A Witch, an Alien, and a Spider Woman Walk Into Three Trailers This Week

It feels like we JUST made it through the promo and awards push for the first Wicked movie. And now we’re already here at the promo push for the second one. I’m not sure I need to say much more about this. But, in case you weren’t sure, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will reprise their roles in Wicked: For Good.

We’ll all be off to see the wizard, again, when Wicked: For Good opens in theaters on November 21st.

This is the Xenomorph’s world, we’re all just living in it. For now. Ridley Scott’s horror out of space has had a stranglehold on Sci-Fi for 46 years. The Alien franchise has produced some of the best and worst genre movies ever, and now Noah Hawley is ready to show us what he’s got with Alien: Earth.

My body is ready.

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler (Sugar), Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Lily Newmark, Alex Lawther (The Last Duel), Samuel Blenkin (Atlanta), Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones), David Rysdahl (Dead Pigs), Erana James (The Changeover), Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.

Episodes will begin streaming on FX and FX on Hulu on August 8th.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, originally a novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, has seen several adaptations over the years. It’s a dialogue-driven, stream-of-consciousness story about cellmates in an Argentine prison who form a bond during their incarceration through retelling the plots of films as stories. In a new film adaptation based on Terrence McNally’s musical, Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna are bringing the spectacle of it all to movie theaters.

I don’t know. JLo looks digitally enhanced, but other than that, I don’t have a strong enough connection to the original work or previous adaptations to feel any sort of way about this. I do like Diego Luna, though. And we know he understands how to play a revolutionary.

Kiss of the Spider Woman premieres in theaters on October 10th.

This week’s lagniappe comes from America’s poster girl for copaganda, Mariska Hargitay, who has produced a documentary about her mother. No shade, I think Mariska is great, I loved her in Ghoulies. And her mother, Jayne Mansfield, is an icon and a legend who died tragically, way too young.