Updated 21/3: according to non-disclosure agreements at last night’s UK screening the embargo will now lift 3.5hrs earlier.
The new time is 22:00 GMT on March 23 which is 15:00 PT on the same day.
With the release of any new movie there is that inevitable moment when the reviews flood the web. Whilst many fans will ignore them and make up their own minds, there are plenty of cinema goers who will use reviews (or aggregator websites) to inform when and if they see an upcoming movie.
Warner Bros. has now confirmed that reviews for Shazam! are able to be released from 18:30 PT on March 23. For us Brits that time translates to 01:30 GMT on March 24.
Allowing reviews to be released a week before the movie shows the studio has confidence the movie will be performing well.
We’re seeing Shazam! on Wednesday and will bring you our review as soon as we can!
You can find all our Shazam! coverage of the movie over at our Shazam! hub.
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard.Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).
Shazam! also stars Jack Dylan Grazer (“IT”) as Billy’s best friend and ultimate superhero enthusiast, Freddy, part of the foster family that includes Mary, played by Grace Fulton (“Annabelle: Creation”); Darla, played by Faithe Herman (TV’s “This is Us”); Eugene, played by Ian Chen (TV’s “Fresh Off the Boat”); and Pedro, played by Jovan Armand (TV’s “Hawaii Five-O”). Cooper Andrews (TV’s “The Walking Dead”) and Marta Milans (TV’s “Killer Women”) play foster parents Victor and Rosa Vasquez, with Ron Cephas Jones (“This is Us”) as the Wizard.
Christopher Godsick, Jeffrey Chernov, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are serving as executive producers.
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