A sneaky photographer took the following shot at the License Show, which currently is taking place in Las Vegas:
I like them, especially the ones for "Thor" and "Captain America."
My only question, though, is why is "Captain America" not coming out until after the Fourth of July in 2011? Doesn't it seem obvious that it should come out before that date, so that people can get all patriotic in the theater?
For those still following at home, director Bryan Singer continues to ramble on nonsensically when asked about doing a potential follow up to "Superman Returns."
The following is from a new interview with Total Film magazine when Singer was asked if he would be involved in the project: "I don't know, I don't know. There are still issues ... I just ... I just don't know. I don't necessarily ... I don't know. It's one of those things where ... It's so weird talking about stuff unless I'm about to ramp up and shoot it."
Meanwhile, Singer was more lucid, but still evasive, in a new interview with the Edmonton Sun newspaper.
Singer told the paper his next movie will be a sci-fi fantasy "genre" film.
"It's almost totally in place, but I can't talk about it," he said.
The Sun asked if that next movie started with an "S" (for Superman).
"I wish I could say, but I'm trying to nip it in the bud because I tend to babble when I'm interested and excited about something," he replied. "And I'm definitely in the 'interested and excited' stage -- which is definitely better than the 'What the f--- do I do next?' stage. I can tell you that science fiction and fantasy, those are the films I lined up around the block to see as a kid. Those are the films I love to make."
A fan-made Green Lantern trailer -- created by You Tube user Jaron Pitts -- has been causing a stir on the Web.
Here is the clip, which casts Nathan Fillion in the title role as Hal Jordan:
Pitts told me he got the idea back in March and has been "tinkering ever since."
"After seeing WormyT's 'Thundercats' trailer, I was inspired to get back into that game," Pitts said. "WormyT and I had both done 'Spider-Man 3' trailers back in '06, so I thought I'd give it another shot."
Pitts said the trailer took a great deal of effort to create.
"It was definitely a lot of late night hours," he said, "so we should all be thanking my wife for not killing me."
Nathan Fillion saw the trailer and was duly impressed. He posted the following message on his Twitter page:
"I LOVE THIS! this guy rocks! Thanks for that."
Fillion followed that message up with this one:
"Green Lantern fan trailer goes from 5000 views to 157000 since Twittering. I'm loving this Twitter."
Of course, all 152,000 of those extra hits didn't come from Fillion's 60,000+ followers (the trailer ended up being posted at a lot of superhero forums and Web sites -- such as this one), but I'm sure it didn't hurt.
Kate Beckinsale in "The Last Days of Disco"As I pointed out before, I am a big Chris Eigeman fan. A major reason for that is the work of Whit Stillman. As a writer-director, Stillman can be called a great many things. Prolific, however, would not be one of those things.
During his nearly 20-year career, Stillman has created a total of three movies: "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco." Stillman has a small, but devout, fan base -- with each of the three movies having their defenders as being his best.
"Metropolitan" (my favorite) came out in 1990. The well-received film introduced the world to a world rarely seen and, of course, to the debutante season. Of the movie, Roger Ebert said: "[Whitman] has made a film Scott Fitzgerald might have been comfortable with, a film about people covering their own insecurities with a facade of social ease. And he has written wonderful dialogue, words in which the characters discuss ideas and feelings instead of simply marching through plot points as most Hollywood characters do."
Four years later, "Barcelona" arrived and it was equally well-received. Ebert: "It appears at first to be about the casual lives of young men trying to launch their careers, but eventually (again, like an Allen movie) it reveals darker depths and meanings. What it also does is give voice to a generation. If there is one part of American society that American movies are usually not interested in, it is the wage-earning, 9-to-5, ambitious, competitive, white collar society of business and management. Watching this movie, I realized that although I'd seen a lot of amazing things on the screen before, I'd hardly ever seen young WASPs earning a living."
Another four-year wait revealed "The Last Days of Disco," a movie about, well, the title kind of gives it away. The movie also served to introduce a lot of people to Kate Beckinsale (for which I remain grateful). For synchronicity's sake, here's Ebert once more: "The movie is the latest sociological romance by Whit Stillman, who nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire. His characters went to good schools, have good jobs and think they're smarter than they are."
Four more years came by and no picture from Stillman was on the horizon. Now, 11 years after "The Last Days of Disco," Stillman still hasn't produced another picture. There have been rumors here and there, but nothing has come of them.
To make matters worse, "The Last Days of Disco" has been a veritable no show on DVD. A brief release came out, but it was so hard to find that the title regularly fetched in excess of $100 on eBay. Now, at last, the movie is returning to DVD on Aug. 25 and -- even better -- it is getting the Criterion treatment.
Of course, those who currently own the out-of-print DVD are putting the title up for sale on eBay before it loses its full value. Woe be to those that buy it without knowing about the forthcoming Criterion collection version.
That "DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION" will include the following:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Whit Stillman
Audio commentary featuring Stillman and actors Chloë Sevigny and Chris Eigeman
Four deleted scenes with commentary by Stillman, Eigeman, and Sevigny
Stills gallery with production notes by Stillman
Stillman reading a chapter from The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards, his novelization of the movie
Behind-the-scenes featurette
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist David Schickler
Of course, if you are one of those people who no longer believe in DVDs and like to watch your movies online, well, there's good news for you, too. The movie is showing for free on Hulu (and since the movie is intended for mature audiences, a Hulu account is needed -- it's a short, painless process).
In the meantime, I'll be busy waiting for Stillman's next movie. Should be any decade now ...
