Arnie does something: everyone pays close attention
May 06
A script based on a 1975 novel about an alcoholic who bonds with some rich jerk’s son, a $12.5 million payday (plus 25% first dollar gross), the internet aflurry with anticipation–it can only mean one thing: Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in town.
He’s signed on for Cry Macho, to be directed by The Lincoln Lawyer‘s Brad Furman and produced by The Godfather‘s Al Ruddy. The plan is to shop the project around at Cannes for distribution.
Meanwhile, no one gives a fuck about that Governator cartoon thing.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN trailer out-epics itself
May 05So it’s like a poor man’s The Lord of the Rings crossed with 300? I’m curious to see it now, but I’m not expecting anything great. Check out all those scenes spoiled in the trailer, but minus the seizure-inducing fades-to-black, in shitty 3D on 19 August 2011.
PAUL reviewed
May 05Leans on pop culture like a crutch, but delivers more solid laughs than you can shake your space-man balls at.
Our reviews are short. Really short. Deal with it.
Watch Captain Jack Sparrow do his thing in this ON STRANGER TIDES video clip
May 04One of the biggest blockbusters of the year is right around the corner– the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean film On Stranger Tides releases on 20 May. If you’re keen for a sneak-peek beyond the enticing trailer, you can watch Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, I think his name is) escape Geoffrey Rush‘s palace guards in this exclusive clip from Disney. Sorry it’s in the fucking Yahoo! player– not much I can do about that.
ATTACK THE BLOCK’s scary, toothy poster
May 04
Looking forward to this witty-Brits-face-alien-invasion movie Attack The Block, even if the poster gets a little dangerously serious. The trailer was a no-brainer and word from the festivals is this one is set to be one of those cult winners that’ll land with a quiet thud at the box office but be found in every personal movie collection for all eternity.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 images are as stagnant as the film is likely to be
May 03
Looking sexy with contacts in their eyes, these new images from Breaking Dawn Part 1 leave little to the imagination. I’ve only ever tolerated the first Twilight film and that was more than enough for me. Fans of this franchise are fans for a reason, and I’m sure their hearts will be racing over these photos.
If I do end up seeing this (for whatever reason), I guarantee I would spend every excruciating minute counting the number of times Kristen Stewart runs her hand through her fucking hair.
But, Kathryn Bigelow was gonna KILL BIN LADEN
May 03
The events of 1 May 2011 have drastically changed the plans of Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s current project. After her war-based film The Hurt Locker won her Best Director and Best Picture in 2009 she was busy working with the same producers on Kill Bin Laden, a feature film that would fictionally kill the western world nemesis. Now, of course, that has actually happened. The Hollywood Reporter has the details.
Last word from Kathryn and her team was that they were taking a short break from their current development and finding a way to incorporate recent events so their film can accurately portray them. That is, they’re going ahead!
Thankfully this won’t be a rushed TV movie like a certain rushed-in-time-for-a-royal-wedding film that made its timely way to TV & DVD. Shudder.
Elizabeth Banks will star in THE HUNGER GAMES
May 02
After scooping up the rights to the 2008 young-adult science fiction novel The Hunger Games some time ago, Lionsgate have just announced that Elizabeth Banks will play Effie Trinket– a flaky fashion consultant who escorts her district’s contestants into the battlefield… Wait, a battlefield? WTF?
The Hunger Games is set in the undetermined future where, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from are selected at random and forced to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised event in which the participants must fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena until only one remains.
The books wound up as a trilogy. No doubt Lionsgate are hoping they can franchise them into film adaptations, success of this first one pending. The Hunger Games is scheduled to hit screens in 2012.
JUST GO WITH IT reviewed
May 01Not even the occasional guilty laugh or gratuitous bikini shot can redeem this comedy of its inept script, blatant improv (which defeats the purpose) and insulting acting.
Our reviews are short. Very short. Deal with it.
Who’s laughing now? HANGOVER 2 facing release delays thanks to THAT tattoo
May 01When Mr. Whitmill created the Original Tattoo, Mr Tyson agreed that Mr. Whitmill would own the artwork and thus, the copyright in the Original Tattoo ... Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. — without attempting to contact Mr. Whitmill, obtain his permission, or credit his creation — has copied Mr. Whitmill's Original Tattoo and placed it on the face of another actor ... This unauthorized exploitation of the Original Tattoo constitutes copyright infringement.”
Someone at Warner Bros. is going to get a smack on the fingers. A lead in The Hangover Part 2 (played by Ed Helms) winds up with a tattoo on his face for the majority of the film. Problem? Yes, actually. The same tattoo design can be found on Tyson’s face (a clever throwback to the first film, I suppose), and the dude who inked it, one Mr. Whitmall, owns the copyright.
Yup– he owns that shit. You can’t put that design anywhere without his all-clear, especially on the face of an actor in a major comedy release. So, in a major fuck-you to the big-wig studio, he has filed a lawsuit asking for the film’s release to be halted. Shit just got real. The Hollywood Reporter has the intricate details (with less swearing) if you’re keen.
A somewhat suggestive SLEEPING BEAUTY poster
May 01The trailer was all dark and moody and the film itself created a stir at Cannes. It’s Australian, and now it has one of those alluring and elegant posters. Of course, it helps that Sleeping Beauty stars ‘that chick from Sucker Punch‘ Emily Browning for some added exposure online.
TRANSFORMERS 3 poster: We is a Summa Blockbusta!
May 01A nice poster for Transformers 3 reveals everything that is going to happen in the blockbuster popcorn flick: Optimus Prime and his fellow robots will be very large, loud and somewhat confusing to look at. Support characters will stand around looking dumbfounded until the very last split second when they decide they should indeed run. A city will be destroyed.
Everything will be confirmed July 1st.
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