With super hotties Julia Voth, Erin Cummings and Ameríca Olivo just sexing up the screen in Bitch Slap, you will finally get a chance to catch the movie at a theater near you.
Well that is if you happen to be near or in one of the cities that the January 8th limited Theatrical release is being played at.
If you haven’t heard of this film, I welcome you as a new reader here. We have been raving about this since before John Campea lured two of its stars (Voth and cummings) to be in his own film The Anniversary.
Check out the trailer because its just too fun not to.
Even though John is biased, simply by standing within 10 feet of these staggering women, I myself have not been privy to meeting them and therefore remain a critical bystander who is just ravingly jonesed about this film.
The one role left to cast for Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is actually three roles. Thor’s Warriors Three once held the ranks of TV’s Chuck Zachary Levi, but is now being played by Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano!
Right after Zachary Levi admitted that he wouldn’t be joining Thor’s warriors, the news came out that Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano will be playing Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun. Also known as the Warriors Three, who have Thor’s back in any scrap. Not that we have anything against Chuck — it’s just that these brutes seem more apt for the job.
This is a win-win for me. While I was curious to see Levi as one of the Warriors Three just to see what he does with it, his absensce means the early return of Chuck, and it sounds like a suitable replacement.
I like this group, and look forward to seeing them in full Warrior’s regalia!
Keanu Reeves will be working his digitally aquired Kung Fu in a different type of action film as Carl Rinsch (the guy who was supposed to do the Alien Prequel) has been signed on to direct 47 Ronin.
Actioner “47 Ronin” tells the famous fact-based story of a band of samurai swordsmen who avenge the death of their master in 18th century Japan. The Chris Morgan (”Wanted”) script was tailored so that the half-Asian Reeves can play one of the swordsmen. The picture mixes the fantastical elements of films like “The Lord of the Rings” with battle scenes of the sort found in “Gladiator” and “300.”
I think that one day Keanu Reeves will show us why he keeps getting films. I know everyone will talk about his wooden acting or making clever comparisons to a tree branch or stump of wood. But thats so 2008.
Instead we will just make presumptions about his mediocre acting skills and throw blind optimism to the wind. It will then sound like this:
This is the role we have all been dying to see Keanu in. This will be guaranteed to top Tom Cruise’s heartfelt Samurai epic and deliver action and sensitivity to the genre. Good on ya Keanu. I look forward to it.
Other than that, I have nothing. No expectations, which might put me in a position to be surprised with this film. And now that it has a commercial director attached, I can only hope that he gets as much blind optimism that Neill Blomkamp got and maybe he will churn out a film just as good.
Now normally we don’t talk about the video games until they are being considered or even rumoured to be made into a feature film. But this is one upcoming game that I think would make a GREAT adaptation to a movie just because of how silly it is!
In the vein of Turok and Call of Duty comes the twisted bastard child of Nazi rape and Jurassic Park. Dino D-Day!!
Currently in prototype mold in the form of a Half-Life 2: OB mod and scheduled for 2010, this first person shooter will cast you as Sgt. Jack Hardgrave, a renowned paleontologist who thought he put his career on hold to go to war until Hitler resurrected dinosaurs and unleashed them on the Allies in 1942.
When the Fuhrer’s monster army saw battle for the first time in North Africa Hardgrave was on the front lines – nearly getting eaten alive by beasts he spent his life studying.
Now this premise sounds just crazy enough to make for a fun video game that combines the love of shooting Nazis, and the opportunity to barefist punch a TRex in the honker!
Check out the trailer:
I love the retro style of the wartime posters and encouraging slogans of that age combined with the utterly rediculous idea that Hitler could have turned the tide of war if he only had dinos.
This Half-Life mod looks awesome. But I hope it gets made into a real movie. That’s cinematic gold just waiting to happen!!
Kevin McKidd is a hidden talent that I am surprised hasn’t blown up into Sam Worthington proportions. But his role on Grey’s Anatomy might have the ladies swooning, but its his physical presence that gives him an air of leadership and intimidation on screen. Even his voice carries presence, which made his character on the Call of Duty game franchise that much more impressive.
