Who wants some Colin Farrell this Monday morning? *raises hand* I do! I do!  Well, since I try to make myself happy whenever possible, it just so happens that we have some (and I may even be back with more later).  Here are some new images of Colin with Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale in these nifty stills from Total Recall.

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Beckinsale) who heloves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. 

The pics don’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know from the pics, clips and trailers we’ve already been given.  Beckinsale is full of rage and murderous intent, Biel is on Farrell’s side and knows how to handle a weapon. Colin gets to do damage to some storm troopers. The movie actually looks a lot more exciting than these pics would indicate. Mr. Beckinsale, Le Wiseman directs from a script by Mark Bomback (Unstoppable), James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Kurt Wimmer (Law Abiding Citizen).

Total Recall also stars Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bokeem Woodbine, Ethan Hawke and Bill Nighy. It opens August 3 in the US and Canada and 22nd August in the UK

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Okay, so we’ve seen the domestic version of the trailer for Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake, now watch the Japanese version. They start out the same, but then this new one just slaps you upside the head and pours on the action. I have to say, I love Colin Farrell kicking the crap out of a bunch of refuges from Star Wars and the dropping the gun like “whoa…where the f*ck did that come from?” that appears in both versions.

There is enough in both of these trailers that is similar to the 1990 Verhoeven edition of Total Recall to give you a sense of the story, but of course it’s completely punched up and adrenalized for a 2012 audience.  Len Wiseman doesn’t do subtle so I think whatever the story holds we can expect to be hit between the eyes with the action. Is this thing in 3D? No? I’m shocked, but in that case, at least that’s all we’ll be hit with.

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Beckinsale) who heloves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. 

Total Recall also stars Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bokeem Woodbine, Ethan Hawke and Bill Nighy. It opens August 3 in the US and Canada and 22nd August in the UK

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Yesterday we filled your Easter basket with new posters. Today, while you’re still gnawing the heads off your chocolate bunnies, we’ve got pics for you to peruse, including two first looks and two new images from films we’re looking forward to.

First up, a pic from Wes Anderson’s eagerly awaited Moonrise Kingdom, the film set to open the Cannes Film Festival next month. In the style of a family reunion or class picture, it gives us a look at all of the major characters, all in one place. (thanks to IndieWire)

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.

Moonrise Kingdom stars Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban. It opens for us regular folks in the US and the UK on May 25.

Rust & Bone is writer/director Jacques Audiard’s first film since 2009’s BAFTA,Cesar and Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winning, A Prophet and stars Marion Cotillard. Rust & Bone is an adaptation of a collection of short stories by Craig Davidson, said to be take place in a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers.

The film’s synopsis is in French:

Ça commence dans le Nord. Ali se retrouve avec Sam, 5 ans, sur les bras. C’est son fils, il le connaît à peine. Sans domicile, sans argent et sans amis, Ali trouve refuge chez sa sœur à Antibes. Là-bas, c’est tout de suite mieux, elle les héberge dans le garage de son pavillon, elle s’occupe du petit et il fait beau. A la suite d’une bagarre dans une boîte de nuit, son destin croise celui de Stéphanie. Il la ramène chez elle et lui laisse son téléphone. Il est pauvre ; elle est belle et pleine d’assurance. C’est une princesse. Tout les oppose. Stéphanie est dresseuse d’orques au Marineland. Il faudra que le spectacle tourne au drame pour qu’un coup de téléphone dans la nuit les réunisse à nouveau Quand Ali la retrouve, la princesse est tassée dans un fauteuil roulant : elle a perdu ses jambes et pas mal d’illusions. Il va l’aider simplement, sans compassion, sans pitié. Elle va revivre.

This is what I was able to pull out of that.

This begins in the North. Ali meets with his 5 yr old son Sam, whom he barely knows. Homeless, broke and friendless, Ali finds shelter with his sister in Antibes. Over there, it is right away better, his sister, Stephanie Marion Cotillard) let’s them stay in her garage she is in charge of the baby and weather is nice. Following a fight in a nightclub, Stephanie(Cotillard), a whale trainer in Marineland, ends up in a wheelchair.  Stephanie, Ali and Sam will need each other, without pity, to get through the ordeal.

Audiard is an extremely talented filmmaker and I am very sure there is MUCH more to it than that. The official list of films showing at Cannes won’t come out for ten more days, but it’s a pretty safe bet Rust & Bone will be on it. No US or UK release dates are yet known.

The Campaign stars Will Ferrell (because we need as many Will Ferrell movies as we can possibly get**) and Zach Galifianakis. Directed by Jay Roach, responsible for the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises, this is amazingly enough, his first collaboration with Ferrell.

Ferrell and Galifianakis are two rival North Carolina politicians with presidential aspirations. Really, what more needs to be said after that? The entire movie just played in my head and it only took about sixty seconds.

The Campaign does have a very good supporting cast including Jason Sudeikis, Brian Cox, Dylan McDermott, John Lithgow and Dan Ackroyd, so I guess there are reasons to see it and it could have some surprises in store. Since this is only the first look, I’m sure there will be much more to come before it is released August 10 here in the US and 28^th September in the UK.

Here’s another look at Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale in Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall. The trailer we got last week was pretty impressive, in my humble opinion and I’m looking forward to seeing more. thanks to Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide via ComingSoon)

The plot this time adheres closer to Philip K. Dick’s short story, “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale” than the 1990 Paul Verhoeven version.

