Go Big Or Go Extinct With This New Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM
Confession Time: I fully expect Guillermo Del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM to tank when it hits theaters this summer. My guess is it’ll probably make half its budget — which is rumored to be somewhere between 150 to 200 million — back at the domestic box office and maybe do decent business overseas. Japan, with their proclivity for all things Kaiju, will probably help push it into the black but not much further.
Why? Well, modern audiences have a real nasty tendency to reject that which isn’t a reboot, sequel, rehash, or based off an already established property. PACIFIC RIM is an original IP (one that pays homage to GODZILLA, ROBOT JOX, and GUNHED without remaking them) from a great director whose films always impress but rarely make money (MIMIC, HELLBOY, and HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY all underperformed). Throw in the fact that RIM is being released within weeks of a reboot (THE LONE RANGER) and six sequels (DESPICABLE ME 2, RED 2, GROWN UPS 2, THE WOLVERINE, THE SMURFS 2, 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE) and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
That having been said, I also fully expect PACIFIC RIM to be AMAZING. Maybe even the best movie of the summer. How could a movie featuring PORTAL baddie GLaDOS, Idris Elba cancelling the apocalypse, Charlie Hunnam mangling an American accent, Charlie Day doing a wicked JJ Abrams impersonation, and, oh yeah, Jaegers (AKA Giant F*cking Robots!) battling Kaiju (AKA Giant F*cking Monsters!) not be.
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Ryan Reynolds And Jeff Bridges Battle The Undead In First Trailer For R.I.P.D.
The first trailer and poster for DEAD MEN IN BLACK starring a Southern fried Jeff Bridges and very glum Ryan Reynolds have arrived online and …waitasec. This is from R.I.P.D? You mean the material after the jump is NOT from a supernatural MEN IN BLACK spin-off but rather Universal’s big summer tentpole pic? Huh. You’ll understand why my confusion once you’ve seen the trailer.
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Film Bites: Summit Unleashes New Trailer And Character Posters For RED 2
Summit has released a new trailer and a series of headache-inducing (So much oversaturated Photoshop!) character posters for Dean Parisot’s RED 2. While I’d love to express some emotion about this bevy of promotional material, I’m still reeling from the fact some exec actually greenlit a sequel to RED.
Sure, the first one had some good performances (Helen Mirren basically stole the entire damn movie) and decent moments (Mirren gleefully gunning down baddies, Karl Urban and Bruce Willis beating the living hell out of each other, “The Pig”) but it was hardly worthy of a follow-up. Much less one that appears to be recycling all the best material from the first film but new actors (Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun) in place of the ones who are M.I.A. (Urban, Brian Cox) or were K.I.A. (Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfuss).
Oh well. Maybe Parisot will somehow make this totally unnecessary sequel necessary. Dude directed GALAXY QUEST once upon a time. That gives me the tiniest bit of hope this won’t end up being another THE WHOLE TEN YARDS.
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Check Out New Trailers For HATCHET 3, THE PURGE, NO ONE LIVES, YOU’RE NEXT
Blood, blood, and more blood. That’s all I got from the incredibly NSFW red band trailer for BJ McDonnell’s HATCHET III. Well, that and visual evidence Zach Galligan (Billy from GREMLINS!) is alive and well. Where’s that dude been for the last twenty years?
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Paramount Beams Nine New STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Character Posters Online
Paramount Pictures has beamed nine new character STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS one-sheets featuring Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), McCoy (Karl Urban), John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), Carol Marcus (Alice Eve), Scotty (Simon Pegg), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) online. Click on the pic to check them out…
KICK-ASS 2 Scores An Official Synopsis, Three Trailers, And Character Posters
Apologies for the five month disappearance but that is unfortunately what happens when health and personal issues team up to take a guy down. I won’t bore you details because, well, they’re boring, not worth getting into, and nowhere near related to movies, television, video games, girls, or pop culture. Let’s just say things have turned around and I’m ready to get back to ranting and raving.
First up: KICK-ASS 2. After months of Twitter teases and spy pics, Universal Pictures has finally decided to deliver some NSFW promo material for director Jeff Wadlow’s highly anticipated sequel in the form of an official synopsis, three trailers (red, green, international), and a rather large collection of character posters.
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GANGSTER SQUAD Character Posters And Trailer: No Names, No Badges, No Mercy
Warner Bros has released six posters, nine banners, and a sweet new theatrical trailer for Rueben Fleischer’s THE GANGSTER SQUAD.
Originally set to hit theaters this past October, SQUAD was, due to the events of the Aurora shooting, pushed to January 11th, 2013 so the finale, a shoot-out in a movie theater, could be removed and reshot. Reshoots took place last August and bits of the new finale, which now takes place in Chinatown, can be glimpsed in the new trailer.
