9-25-14 Movie News

        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)


        Walt Disney Animation Studios has posted a new full-length trailer for their "big" fall movie, Big Hero 6, and after several trailers focusing on the 14-year-old lead Hiro and his cuddly balloon-bot sidekick Baymax, we finally get a glimpse of the whole superhero team in action and you can check it out below.

        Based on the Marvel Comics series that debuted in the late-90's, Big Hero 6 is an action comedy adventure about brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion--a robot named Baymax--Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city. The movie is set to hit theaters on November 7.

        This was a pretty good trailer. This trailer showed a lot more emotional moments mixed in with some comedic moments than the first trailer did. This movie looks like it could be another Frozen or Wreck-It-Ralph and it also helps with it being based off of a Marvel comic. I can't wait to see the film.



        Although the theatrical version of this year's X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to hit DVD and Blu-ray October 14, details are starting to come in about the long-rumored extended version of the film. To be titled the "Rogue Cut," the extended release will reincorporate the deleted sequence that features Anna Paquin's Rogue and will hit home video in the summer of 2015. “It’s a big chunk,", writer and producer Simon Kinberg tells Variety. "A substantial part of the movie. We want to give [fans] the fullest picture of the film -- behind the camera, and in front of it." Exact technical specifications are likely still some time off, but the "Rogue Cut" will run at least ten minutes longer and will also offer some cameo appearances from other popular X-Men characters.

        X-Men: Days of Future Past stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.

        This is great news to hear. Rogue has been a very underused character in the X-Men franchise and this will give her a moment to shine. I was disappointed to see Rogue in the trailer and then learn that she wouldn't even be in the film. I'm really curious to see her scenes and what impact they would of had in the film.



        The Telegraph has revealed the new poster for critically-acclaimed drama The Imitation Game, opening in theaters on November 21 and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Matthew Beard. The English-language debut of Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), the film was the toast of the recent 39th Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the top honor "People's Choice Award for Best Film." It will have its European premiere as the opening film of the 58th BFI London Film Festival on October 8.

        In The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.



        This is a pretty cool poster. It really gives us a feel for what type of film this will be. This film is already getting a lot of buzz and it could be a major contender at the upcoming Oscars. The film sounds really interesting and it looks to be the best performance Benedict Cumberbatch has given in his career. I honestly cannot wait to see the film.



        Fans wanting to see more of the classic H.R. Giger Alien on the big screen are, unfortunately, going to have to keep waiting. Ridley Scott today tells Yahoo! Movies UK that, despite their tease in the first film, the Xenomorphs won't appear in his upcoming Prometheus 2. "The beast is done," says Scott of the creature design. "Cooked. I got lucky meeting Giger all those years ago. It's very hard to repeat that. I just happen to be the one who forced it through because they said it's obscene. They didn't want to do it and I said, 'I want to do it, it's fantastic.' But after four, I think it wears out a little bit. There's only so much snarling you can do. I think you've got to come back with something more interesting. And I think we've found the next step. I thought the Engineers were quite a good start."
Set to feature the return of Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, Prometheus 2 hits theaters on March 4, 2016.

        Scott also offered a brief update on the status of his Blade Runner sequel. "It's on the charts," Scott adds. "I can't say when that would be yet, because of [Harrison Ford's] thing with 'Star Wars.' It's a sequel. It's what happens next. It's quite surprisingly clever."

        These are some pretty interesting comments. Let's start with the Prometheus 2 comments first. Look I'm a huge fan of the of the Alien franchise and I was let down by Prometheus, but I did like the tease that was in the film and I'm disappointed that we won't see Xenomorphs in the sequel. Now for the Blade Runner 2 comments, I honestly don't know if the film will happen. Ridley Scott has constantly repeated that Blade Runner 2 was on the way, but it has never come to fruition. Hopefully they can get everything worked out so we can see the sequel.




        Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow have released a new trailer for Andy and Lana Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending, which hits the big screen February 6, 2015 and you can check it out below!

        Starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy and Tim Pigott-Smith, the film follows Jupiter Jones (Kunis), a young woman born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.


        This was a decent trailer. The film still looks like absolute crap, but still the trailer was decent. Look the Wachowski siblings haven't had the best luck since The Matrix (which came out 15 years ago). The other thing to give me doubts about the film is that it was pushed back form this past summer to February of 2015 even after the film was completed. This is a big red flag, but I;m still going to give the film a shot. 

        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.


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