20^th Century Fox has released a new international trailer for Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. It doesn't include a lot in the way of new footage, although there is some. It all comes in the form of flashes of images. There’s David (Michael Fassbender)! No wait, there’s Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), now it’s Captain Janek (Idris Elba)! Noomi’s Elizabeth Shaw is in pain, screaming for mercy! The trailer opens with Noomi Rapace telling us they were “so wrong” which in itself is very very creepy, add to that the pulsing foghorn of a soundtrack and these clips are more than enough to get us pumped for this movie.

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film 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.

Starring Rapace, Theron, Elba, Fassbender and Logan Marshall-Green, look for Prometheus 1st June in the UK and June 8 in the US

Prometheus – International Teaser Trailer #1… by addictomovie

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“No Cape. No Tights. No face”

Leave it to those two mad geniuses Neveldine/Taylor to come up with the best tag line for a movie, at least so far this year, probably in many years. In a summer movie season destined to be chock full of super heroes, many of the tights wearing variety (the Cape won’t show up until next year), they’ve drawn the line. ‘Here there be none of those’, but the kicker is surely, “…no face”.

Columbia unleashed not one but two brand new tv spots during the Super Bowl, both with a bit of footage we hadn’t seen before.  I have to say I’m starting to ‘warm’ to this tale of Nicolas Cage destined to live out a fiery eternity on the back of a motorcycle.

Take a look at the clips courtesy of Latino Review (via HeyUGuys). Both are short. The 2^nd one is shorter than the ad that plays in front of it. I figure they just took their paid for/allotted time and divided it up.

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#2Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance opens in the US and the UK on February 17

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If I see Neveldine/Taylor’s latest opus, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, it will be for one reason and one reason only: Ciaran Hinds is playing The Devil. Actually, make that two reasons: Idris Elba is playing a character called Moreau that appears to be one of The Devil’s minions.  I’m in. Ciaran Hinds and Idris Elba could be playing the Katzenjammer Kids, if they’re doing it in the same film, I’m there.

Of course, this is Nicolas Cage’s movie. Cage reprises the role of Johnny Blaze from 2007’s Ghost Rider. This time Blaze is hiding out in Eastern Europe, where he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form.

The pics below are the first to include Hinds’ Devil as well as better looks at Idris and Johnny Wentworth, not to mention those mad geniuses Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor at work. Thanks to French site Cinecomics, (with a nod to ComicBookMovie for the tipoff), we have some shots of Cage’s transformation into the Ghost Rider, using motion capture technology. 

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance opens February 17 in the US and the UK. It also stars Violante Placido, Christopher Lambert and Anthony Head. Enjoy the pics!  (Can’t wait to find out what the Druid prayer circle has to do with anything.)

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Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor make movies for the video game generation. Something of a contradiction, they’re slackers with a  healthy work ethic (and apparently no fear. At least that can be said of Neveldine. He’s  the one always hanging off the back of a motorcycle or a truck or swinging from a wire, camera in hand in order to get the shot. Why aren’t you doing it Taylor? What’re you a pussy?) It continues to amaze me that studios, backers, producers, what have you, keep throwing money at them to make another movie, but then I remember while it may not be high art, there is a segment of the population that finds the movies Neveldine/Taylor make entertaining and they earn their keep.

You think Gamer was a bomb? Hell no it wasn’t. It may not have played well in the theaters, but it killed on dvd.

Now we have Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Frankly, if a sequel to 2009’s Ghost Rider had to be made, these are just the two lunatics to do it.  Surprisingly, the first trailer, while not exactly great, didn’t suck. The more that’s been shown has steadily improved. I can actually see myself sitting through this and enjoying it.  Take a look at this short ‘making of’ featurette. I don’t know about vengeance, but the spirit of mayhem is infectious.

Yes, Idris, he is nuts. And I’m sure he’s laughing all the way to the bank…minus insurance premiums.  Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Nicholas Cage, Idris Elba and Ciaran Hinds roars into theaters across the planet on February 17, in 3D, of course.

