Hello ladies and gentlemen, Since I didn't get to bring you news from yesterday I figured that I would combine today's and yesterday's news (3 stories from each day). So here is some movie news with some of my thoughts and opinions (which will be in BOLD print). So without further ado...
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
(9/29/14)
Although he's currently working on the second chapter of his "Great North Trilogy" with Yoga Hosers, Kevin Smith has revealed that a return to his "View Askewniverse" is finally moving forward as Clerks III has secured financing! Smith made the announcement on the latest episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast (via /Film).
"'Tusk' was the absolute bridge to 'Clerks III,'" says Smith. "Because of 'Tusk,' I got my financing for 'Clerks III'. A year and change ago I was desperately trying to get 'Clerks III' made for the 20th anniversary... I must have reeked of [desperation], because I couldn’t f–ing find money and s--t. But it was 'Tusk,' with people going ‘Holy f–k, what else do you have?’ I was like, 'Clerks III!' and they’re like. ‘Done!’ Everybody that’s like, ‘He failed, he failed!’ I’m like, ‘Thank you, I failed into Clerks III!’"
Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran played Randal Graves and Dante Hicks in the original 1994 Clerks. A pair of young slackers working minimum wage customer service jobs, they reprised their roles for a short-lived animated series and then returned to the big screen in 2006's Clerks II. It's a pretty safe bet that they'll be back on the big screen for this trilogy capper (at one time planned to be Smith's very last film).
This is awesome to hear. I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan and I really like Tusk and I'm glad to see that it's financial success is helping fund Clerks 3. I'm really enjoyed both Clerks and Clerks II (more the former than the latter). and I cannot wait to see Clerks III.
Regina Hall (Think Like a Man, About Last Night) and Keegan-Michael Key ("Key & Peele") have both joined the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's now-in-production sequel/reboot, Vacation. Variety has the news, reporting that the pair will play the heads of an idyllic family that are friends with the Griswolds. Hall and Key join Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Day, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins, Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in the Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley film. The new version of the vacation adventures of the quirky dad and his family will follow an adult Rusty Griswold (Helms), who now has his own family misadventures on the road.
This is really great casting. Both Regina Hall and Keegan-Michael Key are to of the funniest actors working in the business today. They both lend themselves well to this type of movie and they may very well steal the movie. I know a lot of people don't want this, but I'm really curious and anxious to see this movie.
The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, Inherent Vice, is now online. Check it out below. Marking the first-ever adaptation of one of Pynchon's novels, Inherent Vice begins when when private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin... well, easy for her to say. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Jena Malone and Joanna Newson, Inherent Vice hits theaters on December 12.
This was an awesome trailer. This film looks as if it is going to have a lot of humor mixed in with some mystery/action thriller tone. I'm a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson and this film looks to be his best to date. The film looks like Oscar bait and I cannot wait to see this film.
(9/30/14)
20th Century Fox has debuted the trailer for Taken 3, directed by Olivier Megaton and starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. The January 9 release also stars Dougray Scott, Sam Spruell and Leland Orser. Liam Neeson returns as ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered. Consumed with rage, and framed for the crime, he goes on the run to evade the relentless pursuit of the CIA, FBI and the police. For one last time, Mills must use his "particular set of skills," to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now – his daughter.
I'm just going to go ahead and say that this trailer looks amazing. Yes I know Taken 2 was an absolute disaster, but Taken was pretty darn good. The film looks like it could be bad, but I'm really looking forward to the film and hopefully it's not as bad as Taken 2.
Just when you thought there were no more viable brand names for Hollywood to exploit, The Wall Street Journal scored some bonus points by reporting that a movie based on the classic video game "Tetris" is game-on for Threshold Entertainment. And no, it will not just be big blocky geometric objects falling and rotating for two hours. "It's a very big, epic sci-fi movie," Threshold's CEO Larry Kasanoff said."This isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes."
Kasanoff already earned video game cache as the producer behind both 1995's Mortal Kombat film and its sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, while Threshold as a company is best known for several LEGO specials as well as theme park attractions. Kasanoff is hoping that name-recognition value of "Tetris" will translate not only to big screen success but to potential theme park experiences and other ancillary media."Brands are the new stars of Hollywood," Kasanoff says. "We have a story behind ‘Tetris’ which makes it a much more imaginative thing. We certainly have the canvas for location-based entertainment based on the epicness. What you [will] see in 'Tetris' is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
I just want to ask one question... WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON TETRIS! I mean I understand the whole recognizable brand part, but why can't we come up with another idea. Now look I get the argument on people begging for Hollywood to come up with an original idea, but the fact is that when a fesh idea is put on the big screeen nobody goes to see them so studios are forced to make movies like this. Another thing people are not seeing is that everyone complained and wondered how a movie about Lego's was going to work and it turned about to be one of the best movies of the year so far so we'll just hav to give it a shot. In all honesty this movie has no reason to happen and the bad thing is I'll have to sit through it.
Lionsgate has released the new trailer and poster for the upcoming action-thriller John Wick, starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Dean Winters, Bridget Moynahan, Ian McShane, John Leguizmo and Willem Dafoe. You'll find both below and you can also check out a Reddit AMA with filmmakers Chad Stahelski and David Leitch here. In the film, an ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre." John Wick opens in theaters on October 24.