Kevin McKidd mentioned would entertain the notion of stepping up that role in a feature film based on the franchise. And considering the $310 million the game raked in on the day of its release would qualify it for one of those titles that could make the leap to the big screen.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” star, who voices the Captain “Soap” McTavish character in both the ‘Modern Warfare’ entries in the series, adds that he’d definitely consider tackling his character in the flesh – “if the script is good, and Gerard [Butler] isn’t available, then absolutely.”
The talk is purely McKidd trying to position himself for the role should the flim get made. Personally I would love to see Kevin McKidd and Gerard Butler in some action flick. I think McKidd could kick his sparta and I don’t think he should sell himself short. Lucius Vorenus can kick King Leonidas ass any day.
I have a kneejerk reaction that a movie based on a video game is automatically fraught with obsticles, but adapting Modern Warfare is really just a modern realistic military flick. And I could deal with McKidd in a role as a military officer.
Not all video games suck, just most of them happen to turn out that way. This however would be one of those cases where they would be adapting an unrelated script about a modern military engagement and attaching it to the insane popularity of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare franchise.
Also, McKidd’s role in HBO’s Rome was legendary. And speaking of which, while Kevin was spewing in his modesty he did let mention there is a script being shown about to make the series into a feature film. I’d sooner see that.
The internet is all a buzz with nerd rage as a casting call seems to be implying that Peter Parker and Mary Jane will be having an adorable little redhead in Spiderman 4!!
Screen Rant shares the potentially distressing casting call:
2 or 3 year old boy to play 2 year old, Caucasian with RED HAIR, an adorable toddler with an engaging personality, on set experience preferred. IDENTICAL TWINS ONLY
Ok, so a superkid worked so well with the fans on Superman Returns, so why not right? Its the next logical step. Peter and MJ get married, and have a baby. That’s the movie we want to see huh?
Well screw that shit. I really hope that the other side of that speculative coin is that the wee redheaded lad will be plot placement for Cletus Kasady, the man who will one day become Carnage. But would they plant a character THAT early on?? But they are looking for a toddler, so unless we are skipping ahead to Peter and MJ in marital bliss having already spawned their spiderkid, this could be anyone’s guess.
In other casting news for Spiderman, it would seem the delictable Rachel McAdams has shot down the rumour that she is being considered for the role of Black Cat. Entertainment Weekly has the denial from McAdams own perfectly formed lips:
“That’s a total rumor, I have to say,” the actress, who will next be seen in the Dec. 25 action-adventure tentpole Sherlock Holmes, tells EW. “I was hanging out in Toronto the other day and someone came up to me and said, ‘I just heard you’re doing Spider-Man 4.‘ And I said, ‘Really? No one told me!’ It’s not true.” A rep for Sony Pictures concurs: “It’s an Internet rumor, as so many things are these days.”
So now that Spidey4 is moving ahead we get to ride that roller coaster of doubt wondering if Raimi has another hit to get over the brief hiccup known as Spiderman 3.
In a side chat about some of his projects Rob Marshall let slip that he is in fact directing the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise called On Stranger Tides.
When asked about his next project (by Nora Ephron, who hosted the Q&A), he replied ‘y’know, it’s something that I was offered and never in the world thought I would do but then I was like ‘why not?’… I’m doing ‘Pirates of the Caribbean….”’ The only additional thing he mentioned about it was that he had a wonderful meeting with Johnny a little while ago and that they’re both excited to work together.
The followup will have a much leaner budget, which I think is best for this kind of franchise. What made the first film so amazing was the engaging characters which I feel were not as deep in the sequels. Instead amazing visuals took the place of character interaction and we ended up with weaker story for it.
The first film was still visual heavy, but you fell in love with the characters. With Will and Elizabeth out of the picture now, we will have to fall back on story and characters again.
Marshall is primarily a musical director, so I don’t know how he fits into all of this, but I am encouraged that Depp likes him, so maybe his temper tantrum over his buddy getting let go at Disney will fade and he will get back to delivering the character we love.
Buffy may have been canceled at the end of its seven season run, but die hards are still getting their fix of the Slayer and her Scoobies in a comic book that acts as an eighth season.
