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Bruce Willis Hates Michael Bay 2007-05-10 02:30:39 Over at Ain’t It Cool News, a poster calling himself Walter B claimed that he’d seen the new PG-13 rated Die Hard film and said that it was as kick-ass as any R-rated feature.
Sounds a bit similar to what a Mr BruceWillis
had been saying last week, right? Well, it’s no coincidence, because representatives from the site confirmed that the poster was Bruce himself (Walter is his real name)
When asked about Michael
Bay possibly helming a Die Hard film, Willis got slightly irate, to say the least. Read on to see Bruce’s comments: (more…) Read more:Hates
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Tim Roth cast in The Incredible Hulk 2007-05-10 02:15:45 Roth joins Liv Tyler and Edward Norton as The Hulk’s famous nemesis Abomination. Although apparently they’re coming up with a less stupid name. Abomination’s alter ego is KGB agent Emil Blonsky, who deliberately exposes himself to the same Gamma radiation as Bruce Banner. Why not? This Hulk re-imagining is shaping up quite nicely. We love both Roth and Norton. And Liv Tyler’s ok, I guess.
Source: Variety
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Plane Brilliant 2007-05-10 02:09:02 New Line have picked up Flight of the Dead, previously known as ‘Plane
Dead’. Essentially, it’s ‘zombies on a plane’, which is simultaneously the best and worst idea ever. But zombies beat snakes hands down, if you ask me.
Apparently, the film will most likely go direct to DVD. While you wait expectantly, check out the trailer.
Here’s hoping ‘Sharks on a Plane’ will come along and complete the trilogy.
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Two More Star Wars films in the works… and Spiderman is silly 2007-05-10 02:04:12 George Lucas has revealed to Fox News that he’s developing two live-action Star Wars
films that will debut on television and will probably be an hour-long.
“But they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters,” he said. “They will be other people of that milieu.”
Milieu? Ooh, look at fancy pants Lucas and his big words. However, Lucas couldn’t think of a fancy word when describing his disdain for Spiderman
3:
“It’s silly. It’s a silly movie,” he said. “There just isn’t much there. Once you take it all apart, there’s not much story, is there?”“People thought ‘Star Wars’ was silly, too,” he added, with a wink. “But it wasn’t.”
With a wink? Stop winking at people George and take a look at the last three Star Wars films. Then try not to use the word silly amongst the milieu of silliness that’s to be found in those steaming piles of disappointment.
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Rodriguez to direct The Jetsons? 2007-05-09 19:20:10 After the financially disappointing Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez
is now looking forward to the future and is deciding between two projects. Firstly, he’s in talks with Warner Bros. Pictures about making a live-action version of hit 60s cartoon The Jetsons
. For anyone who’s too young to remember, The Jetsons are like a future version of The Flintstones.
On the other foot, he’s in discussion with Universal about making another TV-series-cum-movie, Land of the Lost. This one was from the 70s and was about a Dr. Who-esque tale of an alternate world with dinosaurs and hostile alien creatures. Will Ferrell has signed on to star, so… who knows what kind of tone they’re going for with this one.The Hollywood Reporter’s sources are saying that the Jetsons will most likely be the victor as the script is far more developed at this stage.
Personally, I think Land of the Lost sounds better. That has dinosaurs AND aliens, Jetsons only has robots. One robot. A weird, mothering Jewish one t
News Catch-up 2007-05-08 21:46:57 Right, I’ve been on holidays, but apparently, Hollywood wasn’t. So here’s a quick catch-up of the goings on in the movie world as well as a quick recap of Dave’s well-needed vacation.
Thursday May 3
New Line release a teaser poster for The Golden Compass (see right). CANNOT wait for this film, the books were excellent.
Liv Tyler cast in the Incredible Hulk as Betty Ross.
Dave forgets his passport, misses flight.
Friday May 4
George Lucas has a script for Indiana Jones IV with Sean Connery in it.
Spiderman 3 has biggest opening day of all time, taking in $59 million. Previous record: Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man’s Chest, with $55.8 million.
Dave gets a new flight, loses 200 euro to high-rolling airline.
Saturday May 5
Trailer for Wedding Daze, with Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher goes online. Looks… meh.
Iron Man suit revealed (see left)
Dave plays Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and realises he is the uncoolest person ever.
Sunday May 6
Wall Street 2 announced: Yes, we get it, Read more:Catch
We’d like to thank our moms… 2007-05-07 23:20:19 The tech blog “Everybody Go To” has nominated The CinemATTIC as one of the “Best Blogs by the End of 2007.” Thanks to Ali J for the recognition.
