of the original film, Rudd is one of the most popular and talented comedic actors of his generation, and the Mini-Pufts update a beloved aspect of the original while putting a fresh spin on it to strike the balance between the new and nostalgic, which pretty much sums up Afterlife itself.

The storyline has strong ties to the mythology first established in 1984 and brings back several of the legacy players, but will look to stand on its own two feet in order to launch a brand new multi-film series, as well as delivering the direct sequel to Ghostbusters II that fans have been waiting over 30 years to see.

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Bill Murray is clearly a fan of the Mini-Pufts, too, with a reaction video revealing original helmer Ivan Reitman letting the star see the clip for the first time. The look on Murray’s face is priceless, and he admits that it’s got the feel of the original duology, which is even better news for fans given that the franchise’s Peter Venkman isn’t known for mincing his words.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is finally set to hit theaters in November having been delayed for well over a year, and it’s looking like it’ll be well worth the wait based on nothing but Murray’s response to the Mini-Pufts.