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Director Alfonso Cuarón is an acclaimed filmmaker with an ever-evolving use of the long take, a sequence when the camera doesn’t stop filming as if the action is happening in real time. In his 2018 film Roma, for example, Cuarón captures the life of 1970s Mexico City with several long takes: the camera can patiently follow Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) walk through the busy, vibrant streets or bear witness when Cleo desperately struggles to help the kids she cares for out of a strong ocean current. Cuarón doesn’t bring too much attention to the technique, rather relying on what's playing out in the scene to hold the viewer's interest. While Roma shows off Cuarón's knack for long takes, years prior in 2006, he and frequent collaborator, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, teamed up for Children of Men to yield stunning results where they used long takes to pull you into a dystopian future.

The highly-anticipated John Wick spinoff, Ballerina, will be set in the same criminal underworld as the previous films, adding to the franchise's stylish action scenes and fight choreography. Ballerina will explore the backstory and assassin origins of Ana de Armas' character, Rooney, who is training to become a contract killer in the same crime family that adopted John Wick. Fans can expect intriguing new additions to the John Wick lore, including more information about the Ruska Roma clan and the powerful High Table, as well as the introduction of new characters and intense action sequences in Ballerina.

There are a lot of exciting things to expect from the highly-anticipated John Wick spinoff Ballerina, which is set to come out in the summer of 2024 and add to the burgeoning John Wick universe created by former stunt person Chad Stahelski. When Stahelski teamed up with beloved star Keanu Reeves to chronicle the titular assassin's saga of revenge,...