Here’s the latest poster for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s “The Adventures of Tintin” (It appears that they dropped the “The Secret of the Unicorn”). Tinin, an intrepid reporter that goes on various adventures accompanied by his dog, Snowy, and assisted by an eccentric assortment of characters, was created by Hergè. The character has seeming […]
All you hear about lately are films being remade. What gets to me, besides the seeming cynicalness of the whole pursuit, is the way it seems that the better a film is, the more likely it is to be remade; which doesn’t make any sense. Why remake something that was well-done the first time around? […]
Not sure what I think about this one. My doubt doesn’t come from someone questioning whether Shakespeare wrote some, or any, of his plays; that particular concern has been around for awhile. No, what concerns me is that Roland Emmerich (what a cool first name. Roland. Sounds like a knight or something) is directing […]
Edited 8/7 1249 Columbia Pictures is so confident about Marc Webb’s upcoming “Amazing Spider-Man” that they have already approved a sequel, which is probably going to be a problem for whomever decides to direct because it doesn’t exactly give much time for prep (unless Columbia is going to do a “Lord of the Rings” and make two films […]
Edited 8/4 2124 Here’s the trailer for the upcoming “Warrior.” One of the actors in this film, Tom Hardy, is also playing “Bane” in the upcoming “Batman Rises.” By the way, he also played the protagonist, “Shinzon,” in 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis,” and he’s grown massive with muscle since that time.
Edited 8/3 2214 The trailer indicates that the film takes place in Russia, yet despite this, no one actually speaks Russian (in the trailer, at any rate). Makes me wonder why they would bother going there, since they could have filmed it in Hoboken (though admittedly the architecture would have been less awesome) or some […]
The first feature film Francis Ford Coppola directed from his own screenplay was “Dementia 13.” Now it appears that the’s going back to his roots with “Twixt.” Looking at the movie poster, one of four for the film, I definitely get a very “Carrie” vibe. By the way, click ‘use original player’ if the video […]
The original “Planet of the Apes” was based upon the novel, “La Planète des Singes,” by Pierre Boulle, with a screenplay by Rod Sterling (“Requiem for a Heavyweight,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Night Gallery,” etc). The original film, I can’t speak as much about the sequels (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, “Escape From the Planet […]
This has been around for a while, though I am just getting around to posting it. Part of my delay was that I have never been too crazy about Marcus Nispel as a director; then I thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s starring turn in the 1982 version the film was definitive. Jason Momoa isn’t someone whom I would have […]
Now this I want to see! Two seeming innocent and clueless guys in a film revolving around misconceptions and stereotypes played for laughs. If done well, this could be very, very FUN!
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