Oblivion Trailer

Ok so it has small Spanish subtitles but this isn't some crappy bootleg deal it's a good quality version of the trailer and boy does this film look great!

It's nice to see a good amount of original sci fi heading to our screens and I like the way here Kosinski has taken his sleek and stylish visuals and married them to the real world environments. There is a real Amblin era Spielberg feel about this footage of Jack Harper's (Cruise) journey and the movie instantly joins Iron Man 3 at the top of my 2013 blockbuster anticipation list. Over to you Man of Steel.

'Fantastic 4' Reboot Gets Official Title, Release Date

20th Century Fox's long-gestating reboot of the Fantastic 4 franchise is finally gaining traction with Josh Trank (Chronicle) still attached to direct from a script by Michael Green (with Jeremy Slater doing a rewrite). Today, the studio has finally unveiled the official title and its release date. Unsurprisingly, it'll be titled The Fantastic Four and get a March 6, 2015 release.

Considering that films as varied as The Lorax, 300, Alice in Wonderland, and more recently, The Hunger Games making serious, summer-sized bank with March releases... it's not surprising that Fox is taking the plunge with this pic (as opposed to the mid-summer dates it scheduled for the previous two F4 films). More importantly, it currently has no direct competition and has room to itself before Disney's two summer tentpoles, The Avengers 2 and Star Wars: Episode VII, dominate the landscape two months later.

No word on who will star, although expect pre-production and casting to begin later next year.

Source: SuperHero Hype!

First Oblivion Poster

The film is out in April and there will be a trailer this Sunday but Oblivion has fired it's first marketing salvo and scored a direct hit.

The Tom Cruise headlined sci fi action adventure set on an alien ravaged future earth is directed by Tron 2.0 helmer Joseph Kosinkski, based on his graphic novel Horizons.

After a year filled with bland posters criticized as derivative and lambasted for poor photo shopping this poster comes as a breath of fresh air, a beautifully composed poster that gives us a glimpse of Cruise character and his chopper as well as giving off a real sense of the broken beauty and scale of the film.

Star Trek Into Darkness Announcement Teaser

Paramount released the "announcement teaser" to Star Trek Into Darkness. A full trailer (Oh lord this is more "teaser to a trailer" crap) is out December 17:

First thoughts:

• Benedict Cumberbatch sounds like Patrick Stewart with an American accent.
• Spock lands on a volcano planet, of some sorts, echoing Revenge of the Sith.
• Alice Eve's unnamed beauty (Carole Marcus... I hope not) screams at an off-screen threat. How slasher-movie of you, J.J.!
• Destruction galore, on the bridge of the Enterprise, on Earth, panicked running and mournful faces (Scotty comforting Uhura). Lacking the "fun" nature of the '09 reboot. Everything is glum here. Classic sequel marketing; up the ante and show it's for real.

An extra, few seconds from the Japanese version feature a familiar image. Two hands "touching"separated by glass; one in yellow, Starfleet uniform and the other in blue.

Misdirection or is Abrams saying they really are retreading Wrath of Khan territory? Hell, we still don't know who Cumberbatch is playing and his "For I have returned...to have. my. vengeance!" speech sounds like Khan. Please let it be the former. Otherwise, yeah, good trailer.

Kristen Wiig Loves Lamp

Kristen Wiig, as you'll remember, tried to put the kibosh on a Bridesmaids sequel. The comedian thought, God forbid, a blockbuster can be loved by all and self-contained. That battle is on the quiet front but not over (Universal made The Bourne Legacy, minus Jason Bourne, we shan't forget).

That doesn't mean she can't join a sequel to someone else's comedy hit, however. She's in talks for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, reports The Wrap. The script is still being written and she's the only addition past the returning principals. If all works out, she'd play a love-interest for Brick Tamland, Action News Team's weatherman played brilliantly by Steve Carell.

While we wait for negotiations to work itself out, enjoy this complication of Brick’s finest moments and ask yourself. Would someone as beautiful as Wiig fall for someone as brain-dead as Tamland?

Disney Keeps Threatening Tron 3 - Hires New Writer

Tron: Legacy came and went. With a thud. Wasn't embraced by fandom, the public wasn't in awe of 3D light-cycles or bad-CG de-aged Jeff Bridges. Disney talked up Tron 3 here and there. Writers were assigned. But they were going through the motions.