So with Joss Whedon suddenly finding time on his hands as Dollhouse goes out on a whimper, he mentioned that he already knew what he was going to do next. And after the thrilling sucess (and lack of studio interferance) of his Doctor Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog Webseries, Whedon has plans to bring Buffy back… online.
A casting call has gone out for voice actors who would help him create an animated series of sorts. The “Motion Comic” webisodes will revolve around the plot of the Season Eight comics.
Based on the breakdown, the series will be based on the comics and feature the characters Twilight, the Big Bad of Season Eight, and evil British socialite Slayer Lady Genevieve Savidge, who plots to usurp Buffy’s place in the Slayer hierarchy.
Casting director Jeff Shuter is also looking for voice actors to play the parts of familiar Buffyverse characters Faith, Kennedy and Robin Wood, as well as a bunch of new characters (including someone who sounds like actor Daniel Craig to play a character based on the James Bond star).
Season Eight, as the title suggests picks up with Buffy immediately after the show closed doors on television, finding Buffy and her remaining Scoobies, and a small army of activated Slayer potentials wondering what to do next.
The full voice casting call can be found over at SciFi Wire
I wonder what this could mean for the Kuzi’s threat to make a new Buffy feature film without Whedon, and presumably without his fans.
Twilight doesn’t have the kind of die hard fanboys who would camp out on a sidewalk waiting to buy tickets, but that mostly has to do with the internet offering advanced sales online. And those online sales have just surpassed the previous record holder Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith sucking up the grand majority of the business for advanced ticket agent Fandango.
And today, the balance of power has shifted entirely– Deadline Hollywood is reporting that New Moon has sold the most advance tickets in Fandango’s history, surpassing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It’s currently accounting for 86% of sales on the site, which is as much due to the massive appeal of the film as the fact that there’s nothing else out right now.
I think that the lack of competition for tickets is a big bonus for them, but this also means that 2012’s big windfall will have a significant drop this following weekend.
They couldn’t have released it at a better time. The fanbase is still rabid, and the movie fans are slowly coming around even though they don’t want to admit it. I even hear friends who were previously blind haters of the franchise seeing the trailer and reluctantly admitting that the action looks good.
Twilight doesn’t have to be your cup of tea, but this would be a great weekend to see ANYTHING else if you didn’t want to wait in line. New Moon is trending to hit $100m this weekend, which means other films? Won’t.
One of my favourite TV shows is returning to air a little early now that the better part of the NBC lineup has all been canceled. I was reading a story about Zachary Levi which talked about Chuck’s early return and extended season (which makes me very happy) and his role in the Alvin and the Chipmunks Squeakquel.
But what caught my eye was that Levi was originally cast as one of the Warriors Three in Branagh’s Thor?
NBC originally asked for a 13-episode third season, and then ordered six more. That turned out to be a positive for Chuck but a negative for director Kenneth Branagh’s movie Thor, which starts filming in January. Levi was cast as Fandral, one of Thor’s Warriors Three in the comic book adaptation, and the actor had even been working out especially for the role, but had to walk away when they got the extra pickup. (Levi admits that producers had asked him to audition for the role of the usually beefy God of Thunder, but told them no. “I’m tall and in pretty good shape, but I’m not big and girthy like that,” he says.)
Levi always has to keep his dashing good looks and physique hidden under his Nerd Herd shirt in the show, and he does a great job playing off the insecure lord of the geeks who doesn’t think he deserves the distractingly hot superagent Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski)
But he is the last person I would have thought they would hire for a Warrior Three. Sure, Hollywood stars have been known to chub out or slim down for a role, even pack on the muscle as needed, as we will see this weekend with Taylor Lautner in Twilight. That kid like doubled in size.
Would have been interesting to see Levi on Thor, but it means we get Chuck sooner, then I can deal with the sacrifice.
Back in my earlier comic book collecting days, a little title called Alien Legion taught me that there was more to those illustrated frames of storytelling than just candy coated superheroes, transformers and mutants.
