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BREAKING NEWS: Sam Raimi will direct “World of Warcraft” movie based on the video game…

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Legendary Pictures and Blizzard, the video game company has a “World of Warcraft”, live action movie in the works. They have asked the “Spiderman/Evil Dead” director, Sam Raimi, to direct the film and Sam says, yes, he will do it. Sam plans to direct “World of Warcraft”, after he completes, “Spiderman 4”.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006299.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I never played the “World of Warcraft” games before.

I expect Bruce Campbell to get some type of role in, “World of Warcraft” movie…maybe a cameo or a co-starring role?

Kev

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Report: Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz in talks to star in “The Green Hornet”…

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Cameron Diaz and Nicolas Cage are both in negotiations to star in, “The Green Hornet” which stars Seth Rogen in the leading role as the superhero crime fighter. Cameron Diaz will be playing a news reporter who is also a love interest of the Green Hornet. Nic Cage will be playing a gangster villain.

Cage has just finished filming, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “Bad Lieutenant”.

Chinese martial arts actor, Stephen Chow, was originally going to direct and star in, now he has dropped out of the movie completely.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006269.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I don’t think Nic Cage ever played a villain in a movie before. If he already did, point me out. Nic playing a villain will be interesting.

Kev

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Film Review: Public Enemies

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Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup

Directed by: Michael Mann

On this lovely afternoon of the “40th Anniversary Moon Landing Day”, I decided to go to the mall to catch a movie, and do a little shopping. Today, I caught the movie “Public Enemies”, here is my review:

Plot/synopsis: Based on the real life story and real events in the history books, this film is set in the 1930’s, during the Great Depression. John Dillinger (Depp) is an American mobster who robbed banks to make a living and to get rich off of. He was a very dangerous man, short tempered and violent. Dillinger falls in love with a woman named, Billie Frechette (Cotillard), which she doesn’t mind him being the gangster criminal that Dillinger is. FBI’s, J. Edgar Hoover (Crudup), sends out, Melvin Purvis (Bale), an FBI agent to hunt down Dillinger and kill him. Dillinger was a dangerous madman who got away with most bank robberies and escaped from prison twice, lived his long life committing crimes.

Read more information on the real John Dillinger story here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger

As usual, Michael Mann’s movies never dissapoints. If you don’t know who Michael Mann is, he has made such movies like: “The Last of the Mohicans”, “Heat”, “The Insider”, “Ali”, and “Collateral”. They’re all great movies.

I thought, “Public Enemies” was a perfect film overall. Good writing, great acting by the cast, excellent camera work, good musical scoring, etc. Johnny Depp and Christian Bale were both great as usual…but the performance that grabbed me the most was Marion Cotillard’s. Marion was known to put on some intense performances in her films over the years and I think her performance in this was pretty powerful.

I think Marion will get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this movie. This movie “Public Enemies” is not worthy of other awards, but the only award worth giving to is Marion’s performance. Of course, you may think the movie will show her naked according to the trailers, but you don’t see her naked in this movie at all. So, don’t let the trailers fool you. She dresses up sexy and you see her legs sticking out of the bathtub, that’s about it.

The violence in the movie is what got me the most. The film had some pretty bonechilling tommy gun shooting toward the end of the film. In mobster movies like this in the 30’s, you never see violence that intense, but Michael Mann made the violence in this movie, it made you wanting more and more.

The movie runs about 2 and a half hours long, but I loved the movie a lot. Forget your usual summer popcorn flicks, and check out this one. “Public Enemies” didn’t do well in the box office even though it had Johnny Depp in it, the only time Johnny Depp is successful in a movie is when he does a sexy role that the girls would drool over or if he does a Disney or a Tim Burton flick…well this flick is none of those. This role is a different character for Johnny Depp.

