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New International ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Trailer Shows Things Going Boom A Lot

traviswoods — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:50:27 +0000

Well, another day, another G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer that shows things exploding, people running while seemingly coated in Crisco to replicate sweat, people shooting at various things, some sword fights on a mountain, and Bruce Willis shows up, shoots people, and smirks for a little bit. Oh, and The Rock glares at things and occasionally does that eyebrow cocking thing. Exciting?

Also, you see the White House being taken over by the Cobras, along with the new casting additions of Bruce Willis, The Rock, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, RZA, and D.J. Cotrona. The returning cast features Channing Tatum, Ray Park, Lee Byung-hun, Arnold Vosloo and Jonathan Pryce. Check it out:

It looks like pretty generic modern action movie stuff (Look, a famous national landmark! Look, slow motion shots that speed up and then slow back down! Look, things repeatedly exploding! Look, a cameo by an action megastar!), but hey, one can’t exactly expect much from a film that’s a sequel to a movie that is based on a Hasbro action figure line and 1980s cartoon series, right? Oh well, G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens on June 29, and is directed by Jon Chu.

Is knowing truly half the battle?

Source: /Film

Bruce Willis and Edward Norton in the Moonrise Kingdom Trailer

Damon Houx — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:50 +0000

At this point, it’s easy to know what to expect from Wes Anderson. Great Performers, a distinct visual style, and maybe just maybe some twee. In Moonrise Kingdom there’s Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman in a story about two star-crossed child lovers who escape from a summer camp, which leads to a full scale rescue mission. The film opens May 25, and now there’s a trailer.

With that release date, it suggests the film is going to Cannes, which is no surprise. And with Wes Anderson you’re dealing with a very distinct visual approach, so much so that watching the trailer you get a real sense of what it is. But now there’s at least some new players to the team, and it will be interesting to see how Willis and Norton work in the Anderson universe.

I like Wes Anderson, but at this point he doesn’t seem to have many screwballs left in his pitching arm. He makes the sort of movies he makes, and they’ve come to have a very narrow set of themes and ideas. From the trailer you can see that he’s doing things that are very similar to everything he’s done before for better or worse. Granted, I don’t think he’d do well within the studio system, nor would the world be better with him helming tentpoles, but it’s a curious career full charm and repetition. We’ll know how this one turns out in May.

What’s your favorite Wes Anderson film?

The Best Oddball Christmas Films To Watch During The Holidays

traviswoods — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:00:45 +0000

Christmas. It’s a time in which families huddle together around the warm, bustling glow of the fireplace, with the mantle framed with rows of stockings the TV set as we nod off from half a gallon of eggnog and some turkey. And, in keeping with that tradition, we here at ScreenCrave have cobbled together a list of our favorite unusual Christmas films—not A Christmas Story or It’s a Wonderful Life or any other of the more obvious picks; rather, it’s our favorite oddball X-mas movies, the films that somehow catch our attention every single year, even if they aren’t exactly the most appropriate holiday fare.

So, with that in mind, dig our list after the jump, and get your Tivo ready to line these up for some Christmas Eve viewing (also, and perhaps it’s a generational thing, or maybe it was the impressive amounts of blow Hollywood execs were inhaling back then, but all of the best weirdo Christmas movies came from the 1980s. Go figure).

5. Trading Places (1983)

Taking us back to those halcyon days when Eddie Murphy was actually brilliantly funny, and when Dan Aykroyd was letting us all know he was still alive, John Landis dropped the comedy masterpiece Trading Places on an unsuspecting world. Taking place over the holiday season in 1980s Philadelphia, the film is a witty, decadent, hilarious and charmingly vulgar update of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper, in which hotshot brokerage director Danny Aykroyd is forced to switch places with homeless street hustler Eddie Murphy, and both must survive as a fish out of water in the other man’s life. As Aykroyd becomes suicidal and driven into the arms of a hooker with a heart of gold, and Murphy goes from being a ribald street thug to a slick power player, it may not sound like a family classic, but Trading Places is one of the funniest flicks you’ll catch on TV all Christmas long.

4. Scrooged (1988)

A modern, semi-meta take on A Christmas Carol, Scrooged finds Bill Murray as a black-hearted TV exec at the height of his cynical, soulless career, during the rehearsals for his live TV adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And, just like in that Dickens classic, Murray is visited by three ghosts who show him where his life went off track, and how he sacrificed true love for material wealth. But just in case that sounds a little too typical of Christmas schmaltz for you, don’t worry—Murray is in his full-on 80s smartass mode, all while being chased around by rotting corpses, insanely violent pixies, and Death itself, as he simultaneously struggles to staple some fake antlers onto a mouse’s head for his TV special and avoid network TV censors. Dark, wacky Christmas fun.