The winners at the Cannes Film Festival have been announced, and, as usual, the winners' list is filled with movies you likely will never see in your life (apart from “Inglorious Basterds” and maybe "Antichrist").
If anyone sees any movie on this list outside of those two, I would honestly be interested in your take on the movie.
Palme d’Or: “The White Ribbon” (Das Weisse Band), directed by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix (runner-up): “A Prophet” (Un Prophete), directed by Jacques Audiard
Prix Exceptional du Jury (Special Jury Prize): Alain Resnais, director of “Wild Grass”
Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Brillante Mendoza, director of “Kinatay”
Prix du Scenario (best screenplay): Feng Mei for “Spring Fever” (Chun Feng Chen Zui De Ye Wan), directed by Lou Ye
Camera d’Or (best first feature): “Samson and Delilah,” directed by Warwick Thornton
Camera d’Or Special Mention: “Ajami”
Prix du Jury (jury prize) - TIED: “Fish Tank,” directed by Andrea Arnold and “Thirst,” directed by Park Chan-wook
Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress): Charlotte Gainsbourg for “Antichrist” (directed by Lars von Trier)
Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor): Christoph Waltz for “Inglorious Basterds” (directed by Quentin Tarantino)
Palme d’Or (short film): “Arena,” directed by Joao Salaviza
For those interested, IndieWire has a listing of the winners of various other awards and prizes. Those can be viewed here.
This new poster for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has just made its debut:
If you head over to MSN, they have collected 37 images associated with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which is scheduled to hit theaters July 15.
And for those who like their pictures to move, here is the movie's trailer:
This poster, for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," is slated to officially debut at 7 a.m. ET on May 19, but we have it for you a little early.
In other "New Moon" news, E! News revealed Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner will appear at the MTV Movie Awards in less than two weeks to present a brief movie clip.
"Fans can tune in to the show to see sneak peeks from the most highly anticipated movies of the year," said Mark Burnett, the show's producer. "These clips have never been seen before and we're very excited that 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' is one of them."
The original "Twilight" and "Slumdog Millionaire" lead the MTV Movie Awards in nominations, with six nods apiece.
The MTV show, hosted by Andy Samberg, will be broadcast live on May 31 in the U.S.
While hardly surprising, it's still nice for fans of the series to hear from actor Robert Pattinson that there will be a fourth movie in the series.
This is from The Hollywood Reporter:
Robert Pattinson, who shot to stardom in "Twilight" and is now filming the second and third movies in the franchise, confirmed Tuesday in Cannes that there will be a fourth installment of the vampire franchise based on the book "Breaking Dawn."
Pattinson told The Hollywood Reporter that he is committed to starring in the final outing to date but doesn't know when backers Summit Entertainment will begin production because of the actor's jam-packed shooting schedule.
Summer GlauWith "Terminator: Salvation" due this weekend, you would think it would be a tremendous time for fans of all things Terminator. However, the franchise's television show, "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles," received the axe this weeko
The Fox show was firmly on the bubble in regards to returning next year, but a betting man would not have like the show's chances.
I'll be honest. I was excited about the show before it first aired. So much so, in fact, that in anticipation of its premiere, I popped in the blu-rays for the first two movies.
Afterward, I watched the first two episodes ... and I was just completely underwhelmed.
I gave up on the show -- as did many others -- but there were still a group of of loyal diehards who loved the show to the end and tried to prevent its cancellation.
It is to those viewers that the show's executive producer, Josh Friedman, penned this classy letter:
By now most of you have heard the news that T:SCC is cancelled. I received a call earlier today from Peter Roth at Warner Bros. and I appreciate both his personal and professional support throughout this show’s life. I know a lot of you are angry about the cancellation and want to find a place to direct your anger and to that I say do yourself a favor and find a way to move past it. Every network wants a big fat hit, especially one with a brand name behind it, and Fox was/is no different. They supported the show, they supported my vision of the show, and they gave it plenty of time to find an audience.
And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.
Good shows are cancelled every year; smart shows, worthy shows, shows which move their viewers to write blogs and have viewing parties and create action figures and bury executives’ email accounts under thousands of messages. I miss Deadwood and The Wire and Arrested Development but thank God that I still have Rescue Me and The Office and a recently renewed Party Down written by ex-T:SCC writer John Enbom.
Bad shows are cancelled, too. And certainly there are those who did not like what we did and had their own vision for what a Terminator TV show should be. It’s easy to look at low ratings or cancellation as “failure” and for those who believe we’ve gone about this all wrong I’m sure today’s news will only serve to confirm a world view that I would never try to change. We’ve written the show as best we can, executed it to the best of our abilities, and sent it out in the world knowing that we worked out asses off to do something that wouldn’t be a waste of anybody’s forty-three minutes.
Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.
Latino Review has posted what someone is claiming to be the concept art for the character Whiplash, who will be played by Mickey Rourke in the movie "Iron Man 2."
Says Latin Review's El Mayimbe: "I have no way of confirming it's authenticity so be warned that this could be a fake too! Regardless, I think it's pretty cool and worth posting ... We'll know soon enough if it's legit or what not."
I agree. It's impossible to tell whether it's legit, but it's definitely worth taking a look at the illustration.
The jet pack looks clunky, but it also adds a sense of realism to the suit.
With the way pictures have been trickling in from the set, we should get an actual photo of Rourke in the suit soon enough.
What many fans are really waiting for, however, is a picture of Scarlett Johansson in the Black Widow getup. Director Jon Favreau already said she has been on the set in the outfit. How long until we all get a peak?
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