Weekend Movie News 5-16-14 to 5-18-14

        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)


        Paramount Pictures has released the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar which you can watch below. Hitting theaters and IMAX on November 7, 2014, the sci-fi film stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Bill Irwin, Mackenzie Foy, Topher Grace and David Gyasi. Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

        Holy crap does this trailer look awesome. It does a great job of giving us a little bit more of the plot without giving anything away. The film looks awesome and I can't wait to see this film as it is one of my most anticipated films of the year.



        Marvel Studios has revealed a new poster for the upcoming space action movie and have also announced that the second trailer for the film will debut on Monday, May 19! You can check out the new poster below

        An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy's fate in the balance.

        Written and directed by James Gunn, the film also stars Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, Djimon Hounsou, Benicio del Toro, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Gregg Henry, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker and Vin Diesel.​ Guardians of the Galaxy is set to debut in theaters August 1.



        This poster looks amazing. It makes the Guardians look way more badass. Honestly Marvel has done everything right with the film so far and i can't wait to see the trailer that will be released tomorrow. Overall this is another one of my most anticipated films of the year. 



        On Friday, the first photos of Gal Gadot on the Birmingham, Michigan set of Zack Snyder's Batman vs. Superman, but now we get a closer look at the actress via the photos below. Gadot is playing Wonder Woman in the May 6, 2016 release and co-stars with Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey, Tao Okamoto and Ray Fisher.


(via Henry Cavill's twitter account follow him @HenryCavillOrg)

        Gal Godot looks gorgeous. But it still doesn't change my opinion on her being Wonder Woman. A picture says a thousand words and I'm hoping that this picture is her leaving town after a short stay and won't be back until the Justice League films in 2017.



        IFC Films has debuted the trailer for writer/director Kat Candler's Hellion, starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Josh Wiggins, Deke Garner, Jonny Mars and Walt Roberts. Check it out in the player below, courtesy of iTunes Movie Trailers.

        When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

        Hellion hits theaters in a limited release June 13, 2014.



        This trailer is amazing. The trailer reminds me a lot of The Place Beyond The Pines trailer (you all know how much I love that movie). I love Aaron Paul and I think this is a great film for him. Yes Need for Speed wasn't great but he's moving to better roles and more high-profiled movies (such as Exodus directed by Ridley Scott and also stars Christian Bale and Ben Kingsley). If this film were to come out later I feel he would get an Oscar nomination from the looks of the film.



        Many of Stephen King's novels and short stories have been turned into movies both for television and the big screen, but one of the novels that seems to have evaded adaptation since it was released in 1992 is Gerald's Game, a terrifying thriller about a woman who becomes trapped, handcuffed to a bed in a remote area after her husband dies in the middle of a bondage game.

        Deadline is reporting that Oculus director Mike Flanagan has come on board to adapt the book, co-writing with his partner Jeff Howard, with plans to direct it as his next movie. Originally, Flanagan was going to start production on his next movie Diver over the summer, but he has decided to push that back to 2015 to focus on the King adaptation.

        This is a really good fit. Now while I didn't overly love Oculus, I still thought that the film was well written and that's attributed to Mike Flanagan. I feel that with his experience on Oculus, he will do well with this script and tell a great story. 


        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