New 'Toy Story 3' Photo

The scribes over at Latino Review have posted a new "Toy Story 3" photo courtesy of Empire Online for all of us to enjoy, along with an interesting little story involving Mrs. Potato Head and her abusive husband, Mr. Potato Head. It looks like Disney/Pixar has amped up the graphics from the high quality photos we've been treated with. How can you not be looking forward to another big screen romp with the likes of Woody and Buzz.

"Inception" Poster

Coming Soon has the first poster for Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated "Inception," which you can see below.

Some have already pointed out the similarities to this Joker poster from the TDK campaign, but personally I love it, it gives the film an epic looking scale and moody vibe, I am also intrigued as to what the signifigance of the water is.

'Iron Man 2' Footage

While promoting their upcoming Wednesday show, EW via Coming Soon courtesy of The Movie Box,  released footage of the highly anticipated "Iron Man 2". The word is that more footage will be revealed on Wednesday's show.

"Robin Hood" Trailer

I was always dubious of this one given the amount of production woes and stalling, along with a complete 180 from the original pitch of "Nottingham." This first trailer does little to ease the concerns, yes there are some great shots in there and it looks epic, but nothing about it feels like Robin Hood, if anything it comes off like "Maximus goes Medieval."

Ridley Scott is one of my favourite directors and I think Russell Crowe is a great actor, so I'll be seeing this, I just hope the next trailer feels less like Gladiator II and more like a Robin Hood movie.

"Robin Hood" Opens on May 14th, 2010 and you can check the trailer out below.

"Princess And The Frog" Hops To The Top

Weekend Actuals Dec 11th - Dec 13th

1 The Princess and the Frog $24,208,916
2 The Blind Side $15,055,258     
3 Invictus $8,611,147     
4 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $7,960,394     
5 A Christmas Carol $6,833,190     
6 Brothers $5,014,426     
7 Old Dogs $4,409,772     
8 2012 $4,351,565
9 Armored $3,504,374
10 Ninja Assassin $2,707,470

New 'Kick Ass' Poster & Clip

"Kick Ass", which received a great reception at AICN's BNAT, continues to pump up the marketing. UGO has released a new character poster for "Big Daddy" which you can check out above, along with a video clip you can view below. If you ask me, and you're not but I'm going to tell you anyway, the poster is "Batman" with a pinch of "Watchmen".

J.J. Abrams Directing Another Film Before Star Trek Sequel?

Yesterday, the New York Times did an article on Paramount Pictures. In what appears to be an otherwise by-the-numbers puff piece on the studio comes a tiny nugget of information on their current golden-boy J.J. Abrams:

"As for J. J. Abrams, a producer and the director of 'Star Trek,' Mr. Grey is looking for 'Star Trek 2.' And 'Mission: Impossible IV.' And possibly before either, what he called another 'tentpole' film to be directed by Mr. Abrams, and yet to be announced."

Don’t start having a shit-fits wondering what this means for the Star Trek sequel. It appears all but certain that the high-profile follow-up will beam into cinemas for summer 2012 instead of 2011. Just as we told you, good folks, it would months ago. Whenever we see Captain Kirk, Spock and the gang again, people will show up in droves to see it rest assured.

As for M:I 4, I don’t think anyone seriously thinks he will be calling the shots on that one. My guess is he hands that off to one of his guys like Matt Reeves.

It’s not like we could easily guesstimate what this mystery "tentpole" is at the moment. Abrams only has about fifty billion projects on his slate. Whatever it is, Abrams will most likely churn it out quickly before boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise for its sophomore voyage. If you’ll remember he actually finished his well-received Trek reboot in early December of last year.

Could Tobey Maguire Headline The Hobbit?

Having an actor headline two franchises at the same time (at two separate studios, no less!) hasn’t met with the best results. Look at what happened with Christian Bale. Sure his two Batman movies were insanely popular and profitable. But his becoming the face of the Terminator franchise didn’t do the same wonders and they won’t be back for quite some time. Then again, there is hope in Robert Downey Junior with next week’s Sherlock Holmes opening and Iron Man 2 opening next summer. We’ll see.

