"Cloverfield 2" trailer with Iron Man 2?

I personally thought that the shaky cam first person shot 'Cloverfield' was annoying and stupid. So when they started talking about a sequel, I wasn't at all interested. Where can you really take it from where it was left off.

Rumors of a sequel have been circling in the two-plus years since its release and with the success of last summer's Star Trek, Abrams is pretty much Paramount's golden boy and can now make any film he wishes. Those rumors are starting to look a lot like reality with the news that a sneak peek of Abrams' secret Super 8 will be unveiled when Iron Man 2 hits this weekend. The trailer is said to be so top secret that theaters aren't even allowed to open the film canister that contains it and the Iron Man 2 post-credits sequence until Thursday afternoon, meaning projectionists will have to hustle to prepare and attach it for midnight screenings.

According to Hit Fix:

Prints of "Iron Man 2" are already showing up at theaters nationwide, and all of those prints come with a final reel locked in a film canister that has a coded electronic lock on it.

 ...I can tell you that the film is called "Super 8."  I can also tell you that it is rumored to be a "Cloverfield" sequel.  How it ties in to the first film is unclear at this point, but I would imagine the trailer will make that connection explicit so that audiences basically walk out after two hours of amazing Iron Man action talking about a two minute trailer as the most exciting thing they saw.  What I can't tell you is what you're actually going to see in the trailer, and frankly, I don't want to know yet.

It appears that Abrams will not be directing this film, and the more I've poked into it, the more convinced I am that this is not the movie that Abrams is rumored to be teaming with Steven Spielberg to make.  At first, I thought they were connected, but if this is a "Cloverfield" follow-up, I have trouble believing Spielberg would suddenly jump onboard now.  Instead, that's most likely a different secret Abrams project.

Noone knows for sure yet, that this is in fact a trailer for the cloverfield sequel, but after this weekend I would expect the trailer to hit the internet. If your not already seeing IronMan 2 like everyone else, wait until after this weekend and I'm sure you'll know soon enough.

Update on Tue, May 4, 2010 by Mitch Anderson

Vulture has exclusive details on the trailer for the J.J. Abrams–produced Super 8, which will unspool at 12:01 am Thursday night in front of Iron Man 2.

Insiders familiar with the trailer tell us that it shows a bunch of kids who are shooting a movie with a Super 8 camera in the seventies or eighties. When they develop the film, they notice that there's an alien creature in the frame. Our sources also say that Super 8 is absolutely connected to 2008's Cloverfield (possibly a prequel, but not a sequel).

Whether the actual Super 8 movie will be set in the seventies, eighties, or present day is anyone's guess. And yet, just this scrap of information will have fans obsessing for months. Advantage yours, Abrams.

As much as I hated Cloverfield, this does sound very cool. Well played Abrams, well played.

Update on Wed, May 5, 2010 by Mitch Anderson

Vulture was able to catch up with J.J. Abrams last night and asked him about his secret trailer that is attached to prints of Iron Man 2 this weekend.

Abrams said, "You have to check [out the trailer]. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with 'Cloverfield,' despite your expert reporting." So what is Super 8 about? "I won't be able to tell you until it's done," he said.



Hugo Weaving Confirmed As "Red Skull"

Long after it was already revealed, comes the official word from Marvel.

Hugo Weaving is set to star as the Red Skull along side Chris Evans in next summers Captain America.

Here's the press release:

Marvel Studios announced today that Hugo Weaving has been cast to star as Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull in the studio's highly anticipated movie CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER opposite Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell. In the early comics, Johann Schmidt was drafted into loyal service of The Third Reich and renamed "The Red Skull". The character will be updated for the feature adaptation. Joe Johnston will direct the film penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.

Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige will produce CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel and Louis D'Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released in the US on July 22, 2011 and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

Weaving was last seen in THE WOLFMAN and his voice is very recognizable as Megatron from TRANSFORMERS and TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN as well as Noah the Elder from HAPPY FEET. His other film credits include starring in V FOR VENDETTA, THE MATRIX franchise, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy.

In addition to CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters including the highly anticipated sequel, IRON MAN 2, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow on May 7, 2010, THOR on May 6, 2011, and Marvel Studios' THE AVENGERS on May 4, 2012.