So… if you vote for us, we’ll tell everyone you’re cool. Read more:hellip
Ratatouille 9 minute preview 2007-05-01 18:58:27 Thanks to an increasingly popular trend in movie marketing, you can now watch 9 minutes of Ratatouille online. We’ve watched it and it’s looking quite good, Remy’s race around the kitchen is enjoyably frantic and the friendship between man and rat is oddly believable. It remains to be seen whether Brad Bird will have pulled off another Pixar winner. We don’t think there’s really been one since Finding Nemo.
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Silver Surfer Trailer 2007-05-01 18:23:38 The full trailer for Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the SilverSurfer
is online. And… it doesn’t look all that bad. The silver surfer looks awesome, there’s plenty of apocalyptic mayhem and The Thing and The Human Flame swap powers for no real reason. All in all, it’s shaping up to be not half as sucky as the original pile of doo doo that was its predecessor.
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Grindhouse Torn in Two 2007-04-30 19:38:35 It’s official, Grindhouse
is being released as two separate films in the UK and Ireland. What’s more, the planned launch date of June 1 has been pushed way back due to the feature’s dismal takings at the US Box Office.
Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof will now hit UK and Irish screens on September 21st and Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror hasn’t even been given a confirmed release date yet. (more…)
10 Things we learned from Spiderman 3 2007-05-10 22:04:18 Spiderman 3 is not just all fun and games, you know. Look a bit closer and Sam Raimi and co. are really making very acute social observations about life, love and sand.
WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!
1. EMOs are a product of alien symbiosis
2. If you find yourself running from the law, no problem! Just hop over the gate that says ‘DANGER! Particle Physics Experiment in progress’ and you’re in the clear.
3. If your girlfriend is hanging from the roof of a demolished skyscraper, never fear. Nonchalantly take some pictures and introduce yourself to her father, who also doesn’t seem to give a shit.
4. Flipping pancakes and listening to vintage dance songs will only lead to adultery.
5. Black is the new red. And alien goo is the new cotton. (more…) Read more:Spiderman
Review - Spiderman 3 (2007) 2007-05-10 19:45:20 Breaking box-office and hype records everywhere, the third outing of Peter Parker and his gang of flawed super-villains has finally arrived. But it hasn’t so much arrived with a bang as it has a small, controlled explosion.
We find Peter (Tobey Maguire) and Mary-Jane (Kirsten Dunst) where the last film left off; happy and annoying. But soon MJ hits career-trouble and she becomes even more of a whiney, irritating twat. Peeved that her hero boyfriend is too busy saving people’s lives to be extra nice to her, the two drift apart. With the help of an alien symbiote, Peter finds his darkside and goes all… dark. Meanwhile, he has to contend with his vengeful best friend (James Franco), his uncle’s sandy murderer (Thomas Haden Church) and a rival photographer (Topher Grace). (more…) Read more:Spiderman
Hammer Horrors are back! 2007-05-14 22:22:29 The old British horror studio which last drew a scream way back in the 70s has been re-opened by a Dutch producer, John de Mol.
The old Hammer
horror films are fondly remembered by fans and they made stars of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Van Helsing and Dracula respectively. They also brought to life countless other classic horror stories like The Mummy, The Wolf-Man and Frankenstein's Monster.
The Hammer label could breathe a bit of forgotten class into modern day horror flicks, which are perhaps bordering a bit close to gratuitous violence and sex due to Eli Roth and the new wave or gorenography. Not that there's anything wrong with violence and sex, of course. (I hope you're not reading this, God)
Read more on Hammer Horror at God's homepage, Wikipedia.
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Nicolas Cage to play Al Capone 2007-05-14 22:15:03 MTV are reporting that the Cage-inator will play the moblord in a prequel to Brian de Palma's The Untouchables. Â This sounds like good news, except that it's called The Untouchables: Capone
Rising. That's a rubbish title really. May aswell call it The Untouchables: Drink Justice. Or Capone: Zero Hour. Our scepticism-ometer is off the charts!
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Guy Ritchie making another British Gangster Movie 2007-05-14 21:56:39 But is it a case of too little too late for the man who had it all and then threw it away on a film starring his wife, which we don't like to talk about here? The new film, titled RocknRolla, follows a Russian mobster who orchestrates a crooked land deal and puts millions of dollars up for grabs, attracting all of London's criminal underworld. Could be a return to form for the Lock Stock director.
