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Check Out the New Clip from ‘Lawless’ Featuring Shia Labeouf and Tom Hardy

Damon Houx — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:49:12 +0000

Though it premiered at the Cannes festival to modestly positive reviews, we’re still hungry to see Tom Hillcoat’s Lawless – which stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain and Guy Pearce - something fierce. The film doesn’t come out theatrically until August, so we’ll have to make due with this new clip from Hulu.

Here we see the two bottlegging brothers played by LaBeouf and Hardy having a heart to heart after a scuffle. It looks like LaBeouf was on the wrong side of the argument and got walloped, which would explain his bloody eye. Hardy then breaks down why he shouldn’t have behaved as he did, and the scene ends. Like a number of Cannes films, there are often one minute scenes made available to the general public to preview why they are in competition. This seems to be that sequence.

The film was written by John Hillcoat and Nick Cave, and yes it’s that Nick Cave, former frontman of The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. This isn’t his first script, as he he wrote Hillcoat’s previous films The Proposition and Ghosts… of the Civil Dead. Trivia: Cave was once attached to write the prequel to Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator.

Things will heat up for the movie if it wins any prize at the festival. Otherwise, look for it as Fall starts.

Does this clip make you want to see the film?

17 New ‘Prometheus’ Pictures Feature Alien World, Haunted Crew

Travis Woods — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:00:10 +0000

It seems like every day there’s been a new bit of media released to promote The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, or Prometheus as the Big Summer Film of 2012. Today, it’s once again Prometheus’ turn, with Entertainment Weekly releasing 17—count ‘em, 17!—new photos from the filming of Prometheus. The shots feature character portraits, behind the scenes shooting, alien landscapes, spacesuits, and repeated shots of a haunted and haggard crew.

Check out the 17 new Prometheus shots after the jump!

While the plot remains a tightly-kept mystery, what is known about the film is that it takes place several years prior to the events of Ridley Scott’s original Alien film, and takes place on the same planet featured in that movie. Not much else is know, except the crew of a vessel called Prometheus discover a threat connected to humanity’s origins that also threatens to bring about our doom… at least, that’s what we could suss out from the spoiler-ish trailer.

Looks like we’ll just have to wait until the film’s June 8 release date to be sure. Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idis Elbra and Guy Pearce, and was directed by Ridley Scott.

Which is your favorite shot?

Source: /Film

Latest ‘Prometheus’ Featurette Reveals Even More

Damon Houx — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:46:28 +0000

For a while there you could say that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus was playing cute. It was embracing one of J.J. Abrams‘s favorite marketing schemes – the puzzle box – where part of the fun was not knowing what the film exactly was until you got into the theater. That game plan has been modified for marketing recently, and now we’re getting a clearer sense of what the film is. And for those who weren’t spoiled by the latest trailer, the new featurette offers even more footage and clues. Check it out…

We get interviews here with Scott, and stars Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, along with Logan Marshall-Green, for whom this seems his big shot (and he also kind of looks like Tom Hardy, but maybe that’s just me).

The featurette is selling the old school in that it’s showcasing the scale of the sets. In the digital era, it’s nice to see a film have such massive working space because it does make a difference when encountering an alien space to have that reality behind the actors.

Looking up the film on IMDb, it lists Patrick Wilson as one of the stars. He plays Noomi Rapace’s father. My guess is it’s a small role, but the IMDb is the IMDb. The film is set come out June 8, and it’s easily one of the most exciting films of the summer, and it’s playing the same clips and featurette games as The Avengers has. Which means expect a lot more of this stuff in the next month.

Where would you rank Prometheus on your summer want-to-see list?

New ‘Prometheus’ Trailer Features Three Minutes Of Heavy Spoilers

Travis Woods — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:10:29 +0000

Welcome to the exact moment when Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus ceased to be the ambiguous sci-fi mystery of the summer, and revealed just about every possible plot spoiler pertaining to its Alien prequel-dom that it seemingly possibly could. Thanks to a just-released international trailer, we now have three full minutes that basically lay out Prometheus’ entire plot—don’t want to know about Charlize Theron’s character? Not curious who has an alien inside of them? A warning, then: view this at your own risk.

For the last time: spoilers ahead!

The trailer basically lays bare many of the plot details that have been debated by fans of the Alien series in the weeks and months leading up to Prometheus’ release. Yes, it now appears that Theron’s corporate heavy will be a villain, just like Paul Reiser’s character in Aliens. Yes, Noomi Rapace is a badass of Sigourney Weaver levels. And yep, that’s Rapace screaming “GET IT OUT OF ME! GET IT OUT OF ME!” repeatedly. And yep, there’s heavy talk of some kind of alien force heading back to hit the Earth.