Score for “Public Enemies” = **** (4 stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev

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Report: Morgan Freeman in talks to star in DC Comics, “Red” with Bruce Willis…

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Morgan Freeman, is in talks with Summit Entertainment to star in “Red” which is adapted from the DC Comics graphic novel. Bruce Willis is already set to star the leading role, Morgan Freeman will co-star.

Morgan is just wrapping up filming a Nelson Mandella biopic directed by Clint Eastwood.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006174.html?categoryid=2554&cs=1

It’s good to see him get more work since “The Dark Knight”, I’ve seen that Morgan have been having a busy life lately outside of film, with being involved in a car accident that involved alcohol and lots of other things in his life. Glad to see he’s getting his film career back on track.

Kev

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Report: Tim Burton to debut “Alice In Wonderland” semi trailer at San Diego Comic Con next week!

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Tim Burton will be making a special appearance, live in person, at the San Diego Comic Con next week to present a semi trailer for “Alice In Wonderland”. He never appeared at these Comic Con conventions before, this will be his first time.

Burton also breaks the news that he is planning a sequel to “Alice In Wonderland” as to follow Lewis Carroll’s series of the Alice adventures.

Once Burton is at San Diego Comic Con next week, expect bootleg versions of “Alice In Wonderland” footage to hit youtube very quickly.

No word if Johnny Depp will go with Burton at the Comic Con appearance, but who knows. These Comic Con events are always unpredictable and they are always giving out surprises, so maybe Burton will surprise us by inviting Johnny with him. Cross our fingers?

MTV Movies Blog reports:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/07/17/exclusive-tim-burton-to-present-semi-trailer-for-alice-in-wonderland-at-comic-con/

Very cool. Tim Burton is the man, one of my favorite directors. I’m really looking forward to his take on the world’s famous “Alice” story.

Kev

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Thought: Why I think “Twilight” is better than “Harry Potter”…

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So, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” will be out this week. Will I go see it?

No.

Why? Not only that I think that Harry Potter is the most overrated novel/movie franchise in the history of entertainment, I just think the stories don’t do anything to me, they don’t grab my attention, and I don’t see anything special about ’em. The truth is,  I just can’t get into this whole Wizard thing. It’s not really my type of storytelling

I like stories that are much more darker, which is one reason why I love the “Twilight” series more.

Both Harry Potter and Twilight have a few things in common. Both franchises were created by women, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. Both have a huge amount of mainstream popularity. Both have a huge following of tweeny girls mostly.

As you can see, I’m no Harry Potter fan at all. I find J.K.’s stories boring. Stephenie makes her “Twilight” series more entertaining.

What is so entertaining about a couple of children becoming wizards to learn magic and go on these silly adventures that mean nothing?

I think “Twilight” is better stuff, because Stephenie make her storytelling more insightful and more detailed than J.K. Rowling’s. The “Twilight” series has more stories to tell than just a girl falling in love with a vamp. The “Twilight” series is easy targeted, the series get made fun of because of it’s tween content…when the funny thing is, “Harry Potter” is pretty much the same exact thing.

I have no interest in Harry Potter whatsoever. Tried reading the first book, couldn’t get into it. Tried seeing the first couple of movies, didn’t like ’em.

When Stephenie Meyer brought us, “Twilight”, I was impressed that Stephenie is trying to compete with J.K. The truth is, “Twilight” is bigger and more successful than “Harry Potter”.

Just wait until “Twilight: New Moon” comes out in theaters, it will destroy, “Half Blood Prince” in the box office.

Stephenie Meyer likes to make her stories more realistic and fun as if they were happening for real. Stephenie likes to explain in detail how people become vampires and werewolves, while Harry Potter doesn’t explain anything.

J.K. is overrated, pure and simple. I admire Stephenie’s work immensely. Those who make fun of Stephenie’s work because of her teen vampire views is a stupid idiot, in my opinion. I admire Stephenie’s way of trying to bring horror fiction for young kids. Of course, both Stephenie and J.K.’s work can be for people off all ages, not just for teen girls.

