Hello ladies and gentlemen, 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)
Having just debuted at BlizzCon, Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have now brought online the first trailer for Warcraft! Enter the World of Warcraft by watching the trailer below. Legendary’s Warcraft is a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe. Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), the film was written by Charles Leavitt with a rewrite by Duncan Jones. The film, a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment production, is produced by Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Alex Gartner. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share, Brent O’Connor, and Blizzard Entertainment’s Michael Morhaime and Paul Sams serve as executive producers. Rob Pardo and Blizzard Entertainment’s Chris Metzen and Nick Carpenter co‐produce with Atlas’s Rebecca Steel Roven. Fighting for The Alliance, Warcraft features Dominic Cooper as King Llane Wrynn, Travis Fimmel as Anduin Lothar, Ben Foster as Medivh, Ben Schnetzer as Khadgar, and Ruth Negga as Lady Taria, and on the side of The Horde is Clancy Brown as Blackhand, Toby Kebbel as Durotan, Robert Kazinsky as Ogrim, and Daniel Wu as Gul’Dan, with Paula Patton’s Garona caught in the middle. The World of Warcraft adaptation will hit theaters on June 10, 2016.
This was an ok trailer. As I have stated many many times before, I am not the biggest fan of World of Warcraft, but my interest for the film became high due to the fact that Duncan Jones was going to be in the director's chair and the fact that this is the film to possibly help the video game movie genre get off the ground and become a viable genre. The trailer felt like too much was going on and the cgi looked kinda weak and over-the-top. I do like the story that they are going to have and it's something we haven't seen a lot of recently. To be honest this trailer kind of put a doubt in my mind that the film could be good, but it's just a trailer and we still have 7 months before the film comes out.
Variety reports that Chloe Moretz (The Equalizer, upcoming The 5th Wave) will play the title character in Working Title and Universal Pictures’ The Little Mermaid, with Richard Curtis (Love Actually) in talks to write the script. The adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale previously had Sofia Coppola attached to direct. A new director has not yet been announced. The trade says that Moretz had been the frontrunner all along, but Coppola’s unwillingness to go with a star like Moretz led to her leaving the project. Andersen’s story, which follows a young mermaid who gives up her life in the sea for a human prince, was first published in 1837 and has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. The new version was initially said to have been inspired by a children’s puppet theatre production of the classic at London’s Little Angel Theatre Company. Executive VP of Production Erik Baiers and creative executive Chloe Yellin will oversee the project for Universal. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce. Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger will executive produce.
This is great casting. Chloe Grace Moretz is a young and talented actress that really hasn't had that one role to put a stamp on how good she is. I think this is a film were she can really stand out and become a major star. I'm sad that Sofia Coppola isn't directing the film anymore because she is a great director especially with female leads, but I'm sure Disney has a great person in mind to take over the director's chair. Out of all of the live-action Disney films coming out in the next few years, this (along with Beauty and the Beast and Mulan) is a film I am really looking forward to.
Disney and Pixar’s long-awaited sequel Finding Dory has just debuted its first poster, which features the return of Ellen DeGeneres as the ditzy title surgeon fish. Check out the Finding Dory poster below and stay tuned for the first trailer tomorrow. Finding Dory picks up six months after the first movie, with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) living a quiet life among the clown fishes. After going with Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, her home sickness leads the forgetful Dory on a quest to find where she came from. “The movie will be mostly set at the California Marine Biology Institute, a huge complex of sea life rehabilitation and aquarium, where Dory was born and raised,” Pixar President Jim Morris stated previously. “We will get to meet new characters, like an octopus, sea lions, a beluga whale, among others.” Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy voice Dory’s parents, and the setting was apparently changed early on after Pixar screened Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s controversial Sea World documentary Blackfish. Setting the film at a Marine Biology Institute instead of an aquatic park will hopefully put the filmmakers on the right side of history. Finding Dory features returning favorites Marlin, Nemo and the Tank Gang, among others. Set in part along the California coastline, the story also welcomes a host of new characters, including a few who will prove to be a very important part of Dory’s life. Findng Nemo helmer Andrew Stanton (John Carter) returns to the directors chair for the animated film, which features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Willem Dafoe, Dominic West, Ty Burrell and Idris Elba. Walt Disney Pictures will release the film on June 17, 2016.
