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Anchorman 2 First Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:18:00 PDT

It’s kind of a big deal! Damn straight. It’s pretty nigh on impossible to find somebody who doesn’t like the original Anchorman (ok, wait for it in the comments) and now we’ve got the latest piece of video to drop for the sequel. And while theres no footage from the actual movie, it does set the mood, and the mood is funny! Check it out below! Via Paramount Anchorman 2 hits cinemas this December!

Fast and Furious 6 Review

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:00 PDT

Leaving the cinema after watching The Fast and The Furious, based on a magazine article about street racing, way back in 2001, I never thought it would get a sequel, let alone five. But here we are with Fast and Furious 6, director Justin Lin's swansong after helming every installment since the third, Tokyo Drift (in some strange chronology, every movie since then actually takes place before it). He was also responsible for taking the series away from its street racer roots and moving it into action movie territory. Under his guidance, they have become ridiculous movies that revel in their ridiculousness. To apply an ounce of sense and logic to them is to miss the point. They exist to satisfy that itch that only over the top action, and little else, can scratch. And with this installment, Lin has brought us not only a great example of that, but one of the most enjoyable pure action movies we have had in a while. Following the events of Fast 5, Dom (Vin Diesel) and his team of...

Hilarious teaser trailer for Last Vegas

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:54:00 PDT

Challenging The Wolf Pack for the title of Kings Of Las Vegas, here comes Micheal Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline in the fantastic teaser trailer for Jouhn Turtletaub's Last Vegas. This is one movie I thought I'd never see these actors come together for, but they have all shown a knack for comedy apart, so together they should absolutely kill it. Especially Morgan Freeman and his hilarious reaction to Red Bull and Vodka! Synopsis: Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. Released: 1st November (U.S.)/ 20th December (U.K./IRL)

Calling Steven Seagal fans

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:59:00 PDT

As a kid, I was a big fan of Steven Seagal. I absolutely loved all of his earlier movies, especially Above the Law, Hard To Kill and Out for Justice. So I’m only to happy to give a plug to a contest thats happening on Facebook, to tie in with Deadly Crossing that’s just being released on Redbox. You can win yourself a whole host of cool Seagal stuff! In exchange for posting their best Steven Seagal action pose, fans earn the chance to win an Aikidogi, MMA fight gloves, or a wooden bokken signed by Seagal. The comp is on Facebook and you can find it by clicking here

Pacific Rim New Trailer is AWESOME MUST WATCH

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:47:00 PDT

Look, whatever (or whoever) you’re doing right now, stop. Just stop. Put it down, switch it off, pull it out. You NEED to watch this. That is all! HOLY SHIT!!! Released: 12th July 2013 (U.S./U.K./IRE) Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure “Pacific Rim.”When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested...

Gareth Edwards talks Godzilla

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:00 PDT

With exactly 12 months to the day for the release of Godzilla, Gareth Edwards has taken to youtube to shoot the breeze about his upcoming movie. At 33 seconds long, don’t expect too much, but at least Godzilla is there anyway, except you don’t see the Monster. The scene is shot in some sort of a stadium, so expect stadium carnage in the movie. I don’t know about you, and it’s the way Edwards mentions the monster, but I can’t help feeling that Godzilla is a guy in a suit, just off camera! Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brya Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Elisabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, and Juliette Binoche, and is released 16th May 2014.

The Hangover III Red Band Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:40:00 PDT

Time for another trailer for The Hangover III and this time it’s the NSFW red band trailer. Maybe it’s me, but I do find it rather odd that over a minute of this trailer features nothing but clips from the last 2 movies. As for the rest of it, well…it’s a bit slow. It wouldn’t entice me to see the movie, but then again, fans of the first two, need no enticement! Regardless, this does feature cocaine fed chickens! The Hangover III hits cinemas on May 24th!

The Great Gatsby Review

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:28:00 PDT

As the summer blockbuster season kicks off with superheroes and spaceships, The Great Gatsby arrives and planks itself right in the middle. A movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. To many The Great Gatsby name may be familiar, and you’d be correct. You may have last seen Jim Carrey read from it as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon. It may also be on your book shelf, or you may have been forced upon you in school. Regardless, it tells the story of Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) who is lured into the lavish and luxurious world of his neighbour Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Di Caprio). Gatsby has an ulterior motive for befriending Carraway, namely his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan). What follows is a tale of opulence, deceit and love, all set in the early 1920s. And we’ll park that there as I don’t want to start delving into spoilers too much. Visually, The Great Gatsby is nothing short of mind blowing. Director Baz Luhrmann has really outdone himself here. 1920s New York is vividly...

New poster for Riddick

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:46:00 PDT

Following on from the first trailer, Universal Pictures have unvieled the poster for Vin Diesel's third go around as fan favorite anti hero Riddick. It's poster art 101, but perfectly captures the character, playing on his most well known feature, his glowing eyes. I mean, no one will mistake for anything other than a Riddick poster. Synopsis: Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past. Released: 6th September

New The Hunger Games: Catching Fire poster

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:37:00 PDT

So far, everything we've seen for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been all set up, showing the main palyers on the Victory Tour following the events of the first moie, and nothing of the actual games themselves. Now, this striking new poster for the movie shows Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss ready for action, trusty bow in hand. It's a fantasic image, with an equally fantatsic tagline, "The sun persits in rising, so I make myself stand", to go with it. via Lionsgate Synopsis: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) –...

