Prime Video unleashed a new Samaritan clip on Monday showing Sylvester Stallone‘s Joe cleaning up the streets of Granite City. Stallone is no stranger to action films with heart and feels at home in a city plagued by criminals, low lives, and those looking to punish the less fortunate. Thankfully, Joe’s coming out of retirement when the metropolis needs him the most. Please don’t call it a comeback. It’s a homecoming.
In the new Samaritan clip, Joe gets attacked in an alleyway by a knife-wielding individual. Annoyed at the thought of being stabbed, Joe hurls the man through a wall and into a nearby car. A little girl is standing nearby and witnesses everything. After she grills Joe with questions, another lawbreaker pulls the pin out of a grenade and tosses it at Joe’s feet. Joe picks up the girl and uses a car to shield her from the blast.
In the new Samaritan clip, Joe gets attacked in an alleyway by a knife-wielding individual. Annoyed at the thought of being stabbed, Joe hurls the man through a wall and into a nearby car. A little girl is standing nearby and witnesses everything. After she grills Joe with questions, another lawbreaker pulls the pin out of a grenade and tosses it at Joe’s feet. Joe picks up the girl and uses a car to shield her from the blast.
- 8/22/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Joey King isn’t messing around in the first trailer for the new 20th Century Studios film “The Princess.”
In the trailer, which you can watch above, King plays a strong-willed princess whose father tries to force her to marry a cruel sociopath. When she refuses, she’s kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle.
That doesn’t stop her for long though, as she fights her way out of the tower, taking down every knight in her path. Set to the tune of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” King begins her takedown.
“I’m not a piece of property to be traded,” she says in the clip, adding: “But these guys f—ed with the wrong princess.”
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In the trailer, which you can watch above, King plays a strong-willed princess whose father tries to force her to marry a cruel sociopath. When she refuses, she’s kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle.
That doesn’t stop her for long though, as she fights her way out of the tower, taking down every knight in her path. Set to the tune of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” King begins her takedown.
“I’m not a piece of property to be traded,” she says in the clip, adding: “But these guys f—ed with the wrong princess.”
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Victor Chooses Benji in ‘Love, Victor’ Season 3 Trailer (Video)
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- 6/2/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Joey King’s upcoming film “The Princess” has a premiere date on Hulu.
The 20th Century Studios film will drop July 1.
No ordinary story about a princess, King’s film is described as an “action-packed fight to the death set in a fairy tale world.”
Here’s the official logline: When a beautiful, strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.
Le-Van Kiet directs from a screenplay by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton. King and Guy Riedel are executive producers. Neal H. Moritz (the “Fast and Furious” franchise), Toby Jaffe (“Total Recall”) and Derek Kolstad (“John Wick”) produced the film.
In addition to King, the film also stars Dominic Cooper...
The 20th Century Studios film will drop July 1.
No ordinary story about a princess, King’s film is described as an “action-packed fight to the death set in a fairy tale world.”
Here’s the official logline: When a beautiful, strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.
Le-Van Kiet directs from a screenplay by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton. King and Guy Riedel are executive producers. Neal H. Moritz (the “Fast and Furious” franchise), Toby Jaffe (“Total Recall”) and Derek Kolstad (“John Wick”) produced the film.
In addition to King, the film also stars Dominic Cooper...
- 4/12/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
MGM and has set an agreement with Jl Vision Film Co to release Creed II in China on January 4. This is the first movie in the Rocky saga to get a theatrical date in the Middle Kingdom, although previous titles have been available via other media. The sequel to 2015’s $174M worldwide grossing Creed was released domestically in late November and has cumed $133.7M globally through last weekend. MGM controls the China distribution rights.
Creed II is directed by Steven Caple Jr and stars Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone reprising their roles of Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa. Also returning are Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Wood Harris and Andre Ward with Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu, Russell Hornsby and Dolph Lundgren, who comes back to the franchise as Ivan Drago.
The story follows Adonis Creed whose life has become a balancing act. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight,...
Creed II is directed by Steven Caple Jr and stars Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone reprising their roles of Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa. Also returning are Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Wood Harris and Andre Ward with Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu, Russell Hornsby and Dolph Lundgren, who comes back to the franchise as Ivan Drago.
The story follows Adonis Creed whose life has become a balancing act. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight,...
- 12/21/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The soundtrack to “Creed II” will be executive produced by Mike WiLL Made-It. He’ll collaborate with composer Lugwig Göransson and music supervisors Fam Rothstein and Jen Malone on music for the film, which is due out November 21. “Creed II” is the latest chapter in the Rocky saga, following the 2015 film “Creed” which earned more nearly $110 million at the U.S. box office. The MGM movie, distributed internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures, is directed by Steven Caple Jr. and stars Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone.
The Grammy-winning Mike WiLL is known for his production work on Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” as well as hits by Beyonce and Miley Cyrus, among others. The Atlanta native made his name working on hip-hop tracks and mixtapes in the local scene, eventually founding his own company Ear Drummers Entertainment, in 2006. The label is home to Rae Sremmurd, whose first album went platinum.
The Grammy-winning Mike WiLL is known for his production work on Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” as well as hits by Beyonce and Miley Cyrus, among others. The Atlanta native made his name working on hip-hop tracks and mixtapes in the local scene, eventually founding his own company Ear Drummers Entertainment, in 2006. The label is home to Rae Sremmurd, whose first album went platinum.
