Fri, August 31, 2012 Way to put an effort to showcase the first-look of the once-and-future James Tiberius Kirk as Jack Ryan (Also the awful title of Kenneth Branagh's Tom Clancy reboot), Paramount.
Couldn't he have been holding a gun and beating up some baddie?
Thu, August 30, 2012 The first clip for the upcoming animated feature The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 has popped up online. It shows the return of Batman himself after many years of hiatus. I've said it before, but having this piggyback off the release of The Dark Knight Rises could prove to be a really smart move by WB. This scene clearly evokes the same feeling that Nolan used in his film as well when Batman comes back, and that shot of him leaping through the air as the lightning cracks the sky is spine-tingling!
Pick this one up on Blu-ray, DVD, or the various forms of home video on September 25th.
Thu, August 30, 2012 
I remember reading about this project years ago, like freshman year of high school 2002. It was a reported film that would encapsulate a married couple's raising of their son from his days in 1st grade through his send off to college. Ethan Hawke would play the father, Patricia Arquette the mother, and an unknown child actor - Ellar Salmon - to play their son. Here was the catch though:
It would take tweleve years to film.
That's right. The idea - from director Richard Linklater - was to film every year the boy aged to capture full authenticity.
I honestly forgot about it and when it popped in my head time to time, shrugged it off as probably an April Fool's joke I had misread...until yesterday.
Reading through a story that the team of Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, & Richard Linklater were working on a third entry in the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset series, entitled Before Midnight, I came across a mention of this Untitled Twelve-Year Project (formely titled Boyhood) and was shocked. It was real and this was the first mention I had seen of it in, well, 10 years.
Anyway, doing some research on the project, it started filming way back in 2002 in Linklater's hometown of Austin, Texas and has been filming there every year since. Which means next year will be the last year of filming for a project that started well over a decade ago. Pretty remarkable.
No pics, videos, or really any info for that matter has been released for the film besides it's general premise. I will say this though, regardless how the film turns out good, Oscar worthy or not, bra-fucking-o to everyone working on this. Not many in Hollywood or feature film for that matter would have the balls or dedication to pull off such a project.
Can't wait until it's complete. Just two more years!
Thu, August 30, 2012 
Highlight from Looper trailers involved Bruce Willis having a sit-down chat with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, playing Bruce Willis.
It takes a few minutes to adjust the eyes, and ears, to Levitt, an actor with the incredible versatility to play Cobra Commander, the new Batman and Bruce Willis. Rian Johnson's time-travel actioner opens in a few weeks and Yahoo! Movies has the afore-mentioned diner sequence:
Thu, August 30, 2012 
Making gazillions of dollars, and arguably stealing The Dark Knight Rises' thunder (To be fair, in a perfect world where dickless, fucktard coward James Holmes was never born, the grosses would have been a lot closer still with Earth's Mightiest Heroes winning) wasn't enough for The Avengers.
As we approach Labor Day weekend, a typically slow time at the box-office, Disney/Marvel is putting The Avengers back in theaters. So if you haven't seen it enough already or, like me saw it once, liked it but remembered "Everything & the Kitchen Sink" filmmaking is not a good thing, here's your chance to help Joss Whedon dethrone Titanic.
Maybe they'll use this as an opportunity to premiere Iron Man 3 footage?
Thu, August 30, 2012 Pacific Rim went over like gangbusters at Comic-Con.
That doesn't mean a thing to its bottom line. Taking a geek-friendly concept (futuristic epic where humans use giant-sized robots called Jaegers to fend off a monster invasion) from a geek-favorite director, the great Guillermo del Toro, to a big geek event is preaching to the choir. Putting out a trailer, and showing off some of that machinery-v-monsters footage could turn the tide.
Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures haven't done it yet. Instead we have brand spanking new photos in the latest issue of Empire, courtesy of Coming Soon:
Thu, August 30, 2012 The film is set at Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free from meddling from the human world. But here's a little known fact about Dracula: he is not only the Prince of Darkness; he is also a dad. Over-protective of his teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula fabricates tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. As a haven for Mavis, he opens the Hotel Transylvania, where his daughter and some of the world's most famous monsters – Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more – can kick back in safety and peace. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.
Thu, August 30, 2012 The true story of Richard Kuklinski, loving husband, devoted father, ruthless killer. He is believed to have killed 100 people between 1964 and 1986. Directed by Ariel Vromen, the film stars Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, James Franco, Ray Liotta and Chris Evans.
Thu, August 30, 2012 When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road -- traveling across American and deep into his past. Set against the rise and fall of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground, "The Company You Keep" is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. It is a vidid re-creation of lives lived underground -- of battle-scarred veterans, ideologues, profiteers, criminals and bystanders.
The Tortonto Film Festival Via ComingSoon.Net
Thu, August 30, 2012 Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. Cynthia (Tapsell), Gail (Mailman), Julie (Mauboy) and Kay (Sebbens) are discovered by Dave (O'Dowd), a good-humored talent scout with a kind heart, very little rhythm but a great knowledge of soul music. As their manager, Dave books the sisters their first true gig giving them their first taste of stardom, and travels them to Vietnam to sing for the American troops.
The Toronto Film Festival via ComingSoon.Net