Kick-Ass 2 Trailer Brings Nothing New to the Table

Spike TV's been playing Kick-Ass lately. Upon re-viewing (first time since opening night), it became clear. This doesn't need a sequel. Matthew Vaughn got everything outta his ultra-violent satire right down to the "Wait 'till they get a load of me..." closing bit with Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Obvious, to me at least, that ending was a gag on how comic books, and their movie counterparts, end.

A joke lost on Universal who went ahead and greenlight a sequel. Well here is the Kick-Ass 2 trailer in red-band so you can enjoy the cuss-words and violence. Don't expect anything you didn't already see in the first Kick-Ass. Looks like your typical sequel – more of the same, only bigger:

"Grown Ups 2" Poster

I thought Grown Ups was enjoyable for what it was, I can't pretend that I didn't laugh. I think Sandler benefits from having Kevin James, Chris Rock, and David Spade by his side. Of course they in turn benefit from mixing it up with Sandler. 

Do we really need a sequel to Grown Ups? No, but 271 Million Worldwide isn't too shabby for a comedy with a fairly manageable budget. New poster for the sequel below.

Grown Ups 2 finds Lenny (Sandler) having relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.

"Kiss Of The Damned" Variant Poster

Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…

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David O. Russell's Next Set for December Awards Season Release

Isn't it funny how less than four years ago David O. Russell was pretty much on nobody's radar, yet here we are in 2013 and the man's been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars now...twice?!?

How far they come.

Anyway, news comes today that Russell's next film, still untitled but formerly known as American Bullshit, will hits theaters in limited release December 13th then go wide on Christmas Day.

The film holds an impressive cast including Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, and Jeremy Renner.

The pic is based on the real-life undercover sting operation called Abscam (why not just call the film that?) which was set up in the 1980s by a con artist working for the FBI who rooted out corruption in Congress.

There's no official word on who's playing who but I can't help but recall Bale is playing the con artist with Cooper playing an FBI agent and Renner as a corrupt politician.

Word will come soon enough though as this pic is set for another prime awards season run for Russell and Co. as maybe the director will land another Best Picture and Best Director nomination, and maybe, just maybe, win this time out.

Stay tuned for more on this project as it develops.

Source: Collider

Keanu Reeves In "generation...um" Trailer

The world is downtown New York City, present day - from the point of view of a driver for an escort service. John (Reeves), a quietly sexy withdrawn guy, is finally ageing out of his young, trendy neighborhood, dealing with the beginnings of the next chapter of his life.

John's friends are the party girls he works for - Violet (Novakovic), an unstoppable entertainer whose weathered beauty and self-proclaimed wisdom are matched only by her lack of audience; and Mia (Clemens), the new girl with the dark past, whose traffic-stopping sensuality has brought her nothing but victimization. Both survive on their ability to manipulate men, and don't know how to live any other way. But John, they trust. And through their relationship, all three find a comforting and humorous refuge from the downward spiral of their self-destructive but entertaining lifestyles.

The end of another night out for this odd family of circumstance sets the stage for an all too familiar day spent coming to terms with and reveling in the lives they have unintentionally created for themselves.

When John impulsively steals a camcorder, he decides to capture the sights, sounds, and senses of New York - or rather, his sights, sounds, and senses. He records nature, people, himself. Today. John's experiment takes a new turn when he pans the camera's attention to his Party Girls. Violet is gung-ho, ready at a moment's notice to become the center of attention before the focus fades away. Mia is less enthused, but finds herself opening up to the promise of a spectator.

John's camcorder unravels the girls' lives, as both Violet and Mia find themselves attempting to outdo one another's secrets and opinions.

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Henry Cavill & Amy Adams Grace Total Film Cover as Superman & Lois Lane

Courtesy of Total Film, arguably the most "Super" Henry Cavill has looked as our new Man of Steel so far.

Thanks to G.Godfrey on the Super Hero Hype! forum.

In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone’s imagination. Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question – Why am I here? Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark soon discovers that having super abilities means making very difficult decisions. But when the world needs stability the most, it comes under attack. Will his abilities be used to maintain peace or ultimately used to divide and conquer? Clark must become the hero known as “Superman,” not only to shine as the world’s last beacon of hope but to protect the ones he loves.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Shares Stills From Directorial Debut "Don Jon"

It wasn't enough that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was killing it on screen as an actor he wanted another challenge. That challenge involved kicking back in a director's chair and telling Scarlett Johansson what to do for his debut film Don Jon. Not only is he directing, the triple threat also wrote the film which drops into theaters courtesy of Relativity Media later this year.

Check out some stills and a message from the director below. Doesn't Tony Danza look like a boss? Guess he's been continously watching P-90X instead of reruns of Who's The Boss? 

“Hey everybody, 

So, as you might've heard already, I wrote and directed a movie last year, and it's coming out later this year. Which is absolutely crazy, and I still kinda can't believe it. Anyway, I'm posting this today to let you all know that I'm changing its title. It's now called... DON JON. I decided to change it, first of all, because DON JON is just so short and simple, and if you know me, you know I'm a fan of brevity. Second of all, it felt to me like the old title, "Don Jon's Addiction" was throwing some people off a bit from the point of the movie. People were assuming it was a film about porn addiction and sex addiction, which really isn't true. That'd be sort of like saying "The Maltese Falcon" is a movie about a statue of a falcon. DON JON is a comedy about how men and women treat each other, and how the media we consume can create unrealistic expectations that we put on one another. That's why the story centers around a relationship between a young man (played by me) who watches too much pornography and a young woman (played by Scarlett) who watches too many romantic Hollywood movies. It's a topic I personally find fascinating and hilarious.

And while I have your attention, I figured I'd show you the first production still we're releasing of Jon's father, played by none other than Tough Tony Danza. More to show soon. We're just starting to work on the trailer now. And I'm heading down to SxSW with Tony this weekend with the film, so I'll see some of you in Austin!

thanks again.. J”

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New "Star Trek Into Darkness" Trailer

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

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Three More "Monsters University" Viral Videos

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

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Weekend Box Office: March 8-10

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Oz The Great and Powerful - $80.2 million

2.  Jack the Giant Slayer - $10 million

3.  Identity Thief - $6.3 million

4.  Dead Man Down - $5.3 milion

5.  Snitch - $5.1 million

6.  21 and Over - $5 million

7.  Safe Haven - $3.8 million

8.  Silver Linings Playbook - $3.7 million

9.  Escape From Planet Earth - $3.2 million

10.  The Last Exorcism Part II - $3.1 million

The first blockbuster of 2013 was welcomed in theaters this weekend, as Oz The Great and Powerful opened with a stellar $80.2 million.  That the highest weekend debut since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opened with $84 million back in December.  Internationally, Oz is also as great and powerful as the title suggests, earning nearly $70 million in oversears markets just this weekend. 

That's not such great news for Jack the Giant Slayer, which tumbled 63% in its second weekend to earn an estimated $10 million.  In less than ten days, the film has earned just $43 million domestically.

Identity Thief is still performing very well with $6.3 million, actually beating out this weekend's other new release, Dead Man Down, which went barely noticed with only $5.3 million.  Snitch hasn't been exactly lighting the box office on fire either, but its $31 million over three weeks is a bit more respectable than some of the more recent R-rated action bombs of the year so far. 

But it was good to be the Wizard this weekend.  And it's likely to be that way next weekend too, when it competes with new releases The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Call, and Spring Breakers.