I have a good feeling about this film, apparently the early reviews are positive and everything I have seen makes me feel it will blend heart and spectacle really well, with a very likable lead in Hugh Jackman.
Comingsoon.net got hold of a new clip via Dreamworks and in it we see Jackman's boxer Charlie teaching his fighting robot Atom some moves. I think it's a cool little sequence.
Hugh Jackman was also on WWE Raw the other night promoting the film to what I imagine will be a big part of it's audience and he did a fantastic, job, throwing himself right into the theatrics and action of pro wrestling, here's a little vid of his interaction with Dolph Ziggler.
Add one more name to the cast of Tom Cruise's next film.
Variety reports Richard Jenkins (who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor a couple years back for his performance in The Visitor) is in final negotiations to star alongside Cruise in the Christopher McQuarrie written and directed, One Shot.
The film, based on the Lee Childs novel of the same name, is an adaption of the ninth book in the popular Jack Reacher series about a former military policeman turned drifter.
Jenkins joins a cast that already includes Rosamund Pike (Fracture) and David Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland).
No word yet on who Jenkins will play but one can assume it will be a meaty role considering an actor of his caliber.
A description of the book is below:
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.
As someone who loves movies in general, the works of Brian De Palma and the gangster genre, I don't hold the 1983 version of Scarface to any high standards. It's a shitty movie. We got it, De Palma. It's about excess. So you decided to go overboard with everything and take it to 11; excessive running-length, acting, violence, language.
How Scarface caught on with the hip-hop community also escapes me. For all the worship of Tony Montana and those who claim to aspire to be like him, those idiots are aware the film ends with him being murdered in typically-violent De Palma fashion for living that lifestyle? I'm not even going to begin expecting those devotees to know that it's a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawkes/Richard Rosson film, also reviled upon its release for its violence but a commercial success unlike the '83 iteration.
Word has whispered to the ears of "TOLDJA" that a third version of Scarface is in development at Universal under the supervision of producers Martin Bregman (who produced De Palma's version) and Marc Shmuger. The studio is currently mulling through screenwriters to take on the job which will take on the basic spine of the story prevalent in both Scarfaces – the rise and fall of an outsider coming into the world of organized crime.
So get ready for douchebags saying, "Say 'Hello!' to my little friend!" again – a line I'm sure will be shoe-horned into the new Scarface.
Obviously those pictures of Johnny Depp on the set of Dark Shadows caused some unease.
A week later and we've got a full-spread, puff-piece (via EW) displaying the first official looks at Depp's Barnabas Collins and the rest of the cast along with character breakdowns and quotes from Depp, director/Depp BFF Tim Burton, producer Richard D. Zanuck and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith.
The fair thing for me to do is wait for the theatrical trailer to drop (which will probably be around the holiday season) before I pass judgment. Even then, I'd have to be fair-minded and remember that we've seen great trailers to shitty movies and shitty trailers to great movies. Indeed, I should be fair and keep an open mind. But it's the well-oiled Depp/Burton machine at work again and I can't muster any feeling for them and/or this movie other than boredom.
Coming off the heels of Thor surprising everyone with its quality and commercial success this past summer, Marvel/Disney now are ramping up for its July 2013 sequel. In what is, no doubt, an attempt to create chatter (or "buzz" if you like that douchebag term), the House of Ideas/Mouse have also claimed victory once again in trumping DC in the movie-department.
Variety reports talks are underway for Patty Jenkins to direct Thor 2 - yet another intriguing, outside-the-box choice, a frame of mind that's worked pretty well for the studio so far.
Jenkins, you may remember, is responsible for 2003's Monster, known primarily for its Oscar-winning turn by Charlize Theron, although it's a very strong piece of work her performance notwithstanding. Surprisingly though, she didn't cash in her chips after Monster and instead opted for directing work in television including Arrested Development, Entourage and the pilot for AMC's hit The Killing.
Given the strong sexist (and at times homophobic...and racist) tendency of the fanboy community, it's of genuine surprise Marvel (who've gone out of their way to please those idiots time and time again) is willing to go with a female director for one of their big superhero properties. Its smarts and willing to take chances like that is why they continue to best DC with movies that don't have Christopher Nolan's name plastered all over it.
