Dorian Gray and Rooster Cogburn Hunt Julianne Moore In First SEVENTH SON Trailer

It's been a while since we've had some good fantasy movies, hasn't it?
Seventh Son, based on the young-adult series "The Wardstone Chronicles" by Joseph Delaney, is directed by Russian film-maker Sergei Bodrov and written by 1408 and GODZILLA (2014) scribes Max Borenstein and Matt Greenberg.

Seventh Son hits theaters January 17, 2014 and stars Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Dorian Gray), Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Hannibal), Jeff Bridges (TRON: Legacy, Crazy Heart) and Kit Harrington (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,  "Game of Thrones")

In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. He has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man’s only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son.

Trailer for Direct to DVD CURSE OF CHUCKY

 

He's back! From the filmmakers that brought you Chucky comes the terrifying return of the pint-sized doll possessed by the spirit of a notorious serial killer. When a mysterious package arrives at the house of Nica (Fiona Dourif, True Blood), she doesn't give it much thought. However, after her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the ensuing bloodshed and chaos. The return of America's favorite toy, voiced again by Brad Dourif, is unrated and full of more blood-splattered thrills and chills.

First Poster for Spike Lee's OLDBOY Shows Agent K In A Trunk

OLDBOY, the remake of the 2003 film of the same name by Park Chan-wook is a revenge thriller about an advertising executive (Brolin) who is kidnapped and held hostage for two decades. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on a mission to find out who was behind the tortuous punishment, but he soon learns that his torment is not yet over.

OLDBOY stars Josh Brolin, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Olsen, and Samuel L. Jackson as is being written by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, THOR) and will be released October 25. 

From L.A. Times Hero Complex. 

Guillermo del Toro Adds SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE To List Of Films He'll Never Make

 

Rev up that Guillermo del Toro hype machine from the same man that will be adapting "Monster" for HBO, Pinocchio, Frankenstein, Justice League Dark, Beauty and the Beast, Hellboy 3, At the Mountains of Madness, The Haunted Mansion, and seven other things you'll (sadly) never see, because now he's with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer Charlie Kaufman to adapt Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", which was adapted before in the 1970's.

del Toro spoke with The Daily Telegraph (edition not yet online; source is The Playlist), and said that:

"Charlie [Kaufman] and I talked for about an hour-and-a-half and came up with a perfect way of doing the book," he told the Daily Telegraph. "I love the idea of the Trafalmadorians [the aliens of 'Slaughterhouse-Five'] -- to be 'unstuck in time,' where everything is happening at the same time. And that's what I want to do. It's just a catch-22. The studio will make it when it''s my next movie, but how can I commit to it being my next movie until there's a screenplay? Charlie Kaufman is a very expensive writer!"

This is also part of a 4-picture deal signed in 2008 according to The Playlist.

The synopsis for the 1972 adaption of Slaughterhouse-Five reads:

Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.

International Trailer For DRIVE Sequel: ONLY GOD FORGIVES. Real Human Being in China.

 

In 2011 the internet was graced with director Nicolas Winding Refn's comedy gold-mine DRIVE which inspired many out of shape, hairy, balding losers to buy a cool scorpion jacket (I did, it just arrived on Friday), well, now we have Only God Forgives which will inspire many more fedora-wearing cinema goers to walk around in a suit that doesn't fit and a disgusting patch of facial hair, challenging Chinese businessmen to fight.

Only God Forgives saunters weirdly into theaters  on July 19; and will probably play at one of those weird theaters you kind of don't want to go to; or it will be in the local megaplex in the screen that's furthest down the long maze of hallways. 

Chill, Guys, James O'Barr Is On Board With THE CROW.

 

Q: "How do you make nerds pop blood vessels, over-react, and scream murder?"
 
A: "Have Super Man destroy buildings or kill someone" 

A: "Suggest anyone remake or re-imagine anything"

Well that's what's been going on for the past few years with Relativity Media's planned remake of the classic 1993 film The Crow that starred Brandon Lee, based on the comic book by James O'Barr.

The remake, which was previously brought back from the dead much like it's protagonist after a failed turn with Bradley Cooper attached, is now set to star Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6, The Three Musketeers, Immortals) with  F. Javier Gutierrez directing and Cliff Dorman writing the screenplay

Variety got the scoop though that a familair face to The Crow's world, the creator himself, James O'Barr, will be on-board the remake.

“It is important for ‘Crow’ fans to understand that Relativity, Javier, Luke and the entire team are working on a new adaptation of the book itself,” said O’Barr in a statement. “I believe that this movie will stand alongside Brandon and his film as a valid work of art, and I look forward to collaborating on the project.”

Variety also reports that O'Barr and Gutierrez are set to appear at Comic Con this summer to talk to fans and audiences alike about the remake.

Excited? Worried? Comment below.

