Tuesday
Dec282010

Merry Christmas From The Set of "Breaking Dawn"

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" director Bill Condon released a Thanksgiving themed picture of The Swan's home from the set. Now he has followed that up with a Christmas themed picture.

Tuesday
Dec282010

First "The Three Musketeers" Official Photo

Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich, Mads Mikkelsen, James Corden and Orlando Bloom, the re-imagination of the Alexandre Dumas classic was shot entirely in 3D. In the October 14 release, the hot-headed young D'Artagnan joins forces with three veteran Musketeers to prevent the villainous Cardinal Richelieu from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Monday
Dec272010

New Captain America Set Photos

Get ready for green frisbee throwing in next years Captain America film.

The Chris Evans Blog has posted an article on the Captain America set visit from Dutch magazine Veronica. Superherohype has translated bits of the article and the green frisbee mentioned will later become a cgi shield. There were a total of 25 shields made for the film including smaller models specifically for scenes involving running and fighting.

Not a whole lot of new photos in this. A new one of Chris as Steve Rogers and a couple of Hayley Atwell who will portray Peggy Carter.

Sunday
Dec262010

Weekend Box Office December 24-26

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Little Fockers - $34 million

2.  True Grit - $25.6 million

3.  Tron Legacy - $20.1 million

4.  The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader - $10.8 million

5.  Yogi Bear - $8.8 million

6.  The Fighter - $8.5 million

7.  Gulliver's Travels - $7.2 million

8.  Black Swan - $6.6 million

9.  Tangled - $6.5 million

10.  The Tourist - $5.7 million

Another Christmas weekend, another Focker movie.  With $48.3 million since opening on Wednesday, the third entry in the Ben Stiller/Robert DeNiro dysfunctional family saga did well enough, but fell far short of Meet the Fockers' $70.1 million haul over the same weekend in 2004.  Blame the third movie curse, the six-year gap since the last film, the holiday or the big snowstorm currently socking the Northeast...but the Focker craze seems to be bottoming out.

Better news at the box office was the success of True Grit, which had a fantastic weekend with $25.6 million.  This is the biggest opening weekend for the Coen brothers since Burn After Reading in 2008, and the best opening weekend ever for a Western.  This bodes even better for the film's Oscar chances this year.

Last week's champ, Tron Legacy, tumbled 54% to land in third place with $20.1 million.  It's still a long way off from its reported $170 million budget, but with the kids off from school this week, it could still bring some decent numbers for a little while longer.  Same goes with the latest Narnia film, which held up surprisingly well with $10.8 million, beating out Yogi Bear's $8.8 million, and Gulliver's Travels, with was DOA with just $7.2 million.

Black Swan brought its domestic total to $29 million, making it director Darren Aronofsky's highest-grossing film.  Another Oscar hopeful, The King's Speech, expanded to 700 theaters this weekend and earned an excellent $4.6 million.

With no major releases plan until the New Year, expect the Fockers and family films (well, except for maybe Gulliver's Travels) to stay busy for the rest of the week.

Thursday
Dec232010

"Green Hornet" Featurette

 

Britt Reid (Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's (Wilkinson) shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt'?s new secretary, Lenore Case (Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.

Thursday
Dec232010

"I Am Number Four" Extended Trailer

An extraordinary teen John Smith, who is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri, John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events—his first love, powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny

Thursday
Dec232010

"Your Highness" Trailer & Poster

Stars Danny McBride and James Franco as two princes who team with an adventurous warrior  on a mission to save a princess who has been captured by an evil wizard. 

Thursday
Dec232010

"Cedar Rapids" Trailer & Poster

Ed Helms is an insurance agent who leaves his small town for the first time, representing his company at a convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Anne Heche, John C. Reilly, Sigourney Weaver and Isiah Whitlock Jr. also star.

Thursday
Dec232010

"Drive Angry 3D" Trailer, Poster, & Image

Directed by Patrick Lussier, the February 25 release stars Cage as Milton, a hardened felon who has broken out for one last chance at redemption. Hell bent on stopping a vicious cult of fanatics who murdered his daughter, he has three days to stop them before they sacrifice his infant granddaughter beneath a full moon. Milton must use his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity.

He's joined by Piper, a young sexy-smart waitress who liberates her ex-boyfriend's cherry red muscle car in order to help Milton. Now, the two of them are hot on the trail of the charismatic Jonah King and his murderous followers. King will throw every one of them faithful under the wheels of Milton's turbo-charged Black '71 Challenger, to fulfill hist destiny and unleash hell on earth.
 

Thursday
Dec232010

New Smurfs Image

Audiences everywhere are in for a Smurfy good time as the Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours – in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. The film is set for release August 3, 2011.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria star on camera opposite an all-star voice cast. Anton Yelchin will play Clumsy Smurf; comedy legend Jonathan Winters, who voiced roles in the "Smurfs" television series, will voice Papa Smurf; Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katy Perry will play Smurfette; Alan Cumming will play Gutsy Smurf; "SNL's" Fred Armisen will voice Brainy Smurf; and George Lopez will play Grouchy Smurf.

In the live-action roles, Azaria will play the Smurfs' nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel. Harris and Mays star as an expectant couple whose lives are turned upside down when the Smurfs cross over from their magical village to New York City. Vergara plays Odile, Harris's boss, a cosmetics executive.