Sep 22 2006Bobby Kennedy Has Been Shot...As a Film! (see the trailer)
With a huge ensemble cast, including big names like Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Even Stevens and many more, along with an intertwining, deeply-affecting story, Bobby looks to do for political assassination films what Crash did for racism--make them melodramatic bullshit (but award-winning!). Emilio Estevez writes and directs the story of 22 characters awaiting Robert Kennedy's arrival at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. With so many characters, Estevez is sure to craft a complex story with even larger ragtag novelty hockey teams than we're used to seeing from him. Watch the trailer, and gooooooo Ducks!
Sep 22 2006Chris Cornell's Casino Royale Title Song is Best of '95
Chris Cornell's title song from Casino Royale has been released, giving us plenty of time to forget it by spring. To hear how bad it is, I suggest watching the above clip where the song has been merged with the trailer footage, successfully transforming the big-budget film into an episode of Baywatch. There's a reason there are so many Soundgarden CDs in the used section of your record store.
Sep 22 2006300 Trailer Puts Previous 299 to Shame
Imagine the strength and glory of the Spartan empire and their epic battle with the Persian Empire all filtered through the mind of comic book genius Frank Miller and brought to the big screen as a stylized masterpiece. Now imagine waking up in the bathroom of a Dunkin' Donuts to find a large, hairy Greek man standing above you holding a plastic knife, naked, screaming for you to call him your fireman. Both are testaments to the power of the Greeks, but you can only see the trailer for one here.
Sep 22 2006The Jane Austen Book Club Movie
Middle-aged women, prepare to masturbate: The Karen Joy Fowler novel "The Jane Austen Book Club" (not associated with Oprah's) is being turned into a movie! Robin Swicord has adapted the book--a tale of tested marriages, affairs, love and sex--for the screen, with Maria Bello, Jimmy Smits, Emily Blunt, Josh Lucas, and Ellen Burstyn starring. Not excited? Congratulations--you haven't hit menopause.
Sep 21 2006Spaceballs: The Cartoon Coming to G4
The G4 network, in a move that would help it diversify from its idiot-hosted gaming news lineup, has acquired the rights to a new animated series based on the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs. The show will feature a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, making it the most anticipated cartoon of 1988.
Brooks and Thomas Meehan, who co-wrote the movie with Ronnie Graham, have written the one-hour pilot, and Meehan will supervise the writing of the 13 half hours. Brooks will do two of the voices, President Skroob and Yogurt. Germany's Berliner Film Companie will provide the animation.
Sadly, I'm pretty sure Mel Brooks is too old to have any grasp of what's funny anymore. I mean, I know he cranked out the superb Dracula: Dead and Loving It just 11 short years ago, but will he really be able to make a decent cartoon at this point? Does he even know what animation is? Demanding "something like the ol' vaudeville-style lightning sketch, but brought home to the picture tube" doesn't count.
NOTE: Even with this and the recent showings of Arrested Development, the remainder of G4's programming still makes it wrong to watch.
Sep 20 2006New Trailer for The Prestige Mindfreaks Me
Since the first magic trick was performed, there has always been a playful but sadly serious rivalry between magicians. Legend says it's how they convince themselves they hold some relevance in society, if only to each other. Today, we still see that same competitive spirit, as greats like David Blaine and Criss "Mindfreak" Angel battle for most retarded publicity stunt, David Copperfield and Lance Burton duel for obscurity, and illusionist partners Siegfried & Roy compete for "topsies." In tribute to these great performers, Christopher Nolan explores a magical feud of the past in The Prestige, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. Watch the new trailer, and see what happens when movie magic meets magician magic, creating an unholy fusion that's sending the Middle East into turmoil.
Sep 20 2006Blood Diamond Trailer (controlled by De Beers)
A fisherman, a mercenary, and a syndicate of businessmen fight for a precious stone while Leonardo DiCaprio speaks in an unidentifiable accent in Blood Diamond, the most controversial look at the diamond trade since Elizabeth's Taylor's White Diamonds commercials. From just the trailer I can tell how powerful this piece will be, forcing audiences to examine human ethics and greed pushed to its extreme, but set in Africa so we can more easily dismiss it as primitive savagery that doesn't apply to us.
The film also stars Jennifer Connelly as an American journalist and Djimon Hounsou, once again, reprising his role as thoughtful African guy.
