Remember when the producers of Clash of the Titans, after cashing their checks amid a lot of pissed-off movie-goers, acknowledged how bad the post-conversion 3D was and how they'd learned their lesson and were going to use 3D cameras next time?
Fuck that noise.
Director Jonathan Liebesman tells Cinematical the 2012 sequel Wrath of the Titans is going to be another post 3D conversion after all.
Now thanks to my super-duper bullshit translator technology I'll take this quote he gave...
"I didn't want to convert, but Warner Brothers showed me how far conversion's come"
...which actually means...
"It's stupid, but Warner Brothers is making me because I don’t have the clout to say, 'Hell no!'"
This week's film starts with a song about anal sex and just spitballs from there into themes of the hypocrisy of the music industry, the temptations of celebrity, the vapidness of fame, the brainwashing of American youth, and the fakery and fabrication of fads.
It's 'Josie & The Pussycats' and it ain't just a kids film.
Now here's a crazy concept for a movie: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man who has to stop the bombing of a commuter train. Oh, and he only has 8 minutes to get that done. Good luck with that.
Looks pretty wild. Source Code, which also stars Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan, and Jeffrey Wright, opens in theaters on April 1st.
Could a Major League 4 be happening? It certainly seems so.
I had read last year that writer/director of the original, David S. Ward, was working on a script for a 4th Major League film with the intention of bringing the original cast back together, most especially, "Wild Thing" Charlie Sheen. The film would be set twenty years after Rick Vaughn has left baseball with the Cleveland Indians bringing him out of retirement to work with a 19 year-old, fireballing relief pitcher. At the time, Ward said Sheen was very interested in the project along with an aim to shoot this summer.
Looks like things might be taking shape.
Just this week, Sheen was out stating his case for a Major League 3 as he looks to call it (he feels the 3rd film, Major League: Back to the Minors, was an "abortion"), but says unless Morgan Creek (the production company) wants to pay him what he feels he's worth, he won't be doing it:
“Well you know I’d like to (star in another Major League film) but you might want to flood Morgan Creek (production company) with letters and an angry mob with burning torches because they don’t seem to think I’m as valuable as I do.”
This seems to be a small hiccup in getting the film made as many believe Morgan Creek would be willing to up their offer to Sheen, as without the actor another Major League film is unlikely to happen.
Along with this, THR caught wind of Sheen's comments, and contacted David S. Ward himself, who confirms the film is coming together with a well-received script, and that all the original characters are back, including Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert), Willie "Mays" Hayes (Wesley Snipes), and Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen). Though Tom Berenger's character, Jake Taylor, isn't mentioned, it's a forgone conclusion he would be back as well.
I'll be sure to keep track of this project in the coming months ahead. Until then, here's a reminder of how great the original film was:
Columbia Pictures and MySpace have released the Red Band trailer for Bad Teacher, the June 24 comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, John Michael Higgins and Jason Segel.
The Synopsis:
Some teachers just don't give an F. For example, there's Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz). She's foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate. She drinks, she gets high, and she can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiancé, she sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome substitute (Justin Timberlake) – competing for his affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy (Lucy Punch). When Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic, irreverent gym teacher (Jason Segel), the consequences of her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers, and even herself an education like no other.
I can't say I'm a huge fan of Diaz, but she does seem to do pretty good with comedy. That and we don't have enough R rated comedies anymore, so one with a pot smoking gold digging asshole of a teacher looking to get a boob job sounds great!
Sure these may not be the bold hammer swinging action shots you were hoping for, but if you are hoping to get your girlfriend to go (Note - I realize not all girls dislike action movies but bear with me as I fill out some lines.) then these images of of the God of Thunder in milder mode with the stunning and talented Natalie Portman may do the trick.
For my money Thor is the most promising looking of this years Comic book movies so far, the action looks tight, the casting is spot on and the duality of Earth and Asgard give it a unique feel amongst the cluttered market.
