Movie 43 Trailer is a Slightly Amusing, Uneven Mess

Anthologies don't work. Unless it's one director at the helm and even that isn't a recipe for success.

Once you get into the standard practice of three-four filmmakers, only half the segments, at best, turn out well. Twilight Zone: the Movie and Four Rooms comes to mind. Such a feat is near-impossible to accomplish. Too many voices on display with too little time. In some cases, the material isn't good enough for even a half-hour and other cases (including here, a la the home-school sketch with Liev Schreiber) there are great ideas for a feature.

That trend continues with the red-band for Movie 43 (via Comedy Central), a comedy with a laundry list of directors and name-actors. Won't name them all but one highlight: Gerald Butler as a Leprechaun. No, you didn't misread that.

Bruce Willis Looks Pissed/Bald in Die Hard 5 Photo

The first picture of Bruno from Live Free or Die Hard was him and Justin Long running, yelling, blood on their faces and holding a cell phone. Our protagonists were in a rush.

A more leisurely affair for A Good Day to Die Hard showcasing Willis and his latest second banana, Jai Courtney as Bruno/John McClane Jr. Is it me or does he look too old to play his son? What is he, 35? There are guns. They look intense. But they don't look like they're in a hurry to save the world. Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

Johnny Depp Attention-Whores The Lone Ranger Teaser Trailer

As expected, the teaser trailer to The Lone Ranger is Tonto-centric. Johnny Depp has top-billing, he's doing the voice-over, he’s in the logo (wearing the mask!) and, from how this minute and change plays out, doing all the "cool" action (hiding under a train –Oooooh!) That's great and all, but Armie Hammer is playing the title character. Unless they’re going for Big Trouble in Little China, i.e. the sidekick is the hero.

Depp's last vanity project-posing-as a summer blockbuster Dark Shadows nose-dived. Will history repeat itself? Too soon to tell. This is a teaser trailer after all. But at face value, it appears he’' following the same mistake, thinking what appealed to him as a kid will spark our attention.

Kevin Costner, McG Team for Secret Service Thriller

Looks like Kevin Costner is back.

Fresh off his Emmy win for Best Actor (Hatfields & McCoys), Costner is set to star in a yet untitled action thriller with McG (Terminator Salvation) directing and the duo of Luc Besson (Taken) and Adi Hasak (From Paris with Love) writing the script.

Costner would play a dying Secret Service agent who decides to retire to spend whatever time he has left with his estranged family.  When the Secret Service offers him an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, his character must balance his re-connected family with his final mission and the drug's dangerous side effects.

Relativity Media and EuropaCorp are producing the pic - formerly titled Three Days to Kill - which looks to start filming next year.

While the project sounds exciting, there seems to be both the good and bad of it.  For Field of Dreams (Costner), there's Charlie's Angels (McG).  For Taken (Besson) there's From Paris with Love (Hasak)

Maybe they'll all find the right balance.

Source: Variety

Ron Perlman & George Finn Sign For "Savage Mutts"

Ron Perlman and George Finn have signed on to star in the criminal action thriller, SAVAGE MUTTS. Written and directed by Nika Agiashvili, SAVAGE MUTTS will be produced in conjunction with Energy Entertainment’s Independent division.
 
Scheduled to begin production in Los Angeles in January, SAVAGE MUTTS centers on Terry “Shotgun” Coburn (Perlman), who after he is released from maximum security prison sets out on a path of revenge and rampage through the criminal underworld, as he seeks out a final confrontation with his brother - a dark and powerful crime boss.  Project has been described as being in the vein of Guy Richie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."
 
Agiashvili will also produce through his Storyman Pictures banner, along with Energy Independent's Brooklyn Weaver ("Out of the Furnace") and Derrick Eppich - with Circus Road’s Glen Reynolds and Zac Reeder handling worldwide sales.
 
