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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: THE AVENGERS at Comic-Con, Brad Pitt in WORLD WAR Z, Jim Carrey, Katherine Heigl, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Comic-Con 2010 is underway in San Diego leading the way with most headlines across the web this week. Amongst all the preview footage, panels, exhibitions and guest appearances, only a handful of casting news has trickled out of the convention. Without a doubt the biggest casting news out of Comic-Con came when the cast of The...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 24th, 2010 | View Comments

How to sell a 3D space thriller called GRAVITY better: put Scarlett Johansson in it

One of the few names that will get me into a cinema no matter what is Alfonso Cuarón’s. The fact that his next picture is going to be set in one of my absolute favourite genre milieus — space — is even better. Gravity sounds like a potential classic of the genre, rivalling the likes of the recent Sunshine or Moon, and even the fact that it’s going to be in 3D can’t dampen my...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 19th, 2010 | View Comments

Yarr: piracy is a crime, especially if you downloaded THE HURT LOCKER

Internet piracy has always been a fraught venture: there’s the difficulty of finding a good quality file of the right size; finding enough seeders to allow you to download the film in a timely fashion; the monthly internet usage juggling-act, often divided between games, movies and porn; and then the hassle of burning the film onto a DVD so you don’t have to watch it on a crappy little PC monitor...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 9th, 2010 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 viral advertising is lost on me

Not literally lost, of course. I get it– I understand how viral marketing works and there’s no doubting it certainly has a very fad place in movies right now. Of course, Hollywood has borrowed heavily from the music industry which has been successfully promoting underground/garage/indie bands for decades using similar viral ‘tactics’. Viral marketing has been a successful way for...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 31st, 2010 | View Comments

New U.S. IRON MAN 2 poster has dark and moody floating heads

Nothing says ‘the movies’ like a floating heads poster. Coverage for the highly anticipated sequel Iron Man 2 has been in top gear during 2010 as the release date (May 7 in the States, 29 April Down Under) fast approaches. I’ve enjoyed watching the abundance of trailers, teasers, posters and pics spill onto the web and following varied comments and critiques go up in response: mostly, people...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 25th, 2010 | View Comments

International IRON MAN 2 poster is incredibly lame

I’m still not entirely sure why there needs to be more than one version of a film’s poster for different countries, but here’s the “international” Iron Man 2 poster anyway. It comes at you in a flurry of bad lighting, shoddy compositing, stock backgrounds and obviously-CGI characters dominating the proceedings, and it manages to convey absolutely nothing about the tone or...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 10th, 2010 | View Comments

New IRON MAN 2 trailer gives it all away

I enjoy that feeling of pressing ‘play’ on an online trailer, sitting back and thinking, ‘you’ve got about two minutes to convince me… go!‘  What usually follows is a mash-up of predictable tags, lots of fading-to-black, glimpses of things that should be impressive and a bunch of mood-swinging music, from action packed to heartfelt and back to impactfull, deep thumps for...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 17th, 2009 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 trailer is everything you expected

I don’t think that anyone can honestly say they are disappointed with the recently released Iron Man 2 trailer. Those who were keen to lavish it with glorious praise and love it to pieces are doing just that as it delivers glimpses of War Machine and Whiplash in full swing. Those who are still ragging over the first movie and were not excited about an Iron Man 2 film (let alone a trailer) are equally...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 10th, 2009 | View Comments

Picture this: Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie

There’s a short list of ladies I will go see on a cinema screen for all the wrong reasons. I won’t share the list with you now (your guess would be remarkably accurate, I’m sure), just know that I’m willing to see utter rubbish if it stars one of these ladies, and Scarlett Johansson is listed. High. Scarlett had been in a few minor roles before she broke through in Sophia...
Posted by Money Talks on Dec 4th, 2009 | View Comments

The top 5 chick flicks that won’t microwave your balls off

The words “chick flick” have long been able to send a dagger of fear into the hearts of young (and older) men. With the New Year comes a new batch of no-gore, no-(or very rare) nudity and no-foul language movies that are designed for one thing and one thing only. To make a Mans’ cinema-going experience on par with plucking your eyebrows with an adjustable spanner! Now. Once in a while there will come a...
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