New EXPENDABLES poster makes body-counting a competitive sport
Aug 20
The Expendables has been out for over a week now. It dominated the US box office last weekend, taking $35 million and beating the stuffing out of Julia Roberts vehicle Eat Pray Love in the process. Perhaps in an effort to celebrate the film’s general awesomeness, or maybe to help drive sales even more, the following poster has been produced, though its officialness is dubious at best.
Also dubious is Arnie‘s absence from the body count. I’m sure he could easily double — possibly quadruple* — the gang’s cumulative total (*slight exaggeration). Nevertheless, the body count (as in, dead body count) is entertaining and informative, so cast an eye over it if you’d like.
It’s kind of embarrassing that Couture and Crews only have 2 kills to their name, each — not that I’d say that to their faces, of course. And what would the gang’s Expendables kill count do to the total, I wonder?
The Expendables is currently in cinemas. Read what Jason thought about it here.
SKYLINE poster is filled with bodies, blue things
Aug 20
Following on from the money-shot in the film’s first teaser, Skyline‘s first poster focuses on the massive-spaceships-vacuuming-up-hapless-souls aspect of its story, hoping to get some jaws dropping in the process.
In my opinion, too many alien invasion movies is never enough; the idea itself is compelling and ominous to be endlessly entertaining. Stephen Hawking’s pessimistic assertion that any life more advanced than us will inevitably destroy us one way or another is (thankfully) yet to be tested, so a little vicarious what-iffery couldn’t hurt in the meantime.
Of course, the fact that the film is directed by the Brothers Strouse bodes ill for the project, but we’ll wait and see. After all, there is some perverse pleasure to be had in watching America get alternately blown up / invaded / flooded in Roland Emmerich‘s disaster films, so maybe Skyline will be entertaining in the same way.
Skyline is due in the States on 12 November 2010.
Will Ferrell in a serious movie? Images from EVERYTHING MUST GO
Aug 20
Remember the last time Will Ferrell attempted a semi-serious character, in Stranger Than Fiction? That didn’t go so well. To be fair, it wasn’t his performance that let the film down, but rather the script. So is there any hope for Everything Must Go, a “dramedy” starring everyone’s favourite iron-lunged goon?
The story concerns a motivational speaker who is abruptly fired, and goes home to find that his wife has locked him out of the house, changed the locks, and thrown all of his possessions onto the front lawn. So the guy starts selling all the stuff in “an absurdly escalating garage sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival.” I guess it’s just one of those premises that really needs a trailer to sell itself, because that synopsis alone is dead boring.
Everything Must Go is writer / director Dan Bush‘s debut; no release dates have been announced yet.
images and words: IonCinema
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts reunite in FAIR GAME trailer
Aug 20
Don’t you hate it when your husband outs you as a CIA agent and you are hunted by terrorists and your own government alike? That’s the central premise of Fair Game, the true story of Valerie Plame, whose world turned upside down when her super-secret life was made uncomfortably public.
The Bourne Identity‘s Doug Liman directs Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in Fair Game, based on the non-fiction book by Joseph Wilson. The trailer flashes perfunctory glimpses of domestic drama and professional intrigue, but I can’t get past how dull and desaturated the film looks. Hopefully it’ll come alive on the silver screen.
Fair Game is due here in ’2010,’ apparently; US citizens will get a glimpse into their Central Intelligence Agency on 5 November 2010.
Trailer for CASE 39, a movie that came out nearly a year ago
Aug 20
Case 39, a thrillery sort of thing with Renée Zellweger and Bradley Cooper in it, was originally due to hit US screens on 8 August 2008. It was delayed, probably because of how terrible it looks. Somehow, we (as in, Australia) copped it around October last year: it flopped financially and flunked critically.
Two years past its due date, it’s finally getting an American release. Maybe Paramount reckons there’s some money to be had in releasing something with Bradley Cooper in it, now that he’s all popular and stuff?
Case 39 opens in the States on 1 October 2010. For a plot synopsis, watch the trailer; it gives most of it away.
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