When Daniel Craig was cast as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, one could sense of how he'd play the role because we've seen lots of him in other films, the good (Casino Royale, Infamous, Munich) and the bad (Cowboys & Aliens, The Golden Compass, The Invasion). Similar feeling towards how this will be directed, under the guiding-hand of the great David Fincher. If you've read the novel or seen the 2009 Swedish film, you could already sense how he'd handle the material given his past association in the murder-mystery genre.
It's a different ball-game altogether for Rooney Mara as title character Lisbeth Salander. We've seen pictures of her in character, yes. But it's not the same as seeing her in motion as Salander. There's little to gage with how she'll do because we've seen so little of her. And what we've seen so far came last year in one of 2010's best films (The Social Network) where she was very good in what few scenes she was in and one of 2010's worst films (the Nightmare on Elm Street remake) where she was terrible in the lead.
So there's a lot of intrigue behind her given how far-and-wide the filmmakers looked for their Lisbeth and opted for the unknown Ms. Mara instead the bigger names who screen-tested. Some of that mystique is slowly getting chipped away as we near the film's Christmas release and more footage of her in character is being made readily available to the public. Such as the case with the second trailer just released.
Clocking in less than four minutes, it lays out the plot for those unfamiliar (As highly regarded as the afore-mentioned Swedish film is, not everyone has seen it and not everyone has the read the original Stieg Larsson-penned book as big a best-seller that it is) and, yes, lets us see and hear Mara as Salander interacting with her co-stars. But I'll shut up now and let you see for yourself.
I love movies set in the snow like Cliffhanger, or even if it's only part of the movie, like the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back on Hoth, or the end of Inception. Here we have a movie set in the Alaskan wilderness, a snow covered terrain with Liam Neeson surviving a plane crash and trying to survive the elements and a pack of hungry wolves.
Basically Nesson is always awesome and this looks great as both a character drama and a badass action adventure film. it opens January 27th, 2012 and you can check the trailer (Courtesy of Yahoo movies) out below.
A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves
We've got our first look at what might be one of the best extra features on the upcoming blu-ray release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2: the conversation between Harry Potter author JK Rowling, and the actor who grew up playing him, Daniel Radcliffe. It should be an interesting look at their views of the whole Potter phenomenon.
In the clip, courtesy of Yahoo Movies UK (and subtitled in German for some reason), Rowling and Radcliffe discuss the Harry Potter fanbase and how they differ from other big franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek:
However, in a shocking development, Moviefone has discovered that Daniel Radcliffe has actually never seen Star Wars. Although, according to the interview, he's planning to remedy that soon. And he's still pretty much right when it comes to the fanbases. So it's all good.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 arrives on blu-ray and DVD on November 11.
Looks like Steven Spielberg's long in-development film about Abraham Lincoln is finally coming around.
After not hearing much about it for a while (well at least I haven't), news comes today that Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street), has joined the cast, playing Alexander Stephens. For those who aren't history buffs, Stephens was basically the anti-Lincoln, a strong nemesis of freeing slaves while serving as the Vice President of the Confederate states.
Haley joins a cast which already includes Daniel Day-Lewis playing the title role, Sally Field as Mary Todd (Lincoln's wife), Tommy Lee Jones as Republican congressman Thaddeus Stephens, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln's son, Robert Todd.
The cast also includes many notable names including Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross.
Filming is set to begin this fall for a late 2012 release date.
Toldya are reporting that Jeremy Renner has signed on for yet another movie to add to The Avengers, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Bourne Legacy and Hansel & Gretel. I guess he's looking to match that run Jude Law had a few years back.
The film is an adaption of the true crime book 'King of Heists' by J. North Conway and tells the tale of George Leslie who rocked up in New York in 1878 as a gentleman who was a bit of charmer and Ladies man, but in truth he was a mastermind behind several bank robberies and had come to New York to pull of the Heist to end all heists.
I think this is a good pick for Renner amongst the fantasy and espionage projects. I love a heist movie and the period setting along with the fact it's based on true events really put this one on my "Movies to follow" list.
Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie - a society architect and ladies' man whose double life as the nation's most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the King of the Bank Robbers. "The New York Times" proclaimed the 1878 heist the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country. An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, "King of Heists" blends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.
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