- 10/9/2018
- by Shirley Halperin
- Variety Film + TV
Legacy. Destiny. Family.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present the trailer and new poster for the highly anticipated film “Creed II”
The film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., stars Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson.
In Theaters Wednesday, November 21st
Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family. Creed II is about going back to basics to rediscover what made you a champion in the first place, and remembering that, no matter where you go,...
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present the trailer and new poster for the highly anticipated film “Creed II”
The film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., stars Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson.
In Theaters Wednesday, November 21st
Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family. Creed II is about going back to basics to rediscover what made you a champion in the first place, and remembering that, no matter where you go,...
- 9/30/2018
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
MGM and Warner Bros have released the newest trailer for Creed 2, the follow-up to the hit Rocky franchise reboot that stars Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, now training Jordan’s Adonis Creed. The studios are ramping up toward the pic’s November 21 release date.
The sequel, which has Steven Caple Jr taking over for Ryan Coogler in the director’s chair, takes a mighty swing at evolving the arc of one of the original series’ best characters: Rocky IV‘s Ivan Drago, who killed Apollo in the ring, setting up one of the franchise’s most epic fights when Drago and Rocky met.
In the new pic, written by Stallone, Drago (reprised by Dolph Lundgren) is training his son (Florian Munteanu), who wants a piece of Adonis. Adonis takes the fight as he and Rocky confront their shared legacy. Tessa Thompson...
The sequel, which has Steven Caple Jr taking over for Ryan Coogler in the director’s chair, takes a mighty swing at evolving the arc of one of the original series’ best characters: Rocky IV‘s Ivan Drago, who killed Apollo in the ring, setting up one of the franchise’s most epic fights when Drago and Rocky met.
In the new pic, written by Stallone, Drago (reprised by Dolph Lundgren) is training his son (Florian Munteanu), who wants a piece of Adonis. Adonis takes the fight as he and Rocky confront their shared legacy. Tessa Thompson...
- 9/26/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael B. Jordan is taking on the fight of his life in a new trailer for “Creed II.”
In the trailer, Adonis Creed (Jordan) has to decide whether he wants to fight Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), the son of Ivan Drago, who infamously killed his father, Apollo Creed, in the ring years before, in “Rocky IV.”
Meanwhile, his family is struggling with his decision, as is Adonis’ mentor Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), who of course remembers Apollo dying in his arms.
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“If we don’t do what we love, then we wouldn’t exist,” Jordan says in the trailer.
Stallone also wrote the new movie and produced along with Kevin King-Templeton, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler and Irwin Winkler. Executive producers include Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2015 hit “Creed,” along with Jordan and Guy Riedel.
In the trailer, Adonis Creed (Jordan) has to decide whether he wants to fight Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), the son of Ivan Drago, who infamously killed his father, Apollo Creed, in the ring years before, in “Rocky IV.”
Meanwhile, his family is struggling with his decision, as is Adonis’ mentor Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), who of course remembers Apollo dying in his arms.
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“If we don’t do what we love, then we wouldn’t exist,” Jordan says in the trailer.
Stallone also wrote the new movie and produced along with Kevin King-Templeton, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler and Irwin Winkler. Executive producers include Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2015 hit “Creed,” along with Jordan and Guy Riedel.
- 9/26/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Creed II won’t be in theaters until Wednesday, November 21, but MGM and Warner Bros gave us a peek at what to expect with two first official film stills (see both below) from the movie. And not a slab of raw meat in sight.
The latest installment in the indefatigable Rocky saga, directed by Steven Caple Jr., stars Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Creed and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa.
The set up: Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family.
The latest installment in the indefatigable Rocky saga, directed by Steven Caple Jr., stars Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Creed and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa.
The set up: Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family.
- 8/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael B. Jordan is back as Apollo Creed’s son Adonis in the first trailer for “Creed II,” which entered the ring on Wednesday teasing a showdown with another next-generation boxer from the “Rocky” movie franchise: a younger Drago played by Florian Munteanu. Ivan Drago was originally played by Dolph Lundgren in “Rocky IV.”
The older Drago killed Creed’s father in the ring in “Rocky IV.”
Sylvester Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa, training Adonis to get back in the ring.
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Stallone also wrote the new movie and produced along with Kevin King-Templeton, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler and Irwin Winkler. Executive producers include Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2015 hit “Creed,” along with Michael B. Jordan and Guy Riedel.
The film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., also stars Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Russell Hornsby,...
The older Drago killed Creed’s father in the ring in “Rocky IV.”
Sylvester Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa, training Adonis to get back in the ring.
Also Read: 'Creed II': This Mma Fighter Really Wants to Play Ivan Drago's Son
Stallone also wrote the new movie and produced along with Kevin King-Templeton, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler and Irwin Winkler. Executive producers include Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2015 hit “Creed,” along with Michael B. Jordan and Guy Riedel.
The film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., also stars Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Russell Hornsby,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Production begins today in Philadelphia on Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Creed II, starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone, reprising their roles of Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa respectively. Creed II is the continuation of the Rocky saga and sequel to the 2015 critically acclaimed and crowd-pleasing 2015 hit Creed, which took in more than $170 million at the worldwide box office. Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), who directed the first film, returns to the franchise as an executive producer on Creed II.
The new film is being directed by Steven Caple Jr., who helmed the acclaimed 2016 drama The Land.
