Here are some upcoming movie ads from Super Bowl 2010, THE MOST WATCHED SUPER BOWL IN HISTORY -
The Wolfman
"Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate."
Robin Hood
"The story of how an archer in the service of King Richard the Lionheart became to be known as Robin Hood, the famous archer and outlaw of English Folklore."
Alice in Wonderland
"19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror."
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
"Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it's up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time."
The Last Airbender
"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. In the old days, there was peace between the four nations of the world. The Avatar -- Master of all four elements -- kept peace between the the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Only the Avatar has the ability to Bend all four elements, but one day, he Vanished. Then the Fire Nation attacked, forcing a war on the other three nations for one hundred years. Now, for the good of the world, it's up to 12-year-old Aang, the new Avatar, to return peace and balance by putting an end to the war and mastering all four elements. Aang must accept his destiny by stopping the Fire Nation's war and defeating the Fire Lord for good."
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Joe Johnston updates on CAPTAIN AMERICA and JURASSIC PARK IV
From ComingSoon.net:
"Boxoffice Magazine has posted some new comments from The Wolfman director Joe Johnston about his next film, The First Avenger: Captain America, and the possibility of a Jurassic Park IV.
About Marvel Studios' Captain America, he stated the following:
'It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It's the origin story of Captain America. It's mostly period—there are modern, present-day bookends on it—but it's basically the story of how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. The great thing about Captain America is he's a super hero without any super powers. Which is why this story, among the hundreds of super hero stories, appealed to me the most. He can't fly, he can't see through walls, he can't do any of that stuff. He's an every man who's been given this amazing gift of transformation into the perfect specimen—the pinnacle of human perfection. How does that affect him? What does that mean for him emotionally and psychologically? He was this 98-pound weakling, he was this wimp, and he's transformed instantly into this Adonis. You'd think he got everything he wanted. Well, he didn't get everything he wanted. The rules change at that point and his life gets even more complicated and dire. For me, that's the interesting part of the story. It's got some great action sequences in it and some incredible stuff that we've never seen before. But at the heart of it, it's a story about this kid who all he wants to do is fit in. This thing happens and he still doesn't fit in. And he has to prove himself a hero—essentially go AWOL to save a friend... '
He said the following about Jurassic Park IV:
'Well, there is going to be a Jurassic Park IV. And it's going to be unlike anything you've seen. It breaks away from the first three—it's essentially the beginning of the second Jurassic Park trilogy. It's going to be done in a completely different way. That's pretty much all I can tell you.'"
Okay. First quote, looks okay but I don't like the way he words, "It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction." I smell Will Smith rumors. (not that I don't like Will Smith; I just don't want him playing Captain America.) I'm an old-school kind of guy. I didn't mind that they used the black Nick Fury in Iron Man and the upcoming Iron Man 2. He was the more popular version of the character (more than likely thanks to David Hasselhoff's TV movie).
However, you gotta have faith in the guy. His last comic book movie, Disney's The Rocketeer didn't do well in theaters (thanks to the admittedly better movie, Terminator 2: Judgement Day being released the same weekend). It was almost like the '40s pre-cursor to Iron Man (as stupid as that sounds, and admittedly, Cliff Secord is nowhere near as cool as Tony Stark and NEVER will be). The only problem with that movie is that they didn't cast a movie star. They cast Bill Campbell. And, honestly who knows who Bill Campbell is? They know who Jennifer Connolly is, they know who Timothy Dalton is (who is apparently making a comeback in Toy Story 3. Go figure.) and they NOW know who Terry O'Quinn is (THANKS to Lost). Though I felt his Howard Hughes was lame, compared to Leonardo DiCaprio's superior performance in The Aviator.
Second quote, almost as bad. "...it's going to be unlike anything you've seen." Now that can be used for good or for evil. Good: they take the revolutionary Jurassic Park special effects and kick it up to Avatar level. Bad: They get even worse than Jurassic Park III.
"Boxoffice Magazine has posted some new comments from The Wolfman director Joe Johnston about his next film, The First Avenger: Captain America, and the possibility of a Jurassic Park IV.
