Honky dory TAB

(His sweater is missing some reindeer`s running around his upper-chest)

Info:
James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen, have joined the voice cast of the 3D, CG-animated family comedy, Arthur Christmas. The highly anticipated film, produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation, is slated for release November 23, 2011.

The plot
Set on Christmas night, the story of Arthur Christmas at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic – a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

Good grief.. Highly anticipated? Might be good. I still think fondly of "Flushed down" and beeing a huge Aardman fan, they might do good on the story. The poster is truly a teaser and dosent really say anything about the feel, other then the unlikely goofy hero with a heart of gold steps up.. Who knows. Might be fun

PS: Havent Ive seen that face before? Oh, thats right...

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*sigh*

I love Parker Posey, but this is really a step back.. Im basing this entirely on the lame ass "american pie" poster with the incredibley sucky tagline.. Even if this is a joke, its a bad taste one..

Update: I found a trailer.. This is not good... *tripple-sight*

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Im not a huge fan of the 3D Zemeckis, though I really am digging the craftmanship and tech that goes into the movies. The CG looks incredibly good but the characters are lacking. Boardering on "uncanny vally" alot. His "preformance capture" is really quite incredible (despite still looking overacted and the "dead-face" syndrome) and a huge step over regular motion capture, but they have yet to make me really love the characters portrayed in his movies. I am however curious about his new movie..

Walt Disney Pictures has released the first movie poster for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms. The performance capture film is being directed by The Prince of Egypt/The Time Machine helmer Simon Wells and stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler.

Plot:
A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away.

This poster reminds me of something though....

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Paradox, baby!

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Art/ad designer Ibraheem Youssef made some new posters for the Tarantino movies. Good use of colors and subtlety by framing the iconic items featured in the movies




I wonder if his gonna do Jackie Brown and Inglorious Bastards as well. (as well as the guest directors segments in four rooms and sin city)

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As you can see, this is not your fathers Hood! Director Ridley Scott re-teams with his "muse" Russell Crowe, and throws in Cate Blanchett into the mix for a little something different in this drastic retelling of the classic tale. The first poster is here and yeah, it really stands out from the old ones!







See? Its different.. Its flipped and more blue! and.. and no arrowhead!

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From Jason Reitman, (Thank you for smoking and Juno) comes a trailer for his next project starring George Clooney. Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, “a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.” Despite what the official studio released plot synopsis might lead you to believe, this film is not exactly a romantic comedy, it is much more.

Last week I saw "Thank you for smoking" for the first time and I was blown away! Its all character driven which I like, but the characters are also so defined, yet loose and cool. Starring Aaron Eckhart as a "spinner" (basicly extremly sharp, and crafty and its his sole job to spin the truth) that represents the tobacco industry as well as being a good father to his son. It exposes the hypocracy that the society needs to make bad things, more palatable.

Paramount Pictures has provided /Film with the exclusive premiere of the first teaser trailer for Up in the Air, which is an alternative cut created by Reitman specifically for the internet. The teaser is based around a speech that Bingham gives at motivational speaking gigs. It’s a very Fight Club-esque philosophy — that the things you own, and the relationships you carry, end up owning you and weighing you down. (With a hint of "American Psycho" objectisme), and this is the key philosophy of Ryan Bingham, who lives his life traveling around the world, free of relationships, family or compromises. source /Film.com

Watch the trailer in High Definition here: 480p and 720

Up in the Air is currently scheduled to hit theaters on December 4th 2009.

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The USA Today article (where the images premiered) confirms that the movie is kinda like a sequel. The film begins at a party where Alice, now the age of 17, finds out that she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty high society types. She makes a run for it, and of course ends up following a white rabbit down a hole, back to Wonderland — a place where she visited a decade prior. The White Rabbit is convinced that he has the right girl but Alice doesn’t remember her past visit to Wonderland. The creatures of Wonderland are ready to revolt and are hoping/waiting for Alice to help them, but will she? Can she?

Burton gave us a tons of Oompa Loompas in 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a grief-wracked demon-barber in 2007’s Sweeney Todd. Now one of Hollywood’s most visually creative directors layers his own surreal sensibilities upon the fanciful world of Lewis Carroll in Disney’s "Alice in Wonderland", due in theaters on March 5, 2010. This first look at some of the concept art for the film suggests there is the usual Burton dark magic afoot.





Its all very much like "Hook" with Robin Williams where Robin plays a old version of Peter Pan and is forced back to Neverland to help the kids beat Mr hook. This movie also featured a more gritty and surreal take on the classics.. Well, It will be worth it just to see what twisted creations Burton comes up with and how Depps character "The mad hatter" will sound like.. =D

This is the closest we will come to a movie version of the still great American Mcgee's Alice video game (released by Rogue Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts 2000) that depicted suicidal and catatonic Alice and "Wonderland" as a true dip in horror, discomfort, acid and true grittiness..