3. Christmas Vacation (1989)

Probably as much of a Christmas tradition in suburbia as opening presents on December 25th, viewing Christmas Vacation during the holidays has become a kind of unavoidable yuletide habit. The story of a brutally inept and occasionally foulmouthed father (Chevy Chase in a slightly smarter Homer Simpson mode) trying to survive the ultimate staycation as his parents, his in-laws, his children, his bitchy yuppie neighbors, his idiot cousin, a monstrous dog, a berserk squirrel and a full-on SWAT team converge upon his house over Christmas, Vacation is nothing short of a holiday classic. Sure the language is risqué, and it’s probably the only holiday classic to feature electrocuted cats and exploding sewage lines, but hey—that’s what surviving Christmas with a giant family feels like.

2. Gremlins (1984)

It doesn’t get much better than this—Joe Dante directing a Steven Spielberg-produced, Chris Columbus-penned gem about Gizmo, the most adorable little pet ever… and the truly horrifying, reptilian and murderous gremlins that Gizmo accidentally gives birth to. Playing like a live action episode of Looney Tunes (except all the cartoon characters are determined to murder you with household items before taking in a showing of Snow White), Gremlins truly is an utterly insane film. It’s also a classic that, inexplicably, the whole family can somehow enjoy—and when a film’s comic highlight is a played-totally-straight monologue about a child who discovers her dead father dressed as Santa and wedged in the chimney, that’s really saying something.

1. Die Hard (1988)

The recipe: It’s Christmas in Los Angeles. Hard-headed NYPD cop John McClane is visiting his estranged wife at the Nakatomi Plaza corporate high rise. German terrorists take over the building to raid its vaults, and manage to take everyone but McClane hostage. McClane runs around over broken glass with no shoes and a machine gun, and one seriously bad attitude.

As good as full-on ‘80s action films get, Die Hard is both an instant action and holiday classic. Coasting on the sheer charm of Bruce Willis as McClane and Alan Rickman as his smooth-talking nemesis, Die Hard has everything you could want from a Christmas film: Bruce Willis tossing bad guys from a high rise roof, blowing up public property, pissing just about everyone off, and letting loose with some stellar one liners (“Yippee kai yay, mother f*****,” anyone?). You’ll spend all of Christmas morning repeating “Now I have a machine gun. HO-HO-HO,” to as many relatives as you can after watching this holiday winner.

What’s your favorite odd holiday film?

‘The Expendables 2′ Trailer Features Stallone, Willis, Schwarzenegger, Norris, Van Damme And More

traviswoods — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:01:08 +0000

Brace yourselves, folks—you are about to witness the most testosterone-heavy 60 second clip you have ever, or likely will ever, witness. Seriously, this thing is the visual equivalent of eating a pound of raw meat, going to the gym for an hour, and then challenging a stranger to a bloody streetfight. Also, like those things, it’s kind of really dumb (but in a fun way). What am I referring to, you ask? The Expendables 2 trailer.

Honestly, you have to peep this clip to believe it, with its near-comic avalanche of clips featuring cinema’s most muscle-bound and steroid-pumped action heroes, with many returning from the last film, along with a few new faces, including the bearded visage of Chuck Norris (!), along with Jean-Claude van Damme as the film’s villain.

So what did you think? Ridiculous, no? Honestly, the trailer feels like it’s bordering on some kind of online fanfic by combining all of these new and old action stars into one film together, but, that said, it may end up being strangely hypnotizing and watchable, like the previous film, which was simply too silly not to enjoy.

The Expendables 2 will hit theaters in 2012.

What do you think of the trailer?

Source: Metro UK

The Rock and Bruce Willis Enliven G.I. Joe Retaliation Trailer

Damon Houx — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:53:17 +0000

How do you make a sequel to a modestly received blockbuster like the first G.I. Joe? One: you hired Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Bruce Willis for your action star bonafides. Two: You open your trailer and film by slaughtering the majority of the cast from the previous film. That’s Channing Tatum in the first few moments, and then he seems to leave the film (whether temporarily or permanently it’s hard to say). Check out the trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation…

The films director is Jon M. Chu, who will be known to any fans of modern musicals, as he’s helmed the last two Step Up movies as well as the Justin Bieber documentary. This was his chance to break out of the musical ghetto, and it looks like he embraced the challenge.