The greatest Pacific Rim image since the last one

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:08:00 PDT

Anybody who has being following Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim knows that it will have it's fair share of jaw dropping images (giant robots, giant monsters, said giant robots punching the tar out of said giant monsters and vice versa), but this one of a Kaiju skull as a museam piece has to be my favorite. Appearing on the movie official Twitter feed, it came with the caption "What envoked fear, now inspires awe". It really hammers home the scale of the movie, with the events happening globally, and shows that Del Toro's eye for monster design is second to none. Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure “Pacific Rim.”When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive...

Full trailer for Riddick

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:16:00 PDT

Treading territory quite similar to Pitch Black, Vin Diesel returns as the anti hero who made his name with Riddick. We've seen snippets of David Twohy's long in production sci-fi sequel before, but now this full trailer gives us a better look at what to expect. We've have no indication of how this ties into Riddick's last appearance, The Chronicles of Riddick (which became bogged down with an overblown mythology), but it's good to see the character brought back to basics. Synopsis: Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past. Released: 6th September

Cannes Movie Stars Lounge

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:38:00 PDT

Here’s something a bit different, for the site at least. Cannes kicked off today and besides Nicole Kidman admitting that she loves wet weather, this arrived in my inbox! Basically, it’s the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge and it’s been installed in the Californie Suite of the Carlton Hotel. The luxurious rooms are available to actors, journalists, companies and so on. Much of the press activity will take place here for alot of the movies in competition. So check out the luxury below, and yes, it would be an absolute travesty if some let rip with a fart that would blow a hole through them fancy couches! And yes! It’s a slow day!

First shot from new Toy Story Short

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:00 PDT

Here’s some good news! A new Toy Story short, Toy Story of Terror will roll onto ABC in the States (not sure where it’ll end up on this side of the pond, although I’d bet Sky Disney is where it will) this Halloween. The Toy Story crew find themselves staying in a motel after Bonnie brings them on a road trip. The end up inside the spooky motel after the car breaks down and then somebody goes missing! It sounds like fun and it’s going to be a whole 30 minutes long! With the amount of gags and injokes Pixar get into their movies, I’d imagine the motel to be a send up of the Bates motel at the very least!

Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof and Roberto Orci talk Star Trek Into Darkness

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:41:00 PDT

WRITER/PRODUCERS ROBERTO ORCI, ALEX KURTZMAN AND DAMON LINDELOF – STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Director J.J. Abrams, producer Bryan Burk and writers Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman form the creative collective at the heart of the Star Trek project. With Abrams at the helm, the team collaborated on Star Trek, the critically acclaimed origins story that introduced the adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to a new generation and, at the same time, captivated existing fans of a much loved franchise that stretches back almost 50 years to when the original ground-breaking TV series, created by the late Gene Roddenberry, first aired. After the success of the first film they all agreed not to rush out a sequel. Instead, they held countless meetings to develop ideas and hone the script for what would become Star Trek Into Darkness. Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof are the main writers, but Abrams and Burk were closely involved in developing the story,...

New TV Spot from The Iceman with Michael Shannon

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:38:00 PDT

Before he thunders around the screen as Zod in Man Of Steel, Michael Shannon is being his bad ass self in The Iceman, based on the real life mob hitman Richard “The Iceman Kuklinski, who was responsible for over 200 murders. At this point, Shannon plays these kinds of bad guy roles in his sleep. The dude has some intensity and presence about him! He genuinely looks like he could explode!! Synopsis: Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) and his wife Deborah (Winona Ryder) appear to have a model American life, living with their three children in an idyllic suburban ranch house with a big lawn on a quiet street. But unbeknownst to Deborah and the kids, when Kuklinski goes off to work in the morning — or, on occasion, in the middle of dinner or the middle of the night — he is carrying out executions at the behest of the Gambino crime family, employing a wide variety of deadly methods (guns, knives, explosives, strangling, poisonings) that make it difficult to trace all the...

Karl Urban talks Star Trek Into Darkness

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:00 PDT

Karl Urban knows a thing or two about making big movies. And Star Trek Into Darkness will, he predicts, be a mind blowing cinematic spectacle. “When you are making a Star Trek film it feels big and this one felt very big,” he says. “But I was completely shocked by how epic it actually was.” Directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Trek Into Darkness is a roller coaster ride of special effects and action sequences that will take the sci-fi adventure genre to a whole new level of excitement. “The Starship Enterprise set itself is bigger and better than it’s ever been before in the whole history of Star Trek,” he says. “The scale of it was immense. During filming you could walk down miles of corridors extending from The Bridge, to The Sick Bay, the Transporter Room and beyond. “It was also a fully functioning environment, which was amazing. When special effects and action sequences were added to the mix, the final effect was mind blowing.” In the hands of a lesser director the project might...

