Variety now reports that Traue will play Faora, a woman who has various incarnations in the comics, but always as a foe of Superman. Variety suspects she’ll be the original version of the character “as a Pokolistanian aide of General Zod. That character was an orphan metahuman with the ability to disrupt molecular bonds, which allowed her to create a mutagenic virus that served as the linchpin of Zod’s plan.”
Page Six of the New York Post is reporting that Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) has officially signed on to play Roland Deschain in the film/TV adaptations of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series. Director Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) is preparing to start production in September and is also slated to direct the first season of the planned TV miniseries, which will be released between the first and second film.
First off, Zombieland director Reuben Fleisher teams up with recent Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg in the action comedy 30 Minutes or Less, and then Paul Rudd joins a quartet of talented dames in the Sundance darling Our Idiot Brother. The body-swap comedy appears alive and well with The Change-Up featuring Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, for which we have the R-rated clip and then things get a tad more quirky in the acclaimed British coming-of-age dramedy Submarine. Finally we get the second another-planet-enters-into-our-solar-system movie after Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia with Another Earth (though the latter almost certainly promises to be the less disturbing of the two). Come on, get your head out of the clouds, it’s Trailer Tracker.
The superhero film craze has led to a lot of ordinary main characters taking justice into their own hands. In that sense, nothing will strike you as original about Super, the latest film from James Gunn (Slither) and one made on a shoestring budget. Rainn Wilson stars as Frank, a man who loses his cool when a drug kingpin (Kevin Bacon) steals away his wife (Liv Tyler). After having a vision in which his brain is quite literally “touched by the finger of God,” Frank decides to create his own superhero, the Crimson Bolt, a force against all that is evil in the world, or at least the small town he lives in.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most notable role to date – other than being the Governor of California – is his role in the classic “Terminator” films. Now that he’s left office, he looks to focus again on his film career with The Governator, a project that will spread across multiple forms of media, but he’s also returning to the project that brought him fame.
The last week of April 2011 has produced few releases of note, but as a professional who understands your film collection needs, I have found some DVD and Blu-ray releases to report. Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp fans will be pleased with the Criterion Collection Blu-ray re-release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, definitely the most noteworthy film this week. Same goes if you are a 50 Cent fan, though I pity you.
In a startling upset, Rio stole Easter weekend from both Tyler Perry and Water for Elephants. On the back of stronger reviews and a family friendly appeal, the movie about mating endangered birds won the box office for the second week in a row. Currently, with the added $26.8 million, the animated feature stands at $81.2 million total.
