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Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 7th, 2010 | View Comments

Good one, Hollywood: I nearly believed you when you said you lost money on HARRY POTTER 5

Whenever I explain to people that big movie studios (like Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, etc.) don’t make much annual profit (relatively speaking), I’m usually met with blank stares or open incredulity. “But Tentpole: The Movie: Sequel #3 made $xxx million!” they say; “of course they make billions of dollars every year!” That’s not actually the case. Why? Because,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

HARRY POTTER 7 poster looks like something from a video game; new teaser is full of boring scenes

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is the big climax of the 7-book cycle. The climax of the climax, as it were, is a large-scale assault on Harry’s school, Hogwarts (er, spoilers). The poster is keen to reveal that to everyone, and also to pay homage to one of best video games of the 90s: It even looks like it was rendered by the Nintendo 64! For your trouble I’ll even throw in the Deathly...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 29th, 2010 | View Comments

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS trailer paradoxically short on plot, long on spoilers

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film trailer open with the climactic finale of the film. Even the most hardened of film cynics would refer to showing the third-act showdown between lifelong arch-enemies in the trailer as ‘slightly spoilerish,’ but I guess Harry Potter gets a free pass because every single person in the entire world has already read the books and knows what’s going...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 28th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow, Neil Patrick Harris

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Variety reckons Matt Damon is in talks to join Cameron Crowe’s Zoo, based on Benjamin Mee’s bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Intense action ensues. Moviehole recently talked with Major League...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 8th, 2010 | View Comments

First HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 teaser hits the web

After six years of the Hogwarts formula, six years of school, bullies, magic, exams and the usual end-of-year biffo with Voldemort, book 7 suddenly changed the formula and Harry went on the lam, gallavanting around the countryside in an effort to avoid detection by Voldemort. This, combined with the goofy ending (which I predicted halfway through book 4), is what made the last Harry Potter book one of the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE images and new video featurette: GOOD AND EVIL

I know what you’re thinking: Nic Cage as a sorcerer in the big, modern-day city and he has an apprentice to teach? What could possibly go wrong? While fans wait for the next Harry Potter film, (or the opening of the Harry Potter theme park) Disney are feeding them this alternate take on wizardry, complete with the young-magician-learns-he-is-the-chosen-one plot and wall to wall humour the entire family...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

Emma Watson and cast of HARRY POTTER visit the Wizarding World theme park

Just to prove it does in fact exist and will be opening soon, Emma Watson and other cast members from the Harry Potter films visited the soon-to-be-opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Orlando resort. Yes, a Harry Potter theme park. What more could a Harry Potter fan ask for? This would be like heaven for them, I’d imagine. Universal must be rubbing their hands together in...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 20th, 2010 | View Comments

These uninspired JONAH HEX character banners should keep you away

These utterly uninspiring Jonah Hex character banners further demonstrate how Warner Brothers are keeping things as close to a proven template as possible. All originality has been thrown out the window and they’re clearly sticking to what has worked in the past on promotion for films like X-Men and Harry Potter, because these look exactly like that… only worse. Add to this the terrible trailer...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 28th, 2010 | View Comments

New poster for the next Megan Fox movie features JONAH HEX

Megan Fox will play a prostitute, wear busty tight dresses and carry small guns (is she compensating for something?) in her new film which also stars Josh Brolin and Jon Malkovich, called Jonah Hex. If you’re like me and don’t read comic books (this is another comic book/graphic novel adaptation) you’re probably also wondering ‘who the fuck is Jonah Hex?’ For both our sakes...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN teaser ticks all the boxes

(Teaser embedded below) I remember reading John Marsden’s Tomorrow series in my youth and being absolutely hooked. Ellie and her mates were a bit older than I was at the time but I still felt their hopes and fears ring true on the page: the characters were sharply defined and consistent throughout the series of seven books, and anyone who’s read the series will have fond and clear memories of...
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