That gritty dark character driven book was called Alien Legion. I was instantly in love. It also featured art by my all time favourite artist Larry Stroman. Well news of a feature film seemed all but dead, until now that we get a glimmer of hope that things are in fact moving forward… a little.
USA Today has the big Alien Legion article. (It is a major US paper, like it or not.) I’d known that the series had been optioned some time ago, and also that Derek Haas and Michael Brandt (the Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma remake team) are the writers currently on board.
Without having any direct quotes saying that, yes, the film really is going to happen, USA Today’s writer (seemingly quite a fan of the comic) pushes the notion that it is very much a going concern. “Legion is painted on an immense canvas,” says former Legion artist and current Legion omnibus editor Chris Warner, “and today’s effects can really carry that off. The themes and characters have a lot of depth and resonance, and ultimately that’s what storytelling is about. Good stories are always good stories.”
I fell in love with Alien Legion, so much so that in my RPG Publishing days, I actually approached Carl Potts about releasing a game based on the franchise. Potts answer to me was “I turned down Wizards of the Coast, why would I let you publish it?”
This was back when Mainframe Entertainment (creators of Reboot and Beast Wars) was also working on a treatment for an animated TV series based on the property.
As harsh of an answer as that was, the reality is that like other comic creators he just didn’t trust his property to the hands of someone else regardless of how qualified they might be. I certainly was no WotC, but even they didn’t rank for him.
So to hear that this is moving forward is at best a tiny step in the right direction. They have writers on board, however Potts has them working on their third script. I wonder why Potts himself isn’t writing this as I enjoyed every single frame of the adventures of Nomad Squadron. Potts suggests that this may be something that director Jerry Bruckheimer would be interested in due to his convincing CGI/live action experience that would be needed to bring Alien Legion to life.
My hopes are sky high that we may one day see Alien Legion in a live action form. But I just don’t know when.
With all the mixed reviews I am seeing for 2012, I am still surprised to see the $225Million it has taken in at the boxoffice worldwide this weekend ($65m US).
Perhaps the puzzling legend of the actual end of the world made people curious enough to take it in?
Twitter users rate it at 69%, while IMDb users have given the movie a weighted average vote of 6.7 / 10. Almost identical right? Rotten Tomatoes, on the other hand, shows a 39% rating, with the following concensus: Roland Emmerich’s 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length.
But with such a wide spread of ratings compared to its impressive boxoffice take on its first weekend (clearing its estimated $200m budget) I am very curious to see who went to see this and how they liked it.
There is a lot of comments on this site that are bashing the film, lessening the anticipation of the movie for those readers. Yet a lot of people on my Twitter and Facebook who went to see it this weekend were mostly impressed with it complaining only about its near 3 hour run time (including trailers).
Did you see 2012 this weekend? Did you like it? Was it brainless visual eyecandy fun?
There was a rumour circulating that Korean Popstar and Actor Rain (star of the upcoming Ninja Assassin) was in consideration to play the legendary Bruce Lee in a remake of Enter the Dragon.
Well it seems that rumour was true, and right from Rain’s lips, he admits that he has been talked to about it, and has yet to make a decision.
[In] a very brief snippet from my interview with him, in which he confirms that he’s discussed the film with the studio (Warner Bros., the same people distributing Ninja Assassin), but in his words, “I haven’t decided yet.”
Now I am sure there will be a ton of people making a big fuss that he is Korean while Lee was Chinese so Rain has no right to play him in a film. To that I call bullshit. Bruce Lee was a legendary talent in the field of martial arts, and an actor (who is playing someone he is not) who plays him simply must have the physical presence and martial arts ability, which I think Rain has displayed.
I think that as mentioned, they will wait to see how well he is accepted in his first North American staring role to see how well he is received before handing him such a big role. This could elevate Rain to the kind of recognition and popularity he already enjoys in the Asian markets.
There is a little film coming out sometime next year that is going to give an unexpected twist to the giant monster genre.
You know flying is statistically the safest way to travel, but what if the sky just happens to have a giant Octopuss Sarlacc monster hiding in the clouds. You prepared for that eventuality didn’t you??
Now I am sure there will be some drawn conclusions to the certain diety of the noodly appendage. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is almost certain to protest this film’s release.
