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Summit Entertainment 2010 Preview: Red, Eclipse, The Ghost Writer
5 hours ago
Summit Entertainment has released a preview for their 2010 slate, and of course, “Eclipse”, the second part of the “Twilight Saga” series, will be of most interest to people. For my money, though, Bruce Willis’ comic book actioner “Red” is also worth taking a look at. Fresh images from Summit’s 2010 movie, including official synopsis, below. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”: Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone and Dakota Fanning Based on the Novel “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer / Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg Directed by David Slade In Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob …
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New Despicable Me Trailer Proves that Good Help is Hard to Find
8 hours ago
Cute. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon, yes, the moon. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. Starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel, …
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The Karate Kid Remake High-Kicks a Trailer Online
9 hours ago
Let’s face it, most of you have been dreading this, and so have I. So, without further ado, here’s the first trailer for the Will Smith-produced “Karate Kid” remake, starring Smith’s kid Jaden and Jackie Chan as the Mr. Miyagi character. It’s not bad — actually, it’s a lot better than I thought it would look, but that may just be because I was expecting it to look atrocious — and who would have thunk that Fort Minor’s “Remember the Name” would still work at the tail end of 2009? Admittedly, I don’t like the notion of Jaden Smith’s name coming first before Jackie Chan’s in the marquee, since what has the kid done but ride daddy’s coattails to a movie career, while Chan has busted his chops (and a dozen or so bones, but whose counting) to turn in hit after hit? …
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A Preview of the Legion: Prophets Prequel Comic Book
12 hours ago
Wow, is this the future of comic books? Artwork and dialogue translated into a digital version with “moving” art and added sound effects? Maybe I’m just a purist, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to “read” comic books this way. Also, I’m a pretty slow reader, and I like to get my fill of a page before I flip on to the next one, and I’m not sure if I want some video demanding I read faster. I’m just saying, it ain’t the boss of me. In any case, here’s a preview for the new comic book “Legion: Prophets” from Idw Publishing. “Prophets” is a prequel to the upcoming movie by Scott Stewart starring Paul Bettany as a fallen angel who comes to Earth to save humanity. Tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. In the supernatural action thriller Legion, …
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Vengeance (2009) Movie Review
12 hours ago
Hong Kong’s crime cinema God Johnnie To goes International in “Vengeance”, a film that is at once different and yet familiar for the director. The film stars French rocker Johnny Hallyday as Costello, a French chef who journeys to Macau after a trio of Chinese hitmen fulfill a contract on the family of Costello’s daughter (Sylvie Testud). The daughter miraculously survives, but her husband and two children are not so fortunate. From her hospital bed, the daughter demands that her father avenge her, and Costello, whose life as a chef was a second act and not a first, agrees. He is not a stranger to guns and death, and indeed it is that former, long-buried life that is currently robbing him of his memory, which makes his current mission all the more urgent. Costello sets out to locate the killers, which proves difficult. Fortunately, serendipity smiles upon our …
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French Zombie Movie The Horde Attacks with Another, Bloodier Trailer
12 hours ago
I’ve been hearing about “The Horde” for a while now, and with good reason: it looks like an insanely good time. We posted a teaser trailer a while back, now here’s a new, longer trailer from the French site Allocine. The zombies are fast movers in this one, which I’m not a fan of, but in the context of the film’s post-apocalypse storyline, it’s probably for the best. Slow-moving zombies facing heavily armed cops and gangsters might not really work in terms of crazy action, especially if the zombie infestation is supposed to happen this fast, as it seems to be in the movie. On the outskirts of Paris, four corrupt cops go on a rampage to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, holed up in a condemned building. Once there, the officers’ personal vendetta turns into a nightmare. …
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Second Robin Hood Trailer is Less Gladiator, More Robin Hood
13 hours ago
I can’t wait for Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood”. Give this guy a big budget, a couple hundred extras with broadswords, and he always turns in a pretty worthy 2 hours or so. If nothing else, the action is going to be worth the price of admission. That looks to be the case with “Robin Hood” after seeing the first trailer. Here’s the second trailer, which eschews much of the “Gladiator”-esque action and feel of the first one in favor of, you know, actually showing more Robin Hood-esque action. Overall, I liked this one much better, if only because it stays truer to the character and is not nearly as bombastic. ‘Robin Hood’ chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard’s army against the French. Upon Richard’s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from …
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Knight & Day Trailer
20 hours ago
James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) is directing a new action film called Knight & Day, which stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as a fugitive couple who have adventures about trust and betrayal and all that. The concept probably isn’t as important as the way in which it’s portrayed, and the trailer below should convey much of what the film is about. I kind of like the humor, which is a prerequisite for glib action films, but I also really like the way in which the Cruise character comes off as a con man who isn’t a trickster with the things he says (which, as you’ll see, are sometimes contradictory) but by his sheer audaciousness. The action doesn’t look bad, either. …
