Director Vincenzo Natali is bringing us Splice, an upcoming science fiction movie that dwells on the danger of genetic engineering, especially on the danger of splicing Human and animal DNA (in order to create a chimera). The film is starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The movie Splice should be released early next year.

Here below a first preview clip of Splice:

SPLICE
Plot:
“Elsa and Clive (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley), two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named Dren, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators – only to have that bond turn deadly.”

Hard to believe that this little monstrous thing could develop in anything beautiful later on. But I can totally imagine it becoming some dangerous predator. I am no Luddite, and I do want scientists to be allowed to pursue R&D in genetic engineering (from stem cells to splicing or whatever may help to increase our knowledge). But on can’t deny that there is need for regulation: don’t want dangerous chimera to feed on you or don’t want any new vicious GM virus to infect you, do you? It’s even more compelling to implement a strong regulation and to get ethical awareness in the population because tabletop genetic engineering is for tomorrow…

Anyway, I don’t think the movie Splice to go deep int hose issues. But at least it looks like it will be quite entertaining. Impatient to see what the grown-up creature will look like in the movie Splice!
:)

A new preview clip of Law Abiding Citizen has been released, beware it’s a damn bloody clip! Continue reading »

A bootleg movie trailer of Toy Story 3 has leaked online, you may watch it below:

TOY STORY 3
Plot:
“Andy is now a young adult, departing for college, and his toys, including Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) are being sent to storage. Andy has a change of heart and decides to keep Woody. Before the rest of the toys can be put in the attic, they are accidentally thrown away and are picked up by the garbage men. The toys find themselves at a local day-care center, where they must try to survive the pre-school children. Woody attempts to save his friends and find themselves a new home.”

The poor toy are in hell: those pre-school children are like little demons! I guess this new opus of the Toy Story movie series will make many people happy. But I hope Disney Pixar won’t abuse of it with a new sequel again. Really, i’ rather watch a brand new story, than an other Toy Story movie… May Toy Story 3 be the last of the series!
:/

Scott Adkins (who was the stunt double of Ryan Reylnolds as Weapon X aka Deadpool in the movie Wolverine) got the lead role in the upcoming movie Ninja. The film is directed by Isaac Florentine. It seems there is theatrical release in Asia. But I’m afraid it will only have a straight-to-DVD release in the USA…

Here’s the movie trailer of Ninja:

NINJA
Plot:
“A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.”

I definitely want to watch the movie Ninja! Scott Adkins is a real expert in martial arts, and his movie isn’t just smoke and mirrors, but real action!

Thinking, a Gaijin who becomes a ninja master, I should watch American Ninja again!
;-P

Preview clips of An Education, the upcoming romantic drama movie starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard, are available:

An Education – Think for themselves
Jenny (Carey Mulligen) talks with her family at the dinner table.

Plot:
“The story of 17-year-old girl living in the quiet London suburbs. As the swinging ’60s culture emerges, her world turns upside down after she meets a 35-year-old sportscar-driving Brit. He courts her with chic dinners, clubs and foreign trips, charming her father but putting her future at Oxford University in jeopardy.”

More clips of An Education below: Continue reading »

A new preview clip of Astro Boy is available:

Astro Boy – The Robot Games
Astro Boy does not want to fight…Plot synopsis:
“When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him his time’s greatest hero.”

I was quite surprised by the little robot splitting and transforming into two dangerous robots. The movie Astro Boy is definitely likely to deliver much more than first expected!
:)

Shutter Island is an upcoming thriller movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley. Here below the second movie trailer of Shutter Island:

Shutter Island Trailer

SHUTTER ISLAND
Plot:
“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. ”

Looks like Leonardo DiCaprio is gonna lose his mind in the movie Shutter Island, or maybe he’s crazy from the start?

By the way, the release date of Shutter Island has been pushed back to February 19, 2010.
:)

Lionsgate released the theatrical movie trailer of Saw VI, the latest Saw movie directed by Kevin Greutert. Here it is:

Saw 6 Movie Trailer

SAW VI
Plot:
“Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.”

For me the Saw movies are definitely part of Halloween. I welcome Saw 6 and hope for more!
;-)

Let’s witness the end of the world in 2012 according to Roland Emmerich in this 5 minute clip of 2012:

2012 5 minute Scene
I like the special effects in this extended clip of 2012, but I hope people won’t be screaming all the time… Ok, it’s the end of the world, but do we need to listen to those whining people? Anyway, the movie 2012 looks damn good!
:)

The second trailer of Up in the air reveals more details about the plot of this new movie directed by Jason Reitman and starring George Clooney:

UP IN THE AIR
Plot:
“Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.”

“People do crazy stuffs when they get fired”, yes they do!

The movie Up in the Air will be an interesting look into the life of a lonely corporate hawk!
:)

There is a new trailer of Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, aka Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel:

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS THE SQUEAKQUEL
Plot:
“The world famous singing pre-teen chipmunk trio return to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity, and a rival female music group known as The Chipettes.”

Girl power shines from the little female squirrels! Our friends Chipmunks will have girlfriends!
:)

A second trailer of The Fantastic Mr Fox has shown up online:

Fantastic Mr Fox Movie Trailer

FANTASTIC Mr. FOX
The stop-motion animation seems kind of broken in this new trailer of the Fantastic Mr Fox… Don’t know if it was their intent, but I’d rather watch some smooth CGI animation.

The Fantastic Mr Fox is maybe a movie that people yearning for old fashioned animation will appreciate… But even if the story is catchy and the voices (with George Clooney and Bill Murray) are awesome, I doubt it will be enough to entice people to go watch The Fantastic Mr Fox in theaters…
:/

The movie trailer of Tooth Fairy has been released! In Tooth Fairy Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock got a new job as tooth fairy.

Here’s the trailer of Tooth Fairy:

TOOTH FAIRY
Plot:
“A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.”

No need to bash this film: it’s not Rambo, but it’s gonna be fun to watch in family. And one can’t deny that the Rock looks with his little wings is something worth seeing. Sing me up for the Tooth Fairy!
:)

Director Breck Eisner has been working on The Crazies, a remake of George Romero’s 1973 horror film of the same name. The new Crazies movie is starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson. It will be released on February 26, 2010.

Here below the official movie trailer of The Crazies:

THE CRAZIES
Plot:
“A reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero classic of the same name, The Crazies is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.”

I haven’t seen the original movie. But Breck Eisner’s The Crazies looks quite good. And the song Mad World (by Gary Jules) at the end of the trailer of the Crazies was well chosen!
:)

Disney Pictures wants to reconnect with its glorious past in hand-drawn animation by producing The Princess and the Frog. The film will be relased in December 2009, but meanwhile let’s watch this first clip of the Princess and the Frog

Princess and the Frog Preview Clip

The Princess and the Frog
That’s exactly the answer: you must kiss me!
Kissing a frog, really? That girl must be really depressed… Or maybe he real intent was to get high from licking that frog? I should stop there, afraid to become like the old Scrooge in a A Christmas Carol…
:)