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)
(8/31/15)
Sony Pictures has released the trailer (via MMQB) for the football drama Concussion, starring Will Smith and opening in theaters on Christmas Day. You can check out the Concussion trailer below. The film is based on the David vs. Goliath journey of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of football-related brain trauma in a pro player and fought to bring awareness to the public. In his search for the truth behind the devastating malady, Omalu’s quest humanizes the price paid by professional athletes in impact sports but also by people who challenge the status quo as it exposes the political, cultural and corporate interests that fuel the business of sports. Concussion also stars Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Arliss Howard, Paul Reiser, David Morse and Albert Brooks. Both written and directed by Peter Landesman, the film is based in part on the GQ article “Game Brain,” written by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The producers include Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio, David Wolthoff, Larry Shuman and Elizabeth Cantillon with David Crockett and Michael Schaefer executive producing. Landesman’s production team includes director of photography Salvatore Totino, production designer David Crank, Academy Award-winning editor William Goldenberg, and costume designer Dayna Pink.
This was a great and very intense trailer. Will Smith looks like he is back to being the Will Smith of old in what could be a performance that is better than his Oscar nominated work in Ali. This is a really interesting topic to talk about on the big screen simply becasue of the controversy the topic has caused among the public and the NFL. Having suffered several concussions playing football this is a topic that hits home for me and I'm really interested how deep they will go on the story. It has a really perfect release date right at the very end of the NFL season and hopefully this can shine a spotlight on this topic.
Fans were ecstatic to learn that longtime holdout Bill Murray had finally relented and agreed to a Ghostbusters cameo in Paul Feig’s upcoming reboot. He already shot the cameo in Boston and is rumored to be playing, in a reversal on Peter Venkman, a ghost debunker. Murray spoke to Vulture about what made him finally step back into this world, albeit in a small role as a different character. “I thought about it for a very long time,” Murray said. “Like, many, many months. No, that’s not right. I was seriously thinking about this for years, really… It kept eating at me, and I really respect those girls. And then I started to feel like if I didn’t do this movie, maybe somebody would write a bad review or something, thinking there was some sort of disapproval [on my part].” Murray admitted that he never wanted to strap the proton pack back on, but that he was charmed by the director and his new cast of female paranormal eliminators, including Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, who he refers to as “a great hope.” “You know, they were incredibly nice to ask me, and I really enjoyed being there,” Murray said. “They have such a jolly group, and they are going to have great success with this project. I didn’t want to overshadow [them] or anything, and I feel really good about it. I like those girls a lot. I mean, I really do. They are tough to say no to. And Paul is a real nice fellow.” The Ghostbusters reboot stars Kristen Wiig as “Erin Gilbert,” Kate McKinnon as “Jillian Holtzmann,” Melissa McCarthy as “Abby Yates” and Leslie Jones as “Patty Tolan.” The film will also feature Andy Garcia as the Mayor of New York City, Michael K. Williams as a character named “Hawkins,” Matt Walsh as a character named “Rourke,” Chris Hemsworth as the Ghostbusters’ secretary, and Neil Casey as the film’s villain. Original star/co-creator Dan Aykroyd will have a cameo in the film as well. Directed by Feig from a script he co-wrote with Katie Dippold, Ghostbusters is currently filming for a July 15, 2016 release, a week earlier than was previously announced.
These are really great comments. Murray has been the one for years out of the surviving members of the original Ghostbusters who has fought against a new Ghostbusters film and to know that he is making a cameo in the new film is a really great sign. I'm glad he isn't a Ghostbuster himself because that would just look really weird and it would be hard to do Ghostbusters 3 without the legendary Harold Ramis (he passed away last year). I'm glad that he is in the film and I can't wait to see his cameo in the film.
