Well look what I dug up. Just a few photos from a little independent film coming out in July.
You might even have heard of it, it’s called The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Fine, fine, I know you’re absolutely champing at the bit for R-Patz and his pasty crew of vampires, so all you Twihards out there might be interested to see these pictures from the new movie.
They seem to be depicting some hanky panky going on between Edward Cullen and his lady, Bella.
I did some googling on the phrase ‘leg hitch’ and apparently that’s what’s going on here.
Does this float your boat or is it not how you pictured it? Drop a comment down below. Do It!
LEAP YEAR (PG): On General Release From Friday 26th February
If I pay to see a film in the cinema then there’s no way that I’m walking out, but I saw Amy Adam’s latest offering Leap Year at a press screening – so I was there for free.
Yet so dull was the opening to this rom-but-no-com, that If it wasn’t for the fact that I literally had to stay, I would have left inside the first five minutes.
Utterly predictable, Leap Year is a by-the-book romance that has no original elements (whatsoever) to bring to the table. Do It!
Now that all the hoo-ha of the BAFTA’s has died down and while we’re waiting patiently for the Oscars, we can still get a movie award fix with the Jameson Empire Awards.
Aside from the usual prizes being doled out, Empire also like to pick out the best genre films of the season including thriller, comedy and sci-fi/fantasy movies.
They also do something a little different to the BAFTAs and Oscars which is that they look at short movies that the general public have made. Wondered what Jerry Maguire would like if it was only a minute long? Click here and you’ll see last year’s winning entry in the ‘Done In 60 Seconds’ category.
Unlike the bigger award ceremonies, you can vote for the winners over at the official Empire site. Here’s a rundown of the nominees:
BEST NEWCOMER
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy)
Sharlto Copley (District 9)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air/ New Moon)
Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank)
When I hear stories of revamps and re-tellings, I groan like a dying walrus. This is usually because a good movie is being remade just for the money.
What Hollywood should be doing instead is remaking bad films into good ones, and it looks like that’s what’s going to happen with Flash Gordon.
You might be screaming, ‘No, no, Flash Gordon’s awesome!’ but when was the last time you watched it? Exactly. It’s a fun campy classic but let’s admit that it’s not the best interpretation of the original comic strips, something that The Crazies director Breck Eisner plans to rectify.
I’m fairly optimistic about this project as it looks like it’s going to be taking the story in a totally new direction, but is Eisner experienced enough to take on a project this big? His CV is short but includes Sahara starring Matthew McConaughey and and thriller Thoughtcrime, making The Crazies his biggest picture to date. Plus it will be his first foray into 3D filmmaking.
Eisner sat down to have a chat with sci-fi blog io9’s Meredith Woerner and revealed his plans for remaking the adventures of Flash.
“Flash Gordon is a project that I’ve been pursuing for years. I absolutely love that movie, and that strip. It’s at Sony, we have the writers on, we’ve done one draft. I’ve been brainstorming with them over the past couple months, when I finished post [for The Crazies].
They are busy writing right now, so we will have a script from that in short order, hopefully. It’s a big, giant movie. And these things have a lot of different roads to go down before they get green light. Hopefully we’ll get there, but it’s always a long-shot, but it’s one that I feel incredible passion for. In developing it, I’ve really gone back to the original Alex Raymond strips and pulled information from those.”
“When you re-read Raymond’s strips, which were drawn from ’32 to about the mid-40s you can’t read them as a human being living in today’s world. You have to imagine living in a world pre-space travel, and the world of the 30s. It’s kind of a more naive view of the Universe.”
So will we see the characters we know and love?
“I can tell you there will be Hawkmen, there will be Lionman, [and] Ming will be in the movie. In a version that is going to take place on Mongo. I love the source material, so lots of it is going to be in it. I’m not rediscovering, I’m not recreating a take on his original material.”
Flash Gordon is slated for a 2012 release.
In the meantime, have a look at this trailer for the original. Permtastic!
MICMACS (12A): On Nationwide Release From 26th February 2010
For those of you who saw French lovely Amélie and didn’t like it, maybe it’s time to give director Jean-Pierre Jeunet another try. He’s returned to filmmaking after a gap of five years, and boy – it is quite a comeback.
