J.J. Abrams appears to finally be ready to make Star Trek 2 happen. After a little vacation, he’s ready to get to work, but the film won’t come out in June of next year. Instead, Paramount will release newly re-titled G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
Trailer Tracker to J-27;
it’s a hit! Our featured trailer this week is the mega-budgeted “adaptation” of
the Milton Bradley board game starring Liam Neeson and Taylor Kitsch, directed
by Peter Berg whereby an armada of ships does battle with a sea-bound alien
race (no, I’m not shitting you).
Films can connect with people on some powerful levels. They can break your heart, bring you to your feet in applause, even make you tremble in fear. They can also make you fall in love.
Some people are calling Cowboys & Aliens a comeback of a genre – a reinvention of sorts. I’m calling it a potential disaster. I detect a movie that has gone the route of taking itself way too seriously. It wasn’t the first, it won’t be the last, and this is hardly an exhaustive list of the uppity cinematic experiences we at PAM can recall.
Player Affinity never rests
when it comes to trailers and thanks to San Diego’s Comic-Con a good chunk of
new and interesting clips were revealed, some of which so cool we thought they
deserved their own edition. First we have In
Time, the sci-fi action thriller starring Justin Timberlake in a world
where longevity is more valuable than gold, then Haywire, Steven Soderbergh’s pissed-off-chick-on-a-mission revenge
flick. The out-of-nowhere angle comes from the independent effort Knights of Badassdom, and finally we
recap on some already featured trailers that show promising new life. We’ve included
the
award winner Drive and the
soon-to-be-upon-us Rise of the Planet of
the Apes. There’s no monkey business when it comes to trailers, it’s
Comic-Con.
Joan Allen and Albert Finney are currently negotiating to return for The Bourne Legacy in roles that they had in previous “Bourne” features. What’s more, Oscar Isaac will join the cast as another brainwashed assassin.
Since paying $2 million for the script for Arthur & Lancelot
(nice work if you can get it), Warner Bros. is making big moves for
their contemporary retelling of Arthurian legends, as reported in Deadline. Already attached to the project is Lionel Wigram, the producer of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter since “Order of the Phoenix,” and David Dorkin (Wedding Crashers, The Change-Up) is set to direct and produce. Arthur & Lancelot has been penciled for a March 15, 2013 release date and going to have a $90 million budget. There is no word yet on casting.