The film stars a handful of unknowns, but the pilot girl is Jessica Lowndes from the terrible 90210.
To further prove that people with lots of money still care about people who used to have lots of money, The Daily Express reports that Johnny Depp may help bail actor Nicolas Cage out of his growing financial problems. Cage, as you may or may not know, is in some serious debt. He’s already had two of his homes go into foreclosure, he owes something like $6 million in back taxes and he’s currently suing his former business manager for $20 million claiming he sent “him down a path toward financial ruin.”
Apparently, as the article revels, Depp has a soft spot for Cage saying that it was Nic who recommended him to his agent and got his career on track. All these years he has felt in debt to Cage and now wants to do the man a favour and help him out of his current money problems.
As for Cage suing this former business manager, he might just have a case there. If he can sit the judge down and force him to watch some of his better films, then follow it up with his latest stinkers, his closing argument would simply have to be a raised eyebrow and a thrusted index finger at the screen!
He has proven himself capable, so why is it that he is in so many bad movies? Clearly its not his fault right? I mean it was clearly his business manager who said if he wants to be taken seriously he needs to have 6 multimillion dollar homes!!
Remember back when Star Trek first hit the screens and there was a rumour that R2-D2 would appear somewhere in the film. Clearly we thought it was going to be less obvious, but it was confirmed that he was indeed added by the effects gurus responsible for the film.
At last, here’s the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2’s cameo in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. This time there’s absolutely no doubt about it: It’s been confirmed by ILM.
Click on the image to see the high resolution version
Can you see him floating there, on the left, right below the huge arrow that I also missed when I saw the movie? That’s obviously him, a fact that has been confirmed to me by one of the movie’s sequence supervisors at Industrial Light & Magic—the same guy who said this previous sighting was just the shuttle.
I always had an odd unsettling feeling having the Star Wars effects giant providing effects for Star Trek. Its like dating sisters, its just not a good idea. But like that older relative dating a 21-year old stripper, after it goes on for long enough you stop caring and it just becomes normal.
While many sites were all showing screen captures that confirmed the REAL R2-D2 Easter Egg Cameo, we finally get the truth.
Tomorrow when the movie comes out on BluRay I will be picking up my copy and you know I will be keeping a keen eye out for this scene!
Thanks for checking out our Forgotten Fridays feature. This is a feature to review some older films that maybe you have forgotten about or maybe never got around to seeing that we just want to share. They may not be old, maybe not forgotten, but they are not new. Just fun to share.
Today’s review is Spaceballs
Back when spoof movies were clever and funny, you could throw in a fart joke or kick someone in the balls, but now spoof is synonymous with brainless less than funny potty humour with no heart or clever quotable lines.
So today when I was having trouble finding a Forgotten Friday, I posted a Spaceballs quote and decided that today was going to be Spaceballs. I know its not forgotten, but this movie is over 20 years old, and if you haven’t heard of it then its about time you did!
Genre: Comedy Directed by: Mel Brooks Staring:Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, Joan Rivers Released: June 24, 1987
THE GENERAL IDEA
In Mel Brooks grand tradition of genre spoofs, this one takes on the space opera that pokes fun at other films of the genre, but is primarily poking at Star Wars.
When a Druish Princess (from the planet Druidia) is kidnapped and held ransom by the militant Spaceballs, King Roland hires rogue ruffian Lone Starr and his co-pilot Mog Barfolomew to rescue her. Lone Starr has troubles of his own from the infamous Pizza the Hutt, and therefore takes on the task in hopes of paying off his debts.
THE GOOD
The tongue in cheek poking at Star Wars is all done tastefully with comparing lightsabres to penis size, and potty humour involving Force choking your balls. The gags are non-stop. There is no slow part of this film as time and time again shameless shots are taken at Star Wars as they break the fourth wall and acknowledge they are a movie. Yogurt (Mel Brooks dressed as a Jewish Yoda) admits the real power behind the Schwartz was Merchandizing! And when they resort to a copy of Spaceballs the Movie to find the heroes (found on a shelf with a number of other Brooks films), there is comedy wordplay gold there.
