Steven Soderbergh is a brilliant director. His body of work includes the Oscar winning Traffic (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director), Erin Brokovich, Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13 as well as this year’s Girlfriend Experience. To say he is a versatile director would be an understatement. The man has brought audiences [...]
Archive for June, 2009
First Trailer for Ensemble Comedy ‘Couples Retreat’
Universal Pictures has released a trailer for their new comedy titled Couples Retreat. The ensemble cast includes Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Kristin Stewart, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, and Jason Bateman. The movie is directed by Peter Billingsley and written by Jon Favreau. The movie is about four couples who travel to a resort island getaway [...]
Cloverfield Director Set to ‘Let the Right One In’
Matt Reeves, the director of last years Cloverfield, is gearing up for his next project. Let the Right One In is based upon the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel and is also a foreign released film which is now being remade for the U.S. Reeves recently spoke with the L.A Times and had the following to [...]
Awesome International Trailer for Inglourious Basterds
Wow! I am so excited to see this movie. Youtube via AICN has a new international trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. The trailer is in english so you don’t have to read any subtitles. I love how you can see Tarantino’s style shine through in this WWII Nazi film. The movie hits theaters this [...]
Blue Lantern Bio
Our next stop on DC Comics emotional spectrum is said to be the most powerful. With the universe so full of emotion one of the things that can link us all is our ability hope. From the richest king to the everyday man, hope can be the thing that drives us. I hope that people [...]
John McClane Back with Die Hard Comic Book
We are about to see even more John McClane and it is not in a fifth installment of Die Hard. Boom Studios will be launching a new comic book titled Die Hard: Year One which chronicles the years before McClane’s involvement at the Nakatomi Plaza in L.A. Writer/artist Howard Chaykin will be scripting the story [...]
Box Office Report: Transformers 2 Hits $201 Million in 5 Days
After five days of release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen became the second film in history to make $2oo million in five days. Of course, the first film being last summers The Dark Knight which made $203 million in the same amount of time. These numbers are so close that we won’t know the exact [...]
Red Lantern Corps Bio
Since the birth of the Green Lantern concept in the 1940’s the series has been a comic sci-fi hit. As many series have their ups and downs, GL has been pretty consistent. However, great heroes need great enemies and I cannot fathom why it took so long for the creative minds to make the Sinestro [...]
Sinestro Corps (Yellow Lantern) Bio
Next on our tour of the emotional spectrum is the color yellow. Green is said to be the color of “will” in the DC Universe, but yellow is meant to be “fear”. What makes a person capable of being a Green Lantern (GL) is their ability to over come great fear. So intern what makes [...]
Creepy New Trailer for Daybreakers
The first trailer for a new vampire flick called Daybreakers has hit the net. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe and is set in the future in 2019 when a plague turns the world’s population into vampires. The human population is facing extinction due to the vampires overtaking the world. However, one group [...]
Trailer for Amelia Starring Hilary Swank
Everyone should know about the story of pilot Amelia Earhart, the first pilot to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. What makes the Amelia Earhart story so fascinating is the mystery surrounding it. Earhart was set to fly solo around the world, but during her travel her plane disappeared and still to this [...]
Remembering Michael Jackson: The King of Pop Dead at 50
When the news broke yesterday that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital suffering cardiac arrest the news outlets were quick to jump the gun on this story. In the world of websites and online news, it is all about driving traffic to your website; and as news of the passing of Jackson, the [...]
Transformers 2 Adds Another $28M With Thursday Gross
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is continuing it’s box office domination as the film took in another $28.6 million on Thursday. After two days of release the blockbuster sequel has already made $89.2 million. We still have three more days left for its opening weekend numbers and at the pace it is going I would [...]
Farrah Fawcett Loses Battle with Cancer at 62
1970′s icon Farrah Fawcett has died at the age of 62 after battling cancer for three years. The actress, who is best known as Jill Munroe from Charlie’s Angels, had been battling cancer off and on for the last three years. Fawcett was a sex symbol for a generation of boys who grew up watching [...]
First Trailer for Richard Kelly’s The Box
Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly is back with his newest film titled The Box. Starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella, The Box is an adaptation of a short story called Button, Button by Richard Matheson. Set in the 1970′s Diaz and Marsden play a married couple who are struggling financially. One day a [...]
Transformers 2 Makes $60 Million Opening Day
Yesterday I gave you my box office predictions for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The blockbuster sequel opened yesterday with $16 million in ticket sales from midnight showings and after a full day of release the Michael Bay directed sequel broke the Wednesday release record with $60 million on opening day. That is about $16 [...]
Zack Snyder Talks 300 Sequel
Our last post talked about Zack Snyder’s director’s cut for Watchmen which will hit theaters next month. Now we have news about Snyder’s involvement in a sequel to his Spartan action movie 300. Snyder talked with ComingSoon.net about the upcoming Blu-Ray release for Watchmen as well as a special edition for 300. He talked about [...]
Watchmen Heading Back to Theaters with Director’s Cut
Director Zack Snyder’s graphic novel adaptation of Watchmen will be returning to select theaters next month with an exclusive director’s cut. Watchmen was released this past March and clocked in at almost three hours in it’s original entirety. Now the director’s cut will include an additional 25 minutes of new footage. When Watchmen was released [...]
