300 meets Clash of the Titans in this trailer for the upcoming Greek mythological epic Immortals. Looks fun and stylistically gorgeous. Henry Cavill (soon to be the Man of Steel) and Mickey Rourke star as the Greek warrior Theseus and the mad King Hyperion, respectively. Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), John Hurt, Kellan Lutz, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans and Stephen Dorff round out the cast. The Tarsem Singh-directed Immortals hits theatres November 11, 2011.
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Trailer: Another Earth
This trailer for the Fox Searchlight movie Another Earth piqued my interest the other day, thought I’d share it with you. Newcomer Brit Marling (who wrote, produced, and stars in this film) invites us to a time when our world discovers a nearby planet that also provides a home for advanced life forms. They call it Earth 2. The sci-fi elements seem interesting, but at the heart of the film lies a human drama and you will see what I mean after watching the trailer. The movie also stars William Mapother who played Ethan Rom on Lost. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. There it received high praise and it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for “focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.” Fox Searchlight picked it up and will distribute it in the US and Canada on July 22, 2011.
Synopsis: In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.
Poster: X-Men: First Class (plus new international trailer)
Meet the cast of X-Men: First Class. From L-R: Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), Emma Frost (January Jones), Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne), Havok (Lucas Till), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Azazel (Jason Flemyng), Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz), and Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon).
And as promised in the post title, jump after the break to find the new international trailer. The X-Men story taking us to the beginning of it all hits theatres June 3, 2011. Continue reading Poster: X-Men: First Class (plus new international trailer)
Super 8 gets interactive inside Portal 2
Valve’s Portal 2 just came out this past Tuesday, and it’s already being touted as the year’s best game. In an interesting move, Paramount turned to the game’s developers to insert this interactive trailer for the upcoming sci-fi flick Super 8. Gamers can move around the universe built by J.J. Abrams by accessing “Super 8” inside Portal‘s main menu under Extras. Lazy? You can watch it unfold in the video above. It’s nothing particularly exciting, but it’s neat to see the train wreck we’ve come to know and question come alive in video game form.
[Via Deadline]
Trailer 2: Cowboys & Aliens
Here we have the sequel to the November 2010 premiere trailer for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens. It combines nearly everything we saw in that trailer with the Super Bowl 30-second spot and adds 0h-so-much more. In this brand spankin’ new trailer we are provided with more detail about Daniel Craig’s character and where he comes from. Apparently he was abducted by aliens and instead of killing him the foreign creatures dropped him into Arizona Territory in the year 1873. The weapon they fastened onto his arm looks to be a tracking device that ends up leading the alien race to the desert. Olivia Wilde has some speaking lines here, and co-star Harrison Ford also makes an appearance. Watch the trailer above, and hop after the break to read an updated synopsis.
Cowboys & Aliens releases July 29, and damn it’s gonna be good. Continue reading Trailer 2: Cowboys & Aliens
‘The Hobbit’ begins production, here’s a look behind the scenes
Director Peter Jackson returns us to Middle-earth in this rather candid vlog that was released onto the web just earlier today. Though we aren’t privy to specific plot elements, this behind the scenes production video from The Hobbit gives us a glimpse into the weapons and costume work, stunt preparation, and it shows off a number of set designs, many of which are carbon copies from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. We even get to see the cast and crew kick off day one of production in New Zealand. Stars Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, and Martin Freeman pop up here and there to provide some insight into what goes on during blocking and rehearsing. Let’s hope that ten-minute vlog sessions like this one become a recurring thing for fans hotly anticipating the Lord of the Rings prequel movies. Part 1 of The Hobbit is due out next year.
Trailer: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Today 20th Century Fox released the first full-length trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Too many ofs if you ask me. Anyway, the prequel tells a story where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Though the original Planet of the Apes came out in 1968, this one takes place in San Fransisco, present day. Now go on and watch James Franco initiate doomsday by ape infestation in the trailer above. The apes, I must say, look pretty life-like; we can thank the digital effects company behind Avatar for that.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theatres August 5, 2011.
Teaser: The Woman in Black
In his first post-Harry Potter venture Daniel Radcliffe will star in The Woman in Black. In it he plays a young lawyer who travels to a mysterious house to settle the affairs of the spooky mansion’s owner. And spooky this trailer is. Watch it and anticipate the film’s February 2012 release. Full synopsis below:
Based on the classic ghost story, The Woman in Black tells the tale of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer who is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. Working alone in the old mansion, Kipps begins to uncover the town’s tragic and tortured secrets and his fears escalate when he discovers that local children have been dying under mysterious circumstances. When those closest to him become threatened by the vengeful woman in black, Kipps must find a way to break the cycle of terror.
