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Weekend Recap - 'Precious,' J.J. Abrams, 'Battleship'
1 hour ago
Even though A Christmas Carol didn't earn as much money as it was expected to, there was still big box office news over the weekend. The probable Best Picture nominee Precious only played in 18 theaters and still nearly made two million bucks. That's a record.
We're also getting to the end of the decade, which means a lot of lists you're sure to disagree with. And we found one of those on Saturday. Also, Natalie Portman talks about her upcoming Black Swan lesbian scene, and Peter Berg's Battleship might be attacked be...aliens. Sigh/head shake.
Portman calls sex scene "extreme"
Telegraph's Top 100 of the decade
J.J. Abrams close to producing Micronauts movie
Danny Boyle's next movie to feature dialogue-free hour
What in the hell is Peter Berg doing to Battleship?
Taylor Swift's SNL Twilight spoof
Box Office: A record-breaking weekend for Precious »
- Colin Boyd
New Stuff In a Kid-Friendly 'Avatar' Trailer
3 hours ago
We do get to see a few more details about James Cameron's Avatar in this new trailer, and some of this stuff will look terrific in 3-D, I'd have to believe. But there's one slight difference between this trailer and the previous ones: It is apparently kid-tested, mother approved.
The trailer premiered the other day on The Cartoon Network, and even though there's plenty of adult (or at least PG-13) programming there, this video is definitely geared for a younger crowd. The music and the voiceover stick out like sore thumbs, and both of those things influence the tone, which, it should be said, is lighter in general, anyway. There are fewer battles and more...flowers. Great big flowers.
Yeah, it's kind of a different look at Avatar, but what we see gives us a little more perspective on what Cameron is trying to do. »
- Colin Boyd
Bradley Cooper Harvests 'Dark Fields'
5 hours ago
He might have missed out on The Green Lantern, but Bradley Cooper has been able to turn The Hangover into a pretty good assortment of upcoming roles. The A-Team is probably the one on everyone's mind, but there's also Matt Helm, which is supposed to be a new spy franchise. But based on how "well" The Vampire's Assistant did, we'll wait until there are some more concrete results before talking sequels.
Cooper has also just picked up a role that Shia Labeouf had agreed to several months ago, signing on to Illusionist director Neil Burger's Dark Fields. It's based on Alan Glynn's 2001 novel, and this one sounds unusual, with Cooper playing Eddie, a struggling writer who takes a pill called Mdt-48 to unleash every part of his brainpower. He uses it for evil, though, and abuses the drug to become more successful.
Then the other shoe falls, as »
- Colin Boyd
A New Batch of 'Doctor Parnassus' Character Posters
8 hours ago
After nearly two years, we'll finally get to see Heath Ledger's final performance in Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus on December 25th. To fill the role left incomplete following Ledger's death, Gilliam hired - as you know by now - Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law, this giving Law two films opening on the same day (along with Sherlock Holmes).
There's a new set of Korean posters for Parnassus from Imp Awards, and while I would think Gilliam's films in general play better in Europe than they do here, I don't know if that would hold true in Asian countries. Incidentally, the movie's already made $12 million in Europe, about half of that in Italy. But clearly, we're not seeing a slew of character posters in the Us, so this might be a much bigger deal in South Korea.
In addition to Ledger and his three replacements, »
- Colin Boyd
'Moon' Director Duncan Jones Reads 'Source Code'
10 hours ago
It's a sad state of affairs when a movie like Moon can only bring in about $7 million around the world. But don't feel bad for director Duncan Jones, because he just got his next assignment, which should have a much broader reach.
Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in Jones' Source Code - called a "sci-fi thriller" by Variety - and Summit will handle the distribution in the Us and at least 15 international markets, as well. Gyllenhaal or not, the film is set to go go go next spring. It's a pretty odd story: Source Code revolves around a soldier who wakes up in someone else's body and then has a Groundhog Day scenario unfold until he determines who's responsible for a train bombing. »
- Colin Boyd
'Jurassic Park III' Director Wants 'Jurassic Park IV'
13 hours ago
Jurassic Park IV? Don't count it out yet, I guess.
Director Joe Johnston, brought in by Universal to take over The Wolfman from Mark Romanek, helmed the third and least appealing Jurassic Park about a decade ago, and he tells Ain't It Cool News he would consider answering the bell again. Unless I missed something this year, the producers of the trilogy have not warmed to the idea yet, so this could be hypothetical.
"There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with, and it’s nothing like the first three," Johnston says. "It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved.” »
- Colin Boyd
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