Sure, I get made fun of for liking the “Twilight” series, but I don’t care what anyone thinks. I enjoy whatever grabs my attention no matter what age audience the stories are aimed at.

Kev

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Report: Billy Bob Thornton to produce baseball film, actor/musician signs on to “3 Nights in August”…

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Billy Bob has signed on to produce a  baseball movie titled, “3 Nights in August” which will be adapted from the novel written by Buzz Bissinger. The story is set in a 2003 game between the Cardinals vs. the Cubs as told by the Cardinals manager Tony Larussa.

Billy Bob has already once worked with Tony Larussa and Buzz Bissinger for the film version of the Football movie, “Friday Night Lights”.

The film does not yet have a director which I believe they will probably get, Peter Berg, to direct again. I don’t know if Peter Berg will direct, but it’s a guess that Billy Bob, Larussa and Bissinger will want to work with Berg for this one too.

“3 Nights in August” sounds interesting.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005992.html?categoryid=2431&cs=1

Kev

Edit to add: Corrected post, Billy Bob is only one of the producer partners, he is not acting in it. Funny how the article said, “Actor ready to play ball” which makes it seem like he’s having an acting role in it, then I’ve noticed that he is only producing. My bad. I’m sure he will have a role in the movie though.

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Report: David Arquette and Courtney Cox are down for “Scream 4″…

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The leading stars of the “Scream” trilogy, David Arquette and Courtney Cox are officially signed for, Wes Craven’s “Scream 4”. David and former “Friends” TV star Courtney Cox are married together in real life, they are still together as a married couple too and they have been married since 1999.

Wes Craven took a long break from directing movies  himself and concentrated on producing other horror films. He finally agreed to return to direct, “Scream 4”.

More on it here:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/07/david-arquette-courtney-cox-scream.html

Now I wonder if Neve Campbell is on board for, “Scream 4” who is the main star of the series?

I liked the first “Scream” movie, 2nd one was pretty good, I didn’t like the third one.

Hopefully Wes will make this movie right so he can make it a box office smash. I hope “Scream 4”, will be a good one.

Kev

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Film Review: “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”…

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Directed by: Michael Bay

Starring: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro, and Tyrese Gibson

So I finally got the chance to see, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” this afternoon, and here is my review…

Plot/Synopsis: The Fallen is on the hunt for Shia Labeouf’s character, Sam Witwicky so the evil Decepticons can hold Sam prisoner. The Fallen orders Megatron and Starscream to hunt down Sam. Meanwhile, Megatron and Starscream must battle Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots in order to get after Sam. The Autobots are out for Sam’s protection and safety. Sam also gets help with his human friends, Agent Simmons (John Turturro) and Mikeala (Megan Fox), and also Leo Spitz, Sam’s college buddy. Does Optimus Prime successfully defeat the Decepticons in order to save Sam’s life? You’ll have to see the movie for yourself in order to see more than meets the eye.

Ok. Lets discuss the good and the bad things about the film.

The Good: Special effects, sounds, cinematography, good camera direction and angles by Michael Bay, great fighting scenes with the robots. More Megan Fox, the Rainn Wilson cameo, and more Optimus Prime!!!

The Bad: Acting of the cast, scriptwriting, movie was too long, the film was a bit too racist with the Twins robots Mudflap and Skids who were at the center of racist slurs, we get to see a naked ass shot of John Turturro instead of a naked ass Megan Fox, too much swearing (yes, we do hear the robots saying “shit” and calling the female characters “bitch”) and too much Shia Labeouf screen time.

The movie was ok, but could have been a lot better. I think Michael Bay and Shia Labeouf are the wrong people to be a part of this movie. Michael Bay isn’t a good director and Shia isn’t a good actor.

I only watch the Transformers movies in theaters ’cause I was a fan of the toys when I was a child. I liked the first “Transformers” movie but the second one was kind of a dissapointment.