Broken Record: I’m still not sure what to think of this flick. Part of me — the part that loves old-school “cops VS gangster” pics – hopes/thinks director Rueben Fleischer (let us love ZOMBIELAND and forgive 30 MINUTES OR LESS) and his absolutely fan-f*cking-tastic cast (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Peña, Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Nick Nolte, and a red hot Emma Stone) will knock this one out of the park and deliver the next L.A. CONFIDENTIAL or THE UNTOUCHABLES. That would be awesome.
The other part of me — the part that gets nauseous when Hollywood attempts to make the old-school gangster genre “hip” by favoring a hot young cast (see THE BLACK DAHLIA and MOBSTERS), a hip-hop soundtrack (I really hope the music cues in the trailer are temporary) and gobs of flashy visuals (see PUBLIC ENEMIES, HOODLUM, and ROAD TO PERDITION) over a solid, non-derivative script — is concerned SQUAD will end up being an equally unsuccessful rehash of 1996’s MULHOLLAND FALLS which, outside of some wonderfully gratuitous Jennifer Connelly nudity, wasn’t all that great to begin with. That would be less awesome.
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Sequel Bites: FRIGHT NIGHT 2, CURSE OF CHUCKY, And THE LAST EXORCISM 2: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Good News: STYD has uncovered director Eduardo Rodriguez (EL GRINGO, STASH HOUSE, the still unreleased CURANDERO) is in talks to direct FRIGHT NIGHT 2. Filming is set to begin in Romania soon.
Bad News: FRIGHT NIGHT 2 is going to be an in-name-only sequel to last year’s FRIGHT NIGHT reboot starring Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, and David Tennant.
Confused? Allow me to explain. Dreamworks sold the FN rights off to another company, one not named in the STYD piece for some inexplicable reason, when the reboot underperformed at the box office. That company scrapped the initial sequel concept (which had Tennant’s Peter Vincent battling a new army of vamps, led by Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s “Evil Ed”, in another city) for a standalone direct-to-video installment that, if financially successful, will transform the franchise into a TALES FROM THE CRYPT-esque anthology series.
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Here’s A Massive Roundup Of HOBBIT Videos, One-Sheets, Banners, And Tie-Ins To Satisfy All Your Middle Earth Needs
In case you haven’t noticed, Warner and New Line Cinema have gone absolutely f*cking loco with the marketing and merchandising of Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. We’re talking new trailers, posters, banners, images, tie-ins, toys, and whatnot being released to the internet daily. It’s like they’re terrified it’ll flop or something if people aren’t reminded of it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Trust me, that’s not going to happen. Not only is AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY going to be one of the, if not THE, biggest hit of the year, it’s also going to be the biggest DISAPPOINTMENT of the year. Oh yeah. I said it. Disappointment.
Reality Check: Peter Jackson has turned one 310 page book into THREE movies, the first of which is 160 minutes long. Yeah, I realize he’s pulling material from the LORD OF THE RINGS appendices to pad things out but when has padding ever been a good thing? I mean, seriously, don’t you remember RETURN OF THE KING and its twenty finales? Just when it felt like that flick was over, it ended again …and again …and again …and again. Only thing missing was a curtain call.
Warner, New Line, and Jackson should’ve made just one HOBBIT pic and called it a day. They know this, I know this, you know this. J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel wasn’t long to begin with and was barely worthy of two movies, much less three. One would’ve been a perfect adaptation with little to no filler. Two would’ve been a decent, if slightly overstuffed, fanwank-a-thon. Three means someone got greedy and opted to milk the fanboys for all their worth. Oh well. It’ll make a mint regardless of bloat or quality.
What follows is a smattering of some of the more interesting bits of HOBBIT propaganda to pop up on the internet and in the real world the last few weeks. Click on the pic to check out all the HOBBIT-y goodness…
Film Bites: G.I. JOE: RETALIATION Returns With A Familiar New International Trailer
A new international trailer for G.I. JOE: RETALIATION has arrived online and …it features not one single frame of new footage. This is just a remix of the same awesome stuff — the Cobra occupation of the White House, the exploding motorcycle, the destruction of London, the cliffside ninja battle, Bruce Willis — Paramount has been doling out since the Super Bowl.
What’s up, Paramount? Where’s the reason you pushed this flick from its heavily promoted June release date to March 2013 and took a multi-million dollar bath on marketing (so many wasted character one-sheets) and tie-ins (the RETALIATION toy line, thanks to the delay, can be currently located in the clearance aisle of most brick and mortar stores)? Where the new coat of post-conversion 3D (the official reason stated for the delay) and extra Channing Tatum (the real reason for the delay was because test audiences were not cool seeing C-Tates, riding high off THE VOW and 21 JUMP STREET, bite it in the first ten minutes) material?
Where’s the new stuff?!? What’s the point of delaying your ONLY summer tentpole pic for nearly a year, barely explaining why, waiting six months to release any new footage, and then making that new footage a trailer audiences have already seen? Doesn’t make sense.
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