About Marvel Studios' Captain America, he stated the following:
'It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It's the origin story of Captain America. It's mostly period—there are modern, present-day bookends on it—but it's basically the story of how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. The great thing about Captain America is he's a super hero without any super powers. Which is why this story, among the hundreds of super hero stories, appealed to me the most. He can't fly, he can't see through walls, he can't do any of that stuff. He's an every man who's been given this amazing gift of transformation into the perfect specimen—the pinnacle of human perfection. How does that affect him? What does that mean for him emotionally and psychologically? He was this 98-pound weakling, he was this wimp, and he's transformed instantly into this Adonis. You'd think he got everything he wanted. Well, he didn't get everything he wanted. The rules change at that point and his life gets even more complicated and dire. For me, that's the interesting part of the story. It's got some great action sequences in it and some incredible stuff that we've never seen before. But at the heart of it, it's a story about this kid who all he wants to do is fit in. This thing happens and he still doesn't fit in. And he has to prove himself a hero—essentially go AWOL to save a friend... '
He said the following about Jurassic Park IV:
'Well, there is going to be a Jurassic Park IV. And it's going to be unlike anything you've seen. It breaks away from the first three—it's essentially the beginning of the second Jurassic Park trilogy. It's going to be done in a completely different way. That's pretty much all I can tell you.'"
Okay. First quote, looks okay but I don't like the way he words, "It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction." I smell Will Smith rumors. (not that I don't like Will Smith; I just don't want him playing Captain America.) I'm an old-school kind of guy. I didn't mind that they used the black Nick Fury in Iron Man and the upcoming Iron Man 2. He was the more popular version of the character (more than likely thanks to David Hasselhoff's TV movie).
However, you gotta have faith in the guy. His last comic book movie, Disney's The Rocketeer didn't do well in theaters (thanks to the admittedly better movie, Terminator 2: Judgement Day being released the same weekend). It was almost like the '40s pre-cursor to Iron Man (as stupid as that sounds, and admittedly, Cliff Secord is nowhere near as cool as Tony Stark and NEVER will be). The only problem with that movie is that they didn't cast a movie star. They cast Bill Campbell. And, honestly who knows who Bill Campbell is? They know who Jennifer Connolly is, they know who Timothy Dalton is (who is apparently making a comeback in Toy Story 3. Go figure.) and they NOW know who Terry O'Quinn is (THANKS to Lost). Though I felt his Howard Hughes was lame, compared to Leonardo DiCaprio's superior performance in The Aviator.
Second quote, almost as bad. "...it's going to be unlike anything you've seen." Now that can be used for good or for evil. Good: they take the revolutionary Jurassic Park special effects and kick it up to Avatar level. Bad: They get even worse than Jurassic Park III.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
THE WOLFMAN howls for a trailer
From ComingSoon.net:
"Universal Pictures has revealed the new trailer for director Joe Johnston's The Wolfman, opening in theaters on February 12.
In the film, Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.
Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself... one he never imagined existed."
"Universal Pictures has revealed the new trailer for director Joe Johnston's The Wolfman, opening in theaters on February 12.
In the film, Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.
Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself... one he never imagined existed."
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Gene Simmons is THE WOLFMAN?
From IMDB.com:
"Gene Simmons is fulfilling a childhood dream, by providing the voice for the Wolfman in Sir Anthony
Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro's new movie.
Simmons was asked by The Wolfman director Joe Johnston to record the creature's 'howling voice' for the movie, scheduled for release next year.
The invitation was a dream come true for the Kiss rocker and film fanatic.
Simmons explains, 'The original Wolfman starred Lon Chaney Jr., son of the legendary Lon Chaney Sr. Chaney Sr. was called Man Of 1,000 Faces, and for me was a pivotal figure in my childhood. So much so, that I wrote a song called Man of 1,000 Faces on my 1978 solo album, and my production company was also called Man of 1,000 Faces… in homage to Chaney.'
The rocker's trademark tones are currently in demand in Tinseltown - he's already landed another voice-over job. The bassist adds, 'I was asked to do the voice of the Dragon Spirit in M. Night Shyamalan’s forthcoming Airbender movie. This may or may not come to fruition. We’ll see.'"
Talk about coming out of left field!! I mean, I buy it, though it's just weird.
"Gene Simmons is fulfilling a childhood dream, by providing the voice for the Wolfman in Sir Anthony
Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro's new movie.
Simmons was asked by The Wolfman director Joe Johnston to record the creature's 'howling voice' for the movie, scheduled for release next year.
The invitation was a dream come true for the Kiss rocker and film fanatic.
Simmons explains, 'The original Wolfman starred Lon Chaney Jr., son of the legendary Lon Chaney Sr. Chaney Sr. was called Man Of 1,000 Faces, and for me was a pivotal figure in my childhood. So much so, that I wrote a song called Man of 1,000 Faces on my 1978 solo album, and my production company was also called Man of 1,000 Faces… in homage to Chaney.'
The rocker's trademark tones are currently in demand in Tinseltown - he's already landed another voice-over job. The bassist adds, 'I was asked to do the voice of the Dragon Spirit in M. Night Shyamalan’s forthcoming Airbender movie. This may or may not come to fruition. We’ll see.'"
Talk about coming out of left field!! I mean, I buy it, though it's just weird.
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