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Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Joan and Cherie fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, played by Michael Shannon, who turns the group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself—and so do its two leads: Joan is the band’s pure rock ‘n’ roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film chronicles Joan and Cherie’s tumultuous relationship on and off stage, as the band starts to break out.

DreamWorks Animation has debuted the full-length theatrical trailer for Shrek Forever After today to give you a taste of what’s coming this summer. The first teaser trailer arrived in December but we haven’t seen much since. With DreamWorks’ other new movie, How to Train Your Dragon, opening in a few more weeks, marketing will definitely be ramping up for Shrek Forever After as well, since it’s their big summer movie.

I can’t tell you how happy I am knowing that this is the last Shrek movie we’ll see (besides a Puss in Boots spin-off). I’m just tired of these movies. It doesn’t look that bad, just doesn’t look that great either.

If you kept your eyes on the box office the week before Alice in Wonderland hit theaters in IMAX 3-D, you saw Avatar take back the #1 box office spot the entire week leading up to Alice’s release, not to mention that despite Disney’s box office reign that weekend, nearby digital 3-D screens showing Avatar saw a decent increase in numbers, showing that there is still demand. So to counteract the money Fox might be losing, THR’s Heat Vision reports that an extended cut of Avatar might head back to IMAX in late summer. In related news, Cameron says they’re aiming for a 3-D theatrical re-release of Titanic sometime in 2012.

First, on Avatar’s re-release, the main driving force seems to be money (obviously) as James Cameron told USA Today: “The word we’re getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple hundred million dollars on the table as a result.” And Fox isn’t going to let that much money go to waste, not when they have the highest grossing and most lucrative IMAX release ever at their fingertips with $127.1 million of its $712.5 million domestic haul coming from IMAX showings. Additionally, Avatar has done more than 80% of its domestic business in 3D theaters, which represented fewer than half of its runs. That’s just crazy!

However, there is some artistic merit to the re-release considering the theatrical cut of Avatar was missing about 40 minutes of additional material that didn’t make the original cut, and Cameron said about 10-12 minutes of that footage could be quickly put through post-production and be ready to add to a director’s cut for a theatrical reissue or as an extra on the DVD release. Of course, around 10 minutes is all Cameron could add for an IMAX re-release considering the maximum length a movie that can be released in IMAX is 170 minutes and the current cut of Avatar comes in around 160 minutes. The summer re-release would follow the DVD premiere of Avatar in 2-D, which will happen as soon as next month and no later than May.

On the Titanic 3-D front, the hopeful re-release was brought up in the aforementioned interview with USA Today, where Cameron said the hope was to have the 3-D re-release of Titanic hit in the spring of 2012 in order to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship’s doomed voyage. Cameron continues to criticize the mishandling of 3-D and how it’s ruining the potential 3D has of making the moviegoing experience all the more magical. For example, he rags on all the studios converting nearly every last movie into 3-D:

“You know, everybody is an overnight expert. They think, ‘what was the takeaway lessons from Avatar? Oh you should make more money with 3D.’ They ignore the fact that we natively authored the film in 3-D, and decide that what we accomplished in several years of production could be done in an eight week (post-production 3-D) conversion with ‘Clash of the Titans.’ It’s never going to be as good as if you shot it in 3-D, but think of it as sort of 2.8-D.”

“If people put bad 3-D in the marketplace they’re going to hold back or even threaten the emerging of 3-D. People will be confused by differences in quality. Because the audience doesn’t know the difference — when they put on the glasses on, they don’t know if the problem is in the glasses, the TV or the actual way in which the stereo space is managed by the producers of the film.”

Despite the fact that I agree with the mishandling of 3-D by studios, I’m not so sure audiences can actually tell the difference between a film shot natively in 3-D and a film that’s converted in post-production. Still, I wholeheartedly agree with Cameron that converting older films to 3-D — a la Titanic or the talks of the potential Star Wars 3-D conversions — should be left to the original filmmakers when possible. “I think it should be driven by the artist. If Star Wars gets converted into 3-D I think George (Lucas) should do it. If Terminator gets converted into 3-D, I should do it.” So what are you waiting for, James? Get on it! Check out the rest of the lengthy interview with Cameron about Avatar, 3-D technology and more at USA Today.

