Archive for May, 2009
Alien Prequel Gets A Director
Tony Scott has finally confirmed that Carl Rinsch, a guy who directs commercials and music videos, is going to be at the helm of Fox’s rebooted prequel to Alien. Scott told Collider, “Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien. I’m excited cause Ridley created the original and Carl Rinsch is one of the family.”
Toy Story 3 First Teaser
Here’s the first ever short teaser trailer for Disney’s upcoming Toy Story 3 that they just released. The story is set quite a few years after the last film, with Andy, the owner of all the toys, all grown up and going away to college. This one is directed by Lee Unkrich, who works for Pixar and also co-directed Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo.
Final Pandorum Trailer
This is the final trailer for the science fiction thriller Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. This trailer looks quite creepy, and if you’re into scary thriller-in-space-type movies like Solaris, you’ll enjoy this one. The trailer comes to us courtesy of CinemaBlend.
New G.I. Joe International Poster
Empire has just released a brand new poster for G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra for the international audience. The poster shows a bunch of characters from the film, both good guys and bad guys. The film is expected to hit theaters on August 7. Until then, feast your eyes on this:
Archorman 2 News
Will Ferrell recently gave an interview on Australian radio where he revealed that everyone “is meeting next week” to talk about the sequel to the much beloved film. This isn’t exactly anything new, as there has been rumors of getting the back before as well, only to then amount to nothing. Let’s see if the producers can manage (and afford) to get the cast (who are big shots now) back to their old roles.
Tomb Raider To Be Rebooted
Tomb Raider producer Dan Lin has recently revealed that he intends to reboot the film franchise with a new actress. Following the recent reboots of Terminator and Star Trek, Lin hopes to re-introduce the Lara Croft character with a younger actress. According to some reports, Megan Fox has already been offered the role but has turned it down. Here’s the link to Lin’s interview on About.com.
Another Inglorious Basterds Clip
Here’s a brand new clip from Inglorious Basterds, one that shows Donnie Donowitz and Brad Pitt bash in the skull of a Nazi soldier. The clip is courtesy of CinemaBlend.
Salvation Loses To Ben Stiller
Over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, Terminator Salvation (which has been getting mostly negative reivews) surprisingly failed to win the number one spot at the US box office. Whom did the film lose out to? It was Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum , which grossed $53 million over the weekend, as opposed to Salvation’s disappointing $43 million. This is indeed sad news for us fans who were hoping something more from McG and company.
3 New Photos from NEW MOON
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Review
This is the review from the Cannes Film Festival of Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This will be of particular interest to all fans of the late great Heath Ledger, as this was the last film he sot before his untimely death.
Warner Bros debuted the full-length theatrical trailer for Chris Nolan’s Inception in theaters in front of Iron Man 2 a few days back. There aren’t many words to describe how incredibly epic and amazing this looks, but beautiful and stunning and mesmerizing are a few that fit best. Watching this trailer, you will agree that Inception is the most anticipated movie this summer. This just looks so phenomenal.

Inception is both written and directed by acclaimed Oscar nominated British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. Nolan previously co-wrote the scripts for Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight with his brother Jonathan Nolan. Warner Bros is bringing Inception to theaters starting on July 16th this summer.
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