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The week in geek: will Kick-Ass be a 21st-century superhero?

12 November 2009 10:06 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

So what do you think of the Kick-Ass trailer? And is it good or bad that Steven Spielberg's Oldboy remake is apparently not going to happen?

You would be forgiven for thinking that now the superhero-loving public has got Watchmen – the holy grail of superhero movies – out of its system, the appetite for everyday Joes who dress up as masked vigilantes might have been sated. Not so, or at least that's what Matthew Vaughn and his team will no doubt be hoping in advance of their release of Kick-Ass next year.

The film is based on a Mark Millar comic book about a New York teenager who decides to don a costume and head out on to the streets to fight crime. Just as in Watchmen, the absence of real superpowers proves a major drawback in his efforts to take out the bad guys, but the comic also features »

- Ben Child

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New '2012' movie is disgraceful, anti-Catholic attack (IrishCentral)

11 November 2009 8:59 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

Video / Watch the ‘2012’ trailer / Click here "2012," the new blockbuster movie from director Roland Emmerich about the end of the world, is clearly anti-Catholic. It stars Irish-American actor John Cusack, who is obviously along for the payday. Now, I'm no Bill O'Donohue, the blowhard head of the Catholic League who sees blasphemy in every mention of his religion not stamped and approved by the Vatican — and most of the time Bill and I disagree strongly. But "2012" is something else. Consider the trailer I just watched. As the Website Creative Minority Report noticed: At the 20 second mark: The arms of the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro fall off and the statue topples. 34 seconds: 50,000 people with candles standing in St. Peter's Square look up at the Pope, who's looking down at them. 36 seconds: Lots of people all making the sign of the Cross. Then the fireballs begin to drop. 50 seconds: There's an image of St. »

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Matt Damon, from private campaigner to Hollywood's biggest star

9 November 2009 1:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reports

Runners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar face crossing the finishing line. It looked very like Jason Bourne, the implacable, brain-washed hitman, who was coming in with a time of just under an hour for the 6.2 mile leg. In fact Matt Damon, who plays Bourne in the trio of hit films based on Robert Ludlum's character, was competing in an effort to lose some weight. He had gained 30lbs that summer to play the part of the chubby, delusional executive at the centre of The Informant!, Steven Soderbergh's new film.

Its recent premiere in America may well prove the high-water mark of an already illustrious career. »

- Vanessa Thorpe

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Fan Film Friday: ‘Titular Movie Lines’

6 November 2009 12:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

We here at The Flickcast are fans of just about all films, but some of us around the office still get tickled when we hear the titular line in a film thrown out. Many comedy series have spoofed this concept, such as Upright Citizens Brigade with “I’m sick of all these Star Wars!” or Family Guy with “That’s why they call me Superman 4: The Quest For Peace” but nobody has ever gone to the length’s of this week’s Fan Film Friday Creator.

The cool cats over at VideoGum put together a pretty impressive compilation of just about every film that uses the title in dialogue. From Fried Green Tomatoes to Minority Report, this compilation has it all. It makes you wonder if the writers are being clever with that line, or actually really lazy.

Check out the full video after the jump, and if there »

- Matt Raub

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Samantha Morton: The Movieline Interview

5 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

Samantha Morton planted her flag stateside towards the end of the last decade, with an impeccable breakout performance as the mute ingenue of Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown -- a part for which she was nominated for her first Academy Award. In the years following, she emerged as a dependable powerhouse, imparting her gifts for nuance and emotional veracity to everything from period dramas like In America (which earned her her second Oscar nomination), to Hollywood blockbusters like Minority Report, to prestigious independent fare like Control and Synecdoche, New York. In her latest film, Oren Moverman's beautiful and difficult The Messenger, Morton plays a newly notified Iraq War widow who begins an affair with the soldier assigned with breaking the news. (He's played by one of the few young actors who could match her quiet intensity beat for beat: Ben Foster.) Movieline talked to Morton about the madness of her craft, »

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Angelina Jolie’s Salt trailer now in English

