First we post a new Schwarzenegger action movie trailer, and now theres a new Stallone trailer. It’s like these guys can’t exist without the other.
Anyway the trailer for Bullet to the Head has everything: Partners being murdered, awful puns, Stallone shirtless, Sung Kang from Fast Five, a Dothraki warrior from Game of Thrones, Walter Hill directing, Kid Rockian rock music, and old song to symbolize how old Stallone is, and a FUCKING AXE FIGHT!
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This is the first Arnold Schwarzenegger starring film since 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Arnold stars in The Last Stand as a Sheriff looking to protect his California border town from a drug cartel looking to advance north from Mexico. Peter Stormare is one of the bad guys. This is gonna be awesome.
Trailer here:
Snow White and the Huntsman made enough money earlier in the fall to all but guarantee a sequel. Hell, I didn’t even dislike it. It had it’s problems, but I felt they were all entirely fixable. So then Kristen Stewart cheated on her Twilight boyfriend and resident girl-obsession Robert Pattinson (though I really don’t get the attraction people have towards him), with the DIRECTOR of Snow White, Rupert Sanders, and pictures actually surfaced, and all hell broke loose. This story blew up, but then flamed out because of the Olympics, but now it’s flamed back up again.
Turns out that now Kristen Stewart might be dropped from the sequel completely as Universal Studios is planning on shifting the story away from Snow White and spinning it off into The Huntsman’s direction. I don’t think this is really a bad idea at all. Two of the better things the film had going for it were the visual style and Hemsworth’s badassness. Rupert Sanders, really brought a strong visual style to the film, and for it being his very first feature, I am excited to see where his potential goes. His wife also forbade him allegedly from working w/ little K-Stew. Chris Hemsworth also has that rare film quality of being a guy that appeals to men and women. Hell, my girlfriend will probably watch Chris Hemsworth sit in a chair silent for 2 hours if he does it with a shirt off. His character was also pretty awesome and can easily go off and have his own adventures.
If they really forge ahead with a film series that plays as “Dark Fairy Tales” with Hemsworth as the common thread, I see them doing very well. The world they created was awesome, despite the films flaws. Grimm does ok on TV and Once Upon a Time does crazy good. It might be the right time to strike while the fairy tale iron is hot. Also K-Stew commands a big paycheck, so dumping her saves budgetary space and will get sequels made cheaper and easier.
Unfortunately, David Koepp, the writer of Snow White and the Huntsman, may also end up as collateral damage. His job was to write a straight up sequel, and if they head in somewhat of a new direction it looks like they are going to settle his contract and hire someone else.
My Advice:
Do the spinoff. Snow White’s story is pretty much over, and I see a writer of that sequel having an unenviable job. Kristen Stewart does have a legion of fans out there, but she doesn’t seem right as a Warrior Queen. Hemsworth probably comes cheaper and his character is built such that he can go off and have tons of different adventures, plus I see him being similar to like a Hugh Jackman in that everyone seems to like him and with the litany of films he has coming out in the next 2 years, the time to sign him cheap is now. While I mostly enjoyed the movie, I didn’t buy their relationship being anything more than like brother/sister. She seemed to be too young for him.
You guys,
Our monthly Pig Pile variety show is back tomorrow at 9:30pm at The Creek and the Cave. We have some great standup’s and one of our favorite improv troupes performing. This is going to be a great show right there. It’s going to be an even better show because at the end we (Priest and the Beekeeper) are going to stick around and do Movie Movie Podcast right in front of you!
We’re going to record our cast as we usually do, and talk about The Bourne Legacy, but we are also going to get the audience involved and get your opinions about the newest Bourne film, the old Bourne films, or whatever tangents we go off on. I think it’s going to be fun any way you slice it! All you have to do is show up and be prepared to participate (and also see The Bourne Legacy between now and tomorrow evening)!
The Olympics are over. Get out of your house and live your life!
Show is free, the food is awesome, and the drinks are cheap as usual.
Daredevil is officially going to be shifting from 20th Century Fox, where the Ben Affleck film and Elektra spinoff was made, to Disney. It appears as though the character extension that Peter wrote about a few weeks ago, was firmly rejected by Disney, the minute 20th Century Fox was unwillingly to trade the rights of Silver Surfer and Galactus to Disney for an extension past October 10th on Daredevil. This is 90% great, and 10% kinda shitty.
90% Great: Marvel knows it characters, so I am confident that they will be able to make a better Daredevil film than any outside company ever could.
10% Kinda Shitty: Marvel probably has NO room for a Daredevil reboot on their docket. They are so preoccupied with Avenger-centric films and characters and the cosmic stuff, that a gritty character like Daredevil (who often does not overlap into Avenger-land) really does not have a place in that world cinematically. Also, it kinda sounded like Joe Carnahan’s take on Daredevil as more of a pulpy and dark 70’s styled film would be really cool.
Silver Lining: Daredevil would be perfect for a frickin TV show. So far, the only characters that Marvel licensed out that have come back are Punisher, Blade and Daredevil. They all live in NYC, have mostly darker stories, and have crossed paths numerous times. Take characters like them and put them on TV in a world that acknowledges the cinematic universe and exists within it, but deals with the seedier side of the universe. They all work as procedurals with overarching plotlines and I think it’d be cool for them to have shows that occasionally overlap like Doctor Who and Torchwood etc. Only issue is Disney doesn’t really have a brand to release darker content anymore, nor a network to do it. None of those would make sense on ABC which is family and femme-centric. Disney needs to just make a branded network similar to Disney XD, but for adult males or something.
I hope Marvel does SOMETHING with Daredevil, cause he’s too cool to have nothing come out other than that shitburger movie.
Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, and Woody Harrelson in a movie together. Directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). This is going to be awesome.
Check it:
We need more Colin Farrell like this, and less Colin Farrell like Total Recall
This movie almost seems like it would be a Fake Movie Friday submission but it’s not.
Red Dawn has been remade. The original films bad guys were evil soviets. The remake was originally going to have the chinese as the villains, but then realized we don’t have beef with them, nor do we want it, so the asians eyes were digitally altered to be North Korean. Is that racist? Sure, but who cares right?
Anyway this film was made two years ago but when MGM fell onto hard times, this got shelved. This is probably a good thing because now Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson are household names and stars of two of the highest grossing films of the year with huge fanbases. I see this movie doing better than it should because of that.
Trailer courtesy of the JoBlo Network here:
Those geniuses at Sony Pictures Animation. You know those guys who want to hang with the big boys of Dreamworks and Pixar, and to a lesser extent Illumination and Blue Sky, but make mostly heartlessly dumb films like Open Season and Smurfs are about to start working on a live action/CGI hybrid version of Alf.
Remember Alf? Yea, neither does mostly anyone, but it was an alien that lived with a family and liked eating cats and had a funny voice. He even had a cereal (so did Urkel tho) and a cartoon. It was popular for like 2 years, and somehow that is just enough time to get a big budget hollywood kids film made.
I am more than ok with many properties getting the big screen treatment, but this just seems like it came out of an execs meeting that went something like this:
Exec 1 – “We need a movie. Smurfs was last year and it was dumb but did ok”
Exec 2- ” Derp!”
Exec 1- “Alf! I love it! good work Exec 2. Heres 57 million dollars!”