Colin Trevorrow Wants To 'Honor What Came Before' in JURASSIC PARK IV

 

Schmoes Know got the chance to ask Colin Trevorrow a few things about the upcoming Jurassic Park IV, at the 2013 Saturn Awards. The continuation of the franchise, which has had a strange few months from being put on hold (people assumed cancelled) to being brought back with a 2015 release and (supposed) plot-synopsis leak.

Well, Trevorrow is working with Spielberg to make you guys happy, and like all directors to are set to take over a franchise, he wants to honor what came before.

"It's incredible to have Steven [Spielberg], who's done this for decades and has such an incredible filmic knowledge and just understands the language of story in a way that for us is very refreshing," says Trevorrow. "It's not like getting notes from a studio executive; it's really just trying to crack this and make it the best it can be."

"We don't want to create a new scoop here, but we definitely want to honor what came before us,"Trevorrow continues. "We are very aware of how much a certain generation especially cares about this movie, and we talk about it all the time, and really the conversation is: It’s not about us, it’s not about our careers, it’s 'How do we make something that can stand with the first one?'."

Jurassic Park IV roars into theaters in 2015, more news will likely find it's way online when Comic-Con rolls around.

"The Lone Ranger" Review

 

If there's one thing Disney can do, it's make thoroughly entertaining block-busters that divide critics and wow and amaze audiences.
JOHN CARTER was the most recent one, being the victim of Hollywood bullying, marketing gone awry, and general lack of interest from an audience that has known to accept Marvel movies as a viable source of nutrients, and deny everything remotely interesting or fun.

The Lone Ranger was getting shit before it was even released, as all Disney live-action ventures do (it's the cool thing if you're a movie critic to hate Disney fims. See Tron legacy, John Carter, etc), and it was all focused on Johnny Depp as Tonto and a blown budget and etc etc.
Well surprise, surprise when the film is released critics go bat-shit and throw words like TOTAL FLOP and HORRIBLE and everything under the sun, like Depp and Verbinski rode Silver over their mothers corpses while burning an American flag and pissing on a picture of Christopher Nolan and Joss Whedon together.

While my beliefs and thoughts are my own; I am here to say THE LONE RANGER was a good-old fashioned summer thrill ride, that had me hooked from the opening scene.

The film plays out like someone took Dances With Wolves, The Legend of Zorro, Red Dead Redemption, Shanghai Noon, and Wild Wild West then threw them all into a melting pot, after sprinkling some spirit-sauce from a time where movies were magical and summer films were a big event that weren't wholly reliable on super-heroes.

Depp and Hammer play excellently off of each other, which is the glue that holds the film together when you think it might be getting a bit long-winded (it could have used a light shave, running at almost 2 hr 30) and I'd love for this movie to do well enough to get more adventures out of them.

The script feels like someone wanted to write the most fantastical Western they could think of, and I honestly think it worked. You have the strong-jawed American hero, his partner (not by any means a sidekick), the badass leading female, the villain and his cronies, spectacular set-pieces, a varied and colorful cast, and a riveting score that makes you feel like a child again. (I might be gushing a tad; but you get the idea.)

Verbinski behind the camera and at the head of a Western was the best move that Disney made, and I'll stand by that. Some of the shots in this movie are breath-taking. He never loses the characters in the over-the-top action and spectacle, and almost every shot looks like it could be paused, printed, and hung on a wall as a Western painting.

I don't want to get too spoiler heavy on plot and character development; but it's all there in a nice bow. Depp's character actually has a really justifiable reason to "be a Jack Sparrow clone" as so many say; and Tonto's back story highlights some of the fims darkest and most emotional parts.
Tonto is also crucial to who The Ranger becomes and how, and it's all very fun to watch on screen, as well as William Fitchner and Tom Wilkinson who play off each other too well as old-west monsters who get their comeuppance in a classic Hollywood fashion.

If you're not in the mood for kid's movies, have a few hours, and don't mind going into a film with an open mind, I can't see why you wouldn't enjoy The Lone Ranger.

Ron Perlman Plays Himself In New Light-Hearted PACIFIC RIM Spot About Black Market Organs

 

In a viral video put out today to expand the PACIFIC RIM universe outside of Jax Teller scowling angrily at CGI Monsters, comes Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau, a black market salesman who is in essence the guy from the "Mens Warehouse" Commercials; but instead of selling suits, what he's selling are organs, fluids, and parts from the terrifying Kaiju monsters.

Sadly this still isn't Hellboy 3.

Guillermo Del Toro Really Into Monsters In New PACIFIC RIM Featurette

 

As the release date to PACIFIC RIM draws closer, we get more and more TV spots and featurettes that are basically "You should know by now if you're seeing this movie, here's more shit" and this one is all about the Kaiju, the monsters that humanity goes toe-to-toe against in WB/Legendary's summer blockbuster due out July 12 (where it will be beat in the box-office by a shitty Adam Sandler movie)

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.