“When I wrote and directed Creed, I wanted to tell a human story about a family from a new perspective, while also paying homage to the Rocky characters we’ve all grown up knowing and loving. I’ve known Steven was an amazing filmmaker since our days at USC film school together,...
The new film is being directed by Steven Caple Jr., who helmed the acclaimed 2016 drama The Land.
“When I wrote and directed Creed, I wanted to tell a human story about a family from a new perspective, while also paying homage to the Rocky characters we’ve all grown up knowing and loving. I’ve known Steven was an amazing filmmaker since our days at USC film school together,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Russell Hornsby, last seen on the big screen in the Denzel Washington-directed Oscar-nominated film, Fences, has been cast in Warner Bros/MGM’s Creed II, starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone, reprising their roles of Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa respectively. Production is officially underway with director Steven Caple Jr. at the helm and Ryan Coogler, who directed the first film, serving as an executive producer. The film continues to follow Adonis who is facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past which intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family. Also new to the rebooted franchise are previously announced Florian “The Big Nasty” Munteanu as Viktor Drago and Dolph Lundgren returning to...
- 4/2/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
For a number of months, we’ve known the character of Ivan Drago will be returning to the Rocky fold in the sequel to the 2015 smash Creed thanks to Stallone and his love for Instagram. Today marks the news that Romanian Boxer, Florian Munteanu, has been cast in the role as Drago Jr in the forthcoming follow-up.
Related: Creed 2 News
Back in December 2017, it was announced that first-time feature film director, Steven Caple Jr has taken over the helm of the project which is due to start filming in March in Philadelphia.
Creed 2 will focus again on Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) both inside and outside of the ring as he deals with his newfound fame, issues with his family, and his continuing quest to become a champion.
Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are set to return to their roles as Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago, who...
For a number of months, we’ve known the character of Ivan Drago will be returning to the Rocky fold in the sequel to the 2015 smash Creed thanks to Stallone and his love for Instagram. Today marks the news that Romanian Boxer, Florian Munteanu, has been cast in the role as Drago Jr in the forthcoming follow-up.
Related: Creed 2 News
Back in December 2017, it was announced that first-time feature film director, Steven Caple Jr has taken over the helm of the project which is due to start filming in March in Philadelphia.
Creed 2 will focus again on Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) both inside and outside of the ring as he deals with his newfound fame, issues with his family, and his continuing quest to become a champion.
Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are set to return to their roles as Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago, who...
- 1/16/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Is satire obsolete? Our appalling present political reality has surpassed some of the wildest jokes in director Joe Dante's 'exaggerated, outrageous' 1997 cable movie. An immigration squabble snowballs until a renegade state governor closes his border and threatens to secede from the Union. It's a 'political idiocy' version of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ... and nineteen years later, we're stuck living it. The Second Civil War DVD (2005) HBO Video 1997 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 96 min. / Street Date August 30, 2005 / 14.98 Starring Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, James Coburn, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Peña, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, Kevin Dunn, Brian Keith, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller, William Schallert, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jerry Hardin, Roger Corman, Rance Howard, Robert Picardo, Alexandra Wilson, Belinda Belaski, Jennifer Carlson, Sean Lawlor. Cinematography Mac Ahlberg Film Editor Marshall Harvey Original Music Hummie Mann Written by Martyn Burke Produced by Guy Riedel Directed by Joe Dante...
- 4/23/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Looks like Kevin James is going to be leading a Netflix original film, and despite the above featured image, it is a not a Paul Blart: Mall Cop movie. The streaming service has announced today that the actor/comedian will be heading the film entitled True Memoirs Of An International Assassin.
The film's synopsis is as follows:
"A mild-mannered would-be author gets mistaken for a killer-for-hire when his fictional novel about an international assassin is published as a true story. The book is a huge success and he is suddenly kidnapped and taken to Venezuela and forced into an assassination plot."
True Memoirs Of An International Assassin is directed by Jeff Wadlow, who is likely best known for directing Kick-ass 2, and will be hitting Netflix some time in 2016.
While I feel no particular way or another about this film, I'm very interested to see the online interest. Given James'...
The film's synopsis is as follows:
"A mild-mannered would-be author gets mistaken for a killer-for-hire when his fictional novel about an international assassin is published as a true story. The book is a huge success and he is suddenly kidnapped and taken to Venezuela and forced into an assassination plot."
True Memoirs Of An International Assassin is directed by Jeff Wadlow, who is likely best known for directing Kick-ass 2, and will be hitting Netflix some time in 2016.
While I feel no particular way or another about this film, I'm very interested to see the online interest. Given James'...
- 2/3/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Universal Pictures has set a 2015 date for horror comedy Krampus, the Christmas-set flick to be directed by Trick ‘R Treat‘s Michael Dougherty. The yuletide frightener co-written by Dougherty, Todd Casey and Zach Shields is based on the ancient legend of a pagan demon who punishes wicked children – a really bad Santa. Producers are Legendary’s Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Alex Garcia. Krampus will hit theaters Wednesday, November 25, 2015 just in time to go up against Disney’s The Good Dinosaur, Fox’s The Martian, and WB’s Midnight Special for the Thanksgiving crowd.
