The Weinstein Company has announced that a third Halloween movie will be produced for next year. Also, Halloween 3 will jump into the 3D bandwagon, but without Rob Zombie. The director won’t be returning for this third opus of a franchise he brought back to life…

The second Halloween movie did not meet expectations… Here’s Mike Myers’ answer to those who were disappointed by the film and who bad-mouthed it:

He’s quite pissed off, so in 2010, with the movie Halloween 3, he’s gonna slash us all in 3D as a revenge!
:)

Mia Wasikowska got the lead role as Alice in the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie directed by Tim burton. Here’s a new picture:

Alice in Wonderland Movie Trailer

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Beyond the gate, a new world is waiting for Alice!
:)

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!
:)

Here’s a new poster of Ricky Gervais’ Invention of Lying:

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Plot:
“A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.”

White lies aren’t real lies, are they?
;-P

‘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 »

Boondock Saints II
Genre: Action/Thriller
Directed by: Troy Duffy
Starring: Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery, Clifton Collins, Julie Benz, Judd Nelson, Robert Cochrane Marley Jr., Brian Mahoney
Release Date: October 30, 2009

More Information at: Boondock Saints II Trailer

Valhalla Rising
Genre: Action/Adventure
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Gary Lewis, Ewan Stewart
Release Date: TBA 2010

More Information at: Valhalla Rising Trailer

Actor Michael Cera got the lead role in Youth in Revolt, an upcoming comedy movie directed by Miguel Arteta. Below the first official movie poster of Youth in Revolt:

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The young Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) wants to win the heart of the sweet Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday): he may have an angelic face, but the devil is damn teasing him, so he’s ready to go ‘bad’ to impress her!
:)

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!
;-)

Here below the official movie poster of Love Happens, an upcoming romantic drama movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart:

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LOVE HAPPENS

Sometimes when you least expect it…

In the movie Love Happens, Aaron Eckhart plays a widower, a best-selling self-help guru convinced of his happiness, who, upon meeting a woman (Jennifer Aniston) during a business trip, understands that he’s been missing something in his life.
;-P

Harry Brown
Genre: Thriller
Directed by: Daniel Barber
Starring: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Iain Glen
Release Date: November 11, 2009

More Information at: Harry Brown Trailer

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!
:)

Gamer is an upcoming badass sci-fi action movie in which Gerard Butler has to play a dangerous game to recover his freedom. Take a below look to this new series of Hi-Res pics of Gamer:

Gamer Trailer

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Plot:
“GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people…for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game ‘Slayers’, allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Kable (300’s Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent ‘Slayers’. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.”

No technology is evil in itself: a technology to control minds like in the movie Gamer could have some useful applications, it could help to reduce recurring criminality for example. But I doubt there would be any organization trustworthy enough to manage the implementation of this mind-control gimmick… Would-be dictators, or just simple twisted minds, would pervert its use. So better this invention never to happen!
:/

John Cameron Mitchell is directing Rabbit Hole, the movie adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s stage play. The movie is starring Nicole Kiman and Aaron Eckhart. It will be released in 2010. Here below a first look at Kidman and Eckhart in the movie Rabbit Hole:

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Plot:
“Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire.”

With such a premise, the movie Rabbit Hole promises to be a powerful drama charged with emotion…
:-|

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 »