Here is the first of what is to be many videos showing the behind the scenes filming of The Hobbit. There was a lot of speculation on whether or not this would get made. Well, it’s definitely a reality now as Peter Jackson is our guide on a tour around the sets, which look spectacular. There is so much care that goes into these, and many of them are identical to the first films. You can tell Jackson loves this stuff and it’s great to see a director so passionate about something.
Duncan Jones has directed a nice follow up to his debut Moon, and it seems like this guy knows what he’s doing. Having said that if you stop and think about the ending of this film you can see the strangeness. SPOILERS for Source Code coming up…
“When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.”-IMDB
Will Ferrell is kind of an interesting actor. He emerged out of SNL and is one of the most well known comedic actors working today. Some have grown tired of him, but he seems to be pulling away from the characters he played in Anchorman, talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, and Semi-Pro. He was different in The Other Guys and Stranger then Fiction and played more reserved people compared to his other characters.
This was supposed to start shooting in early 2009 but, of course, that hasn’t happened. Wolfgang Peterson was also supposed to direct but he dropped out and Gavin Hood is trying to take a shot at it. Orson Scott Card has written a screenplay which gives some hope towards this, but Card has always been best at getting deep inside characters heads. More coming up along with SPOILERS to Ender’s Game.
“The youngest son (Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nolte) returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother (Edgerton).” -IMDB
Here is the trailer to the new UFC film warrior. It seems to give off a Fighter tone where problems with the family (especially between brothers) are a central theme.
| 1 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules | $24.4M | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sucker Punch | $19.0M | |
| 3 | Limitless | $15.2M | |
| 4 | The Lincoln Lawyer | $11.0M | |
| 5 | Rango | $9.8M | |
| 6 | Battle: Los Angeles | $7.6M | |
| 7 | Paul | $7.5M | |
| 8 | Red Riding Hood | $4.3M | |
| 9 | The Adjustment Bureau | $4.2M | |
| 10 | Mars Needs Moms | M$2.1M |
Amy Adams has been cast Lois Lane in the Zack Snyder Superman reboot. The LA Times reported that Snyder told her today she would play the reporter.
There are many different types of cases that exist for movies now. Obviously there is a decent history of the cases, but for now we’ll focus on DVD and Blu-Ray cases, the positives and negatives of them along with how they’ve improved.
This is going to be a crazy summer for comic book fans. There’s X-Men: Fir st Class, Green Lantern, Captain America, and Thor. All movies to be excited about in their own right. But at what point does the audience or creators say that they’ve had enough? Comic book movies have an almost endless amount of story lines and characters to use. Even some of the villains could support their own movies, Magneto in First Class, for instance. So let’s take a look, we’ll start with Superman (1978).
Disney movies tell a fictional fantasy story about things ranging from Princesses to jungle men. These stories echo literature of the past and have lessons for the modern era as well. But if you look at some of these movies logically they don’t seem to make much sense and are sometimes sick and down right ridiculous.
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