Here is a video featuring the screen tests of Tom Hardy as Bane and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The screen tests, which come from the “The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” also include commentary from Nolan. Both Hardy and Hathaway were awesome in their roles.
Originally intended to be directed by Darren Arronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream), The Wolverine remained in development for a long time at Fox before director James Mangold stepped in and helped shepherd the project to fruition. Good thing he did too, because the film is now the second-highest grossing in the “X-Men” franchise with over $414 million at the worldwide box office. We spoke with Mangold this afternoon about the Blu-ray release of the film, which features an extended cut that should delight hardcore Wolverine fans the world over, and an alternate ending that features something fans have been waiting years to see.
SuperHeroHype: With the Blu-ray you’ve got a theatrical and unrated cut, when you’re in production were you planning on doing these separate cuts of the film or were you aiming for one and then decided on the other one?
Pete Holmes has made another hilarious X-Men comedy sketch that features Professor X firing Jubilee from the popular mutant team. Out of all of the X-Men that have been fired so far, her powers are the most useless. She makes fireworks! What kind of power is that? I can’t wait to see who Xavier fires next!
Next year Marvel Studios is going to release Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a property not many people are familiar with, but I have a feeling it’s going to blow audiences away. It’s going to be the most different film that Marvel has done, but the characters and setting are awesome. We all kind of got our first look at the film at the end of Thor: The Dark World.
In a recent interview with MTV, Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora in the film, says the movie will be a different experience. She also talks about the innovation of superheroes and how amazing it will be.
“A new way to view superheroes. I mean I love sometimes the consistency of what the classics have left behind, but I need innovation, and you can only have so much of ‘I’ll save you!’ after a while it’s like ‘Oh god, does he go to the bathroom? Is he hungry? Does he cry? Does he feel?’ Not only do we cover that, we’re making heroes after thieves and they’re Robin Hoods and I love that because I’m an underdog. I always like the longer route, the hardest route, because that’s the only one that’s going to teach you great lessons in life and these characters are absolutely amazing and they have a full blown redemption. So to be able to sink your teeth into such meaty characters and to be a part of such a story that is very unique and obviously has everything that I love: it has space, it has a cooky director, it literally has just cojones. It has amazing actors that you would have never thought to put them all together and somehow we’re all here, giving 150% and loving the story that we’re doing.
“It’s gonna be very (good) – I hope, I never like to shoot myself in the foot to seem that confident that I may come across as arrogant, but I’m rooting for it, a great deal because it was amazing. What we shot and we left on the screen there were pretty amazing things and I have a feeling that James is going to capture them very beautifully. I’m happy to have worked with someone like James, because not everyday do you meet somebody that is absolutely who they are and you cannot compare them to anybody else. There’s only going to be one James Gunn and I like that.”
In a separate interview with Total Film, Michael Rooker, who plays Yondu in the film, talks about his character, saying,
“There’s hope in this character, but the stuff going on… I can’t talk about it but… it’s challenging. You have to forget that you have all these issues like three hour make-up and stuff… once you get that stuff on you have your own down time. You forget you have it on. You just play the role and you have great time doing it.”
When asked if his character had any special powers or abilities in the film, Rooker replied,
“I don’t think I’m at liberty to discuss any powers of any sort… Y’know, most of the roles I play, just by it being who I am – normally they’re somewhat formidable individuals. That’s just sort of my look and my build. So we utilize that in almost everything I’ve done, and it’s the same in Guardians.”
The movie is being directed by James Gunn and also stars Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Ophelia Lovibond, Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, Djimon Honsou, Gregg Henry, Glenn Close, and John C. Reilly. The characters team up to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. It comes out on August 1st, 2014!
Entertainment Tonight visited the Detroit set of Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction and has brought online a video that you can watch below!
Coming to theaters on June 27, 2014, the film stars Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Li Bingbing, T.J. Miller, Han Geng and Titus Welliver.
Although the plot of the sequel is still top secret, Dinobots are said to be heavily involved and Bay himself teased to ComingSoon.net that it will involve a “Chase from Hell.”
Universal Pictures has announced that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels‘ Dumb and Dumber To will be released in theaters on November 14th, 2014. That’s three weeks shy of the actual 20th anniversary of the original movie.
The movie takes place 20 years after the events of the first film, and here’s a previously reported description of the story from director Bobby Farrelly:
“I can tell you that there is no growth out of either one of them and it’s 20 years later… these guys are in regular life and they’re still basically children at heart. The story revolves around the fact that one of them may have sired a child. They want to go and find the child because he’s having a kidney problem and he wants to ask him for one of his kidneys.”
The Farrelly brothers are directing the sequel, which also stars Kathleen Turner, Brady Bluhm, Laurie Holden, Steve Tom, and Rob Riggle. I’m excited to see how this turns out!
Here’s a little bit of Raiders of the Lost Ark trivia for you! In order to get a PG rating for the film, the MPAA asked Steven Spielberg to add more flames to hide the exploding head of the Nazi character Belloq at the end of the movie after he opens the ark. The photo above gives us a little glimpse of what the exploding head looked like before the flames were added. Originally, Spielberg wanted Belloq’s head to explode on its own, but that was just too graphic for the MPAA. You have to remember this was before there was a PG-13 rating. The PG-13 rating wasn’t created until Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I’m not sure what makes a fiery exploding head more tame than just a regular exploding head, especially when there are already disturbing melting faces, but that’s the MPAA for you! I’ve also included a fun video from Slate that explains the fiery censorship.
Check out this awesome CG animated short from Machinima that pits PS4 against the XBOX One. The short is called “The Console War.” Each console is represented by giant mech robots. Viewers get to choose the outcome.
In a distant empire ruled by consoles, an apocalyptic war unfolds. The fate of the world lies in a single battle between the XB-01 and the PX-04: the ultimate technological monstrosities of the console era…. or are they?
In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, actress Winona Ryder spoke a little bit about the upcoming sequel to the 1988 hit Beetlejuice. She said,
“I’m kind of sworn to secrecy… But it sounds like it might be happening.”
I know that doesn’t say a lot, however, you can glean at least one thing from it. If she wasn’t involved, why would she be sworn to secrecy? Of course, that could just be me wanting to read into things.
She was asked what the reaction from fans was in regards to a sequel being made:
“It’s a very precious movie to people. So there are a lot people like, ‘DON’T”
She does go on to clear up a little confusion that is surrounding the movie:
“It’s not a remake. It’s 27 years later. And I have to say, I love Lydia [Deetz, Ryder’s teenage goth character] so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later.”
Ryder also goes on to say that she wouldn’t go near the project if Tim Burton and Michael Keaton weren’t involved. Fortunately for us, it looks as if they are going to be in the movie.
I know there are many of you out there that are not very excited for this to happen, and usually I would not only be on that bandwagon, I would be driving it. However, Beetlejuice is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I have always felt that it needed a sequel. If it does actually happen, I will be first in line to see it.