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Chill Out with a Trailer for Adam Green’s Frozen
22 hours ago
Yeah, see, this is why I don’t ski. The first trailer for Adam Green’s thriller “Frozen” has landed online, and it looks a heck of a lot better than I thought it would be, without ever really giving away too many of the money shots. The film is less a horror movie and more of a survival flick, with three friends trapped in a ski lift overnight. It’s cold and they’re really high up in the air, and then there are the natural elements to survive. The kind that bites. A typical day on the slopes turns into a chilling nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that they’ve been left behind dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the …
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Bryan Singer Talks About First Class and More
23 hours ago
Bryan Singer spoke recently with Heat Vision about his future plans, which include a nice Hawaiian Christmas and preliminary work on X-Men: First Class, a movie that he will work on after completing Jack the Giant Killer, itself already beginning the stages of visual development. The biggest revelation from Singer is that X-Men: First Class could obviate the need for a Magneto origin movie, which was already kind of on the rocks, since the two subject matters tend to converge. Singer explains himself: This story would probably utilize some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust. By “supersede” I assume that he means replace, but it’s difficult to tell if this is an official position within Fox based on conversations he’s …
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Final Shutter Island Poster Looks like the Old One
21 December 2009 9:50 PM, PST
Martin Scorsese’s period crime/mystery/suspense film gets a final poster via Chud. I guess the studio couldn’t be bothered to spend money on, you know, an actual new poster. Eh. Set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson, Elias Koteas, and Ted Levine. …
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Witness Jiang Lu Xia’s Fists of Fury in Coweb International Trailer
21 December 2009 9:28 PM, PST
You may have heard the name Jiang Lu Xia before, or if you haven’t, it’s time to start paying attention, cause it looks like a lot of people have pegged her as the “next big thing” to come out of the Chinese action movie scene. She’s also one of the stars of next year’s upcoming crime actioner “Bad Blood”. Before that, though, she did this 2009 movie called “Coweb” (Chiense title “Zhang wu shuang”), her first feature film. In “Coweb”, Jiang plays a bodyguard whose boss is kidnapped, and she’s forced to fight her way through a wave of fighters in order to rescue him. Little does our gal know that all of her fights are being taped by hidden cameras and used in one of those completely unrealistic illegal betting rings that only exist in movies. The point here is that Jiang Lu Xia, a real-life martial artist, …
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The Spartacus TV Show is so Good, it’s Already Gotten a Second Season
21 December 2009 8:44 PM, PST
No surprise there, you say. If a show is good (and sometimes even when it’s not, natch) it tends to get renewed for a second season. But, um, “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” hasn’t even aired yet, but that hasn’t stopped the cable network Starz from already granting the Sam Raimi-produced show a second season green light. Now that’s commitment! In case you’ve never seen footage from the show, scroll on down for the bloody, nudity-filled red band trailer for “Spartacus”. It’s like “300″ on TV but, if you can believe it, even more gratuitous violence and nudity. Though the first season of “Spartacus” is subtitled “Blood and Sand”, the second season will be subtitled “Vengeance”, and land on the Starz pay network with a full 13-episode order. So even if the show doesn’t end up finding an audience, the producers and actors will be assured of, …
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Kick Ass Red Band Trailer: Spotlight on Hit Girl
21 December 2009 8:01 PM, PST
If parent groups aren’t protesting outside of theaters and filling out cable talk shows when “Kick Ass” opens April 16, 2010, I’m pretty sure it means we’re all going to hell. Meanwhile, if you happen to be in those theaters watching the movie, you’ll probably be laughing your ass off at Matthew Vaughn’s ultra violent comic book movie “Kick Ass”, an unapologetic, crude, hardcore, and balls to the wall movie where one of the film’s stars, Hit Girl slices and dices and curses her way through the film like a sailor with scurvy. Did I mention she’s not old enough to realize boys aren’t icky yet? Check out this latest “Kick Ass” red band trailer which spotlights the character Hit Girl. I’m guessing more will be coming out with the other characters. Until then… Kick-Ass tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski …
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Topher Grace Doesn’t Think he’ll be Venom Again
21 December 2009 1:29 PM, PST
According to Topher Grace, who played the human version of Venom in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 3″, he isn’t sure if he’ll ever play Venom again. Or at least, no one has talked to him about it. Movieweb caught up with the actor while he was on the set of the Robert Rodriguez-produced “Predators”, where quite the many web bloggers were over the weekend. Here’s what Grace said in response to the question about “Venom”. “Um, I don’t know? You know, I guess. I don’t know, I haven’t heard anything. No, I don’t think so.” Actors, they’re always the last to know, right? Anyways, I don’t think the character will be missing much. I liked Grace as the skinny neighbor kid on “That ’70’s Show”, but let’s face it, he just didn’t work out very well as Eddie Brock aka Venom. …
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Taylor Swift is … Supergirl?
