Jamie Foxx Unleashes His Inner Nerd On The Set Of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
A few weeks ago, spy pics from the set of Marc Webb’s THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 hit the web (no pun intended) and gave us our first look Jamie Foxx in costume as the villainous Electro. Feel free to click HERE to check them out …or don’t. I personally hate the character design the filmmakers went with. Reminds me too much of roided-out homeless Dr Manhattan.
Things can’t get any worse than that, right? RIGHT? Wrong. New spy pics have revealed Foxx will be rocking a thinned-hair comb-over, vest, highwater pants, Coke bottle glasses, goofy false teeth, and Casio calculator wristwatch as pre-Electro Max Dillon. In other words, a grown up Steve Urkel. Ugh.
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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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[SPOILER ALERT!] Details About Coulson’s AGENTS OF SHIELD Resurrection Emerge
Slashfilm has uncovered how Clark Gregg will be reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson, who died in THE AVENGERS, in upcoming ABC TV series AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Unfortunately for fans, Coulson’s resurrection doesn’t involve him becoming The Vision (a popular theory) or having a L.M.D (Life Model Decoy) but rather …well, click the pic to find out how…
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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New Line Delays VACATION Reboot
THR is reporting production on New Line Cinema’s VACATION reboot-quel starring Ed Helms (THE HANGOVER) and Christina Applegate (UP ALL NIGHT) has been temporarily delayed due to “creative differences” between the studio and writer/director duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. The delay is expected to only last a few months but could potentially go on longer if a compromise isn’t reached.
“A compromise about what?” you might ask. Well it seems the “creative differences” were mostly centered on the rating. THR doesn’t explicitly state who wanted which rating but the safe assumption would be that the studio wanted a PG-13 in order to bring in teens and families and the directors wanted an R to keep in line with their previous hits HORRIBLE BOSSES and IDENTITY THIEF.
Funny thing about this situation is both parties are kind of right. While the original VACATION and its immediate follow-up EUROPEAN VACATION were R-rated hits, CHRISTMAS VACATION was PG-13 and it made more than both those pics combined. Only VEGAS VACATION and the made-for-TV pic NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE’S ISLAND ADVENTURE made the mistake of going PG and they suffered for it.
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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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Kate Upton Cast Alongside Cameron Diaz And Leslie Mann In THE OTHER WOMAN
According to THR, model Kate Upton has joined the cast of Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming comedy THE OTHER WOMAN. The film is about a woman (Cameron Diaz) who discovers she is “the other woman” in an affair. She then teams up with wife (Leslie Mann) and other mistress (Upton) of the husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to exact revenge. Nicki Minaj co-stars as an assistant at a law firm who doles out love advice from the vantage point of her third marriage.
Diaz, Mann, and Minaj? Wow. There’s a trio I have absolutely no interest in seeing up on the big screen. My interest even manages to dip a little lower than “NONE” when I hear this flick is being sold as “a younger version of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB”.
So why am I am posting about this? The answer is simple: Kate Upton. I’ll see THE OTHER WOMAN because of her. I’ll endure what is sure to be two hours of pandering faux-feminist pop bubblegum bullplop just to witness a few minutes of cutie pie Upton trying to be an ACTRESS. Maybe she’ll succeed, maybe she’ll fail. Either way, I’ll be there.
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Tom Cruise And Armie Hammer Join Guy Ritchie’s THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Deadline is reporting Armie Hammer will be the Illya Kuryakin to Tom Cruise’s Napoleon Solo in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming reboot of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
The original series, which ran from 1964 to 1968, centered around a two-man troubleshooting spy team, American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Russian Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum), working for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law Enforcement) and their efforts to take down the evil forces of THRUSH.
With Cruise consistently knocking them out of the park as of late (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, JACK REACHER, and OBLIVION), Hammer on track to be the next big thing (THE LONE RANGER looks like loads of wicked fun), and Ritchie riding high off his SHERLOCK HOLMES pics, I see only good coming from these guys joining forces.
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MTV Greenlights SCREAM TV Series, Wes Craven In Talks To Direct Pilot
THR is reporting MTV has given the green light for an hour-long pilot based on Wes Craven’s SCREAM. Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley, the duo behind MTV’s popular TEEN WOLF series, are producing. Craven is in negotiations to helm the pilot. Kevin Williamson, who famously exited SCREAM 4 midway through production due to “creative differences” with the Weinsteins, isn’t expected to be involved.
With the last film having underperformed at the box office (effectively killing any hopes of a new trilogy) and horror TV shows carving up the airwaves (THE WALKING DEAD, BATES MOTEL, HANNIBAL, TEEN WOLF, HEMLOCK GROVE, SUPERNATURAL, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, ZOMBIELAND, GRIMM, BEING HUMAN, and Williamson’s own THE FOLLOWING and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES), it really shouldn’t come as a surprise SCREAM is heading to television.
What is a surprise is Craven’s possible involvement which could be good or bad. On the good side, Craven might be able to bring some of that big screen mojo to the small screen and infuse this series with just enough violent verve to make it worth watching. On the not-so-good side, Craven could phone it in and deliver a dippy teen romance that happens to have a body count. It could really go either way.
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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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