Millions of people have already seen it as it played before Harry Potter this weekend, but now you can watch the teaser for The Dark Knight Rises over and over again and pause at those quick flashes of Tom Hardy as Bane.
Peter Jackson and Warner Bros. have been revealing the many dwarves of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in a rather unexpected way. Promotional images of the various pairings and trios that comprise the 13 dwarves in the company of Thorin Oakenshield have been sent to various publications exclusively in the last couple weeks.
Eight films in just about 10 years and no rusty wands in the bunch. The success of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series theatrically has been unprecedented in both box-office receipts and critical success. As the credits roll on, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, the satisfying punctuation mark at the end of a true cinematic journey, it really all comes back to characters and storytelling — to Rowling.
Welcome
to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office
prediction contest. The final “Harry Potter” film comes out this weekend
and there’s a frenzy in the air, so if you can’t get in the mood to be a
box-office wizard now, you might as well go sit in a box … in your
office. Just read through this post and tell us your top
five box office predicted finishers for this weekend. Finish out 2011 on
top and you will win something COOL.
To say that the live-action adaptation of the anime Akira has travelled a rough pre-production road might just be the understatement of the century. After failing to land its casting wish list, the film recently lost director Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli, From Hell). However, Warner Bros. is still intent to get the project off the ground and has already found Hughes’ replacement.
One
of cinema’s best-executed franchises comes to a close tomorrow after
just over 10 years, so we’ve been counting down our favorite “Potter”
films all week. This concludes with our current favorite (we’ll see
after tomorrow), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.
When it was first announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
would be split into two parts, it was met with cynicism; a way to milk
as much money out of the series as possible. But it turned out to be a
smart move critically as well as commercially. We at Player Affinity
collectively thought it was the best Harry Potter film so far
as the series moves out of Hogwarts to the dark world of Voldermort’s
takeover. Here are our thoughts on the first half of the seventh
chapter:
When the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing moved from a release date this past April to October, the project seemed to fall off the map (perhaps to Antarctica?). Fortunately, Universal has melted the ice and given us a trailer in what’s been a trailer-crazy week so far.