Lionsgate Premiere and Voltage Pictures have revealed the new trailer for Knock Knock, the latest thriller from horror meister Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno, “Hemlock Grove”) that premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Don’t answer the door, but do check out the Knock Knock trailer below. In the home invasion story, directed by Roth and co-written by Roth, Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo, two beautiful young girls, walk into a married man’s life and turn a wild fantasy into his worst nightmare. “[He’s] an architect, family man, two kids, family’s away for the weekend,” Reeves told ShockTillYouDrop.com of the film in a recent interview. “He’s working… [knocks] opens the door and two lovely young ladies are there, dripping wet from the rain in party clothes. ‘We’re lost! Can you help us? Can we come in?’ Then they kind of come on to me, seduce me, and then I do it, then wake up in the morning and they’re not leaving. They want to exact some revenge and punishment… It’s fun.” Knock Knock stars Keanu Reeves (John Wick, The Matrix trilogy), Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, “Hemlock Grove”), Ana de Armas (Arms & the Dudes), Aaron Burns (Best Worst Friends), Ignacia Allamand (Aftershock) and Colleen Camp (Election, American Hustle). Lionsgate Premiere will release the film in theaters and On Demand October 9.
I loved this trailer. It's great to see Keanu Reeves in this type of film and he really looks like he is in his element. Eli Roth is a master of suspense and this fits right into his wheelhouse. This will be a very different and weird film, but original and that's what is great about the film. Eli Roth always pulls something crazy off and I can't wait to see what he does in this film.
(9/1/15)
Focus Features has released The Danish Girl trailer, which you can watch below. Working Title Films’ The Danish Girl, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables) and starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables) and Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina), will be released domestically in exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles beginning Friday, November 27, 2015, and by Universal Pictures International overseas. The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe. The Danish Girl has been adapted into a screenplay by BAFTA Award nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. The film’s cast also includes Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop), Ben Whishaw (Skyfall), and Amber Heard (The Rum Diary). The film’s producers are Gail Mutrux (Kinsey) through her Pretty Pictures production company, Anne Harrison (Two Family House) through her Harrison Productions, Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Tom Hooper. Linda Reisman is executive-producing The Danish Girl with Ulf Israel of Senator Global Productions.
This was a really interesting trailer. Eddie Redmayne has proven not just because of his Oscar win earlier this year, but the films he has been in and the roles he has had and been knocked out of the park and with this trailer he has proven that he is one of the best actors working in the business. This will be a film that is coming out at the right time with the whole thing about Caitlyn Jenner and transgender transformations becoming more prevalent. This is the type of role the Academy looks for and Redmayne is easily in contention to not only get another nomination, but possibly win Best Actor Oscars in back to back years for the first time since 1993 and 1994 when Tom Hanks won for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
The Weinstein Company has debuted the official U.S. trailer for Macbeth, the Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) film starring Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Apocalypse, 12 Years a Slave) and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, The Dark Knight Rises), all three of whom are set to re-team for 20th Century Fox’s Assassin’s Creed movie. You can check out the Macbeth trailer below. A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s period tragedy, Macbeth is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader brought low by ambition and desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a truthful reimagining of what wartime must have really been like for one of Shakespeare’s most famous and compelling characters, a story of all-consuming passion and ambition set in war-torn 11th Century Scotland. Macbeth co-stars David Thewlis (The Theory of Everything), Elizabeth Debicki (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) and Paddy Considine (Child 44), and will be released in the UK on October 7 and the U.S. on December 4.
This is a very different, but exciting trailer. I like it when filmmakers take chances on a story that has been told time and time again and this is a very different take on the story of Macbeth. Michael Fassbender is a terrific actor and looks really comfortable in this role and he can easily get a double nomination for Best Actor along with his performance in Steve Jobs. Marion Cotillard also looks great in the film and she could get an Oscar nomination as well. This film looks absolutely fantastic and I cannot wait to see it.
