Mr. Chow "The Hangover Part III" Character Poster

This time, there’s no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

Weta's Joe Letteri Is A Big Fan Of Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel"

Compared to the fan friendly production of Superman Returns, the new installment of Superman has been shrouded in secrecy. The Brothers Warner have released a minimal amount of media related to Man Of Steel, but what they HAVE released has been pretty damn intriguing, especially the theatrical trailer.

Fans on forums & bloggers are none to happy about it, but when the marketing explodes over the next 45-60 days, they won't have time to come up for air before being greeted by a new poster or TV spot. In the mean time, Weta's Joe Letteri spoke with BLEEDING COOL but not about special effects, about the story itself.

Joe Letteri: "I can’t talk too much about Man of Steel yet, and I haven’t seen the whole thing yet, but overall it’s the story that’s most exciting. It’s a nice re-envisioning of the story of Superman leaving his homeworld and coming to this new one.

"If you look at what Zack [Snyder] has done you’ll see that they’ve abandoned a lot of the pretense that was in the comics and asked “Can we still make this work?”

"They’re sticking to realism as much as possible. Fantastic elements are still there but a lot of it that been trimmed back to make it feel as though this actually happened."

New "The Hangover Part III" Poster Featuring John Goodman

This time, there’s no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

Weekend Box Office: April 5-7

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Evil Dead - $26 million

2.  G.I. Joe: Retaliation - $21.1 million

3.  The Croods - $21.1 million

4.  Jurassic Park 3D - $18.2 million

5.  Olympus Has Fallen - $10 million

6.  Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor - $10 million

7.  Oz The Great and Powerful - $8.1 million

8.  The Host - $5.2 million

9.  The Call - $3.5 million

10.  Admission - $2 million

A combination of demons, dinosaurs, action figures, prehistoric families, terrorist invasions and Tyler Perry managed to give the box office somewhat of a pulse, as more than half of this weekend's box office haul each managed to cross the $10 million mark - a rare feat in a year that's seen more duds than hits.  Leading the pack is the remake of Evil Dead, which grossed out audiences to the tune of $26 million.  That puts it in between the openings of Mama ($28.4 million) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D ($21.7 million).  Grosses dropped steadily over the weekend after a strong start on Friday, which is typical for a horror film, but with a reported budget of $17 million, the remake is already a hit.

Duking it out for second place are holdovers G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and The Croods, which are in a dead heat with an estimated $21.1 mllion apiece (final totals will be released tomorrow).  G.I. Joe falls 48% from its first-place start last weekend and is lagging a bit behind the first film, G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, which had already crossed $100 million at the same point in its release.  Overseas, the film is doing gangbusters, having already earned an additional $145 million.  The animated The Croods continues to be a big hit, having earned $125 million domestically and $204 million overseas. 

Back in theaters, and celebrating its 20th anniversary in glorious 3D, is Jurassic Park.  While some of the recent Disney 3D re-releases have fizzled in recent months, audiences seemed more than happy to shell out the cash to be ducking from 3D dinosaurs, as the film earned a solid $18.2 million.  Universal is probably considering that a good omen for the upcoming Jurassic Park IV. 

Olympus Has Fallen continues to beat the trend of flop action movies that mired the first few months of 2013, earning another $10 million to bring its domestic total to $71 million.  It also brings us to another tie for the weekend's box office numbers, as Tyler Perry's latest, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor also earned an estimated $10 million. 

Next week, Hollywood saw fit to inflict us with another chapter in the Scary Movie franchise for some reason.  I'll be ignoring it, and so should you.  In the meantime, you can catch up on new releases like 42, which is the story of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, or you can find a theater playing Trance, which just opened with an impressive $136,000 in just four theaters and will be expanding locations next weekend. 

Bradley Cooper Joins 'Jane Got a Gun'

Well that took long enough.

After last month's whirlwind of bad new involving the indie western, Jane Got a Gun (which you can read about here), word comes that Bradley Cooper has joined the cast as the film's villain, replacing the recently departed Jude Law.

The film, to be directed by Gavin O'Connor and also starring Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton, is set around Jane (Portman) whose husband returns home near death and decides to seek revenge against the man responsible (Cooper) while teaming with her ex-lover (Edgerton).

Filming on the flick is said to be going surprisingly smooth since beginning two weeks ago, even with all the chaos going on around production of the film.

Cooper is expected to get to work on the project immediately.

Source: Deadline

Sally Hawkins Will Be In Your GODZILLA Thing, WB/Legendary.

Deadline reported yesterday that the Gareth Edwards' helmed Godzilla reboot for WB/Legendary has cast Sally Hawkins as an as-of-yet unnamed scientist.

Hawkins is most well known for her roles in films such as Layer Cake (with a Pre-Bond Craig), Never Let Me Go (with a Pre-Spiderman Garfield), and the Oscar-nominated Happy-Go-Lucky.

Hawkins will join the varied cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn, Brian Cranston and Juliette Binoche. The film started shooting last month in Vancouver.

While nothing is known so far as the movie's plot goes, insiders suggest the film may involve Godzilla destroying some buildings, maybe fighting another monster, and the U.S. Military "Giving it all we've got!" but still not finding the monsters weakness.

"The Hunt" Poster Starring Mads Mikkelsen

The Hunt is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish and ignite a witch-hunt that soon threatens to destroy an innocent man’s life.

Mads Mikkelsen plays Lucas, a highly-regarded school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered. An untruthful remark throws the small community into a collective state of hysteria. The lie is spreading and Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.

"Kings Of Summer" Featurette And Festival Poster

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends – Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias) - who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.  Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family - whether it is the one you’re born into or the one you create – is something you can't run away from.

New "The Great Gatsby" Poster Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio And Tobey Maguire

The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

New "Elysium" Images Prove The Movie Is Not A Figment Of My Imagination

I was beginning to think that Elysium wasn't actually a film and it was pieced together using bits of my dreams and nightmares throughout the past year. I was impressed that I selected Neil Blomkamp and local Bostonian actor Matt Damon as my star, at least the inner workings of my mind has good taste.

Today it was proven that this was actually a film with the release of two new photos courtesy of JUDAO.COM. To tell you the truth, I'm a little relieved. The thought of making up phantom films in my mind was starting to freak me out.

In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.