If a director’s heart and passion were indicators of quality, Super 8 would be one of the best movies of the year. If the Oscars were given for ability to imitate Super 8 producer Steven Spilberg’s movies, the film would clean up. Unfortunately, all the passion and Spielberg-esque tricks in the world can’t save this half-baked monster movie.
Thomas the Tank Engine has been a hugely popular toy product for over 50 years. Shane Acker, director of the post-apocalyptic animated film 9, which started as an Oscar-nominated short film, is on board to direct an upcoming feature based on the popular toy property. The film will take place in Sodor, an island where trains can talk. This’ll only be Acker’s second full-length feature and his first ever live-action film.
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We know exactly what’s coming with all the superhero movies and sequelsfilling up the multiplexes this summer, which is why a film likeSuper 8 stands out. You likely won’t be seeing anything else like Super 8 this summer, which is probably why it topped our list of the most anticipated summer movies. But what does all this uncertainty mean for its box-office chances?
Sacha Baron Cohen surprised many when he announced that his project would be The Dictator, both a satire of Saddam Hussein and a loose adaptation of his book Zabibah and the King.
The first official image from the upcoming satire, which can be seen below, comes our way thanks to The Huffington Post. The political aspects of this film might turn some people off, but from the looks of this image, this’ll be your typical Cohen satire.
When a film gets nominated for and wins several Oscars, the next thought is usually not “let’s make a sequel!” Such reactions tend to be reserved for action films and popcorn fare, but not so with last year’s The Fighter. Mark Wahlberg, who starred as real-life boxer Micky Ward in last year’s acclaimed hit, had been talking up a sequel for some time. In case you weren’t listening earlier, he’s now made it clear again, this time on cable television
Hot off the heels of their critically successful reboot of the “X-Men”
series, 20th Century Fox is looking to kick-start another of their
Marvel properties: Daredevil. Already having obtained David Slade (Twilight: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night) as director, they have now hired TV writer Brad Caleb Kane (Fringe) to pen the script. It’s a risky move for Fox. Kane has been building a (small) name for himself due to the cult status of Fringe,
but has no films to his credit, at least where he served as writer. To
add more pressure to an already cooking pot, the Heat Vision blog of The
Hollywood Reporter reports that the film will be heavily influenced by
one of Daredevil’s most popular books Born Again, written by Frank Miller with art by David Mazzucchelli.
