James Bond, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and you

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is close to $4 billion dollars in debt and they will soon be looking for a buyer. The studio owns – among other things – the rights to the James Bond franchise, but this situation doesn’t seem to be affecting the momentum of the next film in the series. Apparently, the 23rd Bond film is already in pre-production and will start filming in the latter half of 2010. We can expect it to come out sometime in 2011 if everything goes according to plan. If you can’t wait until 2011, here is a short review for Casino Royale and my thoughts about Quantum of Solace from the end of last year. Also, if you’re really impatient and you happen to have several billion dollars lying around I’m sure you could buy MGM and get things moving a little faster.

Remember Jean-Claude Van Damme?

You do? Well…do you remember liking any of his movies? Because I don’t. And I never thought I would say this, but:

I want to see the next Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

JCVD (click for trailer)

(a quick update because I haven’t completely given up on this blog…even though I have tons of other web-related stuff going on at the moment.)

damn you, Charlie Kaufman

Hulu sent me an email mentioning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and then all of a sudden I seem to have just watched it again. I guess it’s almost been a year since my last Eternal Sunshine viewing, so maybe it was time. And I can’t wait for Synecdoche, New York even though it might be overly long.

recipe for Doomsday (with posters!)

Neil Marshall’s simple recipe for

Doomsday:

Should we add some High Tension to the recipe? (click for trailer)

4 cups of 28 Days Later…
2 pounds of Mad Max
5 pints of Thunderdome
2 1/2 cups of District 13
fresh squeezed official* Rhona Mitra
2 tablespoons of Running Man
3 1/2 teaspoons of Resident Evil
4 ounces of Aliens
1/2 tablespoon of Equilibrium
1 teaspoon of V for Vendetta
1 small can of No Escape
some dried Abyss
1/2 ounce of Silent Hill
a dash of 300
3 teaspoons of Gladiator
1/4 teaspoon of Ultraviolet
a dollop of Judge Dredd
a dash of Tank Girl (optional)
a sprinkle of Underworld

Mix all of the futuristic elements in one bowl and all of the apocalyptic elements in another. Slowly fold the dystopic items into the futuristic mixture and carefully combine them all into one script, being careful not to add too much wirework. Drizzle the official Rhona Mitra (see below) throughout and be sure to throw in a gratuitous ass shot. Make sure plenty of the people involved have cool accents and then give it to Neil Marshall (the guy that wrote and directed Dog Soldiers and the Descent) and hopefully it will turn out to be half as good as either of those movies.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one, but I’ve never seen a trailer that reminded me of so many other things. I have faith in the writer/director based on his previous projects though, so this film’s definitely going on my to-see list. Besides…Rhona Mitra looks like a girl that I could freshly squeeze watch for way, way longer than movies ever last.

Garnish with The Transporter and add some bikers from Weird Science to taste.

Serves millions.

*the official website of Rhona Mitra

edit:

see 5 minutes of Cloverfield update

Here is some new stuff about the movie previously known as 01-18-08:

The poster for Escape from New York supposedly inspired the scene of the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty in Cloverfield.

J. J. Abrams apparently conceived of a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan. He explained, “We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, ‘we need our own monster, and not King Kong, King Kong’s adorable.’ I wanted something that was just insane and intense.”

See 5 exclusive minutes of Cloverfield.

They have also launched viral websites for Slusho! and a Japanese drilling company to add to the mythology of the story, much in the same way that they did for Lost.

oh yeah… Be Kind Rewind!

I got so excited when I saw the trailer for Be Kind Rewind (what a great idea!) that I immediately watched it again before showing it to my cuddle partner. She was equally excited (mainly because she loves Mos Def) and also watched the trailer again. Then we talked about it a bit and I forgot all about sharing it. Until now.

Be Kind Rewind trailer

 

Luckily for you, they’ve released some youtube videos specifically to remind me to share.

Jack Black and director Michel Gondry explain the art of sweding.

 

And there’s more: Robocop, Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, Rush Hour 2 and BoYZ In THe HooD are all sweded here. I hope they’ve got more movies up their sleeve though…I don’t want these to be the only ones.

Jumper trailer and (new!) posters

I’ve liked every other Doug Liman movie that I’ve seen, so maybe this will be as cool as it looks. I guess anything is possible. Crap. I mean anywhere…wait, that doesn’t even make sense. And I’m a dork. Anyway, here are the posters and a link to the trailer:

Jumper HD trailer

So…which poster do you like better? It’s like modern Egypt vs. the Matrix with new Las Vegas.

 

Jumper by Steven Gould

Has anyone read Steven Gould’s book? It’s apparently one of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-1999. (There’s a sequel too…in case the movie makes enough money.) I haven’t read it, but his other book Blind Waves was pretty darn cool and would probably make a great movie.

edit:

new foreign posters:

100 Movies, 100 Quotes and (more than) 100 Numbers

 

…and here is the list of movies:

100. Night of the Living Dead
99. Laura
98. Dead Poet’s Society
97. Bladerunner
96. The Lost Weekend
95. Ocean’s 11
94. Star Wars

The Dark Knight trailer (and international posters)

It’s been a while since I’ve shared*, but the comic geek inside me couldn’t pass this one up. The sequel to Batman Begins finally has more than a teaser trailer. There are two new international posters and a new website with the first official full trailer. The teaser wasn’t worth mentioning and I feel the same way about the domestic poster so you will have to find those on your own. Here are the cool posters:

(click for full resolution.)

(click for full resolution.)

 

 

And here is a link to the new website with the trailer:

aTasteForTheTheatrical.com
(click on “DOWNLOAD NOW” to watch)

 

*There are a couple good reasons why it’s been so long between posts on this site. First, I work around 60 hours a week now and that leaves little time for finding cool things on the internet to share. And second, I may be moving this site from wordpress to a more legit location in the (somewhat) near future. Stay tuned for more details.

the signal and more 30 days of night

the Signal | new 30 Days of Night posters

 

the Signal trailer in HD

Apparently this movie is filmed in three segments by three different directors and the trailer doesn’t really show much. It was enough to provoke my interest though.

 

three new 30 Days of Night posters:

click for larger versions [I Watch Stuff]

These new posters look even more like the original comic art than the teaser poster and if you haven’t already seen it (or the trailer for 30 Days of Night) you might want to click that link.