“You know the tale, do you want to know the truth?”
Disney has released a new trailer for their fantasy epic Maleficent, and supposedly this is the final one. It features a bit of new footage that gives us a little tease of how a good fairy can go bad. It looks like she was in love once with someone… but who? I love that Disney is actually making a movie that centers on this classic and nightmarish villain. I’ve always thought that she was the darkest of all Disney characters, and it looks like they did a amazing job bringing her to life for the big screen. The movie opens up in theaters on May 30th.
what are your thoughts? are you going to see this?
Lionsgate is teaming up with Saban Brands to develop a new Power Rangers movie! The live-action reboot will be based on the original 1990s TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
According to THR “the new movie franchise will bring back a group of high school kids with superpowers they must harness and use as a team to save the world.”
Power Rangers was always fun to watch growing up. My brothers and I would watch it all the time. Even my young daughters watch it on Netflix every single night, which I think is pretty freakin’ cool. It’s great seeing them get into this kind of stuff. I’m sure they will be extremely excited to hear that a new movie is being made.
I think Power Rangers could be a huge hit as a movie franchise, and I’m surprised it took them this long to make it happen. Saban Brands head, Haim Sabansaid, had this to say in a statement:
“Lionsgate is the perfect home for elevating our Power Rangersbrand to the next level.”
Lionsgate CEO, Jon Feltheimer, added:
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Haim Saban and his team to maximize the potential of this immensely successful and universally recognized franchise.”
Of course they are thrilled! This franchise is going to make them a ridiculous amount of money. Power Rangers is still one of the top-rated and longest running boys series being produced. it will be great following the production news on this and seeing the team they assemble to bring it to life. Iwhat are your thoughts regarding this? Excited?
Spring break is on again bitches! It’s time to ramp up your alcohol tolerance, dust off your pastel coloured beach wear and get ready to shake it at the most hedonistic party of your lives! At Cannes film festival, it was announced that Harmony Korine’s technicolor masterpiece is getting a sequel of sorts, and I for one am pumped. While the warning signs of a cheap sequel cash in were initially flashing, it seems like the second production could be just as mind blowing as the first. Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) is on board to tackle the script with his sordid and acidic tongue and, to complete the dream team, Jonas Åkerlund will be directing. Åkerlund is well known for his high intensity madness in classics such as 2003’s Spun along with highly innovative and creative music videos like Lady GaGa’s Paparazzi. Considering Spring Breaker’s resemblance to a R&B video on acid, Åkerlund represents a great candidate to take the reigns from Korine! Spring Breakers: The Second Coming will (sadly) feature an all new cast of hot young things engaged in an epic battle with hardline Christian’s who are trying to quell their party fire and convert them. Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Marvel explained that; It’s not a direct sequel although there are allusions to some of the characters in the original I make no secret of the fact that I am a huge fan of the original Spring Breakers and I have high hopes for the sequel. The thrill of seeing Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens go feral might have been removed, but the talented scriptwriter and the introduction of rabid fire and brimstone Christians mean that Spring Breakers: The Second Coming is overflowing with potential.
I was not a fan of the first film it was not within my taste but if might be yours since there is going to be a second film! What do u think?
Just as Netflix thought they had the whole ‘produce-high-quality-entertainment-and-distribute-it-yourself-online’ market sewn up, Microsoft come in and blow a hole in their plan a giant ringworld wide. The computing giant has announced that not only will we soon be seeing the Steven Spielberg produced Halo TV series, but a whole lot more besides.
The company has just revealed their first lineup of ‘Xbox Originals’ – their answer to the original entertainment programming of Netflix – and revealed that they intend to offer what they call ‘interactive entertainment’, as opposed to the passive, sedentary sort of stuff we’ve been raised on up till now.
The most exciting part of the announcement for most was likely the confirmation a Halo TV adaptation will indeed soon be on its way – the Spielberg produced series has already been rumored to have acquired Neill Blomkamp as a director. We’ll also definitely be seeing that Ridley Scott produced animated adaptation, too, apparently – which is now looking like a feature film rather than a TV series.
