Trailer: The Book of Eli

In all the scuttle that has been since Comic Con quite a few stories have been glazed over or missed entirely here at Schofizzy Movie Review. After all it is just me and with this being a Comic Con month there are scoops and stories just about everywhere to report on. Today I remembered I have yet to post "The Book of Eli" trailer, which is absolautely impressive, so I have it here for you below. The film does not release until January 15th of 2010,...

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Incredible Thundercats Art!

No news on a "Thundercats" movie has been circulating for quite sometime now, but that all changed last night when Movieline premiered some concept art from director Jerry O’Flaherty. The said concept art is brilliant and really increases my anticipation of this film. To read more about the progress on a "Thundercats" film and see the concept art scroll down..."Thundercats" was first announced by Warner Brothers way back in 2007, but has since been...

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Trailer: A Perfect Getaway

I am all for escapist fun at the movies and next weeks release from Rogue Pictures "A Perfect Getaway" looks like a quality ride. There is no doubt that the film, looks like a hodge-podge of other similar films like The River Wild, but that said its still gives the impression of a exilhirating experience. The cast is pretty strong with Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn in the leads, but I am more excited to see a bit more of Chris...

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Trailer: Ninja Assassin

Back at Comic Con a new poster premiered for James McTeigue's "Ninja Assassin" which looks absolutely incredible. Fan reaction was very positive from the screening held thursday night at Con, so I thought it a good time to revisit the trailer and the poster released at Comic Con. "Ninja Assassin" stars Rain as Raizo, one of the world's most deadly assassins. When he is double-crossed by his own clan, Raizo enacts a deadly plan of revenge on the...

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'Captain Blood' in Space!?!

Peter and Michael Spierig are looking to shake things up a bit over at Warner Brothers. The twin brothers will be directing an update of the 1935 pirate classic Captain Blood, except they have a very interesting idea on how to do it. They intend on taking the story of a wrongly imprisoned doctor who escapes to become a pirate into space! My intial thought here was the 1984 film Ice Pirates which is amusing, but nowehere near what the Spierig twins...

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Universal Banks on Apatow

Universal has made news today by signing studio director Judd Apatow to 3 more movies for studio. Apatow who has released all of his film through Universal has his latest comedy releasing today "Funny People" starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. The deal locks in Apatow for 3 unnamed films in the coming years. Variety reports that Judd Apatow has yet to begin writing a script for his next directorial effort and that the process will start soon....

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Rob Marshall Eyeing Pirates 4

During Comic Con this year murmers of new directors were circulating about the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Oren Aviv had gone on record saying that Disney would like to begin lensing in early 2010 for a targeted 2011 release date. Today comes news via Variety that Chicago director Rob Marshall is under heavy consideration for the duties of directing the next 'Pirates' installment. For more on the story read below...'Pirates' fans have...

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Ridley Scott Returns to Alien

Last night Variety reported that Ridley Scott will indeed return to his roots and direct the "Alien" prequel for Twentieth Century Fox. That's right, Scott is returning to his first mega hit Alien trying to breathe some life back into the franchise after the Aliens vs. Predator films sullied the brand so badly. Jon Spaihts will pen the prequel for 20th Century Fox with Scott Free producing and Scott attached to direct. The plan is begin lensing...

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'Eclipse' Casting Catastrophe

A few days back news broke that Twilight and "New Moon" vamp Rachelle Lefevre would not be returning to the role of Victoria for the third installment of the films. Summit Entertainment announced Tuesday that actress Bryce Dallas Howard would replace Lefevre in the third film "Eclipse" being directed by David Slade. The announcemnt came as shock to both Twilight fans and the media, knowing that the character of Victoria would become far more prominent...

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Volturi 'New Moon' Roster

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" release is closing in and today some images of the Volturi have found their way on to the net. I noticed the images at Latino Review who had found them over at Oh No They Didn't and as Latino Review stressed the images are pretty cool in design. I am not a raving Twilight fan, but I did enjoy the first film and looking forward to further films in the Twilight Saga. The released image shows five members of the Volturi...

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Trailer: The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Today is a good day, first I wake up to enjoy the treat of finally seeing the trailer to the Coen's newest filck "A Serious Man", now I get the pleasure of seeing Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" trailer, yes today is a good day! Let's get to the trailer, Anderson's follow up to The Darjeeling Limited is based off a famous children's book and is a filmed using stop-motion animation. In the previous weeks we have seen some terrific images from...

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Trailer: A Serious Man

The Coen brothers are hands down my favorite directors working today. These two have delivered nothing but hits all the way from Blood Simple to Burn After Reading. Every single film the brothers Coen have created I cherish and hold dear to my heart. They can do no wrong and have numerous times created films that soon find themselves being watched routinely in my household. Last night Apple premiered the first trailer for the Coen's latest dark...

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Renner Joins Affleck's Gang

Yesterday I wrote a story about Ben Affleck's next directorial effort "The Town" for Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures. Today comes news via THR that The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner is in final negotiations to star alongside Affleck, Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall in the adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel "Prince of Theives." For the full details read more below...Jeremey Renner would play one of the three blue-collar Irish-American gang members...

