Friday
Mar022012

Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" Trailer

The heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog opens in 3D and 2D theaters on October 5. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life—with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous.

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Friday
Mar022012

Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" Character Images 

Vanity Fair & Hollywood Elsewhere

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet--or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Friday
Mar022012

Four International "Battleship" Posters

A contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle against an alien race is known as The Regents. They come from a world similar to ours, and aren’t actually looking to take over humanity or the planet Earth. Instead, they’re on a mission to build a power source in the ocean, which is where they come in contact with a navy fleet. The film will also show us both sides of the story — from the aliens’ perspective, as well as the humans

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Friday
Mar022012

"ParaNorman" Poster & Trailer

A small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.

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Friday
Mar022012

"Project X" Review: Your Fondest Teenage Memories On Steroids

Like any story worth telling, this story is about a girl. Not just any girl, every girl. Or at least the hottest ones that every delusional adolescent male dreamed of impressing or undressing in high school.  Project X is the party you always were hoping you would be invited to and the one you always dreamed of throwing.  It's about our incessant need to feel accepted and the pains our insecure and awkward selves go through in order to achieve such a lofty goal. It's the one night you'll remember forever, when you couldn't believe their were topless girls in the pool and wondered drunkenly aloud how you survived that insane leap from the roof.

Project X takes you on a found footage journey with three unknown high school students who have little to no impact on the social scene, yet. Costa (Oliver Cooper), a character straight out of The Bronx Tale, is foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to throw a "game-changer" of a birthday party for his unnaturally shy friend Thomas (Thomas Mann) when his parents sneak away for their anniversary. Along with the Fudgie The Whale like JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown), Costa takes to word of mouth, email, radio, and Craiglist to ensure the guest list is overflowing with willing and able teenage partygoers.

Director Nima Nourizadeh somehow seemlessly transitions back and forth from what plays like a pulse pounding music video featuring gyrating adolescents engaging in every parents worst nightmare to suprisingly meaningful yet lighthearted character moments. The jokes seem familiar since we've probably seen them before in some past on screen comedic incarnation or another but they hit at the right time and they hit it hard. The party hard mind of Producer Todd Phillips of The Hangover fame almost oozes from the shaky cam footage. It's your fondest teenage memories on steroids as penned by Matt Drake and Michael Bacall.

The visuals are raw as Nourizadeh emerges you right into the sweaty alcohol soaked orgy making you feel just as blissfully disoriented as the party attendees themselves. You smash cut from the main cameraman Dax to the cell phones of partygoers providing a myriad of viewpoints in which to absorb the large amount of visual euphoria. When Thomas, Costa, and JB are standing on the roof looking down on the mass hysteria they somehow managed to orchestrate Thomas asks Costa, "Is this big enough to be cool?" You want it to be bigger and boy does it get there and more.

Although Project X hits you over the head again and again with escalating party mayhem at it's raunchiest, you still route for the characters. I wanted Thomas to score with Alexis, the hottest girl in school. I even hoped there might be something more than friendship brewing with the girl next door Kirby. At it's bare minimum the movie does what it was made to do, it makes you laugh. For 88 minutes you are sitting right smack dab in the middle of complete and utter chaos and loving every minute of it. You may even reminisce a little, about the one that got away, or that night that completely got out of hand. We've all been there, sometimes we just need a little reminder.

Thursday
Mar012012

Universal Unveils 100th Anniversary Logo 

This year marks Universal Pictures' 100th Anniversary, so anyone planning to catch Snow White and the Huntsman, The Bourne Legacy, Battleship, American Reunion or The Five-Year Engagment in the coming months should prepare to "ooh!" and "ahh!" at their fancy new opening logo, which will look like this:

Frankly, I preferred their 75th Anniversary logo better, but I guarantee right now that this will probably be the best part of Battleship.

Oh well.  Happy 100th, Universal!

