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Despicable Me

2010-07-18T02:42:00.000-07:00

n a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world's greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. Written by Universal Pictures

Wanted 2

2009-06-15T02:25:00.000-07:00

Bekmambetov Prepares Wanted 2

Source: RIA Novosti, Russia InfoCentre

, comingsoon.net

Russian newsite RIA Novosti had a chance to talk to that country's biggest filmmaker Timur Bekmabetov recently, and he told them that he has started preparations on making the sequel to the 2008 summer hit Wanted and that they've found a way to bring Angelina Jolie's character back.

Talking about the tentatively-titled Wanted 2, Bekmambetov told them, "In July we will start preparation for the film. I think in the late autumn or winter shooting will be performed. The shooting will take place in America, India and Russia."

Besides Jolie's character, Fox, Bekmambetov hopes to bring back the character played by Kostya Khabenskiy, who also starred in Bekmambetov's breakout films Night Watch and Day Watch, as well as introducing new characters. The sequel reportedly has a $150 million budget, which is the biggest Hollywood production made by a Russian filmmaker, and Bekmambetov will once again have Russian crew involved in all aspects of production.

Two Halloween II TV Spots Online

2009-06-15T02:12:00.000-07:00

Halloween II
Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com, coomingsoon.net

ShockTillYouDrop.com (via Club Scout) has posted two TV spots for Rob Zombie's Halloween II, opening in theaters on August 28th. The sequel stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Danielle Harris, Daniel Roebuck, Ezra Buzzington, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, Dayton Callie, Richard Brake, Matt Bush and Howard Hesseman.

Click here to watch the TV spots!

Harry Potter and the Plummeting Shares

2009-06-11T00:48:00.000-07:00

Delays...
Source: Chris Tilly, ign.com

UK, June 9, 2009 - The IMAX release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been delayed by two weeks in the United States, causing the company's share price to plummet.

The film opens on regular screens on July 14, but due to a clash with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the film won't be hitting IMAX until July 29.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, shares dropped 4 percent to $7.31 following a Wall Street analyst's claim that the delay "should negatively impact IMAX box office results."

Abrams and Cruise - reuniting for Mission Impossible 4!

2009-06-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

Another mission...
Source: SpoilerTV, comingsoon.net

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams tells TV Guide that he will be producing the fourth "Mission: Impossible" film.

"I am incredibly honored that Tom has invited me back as a producer on 'Mission: Impossible 4,'" said Abrams, who directed 2006's Mission Impossible 3, but hasn't yet committed to directing the fourth.

"Tom and I have come up with a really cool idea we are pursuing," he added.

The third film cost about $150 million to make and earned $397.8 million worldwide. The first pic pulled in $457.7 million worldwide on a $80 million budget and the second took in $546.3 million on a $125 million budget. That's a lot!

Movie: Transformers 2

2009-06-08T02:00:00.000-07:00

Transformers 2 - Michael says...

Source: Michael Bay

Hey everyone,

In Japan today. After a month and half seven days a week most days going till midnight me and my crew have just about finished Transformers. I have never seen such a level of dedication from every crew member in a movie before.

Even today after the press in Japan and right before the premiere tonight, I have to sneak out to a digital house to approve the last few effect shots.

It has been a long hard road, but really fun one to travel. What you will notice that is strikingly different than Transformers 1, is the level of animation detail. The robot characters (42 in all), you really can feel empathy for them. What is also very different is the sheer scale of the movie. We have been very tight holding back much of the best imagery in commercials and trailers.

The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens.

For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes.

Haters beware.

Michael

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Spider-Man 4 NEWS: Black on Dunst, Villain

2009-06-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

Go again, spidey!
Source: New York Post, comingsoon.net

Everyone's getting in on the action trying to guess what to expect from Sam Raimi's return to the Marvel superhero franchise with Spider-Man 4, slated for release on May 6, 2011. It's obviously still very early in development, but that didn't stop the New York Post from asking Sony producer Todd Black a few questions in order to clear up some of the rumors that have been circulating.

