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IGN has posted the character posters for the upcoming Mark Millar Kick-Ass movie, and they look pretty… well, Kick-Ass!
Dave Lizewski doesn’t have superpowers, isn’t particularly strong or smart, and isn’t extraordinary in any way… aside from his desire to be a hero. Donning a scuba suit, a ski mask, and a pair of clubs, Dave hits the underworld hard in his new persona of Kick-Ass. Though not as hard — at first anyway — as they hit him when he’s severely beaten and hospitalized as a result of his first street fight. No one said being a hero was going to be easy…
When all four of the posters are joined together, they do indeed spell out Kick-Ass, which should be interesting to see on the wall in the more conservative areas of the country. What am I saying, this movie probably won’t be picked up by those theater chains at all.
The movie is scheduled to open April 16, 2010.
The Wall Street Journal has a good article outlining H’wood’s big drive to turn popular toy properties into movies.
The craze for toy-driven feature films has given rise to a new term in the Hollywood lexicon. In production meetings, studio executives have begun asking if a particular project is “toyetic” — meaning whether its concept can lend itself to a toy, and whether the project will be able to sell tickets and merchandise.
Toward the end of the article, the next big toy to movie announcement is made. Hasbro recently acquired the rights to the Micronauts, and is looking at J.J. Abrams to produce the movie adaptation.
Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, and Justine Timberlake are the latest members to join the Yogi Bear cast in the live-action/CGI movie from Warner Bros. Faris will play a documentary filmmaker, while Aykroyd is in talks to play the voice of the famous bear. Where does that leave Timberlake? Yup. He’s up for the voice of Boo-Boo.
Yogi’s character, inspired by Art Carney’s portrayal of Ed Norton on “The Honeymooners,” first appeared in Hanna-Barbera cartoons in 1958 and was voiced by Daws Butler.
The movie is expected to start shooing in New Zealand in December.
As the Blu-Ray and DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s UP! approaches, here are 24 fun facts you may not have known about the production of the animated film.
…with the trailer to a most awesome movie!
I do not remember this trailer at all, but good to see many others are picking up on the November 5, 1955 meme, sweeping the Intardwebz today.
Of all the upcoming films for the holiday season, this is the one I’m looking forward to the most.
I know more than one person will be lining up for the movie adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Disney just released the trailer, and it doesn’t look half bad.
The Disney/Pixar UP! movie arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 10, 2009. To help get people in the mood, Disney sent us some amazing retro art made for the film. Take the jump to see all eight!
But he won’t say which one. Following his involvement with Wanted and Kick-Ass, Mark Millar came out on his forums that he is lining up his directorial debut.
But this is one of several big surprises planned for next year and you’ll hear a bit more about this in February when we start to release details. What is it? Who is it about? Well, that’s all a secret for now, but I learned a lot from Kick-Ass and love having the same creative freedom I have with comics when I work in cinema. I never want to be a studio bitch and go in there pitching for them to love me. The closest I came to this was a couple of calls regarding Superman, but pretty much none of my plans ever revealed as I didn’t like the idea of anyone nicking them.
Similarly, I don’t like the idea of asking for funding and justifying scenes with the money-men so I’m doing what Matthew Vaughn did with Kick-Ass and just making it outside the system with private investors. The financing is all secured and the movie stands or falls on how good I can make it, doing what Matthew did and just selling it once completed.
As you can imagine, I couldn’t be more excited. More as it happens, but this might just beat out War Heroes and American Jesus as my follow-ups to the Wanted and Kick-Ass movies. Have two other pictures about to go into development (and Wanted and Kick-Ass 2, of course), but I think you need to scare the Hell out of yourself every once in a while and something totally new like directing should do the trick.
So, the clock is ticking until February, when we’ll hear the answer. Until then, the comment section is open for your comments and criticisms.
What happens when Joss Whedon and company don’t jump on the sequel/prequel opportunities fast enough?
Fan films.
More specifically Dr. Horrible: Horrible Turn, a fan created origin story.
Here’s the trailer. We’ll see if anything becomes of it in 8 days.
Horrible Turn trailer from Horrible Turn on Vimeo.
What do you think?
Warren Ellis’ Black Summer series has been optioned by Vigilante Entertainment to be turned into a motion picture. Ryne Pearson has been hired to write the adaptation about a group of superheroes who modify their own bodies to take back their city from a corrupt police force.
It’s pretty much assumed that when you say you’re making a Green Lantern movie, that the film is going to be filled to the brim with special effects. According to Director Martin Campbell, 1,300 visual effects shots are already in script, which is going to up the budget of the film by quite a bit. This is going to make it harder for Warner Bros. to deliver, since the strengthening Australian dollar has caused production to move out of Australia and into Louisianan.
The movie is still scheduled for a June, 2011 release date.
Are you ready for another Will Smith music video extolling the virtues of being an undercover agent working to protect the planet from forces outside the solar system? It looks like Sony pictures is moving ahead with a third installment of the popular Men in Black franchise with Barry Sonnenfeld returning to direct the new movie. The Hollywood Reporter has pegged Etan Cohen, of Tropic Thunder fame, to write the picture, but as of this writing, no deals have been finalized.
The addition of Cohen, who is said to be deep into his draft, signifies the studio’s intention to continue the franchise’s top-tier status. The CAA-repped writer is a hot commodity, penning the sequel to “Madagascar” and the Will Ferrell-toplined Sherlock Holmes project, thje latter also for Sony, as well as “Thunder.”
So where is Will Smith in all of this? The MIB is MIA as there has been no commitment from the box office star. Without Smith, the project might find itself DOA, PDQ.
For months the Intardwebz rumors have been flying as to who will be joining the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s Thor movie. While we’ve known Chris Hemsworth will be Thor, and Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman will play mortals, the Asgardians have been kept secret. That is until yesterday’s announcement that Sir Anthony Hopkins will be growing his facial hair out to play Odin, Thor’s father, and ruler of Asgard.
Check out this deleted scene from the J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie. It’s a pretty cool interrogation scene between Nero and Klingons on the planet Rura Penthe.
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