Lost amidst the planet-shattering news that Justin Bieber got a haircut this week is this WTF move by Paramount: Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 3D is getting a special director's cut. Now, that part isn't weird. Surely there was plenty of Bieber goodness left over for a special-edition DVD. But here's the head-scratching part: the extended cut of the film is opening in theaters on Friday.
To bring those of you who've been kindly ignoring the existence of this film up to speed, this will be only two weeks since the original cut of Never Say Never opened in theaters. It's grossed $52 million at the box office so far, which is already more than double what the Jonas Brothers' concert movie did in 2009, and it's likely to pass the $65 million Hannah Montana made in 2008. So why re-release it so soon, aside from the obvious cash-grab?
According to Entertainment Weekly, 22 minutes have been dropped from the first release, and 40 minutes of new footage has been added in. Director John M. Chu turned to Bieber's Twitter fanbase to see what fans wanted to see more of - namely, more of Chaz and Ryan (I have no idea who these people are), more baby Bieber footage, more pranks, more music, etc. It also sounds like there's enough left over for an even longer director's cut when this thing finally hits DVD.
Frankly, I feel sorry for the parents of tween Bieber fans who are going to have to sit through this thing again. Not because of the music, or even Bieber himself. The kid's overexposure is definitely on my last nerve, but he's harmless enough and I'm sure I would have been crazy for him if I was 11. But 3D movie tickets are expensive enough, and I'm sure parents who made an event out of taking their kids to see the movie the first time around are less than thrilled about possibly having to do it again, especially when they could have just as easily have put this on the DVD.
But it will be back (it never left!) in theaters on Friday.
Here we are with the newest trailer for Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder's latest, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
We're about a month shy from its release and upon our third trailer. Yet this latest is 100% dialogue-free, does no attempt to sell the actual plot outside title-cards and instead goes for hard-core, visual eye-candy that'll cause nerdgasms from some. But I imagine for most (those who will make this a success or failure commercially) this will conjure up a "What the fuck is this?" response.
I remain unimpressed. Thank God, Snyder has his "Get out of jail free" card with Superman.
If it's connected to Alien like Jackie Brown is to Out of Sight, then fine. Still being able to follow a narrative and tell a story that just so happens to be in the same universe/continuity of another movie.
But who am I kidding? I'm going to see Prometheus even if it turns out director Ridley Scott, screenwriter Damon Lindelof and crew were bullshitting us with those "We swear it's not an Alien prequel!" quotes from awhile back. I'm just looking forward to Scott returning to the science fiction arena for the first time since Blade Runner. However more info is suggesting that in fact we’re looking at a full-on Alien prequel.
According to Sky Movies, the space jockey from Alien (and long said to have a role) will play a part in Prometheus. Adding to the coolness factor is the revelation it's being designed under the supervision of H.R. Giger and will be done as an eight-foot animatronic.
Then there's this spoilerific comment from their source(s):
"By the way, people are going to be in for a shock when they sit down to watch Prometheus and there’s an enormous semi-human head piloting a spaceship."
Considering those rumors of forced male-on-male action from awhile back, a giant head isn't that weird an idea.
I don't know what to think about this news. We've heard the rumors for years and now they are starting up again courtesy of Jack Bauer himself. A "24" movie. About a month ago the idea that a film going forward based on the ground breaking popular TV show were squashed by the Fox brass. However, Kiefer claims otherwise with a simple sentence while being interviewed on "Good Morning America".
"Yes, there will be a 24 movie."
Of course the perky Kelly & the lame duck that is Regis decided to approach the same subject on "Live With Regis and Kelly
"We hopefully will start next January and I think Tony Scott is one of the directors that has expressed great interest in doing it and he would be fantastic, so I'm very excited about that."
I loved the show. Even the video game was good. I hope to high heavens they aren't really going to make a film though. They came so close to jumping the shark on the show many a time and just barely avoided it. The movie even happening would wipe that out. 24 episodes, 1 hour each, equals one day. The formula worked. Remember what happened when New Coke came out? Nope.
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Thu, February 24, 2011 
