Thursday, 15 December 2011

Rocking out with Tom Cruise?

Rock Of Ages, based on a "smash hit" Broadway musical. Yep, I've never heard of it either. The promotion of the film has just started with a poster and trailer.

After watching the trailer I do think that this will be a "cult film". In the same way that Plan 9 from Outer Space is! The story shown in the trailer is hackneyed, cliched and looking like a high budget episode of something like Glee... Not only that it stars Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise looking like they have had all their acting ability surgically removed suffering through their dreadful dialogue. But that's just me and you can make up your own mind by hitting play on the trailer below.

Under the direction of Adam Shankman (“Hairspray”), New Line Cinema’s feature film adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” comes to the big screen.
“Rock of Ages” tells the story of small town girl Sherrie and city boy Drew, who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.  Their rock ‘n’ roll romance is told through the heart-pounding hits of Def Leppard, Joan Jett, Journey, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison, Whitesnake, and more.

The movie musical stars Julianne Hough (“Burlesque”), with actor/singer Diego Boneta in his feature film debut, Russell Brand (“Arthur,” “Get Him to the Greek”), Oscar® nominee Paul Giamatti (“Cinderella Man”), Academy Award® winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (“Chicago”), Malin Akerman (“The Proposal”), R&B queen Mary J. Blige and multiple Emmy®-winner Bryan Cranston (TV’s “Breaking Bad,” “The Lincoln Lawyer”), with Oscar® nominees Alec Baldwin (“The Cooler”) and Tom Cruise (“Born on the Fourth of July”).
Rock Of Ages is released June 8, 2012
© 2012 Warner Bros Ent. All Rights Reserved

Get your thoughts on the DVD via twitter and #dreamsofalife hashtag

Dogwoof, the distributor of DREAMS OF A LIFE, is offering you the chance to have your Twitter review featured on the film’s DVD packaging. All those who hashtag their thoughts on the film with #dreamsofalife will automatically be in the running to see their words immortalised on the DVD materials. So tweet away!

“NO ONE THERE”
“NEXT OF KIN”
“REAL LIFE”
“NO ONE CAME LOOKING”
Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.

Who was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age - the so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life, filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out. Joyce may have died in tragic isolation, but Morley was not going to let her be forgotten. She placed adverts in newspapers, on the Internet, and on the side of a London taxi. What she finds out is extraordinary.

A range of people that once knew Joyce help to piece together a portrait of the woman that became so forgotten. “She was very sweet, beautiful looking, a bit of a mystery. We weren’t too sure where she came from. It’s almost like she was a ghost, even then.” Dreams of a Life becomes as much about the people who remember her as it is about Joyce herself.
Find out more at the Official Site, on twitter or even on facebook
In UK cinemas December 16, 2011

The Avengers, the character banners

This has just hit my inbox. The Avengers get a set of "international" character banners.

Marvel Studios presents “Marvel’s The Avengers”—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
The Avengers is breaking into UK cinemas April 27, 2012
Find out more at the official website, on facebook or on youTube

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

The Great Gatsby

With a US release date around the same time as Peter Jackson's first part of The Hobbit. Warner Bros has released the first two images of the latest version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby.

As the film is released in the US in December 2012 there isn't a trailer out for the film yet. However, that hasn't stopped fans getting one together...
"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
Hitting UK cinemas 2012
(C) 2012 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. - - U.S., CANADA, BAHAMAS & BERMUDA
(C) 2012 VILLAGE ROADSHOW FILMS (BVI) LIMITED - - ALL OTHER TERRITORIES
Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

New Years Eve - The cast talks

Earlier this week, Garry Marshall's New Years Eve hit UK cinema screens. Now we get a set of interviews from the cast ans Garry himself.

Abigail Breslin

Garry Marshall

Hector Elizondo

Hilary Swank

Josh Duhamel

Katherine Heigl

Zac Efron and Michelle Pfeiffer
Director Garry Marshall and a stellar ensemble cast will ring in the 2011 holiday season with the romantic comedy “New Year’s Eve.”

“New Year’s Eve” celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories of couples and singles, told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

The film stars Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, two-time Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Academy Award® nominee Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Ryan Seacrest, two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank and Sofia Vergara.

