Are you getting ready for the upcoming “X-Men Origins” movie? Well so are 7-11 convenient stores. Promotional images will be plastered on all over Slurpee cups nationwide in April as anxious geeks prepare for Wolverine’s story to hit big screens May 1st. Not only will you get to sip from a cup featuring your favorite character, but you can try a brand new flavor called Mutant Berry. Slurpee/Wolverine fans…permission to rejoice.
Reposted from www.andrewseely.com
see also the angryweb post
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here on the blog, but I’ve been keeping track of this movie for a few years now. The moment I heard it was being made I got giddy. The moment I heard Spike Jonze was directing it I peed my pants.
The beloved book Where the Wild Things Are is now a major motion picture. I talked about this yesterday on twitter, but thought I’d share in more detail here.
This film almost didn’t come to be. It’s gone through multiple delays, re-writes, and studio mumbo-jumbo.
Spike almost left the project and I vowed not to watch the movie if Spike’s visionary talent was not attached to the film. Basically here’s what I think happened.
What it boils down to is that this is not a “kid’s” movie. This is a movie the deals with real emotion, fear, hope and beauty. Taking the premise of the small book and turning it into a full 90min movie is hard enough, but how do you translate something that is more than a story about an imaginative boy who gets sent to his room. That’s where I knew Spike was the right person to be behind the screenplay and the director’s chair. What Spike was going to create I knew would be inventive, brilliant and visually stunning. Though NOT specifically kid friendly. The studio shot back some junk about not liking the casting of Max (the little boy) and therefore put the picture in jeopardy. The film got put on hold and ultimately delayed.
Today we finally began to see this vision realized. There were a few screenshots, but nothing would be as convincing as seeing these larger than life creatures move and saunter with our own eyes. Finally we have a full trailer for the film.
Trust me when I say you have to plain just see it. The scope and grandeur of this film is going to be breathtaking. Note in the trailer of the montage of Max running through various locations (about 1:28). I can only imagine seeing those on a large screen in detail, simply awe inspiring. The other thing that vividly sticks out to me are the eyes. There’s humanity and feeling behind the eyes. Take a close look at them during the trailer. Kudos to either the Henson workshop or the CG peeps, they nailed it. I’m very excited for this october 16th (fingers crossed that it doesn’t get pushed back) when the film will finally be released to the public. I have long been a fan of Spike Jonze for his willingness to step outside the confines of what is traditional and take risks with his work. Here’s hoping this film is everything I hope and want it to be.
For now sit back and watch the trailer. If you have the time, watch the full 1080 HD version which can be found here.
Or it is posted earlier on angryweb
When I think of Larry, Moe, and Curly, I obviously think Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey also. And I also think, “Gee, this slap-stick comedy could never get old, I wish I could watch it for 2 hours straight!” Well, awesome, because Hollywood is granting my wish, Variety reports:
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.
The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.
I know how this is going to play out during filming:
SEAN PENN: How can we be doing this slap-stick shit when there’s people still suffering in New Orleans and gays persecuted in San Francisco, f-cking conservatives!
DEL TORO: Guys? Is that light? Oh Jesus that is light! We’re not in the jungle anymore! Thank god, I never thought Steven Soderbergh was going to free my chains! Please tell me somebody killed him…please…
JIM CARREY: Look! It’s my penis! Weeeeeeeeeee! Can I play the cable-guy again? Weeeeeeeeeee!
Well, we can’t send you to Rome but we do have a couple of DVDs to give out to fans of Alan Moore. All you have to do is post a link to your Twitter account in a comment and we will follow you. Once you get our follow, follow us back and reply us in 140 characters or less why you should win. Be creative and make us laugh. We will post the winners and send you a copy of “The Mindscape of Alan Moore”. The deadline will be May 3rd!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Tom Hanks doesn’t have a mullet in this one and the movie actually makes sense.
This book was easily one of my favorites as a kid because of its metaphorical overtures into the discussion on the potential abolition of global environmental trends by satirizing apocalyptic conditions via surrealistic depictions of descending foodstuffs onto public landscapes, literally, and into the public conscience, figuratively.
Also, it had flying pancakes. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Since I haven’t seen this movie yet I didn’t want to lie, because I am obviously a bastion for journalistic integrity. I am not exactly sure how Michael Cera is still employed, but I do know Paul Rudd is the man and since he’s in the movie, it’s worth checking out:
Time posted an interesting article on the future of film in three dimensions (dum dum dummmm). Apparently some dudes cited in the article like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, and Peter Jackson feel that 3D film is going to revolutionize film:
Cameron’s Avatar, due in December, could be the thing that forces theaters to convert to digital. Spielberg predicts it will be the biggest 3-D live-action film ever. More than a thousand people have worked on it, at a cost in excess of $200 million, and it represents digital filmmaking’s bleeding edge. Cameron wrote the treatment for it in 1995 as a way to push his digital-production company to its limits. (“We can’t do this,” he recalled his crew saying. “We’ll die.”) He worked for years to build the tools he needed to realize his vision. The movie pioneers two unrelated technologies–e-motion capture, which uses images from tiny cameras rigged to actors’ heads to replicate their expressions, and digital 3-D.
I can’t wait to see just how uncomfortable this is going to make movie-goers who finally get to see Dr. Manhattan’s blue penis in all its three-dimensional glory. That really will be revolutionary.
Warner Bros. has released a new Terminator Salvation poster. Now this is what I’m talking about…
Terminator Salvation his theaters 5.21.09.
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