This? This right here? This is what you need to get your Friday rockin’. Lionsgate UK (for which I am gaining more respect for every day) has just dropped the UK version of the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. It is different from the domestic version and yes, it is better. (Less Cody Horn for one thing. Where did Soderbergh find her?)
“Set in the world of male strippers, “Magic Mike” is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Channing Tatum (“Dear John,” “Step Up”) in a story inspired by his real life. The film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Pettyfer) under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.”
Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Riley Keough, and Olivia Munn. Magic Mike will put you under his spell starting June 29 in the US and 13th July in the UK.
Check out that fantastic gif below courtesy of IndieWire.
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The big one this week may be The Vow wherein Channing Tatum-tot gets his heart-throb on with the always adorable Rachel McAdams. Or, it could be Underworld: Awakening with Kate Beckinsale, depending on your perspective.
The Vow, is a romantic drama “inspired by true events”, Tatum plays Leo, who is faced with unthinkable heartache when his wife, Paige (Rachel McAdams), recovers from a tragic accident without any memory of their relationship. The Vow follows Leo as he keeps his promise to win Paige's heart all over again.
To go along with the the DVD and Blu-ray release, Screen Gems has released a new trailer with some of the more memorable scenes from the film. Tatum is up for the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance. The onscreen chemistry between Tatum and McAdams earned them a nomination for Best Kiss.
Special Features:
-Deleted Scenes
-Gag Reel
-Director's Commentary
Underworld: Awakening sees leather-clad Kate Beckinsale return to the dark blue world of Vampires and Lycans in the latest installment of the franchise (with the gratitude of fan boys everywhere) as the vampire Selene and the ad campaign has focused on her character so much that the actual title might as well be "Underworld: The Return of Selene", with the directors admitting that this new film’s ending "is totally leaving the door open for a future". The film was directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (The director of the first two, Len Wiseman returns as a producer. He’s also one of four credited writers) and also stars Michael Ealy, Theo James, Stephen Rae, Charles Dance and Sandrine Holt.
Special Features: Commentary
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is an all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job")! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs-a billion of them. Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today! Also stars John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, Ray Wise, William Atherton, Robert Loggia, Will Ferrell
Gremlins 2: The New Batch is the follow up feature to the cult hit Gremlins, but it is NOT a sequel. Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer move to New York City and meet up with their Mogwai friend, Gizmo, when a series of accidents creates a new generation of diverse gremlins. Billy, Kate, and Gizmo must once again use all their experience to prevent another catastrophe.
Just when they thought they were safe, young sweethearts Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates) from Joe Dante's GREMLINS have moved on to the Big Apple, landed jobs in a high-tech office park, and have met up with Gizmo once again. When a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins, the three pals must use everything they know to prevent another comic catastrophe. The monsters wreck havoc at Clamp Industries, the "smart building" where Billy and Kathy work, creating madness and mayhem for the Donald Trump-like owner, Daniel Clamp (John Glover), who sees the invasion as yet another opportunity for media attention. But, when the monsters invade "Splice of Life," the top-secret genetics laboratory housed at Clamp Industries, the Gremlins develop new genetically altered powers that make them even harder to destroy. This highly inventive sequel to GREMLINS, successfully combines wicked horror and dark humor in an outrageous and eerily realistic post modern setting.
Cameo appearances by screenwriter, Charlie Haas, as Casper; composer Jerry Goldsmith as a customer at the frozen yogurt counter; and real-life movie critic Leonard Maltin, as himself (on the cable access show "Movie Police", he is giving the original GREMLINS a bad review). Cameo appearance by SNL's Julia Sweeney as the receptionist at "Splice of Life." Two different versions of the film were made, one for theatrical release and one for video. In the theatrical version the film appears to begin to burn, in the video release the segment simulates a broken VCR.
Special Blu-Ray Features:
-Over 20 Minutes of Footage Not Seen In Theaters
-Behind-The-Scenes Documentary
-Commentary By Director Joe Dante, Actor Zach Galligan, Writer Charlie Haas and Producer Michael Finnell
-Gag Reel
-Alternate Home Video Sequence
-Theatrical Trailer
Playback is a horror thriller that looks like a muddled mash of a bunch of other horror movies, with shades of Amityville Horror, Halloween, and The Ring.
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir
In PLAYBACK, a group of teenagers look into a dark chapter of their town's past and unwittingly unleash a lethal force that could destroy them.
Playback stars Christian Slater, Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Toby Hemingway
La Haine - 1995 (Criterion Collection)
Mathieu Kassovitz (The Crimson Rivers) took the film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Irreversible's Vincent Cassel), Hubert (The Constant Gardener's Hubert Kound‚), and Sa‹d (Three Kings' Sa‹d Taghmaoui) – white, black, and Arab – give human faces to France's immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis
-Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
-English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz
-Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
-Ten Years of “La haine,” an eighty-minute documentary that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release
-Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum
-Production footage
-Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring an afterword by Kassovitz
-Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
-Trailers
-PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras
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Thanks to Paramount, we have a new international TV spot for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Byung-hun Lee introduces this clip made for the Japanese audience. There’s not a lot we haven’t seen before and it is missing that cover of “Seven Nation Army” by Glitch Mob thundering underneath it, but it kicks ass just like all of the others. Be sure to watch all the way through as Bruce Willis provides a bit of a “farewell” after the spot.
G.I. Joe Retaliation begins when Cobra spy Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) has most of the Joes assassinated. The remaining Joes band together to strike back, enlisting the aid of the original Joe, played by Willis.