Transformers is supposed to be for something that children should enjoy. Yes, it has a PG-13 rating, but the movie had some R-rated material in it. Of course, this kind of stuff never offends me at all, but when it comes to Transformers that kids are supposed to like, I don’t think parents would want to take their kids to the theaters where the film will have racist robots, other robots calling women in the film a “bitch”, and seeing an almost bare naked ass of John Turturro when he pulled his pants down in the film.

Michael Bay needs to quit doing these Tranformers movies and I hope he won’t do the third one which I have a feeling he will. Who do I think that should have been the director of these Transformers movies?

I would say, J.J. Abrams would have done a better job. After what J.J. Abrams did to movies like “Cloverfield” and “Star Trek”, he would have made a much better “Transformers” movie.

Megan Fox is so right that Michael Bay needs to focus on the acting and not special effects, after seeing this crap. It was an ok movie, what I liked most about it was seeing more Optimus Prime and the action scenes of the robots were fun to see.

It’s too bad Shia didn’t injure both hands so he can stop acting for a while, I know bad joke but I think you get the point.

Score for “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” = ** (2 stars as in “ok”)

Kev

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Thought: Sly and Arnold fans are hating Arnold’s cameo role in, “The Expendables”, and Brock finds it ridiculous!

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Many of Arnold and Sly fans are complaining about, Arnold’s cameo role, in “The Expendables” in message forums/blogs. What are these fans complaining about in Arnold’s role? Well, they simply don’t like the fact that Arnold will be playing himself in the “The Expendables”. They claim that his role playing himself in the movie is silly and doesn’t make a bit of sense at all. They want Arnold to play a fictional character, kind of similar to his roles in “Commando”, “Predator” and “True Lies”, and the like.

The thing I disagree with their opinion on Arnold’s cameo role in Expendables is, that this isn’t the first time Arnold has played himself in his earlier movies. Arnold was himself in movies like, “Hercules In New York”, “Pumping Iron”, and “Last Action Hero”.

You think people would be used to Arnold playing himself in movies by now? Apparently not. I guess when it comes to Arnold and Sly finally starring in the same movie together which is long overdue and should have happened a long time ago, fans were expecting Arnold to play a huge role.

Knowing that Arnold and Sly has been best friends for many years, they have supported each other for years. I would think Sly Stallone knows Arnold well enough that Sly would know what Arnold fans would want out of this Arnold cameo in, “Expendables”. Sly fans claim that this Arnold cameo in Sly’s next movie is going to suck, they keep comparing it to Arnie’s cameo, in, ‘Terminator Salvation”.

I mean, give me a break. Arnold’s cameo in “Terminator: Salvation” was computerized CGI, so it wasn’t really him to begin with. The real Arnold would be, in “The Expendables”.

It’s been speculated that Arnold’s scene in “Expendables” will be very short and brief, but I think there’s a possibilty that Bruce Willis will be the role of Church, and that Sly, Bruce, and Arnold will have a pretty lengthy scene together in the film.

I think Sly is not that stupid, he knows what Arnold fans would want and he’ll make the Arnold scene extremely entertaining, I’m sure.

Arnold playing himself in “Expendables” is for a good reason, I think. For starters, since Arnold is governor in real life, he wouldn’t have the time to rehearse his lines if he were to play a fictional character in it. So this is Sly’s way of getting Arnold’s scene to be done quickly.

The reason Bruce Willis isn’t announced for Church yet, because Bruce is still filming Kevin Smith’s film “A Couple of Dicks”, and Sly is waiting for Bruce to finish filming that movie. Then they will film the Sly, Arnold, and Bruce scene for “Expendables”.

No matter what movie Sly Stallone does, people will always have something to complain and whine to him about. I’m more looking forward to Sly and all of these tough guy action stars, in action. I’m excited for this film and can’t wait for it to come out.

It’s pretty silly to me that people complain about Arnie’s cameo role in “Expendables”, when Arnie has starred as himself in a couple of movies before. Arnie playing himself in a movie is nothing new to him. 🙂

Kev