21 December 2009 9:40 AM, PST
Okay, probably not, but a whole lot of sites are getting in on this action, and we didn’t want to be left out of all the speculatin’. The news according to a gossip site is that country music star Taylor Swift is being considered by one of the producers of the “Supergirl” reboot for the female lead in what is being called “Supergirl! The Love Story”. I shit you not. Helen Slater played the character in a 1984 movie that bombed so bad at the box office you can still hear the Kaboom to this day. Says one industry insider about the possibility of Swift putting down her guitar to rescue cats from trees: “Hollywood is short of female heroes and the time is right for a new Supergirl. A number of young stars are being mentioned for the title role in a Supergirl movie and possible TV spin-off and …
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One of These Ladies is Possibly Green Lantern’s Carol Ferris
21 December 2009 9:35 AM, PST
According to the blokes over at Latino Review, one of these five women are currently in contention to join Ryan Reynolds as the female lead in the upcoming big-budget space action extravaganza known as “Green Lantern”. Lr doesn’t know who it is exactly, though they speculate it could be the little lady coming out of “Basterds” on just “heat” alone. Here are the candidates to play Ferris, described as “the daughter of aerospace mogul Carl Ferris. She works for her dad’s company Ferris Air, got an Mba, and has a lifetime crush on Hal Jordan.” Former Bond girl Eva Green. Personally I don’t see it; she’s French, right? Can she even do an American accent? Of course, they could go with her if they wanted exotic. Diane Kruger of “Inglourious Basterds”. Lr’s pick, coming off of “Basterds”. I’m not sure she “matches” Ryan Reynolds, …
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Meatball Guys Hop Over to 21 Jump Street
21 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directors of the animated “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, is currently in negotiations with Columbia Pictures to helm the live-action “21 Jump Street” movie. Known primarily as the show that launched Johnny Depp’s career, “Jump Street” was about a group of too-young looking cops that were recruited into a secret undercover unit where they went, among other things, undercover in high schools to bust thieves, drug dealers, bad apples, and the like. “21 Jump Street” the movie is currently being guru’ed onto the big screen by Jonah Hill, aka the fat kid from all those Judd Apatow movies, who is writing the script with Mike Bacall and plans to star. Yes, Columbia Pictures, in their infinite wisdom, for some reason thought it was a brilliant idea to hand over the entire franchise to a two-bit Judd Apatow player. I shit you not, folks, this …
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Magnolia To Distribute George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead
21 December 2009 6:40 AM, PST
Although I’ll probably get stuffed into the metaphorical meat grinder for saying as much, I’m of the belief that George A. Romero’s recent zombified output — namely, “Land of the Dead” and “Diary of the Dead” — isn’t exactly the stuff of top-notch entertainment. When you compare the iconic director’s post-”Day of the Dead” features with the movies that made him a genre legend, you can’t help but wonder why people continue to fund these limp-wristed, halfhearted projects. As always, I’m willing to give “Survival of the Dead” its day in court as soon as Us distributor Magnolia dumps this thing onto VOD and select theaters sometime next year, but my expectations aren’t exactly stretching into the heavens above. Am I going to hold my breath in anticipation? Will I ask my friends and family to accompany me to a screening? Will I …
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Joel Anderson’s Lake Mungo Added to the After Dark Horrorfest Roster
21 December 2009 6:19 AM, PST
Writer/director Joel Anderson’s understated supernatural drama “Lake Mungo” is an original and very refreshing ghost story, one that will probably irritate and annoy those with abnormally short attention spans. Although the film has been recently released on DVD in its native Australia, this crafty little production won’t see the light of day on Stateside television screens until the next wave of After Dark Horrorfest titles creep their way onto retail shelves next year. To be quite frank, “Lake Mungo” is much smarter and far more sophisticated than the odorous bilge funk that generally sports the After Dark logo, and I’d really hate for the film to get lost in the proverbial shuffle. What’s even more baffling is that the feature is already being remade, a clear indication that American creativity is approaching an all-time low. Congratulations! I guess we don’t like accents, either. Here …
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