Micmacs follows Bazil (Dany Boon), who was orphaned several years previously when a landmine killed his father and his mother was too traumatized to care for him. As an adult, Bazil is accidentally hit in the head with a stray bullet that ends up lodged in his brain, meaning he could die at any second. Do It!
I love it when stars say things they shouldn’t. Be it about their co-stars or their personal lives, I love a good slip of the tongue *wink wink*.
But I always get the giggles when actors bad mouth their own movies; it’s pure salty goodness.
Matthew Goode, star of Irish rom-com Leap Year, effectively bitch-slapped the movie when he described it as ‘turgid’. Ouch.
According to WENN, Goode said, “(The location) was the main reason I took it – so that I could come home at the weekends. It wasn’t because of the script, trust me. I was told it was going to be like The Quiet Man with a Vaughan Williams soundtrack, but in the end it turned out to have pop music all over it. Do I feel I let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had a nice time and I got paid.”
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity but I think that’s pushing it a bit. I can respect your honesty Goode but you should be careful about getting a reputation as a blabbermouth.
“Because of the way my repartee comes out, people tend to think that I don’t care. Actually, it’s often just a result of my being in a situation where I’m embarrassed about having to talk about a film which I don’t think is that brilliant – but obviously I can’t say that.”
Too late. My review comes out later this week and surprise, surprise, I agree with Goode.
Talking to MTV.com, Helena Bonham Carter dished on what it was like filming her parts on the upcoming Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.
The actress was doing press interviews for husband Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland but managed to give up a few details about Potter.
“The best bit about being Bellatrix in this one is also because I got to pretend to be Hermione, because Hermione takes polyjuice potion and gets to look like Bellatrix.”
Thank God. This is one of my favourite moments of the book and it sounds as if Helena had a lot of fun playing the scene.
“Rather than put Emma Watson in a helluva load of make-up they just said, ‘Now you go act like Hermione.’ That was fun, because I always wanted to be Hermione. It was great fun. I was looking at Dan and Rupert and they were treating me as if I was 17.”
But if you were getting excited at the prospect of seeing Helena in Deathly Hallows Part I, then you’ll be disappointed. She revealed that because the story is separated into two films, we won’t see Bellatrix until Part II in 2011.
Oscar winner Forest Whitaker is planning to get into the director’s chair for a pet project about the life of Louis Armstrong.
In an interview with BlackFilm.com Forest talked about the biopic he’s planning of the famous jazz musician.
“Next year in April I’m going to direct ‘Satchmo,’ the Louis Armstrong Biopic. I am going to play the character. I won’t play the whole of it, it starts when he’s born. But a couple of people will be performing the character.”
Forest’s had good luck with playing real life dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, but will he strike it lucky again with another big budget biopic?
It won’t be Forest’s directorial debut but it will his biggest film so far. He was previously in the driver’s seat for Waiting To Exhale and The First Daughter but it seems that nobody really noticed that he was the one directing.
“I haven’t cast the movie. I probably shouldn’t be talking about it because I’m still in the budgeting stages. I have ideas for casting, but I feel that as of now, every person I’ve approached to be on the crew who has read the script has attached themselves to it. I feel as though the same will occur with the actors because the roles are pretty amazing, really great characters. We’ll see.”
I’ve got faith in Forest’s acting abilities but it might come down to whether he can nail Louis’ trademark voice or not.
Rapper turned ‘actor’ Fiddy Cent is said to be going on a rigorous weight loss regime for an upcoming film in order to play a cancer stricken high school teen, according to TheBoombox.
First of all, Fiddy just should leave movies alone, and secondly, what the hell is he doing playing a teenager?
He’s 34, people! He can drop all the weight he wants but unless he can do a Benjamin Button and age backwards, I forsee a fail.
The film’s called Things Fall Apart and will see Fiddy (real name Curtis Jackson) to play a high school football player who gets cancer in his senior year. According to director Mario Van Peebles, Fiddy will have to lose 65lbs in order to get the right look of a cancer patient.
Judging by the other films on the rapper’s slate, he’ll have to bulk up almost immediately after finishing this project. He’s got Gun, The Ski Mask Way and Caught In The Crossfire coming up and I’m guessing a super skinny Fiddy just ain’t gonna cut it.
Well look what I dug up. Just a few photos from a little independent film coming out in July.
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