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)
Warner Bros. Pictures has debuted a brand-new poster for Mad Max: Fury Road which you can check out below. Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth film of George Miller’s Road Warrior/Mad Max franchise and is co-written and directed by Miller. The post-apocalyptic action film is set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world of fire and blood exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There’s Max (Tom Hardy), a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos and Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. Also starring Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Mad Max: Fury Road opens in 2D and 3D theaters on May 15
This is a pretty cool looking poster. Most posters are pretty generic and bland and this poster is actually pretty original. It has own certain feel to it that I can't explain. As I've said time and time again, I'm a huge fan of the Mad Max franchise and from everything I've seen from this film so far gets me really excited for it and I cannot wait to see it.
Speaking of Mad Max; Fury Road, after several mindblowing trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road we’re ready for as much action-cranked mayhem as director George Miller can throw at us, and now an Esquire profile of Tom Hardy suggests the star has signed on for three more turns as Max Rockatansky. The more the madder. “Everything’s based on figures and how things are perceived,” says Hardy of the role box office will take in deciding the fate of the next films in the series. “Inevitably it’s a business.” Series creator Miller told fans at last year’s Comic-Con that, “In order to tell this story, we came up with two others. We’ve written the screenplay of one and the novelization of another, but it’s a very rough novel…We kept working on them while we were working on other things.” It’s been a long and furious road for Hardy, who has been attached to play the iconic wasteland warrior since late-2009, although filming did not begin in Namibia until mid-2012. Once production was wheels down in the desert it was no picnic, plagued by technical problems, budget overruns, massive reshoots, personality problems between Hardy and Theron, and the inevitable accidents arising from the multitude of practical stunts Miller staged. “Luckily nobody died,” says Hardy. “We were in the middle of nowhere, so far away from the studio system that [Warner Bros] can’t really see what’s going on, and just getting things to and from the set was a nightmare. We’d lose half a vehicle in sand and have to dig it out. It was just this unit in the middle of x-million square-kilometres of desert, and then this group of lunatics in leathers, like a really weird S&M party, or a Hell’s Angels convention. It was like Cirque du Soleil meets f**king Slipknot.” The film itself has gone through many iterations, including a scrapped 2003 version starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr., an Akira-inspired animated film, and a duet consisting of Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa before the second film centering on Charlize Theron’s character was ditched in favor of the one-at-a-time approach. So was it all worth it? Hardy himself has seen the finished product and calls it “f**king unbelievable,” which is a ringing endorsement if we’ve ever heard one. Also starring Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, X-Men: Days of Future Past), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max, Sleeping Beauty), Nathan Jones (Conan the Barbarian, Troy), Zoe Kravitz (Divergent, X-Men: First Class), Riley Keough (The Runaways, Magic Mike) and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Mad Max: Fury Road opens in 2D and 3D theaters on May 15, 2015.
This is great news to hear. I love it when a studio has confidence in a film to go ahead and plan for 3 more films just a month til the first movie comes out. I also like how Hardy is attached to the next three film because it shows he is committed to the franchise for the long haul as long as they keep making money and they don't go through the same problems they went through with Fury Road.
James Gunn has confirmed that the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will begin production in February of 2016. Like Ant-Man and the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, the sequel will shoot at Pinewood Atlanta Studios. The original story follows: We’re almost two years away from the release of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which perhaps may seem like a long wait, but it seems like just yesterday Marvel’s The Avengers was in theaters and now “Age of Ultron” is less than a month away. Earlier this week, writer/director James Gunn took to the social media broadcasting app Periscope to answer some fan questions and in doing so offered an update on the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 story treatment and script. “I turned in my treatment. I’m going in to meet about it Friday and we will start working on the screenplay next week,”Gunn said (via Screen Rant). Gunn also revealed that they’re about 70 pages deep into the screenplay for the sequel and also described pitching the sequel to Marvel Studios as “best experience he ever had with a pitch.” Another interesting note from Gunn’s video is that he mentioned they may have figured out a way for Karen Gillan to return as Nebula without having to shave her head, which she famously revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will once again feature Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper as unlikely heroes who must team up in order to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. It will be released in theaters on May 5, 2017.
This is great news to hear. It's interesting that they are starting the movie so early. I mean the movie doesn't come out for another 2 years and if they take the usual 8 months to film the movie they are looking at a January finish and that puts them 16 months away from the release date. They are moving a little fast, but the faster the better and I can't wait to see what James Gunn comes up with for the sequel.