I really love this poster. It's a very simple idea and design and it uses one of the most often used quotes in the movie and the main one used by Dory and that's a great way to help market and bring focus to her character. I really loved the first film and it's easily one of the greatest animated films of all-time and to do a sequel on the films most popular characters is a brilliant idea. When I first heard the announcement of this film I was immediately excited and I'm looking forward to the film and how they will build upon everything from the first film.
Your eyes do not deceive you Bat-fans! Deadline reports that Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey will provide the voice for the Mayor of Gotham City in the upcoming The LEGO Batman Movie. She joins a cast that includes Will Arnett as the titular Dark Knight, Michael Cera as Robin the boy wonder, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth, and Zach Galifianakis as The Joker. Most well known for her storied music career, for which she has received countless awards recognition including 20 American Music Awards, 32 Billboard Music Awards, and five Grammy Awards, Carey has also appeared on screen, mostly notably in 2009’s Precious. Carey has previously lent her voice to episodes of “The Proud Family” and “American Dad!” but this would mark her first voice acting role in a feature film. The LEGO Movie animation supervisor Chris McKay will direct The LEGO Batman Movie, which features a script by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter creator Seth Grahame-Smith (who will direct The Flash for Warner Bros. Pictures). Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed The LEGO Movie and are also developing an animated version of Spider-Man for Sony, will produce the film along with Dan Lin. The LEGO Batman Movie will open in theaters on May 26, 2017.
This is a really interesting choice. Now earlier reports had Mariah Carey voicing Commissioner Gordon and if that was to happen then I would've been highly upset because it just didn't make sense with Rosario Dawson voicing Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl and the only time Commissioner Gordon was a female was when Barbara took over for her father in Batman. Beyond. Now that she is playing the mayor it makes a whole lot more sense. So far this cast has gotten better and better with every single choice and this cast is going to get better and better and I'm excited to see who gets added next.
It was more than a year ago that leading man Dwayne Johnson took to social media to announce his involvement in Paramount Pictures’ Baywatch movie with a photo of himself atop a jet ski. Since then, the Baywatch cast has added Zac Efron and locked director Seth Gordon (The King of Kong, Horrible Bosses). Today, Deadline has an update on the film, bringing word that a number female stars are now up for the comedy feature. The outlet notes that there is some uncertainty regarding the number of open parts. As such, it’s possible that several of the actresses listed below could end up part of the Baywatch cast. The talent included on the Baywatch cast short list includes Ashely Benson (“Pretty Little Liars,” Spring Breakers), Alexandra Daddario (who just worked with Johnson in San Andreas), Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries,” The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Shelley Hennig (“Teen Wolf,” Unfriended), Bianca Santos (The DUFF, Ouija), Alexandra Shipp (who will be playing Storm in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse) and Denyse Tontz (“Big Time Rush,” “Dog with a Blog”). Although several writers have been attached to Baywatch, the most recent draft hails from the Friday the 13th pair of Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Earlier reports suggested that the film will offer a comedy-heavy take that has little to do with the original series. Parts were reportedly written, however, for both Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff to reprise their roles. Whether or not that remains the plan is, at the moment, unconfirmed.
This is a really talented list of actresses. Out of this list I honestly have no clue who I would want to be the co-star with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Zac Efron, but I had to choose now I would go with Alexandria Daddario since I've seen more from her than the others. I'm really surprised this film is just now happening because the show ended back in 2001 and this film probably won't come out until 2017 so that would be 16 years and that just seems like a really long time between the end of the show and a film adaptation. Eventhough it seems like a long time, I am actually looking forward to it mainly because of the cast and I just hope the film can have some of the campy jokes that tv series had.