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In the surreal comedy, Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named… Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he’s been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of “soul-trafficking.” Giamatti’s journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress.

Cold Souls premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and it’s easy to see why it has drawn many comparisons to the stories of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine…etc). and I allready know that im gonna love it =D

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I live for movies that are character-driven by a small cast and where the setting is remote, alienating and eerie, (ala: Funny games, Phone booth, Memento, Silent Running, Das Experiment, Solaris, Cube, Primer, PI, Rent Lola rent.. etc) so it might not come as a huge shock that I am looking forward to Duncan Jones "MOON"



This has got to be one of the coolest posters I’ve seen. Very simple, but also incredibly retro.

Incase you might not have heard of it, it tells the story of Astronaut "Sam Bell" who has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacy), sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

The story in itselfs isent really the drawing point but the whole consept that one man has been isolated on the surface of the moon for 3 years intrigues me. Pluss Id watch just about anything that has Sam Rockwell in it.. That guy is one of my favorite actors and can truly carry a movie all by himself (Choke). Plus you have Kevin Spacey cast as HAL9000`s creepy stepbrother.. Yay?!

Trailer:


The trailer gives you a great example of the tone of the movie. It definitely shows the unease of something going wrong right at the end of a massively long tour of exile. It also carries the worry of something even darker at stake and showcases some of the fantastic shots. Also the movie looks a bit retro when it comes to the sets and enviroments. Retro as in sets aesthetics from the 70s scifi films like Alien/2001/Silent Running. Also, it lets you see how cool a smiley face with Kevin Spacey’s voice can look like.

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Found this promotial picture for the upcomming adaptation of the famous japanese manga "20th Century Boys" I have no idea what its about but this picture is just so fricking kool I just had to share..

20th Century Boys Synopsis:
Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out just how hard it can be as life starts wearing down on him. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt him.

Kenji and his old friends are slowly being drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that could threaten the world. Who is the mysterious “Friend” and how does he tie into Kenji’s youth? Why are there disappearances and deaths tied into Ochanomizu University? Their memories hold the keys to the puzzle, but time and age have clouded their minds.The strange occurrences and the reach of the “Friend” conspiracy grow by the day. It will all culminate on New Year’s Eve 2000. Will Kenji and the others be able to put together the puzzle and save the world?

"20th Century Boys" is a science fiction mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa. It won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, and the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.
Source: wiki

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GORT!!!!!

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A trailer for the upcomming "games to movie" adaptation, Max Payne is out. The game got raving reviews because of its presentation, dark noir style art direction, excecution and game-mechanics that still inspires games to this date.

The trailer looks the part of Payne`s cold and underdog tone. Im not sold on Marky Marks preformance but it might turn out ok. What I do react to is the music. Why the hell arent they using the original theme? You should think that if you get the license to do Max Payne with the same story, character and locations as the first game, that you would at least get the rights to the music as well. Being original is not the point here either since they are way beyond that point by now. Ohh well. have a peek at the trailer:



The story follows Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg), a former NYPD Detective with internal and external conflicts in a dark, sinister New York City. Three years after the murder of his newborn daughter and wife by a group of junkies, Max is now undercover agent in the DEA and embedded in the Punchinello Mafia family. The video game series is known for its Matrix-like bullet-time, graphic violence and profanity. The movie will hit theaters on October 17th 2008.

PS: the poster is still to be confirmed. It looks fanmade

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Guillermo del Toro has commissioned legendary poster artist Drew Struzan to create a poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The duo collaborated for the first film, but the geniuses at the Sony Pictures marketing department thought it would be better to copy the style of Fox’s successful X-Men franchise. Check out Struzan’s unused original art for Hellboy below

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Surprised? No, dident think so....



a still from the movie..



Expect a trailer to hit shortly

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"Here we are, officially one year and counting until the release of Watchmen on 03.06.09. Being a fan that follows production blogs, I know that the time a film is in post can often seem like an eternity with interesting bits of information few and far between. So to help pass the time, here is your first look at some of the Watchmen characters.

-Zack"

Source: http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/

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Plot:
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.

Wall-E is both written and directed by Pixar's own Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo. The movie will arrive in theaters everywhere this summer on June 27th.

Im not completly sold on the premise of the movie, but the trailers have given me a nais retro feeling of johnny/number 5 from the classic "robot turns into a childlike "human" with funny yet thoughtfull consequences that makes us reflect our own existence and way of life" genre movie: Short circut

Ps:Come to think about it. Its a bit too close..

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