In order to lend Plus Trailers some much needed credibility, every Friday I am going to be writing a little about the week’s film news. If you want comprehensive or unbiased news coverage you’re probably looking in the wrong place. But if you can stand my poor grammar and nerdish rants about whatever it is that Hollywood is screwing up this week then by all means read on. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The lead in the Spiderman reboot has official been cast and it's none other than Andrew Garfield! Crickets? Yeah, I hadn't heard of him either, but he's had roles in Boy A and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as well as the upcoming The Social Network. I'm still against this film in principal, but at least they haven't cast someone from Twilight, so we can all be thankful for that.
Speaking of Twilight, the latest film in the series, Eclipse, is apparently so bad that it is literally killing people. Well, no, not really. But in New Zealand, a 23 year-old man was found dead in his seat after a screening of the film with "no obvious injuries". I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume that the movie was directly responsible for his death, do you? Full story here.
Avatar is already one of the most profitable movies of all time, but apparently Fox Studios want more money (go figure). So, come August 27th (in the US, Australia and the United Kingdom, and in other countries in the months that follow) the film is going to be re-released in 3D and IMAX theatres with eight minutes of additional footage. Believe it or not, I'm actually in favour of this. Avatar was a movie I saw twice in theatres are really enjoyed, but let's face it: there's not much point in seeing it unless it's on a massive screen.
But Avatar isn't going to be the only film that gets re-released. This week, we learnt that there are tentative plans to bring both Titanic and the original Star Wars Trilogy back to theatres in the next few years. The bad news? They're being converted in 3D. The fact that George Lucas is willing to whore out his beloved property isn't really surprising anymore, but I'm surprised that James Cameron is willing to convert Titanic given that he's always been an advocate for shooting in 3D rather than converting in post production.
Christopher Nolan's Inception hits theatres in the US next week, but the early reviews have already started to come in and they're almost unanimously glowing; /Film has a full roundup of spoiler free snippets, where you'll come across terms like "brilliant" and "masterpiece" with inspiring regularity. After being a little disappointed by Kick-Ass earlier this year, I promised myself I wasn't going to hype myself up for this movie; that being said, Inception is probably going to be the greatest film of all time and may very well be the one remaining hope for the originality in the movie industry (click here to read my article explaining why).
The upcoming seventh film in the Saw franchise has received it's official title: Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive. This is definitely a stupid name, but after we learnt last week that Final Destination 5 was going to be called 5NAL DESTINATION, I'm just glad that all the letters in the Saw sequels title are actually made up of letters.
Above is the new Harry Potter teaser poster. At first I thought it was an ad for sauce. That's a fairly obscure (and not particularly funny) joke that most people outside of the UK probably won't understand.
Finally, Mel Gibson is under investigation by the LAPD for verballing and physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Allegedly, the director/actor left Oksana Grigorieva bruised and concussed, and told her that the way she dressed would get her "raped by a pack of n*ggers". Gibson being a racist and despicable human being has been old news for a while now, and sadly it probably won't have much of a detriment on his movie career - after all, being a child molester hasn't stopped Roman Polanski making movies.
In the feeble hope of turning that last horrible news item into something semi-productive, I thought I'd ask the following question: does your perception of a director or actor influence how you view their movies? I thought Gibson did a great job directing Apocalypto (and who doesn't love the first two Lethal Weapon movies?), but recently I've found it very hard to separate his real life persona from the films he's involved with. A less extreme example could be Tom Cruise, who's couch jumping antics and run ins with Scientology seem to have left the public with a bitter taste in their mouths. What are your thoughts?
Sources: Sources: /Film, CHUD, Hey U Guys, What Would Tyler Durden Do, BigPond News
Speaking of Twilight, the latest film in the series, Eclipse, is apparently so bad that it is literally killing people. Well, no, not really. But in New Zealand, a 23 year-old man was found dead in his seat after a screening of the film with "no obvious injuries". I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume that the movie was directly responsible for his death, do you? Full story here.
Avatar is already one of the most profitable movies of all time, but apparently Fox Studios want more money (go figure). So, come August 27th (in the US, Australia and the United Kingdom, and in other countries in the months that follow) the film is going to be re-released in 3D and IMAX theatres with eight minutes of additional footage. Believe it or not, I'm actually in favour of this. Avatar was a movie I saw twice in theatres are really enjoyed, but let's face it: there's not much point in seeing it unless it's on a massive screen.But Avatar isn't going to be the only film that gets re-released. This week, we learnt that there are tentative plans to bring both Titanic and the original Star Wars Trilogy back to theatres in the next few years. The bad news? They're being converted in 3D. The fact that George Lucas is willing to whore out his beloved property isn't really surprising anymore, but I'm surprised that James Cameron is willing to convert Titanic given that he's always been an advocate for shooting in 3D rather than converting in post production.
Christopher Nolan's Inception hits theatres in the US next week, but the early reviews have already started to come in and they're almost unanimously glowing; /Film has a full roundup of spoiler free snippets, where you'll come across terms like "brilliant" and "masterpiece" with inspiring regularity. After being a little disappointed by Kick-Ass earlier this year, I promised myself I wasn't going to hype myself up for this movie; that being said, Inception is probably going to be the greatest film of all time and may very well be the one remaining hope for the originality in the movie industry (click here to read my article explaining why).The upcoming seventh film in the Saw franchise has received it's official title: Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive. This is definitely a stupid name, but after we learnt last week that Final Destination 5 was going to be called 5NAL DESTINATION, I'm just glad that all the letters in the Saw sequels title are actually made up of letters.
Above is the new Harry Potter teaser poster. At first I thought it was an ad for sauce. That's a fairly obscure (and not particularly funny) joke that most people outside of the UK probably won't understand.Finally, Mel Gibson is under investigation by the LAPD for verballing and physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Allegedly, the director/actor left Oksana Grigorieva bruised and concussed, and told her that the way she dressed would get her "raped by a pack of n*ggers". Gibson being a racist and despicable human being has been old news for a while now, and sadly it probably won't have much of a detriment on his movie career - after all, being a child molester hasn't stopped Roman Polanski making movies.
In the feeble hope of turning that last horrible news item into something semi-productive, I thought I'd ask the following question: does your perception of a director or actor influence how you view their movies? I thought Gibson did a great job directing Apocalypto (and who doesn't love the first two Lethal Weapon movies?), but recently I've found it very hard to separate his real life persona from the films he's involved with. A less extreme example could be Tom Cruise, who's couch jumping antics and run ins with Scientology seem to have left the public with a bitter taste in their mouths. What are your thoughts?
Sources: Sources: /Film, CHUD, Hey U Guys, What Would Tyler Durden Do, BigPond News