The first film got mostly mixed reactions, with critics and audiences divided on whether it was stupid or stupid fun. It also did just okay at the box office. Going by the two to one theory of success, the film would have lost money if films like this aren’t also about the merchandise sales and perhaps that’s why we’re getting this one as well. It is an entertaining trailer, so it may wash the stigma of “giant toy advert” off it. Then again, maybe not.

How you doing, Bruce Willis?

New ‘Die Hard’ Sequel Will Be Titled ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ (Seriously)

traviswoods — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:33:17 +0000

Oh, for the love of… Sigh. Because Die Harder, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Live Free or Die Hard weren’t stupid enough titles for unnecessary sequels to a great film (and, let’s face it, Die Hard itself is kind of a goofy title, too), it was announced today by Fox CEO Tom Rothman that Die Hard 5 will be entitled A Good Day to Die Hard. Seriously. A… Good… Day… to… Die… Hard. A group of grown men and women, adults, came up with and approved of that title for a film. Really.

And, like just about every single other film in the franchise (except for Die Hard with a Vengeance) the film is about how a member of Bruce Willis’ immediate family is kidnapped and held hostage by a group of terrorist bad guys, and only The Bald One can get said family member back. Because, you know, INTERPOL’s probably busy or something, I guess.

That’s the title of the John Moore-directed sequel, which finds Willis’ John McClane traveling to Russia to rescue his son, John McClane Jr., then getting entangled in yet another high-octane adventure in a place where “nothing is as it seems.”

So this should be pretty interesting, despite the fact that it sounds exactly like the Liam Neeson film Taken, but, hey, whatever. With a title like A Good Day to Die Hard, this thing has gotta be so bad it’s good. Right? Right? I mean, it’s got to be, right?

What do you think of the Die Hard news?

Source: The AV Club

Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweets Expendables 2 Photo

Damon Houx — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:20:00 +0000

Twitter, now a place for movie news! Arnold Schwarzenegger is currently shooting The Expendables 2 in Bulgaria and is reuniting with his costars Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone for his scenes. How do we know? Schwarzenegger tweeted this picture to confirm it. The film is scheduled to open in August 2012.

Willis suggested his part would be bigger in the second film, though with this picture it suggests that he and Arnie will share a similar role in this movie, at least from the outset. Schwarzenegger is currently in pre-production on his next film – Last Stand – but as he’s no longer the governor of California, he should have much more free time.

The IMDb is currently filled with interesting rumored casting, most likely untrue (currently the page lists Nicholas Cage and John Travolta), though it is known that Jean Claude Van Damme and Liam Hemsworth will be joining the cast that includes returning cast members Stallone and Jason Statham. The first film grossed $103 Million domestically, and $274 Million worldwide, which explains the sequel. The biggest cahnge for this film is that while Stallone wrote, directed and starred in the last film, this time he’s handed off the directing duties to Simon West, and is not currently credited with the screenplay.

How do you think should be in Expendables 2 who wasn’t in the first film?

Arnold Schwarzenegger And Bruce Willis Will Star In ‘Expendables 2′

traviswoods — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:38:52 +0000

Oh, sweet lord. It looks like The Expendables 2 is set to launch the highest combination of Viagra and steroids on movies screens, well, ever—Deadline reports that Sylvester Stallone-starring sequel to the 2010 surprise hit is finally going to give in to every action fanboy wishlist that was crafted anytime between 1984 and 1989: the film will co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger. And Bruce Willis. And Chuck Norris. And Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Also rumored to appear is—sigh—John Travolta (hey, they can’t all be winners).

The AV Club also reports that many familiar faces will be flexing their collectively performance-enhanced physiques on screen:

“Along with the returning Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, and Jet Li—as well as the more modern additions Jason Statham, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews—Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and John Travolta are also reportedly on board… And of course, there’s still plenty of time for more rumor-mongering over who might also find their way into the nostalgia kickline, a sprawling list that includes everyone from Mr. T and Hulk Hogan to Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, from Lorenzo Lamas and Jeff Speakman to Carl Weathers and Charlie Sheen.”

Seriously—if a film is released next year starring Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, and Lorenzo freakin’ Lamas, it will officially be the most manly moment in history.

What do you think of the Expendables 2 news?

Now Die Hard 5 Has a Director… Ho Ho Ho

Damon Houx — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:48:41 +0000

Bruce Willis will be returning as John McClane in Die Hard 5, and John Moore is now in final negotiations to helm the fourth sequel, according to Deadline Hollywood. Such usually means it’s a done deal. Fox wants to get going on this as Willis as also on board a sequel to his recent minor hit Red. What the actual title of the film will be is unknown, Deadline says it’s shooting in Russia. The reason for this sequel is that Live Free or Die Hard made over $38o Million worldwide, and a franchise is a franchise.