4 November 2009 5:14 PM, PST | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »

Now it all makes sense. Angelina Jolie is being set up by some Russian guy. I’m just glad she replaced Tom Cruise in the lead role as seeing him say “someone’s set me up” again would have been tedious, as he was already set up before in Mission Impossible and Minority Report. The trailer is [...] »

- Liam

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5 High-Tech Operas That Radically Transform the Stage

30 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

The run of the Metropolitan Opera's Damnation of Faust, designed by Canadian powerhouse designer Robert Lepage and his Ex Machina troupe, just started. We promise to give you a run-down of the opera's blitz of techno-imagery on Monday. Meanwhile, here are five high-tech operas that, depending on your tilt, either jar or excite the senses.

The Magic Flute

South African artist and visual director William Kentridge wowed audiences with his experimental, cinematic staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute in Belgium in 2005 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007. Rendering the stage a landscape of animated projections and artwork timed to correspond to singers' movements and arias, he made the opera closer to a video work. Animations come from Kentridge's "erasures"--black-and-white drawings of silhouettes, birds, and apartheid-era South African subjects that are photographed, erased, redrawn, and then animated to give a grainy, flip book-style pace to the action on-stage. »

- Diane Mehta

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Scott, Phillips To Pay Tribute To Decade's Best Films

22 October 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

A select few movies will be given top honors over the course of the next 10 weeks.

Film critics A.O. (Tony) Scott and Michael Phillips, the new hosts of the weekly film series "At the Movies," will be honoring what they each deem to be the top 10 movies of the decade. Starting the weekend of Oct. 24, Scott, critic for the New York Times and Phillips, of the Chicago Tribune, will each detail their picks in-depth on the show through Dec. 26.

The two seasoned critics have selected an assortment of films for their lists, ranging from heavy drama to science fiction to children's features. Movies scheduled to be detailed on the program: Clint Eastwood's Best Picture Oscar winner, "Million Dollar Baby"; Steven Spielberg's Tom Cruise actioner "Minority Report"; and Pixar favorite "Wall.E," winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

In a press release for the show, Scott »

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Scott, Phillips To Pay Tribute To Decade's Best Films

22 October 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

A select few movies will be given top honors over the course of the next 10 weeks.

Film critics A.O. (Tony) Scott and Michael Phillips, the new hosts of the weekly film series "At the Movies," will be honoring what they each deem to be the top 10 movies of the decade. Starting the weekend of Oct. 24, Scott, critic for the New York Times and Phillips, of the Chicago Tribune, will each detail their picks in-depth on the show through Dec. 26.

The two seasoned critics have selected an assortment of films for their lists, ranging from heavy drama to science fiction to children's features. Movies scheduled to be detailed on the program: Clint Eastwood's Best Picture Oscar winner, "Million Dollar Baby"; Steven Spielberg's Tom Cruise actioner "Minority Report"; and Pixar favorite "Wall.E," winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

In a press release for the show, Scott »

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Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman

7 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Writer, Director, and Special FX legend Robert Kurtzman will be attending the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Kurtzman will be onhand to discuss his work on the Jennifer Lynch-directed Hisss, his latest directorial effort Deadly Impact (formerly To Live And Die) starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Joe Pantoliano, and the latest FX projects from his Precinct 13 Creature Corps.

Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.

For more than two decades Robert Kurtzman has been an icon in the world of special make-up,creature effects, and genre filmmaking.

His award winning, photorealistic effects work can be seen inhundreds of movies including Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, franchises and television series. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: October 4, 2009

4 October 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

This week:

Zombieland eats the competition; Josh Brolin is the new Sean Penn in Cartel; Jessica Alba is added to Fockers; Kim and Kelly get Adjusted; Sarsgaard joins Cruise and Diaz; Sheen, Unger and Nesbitt are Shown The Way by Emilio Estevez.

 

Zombieland exceeded expectations and managed to reach number one of the top ten at the box office this week. The Woody Harrelson stars in Zombieland and it should make about $25 million this weekend. That’s about a million more than its reported production budget!