Weaving is represented by CAA, Shanahan Management and attorney David Weber."

New Trailer 'The American'

Focus Features has debuted the trailer for director Anton Corbijn's The American, starring George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli and Bruce Altman.

In the suspense thriller, opening September 1st, Jack (Clooney) is a master craftsman who stands alone among assassins. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Larry (Altman) that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde (Reuten), is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Bonacelli) and pursues romance with local woman Clara (Placido). But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.

Just from the looks of the trailer, I can't tell if this is going to be amazing, or if it's going to be ridiculously boring. The music through out the trailer was awful, it made the entire trailer boring as shit. I like George Clooney so I really hope this is good.

As Mac McCoy pointed out to me, he looks like a very slow Jason Bourne in his 40's. Who wants to watch that?

Box Office Actuals April 30 - May 2

The box office actuals are in for April 30 - May 2. A Nightmare On Elm Street had a somewhat strong opening coming in at number one with 32.9 million, and the other new opening this weekend Furry Vengeance failed to deliver, as expected. How to Train Your Dragon refuses to stay down, landing in the number two spot bringing in another 10.6 million this week

Next weekend we have Iron Man 2 (check back later tonight for my review) which will no doubt be taking the number one spot. You can expect Nightmare to take a huge drop, and possibly even fall out of the top ten sooner then later depending on word of mouth, as most of the reviews so far have been very bad.

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (New Line/WB) - $32.9 million

2. How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) - $10.6 million

3. Date Night (20th Century Fox) - $7.5 million

4. The Back-Up Plan (CBS Films) - $7.2 million

5. Furry Vengeance (Summit) - $6.6 million

6. The Losers (Warner Bros.) - $5.8 million

7. Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros.) - $5.8 million

8. Kick-Ass (Lionsgate) - $4.5 million

9. Death at a Funeral (Sony/Screen Gems) - $4.1 million

10. Oceans (Disney) - $2.5 million 

Check back to TMT on Wednesday for this coming weekends Box Office predictions.

Conan O' Brien on 60 minutes

If you missed it over the weekend, you can now watch Conan O’Brien’s full interview from 60 Minutes below. This is the first time since leaving The Tonight Show that he has been able to talk on the record about Jay Leno, NBC executives, his beard and his new TBS cable television show.

When Conan was asked whether or not he believes that Jay Leno acted honorably during the NBC scheduling fiasco, he hesitated before responding “If I had surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well, I would not have come back six months later. But that’s me. Everyone’s got their own way of doing things.”

Andrea Berloff is Writing N.W.A. Biopic

THR is reporting, Andrea Berloff, who wrote Oliver Stone's true-life movie "World Trade Center," is tackling the story of seminal rap group N.W.A.

Berloff is writing "Straight Outta Compton," the story of the rise and fall of the Compton, Calif.-based group, whose initials read Niggas With Attitude. The members included drug dealer turned label founder Eazy-E, young disc jockey Dr. Dre and the politically bent Ice Cube, plus MC Ren and DJ Yella.

Another member, Arabian Prince, left N.W.A. before the group released the ground-breaking "Straight Outta Compton" album in 1988. The album, which featured the title track as well as "Fuck tha Police," introduced gangsta rap to the world and triggered sales of 9 million units.

As the group rose, however, egos and jealousies surfaced.

Cube left in 1990 over royalty disputes, went solo and warred with the group via songs. All grappled with violence, charges of anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia, and even more infighting, this time between Eazy-E and Dr. Dre.

Eazy-E's death, from AIDS-related causes, set the ex-members on a reconciliatory path. Cube has gone on to a successful career as an actor and producer, and Dre has become a top music producer.

Cube and Matt Alvarez are producing via Cube Vision. Eazy-E's widow, Tomica Woods, who inherited his share of the song rights, also is producing. Michelle Weiss and Dave Neustadter are overseeing for New Line.

"GI Joe 2" coming 2012?

MTV recently talked to G.I Joe producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about the upcoming sequel.