Universal and Legendary have additionally set an August 12, 2016 date for the 3D thriller Spectral, about an elite Special Ops team on the trail of a phantom threat that can’t be explained. Nic Mathieu is directing James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Max Martini and Bruce Greenwood in the pic scripted by Ian Fried, George Nolfi and John Gatins.
Universal and Legendary have additionally set an August 12, 2016 date for the 3D thriller Spectral, about an elite Special Ops team on the trail of a phantom threat that can’t be explained. Nic Mathieu is directing James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Max Martini and Bruce Greenwood in the pic scripted by Ian Fried, George Nolfi and John Gatins.
- 8/19/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Emily Mortimer is in talks to star in Spectral, Legendary's supernatural action movie.
Mortimer is known for her work on Shutter Island and Hugo, and has recently starred in HBO's TV series The Newsroom, and Sky Living's Doll & Em.
The actress is thought to be tapped for a CIA mission leader role in the project, opposite James Badge Dale, who is known for his parts in The Departed and Iron Man 3.
Spectral, which is being described as a supernatural Black Hawk Down, focuses on a Special Ops team that fights supernatural beings who have taken over a European city.
Nic Mathieu is directing the film, with George Nolfi and John Gatins writing the script.
Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing, while Jillian Share and Guy Riedel are to executive produce.
Mortimer is known for her work on Shutter Island and Hugo, and has recently starred in HBO's TV series The Newsroom, and Sky Living's Doll & Em.
The actress is thought to be tapped for a CIA mission leader role in the project, opposite James Badge Dale, who is known for his parts in The Departed and Iron Man 3.
Spectral, which is being described as a supernatural Black Hawk Down, focuses on a Special Ops team that fights supernatural beings who have taken over a European city.
Nic Mathieu is directing the film, with George Nolfi and John Gatins writing the script.
Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing, while Jillian Share and Guy Riedel are to executive produce.
- 7/8/2014
- Digital Spy
Emily Mortimer is in negotiations to star as the female lead in Spectral, Legendary’s supernatural action movie. James Badge Dale is starring in the project, which Nic Mathieu is directing. Described as a supernatural Black Hawk Down, Spectral centers on a Special Ops team that fights supernatural beings who have taken over a European city. Photos Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Mortimer will be a CIA mission leader opposite Dale’s researcher. The script was written by George Nolfi and John Gatins. Ian Fried wrote the original treatment. Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing, while Jillian Share and Guy Riedel executive
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- 7/7/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cory Hardrict has joined Legendary Pictures' sci-fi thriller Spectral, starring James Badge Dale. Nic Mathieu is directing the film, which centers on a special-ops team that fights supernatural beings who've taken over New York City. Photos 10 Classic Sci-Fi Movies With Better Effects Than Modern Films Ian Fried wrote the original treatment, with the George Nolfi-penned screenplay getting a rewrite from John Gatins. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, with Jillian Share and Guy Riedel serving as executive producers. Sophia Sikora will also oversee the film for Legendary. Hardrict, who is married to actress Tia Mowry, recently
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- 6/17/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(For my written review of "Super 8," click here; Interview with Kyle Chandler, click here; Interview with Elle Fanning, click here; Interview with the "Super 8" kids, click here)
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Also Known As: Darlings
Super 8: The IMAX Experience
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Release Date: June 10th, 2011 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG 13 for for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language and some drug use.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Production Co.
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Also Known As: Darlings
Super 8: The IMAX Experience
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Release Date: June 10th, 2011 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG 13 for for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language and some drug use.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Production Co.
- 6/10/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The heart of "Super 8" belongs to the fantastic child actors namely Joel Courtney (Joe Lamb), Riley Griffiths (Charles), Gabriel Basso (Martin -- absent from this interview), Zach Mills (Preston), and Ryan Lee (Cary).
They play a group of Lillian, Ohio kids who decide to make a super 8 zombie movie during the summer of 1979. But then, a mysterious train crash happens.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** How they got involved into making "Super 8"
*** When J.J. Abrams show them the top-secret script of the movie
*** Did they know the theme of the movie when they interviewed?
*** The connection of "Little Darlings" to "Super 8"
*** When did they find out about the story of "Super 8"
*** Their characters
*** Their chemistry and how they bonded with each other and with Elle Fanning
*** The comparison with "Stand By Me"
*** Super 8 the camera!
*** Do they believe in UFO?
Here's more "Super 8...
They play a group of Lillian, Ohio kids who decide to make a super 8 zombie movie during the summer of 1979. But then, a mysterious train crash happens.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** How they got involved into making "Super 8"
*** When J.J. Abrams show them the top-secret script of the movie
*** Did they know the theme of the movie when they interviewed?
*** The connection of "Little Darlings" to "Super 8"
*** When did they find out about the story of "Super 8"
*** Their characters
*** Their chemistry and how they bonded with each other and with Elle Fanning
*** The comparison with "Stand By Me"
*** Super 8 the camera!
*** Do they believe in UFO?
Here's more "Super 8...
