USA Today has gotten hold of a new still from Guy Richie's forthcoming 'Sherlock Holmes' , the image shows the three lead characters of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr), Dr. Watson (Jude Law) and Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams).
Irene Adler is not a love interest in the conventional sense, she is a refined woman of great intelligence who Holmes admires, it will be interesting to see how this new version, that promises to showcase Holmes sword fighting and puglistic sides, approaches this aspect.
'Sherlock Holmes' hits cinema November 20, 2009. You can see some set pics of the lovely Miss McAdams here.
Screenweek have debuted 4 new images from the highly anticpated 'Terminator Salvation'. The blockbuster starring Christian Bale and directed by McG is due out on May 22nd and will foucs on the post apocalyptic war against the machines, as opposed to previous movies in the franchise that followed more of a chase format with a Terminator trying to eliminate John Connor in the present.
The first two Images are of resistence pilot Blair Williams played by Moon Bloodgood:
The second two images are of Barnes, John Connor's trusted right hand man played by Common:
Paramount has unveiled the Superbowl spots for 2 more of their huge Summer blockbusters.
First up we have a very Kirk-centric spot for JJ Abrams 'Star Trek' reboot, I think this was a smart idea for a spot as it gets the lead character into the limelight as well as showcasing more cool visuals. Ive never liked Star Trek much but I'm a big fan of JJ and he seems to have breathed life into a stale franchise.
Next we have the first glimpse of Michael Bay's 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'. the trailer is surprisingly full of robot carnage and all the Bayhem staples of explosions and black helicopters are there. The effects once again look stunning and I am digging our first look at 'Ravage'.
Earlier today the Superbowl spot for 'Gi Joe' blasted online and now 3 more movies have dropped their spots on Youtbube!
First up is 'Fast and Furious' the spot has a few new clips in it but doesn't really further things much from the trailer earlier this month, and has that dreadful CGI shot at the end.
Next is 'Land of the Lost' this is the first footage we have seen of this one and I suspect your enjoyment of the movie will depend on your level of tolerance for Will Ferrel, personally I like him and a shonky CGI shot aside this looks like decent fun.
Then we have a painfully unfunny 2 minute clip from 'Year One' I actually stopped watching after 30 seconds.
Stay tuned tomorrow when the 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' spot arrives, it will be the first footage shown from the new Baybuster.
Comingsoon.Net has a world exclusive debut of the 'GI Joe' Superbowl Spot. The summer blockbuster directed by Stephen 'The Mummy' Sommers and starring Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller, has been pretty much the red headed step child in the fan community, but this spot I think will certainly attract the regular cinema goer, it looks BIG and the action is kinetic and exciting looking.
GI Joe is released on August 7th, you can check out the spot at the link below in a variety of formats
Warner Brothers has set Channing Tatum to star and Dito Montel to write and direct an adaption of David Morrell's 'Brotherhood of the Rose', Morrell is an international best seller who is most famous for writing 'First Blood' which introduced John Rambo to the world, who of course was subsequently turned into an icnoic big screen action hero by Sly Stallone.
'Brotherhood of the Rose' is the story of two orphaned brothers who are trained to become assassins for the government by a man named Elliot that takes them under his wing as a father figure.
Montel and Tatum previously worked together on the directors autobiographical debut 'A Guid to recognizing your Saints' and the forthcoming 'Fighting'. Tatum has a big year coming up with the aformentioned 'Fighting' plus roles in Michael Mann's 'Public Enemies' and the Stephen Sommers comic book adaption 'GI Joe: Rise of Cobra'.
I think this is a promising project, Tatum is not quite the block of wood people initially thought he was and Montel is a director who showed promise with 'Saints', their upcoming collaboration 'Fighting' had some rolling their eyes thinking of 'Never Back Down' but I expect a bit extra grit on Montel's underground MMA flick.
Clearly here there are two more key roles and if top talent is cast in them then this could be a one to watch as it is also at WB which is the studio of the moment in my eyes.
Tom Twyker, director of 'Run Lola Run' and 'Perfume: Story of a murderer' has been set by the Wachowski brothers to adapt the Dave Mitchel novel 'Cloud Atlas'.
The book consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to the far future after a nuclear apocalypse. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next.
You can read the details of each of the 6 stories at the link above, at this juncture it's unclear what role the Wachwoskis will play, if they intend to direct or if they are just going to produce and have Twyker direct. It also seems that they will most likely not adapt all 6 stories into the one film given the massive tonal shifts.
Another rumour that has accompnied this news over at /film is that Natalie Portman may be involved in the project as well, she starred in Twyker's segment of 'Paris, je t’aime' and apparently that was the performance that convinced the Wachowskis to cast her in 'V For Vendetta'.
