Kable (Gerard Butler) get to meet a few ‘friends’ in the dystopian world of Gamer, among them, there is the Freak (John Leguizamo) whose name is quite fitting:

Gamer Movie Trailer

Gamer – You spook me…
Kable (Gerard Butler) and Freak (John Leguizamo) have a talk.
The movie Gamer is distributed by Lionsgate and was Written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys who brought us the crazy Crank movie series.

Gamer will be released this week: good to start the month with a great sci-fi movie, the sci-fi addict in me is already exulting!
:)

‘That’s Awesome!’ is our new special feature in which, once in a while, we’ll try to highlight interesting stuffs we saw here and there.

BenGraphics put up an amazing collection of clips and making-of footage from notable visual effects films of the past century. His video went viral a month ago, and has already been seen more than half a million times on YouTube:

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

Sources:
1900 – The Enchanted Drawing
1903 – The Great Train Robbery
1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent)
1927 – Sunrise
1933 – King Kong
1939 – The Wizard of Oz
1940 – The Thief of Bagdad
1954 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1956 – Forbidden Planet
1963 – Jason and the Argonauts
1964 – Mary Poppins
1977 – Star Wars
1982 – Tron
1985 – Back to the Future
1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 – The Abyss
1991 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1993 – Jurassic Park
2004 – Spider-Man 2
2005 – King Kong
2006 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
2007 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
2007 – The Golden Compass
2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I’m impressed by the visual effects from the beginning of the cinema industry. Amazing what they were able to do even if they didn’t have CGI at that time!

That’s awesome! Continue reading »

There is a new international trailer of An Education, the upcoming roamntic drama movie directed by Lone Scherfig and Written by Nick Hornby, the writer behind High Fidelity and About A Boy:

AN EDUCATION
Plot:
“In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl (Carey Mulligan) is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the rather more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man (Peter Sarsgaard). ”

I quote:

“My choice is to do something hard and boring or to go to Paris and have fun!”

Young people want it all right now, that’s nothing new, but you have to work hard to get that!
;-)

Thanks to Colider we may watch a few more preview clips of Extract, the upcoming comedy movie directed by Mike Judge and starring starring Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunnis and Ben Affleck. We already saw the first clip, but let the combo video play to get to watch the other Extract clips:

Director Mike Judge must enjoy the corporate world: he’s know for The Office, and now he goes to the Extract plant!
:)

More preview clips of Shane Acker’s 9, aka Nine, are now available to watch:

9 Movie Trailer

9 – Full of Riches
9 (Elijah Wood) meets 2 (Martin Landau).

9 – Waking the Beast
9 (Elijah Wood) and the gang awaken a very fearsome creature.

Two more clips of 9 below: Continue reading »

In the movie Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg does have the survival of our species at heart (think “make babies”). This new preview clip of Zombieland indicates indeed that he’s thinking about repopulating Earth later on:

Zombieland Preview Clip

Zombieland – The girl next door
So sad for him that this girl was infected… Anyway, he will have an other opportunity later on in Zombieland.
:)

In the movie Whiteout, US Marshall Carrie (Kae Beckinsale) has to face a vicious criminal in the white coldness of Antarctica. Let’s watch those preview clips of Whiteout:

Whiteout Preview Clip

Whiteout – Attack
Carrie (Kate Beckinsale) discovers her collegue Mooney (Steven Lucescu) dead.

Six more Whiteout clips are available below: Continue reading »

The first official movie trailer of The Descent 2 has been released online, you may watch it below:

THE DESCENT: Part 2
Plot:
“The sequel will continue the story of Sarah who, as the only known survivor of an all-female caving expedition gone horrifically wrong, suffers severe psychological trauma. She accompanies a rescue team back to the cave but events once again take a sinister turn.
The Descent Part 2 picks up immediately after the events depicted in The Descent. Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) emerges alone from a cave system following an expedition with her five friends in the Appalachian mountains. Distraught, injured and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Skeptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah’s psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines forces her back into the caves to help locate the rest of the group. Trapped by falling rocks, the rescue party is driven deep into the caverns, and as one by one the fate of the missing girls is revealed. Sarah struggles to stay alive and once again encounters the evil in the deep.”