Rumored for the role back in May, Josh Gad (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer) is now, per The Hollywood Reporter, officially set to play Roger Ebert in the upcoming biopic, Russ & Roger. Originally titled Russ & Roger Go Beyond, the project is scripted by Emmy winner Christopher Cluess (“Saturday Night Live,” “The Simpsons”) and based on the true story of the unique relationship between Ebert and provocative filmmaker Russ Meyer while they made Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at 20th Century Fox. Will Ferrell is already attached to the Meyer role. At the end of the ’60’s when films like Easy Rider and Bonnie & Clyde were reaching new audiences, Meyer, the outlaw director of soft-core pulp films like Fast Pussycat, Kill, Kill was given the opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of directing a studio film by Richard Zanuck, then head of 20th Century Fox. The studio was struggling with a string of big budget failures and Zanuck thought Meyer was the solution. He offered him Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Meyer agreed on the condition that Ebert, then the third string film critic for the Chicago Sun Times (who had written one of the few positive reviews of his work) would write the script. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls became a struggle between the outsider filmmakers and the establishment studio’s board of directors, particularly over the film’s rating. Meyer, Ebert and Zanuck were ultimately vindicated when Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was released in 1970 to huge box office success. Meyer and Ebert remained friends until Meyer passed away in September 2004. Ebert passed away in 2013 after a long public battle with cancer. Gad also appeared this year in the video game-inspired adventure Pixels and recently wrapped production on Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Starring Emma Watson as Belle, Beauty and the Beast hits the big screen March 17, 2017. Russ & Roger is being produced by Mark Amin’s’ Sobini Films, David Permut’s Permut Presentations and Richard Waltzer’s Chautauqua Entertainment. Permut, Amin and Waltzer will produce the film with Sobini Films’’ Cami Winikoff, Tyler Boehm and David Higgins and Permut Presentations’ Chris Mangano Executive Producing, and Steve Longi Co-producing.
This is a great choice for an iconic figure. Roger Ebert is easily the greatest film critic of all-time and despite some things he has said in his personal life, he is still an inspiration to me in doing what I am doing and he is my favorite critic and reading his past reviews, I don't always agree with him. Josh Gad is slowly becoming a force and this is an Oscar caliber role for him and I have complete faith in him and to seen him go up against a comedic genius like Will Ferrell will be great to see.
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.
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
(8/31/15)
Sony Pictures has released the trailer (via MMQB) for the football drama Concussion, starring Will Smith and opening in theaters on Christmas Day. You can check out the Concussion trailer below. The film is based on the David vs. Goliath journey of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of football-related brain trauma in a pro player and fought to bring awareness to the public. In his search for the truth behind the devastating malady, Omalu’s quest humanizes the price paid by professional athletes in impact sports but also by people who challenge the status quo as it exposes the political, cultural and corporate interests that fuel the business of sports. Concussion also stars Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Arliss Howard, Paul Reiser, David Morse and Albert Brooks. Both written and directed by Peter Landesman, the film is based in part on the GQ article “Game Brain,” written by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The producers include Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio, David Wolthoff, Larry Shuman and Elizabeth Cantillon with David Crockett and Michael Schaefer executive producing. Landesman’s production team includes director of photography Salvatore Totino, production designer David Crank, Academy Award-winning editor William Goldenberg, and costume designer Dayna Pink.
This was a great and very intense trailer. Will Smith looks like he is back to being the Will Smith of old in what could be a performance that is better than his Oscar nominated work in Ali. This is a really interesting topic to talk about on the big screen simply becasue of the controversy the topic has caused among the public and the NFL. Having suffered several concussions playing football this is a topic that hits home for me and I'm really interested how deep they will go on the story. It has a really perfect release date right at the very end of the NFL season and hopefully this can shine a spotlight on this topic.