Reuniting with Marshall from last year’s hit romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day” are screenwriter Katherine Fugate and producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice. Serving again as executive producers will be Josie Rosen and Diana Pokorny, joined by Heather Hall as co-producer. The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Charles Minsky (“Pretty Woman,” “Valentine’s Day”) production designer Mark Friedberg (“The Darjeeling Limited,” “Morning Glory,”) editor Michael Tronick (“The Green Hornet,” “Hairspray”) and Oscar®-nominated costume designer Gary Jones (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Valentine’s Day”).
Find out more at the official website.
In UK cinemas now
© 2011 NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS, INC.

Disney shows what's coming in 2012

Disney has just sent over some information about some of the films that they will be releasing over 2012. It's quite a range from animation via The Muppets to war. We do have a sidestep of mad science experiments!

WAR HORSE - JANUARY 13, 2012
www.warhorsemovie.co.uk

DreamWorks Pictures' "War Horse," director Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War.

Starring Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell.


THE MUPPETS - FEBRUARY 10, 2012
www.disney.co.uk/muppets

When Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary's girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater, they help Kermit reunite the Muppets to stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theatre.

Starring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones and Walter.


JOHN CARTER - MARCH 9, 2012
www.johncartermovie.co.uk

John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to mysterious and exotic planet Mars, becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions and discovers that the survival of the planet and its people rests in his hands.

Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston, with Thomas Hayden Church and Willem Dafoe.


THE AVENGERS - APRIL 27, 2012
www.marvel.com/avengers_movie

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "Iron Man 2," "Thor," and "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Marvel's The Avengers" is the Super Hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Stellan Skarsgard, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L.Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Felicia Day, Clark Gregg, Lou Ferrigno.


BRAVE - AUGUST 17, 2012
www.disney.co.uk/brave

Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. In "Brave," a new tale joins the lore when the courageous Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) confronts tradition, destiny and the fiercest of beasts in 3D.

With voiceovers from Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, Robbie Coltrane.


FRANKENWEENIE - OCTOBER 5, 2012
www.facebook.com/DisneyMoviesUK

In Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.

With voices from Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer.

West Midlands school girl wins Rupert Grint!

Pupils from 42% of UK secondary schools in the UK enter for a chance to win.

In celebration of the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ™ – Part 2” on 3D Blu-ray™, Blu-ray Triple Play and DVD on the 2nd December, Warner Home Video and Sainsbury’s offered one lucky person the chance to win a visit to their secondary school from Rupert Grint. Almost 2000 schools were entered into the competition which is a massive 42% of all eligible schools in the UK.

The winning school Bishop Walsh Roman Catholic School in Sutton Coldfield kept the visit a secret from pupils and revealed the surprise in a special assembly in the lead up to the Christmas break.
One of the stars of the worlds most success film franchise, Rupert Grint visited the school along with co star Oliver Phelps on the morning of the 13th December for an exclusive Q&A and personal delivery of copies of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ™ – Part 2” on Blu-ray.

Sarah Bird, Director of Marketing for Warner Home Video UK commented "We are delighted to have partnered with Sainsbury's to give the pupils and teachers of the winning school Bishop Walsh Roman Catholic School the opportunity for Rupert Grint and Oliver Phelps to visit them. They all had a day to remember and magical memories to share with their children in years to come!

Rebecca Singleton, Sainsbury’s head of non-food marketing said: “We had thousands of entries for our exclusive competition with Warner Bros and on top of a visit from Rupert, we were able to arrange 10,000 active kids vouchers for the winner’s school.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ –Part 2” became the biggest pre-ordered DVD ever on Amazon and has sold millions of copies so far in the lead up to Christmas. It is set to become the single biggest selling Harry Potter Home Entertainment release of all time.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2” is directed by David Yates who also helmed the magical blockbusters “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.” Returning from previous “Harry Potter” films is an all-star supporting cast, including Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Lewis, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Julie Walters and Bonnie Wright.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ™ - Part 2 is available at selected retail outlets on 3D Blu-ray™, Blu-ray Triple Play and DVD and Digital Download.
Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection is also available on both Blu-ray and DVD.