Just about the only thing not revealed in the trailer is whether or not Michael Fassbender’s mysteriously emotional android character will be a friend, or will go the way of Ash in the original Alien. And while this trailer is certainly, well, cool, it’s more than a little disappointing to see most of Prometheus’ cards all laid out on the table like this—part of the primary appeal to the film, thus far, has been its sense of foreboding mystery.

Final verdict: it’s still one of our most anticipated films of 2012, but some of the excitement over Prometheus has now been lose thanks to the overly vigorous marketing.

Prometheus opens on June 8, and stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Guy Pearce.

What did you think of the new trailer?

Source: Empire

Guy Pearce To Join ‘Iron Man 3′

Travis Woods — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:24:17 +0000

Now that Iron Man 3 is set to start production this summer, you can expect a bevy of casting news and (potentially) spoilers to start spilling forth from the Marvel offices. Just last week, we reported that Ben Kingsley was being cast as the film’s villain (rumored to be Mandarin), and now we can report that Lockout star Guy Pearce has been given a crucial role in the third Iron Man film.

Iron Man 3’s plot is based upon Warren Ellis’ six-issue Iron Man comic Extremis, in which nanotechnology (essentially, technology that works at an atomic level) is brought to the fore in Tony Stark’s technology, and how a nanotech virus later develops. In Extremis, the nanotechnology (which eventually ends up in the hands of terrorists) was co-created by two scientists, Maya Hansen and Aldrich Killian.

It was announced on Friday that Pearce (L.A. Confidential, Memento) has been cast as Killian.

In Extremis, Killian takes part in allowing the nanotechnology to fall into the hands of a domestic militia. While it is unclear as to whether or not Killian’s role in Iron Man 3 will be the same, one thing is for certain—Pearce takes anything he does and makes it charismatic and edgy. Iron Man 3 just got a lot more interesting.

Iron Man 3 will being filming in North Carolina in May, and is set for a U.S. release on May 3, 2013.

What do you think of the Iron Man 3 news?

Source: /Film

Lockout: Movie Review Roundup

Laura Aguirre — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:30:31 +0000

The Three Stooges and The Cabin in the Woods aren’t your only new options for the weekend – Guy Pearce is hitting the big screen with Lockout, a high-concept thriller about a convict who goes on a suicide mission into space to rescue the president’s daughter from a futuristic Alcatraz-style prison. (Whoa, that was a mouthful.) We’ve gathered a bunch of reactions/reviews from critics to help you decide if this sci-fi ride is right for you.

The Good:

Movieline:

Pearce’s is always a welcome face to see on-screen, but in Lockout he gets the rare opportunity to be funny. And he is, in the style of a deadpan, wisecracking ’80s action hero…

Film Equals:

Lockout is also James Mather’s feature film directorial debut and he does an excellent job. He brings the action sequences alive with some really cool shots…it’s a fun sci-fi ride.

The So-So:

io9:

You can tell they had no money whatsoever, and they’re trying to create future cities and space stations and spaceships. It’s sort of endearing when the film devolves into video game cutscenes from 10 years ago, because it reinforces the “retro” feeling.

Film Rant:

It’s not the most visually-stunning movie in the genre and definitely has a “budget” look at times; however, the project ultimately succeeds as a result of Pearce – who delivers an enjoyable, albeit snide, performance as government agent-turned-one-man-army, Snow.

The Ugly:

HitFix:

“Lockout,” with its on-the-cheap special effects and childish stabs at futuristic worldbuilding, needs to be far more ambitious to even come close to working.

Cinema Blend:

With a plot cribbed so closely from Escape From New York and such a frequent disregard for character motivation, logic or even the laws of gravity, Lockout is pure schlock in the usual Besson mode, but it never picks up enough steam to turn into something outrageous and great.

So there you have it: Good acting, but poor special effects. Do you care?

Will you watch Lockout?

Watch The First Five Minutes Of ‘Lockout,’ In Which Guy Pearce Makes An Outer Space Prison Break

Travis Woods — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:06:34 +0000

How’s this for badass popcorn movie fun—Luc Besson teams up with Guy Pearce to lift the basic premise of the Escape From New York/Escape From L.A. series and drops it in the middle of an outer space maximum security prison riot. Not bad, right? Not exactly the most original story—Pearce plays a wrongly disgraced and convicted government agent who’s given a chance to go free, provided he can rescue the president’s daughter from the violent inmates of a space station prison—but Pearce can make nearly anything work. And now you can view the first five minutes of Lockout after jump.