“Nika is a writer-director whose Ex-Soviet Republic Georgian background brings a raw, edgy, darkly comedic sensibility to his characters and storytelling- which talent is clearly reacting to.  He fits squarely into the gritty, "partners-in-crime" brand we've been cultivating here at Energy... I'm excited to help bring his vision for SAVAGE MUTTS to life" states Weaver.
 
Agiashvili recently collaborated with Perlman on Freedom, a short film that is part of the Georgian omnibus, TBILISI, MY CITY which is currently in post-production. In addition, Agiashvili produced and directed the Van Vlahakis biopic, A GREEN STORY starring Ed O’Ross, George Finn and Shannon Elizabeth that will be released in April 2013 by Indican Pictures.
 
Energy Independent was launched in February 2012 by Energy Entertainment owner Brooklyn Weaver with private equity and foreign sales partners that fund development - to package and produce projects budgeted at $15 million and under, which typically fall outside the traditional Hollywood studio system.  Next up for Energy Independent is hi-concept contained actioner HIGH VALUE TARGET, by writer-director Spenser Cohen - which Weaver has partnered with Vinson Films to produce.
 
Perlman is repped by KLWGN Entertainment. Finn is repprd by Lena Roklin at Luber Roklin Entertainment.

"The Guilt Trip" Poster Featuring Rogen & Streisand

Andy Brewster is an inventor who lives in Los Angeles. He’s come up with an amazing organic cleaner but can’t get anyone interested in manufacturing it.

Andy plans a business trip to promote the product and decides to take his recently-widowed mother along for the ride. She’s been despondent since his father died, so he comes up with a great idea—during the trip he’ll surprise her with a stop in San Francisco, where one of her ex-flames lives.

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"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" Final Poster

The astonishing conclusion to the series, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, PART 2, illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.

"The Lone Ranger" Poster

The Lone Ranger, opening in theaters on July 3, 2013, is a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice—taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

David Goyer Talks Keeping It Real With "Man Of Steel"

I'm not sure where this "grounded in reality" wave crashed upon Hollyweird but it has been invading the superhero genre for some years now. I do actually prefer that approach, which is why I much rather balance a beer on my stomach as I watch The Dark Knight Trilogy as opposed to watching The Fantastic Four. Although, are there many that would argue that stance?

David Goyer is obviously a proponent of the "grounded in reality" era. He certainly brought that to Batman and you can even see it in his short lived television venture Flash Forward. Kind of a tall order to attempt such a feat with Superman, but him and WB's Golden Ticket Christopher Nolan are surely trying with Man Of Steel.

Badtaste.it via ComingSoon.Net

Moderator: You are quite good at writing two kinds of stories: fantasy completely original stories, with a supernatural aspect, and also adaptations (especially from comic-books) that you reinvent in an original way. We know you're working on a new comic-book adaptation, a DC Comics adaptation. What does this work have in common with you previous works?

David Goyer: Are we talking about Man of Steel? What Christopher Nolan and I have done with Superman is trying to bring the same naturalistic approach that we used adopted for the Batman trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach, we want out stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in. It's not that easy with Superman, and actually this doesn't necessarily mean we will make a dark movie. But working on this reboot we are thinking about what would happen if a story like this one actually happened. How would people react to this? What impact would have the presence of Superman in the real world? What I really like to do is writing "genre" stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with Da Vinci's Demons, and I'll do the same with Man of Steel.

"The First Time" Trailer

Starring Dylan O'Brien, Britt Robertson, Victoria Justice, James Frecheville, Craig Roberts, Joshua Malina, Halston Sage, Maggie Jones and Adam Sevani, the romantic drama follows Dave (O'Brien), a high school senior who spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey (Robertson), a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Then Dave and Aubrey meet one night at a party. A casual conversation sparks an instant connection, and, over the course of a weekend, things turn magical, romantic, complicated and funny as Aubrey and Dave discover what it's like to fall in love for the first time. Director/screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan skillfully captures a moment of adolescence that rings resolutely true.

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