The characters are all perfect, and we even get a cameo appearance from Michael Winslow (the sound effects guy from Police Academy) Ok, that cameo had relevance in 1987, and most of you wont remember Winslow after that as his gimmick got old.
THE BAD
This is spoof done to perfection as only Mel Brooks can do. Somehow spoofing turned into something petty and without humour. I have little bad to say about this film that isn’t directly related to the lack of more spoof films of its calibre.
I also think there was a missed opportunity to have Spaceballs 3 as the followup titled The Search for the Sequel. Brilliant.
OVERALL
I just love this film to death. Part of that love comes from my love of sci-fi, specifically Star Wars and the deep respect I have for Mel Brooks for making racy potty humour actually clever and entertaining while really understanding how to poke fun respectfully without insulting. Its a hard craft to master and Brooks has it.
I am going to introduce a new rating system for my Forgotten Fridays picks.
Since all of these Forgotten Friday reviews are going to be what I would already give a high rating to, I had a Tv, Rent or Buy scale going on, but it would seem that an overwhelming majority of my picks get a BUY rating.
So with every Forgotten Friday you see from now on, you get to rate your anticipation for yourself!
TV – If you are at least a little curious, catch it if it comes on TV. Rent – If it is something you have heard of and forgotten, or just remember enjoying this as
much as I did once upon a time, go rent it. Buy – But if you are like me, and you agree with my review you should go buy it. If its featured here, I already have.
Sometimes a movie comes along that is so enjoyable all on its own that it doesn’t need a sequel. So the most logical thing to do is try and make one.
But Ronald Emmerich is no slacker, no sir. He isn’t hoping to make one unneccessary sequel to Independence Day, but two! I mean it worked so well with the Matrix, so why not?
“What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc. Independence Day was always like the king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that” said Emmerich.
No script is yet in place, but “the idea is just to continue the story and actually I don’t know how many years ago this was—twelve, thirteen, fourteen years ago—and just continue where it ended.”
I am sure that the alien invasion didn’t consist of every member of their race. Perhaps a retalitory force arrives and a prepared Earth will stand against it. Maybe they learn from the fallen technology and improve their weapons.
But the big quesiton is if it will involve Will Smith. I could deal with it if it doesn’t as long as the story is interesting. But my favourite part was Jeff Goldblum.
I just don’t see them capturing the multi story arc of the first that made it so enjoyable. Its not impossible, but I have little hope. I want them to prove me wrong because the first film was a lot of fun.
I actually didn’t mind Superman Returns as much as most people seem to. I admit there was some weak moments and the plot is basically a remake of the first Superman film.
But there is a group of intrepid fans trying to petition for WB to release a version cut by Bryan Singer’s vision of the movie. Now petitions are about as effective as asking Uwe Boll to stop making movies but it is interesting to consider it.
The website SupermanReturnsTheBryansingerCut is asking fans of the film to sign a petition to get Warner brothers to release the director’s cut of the film. I know a lot of people didn’t like Superman Returns so they won’t give a crap. But I’m always down to see the movie the director wanted me to see.
I would be willing to give a chance to a Director’s Cut of Superman Returns.
Here is the clumsy fake trailer the enthusasts put together with some of the concept art and speculate on what a Singer Cut would look like.
I know a lot of people didn’t care for Superman Returns, and its far from a perfect movie. But what if the Singer Cut made it feel completely different? Obviously he wouldnt be cutting out things like Superkid, so that you would still have to deal with.
Could this change the feeling of a Superman Reboot?
James Cameron is getting a LOT of attention for the upcoming Avatar. The film has been long in the waiting and we are close to the finish line with mixed results over how big this film is, and is going to be.
even before the Oscar nomination process really gets going, there are smaller awards bodies that are taking the Avatar hype to the bank. Director James Cameron will be receiving three awards for Avatar over the next month, according to Variety: the New York Women in Film and Television Muse Award, the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s modern master award, and the Visual Effects Society’s lifetime achievement award.
Its like Spaceballs! The movie can come out even before its made!
