January 13, 2006

Ultraviolet Trailer

The Ultraviolet trailer has hit, and it looks bloody fantastic. If Milla Jovovich in skin tight leather isn't compelling enough for you, how about the fact that this is the same director who came up with gun-kata. Remember gun-kata? Remember how it made your private parts tingle with excitement? Well imagine that, but with a bigger budget. Oy, my pants are feeling tight.

Ultraviolet trailer [UGO]

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Grendel Is A Tall, Bearded Gentleman

The trailer for Beowulf & Grendel, the upcoming movie based on the epic tale of Beowulf, has been released on the official site. I read this story in high school, but I remember Grendel being a much cooler opponent. Isn't he some kind of monster? If the trailer is any indication, Beowulf is basically fighting a wrestler, or a tall, cartoon hermit. Hopefully he'll fight a dinosaur or something too.

Which reminds me: remember that part in King Kong where he tears that dinosaur's jaw open? That was really something.

Beowulf & Grendel Trailer [Official Site]

Bubble Trailer Has More Dolls Than QVC

Steven Soderbergh's new movie Bubble now has a trailer. Apple describes the plot as:

An unlikely love triangle is born at a doll factory in a small Midwestern town. Long time employees Martha and Kyle have become friends by default in spite of their drastic age difference, but their dynamic is upset by the arrival of a new worker: young, attractive Rose. One morning, Rose is found dead, strangled in her own home. An investigation begins, one that will call into question our established assumptions about these characters and life in their small town.

How does Soderbergh communicate this complicated plot in just a minute and a half? With shots of baby doll parts, leading me to confuse it with other fetish videos I'd downloaded earlier.

Bubble, dubbed a "Steven Soderbergh Experience," will be the first film willing to compete with Electric Ladyland, a Jimi Hendrix Experience.

EXPERIENCE Steven Soderbergh [Apple]

Prince of Persia Jumps Onto Screen, Across Short Gaps

Jerry Bruckheimer recently spoke to ComingSoon.net about his upcoming projects, including news of another video game film, Prince of Persia:

In February, we start a picture called 'Deja Vu' in New Orleans, which I think will be the first movie being shot in New Orleans since Katrina with Denzel Washington playing the lead and Tony Scott directing. He did 'Top Gun' with me and 'Enemy of the State.' Then we have a thing called 'Prince of Persia,' which is a big video game, that we're considering doing, and another thing called 'Unnatural History' that we're working on.

The goal of the video game Prince of Persia was to escape the Evil Sultan's clutches, save the Princess, and offend the Arab community as a whole. Hopefully, Fisher Stevens won't play the Arab Prince.

Bruckheimer Speaks [ComingSoon.net]

Sci-Fi Airing Doctor Who, Ruining Friendship

Those anticipating the U.S. release of the recent BBC Doctor Who series shall wait no longer:

SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, will air as part of SCI FI Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

The news came as a pleasant surprise to a local friend I had just convinced to stop wearing an absurdly long, multi-colored scarf. "Looks like I'll have to get a certain scarf back out of the closet," he called me to say, also mentioning a "Who Society" pin. His decision weakens our already strained friendship.

Sci Fi To Air New Doctor Who [Sci Fi Wire]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a new movie

You'd think a new CGI TMNT movie would be enough to make me crap my pants, but something about the teaser poster and the official site make it seem less than super amazing. I know they're turtle ninjas, but that doesn't mean they have to make them look so much like actual turtles. Whoever's animating this thing should give serious thought to shortening the neck and adding on 15 lbs of muscle. And maybe putting in a huge boner. Because everybody knows that ninjas always sport giant boners.