As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on.

Also starring Jessica Biel, Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy, Ethan Hawke, John Cho and Bokeem Woodbine, Total Recall opens August 3 in the US and 22^nd August in the UK.

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The trailer for Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall is finally online! Now we finally get our first glimpse of Kate Beckinsale pulling a Sharon Stone on Colin Farrell as he acts rings around Arnold Schwarzenegger and still kicks major amounts of ass! Jessica Biel doesn’t have much to do in this but I think she’ll make a good Rachel Ticotin.

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. 

Joey Lawrence voice: “Whoa!”  That looks like all kinds of summer fun!  It’s too soon to tell whether or not this will be any good, but from the first look, there’s promise. I'm sure there is much more to come before the film's release.

Total Recall also stars Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bokeem Woodbine, Ethan Hawke and Bill Nighy. It opens August 3 in the US and Canada and 22^nd August in the UK

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Thanks to ComingSoon for the trailer

Above is the first one-sheet poster for Len Wiseman’s Total Recall, due to get its first trailer this weekend. And below we have a simple, yet very cool motion poster as well.

The film’s synopsis once again:

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy, Ethan Hawke, John Cho and Bokeem Woodbine, opens August 3 in the US and 22^nd August in the UK

Both posters courtesy of Joblo via HeyUGuys.

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We have yet another teaser for a trailer, this one for Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall. At this point I’m torn between continuing to support this growing trend, not because I can’t be bothered to bring you the latest and greatest, but because depending on the film involved, it just builds hype to unreasonable levels, in my opinion. And let’s face it, every time a studio throws together a teaser for a trailer they are about to roll out anyway (in the case of Total Recall, it’ll be this coming Sunday), I feel just a little bit duped.

However, having said all that, in the case of this particular film, we’ve had so little in terms of peeks behind the curtain or even studio sanctioned promotion, so I’m posting it. Frankly, the thirty three seconds of this teaser kick more ass than the entire movie did the first time around. (But that’s more a testament to the current state of the art of special effects than any fault of Paul Verhoeven or the original filmmakers. This one was RIPE for a remake.)

Starring Colin Farrell (a strange choice to replace Arnie on the face of it, but I like it), this version, with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man), Kurt Wimmer (Law Abiding Citizen) & Mark Bomback (Unstoppable) is said to be more true to Philip K. Dick's original short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”, than Verhoeven's from 1990.

Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Total Recall opens August 3 in the US and Canada and 22^nd August in the UK.

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tip o' the pin to First Showing for the heads up

There will soon be not one, but two films about iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One, screenwriter Sacha Gervasi’s (Henry’s Crime, The Terminal) directorial debut, Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho is still in the casting stages. In fact it was just announced today that Jessica Biel had just been signed to join Sir Anthondy Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins. Biel will play actress Vera Miles.

The other is called The Girl with Toby Jones as Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as his muse, Tippi Hedren. This one is a drama for the BBC and focuses on the director’s relationship with Hedren, the star of The Birds and Marnie (and the mother of Melanie Griffith). The title refers to what Hitchcock called all of his leading ladies.

The Daily Mail (via Cinemateaser) has given us a first look at Jones and Miller in the telefilm directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) from a script by Gwyneth Hughes (Miss Austen Regrets). To say that he was obsessed with Hedren is putting it mildly.  In an interview the actress gave to The Daily Mail she revealed,

"I admired Hitch tremendously for his great talent and still do. Yet, at the same time, I loathed him for his off-set behaviour and the way he came on to me sexually. He was a great director – and he destroyed it all by his behaviour when he got me alone."

I love a good “behind-the-scenes” of moviemaking tale. There's plenty of scandal to go around in this case. I’m sure there will be plenty in Gervasi’s project. Janet Leigh, whose career was made by Psycho, was another in a series of gorgeous blondes cast by Hitchcock in an effort to replace Grace Kelly (Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief), but Jarrold’s telefilm will be first and Hitchcock’s fascination with Hedren is more well-documented.

Thanks to the IndieWire, we have a photo of the real Hitch and Hedren for comparison.

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Jessica Biel is the April 2012 cover girl for W Magazine and she is looking positively gorgeous. Could it be her recent engagement to Justin Timberlake? The tagline for her on the cover is that she's bringing sexy back (a play on JT's song of course).

When she was in her teens she was part of the cast of Aaron Spelling's 7th Heaven and spent a lot of time apologizing to the iconic producer:

"I cut my hair super short and dyed it blonde. I had to apologize to Aaron Spelling [the producer] for doing that. He wasn’t happy. When I turned 17 or 18, a really obnoxious friend sent a stripper to the set. I had to apologize for that too. The show was all about family values, and they took that position seriously. I was always apologizing."

Who knew she was such a rebel? In her upcoming movie Total Recall she does some girl-on-girl action (minds out of the gutter kittens it's not the kind you think):

"Fun—so fun! Our fight scene isn’t overtly sexy: just two trained fighters who happen to be women kicking the shit out of each other. It could be two dudes, but we just happened to have long hair and boobs and…other things [laughs]."

What a year this girl is having! Engaged, movies, magazine covers and celebrating her 30th birthday (March 3).

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