Tuesday, September 30, 2008

IMAX Rollout for Revenge of the Fallen

Continuing with the current Hollywood trend, Michael bay will shoot scenes for Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen with IMAX cameras. Variety reports that Bay will follow the same trend Nolan did with The Dark Knight and as Favreau has recently talked about with Iron Man 2, by shooting 3 scenes for IMAX. What does this mean? It means, Transformers 2 will be on IMAX dummy!IMAX and Transformers seems like a match made in heaven, especially with Bay's...

Review - Star Wars The Clone Wars

The Star Wars saga continues with Clone Wars, in which Anakin Skywalker is assigned a young Padawan named Ahsoka Tano, who must help Anakin save Jabba the Hutt's son who has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Count Dooku and his newest apprentice Asajj Ventress, will stop at nothing to ensure that Anakin and Ahsoka fail at their quest. On the front lines of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda lead the massive clone army in a valiant effort to...

New The Spirit Trailer Gives Hope

The Spirit has had a lambasting of negative talk since its panel at Comic Con and not too much that has come forward has looked promising. The film looks overly stylized, basically Sin City with more color added in. The first trailer and footage shown at Comic Con were a disaster, which put tons of Eisner fan's into an uproar over the film they had been expecting for quite some time. The newest trailer has provided a little bit of light to the film....

Filth and Wisdom Trailer & One-Sheet!!

Filth & Wisdom is Madonna's first directorial effort (Yes, that Madonna) and it looks freaking outstanding! It stars Gogol Bordello's frontman Eugene Hutz as A.K. a cross-dresser who turns tricks for cash while dreaming of stardom with his band. Filth and Wisdom's official synopsis: a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A Ukrainian immigrant,...

The Soloist One-Sheet

Oscar Season is coming fast and The Soloist looks like it might be a true contender. Both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. look phenominal in their performances and being based on a true story, let's just say, The Soloist isn't a long shot. The story follows the true story of LA Times journalist Steve Lopez who meets homeless man Nathaniel Ayers, who is a Juilliard-trained violinist. Checkout the one-sheet below....Click the one-sheet for higher...

Dunst is "In" for Spidey 4 & 5

The always screeching Mary Jane Watson will be back in Spider-Man 4 & 5 and word from can mouth her self is, that MJ will continue to be played by Kristen Dunst. Kristen Dunst was asked at a recent screening of "How to Lose Friens & Alienate People" if she in fact would be back in the role of MJ. Dunst was very back and forth in her comments to say the least. She told MTV, "I'm in." She then quickly retorted and followed up by saying, “I’m...

Monday, September 29, 2008

War Heroes Storm Sony

Mark Millar is a hot property right now in Hollywood, especially with Superhero films all the rage. Variety has reported that Sony has picked up the rights to Millar's current work, "War Heroes." Michael De Luca will produce the film while Sony and Columbia Pictures are currently looking for a writing staff to pen a adaptation from the 6-part series.War Heroes follows a experimental military program that gives ordinary soldiers superpowers. When...

Dual Identity For Crowe in Nottingham!?!

Nottingham, which is Ridley Scott's next film and fourth film in a row with actor Russell Crowe and fifth of their esteemed careers together, just had major news hit the net! MTV News is reporting that Crowe will be playing both the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood! They spoke with Ridley Scott at a recent Body of Lies press junket about the status of Nottingham and he was less than forthcoming, but gave a huge bombshell!Scott told MTV News,...

Spring Time for Green Lantern?

The Green Lantern film has been moving forward towards a potential start date since WB unveiled their prospective DC comic films. We have seen the recent concept art a few weeks back. Greg Berlanti is confirmed to be directing the film and the recently positively reviewed script by Latino Review all point to a solid Green Lantern film shortly. To add to the mayhem First Showing has more potetnialy great news on the subject of the green ring wearing...

From Henry V to Thor!!

Kenneth Branagh is in final negoitations to direct Thor for Marvel Studios! The film is set to be released in 2010 and has yet to find it's lead, but new ground has broken today with Variety reporting that the famed thespian wants to direct the project.Branagh who has graced the stage, the screen and behind the lense is one of my all time favorite actors. Anything he touches is usually gold and his version of Hamlet, is the only one that is worth...

Outstanding Iron Man Concept Art

The Iron Man DVD releases tomorrow and I found these amazing concept art images from Iron Man. They include various looks the various Iron Man armors, War Machine and Iron Monger. There also a few images concieved by comic artist Adi Granov which are very good. I would assume most of this stuff will be on the DVD, but hey a sneek peak is always nice. Scroll down to check em out....As always click the images for higher resolutionJust like the film,...