There’s other exciting news, though – Jonathan and Simon ‘Searching for Sugar Man‘ Chinn will bring a series of documentaries, Signal to Noise, “about technology’s impact on the world” to the new media platform, including one that will be of particular interest to fans of famously lost Atari cartridges.
Soccer fans will get Every Street United, a reality series focusing on street-soccer players. Music fans will be seeing two live streams of footage from Bonnaroo in June. Robot Chicken fans will have a new series featuring 3D animated characters, named Extraordinary Believers.
There’ll be shows competing more directly with Netflix and the like, too. The Jash project, an as-yet-unnamed comedy show starring Sarah Silverman and Michael Cera is sure to set many hearts a-flutter. Humans, a UK co-produced adaptation of a Swedish series to do with life-like robot servants will be similarly eagerly anticipated, and with comparisons to both The Killing and Downton Abbey easily raised, it’ll be hoping for similar crossover success.
And biggest of all? The creative team have teased that we might yet see franchises like Gears of War, Fable and Forza Motorsport come to the screen.
It’s all big, potentially industry re-defining news. There’s no doubt that a major games player like Microsoft entering the television market will be of serious concern to the likes of Netflix, HBO and the already struggling major networks – and if they can lead off successfully with as established and long-awaited a franchise as Halo, who knows what they could go on to do?
It also allows us to begin to ask some big questions about the Halo adaptation itself. Can we expect to see Spielberg (and possibly Blomkamp) heavily involved, or will they take on a more advisory role? Could the ‘interactive entertainment’ Microsoft is pitching allow us to feel as though we’re genuinely part of a television series for the first time – perhaps even integrating a simultaneously launched game? And, of course, who will take on the – presumably largely just a voice part – of Master Chief? Since the hero could well be entirely hidden by armor for much of the series, can we expect to see a major name take on the part?
Are you excited about this news? Are you a fan we want to hear from you!
New Regency has slowly been moving forward with Ubisoft’s big screen adaptation of Assassin’s Creed that is set to star Michael Fassbender. They are currently in talks with Justin Kurzel to direct the film. Kurzel recently directed an adaptation of Macbeth, which starred Fassbender. The actor obviously enjoyed working with him, and I’m sure he’s using his producing power to help him get the gig.
I have no idea how good of a director Kurzel is, He hasn’t done much, and I’m not familiar with anything that he has made. The last thing we heard about the project was that writers Bill Collage and Adam Cooper (Accepted) were brought on to write a script that would weave together the tale for the freerunning assassin.
Even though the film has a director, it’s been said that Ubisoft will maintain control of key elements of the movie’s creative direction. I’m sure the studio will want to stay close to the story of the video game, which centers on a bartender who is captured by a secret corporation with ties to the Knights Templar, and learns his ancestors were trained assassins. He’s then sent back in time to kick some ass and retrieve historical artifacts.
Other directors that were up for the job included Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and Garreth Evans (The Raid). Oh, how I wish Evans would have been the one to direct this movie. It’s really sad that it won’t happen, he could have done amazing things with Assassin’s Creed. Hopefully Kurzel has what it takes to make this movie awesome.
THR has confirmed that one of the best actors out there, Andy Garcia, will be playing Dr. Miles Edwards in a big screen adaptation of Max Steel. He will join Ben Winchell and Ana Villafane, who were perviously cast. Max Steel was a line of action figures that spawned an animated series in the early 2000s. Here is the synopsis of the film:
The origins story chronicles the adventures of 16-year-old Max McGrath (Winchell) and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the superhero Max Steel. As these two unlikely friends struggle to accept their oddly connected fates, they begin to uncover unimaginable secrets, working together to find the truth, and fighting the mysterious forces threatening their world.
The movie is being written by Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World). With the recent demand for superhero movies, this doesn’t sound too bad.What are your thoughts on this?
Universal Pictures has released three images from the set of director Colin Trevorrow‘s highly anticipated film Jurassic World. One of them give us our first look at the female lead Bryce Dallas Howard. The images come from EW and the director shared a fun little story from the set saying,
“Yesterday I was under a construction crane with Chris Pratt, covered with dirt, eyeballing the exact height of the dinosaur trying to kill him. We both cracked up laughing. Sometimes you just have to stop and let the joy take over.”