Fans were ecstatic to learn that longtime holdout Bill Murray had finally relented and agreed to a Ghostbusters cameo in Paul Feig’s upcoming reboot. He already shot the cameo in Boston and is rumored to be playing, in a reversal on Peter Venkman, a ghost debunker. Murray spoke to Vulture about what made him finally step back into this world, albeit in a small role as a different character. “I thought about it for a very long time,” Murray said. “Like, many, many months. No, that’s not right. I was seriously thinking about this for years, really… It kept eating at me, and I really respect those girls. And then I started to feel like if I didn’t do this movie, maybe somebody would write a bad review or something, thinking there was some sort of disapproval [on my part].” Murray admitted that he never wanted to strap the proton pack back on, but that he was charmed by the director and his new cast of female paranormal eliminators, including Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, who he refers to as “a great hope.” “You know, they were incredibly nice to ask me, and I really enjoyed being there,” Murray said. “They have such a jolly group, and they are going to have great success with this project. I didn’t want to overshadow [them] or anything, and I feel really good about it. I like those girls a lot. I mean, I really do. They are tough to say no to. And Paul is a real nice fellow.” The Ghostbusters reboot stars Kristen Wiig as “Erin Gilbert,” Kate McKinnon as “Jillian Holtzmann,” Melissa McCarthy as “Abby Yates” and Leslie Jones as “Patty Tolan.” The film will also feature Andy Garcia as the Mayor of New York City, Michael K. Williams as a character named “Hawkins,” Matt Walsh as a character named “Rourke,” Chris Hemsworth as the Ghostbusters’ secretary, and Neil Casey as the film’s villain. Original star/co-creator Dan Aykroyd will have a cameo in the film as well. Directed by Feig from a script he co-wrote with Katie Dippold, Ghostbusters is currently filming for a July 15, 2016 release, a week earlier than was previously announced.
These are really great comments. Murray has been the one for years out of the surviving members of the original Ghostbusters who has fought against a new Ghostbusters film and to know that he is making a cameo in the new film is a really great sign. I'm glad he isn't a Ghostbuster himself because that would just look really weird and it would be hard to do Ghostbusters 3 without the legendary Harold Ramis (he passed away last year). I'm glad that he is in the film and I can't wait to see his cameo in the film.
Lionsgate Premiere and Voltage Pictures have revealed the new trailer for Knock Knock, the latest thriller from horror meister Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno, “Hemlock Grove”) that premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Don’t answer the door, but do check out the Knock Knock trailer below. In the home invasion story, directed by Roth and co-written by Roth, Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo, two beautiful young girls, walk into a married man’s life and turn a wild fantasy into his worst nightmare. “[He’s] an architect, family man, two kids, family’s away for the weekend,” Reeves told ShockTillYouDrop.com of the film in a recent interview. “He’s working… [knocks] opens the door and two lovely young ladies are there, dripping wet from the rain in party clothes. ‘We’re lost! Can you help us? Can we come in?’ Then they kind of come on to me, seduce me, and then I do it, then wake up in the morning and they’re not leaving. They want to exact some revenge and punishment… It’s fun.” Knock Knock stars Keanu Reeves (John Wick, The Matrix trilogy), Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, “Hemlock Grove”), Ana de Armas (Arms & the Dudes), Aaron Burns (Best Worst Friends), Ignacia Allamand (Aftershock) and Colleen Camp (Election, American Hustle). Lionsgate Premiere will release the film in theaters and On Demand October 9.
I loved this trailer. It's great to see Keanu Reeves in this type of film and he really looks like he is in his element. Eli Roth is a master of suspense and this fits right into his wheelhouse. This will be a very different and weird film, but original and that's what is great about the film. Eli Roth always pulls something crazy off and I can't wait to see what he does in this film.
(9/1/15)
Focus Features has released The Danish Girl trailer, which you can watch below. Working Title Films’ The Danish Girl, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables) and starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables) and Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina), will be released domestically in exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles beginning Friday, November 27, 2015, and by Universal Pictures International overseas. The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe. The Danish Girl has been adapted into a screenplay by BAFTA Award nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. The film’s cast also includes Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop), Ben Whishaw (Skyfall), and Amber Heard (The Rum Diary). The film’s producers are Gail Mutrux (Kinsey) through her Pretty Pictures production company, Anne Harrison (Two Family House) through her Harrison Productions, Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Tom Hooper. Linda Reisman is executive-producing The Danish Girl with Ulf Israel of Senator Global Productions.