The good folks over at Latino Review have the exclusive information that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson might have found their Bilbo Baggins after two years worth of rumor, speculation and 100% grade-A Internet bullshit.

Although this is strictly in the talks phase and nothing has been signed, their sources say that Tobey Maguire is the favorite to take over the role from Sir Ian Holm.

That’s right, kids. Spider-Man could also be The Hobbit. As the site points out, the shooting schedule for both tentpoles allows for Maguire to pull it off. Spider-Man 4 starts filming early next year while the two-movie Hobbit adaptation won’t commence principal photography until summer 2010.

Yeah, I could imagine Tobey done up in Middle-Earth costuming and what not.

New 'Iron Man 2' Photo & Olivia Munn Says Things

Paramount Pictures released a new photo from "Iron Man 2" that features Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., doing things that are technologically advanced.

Carson Daily, that lucky dog, had the opportunity to interview Olivia Munn about her upcoming role in "Iron Man 2". Munn of G4's "Attack of the Show" and Playboy fame discusses what lead to her being cast and improvising with Robert Downey Jr.

“Jon Favreau was familiar with a lot of my work that I had done [and] the skits that I’ve put out, and [he] just thought that I can keep up with improv and [he] literally offered me the role.”

There’s a bunch of improv, over and over. It’s one of those things where you’re on set and you want other people to laugh and the crew to laugh. You get the extras and the contractors who’ve been there all day. If they’re laughing that’s a good feeling. One day I was doing a lot [of improvising] and [I kept] coming up with other stuff and at one point Robert just goes ‘Can we just stop for a second? Can we give Olivia a round of applause? Because she is rocking it right now.’ That’s beyond my dream ever and everyone just [clapped]. Afterwards, people were up coming up [and saying] ‘that was really great!’ I was so happy.”

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Michael Myers Says "Die!"

When I'm writing articles, I'm not one for injecting personal experiences into the body of my work, but I have to venture in that realm with this one. I apologize wholeheartedly in advance.

When Rob Zombie's Halloween dropped, I was cautious. I heard that he was taking over the franchise and I didn't love the idea. I was and in some respects, obsessed with his music but I haven't loved his movies. Not to say they have been terrible, "The Devil's Rejects" and "House of 1000 Corpses" certainly have their merit, but to me he was still the singer I knew and loved. It's like when a movie star comes out with an album, there will always be a Jamie Fox, but for every Jamie Fox there are the vocal stylings of Eddie Murphy. When the first trailer hit for Zombie's Halloween, I have to say I was impressed, from the looks of it Zombie actually did get it. The scenes were familiar being a remake of the original but seemed to have some originality that Zombie infused to make it his own.
 Of course my significant other and I ventured to the theater on opening night to see it, she being a huge fan of Carpenter's Halloween films. We were in the theater for 20 minutes when she asked to leave, not because she was scared, but because she was disgusted. "This isn't Halloween", she said, and she was right. We left and made our way into another film, my confused friends still sitting in their roomy seats. Of course I had to see the rest of the movie, so I eventually got my hands on it. The film got better, but only when Zombie finally made his way to the rehash of what Carpenter already created. You honestly don't need to know where Michael Myers evil came from, that is what makes him so scary. There is almost no reason for it. He is sinister, he is random, and he is cold blooded. I understand what Zombie was going for, and I applaud him for it, but to me it just didn't work.

Despite my experience with the first one, I went to see the H2. Let me say that seeing H2 made me fall in love with Zombie's original. The 2nd Halloween with Zombie's complete control over the material completely missed the mark. When every other death ends with apparition of Michael's mother and his childhood self applauding said death or egging on another one, it becomes comical. I have to say Zombie nailed the ambience of a Halloween film, just like he did in the firt one. The feel of the film is just forboding. Michaeal is a killing machine and it works even though it vears a little to the left of how Michael usually operates based on our past experience. What is this all leading to? An alternate ending was released for Zombie's H2 where you actually get to witness Michael Myers talking. Yes. I'm not making this up. Up next for Rob Zombie, a remake of "The Blob". I'm not making that up either.