20th Century Fox has released a new international trailer for Josh Trank’s upcoming Fantastic Four, and though it’s mostly the same trailer as the recently-released one, there are some new shots showing two members of the titular team in action and you can check it out below. An origin story said to be inspired largely by the “Ultimate Fantastic Four” comics (the first arc of which was written by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar with Joe Kubert illustrating), Fantastic Four offers a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team. The story centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy. “Marvel’s First Family” will include Whiplash‘s Miles Teller as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), “House of Cards” star Kate Mara as Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman), Fruitvale Station and Chronicle‘s Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and The Adventures of Tintin‘s Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm (The Thing). Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ Toby Kebbell will also star as Doctor Doom alongside Reg E. Cathey (“The Wire”) as as Dr. Franklin Storm and Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) as Harvey Elder, aka The Mole Man. Fantastic Four features a screenplay by Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and is set to hit the big screen August 7.
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Warner Bros. Pictures has debuted a brand-new poster for Mad Max: Fury Road which you can check out below. Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth film of George Miller’s Road Warrior/Mad Max franchise and is co-written and directed by Miller. The post-apocalyptic action film is set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world of fire and blood exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There’s Max (Tom Hardy), a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos and Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. Also starring Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Mad Max: Fury Road opens in 2D and 3D theaters on May 15
This is a pretty cool looking poster. Most posters are pretty generic and bland and this poster is actually pretty original. It has own certain feel to it that I can't explain. As I've said time and time again, I'm a huge fan of the Mad Max franchise and from everything I've seen from this film so far gets me really excited for it and I cannot wait to see it.
Speaking of Mad Max; Fury Road, after several mindblowing trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road we’re ready for as much action-cranked mayhem as director George Miller can throw at us, and now an Esquire profile of Tom Hardy suggests the star has signed on for three more turns as Max Rockatansky. The more the madder. “Everything’s based on figures and how things are perceived,” says Hardy of the role box office will take in deciding the fate of the next films in the series. “Inevitably it’s a business.” Series creator Miller told fans at last year’s Comic-Con that, “In order to tell this story, we came up with two others. We’ve written the screenplay of one and the novelization of another, but it’s a very rough novel…We kept working on them while we were working on other things.” It’s been a long and furious road for Hardy, who has been attached to play the iconic wasteland warrior since late-2009, although filming did not begin in Namibia until mid-2012. Once production was wheels down in the desert it was no picnic, plagued by technical problems, budget overruns, massive reshoots, personality problems between Hardy and Theron, and the inevitable accidents arising from the multitude of practical stunts Miller staged. “Luckily nobody died,” says Hardy. “We were in the middle of nowhere, so far away from the studio system that [Warner Bros] can’t really see what’s going on, and just getting things to and from the set was a nightmare. We’d lose half a vehicle in sand and have to dig it out. It was just this unit in the middle of x-million square-kilometres of desert, and then this group of lunatics in leathers, like a really weird S&M party, or a Hell’s Angels convention. It was like Cirque du Soleil meets f**king Slipknot.” The film itself has gone through many iterations, including a scrapped 2003 version starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr., an Akira-inspired animated film, and a duet consisting of Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa before the second film centering on Charlize Theron’s character was ditched in favor of the one-at-a-time approach. So was it all worth it? Hardy himself has seen the finished product and calls it “f**king unbelievable,” which is a ringing endorsement if we’ve ever heard one. Also starring Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, X-Men: Days of Future Past), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max, Sleeping Beauty), Nathan Jones (Conan the Barbarian, Troy), Zoe Kravitz (Divergent, X-Men: First Class), Riley Keough (The Runaways, Magic Mike) and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Mad Max: Fury Road opens in 2D and 3D theaters on May 15, 2015.
This is great news to hear. I love it when a studio has confidence in a film to go ahead and plan for 3 more films just a month til the first movie comes out. I also like how Hardy is attached to the next three film because it shows he is committed to the franchise for the long haul as long as they keep making money and they don't go through the same problems they went through with Fury Road.