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
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Having just debuted at BlizzCon, Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have now brought online the first trailer for Warcraft! Enter the World of Warcraft by watching the trailer below. Legendary’s Warcraft is a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe. Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), the film was written by Charles Leavitt with a rewrite by Duncan Jones. The film, a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment production, is produced by Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Alex Gartner. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share, Brent O’Connor, and Blizzard Entertainment’s Michael Morhaime and Paul Sams serve as executive producers. Rob Pardo and Blizzard Entertainment’s Chris Metzen and Nick Carpenter co‐produce with Atlas’s Rebecca Steel Roven. Fighting for The Alliance, Warcraft features Dominic Cooper as King Llane Wrynn, Travis Fimmel as Anduin Lothar, Ben Foster as Medivh, Ben Schnetzer as Khadgar, and Ruth Negga as Lady Taria, and on the side of The Horde is Clancy Brown as Blackhand, Toby Kebbel as Durotan, Robert Kazinsky as Ogrim, and Daniel Wu as Gul’Dan, with Paula Patton’s Garona caught in the middle. The World of Warcraft adaptation will hit theaters on June 10, 2016.
This was an ok trailer. As I have stated many many times before, I am not the biggest fan of World of Warcraft, but my interest for the film became high due to the fact that Duncan Jones was going to be in the director's chair and the fact that this is the film to possibly help the video game movie genre get off the ground and become a viable genre. The trailer felt like too much was going on and the cgi looked kinda weak and over-the-top. I do like the story that they are going to have and it's something we haven't seen a lot of recently. To be honest this trailer kind of put a doubt in my mind that the film could be good, but it's just a trailer and we still have 7 months before the film comes out.
Variety reports that Chloe Moretz (The Equalizer, upcoming The 5th Wave) will play the title character in Working Title and Universal Pictures’ The Little Mermaid, with Richard Curtis (Love Actually) in talks to write the script. The adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale previously had Sofia Coppola attached to direct. A new director has not yet been announced. The trade says that Moretz had been the frontrunner all along, but Coppola’s unwillingness to go with a star like Moretz led to her leaving the project. Andersen’s story, which follows a young mermaid who gives up her life in the sea for a human prince, was first published in 1837 and has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. The new version was initially said to have been inspired by a children’s puppet theatre production of the classic at London’s Little Angel Theatre Company. Executive VP of Production Erik Baiers and creative executive Chloe Yellin will oversee the project for Universal. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce. Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger will executive produce.
This is great casting. Chloe Grace Moretz is a young and talented actress that really hasn't had that one role to put a stamp on how good she is. I think this is a film were she can really stand out and become a major star. I'm sad that Sofia Coppola isn't directing the film anymore because she is a great director especially with female leads, but I'm sure Disney has a great person in mind to take over the director's chair. Out of all of the live-action Disney films coming out in the next few years, this (along with Beauty and the Beast and Mulan) is a film I am really looking forward to.
Disney and Pixar’s long-awaited sequel Finding Dory has just debuted its first poster, which features the return of Ellen DeGeneres as the ditzy title surgeon fish. Check out the Finding Dory poster below and stay tuned for the first trailer tomorrow. Finding Dory picks up six months after the first movie, with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) living a quiet life among the clown fishes. After going with Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, her home sickness leads the forgetful Dory on a quest to find where she came from. “The movie will be mostly set at the California Marine Biology Institute, a huge complex of sea life rehabilitation and aquarium, where Dory was born and raised,” Pixar President Jim Morris stated previously. “We will get to meet new characters, like an octopus, sea lions, a beluga whale, among others.” Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy voice Dory’s parents, and the setting was apparently changed early on after Pixar screened Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s controversial Sea World documentary Blackfish. Setting the film at a Marine Biology Institute instead of an aquatic park will hopefully put the filmmakers on the right side of history. Finding Dory features returning favorites Marlin, Nemo and the Tank Gang, among others. Set in part along the California coastline, the story also welcomes a host of new characters, including a few who will prove to be a very important part of Dory’s life. Findng Nemo helmer Andrew Stanton (John Carter) returns to the directors chair for the animated film, which features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Willem Dafoe, Dominic West, Ty Burrell and Idris Elba. Walt Disney Pictures will release the film on June 17, 2016.
