Clint Eastwood is directing the movie Invictus, a feature film based on Nelson Mandela’s life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. The screenplay was penned by native South African writer Anthony Peckham, based upon the book Playing the Enemy written by John Carlin. The movie Invictus is starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela who was President of South Africa at the time, and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the South African team captain. The film will open in theaters on December 11, 2009.

Invictus Movie Trailer

Update: the trailer of Invictus is now available!

INVICTUS

Here below a first look at Morgan freeman as President Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Rugby man Francois Pienaar:

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Plot:
“Invictus tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team (Damon) to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.”

Nelson Mandela – Morgan Freeman

Francois Pienaar – Matt Damon

Nelson Mandela is for sure a great man that deserves much respect. But I doubt I would be interested in watching his biopic if it wasn’t directed by Clint Eastwood. I usually find hard to watch biopic of people who are still alive: I’d feel like watching some TV report… But with a directorial talent like Clint Eastwood helming the project and with actors like Morgan Freeman and Matt Demon I can but give a try to the movie Invictus.
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The much awaited Wolf Man movie has been pushed back once again. It’s now scheduled for a release on February 10, 2010. But as a compensation, an official trailer of The Wolf Man is going to be released in a few hours. Take a look to those pictures meanwhile:

Wolfman Trailer

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Plot:
“Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf.”

Joe Johnston’s Wolf Man isn’t a ‘friendly’ wolf like Jacob from the Twilight Saga. The werewolf interpreted by Benicio Del Toro is a real beast hungry for juicy human flesh and thirsty for refreshing blood… A real monster is roaming the woods! Beware of the Wolf Man!
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Director Peter Berg who was in charge of the first Hancock movie has been talking about the possible movie sequel to Hancock:

“There might be another god out there. Might be another one.
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They like to fast-track it, but Will’s busy, I’m pretty busy. We’re excited to do one, but we want the script to be right and the movie to be right. We don’t feel a burning imperative to go right back into it.”

Director Peter Berg

This sounds like a real sequel, but I guess there will be a few flashbacks showing us the origins of those mighty beings, and how they came to Earth.

I enjoyed watching Hancock. Some critics may have been harsh on this film, but I still think that Will Smith’s performance was great. So I would be glad to see the release of a Hancock 2 movie in a not too distant future.
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A new series of pictures of Avatar, James Cameron’s latest sci-fi movie, have been unveiled just to tease us all before the official release of the Avatar movie trailer which will happen in less than 8 hours from now:

Avatar Trailer

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Plot:
“A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran (Sam Worthington) is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous Na’vi race in this ambitious, digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron.”

Those flying machines from the movie Avatar look like fat bumblebees.
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The world could end in a cataclysmic apocalypse in 2012, but if it doesn’t then it will civilization shall fall because of an apocalyptical zombie plague, like in Survival of the Dead, George Romero’s latest zombie movie (formerly known as George A. Romero’s Island of the Dead, …Of the Dead or Island of the Dead).

Update: Here’s the first Survival of the Dead trailer:

SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD TRAILER

Here below the first movie pictures of Survival of the Dead:

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Plot:
“In a world where the dead rise to menace the living, rogue soldier Crocket (Alan Van Sprang) leads a band of military dropouts to refuge from the endless chaos. As they search for a place ‘ where the shit won ’ t get you, ‘ they meet banished patriarch Patrick O ’ Flynn (played with zeal by Kenneth Welsh), who promises a new Eden on the fishing and ranching outpost Plum Island. The men arrive, only to find themselves caught in an age-old battle between O ’ Flynn ’ s family and rival clan the Muldoons. It turns out that Patrick was expelled from the isle for believing that the only good zombie is a dead zombie, while the Muldoons think it ’ s wrong to dispatch afflicted loved ones, attempting to look after their undead kinfolk until a cure is found. But their bid for stability on the homestead has turned perverse: the undead are chained inside their homes, pretending to live normal lives – and the consequences are bloody. A desperate struggle for survival will determine whether the living and the dead can coexist.”

The only way to get rid of a zombie plague would be to nuke the contaminated areas. Taking care of the zombies, like this family does in the movie Survival of the Dead, would just hasten the end of Mankind because zombies are irrationally nasty!
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This new picture of Halloween 2 featuring Laurie Strode Below wearing a clown mask and holding a knife behind a woman in distress cause some speculation on Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2:

Halloween 2 Trailer

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Does Laurie have the crazy in her head too? Like Mike Meyers?
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The movie Buried, directed by Rodrigo Cortes, is based on an ambitious concept: the movie mostly takes place inside a coffin! Could be a boring experimental movie, but with Ryan Reynolds in the lead role it still manages to arouse my interest. If such a famous actor accepts the challenge it must be because the script is damn good. And according to the online rumor it seems it is.

Update: Here’s the first movie trailer of Buried!

BURIED

Here below the first official pictures of the movie Buried:

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Plot:
“Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.”