- 6/5/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
I really enjoyed talking to Elle Fanning! I interviewed the young actress last year for Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," and this year, she's starring in the surefire blockbuster, "Super 8." She plays Alice, the lone female member of the filmmaking gang in the small mining town of Lillian, Ohio.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** How she got involved into making "Super 8"
*** J.J. Abrams' top-secret "Super 8" script!
*** The writer-director allowed Fanning and the other child actors of the movie to create their own super 8 zombie film
*** How she bonded with her male co-stars
*** Does she believe in UFO?
*** Why you have to watch "Super 8?"
*** Super 8 the camera!
*** The cool vintage 1970s outfits!
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** How she got involved into making "Super 8"
*** J.J. Abrams' top-secret "Super 8" script!
*** The writer-director allowed Fanning and the other child actors of the movie to create their own super 8 zombie film
*** How she bonded with her male co-stars
*** Does she believe in UFO?
*** Why you have to watch "Super 8?"
*** Super 8 the camera!
*** The cool vintage 1970s outfits!
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.
- 6/5/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Kyle Chandler stars as Deputy Jackson Lamb, the authority figure of "Super 8" who must solve the puzzle of the train crash that nearly destroyed his small mining town of Lillian, Ohio while bridging the relationship with his son, Joe, played by Joel Courtney.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** His attraction to making "Super 8"
*** The super-secret script of the movie
*** His character and the backdrop of "Super 8"
*** Where was he in the summer of 1979 (the setting of the movie)
*** Making super 8 movies as a kid
*** Does he believe in UFO?
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries...
In this interview, we talked about:
*** His attraction to making "Super 8"
*** The super-secret script of the movie
*** His character and the backdrop of "Super 8"
*** Where was he in the summer of 1979 (the setting of the movie)
*** Making super 8 movies as a kid
*** Does he believe in UFO?
Here's more "Super 8" info from Yahoo:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries...
- 6/5/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Okay, I didn't watch the game, sorry Super Bowl fans, But I did watch the commercials, especially the movie trailers! There were many of them, so without further adieu, all the Super Bowl 2011 movie trailers you might have missed!
My favorite? Hhmmmm, my heart belongs to "Thor," oh yeah, and "Captain America!"
"Captain America: The First Avenger"
Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil Hydra organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
Cast and Credits
Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Produced by: Stan Lee, Louis D Esposito, David Maisel
"Super 8"
In 1979, the U.S. Air Force closed a section of Area 51. All materials were to be transported...
My favorite? Hhmmmm, my heart belongs to "Thor," oh yeah, and "Captain America!"
"Captain America: The First Avenger"
Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil Hydra organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
Cast and Credits
Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Produced by: Stan Lee, Louis D Esposito, David Maisel
"Super 8"
In 1979, the U.S. Air Force closed a section of Area 51. All materials were to be transported...
- 2/7/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Here's my review of "Morning Glory." For my written movie review of the film, please click here.
Here's more info on "Morning Glory"
When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life. Stumbling into a job at "Daybreak" (the last-place national morning news show), Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy. Unfortunately, Pomeroy refuses to cover morning show staples like celebrity gossip, weather, fashion and crafts - let alone work with his new co-host, Colleen Peck, a former beauty queen and longtime morning show personality who is more than happy covering morning "news." As Mike and Colleen clash, first behind the scenes and then on the air, Becky's blossoming love affair with fellow producer, Adam Bennett begins to unravel - and soon Becky is struggling to save her relationship,...
Here's more info on "Morning Glory"
When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life. Stumbling into a job at "Daybreak" (the last-place national morning news show), Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy. Unfortunately, Pomeroy refuses to cover morning show staples like celebrity gossip, weather, fashion and crafts - let alone work with his new co-host, Colleen Peck, a former beauty queen and longtime morning show personality who is more than happy covering morning "news." As Mike and Colleen clash, first behind the scenes and then on the air, Becky's blossoming love affair with fellow producer, Adam Bennett begins to unravel - and soon Becky is struggling to save her relationship,...
- 11/12/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
"Morning Glory" has been shoved back from July 30th this year to November 12. The Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams comedy is apparently being positioned closer to the year-end holidays. Variety reports that the decision came in response to a test screening which also stars Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum. From mid-summer to November 12th? It seems more like the film didn't impress someone and will not perform well in summer - thus being shafted into a less competitive opening - the day after Veterans Day. Hey, I could be mistaken. J.J. Abrams produced via his Bad Robot with Bryan Burk and director Roger Mitchell ("Notting Hill"). Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada") wrote the screenplay. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel serve as executive producers.
- 4/1/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watchmen star Patrick Wilson has been cast in the Paramount comedy Morning Glory opposite Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum, says The Hollywood Reporter . The film, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, will begin production next month in New York under the direction of Roger Michell. The comedy is about a pair of antagonistic anchors (Ford and Keaton) on a struggling morning show and the up-and-coming news producer (McAdams) who tries to get them under control and boost ratings. Wilson will play McAdams' romantic partner. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot production company. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel are executive producing.
- 4/16/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Patrick Wilson is looking for some laughs.
The "Watchmen" actor has been cast in the Paramount comedy "Morning Glory" opposite Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum.
The picture, penned by Aline Brosh McKenna, will begin production next month in New York under the direction of Roger Michell.
The comedy is about a pair of antagonistic anchors (Ford and Keaton) on a struggling morning show and the up-and-coming news producer (McAdams) who tries to get them under control and boost ratings. Wilson will play McAdams' romantic partner.
J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot banner. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel are executive producing.
The CAA-repped Wilson has gravitated toward dramatic roles in such movies as "Little Children," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Hard Candy" and "Lakeview Terrace."
Along with "Morning," he has the comedy "Barry Munday" in production, and he recently finished shooting "The Baster" for Miramax.
