This is IT!! Trailer for Breaking Dawn Part 1 is up, and I, for one, could not be more excited!! This dress is seriously, going to be more guarded than Duchess Kate's dress (which while looking at pictures of it again, she did look marvelous)!! I'm really stoked for part 1, so I'm re-reading it up until the part where I think it'll split, when she "dies".
Anyway, I was watching the tv spot to the new film coming out, Super 8, and I have to admit, I kind of want to watch it. I mean, I was hesitant at first, but I shouldn't have been. This is JJ Abrams we're talking about here, and I shouldn't have put my doubts in front of what clearly seems to be a stellar track record (hehe, stellar). But I for some reason, had my reservations and after watching this trailer, I couldn't remember why.
Now let's go back to what I really wanted to discuss, which was X-Men First Class. I wanted to discuss how WICKEDLY AWESOME it was. Everything about it was well done. The acting, the filming, the directing, the screenwriting, the plot, the producing, everything. I'm really sort of hoping it's going to do better at the world box office, cause the US hasn't been showing it the love it so RIGHTEOUSLY deserves, so here's to hoping. This movie had everything I enjoy about a film. I couldn't really pinpoint one bad thing about it (except for Rose Byrne's Moira McTaggert. She could've been more serious than girly, but all in all she wasn't really that bad). I mean, January Jones's Emma Frost was just the epitome of her name...frosty. I wholeheartedly enjoyed James McAvoy. He makes me believe that he's the characters he portrays, that he really was a doctor in the late 70's in Africa in The Last King of Scotland. I really believed he was an assassin in Wanted. I also believed he was Tom LeFroy, the man who stole Ms. Jane Austen's heart in Becoming Jane. I just....he's exceptional to me. Atonement was incredible. Michael Fassbender made me like Magneto! I was just really impressed, and I rarely get inpressed with a film. I may praise it as good, but this one's earned my respect, much like The Adjustment Bureau. Congrats, Matthew Vaughn.
I actually am kind of afraid of watching this trailer, which means this film is going to be AWESOME!!!!!! It's a remake, but it's Guillermo Del Toro. I have to respect him because he's one of the few directors who created a likeable sequel to a fantastic film--Hellboy and Hellboy 2.
I have to mention this first, since this is the CUTEST LITTLE THING I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE WHO DOESN'T LOVE THE MUPPETS?????????
Pictured are Jim Broadbent and the magnanimous Meryl Streep as the Thatchers in the upcoming The Iron Lady, based on the first female British Prime Minister. Ms. Streep just immerses herself completely and just transforms into her character. That's why she's freaking Meryl Streep and no one will really compare to her star power in my generation.
Sean Hayes in The Three Stooges, which I still think should've included Jim Carrey, because I don't know what it is--he just seems to be back on top with his comedy. It's refreshing to see him be funny again. His SNL comedy sketch was the funniest I've seen come out of SNL since Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon's skits. But Will Sasso from MADTV will be Curly, with Sean as Larry, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe. I don't know. Let's go at this with a grain of salt, yes. But with at least an ounce of hesitation. Also the fact that Jane Lynch is in this, gray skies are turning blue.
Now THIS, I'm actually looking forward to. Rock of Ages is this hit on Broadway, and it's coming to the big screen, with Footloose star Julianne Hough as the female lead. I'm kind of excited for this!! It's all about the 80's scene and music and all that, and Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Bryan Cranston, Russell Brand and Mary J. Blige are all in it, with Tobey McGuire and Adam Shankman producing it. So you know it's bound to be good if the Shankman has his fingers in it.
IN SADDER NEWS, according to the website Deadline , we're told that there soon should be good news and bad news on the Star Trek sequel front. The good news: With his film Super 8 set for release June 10, JJ Abrams is expected to announce shortly his return as director of Star Trek 2. The bad news: Even moving at warp speed, Abrams will be hard pressed to make the June 29, 2012 release date that the studio set for the film. I'm told that the move being considered right now is to push Trek back for a Holiday 2012 release. This comes after Paramount pushed back the other franchise film in its arsenal that has Chris Pine as its star. Pine's also playing Jack Ryan in the reboot of the Tom Clancy-created series. Pine was expected to shoot that film first, but the script wasn't ready. Thing is, in order for the film to succeed again, they need exactly all the right pieces to fall together at the same time, and unfortunately, his excellent team of director, exec producers, writers and such are all busy doing other awesome-but-not-as-equally-fantastic projects. The film has three top-flight writers in Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. Kurtzman directed Welcome to People. Orci has been busy on Cowboys & Aliens, a film I'm STOKED AND EXCITED AND THRILLED AND ANXIOUS to watch, and in prepping the Gavin Hood-directed sci-fi epic Ender's Game. Lindelof has been busy working on Prometheus, the Ridley Scott film (brilliant man, Mr. Scott) for Fox. The result? It doesn't sound like they are close to having a script that will live up to the high quality of the last film that revived a dead franchise.
OOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Jersey boy Zach Braff is in final talks to join Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful for Disney Pictures. Braff will play the role of Frank, the loyal but under-appreciated assistant to Oz (James Franco), a charismatic circus magician who is treated as a powerful wizard after his balloon blows off course into Oz.
Kim Basinger, Heather Graham, Catherine O'Hara and Jason Patric are all in final negotiations to star in the dark indie comedy Fortune for Nasser Group North says Variety. The story revolves around four characters - a petty thief who seeks a way out of his life after a roadside killing, and two broke sisters who team to get the bounty on a female mobster. They all collide in Las Vegas.
Jamie Chung, who recently starred in The Hangover Part II, Julie Bowen, who also recently starred in Jumping the Broom, Connie Britton, and Jennifer Morrison (funny how I just mentioned Star Trek and she had a previous small role in the first film) are all in negotiations to join the cast of the indie political drama "Knife Fight" reports Variety. Bill Guttentag is directing and co-writing the script with Chris Lehane. Rob Lowe (man looks great at any age--bratpacker to West Wing to now....rawr) stars as a political crisis manager who specializes in playing hardball on behalf of scandal-plagued clients. Chung plays his savvy assistant, Bowen an ambitious TV reporter who sleeps with him for scoops, and Britton an earthy liberal looking to run for public office. Mader plays a masseuse/prostitute bent on blackmail, Morrison plays one of her classmates, and Welliver plays a private investigator working for Lowe.
Um, refresh my memory, someone, but wasn't Rin Tin Tin a German Shepherd? Then why is it in this animated remake (I didn't even know Spielberg did animated films) is he a Scottish Terrier, I wonder? Then I watched the teaser trailer, and it's not about the Dog after all. It's about a boy named TinTin. I just thought they were giving the film a hyped up name or something....something to bring it to the 21st century. Whatevs. Anyway, it looks cute, but if I know Spielberg films, and I like to think I do, it'll be anything but just plain cute. So this is about a boy who's a reporter, and his Scottish Terrier named Snowy from a comic strip that appeared in a French newspaper in the late 20's. He reported on various world occurences like the Bolshevik Revolution, WWII, the Space Race and even traveled as far as Tibet. So what an interesting adventure for boys, and quite a role model. The best role model I've really seen in a long time. Below are the posters released for the film.
So Michelle Williams has accepted the role of Glinda in the new film, Oz, The Great and Powerful. This prequel to The Wizard of Oz tells the story of the origins of The Wizard and Oz's infamous witches like Glinda, the Good Witch of the North; Evanorah, the Wicked Witch of the East; and Theodorah, the Wicked Witch of the West, all came about. James Franco and Mila Kunis are already set to star as the Wizard and Theodorah. Rachel Weisz is in talks to play the power-hungry Evanorah, but her deal is complicated due to overlapping schedules with her commitment to The Bourne Legacy. With Sam Raimi at the helm, I don't know if this will be the Wicked-like musical we've all know and love. But hey, dark and twisty is interesting, too.
In other news, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are teaming up again after their successful stint as NYPD partners in the hit comedy The Other Guys, in the upcoming also comedy Turkey Bowl, and the pair will play guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights. Apparently, Alec Baldwin has already been signed on to play Wahlberg's father, so this should be HIGHLY interesting.
And that's all folks! Watch TV this week!!! Season finales all around!!!!
Again....Jason Bateman. And even if you make Colin Farrell with a receding hairline, no matter. The man's still rawr. And Jennifer Aniston, not the girl next door in this film!!! And she's not a blonde!!!!! How excited am I about this??? But people. Let's be real here. This film kind of, sort of, maybe just a little bit, reminds me of the 3 women from 9 to 5. I don't know who's who, but the only thing different is that they each have a boss, instead of 9 to 5, they all want to kill the same boss. Just pointing it out. Well, anyway. Trailer below.
From the TRULY BRILLIANT Pedro Aldomovar, the genius Spaniard that brought us the oscar winning film Talk To Her (the only real reason I watched this was because singer Caetano Veloso had a brief role, but I'm so glad I did), has a new film out called The Skin I Live In, with fellow Spaniard Antonio Banderas. Based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet, it is about a plastic surgeon (Banderas) who decides to get revenge on the person who raped his daughter. Aldomovar describes this film as a horror story without the screaming. It's just.....ooooh..