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Review - World's Greatest Dad

A dark comedy that follows Lance Clayton, a writer who has never published anything and father of a perverted foul-mouthed teenager who wants nothing to do with his dad. His poetry class is threatend of closure with very low student registration and his affections for a co-worker go un-matched, when she won't allow their relationship to be brought public. Lance's life however, makes a dramatic turn around after a freak accident, leaving him to learn...

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Daft Punk's Tron Legacy Theme

Last thursday in the Disney 3-D panel during the "TRON LEGACY" portion of the panel director Joseph Kosinski told us that Daft Punk had already written 24 new tracks for the film. Today through a few various sources (Latino Review & Tuxboard) I have the "TRON LEGACY" theme below for you to listen to. The song is perfect, being a huge Daft Punk fan the news alone of Daft Punk doing the score has me in nerd heaven, but then we hear the first track...

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Poster: New York, I Love You

The first poster for "New York, I Love You" has hit the net today via IMP, but I have it here for you below. "New York, I Love You" is the follow-up anthology film to Paris, Je Taime and has an amazing cast within the 110 minute film featuring 10 different vingettes all surrounding New York. The outstanding cast includes Bradley Cooper, Shia LaBeouf, Justin Bartha, Natalie Portman, Rachel Bilson, Blake Lively, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen,...

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More Kong on 'Skull Island'

Over the weekend Variety reported that Spirit Pictures picked up the rights to "Kong: King of Skull Island" and are aiming to make a motion capture feature that focuses once again on King Kong. The film will be based off the book written by Brad Strickland and illustrated by Joe DeVito about both the son of Carl Denham and the backstory of Kong on Skull Island. As we saw in Peter Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong, Skull Island inhabited other...

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'The Town' Finds A Mad Man

Ahh Ben Affleck, Schofizzy has a special place in his heart for Affleck. Ever since I saw him in Dazed and Confused as Fred O'Bannion, looking to whoop some freshman ass, there hasn't been a film I did not enjoy simply based on the fact Ben Affleck was in it. Yes even the stinkers, like Phantoms, Forces of Nature, Surviving Christmas and the mother of all Gigli. Obvisouly not everyone feels the same as Schofizzy about Affleck, and that's okay. Ben...

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Castlevania Nabs 'Saw' Helmer

Castlevania is one of a few videogames that you knew one day it would get made into a feature film. The idea of making Castlevania into a movie has been bouncing around for quite some time now with various directors attached including Paul W.S. Anderson and Sylvain White. Luckily, the Konami property has taken a step in the right direction by landing Saw creator James Wan to direct "Castlevania" for Crystal Sky productions. Read more about "Castlevania"...

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New 'NIMH' in Development

One of my favorite cartoons as a kid was The Secret of NIMH, I would watch the movie endlessly along with a few other titles, but NIMH always remained with a very special place in my heart. Maybe it was the single mother desperately trying to protect her children, or perhaps a number of other things, but I loved that film through and through. Today comes news via THR that Paramount is developing a new feature film based off Robert C. O'Brien's childrens...

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Red Band Trailer: The Goods

A new Red Band trailer for "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" has hit the net and I have it here for you below. "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" stars Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, Ed Helms, James Brolin, David Koechner, Ken Jeong, Kathryn Hahn, Tony Hale, Rob Riggle, Alan Thicke and Craig Robinson and is directed by Neal Brennan. The film follows a used car lot as they must sell all of their cars over 4th of July weekend in order to keep the lot open....

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More 'Prince of Persia' Stills

Empire Online premiered 4 new images from Disney's "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" adaptation being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Two of the new images show us a bit more action from Dastan played by Jake Gyllenhall and Princess Tamina played by Gemma Arterton, while the other two are more behind the scenes shots of Bruckheimer looking on. Despite this being a huge budget film, I still remain very skeptical about how well this game will adapt...

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New 'Expendables' Images

Some new images have popped up on the net via "The Expendables" production blog and I have them here for you below. The latest images give us a look at Jet Li in action, Statham looking out a plane window, also being driected by Stallone, a shot of Eric Roberts weilding a weapon, Stallone getting some tattoo work by Rourke and a behind the scences production shot of group. All of the said images are pretty good. There are definately not high action...

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'Due Date' Adds Downey Jr

Schofizzy has been pretty skeptical about the latest Todd Phillips comedy starring Zach Galifianakis called "Due Date", but news comes today that forces me to stick my foot firmly in my mouth. Variety reports that the expecting father road trip comedy has landed Iron Man himself Robert Downey Jr. to the play the husband racing across the country to make the birth of his first child. Regardless of the fact that "Due Date" sounds like a pretty generic...

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More "Fantastic Mr. Fox' Pics

Some brand new images from Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" have found their way onto the net via USA Today and I have them here for you below. The more images that get released the more excited get for this film. All of the images are stunning and these new pics also give us a look at the world through Anderson's eyes which is pretty damn cool! "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" releases November 13th. More news to follow as it develops. Anyways, checkout...

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