The "Watchmen" actor has been cast in the Paramount comedy "Morning Glory" opposite Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum.
The picture, penned by Aline Brosh McKenna, will begin production next month in New York under the direction of Roger Michell.
The comedy is about a pair of antagonistic anchors (Ford and Keaton) on a struggling morning show and the up-and-coming news producer (McAdams) who tries to get them under control and boost ratings. Wilson will play McAdams' romantic partner.
J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot banner. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel are executive producing.
The CAA-repped Wilson has gravitated toward dramatic roles in such movies as "Little Children," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Hard Candy" and "Lakeview Terrace."
Along with "Morning," he has the comedy "Barry Munday" in production, and he recently finished shooting "The Baster" for Miramax.
- 4/15/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Although many of you out there thought that Crystal Skull was a joke, it appears that good ol’ Harrison Ford is about to take a stab at his first comedy since 1998’s Six Days Seven Nights, with J.J. “Don’t Call Me A Trekkie” Abrams producing. According to Variety, Paramount Pictures has signed Harrison Ford and is negotiating with Rachel McAdams to star in “Morning Glory,” a comedy that will be directed by Roger Michell. McAdams would play an aspiring news producer who tries to save a failing morning show by getting control of its feuding anchors. Ford will play one of the anchors, and the other will be set shortly. Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada") wrote the script. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing for Abrams’ Bad Robot banner. Executive producers are Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel The deal puts Ford back in business with Paramount,...
- 12/17/2008
- UGO Movies
Harrison Ford has been cast in "Morning Glory," a Paramount Pictures comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final talks to join the cast for the film helmed by "Venus" director Roger Mitchell. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk will produce via their Bad Robot company and Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will serve as executive producers. The script written by Aline Brosh McKenna (of "The Devil Wears Prada" fame) stars Ford as an old-school anchor like Ted Koppel who quits after he's disgusted the way the evening newscast has changed to gossip.
- 12/16/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Harrison Ford has been cast in "Morning Glory," a Paramount Pictures comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final talks to join the cast for the film helmed by "Venus" director Roger Mitchell. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk will produce via their Bad Robot company and Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will serve as executive producers. The script written by Aline Brosh McKenna (of "The Devil Wears Prada" fame) stars Ford as an old-school anchor like Ted Koppel who quits after he's disgusted the way the evening newscast has changed to gossip.
- 12/16/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Harrison Ford has been cast in "Morning Glory," a Paramount Pictures comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final talks to join the cast for the film helmed by "Venus" director Roger Mitchell. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk will produce via their Bad Robot company and Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will serve as executive producers.The script written by Aline Brosh McKenna (of "The Devil Wears Prada" fame) stars Ford as an old-school anchor like Ted Koppel who quits after he's disgusted the way the evening newscast has changed to gossip. McAdams would play a hot up-and-coming producer to help revive a morning talk show but this would pair him with his rival.
- 12/16/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Harrison Ford has been cast in "Morning Glory," a Paramount Pictures comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final talks to join the cast for the film helmed by "Venus" director Roger Mitchell. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk will produce via their Bad Robot company and Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will serve as executive producers. The script written by Aline Brosh McKenna (of "The Devil Wears Prada" fame) stars Ford as an old-school anchor like Ted Koppel who quits after he's disgusted the way the evening newscast has changed to gossip.
- 12/16/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Harrison Ford as Regis Philbin? Well, not quite.
But the billion-dollar action star has been cast as one of the personalities of "Morning Glory," a Paramount comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final negotiations to join the cast as well.
Roger Michell ("Venus") is attached to direct, and J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot banner. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will executive produce.
Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada") wrote the script about a grizzled old-school anchor in the Ted Koppel mold (Ford) who quits in disgust with the gossip-heavy direction of the evening newscast. He is then recruited by a hot up-and-coming producer (McAdams) to help revive a morning talk show, only to be paired with his rival.
Bad Robot, which typically focuses on just one production at a time, has been eyeing "Morning Glory...
But the billion-dollar action star has been cast as one of the personalities of "Morning Glory," a Paramount comedy that takes place in and around a morning talk show. Rachel McAdams is in final negotiations to join the cast as well.
Roger Michell ("Venus") is attached to direct, and J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing through their Bad Robot banner. Sherryl Clark and Guy Riedel will executive produce.
Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada") wrote the script about a grizzled old-school anchor in the Ted Koppel mold (Ford) who quits in disgust with the gossip-heavy direction of the evening newscast. He is then recruited by a hot up-and-coming producer (McAdams) to help revive a morning talk show, only to be paired with his rival.
Bad Robot, which typically focuses on just one production at a time, has been eyeing "Morning Glory...
- 12/16/2008
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
According to Variety, Universal Pictures is sending Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love on “Couples Retreat,” a Favreau-scripted, Peter Billingsley-directed comedy. The story follows four couples who go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their marriage, the others are there to play but soon discover that participation in the resort’s couples therapy is not optional. Vaughn will produce with Scott Stuber in a co-production between his Wild West Picture Show Prods. and Stuber Prods. Victoria Vaughn and Guy Riedel exec produce. The film is being prepped to start production in late October in Bora Bora and Los Angeles. Vaughn hatched the idea for “Couples Retreat,” as he did the 2006 comedy “The Break-Up.” Vaughn produced that comedy with Stuber and starred in it with Favreau. Billingsley, who also had a small role, has been involved in producing and second...
