Back in January, I posted about this interesting looking film coming up starring Samuel L. Jackson. It’s based on an anime film from 1998 and looks extremely violent and gritty. And yet, despite that, I feel like there might be something here. The very short description from IMDb reads:

When her cop father is killed, a young woman tracks the murder with the apparent help of his ex-partner.

That’s not a lot of information. From my previous posting, it appears that she’s doing so with the help of some drugs that really puts her out of it but makes her a super hero.

Also, I’m really digging…

The marketing material for this film is practically pouring out at this point. They must be worried that the film won’t do well and are trying to pump as much interest in it as they can. As far as I know the film is not based on any pre-existing franchise and that may be part of the paranoia for putting this much out for it in advance. The studios believe these days that sequels, reboots, retellings and the like are far more likely to make them money. And unfortunately it’s hard to argue with the numbers that back up those assumptions.

I’m willing to give this film a good solid chance…

From drug mule to super powered scarcy chick in no time flat, Lucy is quite an intruiging looking film. Although in the last couple of clips, she looks pretty scary. Here she drive through head on traffic, causing wrecks and crazyness without a care in the world.

Released in 2011, Rise of the Planet of the Apes showed that there was still life in the venerable Apes franchise. It looks like that was no fluke; the critics say Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is everything a sequel should be: visually striking, emotionally resonant, and intellectually weighty.

Yay! Currently at 92% critic rating. I’m pretty optimistic about this one. We’ll be talking about it next week on The MovieByte Podcast and I am betting you won’t want to miss it!

Man, at this point, I’m trying to protect myself from getting to amped up about this film because I don’t want to be disappointed. But I just almost can’t help it. It just looks so fantastic.

This is the longest and the best trailer for the film yet. You watch this and tell me you aren’t excited because I don’t think you can do it. And we don’t have long to wait now. The film hits theaters on August, 2014.

In many ways, I have never been satisfied with Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. It didn’t always stick to the biblical tale that I grew up with, and at many points in that film, it feels like the drama is somewhat manufactured.

Enter the director of Gladiator, Ridley Scott. Yes, he can be a bit hit or miss, but he has done a few great films over the years. And I bring up Gladiator because it’s probably the most relevant for a film set in ancient egypt of Bible times. Gladiator is one of my top all time films and possibly the best film Ridley Scott has done to date (I know these…

I remain optimistic for this upcoming film, but I can tell you right now that we’re going to be in for some violence and blood, and probably lots of other disturbing things. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) does not look like a woman to be messed with.

This film comes to us from Director Luc Benson who also directed The Fifth Element a fairly decent Sci-Fi film starring Bruce Willis. In fact, many people consider that to be Benson’s last decent film. But given that this film looks similar in some respects to that film, I’m quite looking forward to seeing what the he has in store for us in this…

Those of us who have read the books will know exactly what is going on here, but that doesn’t make it any less fun.

This is the second teaser transmission from Panem, but this time, they aren’t able to maintain control over the broadcast. Someone is hacking the Capitol’s feed from District 13 with a message for the masses: THE MOCKINGJAY LIVES! (duh)

Peeta is also here in this video as before, but now we also have a new face: Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) who doesn’t looks especially pleased to be a part of President Snow’s address to the nation.

Mockingjay, Part 1 will be coming to theaters…

Disney is developing a live action “Dumbo,” based on the animated classic of 1941.

“Transformers: Age of Extinction” scribe Ehren Kruger is writing the script that will build a family tale around the circus elephant who is ridiculed for his enormous ears and learns to fly through the help of his only true friend, a mouse.

The toon was Disney’s fourth animated film after “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia.” It’s also one of Disney’s shortest animated film at 64 minutes.

Wow. “Dumbo” seems to be the correct title for this live action film. What is the deal with…