The film also stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, RZA , Joseph Mazzello, Walton Goggins and Ray Stevenson opens on June 29 in the US and 3rd August in the UK. Check out the two new images we have to share from the film below.
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Dwayne Johnson was presented with Action Star of the Decade Award at Cinemacon, the annual convention of theater owners. The award was handed to him by his G.I. Joe: Retaliation director, John Chu, who called him “franchise Viagra”. Nice.
To celebrate, we’ve got a brand new trailer (from machinama) for the film which also stars Bruce Willis as the O.J. (Original Joe) as well as Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Walton Goggins, Elodie Yung and Ray Park.
This trailer does have a couple of new wrinkles, one involving the mastermind who set up the Joes and the other involving that awesomely fierce mountain-side ninja sword fight. Because fighting with sharp things at a 45 degree angle while clinging to a sheer rock face bazillions of feet in the air isn’t dangerous enough, there’s also an avalanche.
G.I.Joe: Retaliation charges noisily into theaters June 29 in the US and 3rd August in the UK.
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What’s that you say? Your day has heretofore been “Rock”-less? Well, say no more cats and kittens I am here to help. Just in time to get your party started on this gorgeous (here in the NE anyway) April Friday, we have some brand spanking new character posters for G.I.Joe: Retaliation.
These people are serious. Look at the poster with Bruce Willis as the O.J. (Original Joe). He looks like he could stop a speeding locomotive…with his face.
Channing Tatum’s Duke Hauser and Adrianne Palicki’s Lady Jaye look locked and loaded and extremely ready to blow you away if you look at them cross-eyed, let alone piss them off. The name of the movie is Retaliation after all.
A few of them, Ray Park and Elodie Yung, specifically (since I have no idea who’s behind the bug helmets), have brought knives to a gun fight, but I have a feeling the battle won’t be as lopsided as it would be in real-life. (Still looking forward to that ninja fight on the side of a freakin' mountain!)
The Rock? The Rock just looks like he’s sorry he’s going to have to f*ck you up. (Either that or he's wondering if you can see his pec-pops underneath the Kevlar)
G.I. Joe Retaliation begins when Cobra spy Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) has most of the Joes assassinated, the remaining Joes band together to strike back.
The film also stars Jonathan Pryce, RZA , Joseph Mazzello, Walton Goggins and Ray Stevenson (where’s his poster?) opens on June 29 in the US and 3rd August in the UK.
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I have been trying to put my finger on what it was that was missing from my life…and now I know. It was a romantic comedy about male strippers…starring Channing Tatum-tot.
Here’s the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s, Magic Mike. (This is actually Tatum’s second film of the year with Soderbergh, his Haywire director.) The story is loosely based on Tatum's own experiences as a stripper prior to being paid to appear in movies with most of his clothes on.
With a script by Reid Carolin, the movie features Tatum as the title character, a Florida stripper who takes a young dancer called The Kid (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money. Mike meets a woman named Paige (Cody Horn), but their relationship is tainted by what he does for a living.
My question is who is Cody Horn and where did Soderbergh find her? Taco Bell? Okay she’s not that bad, but there’s just something too ‘flat midwestern’ about her voice. Or something. Maybe she’ll grow on me. Tatum-tot did. Sort of.
The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Riley Keough, and Olivia Munn. Magic Mike will put you under his spell starting June 29 in the US and 13th July in the UK.
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Seems like just the other day I mentioned that amidst all of the super blockbuster hype, that we hadn’t heard anything from G.I. Joe: Retaliation in a while. I swear, as soon as anyone types words to that effect, *bam* something appears. I don’t mean just for this movie, go ahead, try it! Anyway…
There are a bunch of new images that have just dropped, via StarkIndustries (and one via EW) for the Rock heavy flick. I’m thinking this summer has enough room for a little Rock, how about you? If it weren’t for the presence of Dwayne Johnson, this would probably not warrant your attention or mine. Thankfully, we have his snark and pec pops to look forward to in an otherwise dopey looking shoot-em-up. (Well, there is that fight scene I’ve been telling you about.) Oh and it’s got Ray Stevenson and Walton Goggins (I’m not holding my breath, but I do hope they have some decent screen time).
Most of the images don't give us a clue as to what's going on. The synopsis is: When Cobra spy Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) has most of the Joes assassinated, the remaining Joes band together to strike back.
Sounds like big noisy, sit-in-the-air-conditioned-dark-of-the-theater-and-munch-popcorn fun. Isn't that what we should expect from our movies based on toys?
G.I. Joe: Retaliation which stars Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, RZA and Joseph Mazzello, opens on June 29 in the US and 3rd August in the UK.
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Warner Brothers has sent us their schedule of releases for the next few months, looking forward to a summer of fun at the box office. Considering that they’ve got four of the most highly anticipated movies of the year on their slate, they should be having a lot of fun.
Starting in just four weeks with Dark Shadows and Johnny Depp, they then roll through June to Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise, and hope that Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer become the boys of summer in Magic Mike. The big gun in the arsenal is of course The Dark Knight Rises with Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in July. After that, just for laughs, there’s the Campaign in August with Will Ferrell and Zach Galiafinakis.
DARK SHADOWS (Gothic Comedy) May 11*
CHERNOBYL DIARIES (Horror Thriller) May 25
ROCK OF AGES (Rock Musical) June 15 *
MAGIC MIKE (Dramatic Comedy) June 29
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Action Thriller) July 20*
THE CAMPAIGN (Comedy) August 10
THE APPARITION (Supernatural Thriller) August 24
*In theaters and IMAX
To celebrate, they've sent us a few new images for these flicks, including a couple from The Dark Knight Rises that weren't included in the last batch. Enjoy!
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