Thursday
Mar012012

Seriously Intense Trailer for "Game of Thrones" Season 2

I admit, I've been very late to the Game of Thrones party.  This is what happens when you don't have HBO anymore.  But having spent most of the past year hearing nothing but raves about the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's epic five-part (and growing) book series, I'm finally catching up to both the books and the first of the season of the show, and I can't believe it took me this long to discover how awesome this series is.

The second season of Game of Thrones is set to start on April 1, and HBO has released this newest trailer, which looks pretty damn promising:

Dragons?!  Cool! 

While we still have a few more weeks before season two starts, we do have the first Game of Thrones season headed to DVD and blu-ray next week.  So, plenty of time to catch up until then.

Thursday
Mar012012

First Image from 'Only God Forgives', Radius to Distribute

Even though I've heard nothing but great things about Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, I am yet to see the film.  I just ordered it on Blu-ray so I'll see what all the hype is about soon enough. 

With that said though, today we have our first look at the next team up of Ryan Gosling and Refn with Only God Forgives (doesn't that title just sound badass?).

The film - which just began filming earlier this year - takes places in Thailand where Gosling plays a character named Julian who killed a cop a decade ago and has been on the run ever since.  He manages a Thai boxing club, but it's really all a front for a drug operation his mother heads for a criminal organization (to be played by Kristin Scott Thomas).

I'm not going to get into all the gritty details - as I've listed the synopsis below - but the film's main predicament revolves around Julian's brother, who kills a prostitute, then is murdered himself by a retired cop, Chang (known as the Angel of Vengenance).  Julian is ordered by his mom to avenge his brother's death and of course, all hell break loose.

This thing certainly sounds like it has the potential to be great but one can't judge until an actual trailer is seen.  That might be a bit far off as Deadline reports the project - which was originally supposed to be picked up by Film District (which distributed Drive) - has been bought by The Weinstein Company's VOD/multi-platform gig, Radius.  Apparently, the film is extremely violent and Film District was probably uncomfortable taking on such a project.

Early word is the film may be ready by the fall film festival circuit but is more likely pegged for 2013 with Cannes being a strong possiblity for a debut.

We'll keep an eye on this project as it becomes available.

Sources: The Playlist, Wild Bunch

Thursday
Mar012012

A Muppets Sequel Coming, Possibly Sans Jason Segel

While it wasn't a big grosser in the alternative programming against a Twilight movie in November slot like Tangled, The Muppets wasn't expensive to produce and turned up decent business for Disney to give the go-ahead for more.

Vulture reports the studio has upped deals with helmer James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller to return for a sequel. The catch is Jason Segel, who first convinced Disney they should give the Muppets another shot on the silver screen, is out from the writing end, citing his commitments to How I Met Your Mother and the forthcoming promotional circuits for Five Year Engagement and This Is Forty. A claim I don't buy since how could that stop him from, at least, working on a treatment, working on it while on the out-and-about pimping his movies or the God-given ability to multi-task?

His returning to star isn't out of the question, Disney spies tell the trades, but in lieu of this development, and said logic, don't hold your breath waiting to see Segel singing and dancing next to Kermit again.

Thursday
Mar012012

Red Band That's My Boy Trailer Tries Way Too Hard

His brand comedies, produced every year by Sony down the assembly line from its direction by pal Dennis Dugan down to the random celebrity cameos, show no signs of letting up financially-speaking.

On paper however, That's My Boy sounded like what Adam Sandler needed to get out of his creative rut if he still wants to churn out an annual comedy. Go for a hard-R rating, fill it up with foul language and do as many filthy things as he and his writers can think of, and stop playing the loveable everyman with the hot wife, cute kids and wacky sidekicks. These are all good ideas.

Alas the red-band trailer for the comedy, where Sandler plays a sleaze ball tries mooching off the son (Andy Samberg) he fathered as a teenager on the eve of his wedding, tries too hard to tell us, "See, guys! Adam Sandler can be raunchy too!" without getting any laughs.