There seem to be two trains of thought on the Die Hard series. One is that the film descends in quality with each passing film, while some maintain that Die Hard with a Vengeance is slightly better than Die Hard 2: Die Harder. But few argue that the first film isn’t the best (and it’s now considered a masterpiece) and that Live Free or Die Hard isn’t the worst of the four.

The hiring of John Moore suggests that Fox is treating this like product. Though Moore showed promise with such films as Behind Enemy Lines and the remake of Flight of the Phoenix, he’s been Fox’s go-to in-house filmmaker for a while now and is usually on their short list when they need a director quick. More recently he helmed their films Max Payne and The Omen remake- the latter so similar to the original that none of the remake’s writers got credit for their work (arbitration gave credit only to the original writers). Both are forgettable at best. Which is not what one hopes of this series, but if they’re shooting in Russia, it’s likely for the tax breaks. But Willis is the franchise at this point, so having any sort of tonal or character consistency at this point is meaningless.

What’s your favorite Die Hard sequel (if you have one)?

Setup Trailer: Bruce Willis and 50 Cent – The Duo You Always Wanted

Mali Elfman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:42:10 +0000

There’s nothing like a great crime-thriller… but then there are all the rest and Setup appears to be a part of the latter. Now don’t get my wrong, Bruce Willis is one of the easiest men in the world to watch on screen and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has been building up his acting rep, but this trailer just reeks of cliches and bad writing. The fact that it was directed by professional stuntman Mike Gunther will either make it an extremely awesome popcorn flick with action like we’ve never seen (and a story-line basic enough to hold it together) or another action film with absolutely NO story-line and acting that makes you more afraid than the villain.

Check out the trailer and see for yourself…

This wants to be like some of the 2010 crime-dramas of last year; The Town, Animal Kingdom or Brooklyn’s Finest but it appears like it will be more like every other mediocre crime-thriller with a lot of twists and absolutely no substance.

Taking a risk is one thing, but this looks more like a nose dive. There’s a quick appearance from James Remar which gives us some hope, but that’s about it. Ryan Phillippe only seems in indie films or with amazing director – will he see this as worth his time? Will Bruce Willis be enough to hold it all together? Lord knows he only acts when he feels compelled.

The film is still listed as being in post-production right now and will be in theaters at some point this year.

What do you think of the trailer?

Source: /Film

NBA All Star Kobe Bryant Stars in Robert Rodriguez’s The Black Mamba

Krystal Clark — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:14:05 +0000

Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant has had an eventful few days. Not only did he participate in the annual NBA All-Star Game, but he became the first athlete to have his hand and footprints immortalized at the world famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater. If that wasn’t enough, he also starred in a short film called The Black Mamba, which was directed by Robert Rodriguez. Bryant plays the title character, who goes up against his fair share of adversaries including Bruce Willis and Danny Trejo. Oh yeah, and Kanye West is in it too! Watch the movie below…

The Black Mamba takes a lot of cues from Rodriguez’s previous films with the most obvious being Desperado. The lone gunman has been turned into a talented basketball star who showcases his shoes as well as his talents. Trejo is a muscle man, Willis is the second in command, and West plays the boss who’s aptly titled “The Boss.”

Even though West isn’t the best actor in the world, we love him in this short. He was the perfect choice to play a conceited, power hungry, selfish, and arrogant bad guy. Bryant wasn’t too bad either. We liked it!

What do you think of The Black Mamba?

Bruce Willis Looking for Die Hard 5 Directors

Krystal Clark — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:56:37 +0000

Bruce Willis isn’t ready for John McClane to die — not yet! The actor is currently on the lookout for a director to helm the next installment of the long running Die Hard franchise. The sequel is being called Die Hard 5 at the moment, and according to Vulture he’s actively interviewing behind the scenes talent.

The site reports that “Willis is taking the initiative and interviewing directors to oversee its development. At the top of his list, we’re told, is Jorge Daniel Espinosa.” Espinosa is the man responsible for the upcoming Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds thriller Safe House. On the script front, we’re hearing that 20th Century Fox was less than thrilled with the most recent draft for Die Hard 5 by Skip Woods.

Should we really be shocked that Woods’ screenplay was lacking? This is the same guy who wrote X-Men Origins Wolverine and last summer’s The A-Team. Meanwhile, Willis is currently in negotiations to star in Stephen Frears’s Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog. If he signs on he’ll star opposite The Town’s Rebecca Hall as Dink Heimowitz, a cantankerous ex–New York bookmaker.

What do you think of Willis’ future Die Hard plans?

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