The world down under our feet is as alien as space indeed. Who knows what monsters are hiding below! I would never go back down there like that girl does in the Descent 2!
;-P

A creepy nerve-racking motion poster has been unveiled for Pandorum the sci-fi horror movie directed by Christian Alvart, just click on the poster below to launch the animation (or click –>here):

Pandorum Motion Poster

That creepy animation reminds me of Phantasmagoria 2, the interactive movie game from the mid-1990’s: I had nightmares after playing to that one….
:/

Watch this new preview clip of Gamer, an upcoming sci-fi action movie starring Gerard Butler

Gamer Movie

Gamer – Trust me I swear!
Gina (Kyra Sedgwick) rescues Kable (Gerard Butler) with her groovy van.

The movie revolves around Kable who has been unwillingly enrolled to fight in a futuristic gladiatorial game in which the fighters are just pawns controlled by online gamers.
:)

Rachel Weisz plays the role of astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria in Agora, an upcoming History drama movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar. Here below the latest trailer of Agora:

Agora Trailer

AGORA
Plot:
“A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.”

Agora looks like a gorgeous movie!
:)

Actor George Clooney may well have psychic powers in the movie Men Who Stare At Goats! Watch the trailer of Men Who Stare At Goats below:

Men who stare at Goats Movie Trailer

MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS

Inspired by the top secret true story.

This November comes a story so unbelievable it has to be true!

Plot:
“tells the true (albeit somewhat bizarre) story about a top secret unit within the American military whose purpose is to develop mind-control powers for ‘psychic spying’. The film follows a reporter, Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), who stumbles into the story of a lifetime when he meets a special forces agent, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney). As they embark on a new mission, Lyn reveals his twenty-year involvement in this top secret, psychic military unit and shares details of their activities, each more bizarre than the last (including staring at goats in order to kill them telepathically).”

The movie Men Who Stare at Goats is directed by Grant Heslov and is starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. It’s gonna be a hell of a comedy movie!

I would not stare at that goat: I’d rather sacrifice the animal right away and transform its delicious meat into tasty goat kebabs!
:)

Watch below a new international trailer of Zombieland starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg:

Zombieland International Trailer

I’m laughing out loud with this new trailer of Zombieland especially because of the scene with Jesse Eisenberg who’s hitchhiking.
:)

Inception is the new sci-fi movie directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. A trailer of Inception is shown in front of Inglourious Basterds in a few selected theaters. And out of chance, I just spotted a bootleg movie trailer of Inception that leaked online a few minutes ago:

Update: here’s the new full-length trailer of Inception:

INCEPTION TRAILER

From Christopher Nolan

Your mind is the scene of the crime.

Plot:
“A CEO-type becomes involved in a blackmailing scandal.”

Cast:
– Leonardo DiCaprio as Jacob, the lead, a CEO-type
– Marion Cotillard as Jacob’s wife
– Ellen Page as a young college grad student named Ariadne, who is also Jacob’s sidekick
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, an associate working for Jacob
– Ken Watanabe as Saito, the film’s villain, he is blackmailing Jacob
– Tom Hardy as Eames, a member of Jacob’s team.
– Cillian Murphy as Fischer

There is a lot of secrecy around the movie Inception. Hope that more material will be release soon. But anyway, I’m already hooked by the mystery of Christoper Nolan’s Inception movie!
:)

Thanks to Cartoon Brew we may take a look to a new behind-the-scenes clip of The Princess and the Frog. The featurette introduces us to Dr. Facilier, the villain of this new Disney movie:

The Princess and the Frog

There is no denying Keith David is bringing a lot to his character! His voice makes Dr. Facilier look so real! And I start to think that the most interesting character won’t be Tiana the princess or the Frog, but rather this mean Dr. Facilier! He’s got style!

They really care for details at Disney: an animated movie, it’s more than just animation, voices account for a lot indeed! I’m now confident that The Princess and the Frog will be a great movie.
:)

(via: Cartoon Brew here)