But honestly the Visual Effects Society is not giving Avatar the award, but rather Cameron himself. Avatar’s hype might have something to do with triggering this honour, but it is Cameron getting it, not the film.
I am confused as to just what qualifies James Cameron for the NY Women in Film and Television Muse award. He inspired a woman in TV or Film? And likewise, the Santa Barbara Film Festival Modern Master?
Are they just making up awards now? I thought that was just for the commercial that is the MTV awards that give out category awards like “Most Anticipated Film with Iron Man in it” awards.
I am not saying James Cameron doesn’t deserve recognition, but some seem a little too vague to be proud of.
With super hotties Julia Voth, Erin Cummings and Ameríca Olivo just sexing up the screen in Bitch Slap, you will finally get a chance to catch the movie at a theater near you.
The one role left to cast for Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is actually three roles. Thor’s Warriors Three once held the ranks of TV’s Chuck Zachary Levi, but is now being played by Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano!
Keanu Reeves will be working his digitally aquired Kung Fu in a different type of action film as Carl Rinsch (the guy who was supposed to do the Alien Prequel) has been signed on to direct 47 Ronin.
Now normally we don’t talk about the video games until they are being considered or even rumoured to be made into a feature film. But this is one upcoming game that I think would make a GREAT adaptation to a movie just because of how silly it is!
Kevin McKidd is a hidden talent that I am surprised hasn’t blown up into Sam Worthington proportions. But his role on Grey’s Anatomy might have the ladies swooning, but its his physical presence that gives him an air of leadership and intimidation on screen. Even his voice carries presence, which made his character on the Call of Duty game franchise that much more impressive.
The internet is all a buzz with nerd rage as a casting call seems to be implying that Peter Parker and Mary Jane will be having an adorable little redhead in Spiderman 4!!
In a side chat about some of his projects Rob Marshall let slip that he is in fact directing the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise called On Stranger Tides.
Buffy may have been canceled at the end of its seven season run, but die hards are still getting their fix of the Slayer and her Scoobies in a comic book that acts as an eighth season. 
Twilight doesn’t have the kind of die hard fanboys who would camp out on a sidewalk waiting to buy tickets, but that mostly has to do with the internet offering advanced sales online. And those online sales have just surpassed the previous record holder Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith sucking up the grand majority of the business for advanced ticket agent Fandango.
One of my favourite TV shows is returning to air a little early now that the better part of the NBC lineup has all been canceled. I was reading a story about Zachary Levi which talked about Chuck’s early return and extended season (which makes me very happy) and his role in the Alvin and the Chipmunks Squeakquel. 
Back in my earlier comic book collecting days, a little title called Alien Legion taught me that there was more to those illustrated frames of storytelling than just candy coated superheroes, transformers and mutants. 
With all the mixed reviews I am seeing for 2012, I am still surprised to see the $225Million it has taken in at the boxoffice worldwide this weekend ($65m US).
There was a rumour circulating that Korean Popstar and Actor Rain (star of the upcoming Ninja Assassin) was in consideration to play the legendary Bruce Lee in a remake of Enter the Dragon.
There is a little film coming out sometime next year that is going to give an unexpected twist to the giant monster genre.
Here is the answer to the financial instability. Forget government Bailout programs, I say we turn to Celebrity Bailout programs!!
Remember back when Star Trek first hit the screens and there was a rumour that R2-D2 would appear somewhere in the film. Clearly we thought it was going to be less obvious, but it was confirmed that he was indeed added by the effects gurus responsible for the film. 
Thanks for checking out our Forgotten Fridays feature. This is a feature to review some older films that maybe you have forgotten about or maybe never got around to seeing that we just want to share. They may not be old, maybe not forgotten, but they are not new. Just fun to share.
Sometimes a movie comes along that is so enjoyable all on its own that it doesn’t need a sequel. So the most logical thing to do is try and make one.
I actually didn’t mind Superman Returns as much as most people seem to. I admit there was some weak moments and the plot is basically a remake of the first Superman film.
James Cameron is getting a LOT of attention for the upcoming Avatar. The film has been long in the waiting and we are close to the finish line with mixed results over how big this film is, and is going to be.