This was a really interesting trailer. Eddie Redmayne has proven not just because of his Oscar win earlier this year, but the films he has been in and the roles he has had and been knocked out of the park and with this trailer he has proven that he is one of the best actors working in the business. This will be a film that is coming out at the right time with the whole thing about Caitlyn Jenner and transgender transformations becoming more prevalent. This is the type of role the Academy looks for and Redmayne is easily in contention to not only get another nomination, but possibly win Best Actor Oscars in back to back years for the first time since 1993 and 1994 when Tom Hanks won for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
The Weinstein Company has debuted the official U.S. trailer for Macbeth, the Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) film starring Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Apocalypse, 12 Years a Slave) and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, The Dark Knight Rises), all three of whom are set to re-team for 20th Century Fox’s Assassin’s Creed movie. You can check out the Macbeth trailer below. A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s period tragedy, Macbeth is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader brought low by ambition and desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a truthful reimagining of what wartime must have really been like for one of Shakespeare’s most famous and compelling characters, a story of all-consuming passion and ambition set in war-torn 11th Century Scotland. Macbeth co-stars David Thewlis (The Theory of Everything), Elizabeth Debicki (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) and Paddy Considine (Child 44), and will be released in the UK on October 7 and the U.S. on December 4.
This is a very different, but exciting trailer. I like it when filmmakers take chances on a story that has been told time and time again and this is a very different take on the story of Macbeth. Michael Fassbender is a terrific actor and looks really comfortable in this role and he can easily get a double nomination for Best Actor along with his performance in Steve Jobs. Marion Cotillard also looks great in the film and she could get an Oscar nomination as well. This film looks absolutely fantastic and I cannot wait to see it.
Rumored for the role back in May, Josh Gad (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer) is now, per The Hollywood Reporter, officially set to play Roger Ebert in the upcoming biopic, Russ & Roger. Originally titled Russ & Roger Go Beyond, the project is scripted by Emmy winner Christopher Cluess (“Saturday Night Live,” “The Simpsons”) and based on the true story of the unique relationship between Ebert and provocative filmmaker Russ Meyer while they made Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at 20th Century Fox. Will Ferrell is already attached to the Meyer role. At the end of the ’60’s when films like Easy Rider and Bonnie & Clyde were reaching new audiences, Meyer, the outlaw director of soft-core pulp films like Fast Pussycat, Kill, Kill was given the opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of directing a studio film by Richard Zanuck, then head of 20th Century Fox. The studio was struggling with a string of big budget failures and Zanuck thought Meyer was the solution. He offered him Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Meyer agreed on the condition that Ebert, then the third string film critic for the Chicago Sun Times (who had written one of the few positive reviews of his work) would write the script. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls became a struggle between the outsider filmmakers and the establishment studio’s board of directors, particularly over the film’s rating. Meyer, Ebert and Zanuck were ultimately vindicated when Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was released in 1970 to huge box office success. Meyer and Ebert remained friends until Meyer passed away in September 2004. Ebert passed away in 2013 after a long public battle with cancer. Gad also appeared this year in the video game-inspired adventure Pixels and recently wrapped production on Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Starring Emma Watson as Belle, Beauty and the Beast hits the big screen March 17, 2017. Russ & Roger is being produced by Mark Amin’s’ Sobini Films, David Permut’s Permut Presentations and Richard Waltzer’s Chautauqua Entertainment. Permut, Amin and Waltzer will produce the film with Sobini Films’’ Cami Winikoff, Tyler Boehm and David Higgins and Permut Presentations’ Chris Mangano Executive Producing, and Steve Longi Co-producing.
This is a great choice for an iconic figure. Roger Ebert is easily the greatest film critic of all-time and despite some things he has said in his personal life, he is still an inspiration to me in doing what I am doing and he is my favorite critic and reading his past reviews, I don't always agree with him. Josh Gad is slowly becoming a force and this is an Oscar caliber role for him and I have complete faith in him and to seen him go up against a comedic genius like Will Ferrell will be great to see.
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
No comments:
Post a Comment