Acclaimed actress Dakota Fanning has officially joined the cast and will play the Volturi Jane in the Twilight Saga New Moon. The rumor was online since a long, but nice to have an official confirmation from Summit Entertainment.

In the universe of Twilight, the Volturi are like law enforcers among the Vampires: they are much respected, end even feared because of their mind control tricks

So Dakota Fanning will play the role of Jane, one of the prize members of the Volturi Guard and one of their highest ranking guards, a sadistic person and a pet of Aro a former Volturi leader. She seems rather bitter and easily justifies inflicting pain on anyone with her power. Jane has a twin brother named Alec and they both reside in Volterra, Italy.

Here below an interview of Dakota Fanning about her role as Jane (it was made just before she was confirmed for the role):

Good that they chose Dakota Fanning: I think that this young-but-well-experienced actress is a nice addition to the cast of this New Moon movie.

Here’s a first look at Dakota Fanning as Jane:

A new picture:

And here’s an interview of Dakota Fanning about her role as Jane in Twilight New Moon:

Johnny Depp’s career may have started with the role of a cop in 21 Jump Street, but it seems that ditch this early character for more villainous roles afterward: being a pirate in POTC, a serial killer in Sweeney Todd. He confirms his interest for dark characters in Public Enemies in which he plays the role of John Dillinger the gangster from the 1930s. Here below the first official trailer of Public Enemies:

Public Enemies Movie Trailer

Christian Bale on the other hand sticks to to the lawful side with roles like Batman, John Connor in Terminator, and FBI Agent Purvis in Public Enemies.

That’s probably why Johnny Depp is way better than Christian Bale!
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Director George Miller is considering to develop Mad Max 4 as an animated movie. Such a move would increase the odds of a fourth Mad Max movie to come out. Miller has been facing so many hurdles since his first attempt to produce Mad Max 4 in 2003: financial hurdle, Mel Gibson stating that he wouldn’t reprise his role and so on… So going animated would be a way out for Miller: an animated movie costs indeed less to produce and Miller could get rid of Mel Gibson, a former great actor who had the lead role in Mad Max but who since turned into a religious zealot.

Mad Max 4 Movie Trailer

The universe of Mad Max is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which oil has become so scarce that people are ready to kill for it and in which civilization has collapsed, giving a free reign to barbarous gangs of road punks. Just watch this original trailer of the movie Mad Max:

Miller is likely to call Japanese talents to help to develop Mad Max 4:

Quite glad that Mad Max is going to integrate a manga dimension. Much better perspective than a Mad Max 4 movie with an old Mel Gibson!
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The upcoming movie Harry Potter 6 will unveil the origins of Lord Voldemort, we will learn how he fell for the dark side. The flashback will be introduced to Harry potter thanks to Dumbledore’s memory capsules. Here below the latest trailer of Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince:

Harry Potter Half Blood Prince Movie Trailer

The production team behind Harry Potter does not mind some nepotism: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin who plays the role of Tom Riddle, the child who becomes Lord Voldemort, is actually the 10-year-old nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who played the adult Voldemort in previous Harry Potter movies.
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Johnny Depp is John Dillinger the famous heister from the 1930s in Public Enemies, an upcoming period movie directed by Michael Mann:

Public Enemies Poster

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Guess who’s facing this handsome villain: Christian Bale in the role of FBI agent Melvin Purvis!

I definitely prefer Johnny Depp over Christian Bale. What about you? Who’s your favorite actor?
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The new trailer of Terminator gives a nice overview of things to come in this fourth installment of the Terminator movie series:

Terminator 4 new trailer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
aka Harry Potter 7
Adventure/Drama/Fantasy/Mystery
Directed by David Yates
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter
Release Date: November 19, 2010

More Information at: Harry Potter 7 Trailer

http://harry-potter-7-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/

The first Twilight movie may have been a low-budget adaptation, but the new film will get more financial support: Summit Entertainment is indeed allocating more cash to the production of this Twilight sequel following the box-office success of the first film. The production team will even be able to shoot a few scenes of the movie New Moon in Italy, in Europe. We’ve got confirmation thanks to Italian movie site Bataste:

I bet many fans of Twilight will claim to be Italian just to be entitled to enlist in this contest!

I hope that this is not just a move for the production team to have some holiday abroad, and that they will really shoot some nice scenes of New Moon in Volterra: the old city looks quite beautiful.

The movie New Moon will be released on November 20, 2009. So get ready for this second opus of the Twilight Saga!
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J.J. Abrams is bringing us a mind blowing Star Trek movie.Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto have enlisted in Starfleet respectively as James T. Kirk and Spock the Vulcan. Here below the latest Star Trek trailer released by Paramount Pictures:

Star Trek Movie Trailer

In the role of the main villain of this new Star Trek movie we have Nero (Eric Bana) the Romulan who time-traveled to tweak History before Kirk rises to fame.
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Mad Max 4
Animation/Science-Fiction/Action
Directed by George Miller
Starring ?
Release Date: TBA 2011

More information at: Mad Max 4 Movie

http://madmax4movietrailer.blogspot.com/

Sometimes the most interesting characters in a movie aren’t the main heroes of the plot. Rhino the hamster in the movie Bolt is a stark example of second character stealing the show. Looks like we may have such a contender in the upcoming Disney Pixar movie UP. Indeed the dog is likely to get a fair part of your attention:

UP Character Poster

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Let’s hope the dog will have enough scenes in the movie UP!
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Moviegoer Elaine tipped us about a first look of Denzel Washington as Eli the savior in The Book of Eli, an upcoming post-apocalyptic movie directed by the Hughes brothers:

Book of Eli Movie Picture

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Plot:
“In the post-apocalyptic world of the book of Eli, civilization has collapsed and clean water has become the prime currency.
Washington plays a survivor who must fend off gangs and a brutal tyrant in this desolate wasteland.
Oldman will play the film’s villain, a despot of a small and pathetic town, who’s determined to get a hold of Eli’s book, a book that may save Mankind.”

In a previous teaser poster, Eli was portrayed with a samurai sword. I don’t see any sword on this picture. We already had Blade and Black Samurai, but I’d be happy to see Denzel Washington showing off with a sword: that would be damn cool! Sure, The book of Eli may save the world from its final decay at the end, but the sword would help to get things better in a timely manner.

Correction: actually looks like a sword is there on the table, I think indeed that’s a sword hilt near the backpack of Eli.

The Book of Eli is going to be an epic movie!
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The latest batch of preview clips of the Watchmen movie is rather mind blowing, literally. Especially the first two clips, featuring Jon Osterman (Billy Crudup) and his alter-ego the super vigilante Dr. Manhattan:

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Your dear home world is under threat of an Alien invasion? Don’t want your planet to be infested by ugly and nasty crazy Aliens? Then you should definitely try the Monster solution!

Monsters vs Aliens

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MONSTERS VS ALIENS

Got an Alien problem? Then try a Monster solution!

A monstruous event in 3D.

Monsters vs Aliens is an upcoming 3D animated movie by Dreamworks, the creators of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda.
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The movie Knowing is about a teacher (Nicolas Cage) who tries to prevent the chilling predictions of a mysterious time capsule brought back from school by his young son. Here below a clip of Knowing in which Nicolas cage tries to warn people about an upcoming subway accident:

Knowing Preview Clip

Had I the knowledge of such an accident I would try to warn the police, but in no way I would run ahead of the event to experience it…. Crazy Nicolas Cage!

The movie Knowing will be released on March 20, 2009.
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