In the article, Black confirms that Kirsten Dunst is definitely on board, but that there are no plans to have a wedding between Peter Parker and Mary Jane in the forthcoming movie. He also squashed the rumors that Morbius the Living Vampire will be the villain in the movie, but that the villain will be very New York centric.

This is what he told the Post about the potential villain: "We're just coming up with who the villain's going to be now. We'll be shooting in New York again. Trust me, people will appreciate who we pick, because it'll be a big part of New York."

So who do you think the villain may be? In the article, they speculate it could be either Kraven the Hunter or the Kingpin, although one should probably assume the latter is still owned by Fox as part of the "Daredevil" deal. Still, maybe it will be some sort of New York City mob/crime storyline in the next movie, and there are plenty of Spider-Man villains that fit the bill like Hammerhead and The Enforcers. Discuss it below.

Mickey Rourke talks about Iron Man 2

2009-06-07T14:32:00.000-07:00

Mickey Rourke about Iron Man 2...

Source: The Guardian

The Guardian spoke to Mickey Rourke about playing a villain in Iron Man 2. Here's an excerpt from the interview:

And Iron Man 2, in which he plays Tony Stark's tattooed Russian nemesis, Ivan, is possibly the biggest movie yet in Rourke's new career. For Rourke this means going to Russia, drinking vodka and visiting jails to study prison tattoos and find his character's tics. "I decided to do half my role in Russian," he beams, "and that's hard because the Russian language doesn't roll off the English-speaking tongue very easily. I spent three hours a day with a teacher, and after two weeks I know four sentences! Let me see, it's sort of like... 'Yezzamee menya... Yezzamee manya obott... Er, nemaboootty menya...'"

This goes on for quite some time. "It means," he says, finally, "If someone kills me, don't wake me up, because I'd rather be dead than live in your world."

Movie: The Taking of Pelham 123

2009-06-07T14:21:00.000-07:00

Another hostage movie...

Director: Tony Scott

Writers: Brian Helgeland and John Godey

Release Date: 12 June 2009

Plot: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garbe into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime

Starring: Denzel Washington as Walter Garber and John Travolta as Ryder
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Famous Movies, famous quotes...

2009-06-07T03:21:00.000-07:00

"At my signal, unleash hell."
Gladiator, spoken by Russell Crowe

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."
Apocalypse Now, spoken by Robert Duvall

"E.T. phone home."
E.T.

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The Godfather, spoken by Al Pacino

"May the force be with you."
Star Wars

"Oh no, it wasn't the aeroplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
King Kong

"...Bond. James Bond."
James Bond

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Movie Review: Angels & Demons

2009-06-07T02:59:00.000-07:00

Angels and Demons is a fast-paced thrill ride, and an improvement on the last Dan Brown adaptation, but the storyline too often wavers between implausible and ridiculous, and does not translate effectively to the big screen.

"If the world could be rendered as simple as "Angels & Demons," we'd all be living in a less confusing place. Taking to heart the critics' lament that the first Dan Brown novel-to-film "The Da Vinci Code" was talky, static and arcane, director Ron Howard and his crew have worked hard to make Professor Robert Langdon's return a thrilling, faster-paced walk in the park.

It will be difficult for this papal mystery, beautifully shot in Rome and Rome-like locations, to gross less than its phenomenal predecessor, which topped $750 million worldwide for Sony Pictures in 2006.

Plucking the same violent, occult strings as "Da Vinci" while avoiding its leadenness, "Angels" keeps the action coming for the best part of 139 minutes. Scripters David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman have taken a firmer hand with Brown's material. The opening scene, for example, omits the hypersonic Vatican jet that transports crack Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) from Cambridge to Geneva in an hour, opting for more conventional means to get him to Rome and into the thick of the action.

Although this attack of realism might disappoint the book's die-hard fans, it pays off in depicting the Vatican as a fairly "normal" nation-state, and not as some all-powerful SMERSH-like nemesis. And in the end, most of those who attacked the film before seeing it on grounds of its being anti-Catholic will have to eat their words, as the warm-hearted ending casts a rosy glow around the College of Cardinals, the papacy and the faithful throngs in St. Peter's Square.