- 9/22/2008
- UGO Movies
The last time we saw the streets of Manhattan being terrorized by a humongous, otherworldly creature, not counting "King Kong", it was when that bloated "Godzilla" remake went on a rampage in 1998.
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of "Cloverfield" -- think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of "Transformers", the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a "Blair Witch Project" than a "Snakes on a Plane".
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, "Cloverfield" would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on "Felicity", and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' "Alias" and "Lost", focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino ("The Incredibles", "Ratatouille") serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of "Cloverfield" -- think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of "Transformers", the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a "Blair Witch Project" than a "Snakes on a Plane".
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, "Cloverfield" would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on "Felicity", and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' "Alias" and "Lost", focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino ("The Incredibles", "Ratatouille") serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 1/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The last time we saw the streets of Manhattan being terrorized by a humongous, otherworldly creature, not counting "King Kong", it was when that bloated "Godzilla" remake went on a rampage in 1998.
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of "Cloverfield" -- think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of "Transformers", the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a "Blair Witch Project" than a "Snakes on a Plane".
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, "Cloverfield" would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on "Felicity", and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' "Alias" and "Lost", focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino ("The Incredibles", "Ratatouille") serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of "Cloverfield" -- think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of "Transformers", the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a "Blair Witch Project" than a "Snakes on a Plane".
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, "Cloverfield" would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on "Felicity", and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' "Alias" and "Lost", focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino ("The Incredibles", "Ratatouille") serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 1/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The last time we saw the streets of Manhattan being terrorized by a humongous, otherworldly creature, not counting King Kong, it was when that bloated Godzilla remake went on a rampage in 1998.
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of Cloverfield -- think Godzilla Unplugged -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of Transformers, the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a Blair Witch Project than a Snakes on a Plane.
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, Cloverfield would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on Felicity, and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' Alias and Lost, focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Well, the giant lizard genre has been stripped down and brought into the new millennium courtesy of idea man J.J. Abrams, screenwriter Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves in the form of Cloverfield -- think Godzilla Unplugged -- with chillingly effective results.
Ever since the first teaser was unveiled last summer in front of Transformers, the picture, with its subsequent viral marketing campaign, has sparked considerable speculation as to whether it would emerge as more of a Blair Witch Project than a Snakes on a Plane.
Even though it paints a bleakly nihilistic picture (you won't find any Will Smith-type monster butt-kicking heroics) it's also unlike anything else out there, and with its tidy running time (84 minutes) and tidier budget ($25 million) that doesn't skimp on cool effects, Cloverfield would seem destined to bring in plenty of youth-skewing green for Paramount this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Filmed exclusively from a camcorder's-eye view, the film starts off unexceptionally at a going away party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's relocating to Japan.
Buddy Hud (T.J. Miller) has been handed videographer duties, even though he's clearly a novice, but his shaky camera work still manages to capture some personal drama going on between Rob and longtime friend, Beth (Odette Yustman).
But the evening's cut short by a jolting explosion, exploding fireballs and a subsequent blackout.
By the time the lights come back on, there's panic in the streets, along with initial glimpses of the gargantuan thing leaving mass destruction in its path.
To its credit, the script, which is obviously trading on our post-Sept. 11 anxieties, never offers any explanations for the creature's presence.
We never know where it came from or why it's doing what it's doing, it just is what it is, and it seems that what it is, is really pissed off.
Instead, director Reeves, who had partnered with producer Abrams on Felicity, and screenwriter Goddard, whose previous credits include Abrams' Alias and Lost, focus on the small group of individuals, played by fresh-faced young actors not yet suffering from overexposure.
The people they're playing aren't particularly interesting or developed, but who has time to exhibit intriguing character traits when you're trying to outrun a monster?
Besides, there's something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects, like The Hero, The Rebel and The Cynic.
On the technical end, while it might seem like Michael Bonvillain's handheld camerawork is doing much of the shaking for you, the resulting claustrophobic intensity effectively sets the stage for the creepy jolts provided by the potent visual effects, nicely done by Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
And while there's no score to speak of, composer Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) serves up a terrific end credit suite that pays tribute to monster movies past with its affectionately over-the-top blasts of brass.
CLOVERFIELD
Paramount
Paramount Pictures presents a Bad Robot production
Credits:
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Executive producers: Guy Riedel, Sherryl Clark
Director of photography: Michel Bonvillain
Production designer: Martin Whist
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast:
Marlena: Lizzy Caplan
Lily: Jessica Lucas
Hud: T.J. Miller
Rob: Michael Stahl-David
Jason: Mike Vogel
Beth: Odette Yustman
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 1/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are indeed movies (usually quite a few) that "define every decade," and then there are movies like "Body Shots" -- the 900th sex comedy-drama to be released this year with the usual excitable ensemble cast and its own agenda that is minutely divergent from all the others.
Looking to get roughed up at the boxoffice, the New Line release directed by Michael Cristofer ("Gia"), who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his play "The Shadow Box", is another pretentious, hard-to-sit-still-for investigation into the minds and bodily functions of dopey guys and dizzy gals in Los Angeles' young-adult singles scene, and it pretty much fails in the final act to tweak the agenda into a serious discussion of date rape.