The first five minutes of the film feature Pearce’s Agent Snow doing his best Snake Plisskin while struggling to light a cigarette and drop one-liners while getting a vicious beating during an interrogation. The fact that the basic story has been told before—morally ambiguous anti-hero is given a chance at reprieve if he goes into a scary place and rescues an innocent—but the always-excellent Pearce plays the role with his typically fierce magnetism, and the quasi-John Carpenter premise is kind of hard to resist. Besson’s films can sometimes be over-the-top messes, but Lockout looks like it could be a winner.

Lockout’s U.S. release is April 20. The film was co-written and directed by James Mather, executive produced and co-written by Luc Besson, and co-starring Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Joseph Gilgun, Vincent Regan, and Jacky Ido.

What do you think of the clip?

Source: /Film

Guy Pearce’s Lockout Gets a Trailer

Damon Houx — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:45:16 +0000

Is 2012 the year of Guy Pearce? The star of L.A. Confidential and Memento has been kicking around Hollywood for a while, and has yet to achieve the fame he so rightly deserves. Perhaps he’s about to become the face of science fiction, as he’s got a role in Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus, and is leading up Lockout, a futuristic Sci-fi thriller from the Luc Besson factory. Check out the trailer…

James Mather and Stephen St. Leger wrote and directed the film, which also stars Maggie Grace and Peter Stormare. From the trailer you can get that the filmmakers were deeply influenced by Escape From New York. In fact the film looks like the fan-fiction version of a third film in that series, in that it puts its Snake Plissken-y character (here named Snow) into a maximum security facility (here in space) to take care of a president’s daughter. Hopefully there will be no basketball.

This looks thoroughly ridiculous in the right way, which will know for sure when the film opens on April 20. It’s also nice to see that the effects work look good in the space sequences (the motorcycle stuff is a bit dodgy), because – as an international production – it’s hard to know how much money they had. Still, it gives good Guy Pearce.

Are you down for some Lockout?

Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Damon Houx — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:50:21 +0000

Quick of cut and huge of scale, the trailer for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus ties the film into his 1979 film Alien in two distinct ways. One is the lettering that comes as we get quick flashes of cast members Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Idris Elba. The other is a certain prop that looks mighty familiar to fans of the original. Check out the trailer…

What this film is seems still up for grabs. The characters are humans (“They went looking for our beginning”), I guess, and there seems to be a lot of large scale sets, and great science fiction atmosphere. But what’s going on is completely up for grabs, and it’s hard to know if the film follows the original’s Ten Little Indians structure. The cast listing says “and Charlize Theron” which could mean she’s the first or last to go.

This doesn’t seem to offer much Guy Pearce, but to be fair no one gets any on screen dialogue, and this seems to be more about setting a tone, which is the new trailer goal. That tone is “it’s a little like the first film, but much more fast paced and jump scary.” Supposedly this is the first of two of these films.The film comes out June 8, 2012.

Is that what you wanted out of an Prometheus trailer?

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Movie Review

Mali Elfman — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:53:07 +0000

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is an odd title for a film that gives you nothing but good reason to be afraid of the dark, but I guess that’s all part of the fun of it! There is a lot about this film that makes it a cliched horror film, the only difference is that there are some impressive A-list actors, interesting new monsters and a splash of Guillermo del Toro (interview) from time to time. The problem is, that this film asks you to suspend your beliefs in the wrong ways. Believing that monsters exists in basement and are after your teeth — awesome! Buying that human beings act the way they do in this move — failed movie magic. There were a lot of good things about this movie, but it loses its way about halfway in, making it a horror film that will likely not be remember. Find out why…

The Players:

Director: Troy Nixey
Writers: Guillermo del Toro (screenplay), Matthew Robbins (screenplay), and based on Nigel McKeand’s 1973 teleplay
Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison
Producers: Guillermo del Toro and Mark Johnson

Plot:

Caught in the midst of two divorced parents who both seem to only be concerned with their careers, a young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend. She’s alone, angry and in need of friends, Unfortunately the friends she finds are some creatures that live in her new home, that pull her in with love, but have quite heinous intentions.

