Gemma Arterton is quickly emerging as one of cinema’s next biggest stars, having major roles in St. Trinian’s, Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans and Prince of the Persia: The Sands of Time. She has now landed her first leading role in the comic adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel as the very sexy Tamara Drewe.
1. You read this post. 2. You leave a comment at the bottom predicting which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. 3. You wait to see if you were right on Sunday. 4. You get excited about it and do it again next week. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
Vampires of the media world beware. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel of the same, is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. The project, to be executive produced by Tim Burton (newest member of the Billion Dollar Club, thanks to Alice in Wonderland) and directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Day Watch), had recently been subject to a bidding war around Hollywood, a war that 20th Century Fox came out on top of.
To this day my worst fear is to be set on fire. The idea of dying by slowly roasting is a terrifying thought. Just think of how long it takes to burn alive and let that ill feeling settle down in the pit of your stomach. Or perhaps a sear isn’t your fear factor. Try struggling for breath in a casket. Director Rodrigo Cortés puts this formula to the big screen in his new film Buried.
Buried centers solely, and I mean solely, upon Paul Conroy. He is a trucker working in Iraq who is overtaken, captured, and buried by locals. He awakens to find himself entombed with a phone, lighter, and writing utensil. The next 90 minutes are his frantic attempt at rescue via phone call, after phone call, after phone call. And therein lays the major problem with any single place film — inevitable boredom.
Now there may be new possibility for the Chief. With Halo: Reach, the newest addition to the “Halo” game franchise ($200 million in one day), being a massive success, several news outlets are reporting insider rumblings of a potential revival of the adaptation, which this time around would be based more on the “Halo” novels. Although not much else is known about the potential revival, it is known that Steven Spielberg has thrown his hat in the ring, determined to get the movie made by DreamWorks (and acting as an executive producer).
Sandra Bullock has entered negotiations to lead Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming film Gravity after news just earlier today revealed that Natalie Portman turned down the leading role in the $80-million sci-fi epic. Variety states “scheduling conflicts” were her reason for refusal. This means that Bullock is set to play a woman in space trying to get back to her daughter after a disastrous mishap on her space station.
