Cologne is typically a big seller during Christmas. So expect Sex Panther, a real cologne now, to fly off the charts to this news.
Paramount is slotting Anchorman: The Legend Continues for December 20, 2013.
That puts it a week after The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and days before their own big Jack Ryan reboot. Bold strategy. Guess that shows the thought of Bilbo Baggins and the dwarfs fighting Smaug the dragon isn't that intimidating in lieu of An Unexpected Journey's not-so-awesome box office. Paramount has to be crazy confident in what script pages they've read (Filming doesn't start till this spring).
That title appears at the eighteen-second mark during the trailer for Michael Bay's Pain & Gain. All we've come to know Bay and his cinematic isms for were there from the start with Bad Boys. Released in 1995.
He's been in our collective conscious for seventeen years. Strange to think that, and while Bay has matured commercially-speaking, creatively he's stayed perpetually youthful. So what's really that different with his bodybuilder, crime-thriller? Besides the standard "He's doing Fargo" quip we'll hear from now till its April 2013 release, not much. It looks and sounds and, I'm sure if Jon Waters could help, smells like Bay. What is so enticing then?
Two words: Mark Wahlberg.
Everything he does here is wrong, stupid ("I watched a lot of movies, Paul. I know what I'm doing!") and will not end well, if you've read the Miami New Times articles the film is based on. The opening seconds tell you. And despite that, you're still behind him.
Like The Other Guys and Ted, it's all thanks to his sincerity. Its there on the big screen and in real life. I recall reading of his attitude to fans watching on during the filming of Ted last year. He'd walk over, shake hands and sign pictures. "Stay in school and get an education! Don't be like me! I got lucky!" he told them.
Not just me who sees it; its clear Bay does too. That's why the two will soon collaborate again on Transformers 4. I like what I see here so much I'm starting to wonder. Maybe, just maybe Wahlberg can be the guy who helps Bay to making a Transformers movie that isn't utter garbage.
Hey, I can be optimistic, as blind and unlikely as it is, can't I?
J.J. Abrams likes to feed in morsels. Just a tiny bit here and a little nip there. Enough to taste the salts and spices in his recipe; the right amount to water our mouths in anticipation of the full dish, yet he holds back and leaves us to starve. For a bit, at least. Were we his children and this really about food, Child Protective Services would be notified.
But this is about his "feeding" snip-its of Star Trek Into Darkness, leading up to its May 17, 2013 release.
The announcement teaser, while only a minute in length, handily won the (unofficial) annual Christmas Trailer Wars. The opening nine minutes got a rise from those attending 3D IMAX screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. When that footage cut to black, you could hear the "AWWWWWW!" across the globe. This is precisely where Abrams and Paramount wants us to be.
For many who attended regular 2D and 3D Hobbit showings this weekend are familiar with this full teaser trailer (unless, like yours truly, you didn't get it). But it's officially here to over-analyze, screen grab select shots and continue asking who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. Head over to Apple Trailers or check it out below:
The Adventures of Tintin recaptured a spirit within Steven Spielberg long lost. The adventure-seeking, get your bang for your buck gee whiz entertainment not felt since his '80s blockbuster days. It also didn't do that awesome at the box-office, and mo-cap still freaks Joe the Plumber out.
The "You do one, I do one" plan between Spielberg and Peter Jackson is a lost cause. Not if you listen to PJ. He told the Belgian press during that leg of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey tour the Tintin sequel is still happening. Repeat the process as last time; grab the cast, film their performance-capture work, which takes about two-weeks, and turn it over to WETA.
That's the plan, for next year for 2015 release. So he says. Sounds more like wishful thinking.
He's up to his beard on all things Hobbit until July 2014. Before Warner Brothers stops fooling everyone and moves There & Back Again to Christmas '14. But that's another matter.
Dick Donner famously followed "verisimilitude" as the key to make Superman I and II work. Everything had to make sense within the logic implemented into their story. Even with that, Donner and his team still understood they were translating funny-papers to cinemas. It was okay to have fun and, here and there, say, "Fellas, it's a comic-book!" Superman turning back time, anyone?