The Good:

Playing With Our Real Fears: It’s a broad but mostly true statement to say that no one likes old, dark basements, no one likes the dark when they’ve being chased, no one likes teeth being taken from their head unwillingly — it’s safe to say that straight out of the gate this film plays on some pretty basic fears that many of us can all relate to and therefore be scared of (which is what we all want when we sit down to a horror film!). The start of the film brings your in a plays with your fears in a delightfully evil way. Unfortunately, it’s unable to keep that, but more on that later.
Bailee Madison: Man is this girl an actress to watch out for. In person she’s well spoken and can field the press as well as any seasoned professional. On screen she’s the most believable of the bunch (though even as a child I don’t think I would want to talk to spirits coming from a furnace, but I am old and jaded critic now, so maybe I’ve just forgotten) and she’s a pleasure to watch because she has a creepiness in the film that intrigues you, but enough heart that you always care for her.
The Ending: NO SPOILERS. Don’t worry. There were some issues with the way the film was bit up. A lot of the reason why this film worked for me is because of the strong start and ruthless ending (the middle was a bit muddled). To follow that up, quite literally the last line spoken before the credits role is my favorite part of the film. It was a nice touch by the filmmakers and one that allowed to audience to leave on a fun note.
Katie Holmes: This is probably the most bad-ass we’ve seen her yet. Unexpected, nicely done, and fun to watch.

The Bad:

Monster Premiere: They show the monster too soon and too much, and eventually allows for them to become a bit of a joke which takes away their danger. They’re already a slightly implausible enemy, so it hurt them to have any humor added. I don’t want to give away their weaknesses, but they do have them, and for them to be treated in anyway but seriously, takes away from the power and the suspense that the film needs in the last act. It’s a shame to see because they start so damn strong and then they get under-minded. Also, without giving too much away again, not all of their actions are justified and sometimes their motives don’t really add up making them again, less scary because they’re less believable.
Unrealistic Timing: Once everything goes wrong, and they decide to escape, why oh why does it take 4 hours to pack a suitcase into the car and (again) why or why do you leave the targeted victim by themselves in a room that has attacked her before… and to add to that, AT NIGHT. I’m all for going with a story, but when a film asks us to looks past SO many things like this in a row it begins to take away from “realistic fears” which is what gives the film its impact.
Not Enough Guy Pearce: He’s one of the best transformative actors and yet his character is almost completely one dimensional, his actions are kind of justified in his lines but there needed to be more time to see the results of those lines and he’s given too little screen time which is just a damn shame.

Overall:

I wanted to love this film, there are some many great parts to it but unfortunately it doesn’t add up to the whole that I hoped for. That being said, there are some quality elements to it that if you’re not a crazy cinefile like me, you probably won’t notice them and have a fine time. I have a low threshold for horror but found that I could easily make it through this film. Yes the opening and moments of the film are tense, but for the most part this is a very easy to watch film to watch or bring a date to.

Rating: 5.7/10

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is in theaters August 26th.

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Trailer

Damon Houx — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:38:55 +0000

Guillermo Del Toro‘s been up for a number of different projects since 2008′s Hellboy II, but nothing has come together. And though he’s been attached to a number of different projects (and seems to be going forward with Pacific Rim), as a producer he’s kept himself busy. He’s been consulting with DreamWorks on their animated films, and was the co-writer and producer of the Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark remake, which was directed by newcomer Troy Nixley. Now there’s a trailer for the film, which comes out August 26, and features Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. Check it out..

One of the things that’s most interesting about this project is that it was co-written by Matthew Robbins. Robbins was in the school of Steven Spielberg, wrote The Sugarland Express and directed Corvette Summer and Dragonslayer. He also wrote the film Mimic with Del Toro. The trailer casts a spooky spell, and seems to fall into Del Toro’s wheelhouse of creeped out kids. Chud.com’s Nick Nunziata (a former boss of mine) is one of the associate producers.

The late August release date would be troubling if this was a franchise picture, but a late August release was beneficial to both The Others and Jeepers Creepers. The film was held up for a little bit because of The Weinstein Company’s fiscal difficulties, but everyone must be happy with the film as it will be the closing night feature of the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival. We should be there, so expect a review shortly thereafter.

What’s the worst thing you’ve found under your bed?

Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman Join LaBeouf and Hardy in The Wettest Country

Krystal Clark — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:25:16 +0000

There have been some new developments regarding the upcoming drama The Wettest Country. The film will be headlined by Tom Hardy and Shia LeBeouf, and according to THR they’ll get some grade-A support. Both Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce are in talks to join the cast as well as Mia Wasikowska and Jason Clarke. Who’s not in this movie?

Based on the novel The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant, and on his grandfather and two great-uncles, the true gangsters story details of the saga of the Bondurant boys, bootlegging siblings who take the law into their own hands in Prohibition-era Virginia while making a run for the American Dream. Nick Cave wrote the screenplay.

Oldman is set to play a gangster who engages the boys to deliver alcohol, while Pearce will star as an overly violent deputy who comes down hard on the Bondurants. Wasikowska will play LeBeouf’s love interest, a local Mennonite girl and Clarke is playing the brother to LaBeouf and Hardy.

Production on the film is slated to begin this spring.

What do you think of the cast for The Wettest Country? Are you interested in seeing the film?

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