JACKASS 3D trailer is a lean, mean laughter machine
Aug 06
There’s something beautiful about watching a man’s face get slapped with a wet fish in slow motion. It reminds me of the slow-motion opening sequence of Zombieland, and how simultaneously beautiful and hilarious that was. I bet it looks even better in 3D.
I’ve been worried ever since news broke that Jackass 3D was being made that the boys had run out of stunts. This trailer simultaneously proves just how unfounded my fears were, and makes one wonder why they haven’t surfed a falling tree into the snow (dressed as Santa Claus) already. Genius.
Jackass 3D slingshots poo into cinemas on 15 October 2010 in the US.
Stephen Sommers on board to direct GI JOE 2 — no surprises there
Aug 05
I liked GI Joe better than I liked Transformers 2 — that is to say, I hated GI Joe less than I hated Transformers 2. It was childish escapist prattle that somehow seemed harmless at the time, although my brain refused to talk to me for the following week.
Good (or bad) news, then: Stephen Sommers is back on board for GI Joe 2: GI Joer (note: probably not the real title). What, were you expecting David Fincher or something?
Given that GI Joe made $300m, it’s no big surprise that Paramount’s keen to kick the franchise along; it is something of a surprise that they’ve managed to secure the writing talents of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the excellent Zombieland.
Will Reese and Wernick capitalise on the inherent funniness of an action movie about a man named Duke and his strained relations with the busty redhead at work? Probably not, but GI Joe beats Transformers at its own game, so I support Joe 2 more than Transformers 3 — that is to say, I oppose the idea of Joe 2 less than I do Transformers 3.
Call Sheet: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfield, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jul 18
Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web.
X-Men: First Class continues to throw names all over the place with regards to casting, but only now do I recognize one of the stars: Kevin Bacon. Variety reports Bacon will play a lead villain while 20th Century Fox have also signed Jennifer Lawrence to play Mystique. The director of Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn, is behind this new X-Men flick.
Deadline reckons Mark Ruffalo is in ‘late-stage talks’ to play The Hulk in the new Avengers movie after Marvel publicly announced Edward Norton can go get fucked, basically.
The Wrap reveals Zombieland co-stars Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone are joining an already well-established cast on the film Friends With Benefits. Being directed by Will Gluck, Friends With Benefits stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as two friends who have recently emerged from disastrous relationships. Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins, Jenna Elfman and Andy Samberg have also signed on. That’s a very intriguing cast, to say the least. Justin Timberlake again? Doesn’t he spend his time writing songs?
Riskybusiness reports that Chris Pratt and Kathryn Morris will join Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill, and Robin Wright on Bennett Miller’s highly anticipated Moneyball, which starts shooting next month.
THR reveals that that kid from The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment, is all grown up and about to play a virgin who teaches sex education at a school in the film Sex Ed. A synopsis so awesome it has every spec screenwriter kicking themselves for not writing this first.
Planet Of The Apes prequel Rise Of The Apes had Brian Cox and Tom Felton join the cast over the week. They’ll accompany James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, and Andy Serkis, who all signed on recently.
Director Steven Soderbergh has added John Hawkes to his film Contagion which has an impressive ensemble cast that includes Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. Give this casting director a gold star!
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has joined the cast of this fifth Fast And The Furious. It’s called Fast Five. That is all.
There are few directors that perk my interest when it comes to fantasy and science fiction films (just not my bag, baby), but when I hear that Andrew Niccol is making a new flick, I pay attention. After Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1m0ne & Lord Of War, Niccol will next helm the film I’M.MORTAL and has signed one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood right now (literally and figuratively) Miss Amanda Seyfried. (Variety)
Remember that short film The Raven which created a stir online back in April? Latino Review reports the feature film adaptation has been picked up by Universal and Mark Wahlberg is set to star and produce. It was sounding good up until that ‘Mark Wahlberg’ part, huh.
Deadline revealed that Amy Adams will play Janis Joplin in the bio film about her rock n’ roll life. The film is being produced by Wyck Godfrey who is also behind The Twilight Saga. I’ll leave you with that thought.
Cigarettes and Red Vines got the scoop that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next film The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner, will start production in August 2010. This is awesome because it’s PTA and PSH joining forces again. This makes me happy.
What does not make me happy is Nicolas Cage confirming on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson that he’ll reprise his role Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider 2. Did you go see the first one? Did you rent it? Someone saw it enough times to afford them a sequel.
Last but not least, Elizabeth Banks will play Tinkerbell in a live action adaptation for Disney called Tink. I’m in favour of this. Here’s why:
New GET LOW trailer proves Bill Murray has still got it
Jul 06
The first trailer for Aaron Schneider’s Get Low had me convinced already. This new feature trailer (and the new poster, below) has cemented my desire to see this film as soon as possible. Alas, there are still no Australian dates announced. Something tells me I’ll be seeing this at the local independent cinema instead of the megaplex– and that’s just fine by me!
I’ve always enjoyed Bill Murray, from Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, through to Lost In Translation and Zombieland. In my book, he’s always had ‘it’ and never lost it. He’s always been sharp with the delivery of his comedic timing. Enough to make me laugh, anyway. And Robert Duvall… hell, it’s Robert fucking Duvall! I’m wishing I could watch this tomorrow.
Lucky bastards in the United States get to watch Get Low on 30 July 2010.
Get Low is a magical and moving blend of folk tale, fable and real-life legend. Spun in the Southern storytelling tradition, it is about the mysterious 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party . . . while he was still alive.
EASY A trailer: good jokes, bad music
May 14
Emma Stone has become Hollywood’s go-to girl for teen comedies. Good for her! She’s got a sweet and earnest demeanour, and, vitally, she has solid comic timing, so I don’t mind at all when I find out she’s featuring in a new movie here or there. This is the first movie where she’s starring, though, and that’ll make a big difference from seeing her acting as support in the likes of Superbad and Zombieland (and The House Bunny, which we’ll forget about for now).
The movie’s bout a girl — Stone — who pretends to have sex with boys so they can become popular (I guess this might make sense in a high school?). Some hoity-toity religious nut (Amanda Bynes, not getting cuter with age) decides to piss on Stone’s parade, though, calling her out for adultery. If you know anything about the Scarlet Letters, then you now get the title of this film. Congratulations. If you don’t get it they go to great lengths to explain it in the trailer, so don’t feel left out.
Stone is surrounded by a team of teen nobodies, but some of the adult cast might help bring more wary punters to the cinema: there’s Stanley Tucci (who gets the best line in the trailer), Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, and Thomas Haden Church, which ain’t a half-bad cast.
Seems like Easy A might be a fluffy and amusing teen flick with something rare for the genre: a message. It’s too early to tell if it’s a “religion is silly” message, but it can’t be a coincidence that many prominent real-world atheists wear big red ‘A’ pins to publicly announce their lack of faith. Even if it has nothing to do with that, it still seems to have a nice pro-choice message, pointing out that adultery — as defined by Christians as pre-marital sex — is something of a victimless crime.
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