I really love this poster. It's a very simple idea and design and it uses one of the most often used quotes in the movie and the main one used by Dory and that's a great way to help market and bring focus to her character. I really loved the first film and it's easily one of the greatest animated films of all-time and to do a sequel on the films most popular characters is a brilliant idea. When I first heard the announcement of this film I was immediately excited and I'm looking forward to the film and how they will build upon everything from the first film.
Your eyes do not deceive you Bat-fans! Deadline reports that Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey will provide the voice for the Mayor of Gotham City in the upcoming The LEGO Batman Movie. She joins a cast that includes Will Arnett as the titular Dark Knight, Michael Cera as Robin the boy wonder, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth, and Zach Galifianakis as The Joker. Most well known for her storied music career, for which she has received countless awards recognition including 20 American Music Awards, 32 Billboard Music Awards, and five Grammy Awards, Carey has also appeared on screen, mostly notably in 2009’s Precious. Carey has previously lent her voice to episodes of “The Proud Family” and “American Dad!” but this would mark her first voice acting role in a feature film. The LEGO Movie animation supervisor Chris McKay will direct The LEGO Batman Movie, which features a script by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter creator Seth Grahame-Smith (who will direct The Flash for Warner Bros. Pictures). Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed The LEGO Movie and are also developing an animated version of Spider-Man for Sony, will produce the film along with Dan Lin. The LEGO Batman Movie will open in theaters on May 26, 2017.
This is a really interesting choice. Now earlier reports had Mariah Carey voicing Commissioner Gordon and if that was to happen then I would've been highly upset because it just didn't make sense with Rosario Dawson voicing Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl and the only time Commissioner Gordon was a female was when Barbara took over for her father in Batman. Beyond. Now that she is playing the mayor it makes a whole lot more sense. So far this cast has gotten better and better with every single choice and this cast is going to get better and better and I'm excited to see who gets added next.
It was more than a year ago that leading man Dwayne Johnson took to social media to announce his involvement in Paramount Pictures’ Baywatch movie with a photo of himself atop a jet ski. Since then, the Baywatch cast has added Zac Efron and locked director Seth Gordon (The King of Kong, Horrible Bosses). Today, Deadline has an update on the film, bringing word that a number female stars are now up for the comedy feature. The outlet notes that there is some uncertainty regarding the number of open parts. As such, it’s possible that several of the actresses listed below could end up part of the Baywatch cast. The talent included on the Baywatch cast short list includes Ashely Benson (“Pretty Little Liars,” Spring Breakers), Alexandra Daddario (who just worked with Johnson in San Andreas), Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries,” The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Shelley Hennig (“Teen Wolf,” Unfriended), Bianca Santos (The DUFF, Ouija), Alexandra Shipp (who will be playing Storm in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse) and Denyse Tontz (“Big Time Rush,” “Dog with a Blog”). Although several writers have been attached to Baywatch, the most recent draft hails from the Friday the 13th pair of Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. Earlier reports suggested that the film will offer a comedy-heavy take that has little to do with the original series. Parts were reportedly written, however, for both Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff to reprise their roles. Whether or not that remains the plan is, at the moment, unconfirmed.
This is a really talented list of actresses. Out of this list I honestly have no clue who I would want to be the co-star with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Zac Efron, but I had to choose now I would go with Alexandria Daddario since I've seen more from her than the others. I'm really surprised this film is just now happening because the show ended back in 2001 and this film probably won't come out until 2017 so that would be 16 years and that just seems like a really long time between the end of the show and a film adaptation. Eventhough it seems like a long time, I am actually looking forward to it mainly because of the cast and I just hope the film can have some of the campy jokes that tv series had.
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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