The modern-day answer is making comic tentpoles "real world." Christopher Nolan gets all the credit because his Dark Knight trilogy was the most successful and everyone, including Warner Brothers who financed it followed suit. Humor is acceptable (Nobody wants two hours of seriousness) but can't allow for jokiness or anything perceived as "out there." Not acceptable to embrace how fantastical comics are, by their nature. That ideology continues judging by The Man of Steel trailer. No coincidence produced and co-authored by Nolan.
So it’s interesting to see Latino Review's Justice League update. They scooped Darkseid was the villain and now they're here revealing the source-material screenwriter Will Beale is working from and what the threat is:
"Released back in 1980, issues 183-185 were the annual team-up for the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America.
In a nutshell, plotwise, the three issue arc involves Darkseid planning the destruction of Earth by blasting it with a ray that’ll move Apokolips into the Earth's place."
Nothing "real" there and that's without mentioning Earth 2 and the can of worms also known as DC's Pre-Crisis continuity. Don't ask. Yeah... it's "out there."
Why the change of heart, WB/DC Entertainment? Were you that impressed by The Avengers box-office or do you not have Nolan around anymore laying down his rules? Or a bit of both?
All the talk of how cool it looks, how much we're gonna love it, all the pictures of Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam in futuristic suits, the posters and the recent viral marketing and it all comes down to this.
The trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is finally here:
All signs point to a turkey. You don't vacate your big summer release at the last minute for the vacancy of March 2013, slap on 3D and beef up, possibly resurrect, Channing Tatum because he suddenly became a movie-star and expect perception to stay good. Truth is none of this bad buzz will change things.
Either go with G.I. Joe: Retaliation and embrace the cheese or don't.
The new trailer, from Yahoo! Movies, isn't going to make new believers from those still unconvinced or who hated The Rise of Cobra. Take it or leave it.
There's a wonderful quote from the Empire DVD review of Superman Returns that sums it all up. It's not in front of me, so I'll paraphrase. "Superman, like Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley and Jesus Christ, is an icon forever standing above the ever-changing trends of pop-culture."
Funny then as every time a new incarnation of Siegel and Shuster's creation rears its head, that question is always asked. Is Superman still relevant?
I can only point to the King-daddy of Superheroes' (as Zack Snyder lovingly put it) seventy-four years in the public eye as proof. That's a long time. My father grew up with The Adventures of Superman on TV. He ran around my grandparents' house with blankets around his neck. He was "flying." He wanted to save people. In his eyes, George Reeves' benevolence was the face of Superman.
Close to thirty-years on, I did the same. This time with the strong and reassuring image of Christopher Reeve, from Richard Donner's magical Superman to the abysmal The Quest for Peace, who stood as everything Superman is for me.
Another near three decades later, I have a nephew. He'll be three when The Man of Steel flies into cinemas. Will Henry Cavill do the same for him as George Reeves and Christopher Reeve did my father and I?
Looking forward to finding out when I take him to see it. But that's six months away and for the time being, here's the trailer:
It's easy to get caught up. I speak from experience. But can't take stand-alone production stills to heart and begin dissecting what they may or may not mean. No idea the context of that moment captured, what has gone on before or where the characters stand. But when it's J.J. "I heart Mystery Box" Abrams, it's even harder not to because so little else has been shown prior.
Omelete has this image from Star Trek Into Darkness:
It puts that moment from the Japanese trailer (blatantly echoing Spock's death from The Wrath of Khan) into better context. Though we still don't know what's going on. It also makes you wonder if this isn't another "The villain is captured so he can escape in an elaborate fashion!" plot twist.
"Well they called me back, I don't know what the part's going to be but I'm going to be Uncle Ben once again in Spider-Man next year. We shoot in February."
Nothing unusual or what we haven't seen before. Cliff Robertson reprised his Uncle Ben duties for a dream sequence in Spider-Man 2 and that "Sandman really killed Ben" ret-con crap in Spider-Man 3.
Only reason for Sheen's return, I imagine, is more flashbacks to resolve the lingering plot thread of Peter Parker's missing, presumed dead, parents. That makes sense, right?
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