More preview clips of State of Play are now available:
I Will Shout This Thing From the…
Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crowe) has an off-the-record conversation with Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck).
I’m suprised by the great interaction between Russel Crowe and Ben Affleck on screen: I didn’t expect those two to get along so well, I was thinking there would be some ego competition, but it looks to be quite smooth, and it’s easy to get into the story actually.
Fire Missile now!
Mala tries to escape from a human ship with th help of Giddy the robot (voiced by David Cross)
Plot:
“A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terran teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.”
If Mankind’s survival is really at stake I’d rather see Mankind annihilating those aliens than listening to some eco-pacifist-hippie feeling…
Anyway I eagerly await the movie Battle for Terra which is set to hit theaters on May 1rst, 2009.
;-P
Looks like that Russell from Pixar’s UP has been hired in Stargate Universe, the new Stargate TV series that should start to air this Summer. Well not the young Russsell, but a 20-years-old version, just look at the face of this chubby red-shirt boy (David Blue as Eli Wallace):
Stargate Universe is billed as “edgier in tone” than its predecessors, it will follow a team of explorers headed by Dr Nicholas Rush, played by Carlyle, who have to fend for themselves when their hidden base comes under attack.
I do welcome this edgier tone, but I’m not sure they should have chosen this candy music to promote such a sci-fi show…
:-(
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster: they’re all back for Fast and Furious, the fourth installment of this high-octane movie franchise!
:)
The marketing team in charge of promoting the new Fast and Furious movie is heavily relying on the hype about the original cast (Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster). The problem is that nobody really cares about it: most people will only go for Vin Diesel, aka Mr, Clean, er, I mean Dominic Toretto. And we all know what we want the focus of Fast and Furious to be: great cars and pretty girls!
;-P
I thought Dug the dog would steal the show in the upcoming Disney Pixar movie UP. But now I think that Kevin the big flashy bird is more likely to steal it:
Meet Kevin
Russell goes looking for a snipe and instead finds a giant, colorful, and very friendly bird.
Russell the chubby boy may have a good heart, but isn’t very clever… Just watch this preview clip of UP in which he introduces himself to Carl the grumpy old man: Continue reading »
I know Astro Boy is not a dark hero, but he is a bit too starry eyed for me… Maybe one should send him t get trained with the Cylon Calvin from Battlestar Galactica.
:)
Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who brought us the Crank movie series, have been working on Gamer, a new science fiction action thriller movie. The movie Gamer totally redefines what game immersion means: in the future virtual and reality are intricately mixed! Besides Gerard Butler in the lead role, the film is starring Logan Lerman, Milo Ventimiglia, Aaron Yoo, Ludacris, Alison Lohman and John Leguizamo.
Here below a bootleg version of the first movie trailer of Gamer that leaked online:
Plot:
“Set in the near-future, mind-control technology has taken society by storm and a multiplayer on-line game called ‘Slayers’ allows humans control other humans in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable (Gerard Butler) the on-line champion of the game, and with his every move tracked by millions, his ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game’s mastermind (Hall) through launching an attack on the system that has imprisoned him.”
The plot of this movie isn’t so farfetched. And actually it’s nothing new. Army commanders used to place tin soldiers (or just pictorial representations) on battlefield maps: the real soldiers are bound to their tin figures by the constraint of hierarchy. In the movie Gamer, the new constraint is “just” an appalling technological gizmo.
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Director Lasse Hallstrom is bringing us Hachiko A Dog Story, an upcoming drama family movie based on the true story of a Japanese professor and his dog: it’s the tale of a dog’s life-long devotion to his owner. The film is starring Richard Gere in the lead role. It is scheduled to be released on August 8, 2009 in Japan (under the working title Hachi), so Hachiko A Dog’s Story should be released by the end of 2009 or early 2010 in the USA.
Plot:
“A college professor (Richard Gere) takes in an abandoned dog, Hachi, and they form an unbreakable bond. After the professor dies while away from home, the dog keeps vigil waiting for his master for nearly a decade.”
The story of Hachiko is well known in Japan: the dog even has his own statue in front of the Shibuya train station! So Richard Gere’s Hashiko is much awaited over there.
If you’re wondering about the dog race, er, I mean the dog breed, it’s an akita.
Such a cute and such a sad Story: I’m gonna cry shamelessly!
:)