That’s awesome, this would be such a fun movie to be a part of. At least we’ll get to see all that fun up on the big screen, and this won’t be the last film we see in the Jurassic Park franchise either. In a recent interview with Empire the director revealed that there are planning on other sequels. I should warn you there are potential spoilers ahead.
“We definitely talked about [sequels] a lot. We wanted to create something that would be a little bit less arbitrary and episodic, and something that could potentially arc into a series that would feel like a complete story.”
I’ve enjoyed all of the Jurassic Park films that have been made, so I have no problems with the opportunity to watch more! He went on to talk about some of the characters that we might see in any sequels. One of them being the character played by Omar Sy.
“He’s essentially Chris Pratt’s best friend. They work together and have some pretty cool action scenes together. I wanted to create a relationship there that could be memorable and potentially carry on to future films.”
If that’s the case then I guess both of those characters are going to survive the dinosaur devastation in the movie. Trevorrow then goes on to talk a little bit about the plot of the film explaining,
“It’s about alpha dominance and the fact that humans have been the alpha species for a very long time, and so now we’ve brought back another that happened to be the alpha species during its time, and we have to co-exist, so what is that relationship?”
The movie is set to be released on June 12th, 2015, and I love the feeling of anticipation that I have for it.
Director Jon Favreau and Disney are pressing forward on their journey to develop a live-action big screen adaptation of The Jungle Book. They are looking to cast both Scarlett Johansson and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave). The two actresses are currently in negotiations with the studio.
If cast they will join Idris Elba (Thor) who is the only other person cast in the film at this time. He will be playing the villain Shere Khan, the man eating tiger in the live-action/CGI hybrid movie. Nyong’o would play Rakcha, a mother wolf who adopts Mowgli, Johansson would voice the character of the second villain of the film Kaa, the python who hypnotizes other animals and then eats them. The still have yet cast the lead character Mowgli.
Warner Bros. is also developing a a Jungle Book project with Andy Serkis set to direct. I’m definitely more excited for Favreau’s version, and so far it looks like he’s putting together a great cast. The movie is set to be released on October 9th, 2015.
Peter Jackson has officially announced that the third and final film in the Hobbit trilogy will be called The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. It was originally supposed to be called The Hobbit: There and Back Again, and about a week ago a rumor hit that the movie wold be called The Hobbit: Into the Fire, but that obviously didn’t stick.
Below you’ll find the official announcement from Jackson’s Facebook page. In it he explains the reason behind the title change.
Inside Information…
Our journey to make The Hobbit Trilogy has been in some ways like Bilbo’s own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we’ve gone along. “There and Back Again” felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo’s arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced—after all, Bilbo has already arrived “there” in the “Desolation of Smaug”.
When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate.
And so: “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” it is.
As Professor Tolkien intended, “There and Back Again” encompasses Bilbo’s entire adventure, so don’t be surprised if you see it used on a future box-set of all three movies.
Before then however, we have a film to finish, and much to share with you. It’s been a nice quiet time for us—Jabez and I happily editing away in a dark cave in Wellington—but those halcyon days are quickly coming to an end. It will soon be time to step into the light. Expect to see and hear much about The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in the coming months.
And there’s also The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Cut, which we’re in the process of finishing, with over 25 mins of new scenes, all scored with original music composed by Howard Shore.
Although the project was only announced a month ago, the Jem and the Holograms movie is already moving forward and, in an appropriately truly outrageous move, has just revealed the first image from the Jon M. Chu film along with the names of the core cast. Aubrey Peeples will play Jem, Stefanie Scott will play Kimber, Hayley Kiyoko will play Aja and Aurora Perrineau will play Shana. Check out the tease of all four below!
Created by Christy Marx, the original “Jem and the Holograms” series was a joint collaboration from Hasbro, Marvel and Sunbow Productions. It began airing in 1985 and ran for three seasons, following the adventures of the titular Jem, the musical superstar alter ego of a young woman named Jerrica Benton who, with the help of a holographic computer called Synergy, is able to clandestinely perform rock concerts with her friends.