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Review - 28 Weeks Later (2007) 2007-05-14 01:11:57 Zombie movies are a funny thing. Since their inception at the hands of George A (Zombie God) Romero, the large majority of modern living dead flicks have been predictable takes on a tried and tested formula. The dead rise/a virus is released/a spell is cast, then the plague spreads and soon there's a mass of slow-moving rotting corpses that the B-list cast must deal with. (more…) Read more:Weeks
DVD Review - Stranger than Fiction (2006) 2007-05-18 17:01:00 By Tom Fitzpatrick
Films that make you think while trying to keep track of dialogue at the same time can be one of two things: frustrating or fulfilling. I loved the premise of Stranger
than Fiction
. I loved the idea of a character in a film realising he is a character in a novel and that his life is being both narrated and created by the same god, an author who believes in fate and yet controls the destiny of the character she has created. (more…)
DVD Review - Transamerica (2005) 2007-05-18 16:14:23 By Tom Fitzpatrick
Transamerica was released in 2005 to general critical acclaim. Felicity Huffman is outstanding as Bree, a transgender woman who discovers she has a son from a one night stand nearly twenty years earlier, implied as her only real sexual experience as a male youth. Bree bails her son out of jail and finds an insecure youth, desperate to be re-united with his father and whose mother commited suicide years earlier. Toby has been abused by his stepfather, earned money through prostitution, has a drug problem and is wary of anyone who seeks to help him, as Bree does by coming to his rescue in New York. –>
Final Transformers Trailer 2007-05-18 03:04:16
And it’s looking very cool. Typical Michael Bay fashion, there’s a lot of nice explosions and tasty effects, but best of all, there’s that vintage Transforming noise from the cartoon. Which made me wish I had Autobots bedsheets again. However, why aren’t any of the Transformers
talking? Has the recent lip-gate scandal encouraged Bay to write in some robot vow of silence?
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Bee Movie Trailer 2007-05-18 02:55:58 Earlier, we received an excited press packet from Paramount, telling us that Jerry Seinfeld had unexpectedly leaped off a hotel in Cannes dressed as a bumblebee. This was no flamboyant suicide attempt, but a promotional stunt for Dreamworks’ new animated flick, Bee Movie
, written and starring the comic turned costumed lunatic. There’s been a lot of buzz around this movie (that was unintentional, really) and now the full trailer has gone online. Let’s hope this is a Shrek not a Shark Tale. And if you haven’t already seen the hilarious teaser trailers, check them out here.
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My Blueberry Nights Trailer 2007-05-18 02:30:12 The trailer for this year’s Cannes opener has gone online. Kar Wai Wong’s first English speaking film stars singer Norah Jones as a woman who takes a soul-searching trip across America and meets lots of interesting characters including Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth and David Strathairn. There’s huge interest in this film over at the Cannes festival, and unfortunately, the trailer is nice but unyielding, so don’t expect to get too excited.
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Al Pacino and Robert de Niro together again 2007-05-18 02:12:52
Variety are reporting that the two titans will reteam for cop thriller, Righteous Kill. The film will see the two starring as a pair of detectives hot on the trail of a presumably nasty serial killer. And no, despite the title, it was never a Steven Seagal project.
Exciting! Just imagine the hilarious buddy banter the two will have. It’ll be like a verbal tennis match of supreme cynic hilarity, acted with all the gusto of a gaggle of stampeding steamrollers (and the simile award goes to…)
The film will begin shooting on August 6 and is being directed by Jon Avnet, with Inside Man scribe Russell Gerwitz penning the script. Read more:Robert
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Jason Bateman is one remarkable guy 2007-05-18 01:58:49 We love Jason
Bateman here at the ATTIC. The untimely demise of Arrested Development brought many a tearful moment. But thankfully, after a recent stream of small roles, he’s finally cracking the big screen. Again (let’s not forget Teen Wolf Too). And now he’s reteaming with Smokin’ Aces man Joe Carnahan for The Remarkable Fellows.
Bateman came up with the idea for the film, in which two brothers take over the family ‘revenge’ business, while on the set for Smokin’ Aces.
“The revenge scenario is dependent on the intricacy of the plot,” Bateman told Variety. “If the president of a major bank was sleeping with the French ambassador’s wife, the banker would call these guys.” Sounds good to us.
The Golden Compass Trailer 2007-05-24 09:36:17 I can’t wait for this movie. I’m a huge fan of the books and fantasy films in general (Hawk the Slayer blew my mind), so this is the big one I’m looking forward to this December. However, I don’t approve of New Line Cinema’s tacky Lord of the Rings linkage to kick off the trailer. I understand that Philip Pullman’s trilogy has a much smaller fanbase and the films will require a wider marketing strategy, but it’s misleading to Tolkien fans to market The GoldenCompass
as a similar beast to the Rings trilogy when they are different in almost every way imaginable. Hopefully, Weitz and co. can do justice to an incredible series of books. And judging by the trailer, they’ve done a good job so far.
