'The Stepfather' Trailer

This one seems to have leaked online much the same as the 'Whiteout' trailer Sean posted the other day, this time Bloodydisgusting.com were the ones to get hold of it. It's a remake of an 80's horror/thriller in which the Stepfather role was played by none of other than Locke from LOST!.....I mean Terry O'Quinn, this time the murderous Stepfather is played by 'Nip/Tuck' star Dylan Walsh. The trailer has echoes of 'Disturbia' and is clearly a glossy PG-13 deal that will no doubt do solid-forgot about in 2 weeks-business when it's released in October.

International 'Basterd's' Poster

Badtaste.it has the new International poster for Quentin Tarrantino's 'Inglorious Basterd's' and personally I love it. To me it is an unashamed admission of the pulp style war movie it is, very reminiiscent of the macho and obvious posters from older war movies like the Dirty Dozen, a noted inspiration for QT.

Check the poster out below and go to Badaste.it for an even bigger version. 'Inglorious Basterd's' opens on August 21st.

Trailer Round up!

I love me some trailers and a bunch of them dropped online over the last few days so Ive rounded them all up in one neat little package like trailer cattle!.

First up we have 'The Time Traveller's Wife' starring Eric Bana and the lovely Rachel McAdams. Now the first thing about this trailer that creeps me out is the way he meets Rachel's character as a young kid and then love develop's later....I dunno it just sits odd with me. It's clear New Line have shredded a lot of the sci fi side of the book for the trailer but hopefully not from the actual movie. What is left is a lush looking romantic drama that looks to have two fine lead performances working hard against a ludicrous premise.

Next up we have some serious thesping in the trailer for 'Creation', a movie about Charles Darwin Based on the book 'Annie’s Box' by Randal Keynes, who is Darwin's great grandson. It stars Paul Bettany and real life wife Jennifer Connelly as Mr and Mrs Darwin. It looks like a BBC period piece with some overaught acting, I'm sure the critics will love it or at least like it, and it will make roughly $5 at the box office. However I expect the sequel 'Darwin vs Newton - Cage Fight!' to do big business.

Last but certainly not least we have the stunning trailer for the new Scorsese/DiCaprio offering 'Shutter Island'. Based on the book by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) The film sees Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as US Marshal's sent to the asylum on Shutter Island in Boston to investigate a missing patient. Now Ive read the book and it is amazing, so the fact the film appears to have captured the atmosphere of the book so perfectly is very pleasing. Judging from the trailer the characters are spot on with Leo set to give another great performance, and visually Scorsese may never have been better. The trailer does everything a trailer should do, it elicits excitement, piques curiosity and stuns visually without giving too much away. This could be a possible Oscar contender for sure.

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Mad Mickey The Rourke Warrior

USA Today has the first look at Mickey Rourke in costume as Whiplash, the scene shows the character making an appearence at the Monaco Gran Prix, no doubt for an action sequence. Personally I think he looks hilarious, instead of being at a race track he should be at the Thunderdome. I am sure there is better to come but this was not a good first image to create a positive impression with.

You can see the image below or click on the link at the bottom for a High Res version.

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'Miss Nobody' Trailer

Quiet Earth has hit upon the trailer for dark comedy 'Miss Nobody'. Having watched it I'm keen to see the full movie, not least because it seems to give the chance for the talented Leslie Bibb to stretch herself as an actress. Best known for her role in 'Talladega Nights' or being Tony Stark's conquest in last years 'Iron Man', She has been at her best on TV, with a strong role on 'Crossing Jordan' and excellent work in the short lived, but hilarious, TV show 'Popular', and this sees her return to a more biting style of comedy.

The film sees Bibb as a murderous wallflower secretary in a big corporate firm, killing her way up the career ladder unbeknownst to her unsuspecting colleagues. It plays like a lighter American Pschyco but sadly we wont be seeing a naked Miss Bibb running around with a chainsaw.

The keen eyed amongst you will notice the 'In Theatres 2008' line at the end, clearly that didn't happen and there is still no release date set for the film.

Check it out below or at the link and keep an eye open for a brief shot of a "Super" co star.

A Jedi Hangover for the A Team ?

Wow that is a weird title, anyway it seems Fox are aiming high...well high-ish in Cooper's case,...for their big screen redo of the classic 80's TV show 'The A Team'. Variety reports that they are lining up Bradley Cooper as Templeton 'Face' Peck and the one and only Liam Neeson for the role of Col John 'Hannibal' Smith.

Liam Neeson is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star in its long-gestating bigscreen adaptation of "The A-Team" as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith. Bradley Cooper is in early talks to play Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the Joe Carnahan-directed pic based on the 1980s TV series.

Production begins in late August for a June 11, 2010, release.

