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Wednesday, March 10
Tomorrow morning we'll get our first look at The Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer, which is set to premiere before the Robert Pattinson-centric Remember Me.
Will the trailer be a hit the Bella-Edward-Jacob set? And will it pay homage to any of the early fanmade versions, especially our favorite mashups? Time will tell...
In the meantime, we searched out fanmade trailers for Breaking Dawn, now set to be made into two back-to-back movies. Did we include your favorite in our Breaking Dawn Trailer: Top 5 Fanmade Mashups?
Posted 3/10/2010 by reelz
Related: Taylor Lautner | Robert Pattinson | Kristen Stewart | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
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Cynics might look at Green Zone — directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon — as Bourne in Baghdad. Early critic reviews are all over the map.
"It's a remarkable film."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Variety
"...works mainly because of the hardworking, always-believable Damon."
— J. Hoberman, Village Voice
"...[director] Paul Greengrass' high-voltage action drama does a better job of defining where the U.S. went hopelessly wrong on Iraq than it does in creating a plausible suspense scenario."
— Todd McCarthy, Variety
"...a strangely dated, foolishly grandiose, simplistically angry fictional war-zone thriller about how one patriot blows the lid off America's missteps in Iraq."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"...a laughably preposterous slam-bang military saga..."
— Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Posted 3/10/2010 by reelz
Related: Matt Damon | Paul Greengrass | Green Zone
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With Marvel already past their initial March 1 deadline to find the lead in their upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America, conflicting reports have come out depicting who will eventually land the role.
While several contenders were announced last month, including John Krasinki (NBC's The Office), Scott Porter (Dear John), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Patrick Flueger (Brothers), Michael Cassidy (CW's Privileged), Wilson Bethel (CBS' The Young and the Restless), Chace Crawford (CW's Gossip Girl), and Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy).
Fox News reported yesterday that Krasinski is the front runner of the pack, with sources telling the news organization that Krasinski is "close" to landing the role.
John has read 4 times and is doing screen tests. He has screen tested 2 times so far. It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America. He is a favorite among the keydecision makers and has been asked to come back for more this week. The big bosses are having him read with multiple actresses up for the female leads. They want to lock down the role and then they will narrow down everyone else.
Not so, according to Deadline Hollywood, which reports that Krasinski and most of the other contenders are out as more actors are being considered. According to the Deadline report, only Hedlund and Vogel remain from the original list, while the others are out of serious contention, including Krasinski (Cassidy already announced he had lost out on the role). Chris Evans, who has already taken part in a few comic book movies with Fantastic Four, Push, and the upcoming The Losers, is also being considered for the role.
One name that neither report has mentioned is Dane Cook, who used his Twitter page to announce that he too had auditioned for the role.
Im minus 7% body fat now, bones replaced w/lightweight scandium alloy! Had 2 get shredded 4 Captain America audition & standup tour.
While getting "shredded" just to do a stand-up comedy tour is a surprise in and of itself, Cook's inclusion in the Captain America audition process was a shock to comic book fans, one of which asked Cook to confirm his own Tweet.
@Marvel_Freshman r u really auditioning 4 Captain America?
Dc: I did already. They might b goin young. I say go RDJr [Robert Downey Jr.] route-gimme the part!
Whichever actor eventually get the coveted role, it looks like Marvel and director Joe Johnston are going to take their time in making a final casting decision.
Posted 3/10/2010 by Ryan
Related: Mike Vogel | John Krasinski | Garrett Hedlund | Chris Evans | Dane Cook | First Avenger: Captain America
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The Vulture blog has got a hold of a new extended clip from the Bourne-style action flick Green Zone. It's a pivotal scene in which Matt Damon's character gets his ass kicked in a very un-Bourne-like manner by a fellow soldier, as he tries to keep control of some vital information about the elusive weapons of mass destruction.
