This is in absolutely no way movie related, but interesting nonetheless.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
Filed under: DVD This Week | Tags: city of men, drillbit taylor, dvd, meet the browns, movies, new releases, vantage point
Normally, I would have a top recommendation of this weeks new releases, but sadly, I don’t feel as though any of them warrant my humble stamp of approval. So here’s what’s new on DVD this week:
As always, for a complete list, check out VideoETA.com.
Filed under: News | Tags: christian bale, helena bonham carter, mcg, movies, terminator salvation
While I believe that Terminator 4 belongs in the land of unnecessary sequels along with the upcoming 300 follow-up, You have to admit that McG is definately rounding up an impressive cast.
According to /film:
“Christian Bale took to the defensive, insisting that he accepted the role as John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins because it reinvents the series.
“What I saw with Terminator was what I saw with Batman Begins,” Bale told /Film at The Dark Knight junket.”
Furthermore, Helena Bonham Carter has been pinned for a “small but pivotal role.”
Filed under: News | Tags: bill moseley, darren lynn bousman, genetic opera, movies, paris hilton, repo, trailer
The new Trailer for Repo! The Genetic Opera has hit the net.
This movie looks interesting to say the least. However, anything with Bill Mosely and Paul Sorvino in it is worth giving attention to, even if they have to share the screen with Paris Hilton.
Interestingly enough though, according to the films IMDB page,
“Darren Lynn Bousman originally refused to hold an audition for Paris Hilton. He did not think she would be capable, and feared media backlash or accusations of stunt casting. When he finally caved in, Paris came to the audition dressed “perfectly for the part,” and “rocked” the sound booth audition. After he audition, he was convinced she should play the role.”
So who knows, maybe this will be Paris’ breakout performance. I’m sure a lot of people thought the same about Marky Mark when he left the funky bunch to pursue acting.
We get this news via /film
“Richard Kelly’s new film The Box finished shooting four plus months ago, and the first test screening is supposedly later this week. So we can probably expect to see the movie in theaters in October, November or December, right? Wrong.
According to Collider, Warner Bros is planning a 2009 release for the Donnie Darko director’s ney’s w sci-fi film. Not only that, but the date they are eyeing is over a year away – September 11th 2009. Why are they interested in a date so far away? And why September 11th? Does the date have anything to do with the plot? Not that I’m aware of. Of course, everything could change if the test screening scores are through the roof.”
This does seem a bit strange. But if you think about it, Richard Kelly’s films haven’t exactly been huge box office successes. It’s not like he’s had any huge failures (at least not that I’m aware of), but his biggest hit was Donnie Darko which nobody had even heard of until it hit dvd. So my best guess is that Warner Bros wants to find an opening weekend with little competition, so they’re gonna sit back and see how things go. But what do I know, that’s just a guess.
Filed under: News | Tags: army of the dead, bruce campbell, movies, my name is bruce, zach snyder
Shocktillyoudrop has a lots of good news to report today.
STYD was able to talk to Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson who said the upcoming Bruce Campbell Flick, My Name is Bruce, should be in theatres sometime in October.
“Some people maybe thought the film fell out or that there was something wrong with it,” Richardson says, touching on Bruce’s slow journey getting before wide audiences. It was roughly a year ago that it screened to CineVegas film fest attendees. “We did our shoot, put it in the can and the studio that financed it liked it so much they gave us more money to do a second shoot. We beefed it up so it could go into the theaters.”
According to IMDB, the film is about B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell who is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon.
I don’t know how wide of a release this movie will have, but more than likely, it will be pretty small. So if you want to see this movie, chances are you’re going to have to wait for the dvd. Also, they’re already planning a sequal!
enjoy the trailer here.
STYD also managed to speak with Zach Snyder about Army of the Dead.
In the hustle and bustle of Tuesday night’s Saturn Awards ceremony in Universal City, California, ShockTillYouDrop.com managed to squeeze a mini-update from Zack and Deborah Snyder (300) regarding Army of the Deadwhich the pair are producing.
With director Matthijs van Heijningen locked in place, Zack, who is busy in post-production on Watchmen, hopes shooting will begin, “Really soon. The studio [Warner Bros.] seems to love our director and love our script. The movie, for me, is all about spectacle and being crazy, so it’s just trying to find a balance with the studio.”
Deborah adds, “We’re hoping to start this fall.”
Written by Joby Harold (interview), Army of the Dead is set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future and focuses on a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world.
I hope that some of the visual masterpieces from 300 can carry over into this film. While I usually despise CGI in zombie flicks, I can give Mr. Snyder the benefit of the doubt with this one.
Filed under: News | Tags: ant-man, avengers, captain america, hulk, iron man, marvel, movies, thor
Latino Review has gotten a hold some juicy info possibly revealing the complete line-up of the upcoming Avengers movie.
“Iron Man director Jon Favreau, who is developing a sequel to be released in April 2010, says Marvel’s plan is ‘to team up the heroes for The Avengers, which is made up of all of the Marvel heroes they have the rights to.’
And which characters do they have the rights to exactly?
Favreau says the team’s lineup has changed throughout the years, ‘but the ones Marvel is talking about now are Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron Man. I would love to see that.”
Personally, I’m not very familiar at all with the comic book stories. However, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WHAT MARVEL IS DOING RIGHT NOW!!!!.
Every other movie studio needs take note and learn a lesson from these guys. They already have an impressive, albeit short, track record with only two films under their belt. But if they can manage to continue making films of the same calibur as IRON MAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK, they could easily become one of the top studios in the business (that is if they’re not already).
On a side note, Ant-Man is currently set to be directed by Edgar Wright, who has already become one of my favorite directors.
Filed under: News | Tags: bbc, inglorious bastards, movies, News, quentin, tarantino
BBC News has a nice little interview Quentin Tarantino where we learn a little about his upcoming two-part war epic, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS
“Tarantino, who was at an independent film festival in the US, confirmed he has now finished the screenplay for Inglorious Bastards – his long-awaited new film – and he maintains he is moving into pre-production right away
According to Tarantino no final decisions have yet been made about casting. But in the past a wide range of names from Tim Roth to Sylvester Stallone have been rumoured to be involved.
The film has been described as his version of the classic 1967 Second World War action movie The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
That film told the fictional story of a group of American soldiers convicted of various military crimes who were ordered to go on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to kill Nazi officers.
But Tarantino points out that the original picture was only a source of inspiration, nothing more. “
QT’s been making headlines quite a bit lately since he announced at this years Cannes Film Festival that he planned to have the film finished by this time next year, despite the fact that nobody has been casted yet. It may be a bit of a long shot, and many people seem to remain skeptical at the idea, but he certainly does seem to be determined to accomplish the feat.
Tarantino has yet to disappoint me with anything he’s done so far, and I have extremely high hopes for this film.
Shocktillyoudrop has the new poster for the new upcoming Rob Zombie film.
I have no idea what this film is about, and apparently, neither does anybody else. But if the movie is half as awesome as this poster, then I’m in! Rob Zombie has definately proven he make a good horror film with HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES and THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, and while HALLOWEEN was a little disapointing, him directing an exploitation dinosaur movie with biker dudes, sleeveless jackets, hot chicks and guns has good news writtin all over it. I can’t wait to hear more about this film in the coming months.
