New "The Great Gatsby" TV Spot - The Party Hasn't Stopped

“The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

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"The Hangover Part III" Red Band Trailer - A Look Back

This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

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J.J. Abrams' Mystery Box RIP?

Star Trek Into Darkness is under-performing stateside. Paramount is in spin mode but you can't put a good face on missing your weekend projections by $20 million. Even with the 3D and IMAX add-ons, there remains doubt the 4-day opening can match the 3 day (and change) launch for Star Trek this time back in 2009. This is more Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and less The Dark Knight to their liking.

The rest of the summer will be spent figuring out what happened. And while it's easy to place the blame on Benedict Cumberbatch (not entirely unjustified; he's a great actor but like Tom Hardy doesn't have four-quad appeal outside his devoted online fan-base that just plain got overestimated) or the four-year gap between films and call it a day, the real culprit is staring at our face.

That damn Mystery Box.

We all appreciate the effort made by J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot underlings. Going into a big blockbuster with as clean a slate as possible and no idea what we're getting into. The detail to secrecy however is at an OCD level. Christopher Nolan is big on keeping mum too (Fake spoilers ran wild for The Dark Knight Rises). But you have to clue the audience in on basic components like who the villain is. Nolan gets that. Hence they announced Tom Hardy was Bane and moved on.

Honest question. Had they scored Benicio Del Toro for Khan, would they have kept the "John Harrison" con (No pun intended) going? Or is this about secrecy for the sake of secrecy? Even when it became the worst kept secret online, they still insisted Cumberbatch wasn't Khan. When the film you're protecting from spoiler-predators fails to live up to the Mystery Box hype, you have a problem. Ironically, Star Trek is Abrams' only film to buck that trend.

He may have left for Star Wars: Episode VII. But this high-profile of a letdown (and following the OK, but slightly disappointing, results for Super 8) makes it doubtful the Mystery Box will be anywhere close to a galaxy far, far away. It's why I remain confident he'll pull it off. Too much is riding on this to allow Abrams to keep playing that game. Kathleen Kennedy will keep her eye out. That's not a bad thing. Abrams has shown he's a filmmaker, like many, who can produce great product with a careful amount of restraint.

And what of us fans (Read: me) still hopeful they can repair the damage from Star Trek Into Darkness? El Mayimbe is promising a scoop the start of this week on who Abrams and Paramount want for Star Trek 3 (Sounds like Attack the Block helmer Joe Cornish but we'll see). And don't for a second, doubt it won't happen. The studio needs inventory and still reeling from the loss of Marvel and DreamWorks. We'll get a third film; probably by 2016 to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the original series. Sadly with those same shit-for-brains writers.

Hey, you can't win them all...

New GODZILLA Picture Shows Gareth Edwards Hates Subway Trains

 

A new set-picture was shown today from the Legendary Facebook page, showing Gareth Edwards getting his rocks off as a CGI monster is probably going to demolish this subway train.

Director Gareth Edwards setting up a shot on the set ofGodzilla (2014) #behindthescenes.

 

Look like it might be familiar?

The king of all monsters gets a reboot with this Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production helmed by Gareth Edwards, who gained critical attention with his intimate twist on the giant-creature genre with his feature-film debut, Monsters. Frank Darabont (The Mist) and Max Borenstein provide the script.

GODZILLA roars into theaters May 16 2014 and stars  Aaron Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche.

New Anchorman 2 Teaser Trailer

Another "Announcement Teaser Trailer" for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is playing in front of Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend.

Nothing past the Channel 4 News Team ad-libbing, but that's still funny. It's a cleaned up version, by the way. I swear to God I heard Ron Burgundy yell, "Fuck face!" when I saw this last night. I laughed, but heard gasps in the audience.

With the 70's behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), returns to the news desk in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."  Also back for more are Ron’s co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) - All of whom won’t make it easy to stay classy…while taking New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Trailer for EUROPA REPORT

The trailer for the sci-fi thriller  Europa Report found it's way online today. What do you think? Personally, it reminds me a little of Danny Boyle's SUNSHINE and in a really good way. 

A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. Developed in close collaboration with NASA, JPL, SpaceX and other leaders in the scientific community, the film imagines the next step in manned space exploration and is based on recent scientific discoveries and theories.

Europa Report comes out June 27 on iTunes and On Demand, and August 2 in theaters. 

Christopher Nolan Approached to Direct the Next James Bond Film

A James Bond movie directed by Christopher Nolan.

This has a better chance of happening than we realize. The Daily Mail says talks have informally begun between the Broccolis and the Dark Knight Trilogy director. The experiment of hiring an Oscar-winning auteur director in Sam Mendes reaped the $1 billion reward for Skyfall. They saw the benefits of taking such a risk and figure to maintain those profits you have to reach out even further.