But back to the plot. The pope is dead, and the Catholic Church is preparing to elect a new one. The handsome young Camerlengo Patrick (Ewan McGregor), who was raised by the late pope, is heartbroken.

Whisked to the Vatican at the behest of Inspector Olivetti (fine Italian thesp Pierfrancesco Favino), Langdon learns that the four cardinals who are the most likely papal candidates have been kidnapped. In Vatican security, he meets scientist Vittoria Vetra (sultry Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer), privy to insider knowledge about how a cylinder of anti-matter was brutally stolen from the Cern labs in Geneva. It's child's play to put two and two together and realize that the Vatican is about to be blown up by the ticking bomb of anti-matter.

Into this futuristic world of protons and neutrons erupts the long-forgotten religious cult of the Illuminati, a group of 17th century forward thinkers who championed scientific truth and were forced underground by the Church. Now they're back, in the mysterious person of a fanatic assassin (Nikolaj Lie Kaas.)

Aided by Olivetti and the earnest young camerlengo, while hindered by deadpan Swiss Guards commander Richter (Stellan Skarsgard), Langdon goes about his semiotic business of pulling clues out of thin air.

The story line is brilliantly simplified into Langdon's search for the four cardinals, with Vetra and Olivetti as his sidekicks. His job is to find angel sculptures inside churches, which point to other churches. Black police cars race dangerously through the crowded Roman streets, always arriving five minutes too late to prevent the grisly death of an aged cardinal who has been branded with the words Earth, Air, Fire or Water. Hanks does a likable job of glossing over every implausibility, allowing the action to climax in gut-churning shots borrowed from cheap horror films.

Hanks fits more comfortably into the role of Langdon here, taking a moment to deliver some friendly one-liners. If "Da Vinci" was criticized for the lack of sexual chemistry between its protagonists, "Angels" simply refuses to suggest any kind of romance between Langdon and Vetra. Their total lack of a relationship is so stunning successful that it passes unnoticed.

This allows Koepp and Goldsman to concentrate on what the audience really wants to see: burning cardinals, spectacular explosions and incomparable studio reconstructions of Baroque Rome. "

Movie: The Hangover (2009)

2009-06-07T02:47:00.001-07:00

User Rating: 8.4/10(imdb)

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: 5 June 2009(USA)

Summary: Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor party they'll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can't remember a thing. For some reason, they find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby in the closet of their suite at Caesars Palace. The one thing they can't find is Doug. With no clue as to what transpired and little time to spare, the trio must retrace their hazy steps and all their bad decisions in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time to walk down the aisle.

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Movie: Clash of the Titans (2010)

2009-06-06T14:50:00.000-07:00

Hi-Res "Clash of the Titans" Photos!

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided two hi-res photos of Sam Worthington as Perseus in director Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans. [1] [2]

Clash of the Titans is an upcoming 2010 fantasy film which is a remake of the 1981 film of the same name, itself based on the Greek myth of Perseus.

Opening March 26, 2010, the action-adventure co-stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Danny Huston, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Flemyng, Alexa Davalos, Izabella Miko, Nicholas Hoult and Pete Postlethwaite.

In the film, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny.

Release Date: 26 March 2010 (USA)

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Movie: Up (2009)

2009-06-06T13:51:00.000-07:00

From the creators of Finding Nemo and Monsters to ... #1 Movie in America !

User Rating: 9.0/10 (imdb)

Directors: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

Writers: Bob Peterson and Pet Docter

Release Date: 29 May 2009 (USA)

Genre: Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy

Plot: By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
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All-Time Worldwide Box office

2009-06-06T07:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a top of the most successful movies in the film industry:

10. Jurassic Park (1993) with $919,700,000
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) with $921,600,000
8. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) with $922,379,000
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) with $937,000,866
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) with $958,404,152
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) with $968,657,891
4. The Dark Knight (2008) with $1,001,921,825
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) with $1,060,332,628
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) with $1,129,219,252
1. Titanic (1997) with $1,835,300,000