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John Rambo Trailer 2007-05-24 09:05:11 Sylvester Stallone follows his late-life crisis biopic Rocky Balboa with a revisit to another staple of 80s extremism, Rambo
. John Rambo as he’s ever so cleverly called it (I would have gone with Rambo IV: Fuck Em All to Hell… Again) will mark the fourth time that entire armies will regret pissing off one guy. This time, Rambo is again coaxed out of voluntary solitude (where he knits, writes about his feelings and mends boats or something) to rescue some idiot war-protesters who head on into Burma unarmed to ask them nicely to stop fighting. Using only his bare-hands and his exploding bow and arrows, John shows those pissy protesters that there’s only one way to stop a war. And that way is John Rambo.
WARNING: The following trailer contains scenes of extreme manliness and all out testosterone-fuelled brilliance that may offend subscribers to reality.
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The Joker Revealed! 2007-05-22 18:44:21
After so many fake Joker
images appearing online (who’s bothering to make those?), Heath Ledger’s look in The Dark Knight has finally been revealed. And it comes through a well thought-out marketing strategy.
Last week, a campaign poster for Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who later becomes villain Two-Face, was released on ibelieveinharveydent.com. Then a few days ago, a link was made to ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com, which revealed a vandalised image of the campaign poster, evidently made by the Joker. After inputting their e-mail address, users would then receive an e-mail linking them to another site, which would ask them to remove a pixel. After a sufficient amount of pixels were removed, the image on the left was revealed.
And it’s a pretty scary indication of the gritty Christopher Nolan treatment that the Joker has received. We can’t wait for this film. If it’s half as good as Batman Begins, then that means it’ll be twice as good as X-Men 3. And ten times as good as Su
Review - Zodiac (2007) 2007-05-21 17:33:10 Dave Corkery
Here’s a brief re-enactment of the conventional serial-killer-thriller that we, the audience have become accustomed to:
Act 1: Tough as nails, world-weary cop Sam ‘QuickFire’ McHardBalls is teamed up with a no-good-rookie sidekick, Johnny ‘Cannon Fodder’ McOptimist. When a series of grisly murders turn up on their desk, they realise that there’s some sick mutha out there with a taste for people-blood. McHardBalls at this point may utter; ‘I’m getting too old for this shit.’ (more…)
10 Things we learned from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End 2007-05-27 10:55:53 WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!
1. Purgatory is filled with helpful rocks/crabs that will gladly crush themselves under the weight of an enormous boat just to help some guy who talks to himself.
2. Contrary to popular scientific belief, the world is not round. It actually ends with a giant waterfall that leads to the Sahara Desert.
3. Johnny Depp will lick anything he finds on the ground, for no apparent reason. He’ll even lick his own brain, given half a chance.
4. In the battle of ‘get off the screen you irritating twat’, Keira Knightley surprisingly bests Orlando Bloom.
5. Geoffrey Rush makes wispy facial hair look cool and Bill Nighy makes face-tentacles look cool. (more…) Read more:Pirates
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Review - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) 2007-05-26 18:50:01 Dave Corkery
In 2003, I tentatively bought a cinema ticket for a Disney pirate film based on a theme-park ride which had never failed to underwhelm me as a child. I was sceptical to say the least. Not to mention that the last pirate film I’d seen had Geena Davis in it and was… shite. I was never so glad to have been proven wrong. Pirates
of the Caribbean
: Curse of the Black Pearl was pure, popcorn munching blockbuster gold and it was everything that a good summer movie should be.
And now we’re on sequel number 2 and that summer of 2003 is starting to look as golden as the summer of 78 must look to hippies and Bryan Adams. At World
’s End is plagued by similar problems to Dead Man’s Chest. Orlando Bloom is again at his hammiest, but is amazingly outdone by Keira Knightley’s pathetic performance as the ‘babe with attitude.’ She’s neither convincing as a babe, nor a pirate, leaving her to merely float through the film in an unfortunately beefed-up role. (more…)
5 Would-be Breakfast Cereal Movies 2007-06-05 12:09:48 There comes a time in every man’s life when he’s sitting at the breakfast table, staring into the vacuous eyes of the animated rabbit on the back of the cereal box in front of him and he thinks “this guy should get his own movie!” Well now, thanks to the magic of warped imagination, here are the five breakfast cereal movies that are most deserving of being snapped into production.
1. Movie: Snap, Crackle and Dead
Characters: Snap, Crackle and Pop
Tagline: Evil has a new face
Plot: World-weary homicide detective Sam Snap and his play-it-by-the-books partner Detective John Crackles are hot on the case of the Pop serial-killer, a deranged ex-mental patient who accidentally kills people in hilariously clutzy ways. Along the way, Snap must struggle with his methodone addiction, pay his ex-wife’s child allowance and deal with his confusing feelings for Crackle.
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