Vorhees Unmasked!!!

Being a huge, HUGE fan of Friday the 13th series, I am more than stoaked that a revamp is coming our way! What makes it even better, is that it looks like the re-boot is gonna kick all kinds of ass! This doesn't look like the normal run of the mill remake/re-boots we have been getting, it looks like Platinum Dunes is bringing us a full-throttle Jason film and I couldn't be more happy!I have some awesome set photos that come way of Horror Bid and...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Review - Choke

A sex addict who works as a coloinal reenactor visits his deranged mother in a private medical hospital trying to unlock her memories of his troubled childhood. The historical reenactor in order to pay for his mother's expensive medical bills, stakes out high class citizens in up scale restaurants in which he forces himself to choke, so that they may save him and feel sympathy, usually resulting in mone...

Review - Boy A

A young man is released from prison and tries to restart his life with a new identity. With the help of a fatherly figure parole officer, the 24 year old begins to experience a coming of age that would have happened years ago, sans his prison stint for a childhood murder. Eventhough the young man tries to keep his true past secret, word spreads through the news and papers that the childhood murderer has been released, raising questions with people...

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Review - Righteous Kill

A serial killer is on the loose and two thirty year partners of the New York City police force have taken the lead in the case. The killer is taking out justice on criminals who have fallen through the cracks of the criminal system. Deeming the serial killers motives to handle what the cops and criminal system could not. The two cops soon realize that they may be dealing with a cop serial killer who is very close to each of the cases that they are...

Review - Mirrors

An ex-police officer take a job as a nightwatchman at a historical building and gets alot more then he is getting paid for. On his nightly walk-through's of the historical shopping mall, he notices something peculiar in the mirrors. The mirrors appear to be a gatewy into forces of evil that will stop at nothing to find the answers of Esseker. The spirits behind the mirrors soon lash out at anyone that comes in contact with the ex-cop, forcing him...

Review - Lakeview Terrace

An inter-racially mixed couple move into their new home in a up scale so-cal neighborhood quickly find out that their next door neighbor isn't as inviting as they hoped. The couple would like to just fit in and settle down, however their neighbor has some very invasive tactics and a completely different agenda then allowing the couple to just settle in to their new home and neighborhood. To make matters worse the couple soon realize that their neighbor...

Friday, September 26, 2008

First Set Pics of Alice in Wonderland!!

We have our first look at Tim Burton's Alice Wonderland which is being shot in Cornwall, England. The majority of the set pics focus on young Alice being played by Mia Wasikowska. As you can clearly see this isn't a computer screen or an empty stage like we've heard about for most motion-capture films, that's because it will be mixed. The film will feature both live-action and motion-capture. One would only assume that everything before Alice falls...

Bill Murray Talks GB3!!

Peter Venkman himself had a few things to say at Fantastic Fest Thursday about the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel. It seems Murray has healed his wounds and may be willing to return as the deadpan Venkman! Murray said, "the wounds from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 are healed" and that he would be ready to come back if the writting staff does a good treatment on the third film. He commented further by saying, "And supposedly they have hired two guys from The Office...

The Lone Ranger May Have a Leading Man

Aint it Cool News is reporting today that Mr. Heart throb himself may be in negotiations to play the Lone Ranger. Yep, George Clooney could be riding Silver along with Tonto at his side. Now the deal is far from getting done, but this is the closest thing we have to a strong contender for the role.Electric Dreams is a big source for AICN and had this to say on the matter of Clooney as the Lone Ranger, "George Clooney has shown a lot of interest...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ughh...I Am Prequel

In rather disappointing news Warner Bros have decided to suck as much as they can out of I Am Legend and Will Smith and will be developing a prequel to the feature released that winter. Will Smith will reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville. Variety reports that the prequel will chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city.Spoilers...

Valkyrie One-Sheet!!

Here is our first poster of Bryan Singer's newest film Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise amoung others. The film has had quite a production and post-production in which the film has gone through re-shoots and has been shifted all over the calendar from December 2008 to Summer 09 and back to December 08. The official synopsis goes as follows: At the height of WW2, a group of high-ranking German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and...

Megan Fox Rumored for Fathom

Fathom is a wonderful comic that was developed by Michael Turner in 1998 and was in constant on & off talks about being made into a feature film. The untimely death of Turner in June of this year, however made most believe that the feature would unfortunately never be made. Well the guys over at IESB have heard otherwise!It seems that the film still has legs at 20th Century Fox and has been handed off to it's sister company Fox Atomic. Fox...