Ridley Scott is producing with Jules Daly and series creator Stephen J. Cannell, with Tony Scott exec producing through Scott Free. Carnahan and Brian Bloom polished a script by Skip Woods, whose recent script credits include "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" and "Wolverine."

Neeson is in talks to play Hannibal, the role originated by George Peppard, while Cooper would play "Faceman," the role played by Dirk Benedict.

Neeson and Fox are working out money issues. He is coming off the global hit "Taken" and most recently completed "Chloe" and "Clash of the Titans," playing Zeus in the latter.

Cooper has established himself as a commodity after his starring role in Todd Phillips-directed hit "The Hangover." He just completed playing the title role opposite Sandra Bullock in "All About Steve."

Carnahan, Fox and Scott Free have kept the series premise -- four war vets wrongly convicted of armed robbery escape from a military prison to become do-gooder mercenaries -- but they've replaced the campy nature of the series with a tone closer to those of "Mission: Impossible" and "Ocean's Eleven."

Now on the surface this seems pretty cool, especially if like me you are a fan of the old show, however the writer on this project is Skip Woods and as you can see, his credits are dubious, plus Joe Carnahan is erratic to say the least. However the A Team is a pretty simple formula and Ridley Scott is producing thus it can't be to hard to get right with decent leads even at Fox.....can it ?

Danny Boyle set for Slumdog reunion

Slumdog Millionaire was undoubtedly the little movie that could in 2008, winning a stack of Academy awards and garnering praise in nearly all quarters of the media. Now director Danny Boyle is set to reunite with Slumdog scribe Simon Beaufoy to adapt 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found' according to /film

This will not be an easy task though and will require creative lciense that he has been granted by  author Suketu Mehta, as the writer explains.

Maximum City is a non-fiction work, so it will be a huge challenge to find the story in it. It is a wonderful book and I used it in my initial research for Slumdog. There are some great characters in the book, but no stories, so my job will be to get the fictional out of a non-fictional story. Suketu is very understanding about my creative input and flexible about many changes. I will have to come up with something to bring together all the characters from the book into something that can make a film.

The book description is intriguing:

“A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people - a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself - from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist.  A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider’s view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight, detail, and intimacy. He approaches the city from unexpected angles - taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the city’s byzantine political and commercial systems . . . following the life of a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty and abuse . . . opening the doors onto the fantastic, hierarchical inner sanctums of Bollywood . . . delving into the stories of the countless people who come from the villages in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks - the essential saga of a great city endlessly played out.

Through it all - as each individual story unfolds - we hear Mehta’s own story: of the mixture of love, frustration, fascination, and intense identification he feels for and with Bombay, as he tries to find home again after twenty-one years abroad. And he makes clear that Bombay - the world’s largest city - is a harbinger of the vast megalopolises that will redefine the very idea of “the city” in the near future.”

Going back to familiar territory can be a mixed blessing for a director, especially so soon after a massive hitr, in this case the shadow of Slumdog will loom large over the expectations of this movie, however with the talent involved I remain optimistic that we will get something of quality.

New GI Joe Stills

/film has gotten hold of some new stills from Stephen Sommers dreadful looking GI Joe movie, I've put the best one below and you can click on the link to check out high-res versions of it and the others. The film is set for release in August, if you feel like punishing yourself.

MTV Movie Awards give us Transformers and a New Moon!

First up we have sexiness, explosions, amazing special effects, Michael Bay's trademark camera moves and orange glare....Oh and Shia Lebouf. All key elements Transformers 2, a movie that will ignite what has been a fairly timid summer at the Box Office by recent years standards.

Next we have the teaser trailer for 'New Moon', the second movie in the Rom-Vamp Twilight series starring Kristen Stewart, She is pretty much the only part of this teaser that isn't horrible, the dialogue is bad, the SFX shoddy and the oiled GQ model Werewolf laughable. However it is the acting of teen girl fav Robert Pattinson that is the lowlight, in the forest scene with Stewart's Bella his acting contains more wood than the trees combined.

A Perfect Trailer!

Yeah Ok it's not, it's a trailer for 'A Perect Getaway' a mid level action/thriller starring Mila Jovovich, Steve Zahn and Timothy Olyphant.

It's directd by David Twohy who first thrust Vin Diesel upon us in his small sci fi cult hit 'Pitch Black'. The premise here is pretty simple, Zahn and Mila are a nice suburban couple on their honeymoon to an exotic and remote island, they hook up with two evidently dodgy looking couples and get caught up in some sort of cat and mouse hunting game, it's like Deliverance minus male butt vilolation and with some decent looking broads.

I could see me catching this one night on cable when I'm bored or feeling like a cheesy little action flick. In truth it looks relatively entertaining despite the dodgy use of CGI in a couple of shots and the clunky sledge hammer subtle acting.

'A Perect Getaway' is released at some point when the studio finds a week where nothing good with stars in is coming out (August 14th), and you can check the trailer out below.