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
(9/29/14)
Although he's currently working on the second chapter of his "Great North Trilogy" with Yoga Hosers, Kevin Smith has revealed that a return to his "View Askewniverse" is finally moving forward as Clerks III has secured financing! Smith made the announcement on the latest episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast (via /Film).
"'Tusk' was the absolute bridge to 'Clerks III,'" says Smith. "Because of 'Tusk,' I got my financing for 'Clerks III'. A year and change ago I was desperately trying to get 'Clerks III' made for the 20th anniversary... I must have reeked of [desperation], because I couldn’t f–ing find money and s--t. But it was 'Tusk,' with people going ‘Holy f–k, what else do you have?’ I was like, 'Clerks III!' and they’re like. ‘Done!’ Everybody that’s like, ‘He failed, he failed!’ I’m like, ‘Thank you, I failed into Clerks III!’"
Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran played Randal Graves and Dante Hicks in the original 1994 Clerks. A pair of young slackers working minimum wage customer service jobs, they reprised their roles for a short-lived animated series and then returned to the big screen in 2006's Clerks II. It's a pretty safe bet that they'll be back on the big screen for this trilogy capper (at one time planned to be Smith's very last film).
This is awesome to hear. I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan and I really like Tusk and I'm glad to see that it's financial success is helping fund Clerks 3. I'm really enjoyed both Clerks and Clerks II (more the former than the latter). and I cannot wait to see Clerks III.
Regina Hall (Think Like a Man, About Last Night) and Keegan-Michael Key ("Key & Peele") have both joined the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's now-in-production sequel/reboot, Vacation. Variety has the news, reporting that the pair will play the heads of an idyllic family that are friends with the Griswolds. Hall and Key join Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Day, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins, Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in the Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley film. The new version of the vacation adventures of the quirky dad and his family will follow an adult Rusty Griswold (Helms), who now has his own family misadventures on the road.
This is really great casting. Both Regina Hall and Keegan-Michael Key are to of the funniest actors working in the business today. They both lend themselves well to this type of movie and they may very well steal the movie. I know a lot of people don't want this, but I'm really curious and anxious to see this movie.
The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, Inherent Vice, is now online. Check it out below. Marking the first-ever adaptation of one of Pynchon's novels, Inherent Vice begins when when private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin... well, easy for her to say. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Jena Malone and Joanna Newson, Inherent Vice hits theaters on December 12.
This was an awesome trailer. This film looks as if it is going to have a lot of humor mixed in with some mystery/action thriller tone. I'm a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson and this film looks to be his best to date. The film looks like Oscar bait and I cannot wait to see this film.
(9/30/14)
20th Century Fox has debuted the trailer for Taken 3, directed by Olivier Megaton and starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. The January 9 release also stars Dougray Scott, Sam Spruell and Leland Orser. Liam Neeson returns as ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered. Consumed with rage, and framed for the crime, he goes on the run to evade the relentless pursuit of the CIA, FBI and the police. For one last time, Mills must use his "particular set of skills," to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now – his daughter.
I'm just going to go ahead and say that this trailer looks amazing. Yes I know Taken 2 was an absolute disaster, but Taken was pretty darn good. The film looks like it could be bad, but I'm really looking forward to the film and hopefully it's not as bad as Taken 2.
Just when you thought there were no more viable brand names for Hollywood to exploit, The Wall Street Journal scored some bonus points by reporting that a movie based on the classic video game "Tetris" is game-on for Threshold Entertainment. And no, it will not just be big blocky geometric objects falling and rotating for two hours. "It's a very big, epic sci-fi movie," Threshold's CEO Larry Kasanoff said."This isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes."
Kasanoff already earned video game cache as the producer behind both 1995's Mortal Kombat film and its sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, while Threshold as a company is best known for several LEGO specials as well as theme park attractions. Kasanoff is hoping that name-recognition value of "Tetris" will translate not only to big screen success but to potential theme park experiences and other ancillary media."Brands are the new stars of Hollywood," Kasanoff says. "We have a story behind ‘Tetris’ which makes it a much more imaginative thing. We certainly have the canvas for location-based entertainment based on the epicness. What you [will] see in 'Tetris' is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
I just want to ask one question... WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON TETRIS! I mean I understand the whole recognizable brand part, but why can't we come up with another idea. Now look I get the argument on people begging for Hollywood to come up with an original idea, but the fact is that when a fesh idea is put on the big screeen nobody goes to see them so studios are forced to make movies like this. Another thing people are not seeing is that everyone complained and wondered how a movie about Lego's was going to work and it turned about to be one of the best movies of the year so far so we'll just hav to give it a shot. In all honesty this movie has no reason to happen and the bad thing is I'll have to sit through it.
Lionsgate has released the new trailer and poster for the upcoming action-thriller John Wick, starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Dean Winters, Bridget Moynahan, Ian McShane, John Leguizmo and Willem Dafoe. You'll find both below and you can also check out a Reddit AMA with filmmakers Chad Stahelski and David Leitch here. In the film, an ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre." John Wick opens in theaters on October 24.
This was a pretty meh trailer. It didn't really show anything new (which is a good thing) and different from the first trailer. All I can say is that I had no idea that this film was coming out and now after seeing the trailer I'm really excited to see Keanu Reeves back on the big screen.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard. Jonah Sparks
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