Nolan is arguably the most famous Bond fan-turned-blockbuster filmmaker, besides Steven Spielberg. And we all know how Cubby Broccoli infamously turned down his requests before and after becoming the world's most successful director with Jaws.

Be warned. The logistics alone say it's unlikely. Nolan is in pre-production of Interstellar, due November 2014, and the untitled 007 installment has no set release.  But that's probably not what this is about. The Broccolis are getting their feet wet.

DREDD 2 Not Entirely Unlikely, Says Karl Urban.

Fans of 2012's DREDD who were disappointed by the fact the film didn't do good enough Box Office numbers and thought a sequel was a no-go might have their hopes lifted slightly. 

Collider reports: 

When speaking with Urban, Steve mentioned that there’s a passionate fanbase for Dredd out there and asked the actor if there’s any possibility of him reprising the role in a sequel:

“Interestingly enough, I did have breakfast with Alex Garland this morning.  It’s not off the agenda.  Clearly everyone has woken up to the fact that an audience has found this movie and loves it.  It’s entirely possible, and if people want to see another installment then they should be vocal about that, because, it can happen.  The power of fandom can resurrect projects.  In fact, that’s what happened with Star Trek.  They weren’t going to do a third season until fans did a letter writing campaign and they continued that series.”

You heard it! Now, who knows if this will happen; but given the film's impressive DVD/Bluray sale and rave reviews, I wouldn't see what harm it would do. It's not like DREDD was made on a mega-million budget to begin with.

Either way, it seems more likely to get a DREDD sequel rather than JOHN CARTER, sadly.

Fans of DREDD are encouraged by Den Of Geek to hit up the "Make A DREDD Sequel" Facebook page, and make their opinions heard. 

Review: "Star Trek Into Darkness"

Star Trek Into Darkness is a film that simultaneously does nothing special, yet does everything right. 

SPOILERS AHEAD.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

It's well made, in terms of costumes, sets, and sounds; the cast is fun and never boring to watch- especially Cumberbatch, who totally hams it up as the "perfect" bad-guy; and the plot is fun, understandable, and sometimes emotional. The only flaw with Star Trek Into Darkness, however, is that it feels too much like a big "two-parter" TV Episode.

There's no real Star Treking involved. No travel, no sense of how large and expansive the universe is- unlike with Star Trek (2009) where you would go planet-to-planet, encountering all sorts of fantastical creatures, exotic locales, etc. With Into Darkness, you spend a few minutes on some cool looking planet at the beginning, then the rest of the time is spent between San Francisco, London, and Kronos (for a brief few minutes).

Another thing was Into Darkness's painfully obvious 9/11-George Bush allegory that wasn't even cleverly hidden or done in an interesting way. I felt like I was watching Total Recall (2012) at times rather than Star Trek just because it was an Earth-centered conspiracy story that really had no reason to be a sequel to 2009's fast and fun summer hit.

Also, I've never seen Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan but I can assure you I know the infamous "KHAAAAAAAAAN!" line as it has slipped into pop-culture parody. Well, what better than to bring that line back and use it to kill an emotional moment just to satisfy the sweaty nerds in the crowd?

Lastly, I'm kind of glad J.J. Abrams won't be back for Trek 3; because he handles action-scenes as well as Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight, i.e, not very well and you can't honestly tell what the hell is going on.

I didn't hate Into Darkness though- I really had a fun time watching it. It's a movie that puts a smile on your face if you just accept it at face value. Fun space action with some sexy young stars, tension, and some clever exchanges of dialogue and some of the best costumes and performances you're likely to find this summer movie season.

Setting my complaints aside, Into Darkness is a film I'd see again for the sheer fun experience of it. It might not be as good as the first; but It's a movie that definitely shows the exciting prospect the future cold hold for this franchise, even if Abrams leaves for Star Wars.

Into Darkness doesn't break the bank for creativity, and you won't leave the theater going "Wow! I've never seen THAT before!" but it rides a fine safe line for a comfortable and engaging sci-fi action-film that will please the masses; but struggle to be accepted by the hardcore nerds and cinema-goes looking for a truly substantial experience.

Last Vegas Teaser Trailer

If the thought of seeing your (grand)father wasted and in raunchy sexcapades is a turn off, then Last Vegas is not for you. Fortunately, I am a sick and disturbed man. Bring on, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline "like we've never seen them before."

 Well we've seen Douglas this way. You might also know it as his late 80s/early 90s filmography.

This is merely the teaser, but a filthy red-band trailer should't be too far from our future. And if this isn't disgusting, I will be disappointed.

Source: Yahoo! Movies