Warner Bros. and IMAX Corp. just inked a 20-picture deal to put WB films on IMAX screens through 2013. A joint press release listed The Hobbit as having a 2013 release date, so that confirms the near-certain rumors that “Hobbit” would not meet its projected December 2011 release. Looks like you’ll have to deal with more Hobbit rumors for a couple of years, but take solace, fellow movie geek, “Batman 3” was on this list.
Condon was on a shortlist of three directors along with Gus Van Sant and Sofia Coppola, so Summit was showing ambition with its directorial choices. Condon is a director of independent films and has a wide resumé, from Candyland: Farewell to Fresh to God and Monsters. Condon is best known for the musical hit Dreamgirls and often gets Oscar-nominated performances from his actors.
Surprisingly, Anchorman 2 hasn’t already happened yet. You’d think that with Adam McKay’s cult-following, this would be a sure thing. Will Ferrell has said he’d be up for it, and so has most of the principle cast. So what’s been the big hold up? Money, apparently. In an interview with MTV, McKay lets loose a few details on what’s been holding production back. Here’s the important part…
On behalf of the Player Affinity Movies section, I welcome you to — the Player Affinity Movies section. As such, we are stuck with the homely yet completely unavoidable acronym PAM. Even if you add “section” to it, it would still be PAMS, which doesn’t lessen the PAM-ness. But I’m going to roll with it. PAM will grow on you. You might not know a lot about PAM right now, but you’ll learn to like PAM, kind of like how you got used to Great Aunt Pam after awhile. Maybe the best to explain our operation here at PAM is to compare us to Pams that you might already be familiar with.
Here’s what’s up for DISCussion this week:
FIRST RELEASES
–The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (DVD and Blu-ray)
–District 13: Ultimatum (DVD and Blu-ray)
RE-RELEASES
–Armageddon (Blu-ray)
–Dune (Blu-ray)
There are a number of reasons why Ghost Rider wasn’t much of a hit back in 2007: the main character is creepy, poor script, relatively unknown character — whatever. Nicolas Cage was probably the biggest draw. If there’s one thing people like to see Cage do most it’s play weird, off-the-wall characters. Despite his assertions that he wants to reprise his role as Johnny Blaze in a sequel, it appears that Columbia Pictures is set to move on without Cage’s participation.
Well, The Losers were big losers and The Back-up Plan was just that for moviegoers this weekend as How to Train Your Dragon won the box office despite last being out five weeks ago and not having been No. 1 since its opening. I have nothing to compare this to except maybe Grover Cleveland being elected to two non-consecutive terms as president of the United States. Somehow, sadly enough, that feels like an adequate association.