Fast & Furious 6 EXCLUSIVE Video

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:50:00 PDT

Universal pictures have hooked us up with an exclusive behind the scenes look at Fast & Furious 6 which roars into cinemas this Friday. Maybe it’s me, but any movie that has a bunch of high performance cars pulling a CARGO PLANE outta the frickin sky is definitely worth a spin!!! Check out the video below which also features interviews with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. Synopsis: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in Fast & Furious 6. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favourites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano. Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the...

Trailer for Richard Curtis' About Time

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:17:00 PDT

After writing the pretty much straight forward romantic comedies Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually, Richard Curtis is throwing time travel into the mix for his thrid directorial outing (after The Boat That Rocked, and Love Actually) About Time. Domhall Gleeson stars as a young man who finds out he has inherited his father's (Bill Nighy) ability to time travel, and the first thing he uses it for is to get a girlfriend (Rachel McAdams, who, with this and The Time Travellers Wife, has the monopoly on romantic time travel movies). I think this looks really good. I like how it hints that the father/son relationship might be just as important as the romantic one, and it has a very funny and clever twist on the mechanics of travelling through time. It is a tricky concept to pull off, but by keeping it simple, Curtis may just get it right. Bill Nighy seems to be on top form, and it is always great to see Domhall Gleeson in the lead role. I have had a lot of...

Beast and Wolverine on set of X-Men: Days Of Future Past

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:52:00 PDT

We have already seen how a 1970's Professor X looks in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and now Bryan Singer has tweeted another behind the scenes look at the movie, showing Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult), circa 1973. This raises some interesting questions about the events of the movie, since the last time we saw Beast he was a lot more blue, furry, and cat like. We have seen make up tests showing a Beast which is more in keeping with X-Men: The Last Stand's portrayal of the character, so does he revert back to his human look, only to mutate even further? Because that is just mean. Released: July 18th 2014

Anton Yelchin talks Star Trek Into Darkness

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:37:00 PDT

Four years had passed when the cast of Star Trek were reunited for the eagerly awaited sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, and they picked up right where they left off, says Anton Yelchin who plays Pavel Chekov, the young navigator on board the Starship Enterprise. On set, director J.J. Abrams created the perfect working environment – focused with plenty of fun – and being back together with a group of actors who have all become close friends made the experience very special indeed, he says. “We’re lucky because we all get along so well and we have this mutual respect for one another and enjoy one another’s company,” he says. “They really are great people. “I had such a great time making this film. I remember the first day we shot I did all these photo booth pictures of the cast on my computer – you know where you can create these squiggly faces and that fun stuff? “So there we were back together four years after the first film and we were doing exactly the same sort of crazy stuff...

Andrew Garfield and Paul Giamatti fight on The Amazing Spiderman 2

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:32:00 PDT

I’m not entirely sure the purpose of these "videos, shot by somebody with a good vantage point, but some people enjoy them so here we go, with a video of Andrew Garfield (I’m presuming thats him in the costume) and Paul Giamatti having a little bit of a fight, which involves some pants dropping action! Synopsis: For Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past. Released: May 2nd 2014

Even more Man Of Steel videos from Norton

noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry) — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:11:00 PDT

Holy flying superheroes! The amount of video spots turning up for Man Of Steel is staggering, and while the veil of “secrecy” is still being withheld to a point, you gotta wonder how much more can they churn out? With over a month to go, is it peaking a little bit too soon? Anyway, the latest bunch of videos are from a tie in with Norton (yes the Virus people), which is pretty interesting as movie tie ins go. Usually its fast food, aftershave and watches. Check out the clips below which are mini featurettes with a bunch of footage and interviews with the likes of Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Zack Snyder. And yes there is some new footage here, nothing mindblowing though and its a case of blink and you’ll miss it! Synopsis: From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes “Man of Steel,” starring Henry Cavill (“Immortals,” TV’s “The Tudors”) in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, under the direction of Zack Snyder (“300,” “Watchmen”). The film also stars...

First clip from After Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:17:00 PDT

M. Night Shyamalan hasn't had a good run of it with his last few movies (killer trees!? What was he thinking!?), but he seems to be back on form with After Earth. We will, of course, reserve full judgement for when the movie is released, but for now this first clip gives us a look at some tough parenting decisions from Will Smith. Synopsis: After a crash landing, a father and son explore a planet that was evacuated by humans 1,000 years earlier. Released: June 7th 2013

One more new Man Of Steel T.V. spot

noreply@blogger.com (Tom White) — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:04:00 PDT

Yet another new T.V. spot for Man Of Steel has debuted, and while the early part of the movies promo campaign seemed to focus on the emotional elements, Warner Bros. now are letting us glimpse some of the action. The more I see of this, the more I'm excited for it. Hopefully Zack Snyder can deliver. Synopsis: From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes “Man of Steel,” starring Henry Cavill (“Immortals,” TV’s “The Tudors”) in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, under the direction of Zack Snyder (“300,” “Watchmen”). The film also stars three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Fighter”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”). Squaring off against the superhero are two...