Escape Plan — Review

3.5 of 5 stars
Escape Plan

Is there room for old style action heroes in our modern day world? Is there something more than nostalgia going on here? I was a bit skeptical at first — well to be honest I was of two minds about it really. On the one hand the trailers actually looked good. It seemed as if there might be something more to this film than stupidity and face punching. On the other hand, how could a film with two actors that I loathe in general be any good? So I couldn’t quite decide whether I thought the film would be any good. That being the case, I simply had to go and see it so I could make a determination…

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Original ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Draft — Drunken Dinner with Vader

Original ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Draft — Drunken Dinner with Vader
Drew Taylor - The Playlist

But maybe the biggest difference is that, when communing on the Degobah-like planet (aided by Minch, not Yoda), Luke actually comes in contact with the ghost of his father. And that father isn’t Darth Vader. As Ryan notes, “this pretty much proves that the Vader-Luke, father-son relationship was not Lucas’ plan all along.”

Well, phooey. I’m not a big fan of Lucas’, but I’ve always defended him on this when he says Vader was always supposed to be Luke’s dad. But apparently not. Of course the other explanation is that the Leigh Brackett (original screenwriter of this less then stellar draft)…

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Joss Whedon, Marvel, and the Future

Joss Whedon, Marvel, and the Future
Rob Keyes - ScreenRant

In addition to helming the next team-up event, Whedon is helping oversee all of the Phase Two movies leading up to it and crafting a live-action TV series (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), all of which are building up to The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

By design, Whedon’s therefore also laying the groundwork for Phase Three and beyond which begins with new superhero franchise Ant-Man in 2015 – but will he be involved with the lead-up to The Avengers 3?

At the press junket for Thor: The Dark World, our own Kofi Outlaw asked Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige about the future…

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‘City of Ashes’ Starts Production in 2014 — Because of Reasons…

‘City of Ashes’ Starts Production in 2014 — Because of Reasons…
Kevin Jagernauth - The Playlist

It seems your letters and petitions have paid off as Constantin has revealed that ‘City Of Ashes’ will go into production in 2014. “The fan response, from the blogosphere and the thousands of mails we have received, has encouraged us to keep going,”  head of the company’s film and TV Martin Moszkowicz told THR, before adding the zinger:  “It’s been overwhelmingly positive, in contrast to some other YA titles.” But that doesn’t mean that he’s completely blind to the fact that ‘Bones’ failed to find a wide audience.

 “My” letters? Definitely not my letters. That first film was terrible.…

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Stan Lee Want Cameo in ‘Man of Steel’ Sequel

Stan Lee Want Cameo in ‘Man of Steel’ Sequel
Graeme McMillan - The Hollywood Reporter

You might have thought that the prospect of the first live-action meeting between Superman and Batman would be enough to propel Batman vs. Superman —apparently the working title of the follow-up to this summer’sMan of Steel —to box-office success. Just in case that alone isn’t enough, however, Stan Lee has an idea to guarantee the movie’s success: Give him a cameo.

“I’ll show you why DC isn’t so smart,” he told fans at the recent Wizard World Nashville Comic Con in a moment of tongue-in-cheek ego gone wild. “If I were the head of DC, I would contact me and say, ‘How about doing a cameo in…

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Gravity’s Orbit Decays Very Little - Box Office Report

Gravity’s Orbit Decays Very Little - Box Office Report

Wow, for the third week in a row, and bringing in with it’s third week more than many have made at the top in their first week I might add. It’s pretty incredible, but not surprising seeing what a great film it is indeed.

#1 - Gravity

Budget: $100 Million
Totals: $30 Million, Weekend / $169.5 Million, Domestic / $114.2 Million, Foreign / $283.7 Million, Worldwide
Weekend: 3

I am neither surprised nor upset by this runaway success. After such a huge slump of mediocre to bad movies at the box office for weeks on end, the best movie to yet hit the screens this year was sure to have some…

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Theories About Agent Coulson

Theories About Agent Coulson
Natalie Abrams - TV Guide

Warning! Potential Spoilers for Agents of SHIELD.

It’s the big mystery of the fall TV season: How is Agent Coulson actually alive?

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has yet to answer the question on how the team’s fearless leader Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is still kicking after being stabbed in the chest by Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in The Avengers. But Tuesday’s episode did offer up another clue that could point us in the right direction. Let’s first take a look at the clues we’ve already been given:

“Pilot” 
Agent Coulson lives! Coulson believes that he died very briefly, but was then…

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Paul Greengrass responds to Claims of ‘Captain Phillips’ Inaccuracies

Paul Greengrass responds to Claims of ‘Captain Phillips’ Inaccuracies
Peter Sciretta - /Film

Captain Phillips tells the true story of the hijacking of the ship Maersk Alabama, and how Captain Phillips heroically sacrificed himself to save his crew.

Of course like any Hollywood movie, the events are dramatized to make them more cinematic, but most of the facts in the film stay true to Phillips’ account of the story. The only problem is, Phillips wasn’t the only one there, and now his ship’s crew has come out publicly to dispute the events and even blame Phillips for the whole mess. Of course, the crew is currently in a lawsuit with  Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp. for…

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Michael Bay Assaulted On ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Set

Michael Bay Assaulted On ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Set
Matt Goldberg - Collider.com

Here’s something Michael Bay can get asked endlessly about when he does press for Transformers: Age of Extinction.  According to THR, the director was attacked on the Hong Kong set by two local men, reportedly brothers, when he refused to pay them $13,000 (U.S.).  Bay don’t play that way, and an argument ensued in which the director got punched in the face.  One of the men then tried to fight off three police officers who intervened.  The brothers were then arrested on suspicion of blackmail and assault (I’m pretty sure we can at least confirm the suspicion of assault).  Bay then resumed…

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‘Cars 3’ Is In the Works

‘Cars 3’ Is In the Works
Angie Han - /Film

Michael Wallis, a historical consultant and voice actor who’s worked on the two previous Cars films, has revealed that a third Cars is in the works. It’s unclear just how far along the project is at this point, but it’s far enough that he already has some plot details. Hit the jump to see what Wallis had to say.

Wallis let the details slip during a radio interview with WGBZ in Alton, IL. “Cars 3 we’re coming back to the road. And we’re coming back to 66 into 99,” he said. “That’s the road that runs right through Central California.” (He also admitted that he “didn’t particularly care for”…

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