‘Out of the Furnace’ Trailer - Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana

‘Out of the Furnace’ Trailer - Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana

This film certainly has a few names behind it: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe on the acting side, Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio on the producing side. And yet the film’s trailer has a very indy feel to it. I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Additionally, as the action in the trailer ramps up, the music stays sort of light and in a pop-rock happy, easy sort of feel. It’s a little odd, and makes me feel like it may not be the type of film I would like.

When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement fails to follow through, his older…

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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Trailer - Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson

‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Trailer - Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson

Who doesn’t know that Mary Poppins is a magical singing nanny who uses a bunch of made up words and cheers up children and unites them to their father? Of course we all know because of the beloved 1964 film titled just that, Mary Poppins. I must have watched the film 100 times growing up, though I haven’t seen it in years (and I can still hear Dick Van Dyke singing Chim Chim-in-ey whenever I hear the name Mary Poppins).

Well, apparently there’s a backstory on how this film came to the screen, and if the trailer and story is to be believed, P.L. Travers took some convincing to let Walt…

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‘The Wolverine’ New Clip and Short Featurette

‘The Wolverine’ New Clip and Short Featurette

The jury is still on out whether this film will be any good, and we’ll find out on July 26th. But I’m a bit more interested now than the very first clip I posted made me. It’s certainly an interesting bit of development that someone whom Logan saved many years back, and before he lost his memories, is not repaying a favor. And of course, he doesn’t really remember the guy I would guess.

In this first clip, we get to see a lot more of the scene being teased in the trailers of Logan saving a guy from the fiery explosion of an atomic bomb (wouldn’t radiation still be a problem? Wouldn’t the…

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Confirmed: Sam Mendes Returns for ‘Bond’ 24

Confirmed: Sam Mendes Returns for ‘Bond’ 24
Andrew Sims - Hypable

“I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honor all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct ‘Bond 24,’” said Mendes in a statement today. “I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time.”

With today’s announcement we learned that Bond 24 will be released October 23, 2015 in the United Kingdom and November 6th, 2015 in the United States.

This is good news as far as I’m concerned. Of the three Daniel Craig Bond films, Skyfall was certainly…

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Tom Hanks as Walt Disney

Tom Hanks as Walt Disney
Andrew Sims - Hypable

TIME Magazine has unveiled the first look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in the upcoming movie Saving Mr. Banks.

The photo depicts Hanks as the legendary entertainment icon walking alongside P.L. Travers portrayed by Emma Thompson. They are walking down Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A in 1961. The cast filmed on location at the real theme park in Anaheim, California this past November.

P.L. is the author behind the Mary Poppins books, and in Saving Mr. Banks, we watch her life unfold and experience a rocky relationship with Walt because she doesn’t want her work to be changed by a movie…

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Will Vin Diesel Be In ‘Avengers 2’?

Will Vin Diesel Be In ‘Avengers 2’?
Chris Eggertsen - HitFix

The “Riddick” star took to his official fan page this evening to offer a brief update on that Marvel meeting he revealed late last month, stating:

Marvel meeting today…

Only the people in the room can tell you what was discussed…

P.s. Thanks to Our page, for pushing to make it happen… you know I get tunnel vision with my work… and after that meeting today… wow!

While the above statement contains nary a hint of what the project in question might be, the real story lies in the photo Diesel posted along with the update: a Photoshop-y image (embedded below) that shows him standing in…

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‘Wolverine’ Interrupts a Funeral

‘Wolverine’ Interrupts a Funeral

So, in the last clip I posted from the upcoming The Wolverine, I mentioned I didn’t like it and it was a bad sign for the film because the action was not followable and the it was all just shaky cam bad choreography non-sense. Maybe I judged a little too harshly in thinking that the whole film would be like that because I liked the action in this clip far better. This action was well choreographed and much easier to follow.

Of course the real question I have right now: is there a good story here? Obviously the clips and trailers are focusing pretty heavy on the action, but just action…

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Arguments for Hayden Christensen in Episode VII

Arguments for Hayden Christensen in Episode VII
Ryan Britt - Tor.com

The very end of the super-duper 2004 special edition of Return of the Jedi finds Luke gazing out to see Obi-Wan smiling, Yoda smiling, Anakin smiling,and the audience freaking out. Instead of Sebastian Shaw as an old Anakin, Hayden Christensen suddenly shimmered into view, smirking awkwardly, complete with his big Jedi mullet. And the haters began to hate. But, now with Episode VII in full development, complete with casting calls, there’s paradoxically one person I don’t think they can leave out, and that person is Hayden Christensen! Here’s why the ghost of Hayden must…

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Guillermo del Toro Films - Worst to Best

Guillermo del Toro Films - Worst to Best
Vadim Rizov - Film.com

The argument of this ranked list of Guillermo del Toro’s films is that he excels as a pop artist and falters whenever he becomes self-consciously serious. Del Toro’s work is linked by deep-geek genre immersion that makes him a skilled tinkerer with fantasy and horror tropes filtered through a color palette heavy on saturated blues and reds and loads of Catholic imagery attesting to a childhood living with an zealously pious grandmother.

This article is an interesting read, particularly as someone who has not seen any del Toro films before. But of particular note here is that 8th (worst)…

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Franchise Necessities: Live Action ‘The Jungle Book’

Franchise Necessities: Live Action ‘The Jungle Book’
Kevin Jagernauth - The Playlist

So here we go with “The Jungle Book,” as THR reports Disney has hired Justin Marks, who penned an early draft of the studio’s “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” reboot, to write the script. Hooray! Listen, it’s just the bare, franchise necessities which is why this is happening, though since Rudyard Kipling‘s stories are in the public domain it means they have competition from Warner Bros. who have their own Mowgli feature brewing, penned by “Harry Potter” dude Steve Kloves.

Hmm. I’m not sure how much I care about this. Of course the headline caught my eye because I’ve only watched the…

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