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Some pretty things to look at without thinking too much. Good for a Monday morning…A little high-brow, a little low brow and something in between… 

Well, to start with, we have a poster for Dennis Quaid in Beneath the Darkness, which was supposed to come out in theaters this months. Evidently, Imagine Entertainment pulled it and it’s now going to straight to dvd and blu-ray.  Quaid’s been enjoying a bit of a resurgence lately, with Footloose and Soul Surfer in 2011 and Playing the Field and The Words in ’12 alone, so I’m surprised they aren’t taking the gamble with this. Not even in January. It must be realllllly bad…

The rural bliss of small town life has been celebrated as part of the American dream, but sometimes a small town is the perfect place to hide one’s secrets, one’s mistakes, one’s sins. And once discovered, it doesn’t take long for the American dream to become the American nightmare. On February 28th, Image Entertainment unleashes the small-town shocker Beaneath the Darkness on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Starring Golden Globe™ nominee Dennis Quaid in a rare villainous turn and coming off a recent national theatrical release, this gripping psychological thriller entwines cold-blooded murder, sinister secrets and modern hauntings on Maple Street. .

 Directed by Martin Guigui (My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception, National Lampoon’s Cattle Call) and written by the late Bruce Wilkinson, Beneath the Darkness is a taut thriller pitting high school kids against a psychotic killer in a community where adults blindly refuse to see the ominous dangers right before their eyes.

If nothing else, Yimou Zhang's The Flowers of War has had some really beautiful, suitable-for-framing posters. (Given the current trend in movie advertising art, or the lack thereof, making most of them bland photo-shopped messes,  that's an achievement.) This latest, the official US version, is no exception.  

The Flowers of War stars Christian Bale in China's official Academy Award entry, as a Westerner who finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety. Grossing $83 in just 17 days, making it China's sixth top earner of all time, The Flowers of War will also screen, out of competition, at next month's Berlinale.

The new French poster for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance features a perturbed looking Nicholas Cage, which I suppose is only appropriate given that he’s…dead? A Ghost? The 2^nd Ghost Rider movie, which Idris Elba (that’s Golden Globe winner, Idris Elba – see how I did that?  They’re only relevant when people I want to win actually do) insists is not a sequel, sees Johnny Blaze (Cage) hiding out in Eastern Europe, where he is called upon to stop the devil (Ciaran Hinds), who is trying to take human form.

Idris plays Moreau and all I really know about him is that he rides a motorcycle, wears black leather and looks badass. Does anything else matter? No, it doesn’t. The movie also stars Christopher Lambert, Anthony Head, Johnny Whitworth and Violante Placido. It opens February 17 in the US, Canada and the UK.

Finally (for this post), we have a poster for a new movie. God Bless America was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait,  who believe it or not actually directed  a couple more films (no, I didn’t see them either) after 1991’s almost universally hated Shakes the Clown.  

God Bless America, which premiered as a Midnight Madness selection at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival , stars Joel Murray and Tara Lynn Barr as two citizens who, one day, decide that the reality TV culture could be cured with some violence. As with Shakes the Clown, there’s a lot of anger and humor being mixed here. This time I’ve heard that it pays off. (That’s certainly a concept I can get behind.) Murray and Barr allegedly have more of a father/daughter thing going than a May/December Bonnie and Clyde, even if this poster almost makes GBA look like an action film, but I’m sure the producers are doing whatever it takes to generate some interest. The movie will premiere on VOD on April 6, then open in limited release on May 11.

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The Wrap is reporting that Joel Edgerton, who will next be seen in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, has definitely signed on for Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's as yet unnamed film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Tom Hardy, Edgerton’s Warrior costar, along with Idris Elba, Chris Pratt and Guy Pearce are already on board. Still in talks (although its looking good, as opposed to that Clive Owen Oldboy news) are Mark Strong, Jessica Chastain and Edgar Ramirez (Carlos, Domino).

Be still my heart.

Okay, so we’re talking about a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Near Dark), written by Bigelow and the cowriter (with John Logan) of The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal, with that cast? Since it already has a release date of December 19, 2012 (before a single frame has been shot), this film has moved into my top five most anticipated films of the year.

The film centers on the Navy SEALs' (Remember SEAL Team 6?) mission to capture and kill Osama bin Laden, and the battles that resulted in the death of the terrorist leader on his compound in early May.

