Ethan Hawke confirmed in a recent interview that he, Julie Delpy, and Richard Linklater will be filming a third film in the “Before Sun-” series this summer. For any fans of the films this has to be the best news you’ve gotten all week.
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Movie Movie Podcast #7: Piranetheus
In space no one can hear the Movie Movie Podcast! Fact. Just dropping some science before I drop this podcast on you. I know you have all been waiting eagerly for our latest rigmarole, so buckle up because it’s going to be a wild ride! Join Russ, Peter, Alex and myself as we discuss Prometheus and Piranha 3DD! Recorded on June 10th 2012 at The Goo Studios in NYC. Produced, mixed, and edited by Matt Giordano (THANKS MATT!)
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A Box of Home Movies in the Attic is Never a Good Sign
Sinister is the new horror film from director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Day the Earth Stood Still) starring Ethan Hawke (Gattaca, White Fang) as an author who moves his family into a new house, a house with a tortured up past. I’ve been hearing quite a bit of positive feedback about this movie from those lucky enough to have caught it at SXSW and have been anxiously awaiting the trailer. Finally, the wait is over thanks to Arrow in the Head. I won’t lie, I was not enthralled by this trailer. Too much of it seemed cheesy (“I’m gonna write the best book that anyone’s ever read”), and it does that horror movies trailer thing where every time a certain noise plays they will cut to black, like in the Texas Chainsaw reboot and the camera sound, and it seemed like every other haunted house horror movie type.
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LIFE OF RAWR!
I enjoyed the book ‘Life of Pi’ to some extent. High expectations were it’s downfall in my case. I’m interested to see how it will translate to the screen. I feel it may be a few years too late to get a huge amount of buzz from the reading crowd. I’m also very excited about this not being an M. Night Shyamalan film like it was going to be at one point. This would really make people dislike it for that reason alone. That is sad. Hopefully Ang Lee hits it out of the park.
Lone Ranger & Why Bloated Budgets Need To Stop
So Disney’s planned Lone Ranger film has been through the budgetary ringer. Originally, It was slated to be about 250 million, not including marketing, then it was shut down. Then it was negotiated down to 215 million and back on. Now it is being reported that the budget has soared back up to 250 million, and it is weeks behind schedule. This has to stop. Yes I am well aware that Johnny Depp is typically a franchise cash cow and Disney still wants it “new Pirates” franchise, but you have to stop and think about at what cost.
New Comic Wednesday
Hollywood has been looking for another Bourne. to solve this problem they actually created another Bourne. Bit lazy, but who is surprised by this. What they are really looking for is a story that mixes action with espionage. They could find this in Dancer.
Worst Weekend of The Summer Revisited
We are not looking forward to this weekend. We swore to you we would see movies no matter what and talk about them on our podcast. This weekend we will be seeing ‘That’s My Boy’ and ‘Rock of Ages.’
This weekend has already been dubbed by us to be The Worst Weekend of the Summer. Let’s take a look at the third weekend of June throughout the years and hopefully find a better time.
Did You Know There Was A Breaking Dawn Part 2?
The giant ‘Twilight’ press machine has begun again. Teaser posters, billboards, magazine ads, and the what not. Is there any need at all to promote this film?
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Catching Fire Casting and Actors Who Slum It?
So it’s being reported that an offer is out for Philip Seymour Hoffman to star as Plutarch “it begins at Midnight” Heavensbee in the next Hunger Games film Catching Fire to be directed by Francis Lawrence. While I can’t really picture him as Plutarch, the head gamesmaker in the 75th Hunger Games, I have no doubt that he’d be able to do a fantastic job. The only thing is that he is not what I would have thought for the character.
I guess I can be in on the casting commentary now because I have read all the books. Prior to the first films release I finally read all three books and thoroughly enjoyed them, but I had the problem that I read it now with the actors from the film in mind. I had seen enough commercials and trailers to know who was who, but it didn’t get in my way TOO much while reading. However, once I got to Catching Fire and Mockingjay, the new characters introduced were uncharted territory. My mind created strong depictions of Finnick, Beetee and Wiress, and Plutarch, based on actual actors this time, and not just whatever I imagined. That being said, I saw Plutarch as more of a Michael Ironside. If you know who that is, you know he’s played Plutarch-like roles almost all of his life. For Hoffmann this type of role is a bit of a departure, but it’s just a little bit sad.
Who even knows if he’ll say yes though.
Marketing to Ruin Your Productivity
I’ve been wondering when this would be released.
Head over to the website and play the video game the film ‘Wreck-it Ralph’ is “based” on. Great that there is actually some difficulty to it as you move on like old arcade cabinet games.
Enjoy having your potentially productive day ruined!
Expect plenty more news about this film on the site. I’m so excited for it.