Just covering their asses is all. Disney spent serious cash rebranding Tron for the twenty-first century. They'd never admit outright, "Yeah Tron: Legacy failed like Tron did." Remember even John Carter had writers commissioned for its follow-up The Gods of Mars even after its disastrous box-office.

Thing is they're still talking sequel. This time, its Jesse Wigutow commissioned. Borys Kit's Mouse Moles say this is Alan Horn's doing. Why, I don't know. Lucasfilm is theirs and Star Wars Episode VII is coming for 2015 (Supposedly the director will be announced before Christmas). Plus what Marvel and Pixar churn out. That leaves little room, or need, for Tron 3.

Look you took a gamble, backing the pony on sequelizing a thirty-year-old pricey flop-turned-cult favorite. It failed. You get credit for the risk, but move the Hell on, Disney. Nobody is going to see Tron 3 and you're ultimately not going to make it. Stop fooling yourselves.

Source: Heat Vision

First Clip from 'Jack Reacher' Kicks Some Serious Ass

For anyone still doubting Tom Cruise in this role, maybe this will begin to change your mind:

And really, would that honestly have been as good and intriguing a scene if the guy opposing those five men had been a hulking 6'5'' man as described in the books?

No, I didn't think so either.  Too easy and no excitement or sense of danger in that sense.

Jack Reacher opens December 21st.

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.

And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter—a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right—and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.

Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning—and then beat him shot for shot.

Source: IGN

Matt Damon Joining George Clooney's 'The Monuments Men'

I dunno how that SOB does it, but he does it.

George Clooney has now enlisted good buddy Matt Damon to star alongside himself and a bunch of other stars including Daniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin (the guy from The Artist), John Goodman, and Bill Murray in The Monuments Men.

Clooney also co-wrote and will direct the period drama film based on the non-fiction novel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, about a group of art experts selected by the U.S. government to chase down stolen art of Europe at the end of World War II.

No word on when the film will begin rolling before the cameras but expect it to start sometime next year after Clooney convinces himself not only does he need a new hot girlfriend but that he's a great actor too.

Source: Deadline

David Ellison Now Attached to Produce New 'Terminator' Film

Well, this wasn't the news I was expecting but it's better than nothing.

About a month ago word came out that news on the new Terminator film - to be produced by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures - was coming and now it looks like that news has arrived.  Ellison's brother, David (owner of Skydance Productions behind such films as Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Jack Reacher, Star Trek Into Darkness) will be co-producing the project which apparently just had its rights officially signed over to Megan after lengthy negotiations with its now previous owner, Pacificorp (explains why no movement has been made on film in over a year).

This comes as interesting news for both Ellison's involved as Megan has taken a more independent, dramatic route, producing such films as Lawless, The Master, Killing Them Softly, and Zero Dark Thirty while her brother has gone the more popcorn-fluff, action road with such films mentioned above.

I take it both of them working together could be a good thing as sister Ellison's flare for the dramatic can be balanced out with brother Ellison's flare for the special effects (tell me any Terminator film since T2 that successfully balanced both?).

With the rights all signed and sealed now, expect solid movement to start on the project as a screenwriter will likely need to be brought on first followed be a director (or potentially the same person).

Nothing is known plot-wise about the new Terminator film though it has been confirmed that it WILL be R-rated and strong indications that the story will involve the original cast more inline with the first two films.

Maybe James Cameron can be brought on as a producer.

Source: Deadline

Seth MacFarlane Sets "A Million Ways to Die in the West" as Next Comedy

It was this way on television for years. But more than ever before, Seth MacFarlane can do whatever he wants. Following Ted, surprising in its humor and heart (Surprising for MacFarlane and his brand of humor, not going off the rails and turning into a political soapbox), I have to admit I do want to see where he’s headed as a director.

To the Old West, reports THR.

He'll direct, star and co-write A Million Ways to Die in the West:

"The plot has been described as a Blazing Saddles-style movie -- meaning a Western with contemporary humor, with one undercurrent being just how dangerous and painful life really was in the late 1800s.

The script, said to be laced with MacFarlane’s hallmark racy humor, also calls for a romantic female lead."

Just the other day, some colleagues were commenting how Blazing Saddles is such a product of the early 1970s. No way would any studio, in fear of being crucified by political-correctness, dare make Mel Brooks' classic Western send-up today. If MacFarlane approaches a third of what Brooks covered thirty-seven years ago, he's a gutsy guy. And he has my respect.