If I was buried alive like that, I think I’d be paralyzed by despair and fear… And If I was miraculously saved, I think I’d still have nightmares for the rest of my life…
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Here’s an official picture of Men Who Stare At Goats the upcoming comedy movie starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges:

Men Who Stare At Goats Pictures

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Plot:
“A reporter (Ewan McGregor) in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.”

The trailer of Men Who Stare at Goats is now available:

George Clooney is starring like mad at this poor goat…
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Don’t plan too much because in 2012 it’s the end of the world. Want to see what the final nightmare will look like? Then check those new hi-res pictures of ‘2012’, the latest disaster movie directed by Roland Emmerich:

2012 Trailer

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In 2012, because of deadly earthquakes, evil fires and a final worldwide giant flood, manking will be on verge of extinction… May God save our puny species…
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Director Jason Reitman (who brought us Juno) is coming back with the movie Up in the Air, an upcoming comedy starring George Clooney in the lead role. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Walter Kirn. should be released end of 2009.

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Plot:
“George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a 35 year old a career transition counselor at a Denver-based management consulting company, Integrated Strategic Management (ISM). Ryan travels around the country to terminate corporate employees. He does not have a personal life and he numbs himself with sex, booze and drugs. His life on the road comes to a halt when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal he’s worked toward for years: reaching five million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.”

Cast:
– George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a career transition counselor
– Melanie Lynskey as Julie, Ryan Bingham’s sister
– Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener
– Jason Bateman as Craig Gregory, owner of Integrated Strategic Management
– Danny McBride as Jim

One may think that such a dark comedy isn’t the best thing in a time of recession, but hey, it’s starring george Clooney so you bet the movie Up in the Air is gonna be fun to watch!
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According to variety James Vanderbilt has been hired by Sony Pictures to pen the screenplay of Spiderman 5 and Spiderman 6!

But as far as I know the script for Spiderman 4 isn’t even ready yet… Or maybe they’ve got a first draft and are damn confident that it’s gonna be a hit? Nope, more probably, the just want to cash in on a successful franchise: Spiderman is like a goose laying golden eggs I guess.

Let’s hope they would film Spider-man 5 and Spider-Man 6 back-to-back so we wouldn’t have to wait too long between the two movies.
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You may have heard of Avatar Day:

On August 21, the world will get its first look at director James Cameron’s motion picture epic AVATAR, when Twentieth Century Fox and Cameron debut the film’s trailer everywhere – while select cinemas and IMAX theaters will screen extended footage prepared by the renowned filmmaker for this global “Avatar Day” event.

The picture above has been released just to tease us for the event. Behind Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) we may see a vat containing his avatar: Jake Sully’s human body is stuck in a wheelchair, but his spirit will be somehow connected to the alien body in the vat before it is sent to the planet Pandora’s surface.

A few more pictures that leaked from the upcoming movie trailer of Avatar: Continue reading »

District 9 has been released and the film wasn’t overhyped: it’s definitely a great sci-fi movie, sure to be cult! And if you’re craving for for a movie sequel, then you can help by telling to you friends how great the movie is. Because Director Neill Blomkamp stated indeed that there could be a movie sequel to District 9 if:

“If this film is successful, if audiences want another, whatever, District 10, I would love to do it. It’s a very personal film, and it’s a universe and a place that I find incredibly creative. I’d love to go back to that universe.”

Director Neill Blomkamp

So please, tell your friend about District 9, even go watch it again with you family: let’s make District a real success so Director Neill Blomkamp starts to work on the movie sequel of District 9 as soon as possible!
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Some new pictures of Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora, an historical drama starring Rachel Weiz as philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and Max Minghella as her slave Davus:

Agora Movie Trailer

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Plot:
“In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among the group are the two men competing for Hypatia’s heart: the witty, privileged Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and Davus (Max Minghella), Hypatia’s young slave, who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians. ”

No CGI there: gorgeous sets were specially built for the movie Agora. I guess Director Alejandro Amenabar had some serious financial support to produce this film.
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Actor Woody Harrelson besides slaying zombies in Zombieland is also starring as a part-time would-be superhero in the upcoming comedy movie Defendor. The film is written and directed by Peter Stebbings.

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Plot:
“Reality intersects with delusion in the mind of Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a regular man who adopts a superhero persona known as Defendor, and combs the city streets at night in search of his arch-enemy, Captain Industry. In his attempts to combat crime and bring down Captain Industry, a drug and weapons dealer who he mistakenly blames for the death of his mother, Defendor ends up befriending a young prostitute, Katerina Debrofkowitz (Kat Dennings). Armed with unconventional weapons of mass confusion, aided by his new friend, and putting his life on the line, Defendor proves that everyone is capable of making a difference. ”

It sounds a bit like Kick-Ass but I think there will be much more humor in the movie Defendor: can but have a good laugh with Woody Harrelson!
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