Risultati di ricerca
Biografia. Originario del barrio di Santurce a San Juan, Soto ha cominciato da produttore televisivo e lavorando nella pubblicità, per poi scrivere e dirigere cortometraggi negli anni 2010. [1]
Ángel Manuel Soto (born January 28, 1983) is a Puerto Rican filmmaker. He is best known for directing Charm City Kings (2020) and the DC Studios film Blue Beetle (2023).
Ángel Manuel Soto (Santurce, 28 de enero de 1983) es un director, productor y guionista estadounidense.
Ángel Manuel Soto ist ein puerto-ricanischer Filmregisseur, -produzent und Drehbuchautor. Große Bekanntheit erlangte er durch den im DC Extended Universe ansässigen Film Blue Beetle.
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Marketing
- Release
- Reception
- Future
- External Links
In the remote tundra of Antarctica, members of Kord Industries, led by the company's co-founder and CEO Victoria Kord, locate an ancient alien artifact known as the Scarab. Meanwhile, Jaime Reyes returns to his hometown of Palmera City after graduating from Gotham Law University, only to learn that his family is facing eviction from their home due ...
Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle: A recent college graduate who gains superpowers when an alien Scarab grafts onto him, forming a powerful reconfiguring exoskeletonaround his body.Adriana Barraza as Nana: Jaime's grandmother.Damián Alcázar as Alberto Reyes: Jaime's father.Elpidia Carrillo as Rocio Reyes: Jaime's mother.Development
Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Films were developing a film based on Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle by the end of November 2018, with Mexican-born Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer writing the screenplay. Zev Foreman was executive producing the project for Warner Bros., which was set to be the first DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film as well as the first live-action superhero film starring a Latino lead. By December 2020, DC Films was planning to release several mid-budget films a year exclusively on the streamin...
Writing
In October 2021, Soto said Dunnet-Alcocer's script featured "the Latino family at its core", while star Xolo Maridueña said in August 2022 that the family aspect of the film and character were "inherent to the comics" and felt had not been explored as much with other superhero films. Soto did not want the film to be "another story where 15 minutes in, something happens, and 50 minutes later, he's dominating the experience, and by the end, he's saving the world" and instead wanted to explore h...
Casting
Xolo Maridueña was Soto's first choice to portray Reyes, with Soto explaining that he "couldn't stop seeing [Maridueña] as the character" since he was hired to direct the film, enjoying his performance in Cobra Kai. He also noted that his experience with martial arts while filming Cobra Kai would help with his role as Blue Beetle. Soto and Warner Bros. offered the role to Maridueña on August 1, 2021, he was publicly revealed to be in talks for the film the next day, and his casting was offici...
Soto, Dunnet-Alcocer, and Maridueña promoted the film at the virtual DC FanDome event in October 2021, where they discussed their preparation for filming and revealed concept art for the film. The first trailer for the film was released on April 3, 2023, revealing that the film takes place in Palmera City, an original location created for the film....
Theatrical
Blue Beetle premiered in El Paso, Texas on August 14, 2023, in partnership with the El Paso Times, and had its red carpet premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre on August 15. Due to the then-ongoing 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, the cast of the film did not attend the premiere, with Soto praising them as "heroes". Blue Beetlewas theatrically released in the United States on August 18.
Home media
Blue Beetle was released on digital download on September 26, 2023, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 31, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The film became available for streaming on Max, the successor to HBO Max, on November 17, 2023,where it debuted as the most streamed film on the platform in the United States.
Box office
Blue Beetle grossed $72.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $58.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $130.8 million. It is the lowest-grossing film in the DCEU, behind Shazam! Fury of the Gods(2023), and underperformed at the box office. In the United States and Canada, Blue Beetle was released alongside Strays, and was projected to gross $25–32 million from 3,871 theaters in its opening weekend. The film earned $10 million on its first day, including $3.3 milli...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 78% of 274 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Led by Xolo Maridueña's magnetic performance in the title role, Blue Beetle is a refreshingly family-focused superhero movie with plenty of humor and heart." On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 from 52 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an a...
Accolades
At the 51st Saturn Awards, Blue Beetle was nominated for Best Superhero Film and won for Best Younger Performer in a Film (Maridueña). Blue Beetle was nominated for the Emerging Technology Award at the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awardsfor the development of "Machine Learning Cloth".
In January 2023, Gunn said the film was "disconnected" from previous DCEU entries and could connect to the DCU. By April, the Blue Beetle character was reportedly part of Gunn and Safran's plans for the DCU. In June, Gunn said Blue Beetle would be the first DCU character while noting Superman (2025) is the first DCU film, while Safran soon clarifie...
Official website (Archived August 16, 2023, at the Wayback Machine)Blue Beetle at WarnerBros.comBlue Beetle at DC.comBlue Beetle at IMDbAngel Manuel Soto. Director: The Farm. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Son of a car salesman and a flight attendant. Studied architecture and advertising. Always loved films. Now he makes them. He is a cinephile. He travels all over the world doing it, including Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, France, USA, and Puerto Rico.
18 ago 2023 · Angel Manuel Soto made a breakout superhero movie by breaking all the rules. Inverse goes deep on DC's 'Blue Beetle' with its iconoclastic director.