Screenwriter David McKenna ("American History X") likes to have both male and female characters talk frankly about penises, ejaculation, fellatio, cunnilingus and so on, but nothing too graphic. From what guys want and what girls like to do to them (one guess) to what girls need and only a few guys seem to provide, the characters directly address the audience in one of many distracting stylistic dodges (along with highlighted sounds, titled camera angles, superimposed graphics, etc.) to cover up the shallowness of the material.
While the characters are not entirely reduced to emblems for their generation, it matters not because none of them is remotely believable to begin with. Handsome and scary, Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry Maguire") is one Michael Penorisi, a millionaire football player for the Raiders.
Sean Patrick Flanery plays his buddy, a lawyer, and they are joined by two other on-the-make guys (Ron Livingston and Brad Rowe) for a group date at a dance club with four lovely young ladies.
Leader of the femme pack is Amanda Peet, who has Flanery's semi-nice guy in her future plans, while youngest party babe Tara Reid starts off a mess when, in the first few moments of the film, she claims that O'Connell's smiley brute raped her. With a debt to but none of the depth of "Rashomon", the film is chronologically fractured and shows us several different versions of what becomes the central event of the story.
There's just nothing new about watching a group of hard-drinking, horny men converge with likewise double-minded women (make that triple-minded; these gals like to dance more than the guys) for a night of embarrassing and vaguely romantic bonding. Occasionally, a scene or shot will stand out -- Flanery urinating on a closed toilet seat, Rowe and wine-guzzling Sybil Temchen screwing in a parking lot, Livingston lying in the gutter and almost getting run over -- but on a basic storytelling level, one never gets to know half of these characters, including Emily Procter as another blond princess and Rowe's drug-and-drink fiend in denial.
BODY SHOTS
New Line Cinema
A Colomby/Keaton production
Director: Michael Cristofer
Screenwriter: David McKenna
Producers: Jennifer Keohane, Harry Colomby
Executive producers: Michael Keaton, Guy Riedel, Michael De Luca, Lynn Harris
Director of photography: Rodrigo Garcia
Production designer: David J. Bomba
Editor: Eric Sears
Costume designer: Carolyn Leigh Greco
Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rick Hamilton: Sean Patrick Flanery
Michael Penorisi: Jerry O'Connell
Jane Bannister: Amanda Peet
Sara Olswang: Tara Reid
Trent: Ron Livingston
Whitney Bryant: Emily Procter
Shawn Denigan: Brad Rowe
Emma Cooper: Sybil Temchen
Running time --- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Looking to get roughed up at the boxoffice, the New Line release directed by Michael Cristofer ("Gia"), who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his play "The Shadow Box", is another pretentious, hard-to-sit-still-for investigation into the minds and bodily functions of dopey guys and dizzy gals in Los Angeles' young-adult singles scene, and it pretty much fails in the final act to tweak the agenda into a serious discussion of date rape.
Screenwriter David McKenna ("American History X") likes to have both male and female characters talk frankly about penises, ejaculation, fellatio, cunnilingus and so on, but nothing too graphic. From what guys want and what girls like to do to them (one guess) to what girls need and only a few guys seem to provide, the characters directly address the audience in one of many distracting stylistic dodges (along with highlighted sounds, titled camera angles, superimposed graphics, etc.) to cover up the shallowness of the material.
While the characters are not entirely reduced to emblems for their generation, it matters not because none of them is remotely believable to begin with. Handsome and scary, Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry Maguire") is one Michael Penorisi, a millionaire football player for the Raiders.
Sean Patrick Flanery plays his buddy, a lawyer, and they are joined by two other on-the-make guys (Ron Livingston and Brad Rowe) for a group date at a dance club with four lovely young ladies.
Leader of the femme pack is Amanda Peet, who has Flanery's semi-nice guy in her future plans, while youngest party babe Tara Reid starts off a mess when, in the first few moments of the film, she claims that O'Connell's smiley brute raped her. With a debt to but none of the depth of "Rashomon", the film is chronologically fractured and shows us several different versions of what becomes the central event of the story.
There's just nothing new about watching a group of hard-drinking, horny men converge with likewise double-minded women (make that triple-minded; these gals like to dance more than the guys) for a night of embarrassing and vaguely romantic bonding. Occasionally, a scene or shot will stand out -- Flanery urinating on a closed toilet seat, Rowe and wine-guzzling Sybil Temchen screwing in a parking lot, Livingston lying in the gutter and almost getting run over -- but on a basic storytelling level, one never gets to know half of these characters, including Emily Procter as another blond princess and Rowe's drug-and-drink fiend in denial.
BODY SHOTS
New Line Cinema
A Colomby/Keaton production
Director: Michael Cristofer
Screenwriter: David McKenna
Producers: Jennifer Keohane, Harry Colomby
Executive producers: Michael Keaton, Guy Riedel, Michael De Luca, Lynn Harris
Director of photography: Rodrigo Garcia
Production designer: David J. Bomba
Editor: Eric Sears
Costume designer: Carolyn Leigh Greco
Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rick Hamilton: Sean Patrick Flanery
Michael Penorisi: Jerry O'Connell
Jane Bannister: Amanda Peet
Sara Olswang: Tara Reid
Trent: Ron Livingston
Whitney Bryant: Emily Procter
Shawn Denigan: Brad Rowe
Emma Cooper: Sybil Temchen
Running time --- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/11/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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