May 20 2009 New '9' Trailer: It's the Ragdoll 'Terminator Salvation'
God, why do we keep trusting computoids when their only concern is the preservation of precious circuitry? There's a new trailer for 9, Shane Acker's animated, post-apocalyptic adventure, and this one goes into the film's backstory--what circumstances led to human extinction, leaving soul-infused ragdolls as the primary form of life. As expected, fucking robots were involved. And you just know this guy was leading the charge against us.
The trailer:
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Dec 24 2008 '9' Feature Film Makes '9' Short So Much More Marketable to Key Demos
Shane Acker's dialogue-free 2005 film, 9, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short (hey, here it is). Hollywood couldn't help but notice how charming and marketable the post-apocalyptic ragdoll stars were, and was like, "Alright, Shane, how about you make this into a feature film? One thing though: maybe to 'punch it up' a bit, add dialogue, and have that dialogue be read by notable celebrities. And make the lead character a puppy that wears sunglasses."
Here's the trailer:
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Nov 25 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' or This Lazy Poster
Movie poster designers, there's been a misunderstanding. When myself and other internet people complain about the overuse of Photoshop, we generally mean that the stars are being airbrushed into a featureless oblivion, or that it's very apparent that no one is actually in the same room for the photo, or that Ben Stiller's head has quite obviously been thrown on a different body, and we're suggesting that maybe Photoshop shouldn't be used quite so heavily and lazily. We never meant to not use Photoshop at all, instead choosing to just do a Google image search for each star, grabbing the first image you find of them smiling, and dragging the variously-sized images into a rectangle. That makes it looks like a romantic comedy Atari game where each pixel is a random actor.
Anyone else who watched NBC's Ed notice this reunion of Warren Cheswick and Diane Snyder? Anyone else watch Ed at all?
Not Into You Poster [Jo Blo]
Oct 30 2008 Five Minutes of 'Day the Earth Stood Still' Trailer
Here's a five-minute preview for The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the sci-fi classic that takes that quaint shit and knocks it on its ass with so many CGI lasers. This trailer has removed all doubt that this is Keanu Reeves's best intense staring while in a suit performance since Johnny Mnemonic. So intense:
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Sep 5 2008 Bettany, Connelly Playing Darwin, Darwin
Real-life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly will be playing Charles and Emma Darwin in Creation, a biopic based on the book Annie's Box. From THR:
Bettany will play the British father of evolutionary theory, and Connelly will play his wife, Emma, in the big-screen take on the life of the controversial "On the Origin of Species" author.Amiel's film portrays Darwin as a man torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. The scientist finds himself caught in a struggle between faith and reason, love and truth.
This film is going to be so adorable with these two--like looking at a gossip magazine, but with Bettany wearing a giant beard. They should have a baby or two to promote it. Except, wait a minute, wasn't this already happening?
Jul 7 2008 'Day the Earth Stood Still' Trailer Now Official, Plus: Gort News!
If you missed the quickly-pulled trailer to The Day the Earth Stood Still teaser trailer last week, you're in relative luck! It's now available in several convenient sizes to watch until you can figure out exactly what Keanu Reeves is going for. (Autistic android?)
Now, Gort News: Director Scott Derrickson spoke up about the brief appearance of Gort (above) at the end of the trailer, confirming that it wasn't by some miracle of random chance that the robot so closely resembles the original version. It turns out they tried for that--but only after desperately attempting to ruin the look of one of the most iconic and recognizable robots of all time. From MTV:
“It was intentional,” Derrickson said. “I certainly took a lot of time to explore other possibilities. It wasn’t just a foregone conclusion in my mind that we would be sticking to the original. I tried looking at a lot of different possibilities, worked on a lot of different ideas with artists and just always a nagging sense that there was something right about the way the original, that there was something about this alien entity choosing a human form or being in a human form that had value even by modern standards, not by 1950 standards. I also am such a fan of the original film. You have to also just have some respect for Gort. Gort is Gort. There’s no question what we designed pays homage to the original.”
Of course, he Derrickson note that his idea of "paying homage to the original" means placing the original head of Gort on the body of a 2010 Ford Focus, with the familiar phrase, "Klaatu barada nikto," being replaced by "Stylish, affordable, and at 35 mpg, you can't afford not to stop by your neighborhood Ford dealer!" But at least he's trying.
Jul 3 2008 'Day the Earth Stood Still' Trailer is Incredibly Keanu-y
I've never seen Keanu so Keanu-y. In trying to take on the role of an alien, he's somehow become an exaggerated, even more lifeless version of himself, and it's very, very strange to behold. If standard Keanu was the final boss of a video game, this trailer's Keanu is like the super powerful, insanely difficult version that emerges after you beat the normal one. Keanu but more so, and all without even uttering a "whoa."
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May 28 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' Trailer Informs Unlovable Women of Their Status
Women: they can never tell if we like them, hate them, or just want to see them be naked in a pool. So Greg Behrendt (consultant on Sex and the City, there to "keep it real," and one of the few comedians known who looks like more of an asshole than Dane Cook) and Liz Tuccillo (one of the sad ladies writing Sex and the City dialogue) co-authored He's Just Not That Into You, a self-help book meant to help women confused as to why men are avoiding them after initial contact. (Spoiler: it turns out it's a lack of interest.) Now the book has been turned into a movie--or, more specifically, turned into like five star-studded romantic comedies fused into one, creating the powerful beast known as the Voltrom-com. Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, and Mac Commercial Guy form the appendages of this particular Voltrom-com, and there's a trailer for the film below the cut. It looks something like Love Actually if you sucked out all of the Christmas elements and saccharine charm that made it tolerable.
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Nov 6 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Are you as old as 70, yet still somehow young and fresh-faced? Are you cool with having half your eyebrow shaved off? Are you extremely plain, perfect-looking, or an absolute mutant, yet still thin and athletic, like a graceful Elephant Man? Yes? Then you can be in Star Trek!
- Jennifer Connelly has joined Keanu Reeves in the cast of The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the sci-fi classic, now with more attractive people. [Variety]
- Jeanne Tripplehorn will play Jackie O in Grey Gardens, the story of her reclusive cousin and aunt. Not Julia Louis-Dreyfus? Have these people not seen Seinfeld? [Reuters]
Aug 7 2007 Jennifer Connelly (et al.) Not That Into You
Jennifer Connelly has joined Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin in negotiations to star with Drew Barrymore in what sounds like an absolutely terrible movie. The terrible writers of Never Been Kissed have adapted the book He's Just Not That Into You, written by the terrible writers of Sex and the City, into what they're calling--honest to god--a "Traffic of comedy." Yes, someone finally had the vision to get rid of all the drug trafficking nonsense in the Best Picture nominee and infuse it with that patented Sex and the City wittiness that makes the show unwatchable unless you're actually living their life.
I apologize if you're really into Sex and the City and you take offense to this, but I thought it would be more offensive to actually assume someone likes Sex and the City.