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs should manage another $16 million or so giving the animated film a good $82 million total.

Toy Story I and 2 3D was third giving the animated combo a solid $13 million. Considering that these puppies have been available on DVD for over a decade bodes well for Toy Story 3 3D when it hits next year.

Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis, was »

- Niall Browne

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'Lost' and 'Mad Men' Stars Join The Adjustment Bureau

2 October 2009 12:26 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Back in July it was announced that Matt Damon and Emily Blunt would star in The Adjustment Bureau, a movie based on yet another Philip K. Dick short story. The late writer seems to have a treasure trove of film friendly stories, and while you may not know him by name, if you've seen Minority Report, Total Recall, or Blade Runner then you've seen the cinematic re-tellings of three of nine adaptations of his work. THR reports that Daniel Dae Kim (of ABC's "Lost"), John Slattery (of AMC's "Mad Men") and Michael Kelly (of HBO's "Generation Kill") will be joining Blunt and Damon in George Nolfi's directorial debut. The Adjustment Bureau "centers on a congressman (Damon), on the rise in politics, who meets a beautiful ballet dancer (Blunt) only to discover that a strange organization is keeping them apart." Slattery will be one of the higher-ups in the bureau »

- Ethan Anderton

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“Scene Selection” Review - Bruce Willis in ‘Surrogates’

29 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

I rarely go to a film that is so bad to the point I can’t find any redeeming quality in it. There always is a camera shot, a scene, an actor’s performance, or a great story twist that I applaud. I try to find the positive in any film because it is an extremely grueling process to create a film. Yet, I saw a film this weekend that was so horrendous that I can’t find any positives in it, except maybe that Bruce Willis is in it.

“Surrogates” was one of the bigger releases of the past weekend, but it may have been the worst. I haven’t seen a movie this poorly made in quite a while. Even “Terminator Salvation” entertained me more than it.

“Surrogates” follows Agent Tom Greer, played by Willis. He exists in a world in which each human has a robot, which »

- Alex Kartman

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Surrogates (Reviews)

28 September 2009 3:55 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »

Most of the movie's philosophizing is boilerplate, about the distancing effects of plugging in. But its unpretentious earnestness gives Surrogates a mild kick.

Surrogates makes no secret of its well-known science fiction sources. It steals obviously from Minority Report, I, Robot, Blade Runner, or any other movie that mixes up the future, robots, and cops. It's also a little too like the recent movie Gamer, James Cameron's upcoming Avatar, and Joss Whedon's TV series Dollhouse. This particular permutation has cop Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) investigating a rare violent death in a world where most people spend heir lives sitting at home and controlling customized robotic doppelgangers. These robots have reduced violent crime -- or at least its negative effects, as the surrogates can't… »

- By Jesse Hassenger

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'Surrogates' No Substitute for a Good Story

27 September 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

The sci-fi–murder mystery hybrid Surrogates takes an intriguing idea — a future where people only interact through robot proxies — and kills it deader than its murderer’s brain-melted victims. This film from Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) melds bits of I, Robot, The Matrix, and Minority Report, but it excises all the intelligence and style of its predecessors in the mind-numbing process.

Surrogates begins with a lazy look back at its futuristic world’s history, beginning with the invention of surrogates by Canter (James Cromwell). Fast forward 13 years, and the technology created to help people in wheelchairs has now been adopted by 98% of the world’s population (apparently even the starving live their lives through a surrogate…). People rarely leave their homes, instead sending the surrogates out to work and play. While their real bodies molder in specially equipped easy chairs, they feel every sensation that their surrogates experience, »

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Box-Office Wrap-Up: Sep. 25 - Sep. 27, 2009