Although they don't actually have a finished copy of the script yet, he hopes they'll be in production for next spring, setting them up for a summer 2012 release date.

he wouldn't confirm which of the cast was returning or who would be directing, and when asked about shooting in 3D, he said:

"No, I mean we're still working on getting the script. I'd definitely be open to it, but that's Paramount's decision. But myself and whoever the director is would have a big say in that. But at this point, we haven't gotten into that conversation."

I personally hoped that G.I. Joe 2 would never see the light of day. The first one was awful, I can't believe that was even made, but it did go on to  make 300 million world wide at the box office. I would think this time around if we actually see the sequel get made, it won't  be doing as well at the box office, the curiosity is no longer there, and the turd has shown it self.

As it stands already, 2012 is looking like a very busy year. We have the Spider-Man reboot, The Avengers, and the newly confirmed Batman 3 and Superman reboot.

With all this to look forward to, does anyone really want to spend their hard earned money on a G.I Joe sequel?

Is Tommy Lee Jones in Captain America?

Just recently it was reported that Tommy Lee Jones along with Will Smith were returning to do Men In Black 3. Well now news has emerged of Jones possibly appearing in Captain America as well. With both movies set for release next year (well presumably MIB3), how is Jones able to do both?

this is what UGO had to say:

According to a source close to UGO, Tommy Lee Jones might be a very busy man this summer. Along with the previously announced Men in Black 3, Jones is in negotiations to appear in Marvel's The First Avenger: Captain America. And they say aging actors don't have a place in Hollywood anymore. Ha!

So who would he playing? That we're not sure about, but Jones has the gruff, stone cold look of a military man, which makes perfect sense in Captain America's WWII-era storyline. I'm sure there's a certain secret super soldier program that's looking for a leader...

What do you think, is Tommy Lee Jones someone you'd like to see in Captain America? I certainly wouldn't mind, but I am curious at to what actual role he'd be taking on.

Check back to TMT for more on Captain America over this next year.

batman 3 coming july 2012

 

Warner Bros has finally made it official, and it's about damn time!

The third installment in the Chris Nolan directed Batman franchise will hit theaters on July 20, 2012 in conventional and IMAX theatres!

That is a little over two weeks after Sony Pictures is releasing their Spider-Man reboot on July 3, 2012, but I'll be expecting to hear that Spider-Man's getting the bump back to May, with news of Batman set to take over July.

The most recent Batman film directed by Chris Nolan, The Dark Knight earned over 1 billion world wide at the box office.With The Dark Knight, Batman faced both Heath Ledgers Oscar winning turn as the Joker and Aaron Eckhart has Harvey Dent/ Two Face.

If I had to guess, we'll be getting the official Batman 3 title before the end of the summer, and we'll be hearing some if not all the casting news along with a possible synopsis by the end of the year. Production will likely start early next year, with a possible teaser trailer at next years Comic Con, similar to what we got in 2007 with the The Dark Knight.

Check back to TMT, as we'll be covering the Batman 3 news rigorously over the next couple years.

District 9 sequel or prequel coming?

While doing press for his upcoming movie A-Team Sharlto Copley spoke to Latino Review about the possibility of a District 9 sequel and maybe even a prequel happening. He had the following to say:

"Neil wants it and I want it. Neil's doing another film first. Then I think if everything goes according to plan we'll do the second film in about two years time. That story can go in so many different ways. There¹s a whole universe. I'm sure a lot of writers say that, but we actually have an entire universe.

"This thing started shooting in 2005, and before we shot the film we shot Alive In Joburg and two other shorts as part of Neil's creative development process. Those next two films actually had my character, Wikus, in them, although I wasn't called Wikus in them. So they were two parts of the development of the world and where the story was going to go and all that.

"There's a million ways you can go. Neil's actually very interested in prequels as well; he's said that a few times. We wouldn't do the traditional Hollywood version of the sequel which would just be 100 aliens fighting humans."

If you loved District 9 as much as I did, your thinking this is great news. I'm curious if it will be called District 10, like originally declared right after the first one became a break out hit, or if they'll leave earth all together. When Copley talks about having an entire universe to work with, that's what comes to mind.

District 9 went on to make 115 million deomestically and 204 million world wide on a budget of only 30 million, I think the sequel and/or prequel was inevitable. looks like we'll be seeing it around 2012.