Although the producers have been criticized by some Republican politicians, including Rep. Peter King (R-New York) who has said that the Office of the Inspector General at Defense is investigating whether Bigelow and Boal received classified information regarding bin Laden's death; the White House has denied the allegations. The film has been in development since 2008, indeed there are several ‘bin Laden based’ projects in various stages of development involving the likes of Oliver Stone and George Clooney. 

Sony Pictures is distributing Bigelow’s film. "With the death of Osama bin Laden, this film could not be more relevant. Kathryn and Mark have an outstanding perspective on the team that was hunting the most wanted man in the world," Co-Chair Amy Pascal said in a statement released after bin Laden's death.

That’s all well and good. Just give me a decent movie with Edgerton, Hardy, Strong, Elba, Ramirez and Pearce and I’ll buy a ticket. I’ll buy ten tickets.

Okay, now who wants pics?

We have three new stills and a poster from those two wild and crazy guys, Neveldine/Taylor for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Ya know…there are a lot of best/worst/biggest disappointment lists out there right now and I just can't help thinking that this movie might show up on one them this time next year. Can you guess which one I'm thinking of? This thing just looks so over-the-top nutty (in the trademark style of the dynamic duo who brought you the wacky fun of the Crank movies with Jason Statham). If that’s the wave they rode in on, GR:SoV could be a lot of fun. BUT these two were also responsible for draining any soul out of the high-concept Gerard Butler vehicle Gamer (which I still managed to enjoy to an extent, but you don't want to hear about that now.) If we get THAT Neveldine/Taylor, all bets are off.Take a look at the fiery new stills. What do you think?

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is the sequel to 2007's inexplicably popular Ghost Rider and Nicolas Cage again plays Johnny Blaze. I'm only interested because Idris Elba is playing someone called Moreau. In the trailer he's wearing black leather and riding a motorcycle. *thud* I have to say that’s reeling me in. Plus I really would like to know what’s up with the accent he’s using.

This time out, as Johnny Blaze lays low in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil (played by Ciaran Hinds. How the HELL did that happen?) who is trying to take human form. (But it's CIARAN HINDS!) Violante Placido, who was so good in Anton Corbijn's The American with George Clooney, replaces Eva Mendes, who (perhaps wisely) turned down the option to return, as “the girl in the movie”.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance opens in the US and Canada on February 17 and in the UK on 22 February

Well, it’s finally here: the first official trailer for Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.Yay! *demented poodle dance* Okay, okay, settle down.  After all of the hype, it’s kind of anti-climactic. Seems to me that if you strung together all of the pre-trailer teasers that had been unleashed all week, you’d have this trailer, which means, there’s not a lot new to see here. There are eerie images of spacesuit clad people running through a rocky landscape of what is probably a distant planet but still somehow looks like earth, with a strobe light-like effect set to a pulsating soundtrack. Don’t misunderstand, I like it! 

On the surface of the thing, even though he’s been coy about saying whether or not it’s an out and out prequel, it would seem that Sir Ridley is using the title Prometheus and the way it emerges onto the screen in this trailer to allude to his 1979 sci-fi masterpiece, Alien.  Most of the imagery certainly looks like it wants to be a part of that film. Of course, technology is now light-years ahead of where it was then. The film he’s made in 2011 is probably closer to the one he wanted to make in 1979. If nothing else, it looks intense.

According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who stole fire from Olympus to give to mankind and in punishment was chained to a rock, where an eagle tore at his liver until Hercules freed him.  It seems that Scott is using the title of his film as a metaphor and whomever these people are (scientists of some sort) running around on that planet, they are using technology to discover the roots of life itself. Considering we know where this is supposedly supposed to lead, I’m guessing with disastrous consequences.

I’m still very intrigued by that new image from the film that was released yesterday, of Michael Fassbender’s android called David.  That looks like a “WTF?” face to me.  Whatever’s out there, I’m sure it’s going to terrify the bejeebus out of everyone in the film and probably everyone watching it too. I can’t wait!

Prometheus stars Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Logan Marshall-Green, Guy Pearce and Rafe Spall. It comes to theaters in the UK on 1^st June and the US on June 8.

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