NOTE: To play the Blood Diamond trailer drinking game, take a shot every time someone is shown screaming. You'll be drunk before it's over.
Sep 20 2006Spielberg Directing Another Jurassic Park? Come on.
Add another line to the Steven Spielberg rumor board. Sky News is reporting that the director may take the helm of Jurassic Park IV if Joe Johnston, who directed JP3, doesn't take the project. Man, Stevesy, isn't your plate full enough? Especially when you're just sitting there poking at everything. You've got Indiana Jones IV, Interstellar (the wormhole movie), a Lincoln bio, and now another Jurassic Park? If you're going to get these done, it's time to consolidate. That's right: Indiana Jones vs. Lincoln vs. dinosaurs vs. wormholes.
Sep 19 2006Mission: Impossible Prefers Preachy to Crazy
With Tom Cruise now officially a nutcase, what new Hollywood hunk is going to take on the lead role in the Mission: Impossible series? I'll give you some hints: he's taller, less scientology-y, and will adopt anything foreign and impoverished. Yes, according to this article, Brad Pitt has been lined up to take on the lead in the spy series best known for verbally inflating the feasability of its tasks, and for a price that would make him the highest paid actor in history.*
If this somehow is true, what would that mean to the series? The article claims Cruise's Ethan Hunt character would be written-out, with Pitt playing a new operative who puts together his own special team. Luckily for purists, missions will remain the same difficulty level.
*Taking inflation into account, there was an ancient Greek actor who made more if you factor in his adolescent boy income.
Sep 19 2006Let's Go to Prison Poster
Ain't It Cool got a hold of the one-sheet for Let's Go to Prison, the film marking Bob Odenkirk and Will Arnett's definitive transition from respected, critically-praised television comedy to the world of broad, desperate film.
When the criteria for judging movie posters becomes based on similarity to the Fight Club poster, heavy-handedness of the prison rape reference, and poorness of the Photoshopping, this will be looked on as the best of breed.
Sep 19 2006Shoot 'Em Up Promo Reel Delivers on Promise
Latino Review now has in its critical, hispanic hands the promo reel to the new Clive Owen/Paul Giamatti action movie Shoot 'Em Up. Judging from the amount of shoot 'em ups in just this short piece, this may be the most appropriately named movie since All Doggystyle, All the Time IX, which was exactly what it sounds like. This is what Home Alone 3 should have been.
Sep 18 2006Saw III Trailer Now See-able
With all the remakes happening lately, I've been worried Hollywood was starting to forget its old tried and true method of money-making: the unnecessary horror sequel. (Think you killed Freddy? Try five more times, buddy!) Not since the '80s have we seen the creation of a new horror franchise that has been so bled for sequels that it moved beyond aggrevation, into the soothing area of apathy. I think Saw might be just the series to reinvigorate the dying art, with Jigsaw becoming the new killer that just can't be killed. You'll think you did, but that was someone else. You'll see in two sequels.
Saw begins its graceful climb to Saw XV: The New Sawblade with a trailer for its third chapter now officially online in several (two) high-quality formats. You won't believe what Jigsaw is up to this time. Did you guess kidnap and bizarre torture? I think we all did.
Sep 18 2006The Invisible Trailer Shows Up
A quick visit to the MySpace page of The Invisible, David Goyer's latest, reveals the new trailer online. When high school senior Nick is beaten and left for dead in the woods, he finds himself in limbo, moving through life invisible to his peers (mirroring the feeling of many depressives and Chris Kattan). Can he solve his own murder before he's lost forever? Can John Edward talk to "the invisible," even though they haven't fully crossed over? Watch and see!
I didn't really mean to watch this one, but was sent here while clicking through friends pages when I stopped to play a game of tug-of-war between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Barring any unforseen problems, I should be receiving an iPod Nano in the near future.
Invis-a-fact: Regardless of the results of your "friend request" to The Invisible, you still don't have any real friends.
Sep 18 2006Fur Trailer High-Brow For Sounding Pornographic
In Fur, Nicole Kidman plays Diane Arbus in a fictional tale of the life of the photographer famous for documenting society's freaks, allowing us normies to mock them without all their grunting and getting agitated. The trailer has just come out and already producers are making room on the DVD cover for "Nominated for _ Academy Awards." Worth watching at least to see how Kidman looks as a yeti.*
*Not bad.