Everything is early in the development stage on this one but given the interesting creative elements involved we'll be sure to keep tabs on it.
You can always rely on Matthew McConaughey to make cutting edge films that bubble with excitement and freshenss, ok ok ok, he makes the same type of movie over and over but hey! he has chemistry with Kate Hudson that I find entertaining.
His latest co-stars the lovely and talented Jennifer Garner and legend Michael Douglas who hasn't had a good role for years, and is essentially a rom com twist on 'A Christmas Carol' which is a pretty neat idea. McConaughey's playboy character Connor Mead is shown what he is missing out on by not being with his one true love as opposed to porking loads of broads.
I honestly find the trailer quite sparky and Garner has a couple of nice lines, it's pretty straight forward stuff but looks to be at least entertaining, hopefully Douglas old playboy gets more than just a couple of scenes though because he looks fun.
'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' opens on May 1st and you can check out the trailer below.
"If you can find them....maybe you can hire, The A Team!" And the the classic theme music kicked in! ahhh memories of a Saturday evening as a child, sure looking back it's the same plot and structure every week, small business is being threatened by big bully buisness, The A Team whoops them in the first meeting, then they lock the A Team in a room that has lots of a tools and an old vehcile they can build into some form of tank to attack the bad guys with, then it would break down to a punch up after all the bulletrs had been fired and no one hit, there would always be one bad guy for each member of the team....rinse and repeat! but man it was FUN as a kid.
Anyway! enough of my reminiscing, that bastion of cinematic excellence Fox have set a new director to helm the big screen version of the old TV show, John Singleton was on board prior but now it's Joe Carnahan that will take the reins.
Carnahan has had a rocky road since his breakout movie 'Narc', his follow up 'Smokin Aces', though profitable, was pretty much trashed by critics and in return he spat the dummy, his 3 attempts to get something off the ground since have not materialized.
This may be a good gig for him if he can work within the severe restrictions Darth Rothman will lay on him, this has 90 minute action movie written all over it and in truth that's fitting for the A Team if they adapt the source instead of trying to make it "deep", if Carnahan can make this into a money winner then he may get his other passion projects going, and I hope that he succeeds b/c Narc showed he clearly has talent.
The A Team was originally schedueled for a June 2009 release but has now been set for June 11th 2010.
In the meantime relive the greatness and most importantly the theme!
Universal are in final negotiations with Brazilian helmer Jose Padhila, director of the highly acclaimed 'Elite Squad', to direct the 'The Sigma Protocol' the movie adaption of the Robert "Bourne" Ludlam spy thriller.
This one has been on the "to do" list for a while now and is one of two high profile Ludlum novels that are in the process of being made into movies.
The other is 'The Matarese Circle' which is not actually at a stuido yet but has Denzel Washington and David Cronenberg attached. Ludlum's name is best known to movie goers as the author of the Bourne books that the popular and lucrative Matt Damon starring movies are based on.
'The Sigma Protocol' was Luldum's last complete book, it's story is as follows, from the book jacket:
American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh promptly pulls out a gun and tries to kill him. In a matter of minutes, several innocent bystanders are dead - as well as Cavanaugh - and Ben has barely managed to survive. Plunged into an unspeakable nightmare, Hartman suddenly finds himself on the run.
Department of Justice field agent Anna Navarro is being stalked around the world by a relentless killer, managing to survive the killer's attacks only by a combination of luck, skill, and her own quick wits. These attacks are somehow related to her current assignment: investigating the sudden - and seemingly unrelated - deaths of a number of very old men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them is a file in the CIA archives, over a half-century old, marked with the same puzzling code word: Sigma. But someone or something is always seemingly one step ahead of her, the survivors are rapidly dwindling, and her own life is in ever-increasing danger.
Brought together by accident, Ben and Anna soon realize that their only hope for survival lies with each other. Together they race to uncover the diabolical secrets long hidden behind the code word Sigma, secrets that threaten everything they think they know about themselves, everything they believed true about their friends and families, and everything they were ever taught about history itself. For behind Sigma lies a vast deception that is finally coming to fruition, and the fate and future of the world is in their hands.
I love the sound of this, very much my type of story and I hear good things about the book, hopefully it will be adapted to the screen a little closer to source than the Bourne movies. Given how much money they have made it is not surprising Universal are looking for more Ludlum love and their choice of helmer suggests they are looking for the same "gritty" approach to Sigma, I hope we get the leads cast soon so this does not become another on a long list of projects that get announced and then disappear.
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Tue, February 3, 2009 
USA Today has gotten hold of a new still from Guy Richie's forthcoming 'Sherlock Holmes' , the image shows the three lead characters of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr), Dr. Watson (Jude Law) and Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams).