27 September 2009 11:28 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs only fell an estimated 18.8 percent, the 26th smallest drop of all time (of films that opened in at least 3000 theaters). Alert commenters Jm and Nick both had Meatballs winning, but even they didn't have it cracking $20m. However, commenter Steve probably was most apt with his "Good weekend to get caught up on videos" take. It was the third worst weekend of the year, and the miserable financial September continues. Let's break it down! #1 movie predicted correctly: 0 Weeks In A Row 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs It still needs another $190m before it can start thinking about profit, so they've got to be thrilled the film showed strength this weekend. It it wins again I promise I'll actually see it. Result: 24.6 million (My rank: #, $m off) 2. Surrogates It didn't do as well as I thought it would, and it certainly didn't do as »

- Laremy Legel

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[DVD News] - "Horsemen" DVD Blu-ray Released on 19 October

27 September 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »

.Genuinely creepy. - Reelfilm.com .Nightmarish...Think Saw meets Hellraiser. - Horror.com From producer Michael Bay ("Transformers", "The Unborn") comes a truly terrifying story of one man's journey into hell as "Horsemen Of The Apocalypse" is released on DVD and Blu-ray by Icon Home Entertainment on 19 October 2009. Starring Dennis Quaid ("G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra") . soon to be seen in cinemas in October in "Pandorum", and Ziyi Zhang ("House Of Flying Daggers", "Crouching Tiger", "Hidden Dragon"), "Horsemen Of The Apocalypse" is a gruesome crime thriller full of the intensity and twists comparable to "SE7EN" and "Saw", and the smash hit TV series "Dexter". Directed by Jonas Akerlund ("Spun") the all-star cast also includes Peter Stormare ("Minority Report") and Patrick... »

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Review: ‘Surrogates’

25 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Okay, I think I have the studios figured out. The recent trend toward not screening a movie, or screening it too late for reviewing press to make deadline, must be the studios’ clever attempt at using  reverse-psychology. We (reviewers) are conditioned to believe that any time a movie is not screened or screened last minute, that there must be some horrible problem plaguing the movie, hence their unwillingness to pre-screen it. Such was the case with Surrogates when I saw it last night.

Bracing myself for a stinkbomb, I emerged from the screening and proclaimed to the studio rep: “It was not terrible. I think I kind of liked it.” Hardly a ringing endorsement, to be sure, but I think that is part of their strategy. If they set the expectation bar low, when the movie is not horrible the viewer will be delighted by this welcome surprise. 

Surrogates could »

- Shannon Hood

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Bruce Willis delivers in 'Surrogates': Everything Else? Not so much

25 September 2009 7:35 AM, PDT | Denver Movies Examiner | See recent Denver Movies Examiner news »

It's been a great year for science fiction. From the fantastic reboot of Star Trek to the thoughtful District 9, can Surrogates rise from the questionable ether of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines director Jonathan Mostow and Catwoman scribes John Brancato and Michael Ferris? The answer is, without a doubt, a very confident "kinda."

In the not too distance future, most of earth's population will fold laundry, drop off the kids and do the horizontal jiggy through remote-controlled robots called surrogates. Humanoid in its appearance, the technology allows their human operators the safety and relaxation of knowing that they're protected within the confines of their home while their better-looking extensions are taking care of business. Whatever business that is, is practically up to the operator.

Violent crime, class and race issues have been erased from daily lives along with other annoyances such as looking ugly and dealing with blemishes. »

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Review: ‘Surrogates’ swims in shallow water

25 September 2009 7:08 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

It’s been a great year for science fiction. From the fantastic reboot of Star Trek to the thoughtful District 9, can Surrogates rise from the questionable ether of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines director Jonathan Mostow and Catwoman scribes John Brancato and Michael Ferris? The answer is, without a doubt, a very confident “kinda.”

In the not too distance future, most of earth’s population will fold laundry, drop off the kids and do the horizontal jiggy through remote-controlled robots called surrogates. Humanoid in its appearance, the technology allows their human operators the safety and relaxation of knowing that they’re protected within the confines of their home while their better-looking extensions are taking care of business. Whatever business that is, is practically up to the operator.

Violent crime, class and race issues have been erased from daily lives along with other annoyances such as looking ugly and dealing with blemishes. »

- Erik Buckman

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