James Gunn has confirmed that the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will begin production in February of 2016. Like Ant-Man and the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, the sequel will shoot at Pinewood Atlanta Studios. The original story follows: We’re almost two years away from the release of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which perhaps may seem like a long wait, but it seems like just yesterday Marvel’s The Avengers was in theaters and now “Age of Ultron” is less than a month away. Earlier this week, writer/director James Gunn took to the social media broadcasting app Periscope to answer some fan questions and in doing so offered an update on the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 story treatment and script. “I turned in my treatment. I’m going in to meet about it Friday and we will start working on the screenplay next week,”Gunn said (via Screen Rant). Gunn also revealed that they’re about 70 pages deep into the screenplay for the sequel and also described pitching the sequel to Marvel Studios as “best experience he ever had with a pitch.” Another interesting note from Gunn’s video is that he mentioned they may have figured out a way for Karen Gillan to return as Nebula without having to shave her head, which she famously revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will once again feature Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper as unlikely heroes who must team up in order to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. It will be released in theaters on May 5, 2017.
This is great news to hear. It's interesting that they are starting the movie so early. I mean the movie doesn't come out for another 2 years and if they take the usual 8 months to film the movie they are looking at a January finish and that puts them 16 months away from the release date. They are moving a little fast, but the faster the better and I can't wait to see what James Gunn comes up with for the sequel.
20th Century Fox has released a new international trailer for Josh Trank’s upcoming Fantastic Four, and though it’s mostly the same trailer as the recently-released one, there are some new shots showing two members of the titular team in action and you can check it out below. An origin story said to be inspired largely by the “Ultimate Fantastic Four” comics (the first arc of which was written by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar with Joe Kubert illustrating), Fantastic Four offers a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team. The story centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy. “Marvel’s First Family” will include Whiplash‘s Miles Teller as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), “House of Cards” star Kate Mara as Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman), Fruitvale Station and Chronicle‘s Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and The Adventures of Tintin‘s Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm (The Thing). Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ Toby Kebbell will also star as Doctor Doom alongside Reg E. Cathey (“The Wire”) as as Dr. Franklin Storm and Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) as Harvey Elder, aka The Mole Man. Fantastic Four features a screenplay by Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and is set to hit the big screen August 7.
This was a decent trailer. Granted it's pretty much the same as the last one with just a couple of new scenes that you have to pay close attention to or you won't even see them. This film has been through a lot and it hasn't gotten any respect and it's understandable. I've been behind this project form day one and I'm sticking with the prediction that the film is going to shock a lot of people. I'm prepared to admit that I was wrong of it ends up being a failure, but I don't expect it to.
The 2013 goofball sequel Machete Kills got slaughtered at the box office, and even for a relatively inexpensive film wound up deep in the red, but apparently that won’t keep the studly Mexican down. Star Danny Trejo tells Halloween Daily News that the ex-federale WILL get the women and kill the bad guys… in space. “Robert and I are going to start to do ‘Machete Kills in Space,’ so that’s going to be awesome,” says Trejo. “Absolutely. We’re going to be working on it this year.” Of course, the spoofy idea for Machete Kills in Space was fleshed out in a short fake trailer tacked on to the end of Machete Kills, and boasts the return of Michelle Rodriguez’s Luz along with a handful of yet-to-be-determined celebrity cameos that have become the series’ trademark. The character of Machete himself was born out of a fake trailer Rodriguez made for his 2007 pastiche movie Grindhouse, which was meant to poke fun at shoddy direct-to-video exploitation fare, but given the poor reception of Machete Kills (a paltry $8 million domestically) it’s hard to imagine Machete Kills Again in Space being anything other than a low-low budget, direct-to-VOD affair. Rodriguez, who hasn’t had a film gross more than $40 million in over a decade, could use a hit and is currently at work on his long-gestating live-action adaptation of Frank Frazetta and Ralph Bakshi’s animated cult classic Fire & Ice. He also still owns the rights to Mike Allred’s comic book hero Madman, which he’s been developing since 1998. Meanwhile Trejo, no stranger to exploitation fare, will appear in over twenty film projects in 2015 alone, including a guest spot on the Rodriguez-produced “From Dusk Till Dawn” series.
This is the craziest idea I have ever heard in my entire life and yes it is more crazy then the Play-Doh movie that's in development. These films have been terrible, but the fact of the matter is that they are made with a little budget and make enough money for a sequel to happen. The filmmakers also realize that these film are stupid and over-the-top. I'm not looking forward to the film, but it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
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