Earlier tonight at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX, Robert Rodriguez and his cohorts debuted a first look at Predators, his new reboot/remake of the action classic. In addition to that event, Fox has unveiled a first look sneak peek at Predators on the official website, with plenty of great footage and a narration from Rodriguez.

After waiting months and months, we finally get our first official look at the movie and I’ve got to say, this looks awesome, totally respectful to the original. There’s even a first-look at a “Predator Hound” in the gallery on the site as well, whatever the hell that is. I think I’ve said enough, just fire this up and enjoy!

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Along with the premiere of the final trailer last week, Disney has also debuted what looks to be the final official poster for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time over on UGO today. Last July we got to see the first two magazine-like posters for Prince of Persia, which seemed a bit too stylish for the general public to appreciate. But now they’ve released a typical action-movie poster with cheesier poses from the main actors. To be honest, it’s not that impressive of a poster, it’s just kind of bland and boring. Oh and in related news, Prince of Persia will also be showing in IMAX worldwide this summer (via Collider). Check it out below!

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is directed by English director Mike Newell, of Donnie Brasco, Pushing Tin, Mona Lisa Smile, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire previously. The screenplay was co-written by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (The Uninvited, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and the story was developed by Jordan Mechner, one of the original creators of the video game. Disney will be bringing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to theaters everywhere starting on May 28th, 2010 this summer.

The first ever teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has just been released online, and this will no doubt delight fans to no end. Check out the first glimpse of the movie that featuring a shirtless Taylor Lautner, to hit theaters June 30.

Last night I saw an awesome TV spot for Repo Men that only contained quick cuts of these guys collecting things and no music. You can watch that here and I was planning on posting it until this “Director’s Cut” trailer popped up on the official website. Universal just debuted this new red band trailer for Repo Men that was cut by the director.

Usually studios hire their own marketing teams to make trailers, but some directors cut their own because they feel they better represent the movie. I don’t think this trailer was as good as that TV spot I mentioned, but damn does this look good. Can’t wait to see this!

Set in the future, the story revolves around a man (Jude Law) who struggles to make the payments on a heart he purchased. He must go on the run before said ticker is repossessed by the company that owns it.

Repo Men is directed by British first-time feature filmmaker Miguel Sapochnik, of only a short from 2000 called The Dreamer previously. The film is based on Eric Garcia’s novel called The Repossession Mambo. The script was co-written by Garcia and TV writer Garrett Lerner (“Smallville”, “Boston Public”, “House”). Universal is bringing Repo Men to theaters everywhere starting on March 19th

Check out the new trailer below.

Source: FirstShowing.net

The trailer for Tron Legacy has just been leaked online, and from what we an see in it, the movie is going to rock. The video is not of the best quality, but hey, at least you get a very early glimpse.

TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

The brand new second trailer for the highly-anticipipated summer blockbuster Iron Man 2 has just been debuted by MTV. This trailer has a load of new footage, battle suit armies, suitcase armor, and some hot chick firing a palm gun. It’s just jam-packed with high tech gear.

Robert Downey, Jr returns as industrialist/superhero Tony Stark, who has new enemies this time around in the form of Whiplash (Mickey Rourke), the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell). On the good guys’ side, Gwyneth Paltrow returns as Pepper Potts and Don Cheadle replaces Terrence Howard as James “Rhodey” Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine. In the trailer, we also get a brief glimpse of Garry Shandling as a senator.

ShowBiz411 is reporting that the sequel to last year’s blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine will begin filming soon, with the script already completed. Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (X-Men, Valkyrie) has prepared a first draft of the script.

The site’s source revealed a few details pertaining to the film’s direction:
“The script is a little different than originally thought. [It's] based on a story cycle by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont. Wolverine’s adventures in martial arts will be a love story featuring a Japanese actress, I am told.
‘It’s a beautiful story,’ says a source, ‘and will be very different than the first film.’”

They went on to say that the production is slated to begin filming in January, 2011. Though Hugh Jackman is the only actor presently attached to the film, Liev Schreiber, who portrayed Logan’s brother and nemesis Victor/Sabertooth in the first X-Men spin-off, has recently expressed interest in returning. Whether his character is written into the script has yet to be revealed.
No director is currently attached to the project.