Director Paul Greengrass is particularly proud of the sequence, calling it one of the best things he has ever done. And he's ready to tell you in detail why, explaining the choices behind every shot — from the use of real soldiers, to how to play the rivalry between the WMD-hunting teams, to the subtleties of misdirection — in an annotated slide show.
Posted 3/10/2010 by Bill
Related: Matt Damon | Paul Greengrass | Green Zone
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Although it reunites Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, Green Zone, unlike the Jason Bourne movies, is based in part on real events. It's all about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as well as the surreal atmosphere in Baghdad's American-controlled Green Zone. Still, the plot itself is fiction.
In an interview with Coming Soon, Damon spent some time separating the fact from the fiction:
Well, there were no weapons in Iraq, so that's true. A lot of people went there thinking that there were. That's true, too. Nobody has really explained what the f*ck happened. That's true, too. But those are the central questions I think. I mean, what we have in the movie is, yeah, we have a guy playing a kind of neo-con type who actually invented a source, so that's not based on anything. That's obviously something for the movie. For the architecture of a thriller to work, it needs to boil down to a couple of characters who are standing in. So that stuff is obviously the movie, but the central questions of WMDs, that's obviously true.
He goes on to explain that his character is based on a real soldier who led one of the teams searching for WMDs. And there were 30 other real soldiers on set to make sure that they got all the little details of the action just right.
As far as the fictional elements of the plot are concerned, Damon acknowledges that a major point of one scene in which he gets his ass handed to him by another soldier was to emphasize that the character he's playing here is not an invincible Jason Bourne-style superhero.
Posted 3/10/2010 by Bill
Related: Matt Damon | Paul Greengrass | Green Zone
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Marvel Studios has finally released an official plot synopsis for director Kenneth Branagh's Thor, the live-action adaptation of the classic Marvel Comic book. Though previous reports seemed to indicate that the majority of the movie would take place on the extra-dimensional realm of Asgard, which Thor and the other Norse gods call home, from the synopsis it appears that most of the action will actually be taking place on earth.
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, Thor, which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A beautiful, young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes his first love. It's while here on Earth that Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
While many comic book fans would probably prefer it if the majority of the movie took place in Asgard, having the movie take place predominantly on earth is a necessary step toward linking Thor with the other Marvel Studios movies — The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, The First Avenger: Captain America — leading up to the super-team movie, The Avengers. In the Marvel Comics series, Thor is a founding member of The Avengers, which is first formed to deal with the threat of the Hulk, who is being manipulated by Thor's step-brother, Loki.
Thor also stars Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Joshua Dallas as Fandral, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Tadanobu Asano as Hogun, and Tom Hiddleston as the villainous Loki.
Next Showing: Thor opens May 20, 2011
Posted 3/10/2010 by BrentJS
Related: Anthony Hopkins | Natalie Portman | Tadanobu Asano | Ray Stevenson | Kenneth Branagh | Thor | The Avengers | Tom Hiddleston | Jaimie Alexander | Chris Hemsworth | Joshua Dallas
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Warner Bros. publicity department is in high gear. On the heels of releasing new promo art for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Clash of the Titans, and Legend of the Guardians, the studio has now released the first teaser poster for The Losers.
It's a fairly faithful rendition of the cover of the DC Comics graphic novel by writer Andy Diggle and artists Jock and Shawn Martinbrough that inspired the movie, which seems to be a message to comic book fans that the movie will be true to the source material.
Directed by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard), the Losers stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Óscar Jaenada, and Columbus Short as "The Losers," a group of former CIA black-ops operatives who seek revenge against their former handler (played by Jason Patric) after being betrayed and left for dead. If you're unfamiliar with The Losers graphic novel that is the basis for the movie, DC Comics has made the first issue available online as a downloadable PDF. But, be warned, the content of the graphic novel is for mature readers only.
Next Showing: The Losers opens April 23
Posted 3/10/2010 by BrentJS
Related: Columbus Short | Jason Patric | Zoe Saldana | Idris Elba | Sylvain White | Chris Evans | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | The Losers