“The world ain’t savin’ itself”

Paramount has dropped the first full trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, courtesy of Machinima. I admit I did not see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (I don’t even know what that means) and from all accounts, I didn’t miss anything . Expectations have been at once higher for the sequel  and a little trepidatious at the same time. This time out, The G.I. Joe team faces off against Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence. (Although if they’re going to be doing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ninja swordfights on the side of a mountain, does the plot really matter?!) I’m not sure what made anyone think that Jon Chu of Step Up 2, 3 (and now 4) and the Justin Bieber doc fame could do this, unless it was his action sequences are filmed like dance routines. The writers of Zombieland (which was better than it had any right to be) Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the screenplay.

While I’m still not sold on the idea of a feature length motion picture based on a toy (especially when every single one of them seems to use the name and nothing else – I’m looking at you Battleship ), this one is at least produced by the toy company, Hasbro, responsible, and The Rock is just so damn likeable. Maybe it’s because there’s always a twinkle in his eye, no matter what piece of dreck he’s in or ridiculous line he’s been made to utter, as if he’s in on the joke and is *this* close to winking at the camera.

Holy crap is that Ray Stevenson I see? Excellent! Let’s hope he’s not been made to look ridiculous like he was in Thor.  (We won’t even discuss the other film from 2011 in which he appeared. The whole thing was ridiculous *coughThreeMusketeerscough*)

And F**kin’ ‘ell, it’s Bruce Willis to the rescue!  I’m in!

G.I. Joe: Retaliation stars Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum-tot, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Arnold Vosloo , Joseph Mazzello, Walton Goggins (yay!), Elodie Yung, Jonathan Pryce, RZA and Bruce Willis. It blasts its way into theaters  22^nd June in the UK and June 29 in the US and Canada. (sayyyy…what gives?)

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is one the the most anticipated (by me) films of 2012. It’ll be his first since There Will Be Blood. It’s a 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" whose faith-based organization (“The Cause”) begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man. The drifter is played by Joaquin Phoenix, the Master is Philip Seymour Hoffman. The drifter finds himself equally drawn to the Master's daughter (Amy Adams).  (In reality, there is only seven years difference between Hoffman and Adams.)

Several observers have noticed parallels between the story of the Master and his Cause, and the founding of Scientology by L. Ron Hubbard. Anderson and his people deny that this is some sort of Scientology allegory. It’s also not the first time Anderson has delved into the subject of charismatic pseudo religious leaders and the effects on their followers, after Magnolia, which ironically, reignited the career of one of the most famous Scientologists, Tom Cruise. So we’ll see.  

Photographer Jack Erling took these pics of extras during filming. The period detail is amazing. Coupled with the black and white photography, they not only capture the vintage feel of the film but look like they were found in an old hat box in your Aunt Esther’s attic.

Also starring Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons and Kevin J. O’Connor, The Master is set to be released by The Weinstein Company but no exact dates are known. My guess is, Harvey’s going to hold it back until at least fall, for awards contention and that we can expect to see it on the festival circuit. (Perhaps even in Cannes in May.)

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Warner Brothers has released the first two official images from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, which continues to film in his native Australia, in 3D no less.  I will definitely need to be convinced of the value of filming F. Scott Fitzgerald in 3D, but I digress.

These are the first official images, since we’ve been getting periodic reports and pics from the set for the past couple of months. The first one shows us Tobey Maguire as Nick Carroway, Cary Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby and Joel Edgerton’s Tom Buchanan in the background at what appears to be a New Year’s Even soiree.  The second pic is a moment between the lovers Gatsby and Daisy. Of course we don’t know the context, but it looks tender.

The Great Gatsby, with an adaptation by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, who have collaborated previously on Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet and Strictly Ballroom, also stars Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson, Jason Clarke as George Wilson and Gemma Ward as Myrtle’s sister, Catherine.  The film opens December 25, 2012 in the US.

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Holy sucking pickles, Batman. Jersey Shore's Snooki is looking AMAZING! She and her boyfriend (I really don't know I'm assuming) decorated their first Christmas tree and shared a picture with her Twitter fans.

The reality girl is looking tanned, fit and gorgeous. She's struggled with her weight in the past and even had a bout with Anorexia Nervosa, so I'm hoping that she's done this in a very healthy way (it totally looks like she has). She's also struggled with partying it up way too much and indulging in carbs which are killers in the weight department.

Whatever this girl is doing it's working!

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Sarah Palin can't be bothered to run for President (not that it would matter much) because she's too busy trying to land a reality show deal. Her last reality show Sarah Palin's Alaska didn't make it (it was super boring all they did was fish) so she's trying something new: pitching her husband Todd as the star. This time we get to see him snowmobile all around Alaska. That sounds rather gripping, yes? Actually he is a championship snowmobile racer. Who knew that sport even existed?

Sarah and TV mogul Mark Burnett (you may know him from a little show called Survivor) are shopping the show around networks and are apparently asking in the same neighbourhood as her last reality show: $1 million per episode. Nobody is interested. While a reality show about snowmobiling does sound rather boring, don't they have a reality show about 18 wheelers traveling up icy mountains or something to that effect? I guess that's a bit more gripping than Mr. Sarah Palin tooling around in a snowmobile.

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Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life's ultimate mystery. Here are some larger, hi-res versions of the pics we showed you a few weeks ago. (Hey anything for a Fassbender fix, not to mention some word on Sir Ridley Scott’s super-secret space movie)

While out making the rounds for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Noomi Rapace, who plays an archaeologist on an exploratory mission that runs into trouble in Sir Ridley’s film said recently that "It's not a clean prequel [to] Alien, [but] it's definitely related. I think you will see connections."

She went on to say that her character is in the same vein as Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver in three films), although she thinks that her character is “kind of more feminine. She's more naïve in the beginning and a believer and full of hope, and then in the middle of the movie she kind of changes into more of a warrior and a survivor."

Along with Rapace, Prometheus stars Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Patrick Wilson and Ben Foster (neither of whom have we seen yet). It arrives in theaters on 1st June in the UK and June 8^th in the US and Canada.