Producer Brian Grazer confirms ’24’ movie is coming soon
24 fans, I’ve got even more good news for you. Less than one month after Kiefer Sutherland confirmed a summer 2012 release for the film adaptation of the FOX show, 24 executive producer Brian Grazer tweeted, “Got off the phone Keifer yesterday [4/4] and we are very excited about producing the ’24’ movie for next year.” Grazer co-owns Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard; the TV production company backed the show for all eight seasons. Good to know that Grazer is on board for the flick.
In related news, TVLine recently interviewed Elisha Cuthbert about her new ABC comedy Happy Endings and they managed to squeeze in a question about her future involvement with 24. When asked if she would reprise Jack’s daughter Kim Bauer for the film she said, “I would do it, for sure. It’s such a part of my career — and I would only hope that they would want Kim Bauer to be a part of it.” She concluded, “I’d be thrilled to go back to Kim anytime, but as of now I haven’t heard anything. So I don’t know!”
Trailer: Melancholia
Melancholia from Zentropa on Vimeo.
Check out this eerie trailer for Lars Von Trier’s upcoming drama Melancholia. It stars a sexy Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan Skarsgard, John Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Charlotte Rampling. Never mind a synopsis, just watch two-minute trailer and I’m certain you’ll experience the same level of intrigue I did upon my viewing of it. Melancholia will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month, it will release July 1 in the UK, and a North American release with Magnolia Pictures will follow later this year.
‘Tron: Legacy’ director Joseph Kosinski talks Blu-ray tweaks and sequel squeaks
In an interview with MTV News, Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski talked about the movie’s Blu-ray release, calling it the “definitive version” of the visually-splendid spectacle. Though he worked on the film for four years, Kosinski still held onto gripes concerning the soundtrack after sitting through the theatrical cut on premiere night.
“Around the release, it was really hard to watch it,” he admitted. “I couldn’t even sit through the premiere. I just saw all the things I wanted to fix. Luckily for the Blu-ray, I was able to go back to Skywalker in January and fix all those things in the mix that were bothering me. We have a whole re-mastered soundtrack for the Blu-ray.” He continued, “[The] visual effects I’m really happy with… But on the sound mix, I really felt like we needed another week and I finally got that time after release. It’s now the definitive version.”
When asked about sequel rumors he spilled that he’s on board and early conceptual stuff is being worked on as we speak. He goes so far as comparing the next Tron to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Check it:
“We’re working on the story right now. Now that we’ve got the backstory out of the way and we know this world and we know these characters, there’s a lot of freedom that comes with the next film. When you look at Empire Strikes Back or The Dark Knight, sequels that were able to take the stories and characters to whole new places because you’d done all the hard work ahead of time, that’s a really exciting thing. For now, I’ll just say it’s very exciting.” He continued, “For us, the storytelling will be easier because we won’t be saddled with 28 years of backstory. From a technical standpoint, in order for it to be a Tron movie, we’re going to have to push the envelope.”
This all sounds exciting to me. Pick up the definitive version of Tron: Legacy and head over to MTV News to read the complete interview; in it Kosinski also discusses the sheer amount of work that went into creating the demanding film and he also touches upon the decision to incorporate a young Jeff Bridges, calling digitized Clu “the most ambitious thing in our film.”
[Via MTV News]
Extended trailer: ‘The Green Lantern’
This weekend at Wondercon Warner Bros. unveiled a brand new trailer for the upcoming DC Comics flick The Green Lantern. At just over four minutes in length, the extended trailer gives us a grander glimpse into the Green Lantern Corps. home world of Oa. We witness the giant monster Parallax mortally wound Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison), which leads to Sur’s quick escape to the closest inhabitable planet that is Earth where he crosses paths with Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds). Jordan is given the ring and he recites the oath:
In brightest day,
In blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight,
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power … Green Lantern’s light!
Mark Strong’s Sinestro and Peter Sarsgaard’s villainous Hector Hammond get some screen time here, though human co-star Blake Lively unfortunately does not. And the rest, as they say, lives on in the trailer above. Want to get your full screen HD 1080p action on? Head over to Apple trailers for your fix.
The Green Lantern opens June 17 in 3D.