I apologies for the pun in the title for this post but I just couldn't resist! I was perusing the internet the other day and I saw this, not only are the Mouse House Disney wanting another Alice In Wonderland but according to Variety they have got someone to write the script for Pirates Of The Caribbean 5.
According to Variety Disney have got Jeff Nathanson to write the script but here's the confusing bit according to IndieWire's The Playlist blog Terry Rossio had two years ago signed on to write this new edition to the cash cow series....so who is actually writing this damn thing! Well I've just tried to see if I could find any new updates on any blogs that could help me out, but unfortunatly all I kept getting was the same as this story.
I can understand if Disney has decided to hire a new writer for this fifth film because I've seen Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest and I have to say that it was a bit shit and wasn't anywhere as good as the first film that Terry Rossio co-wrote.
But on the other hand Jeff Nathanson has written 'Catch Me If You Can' with Leonardo DiCaprio in and I have seen this but I do have to say that I thought this was soooo slow and boring that I walked out half way through...and I've never had to do this with any other film so I think that it's fair to say this is saying a lot! So maybe it's best if Terry Rossio who has co-wrote all the other films in this series stays on so as to make this film fast moving, action packed and above all enjoyable.
Johnny Depp hasn't officially signed on the dotted line for this yet but I'm guessing that depending on how much money he is offered to do this role he'll be back for the role...but Variety does say that Johnny Depp has said he would return if the material was good.
Apart from this not much is known about the plot details whether any of the original cast members other than Johnny Depp are going to come back or not so we'll just have to wait and see for any more news on this.
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Here comes the calvry to save HMV's day!
I just saw this headline on NME.com "Major record labels assemble rescue package for struggling HMV", and being an avid user of HMV to get all my CD's and DVD's this I have to say piqued my interest, as the first time I heard that HMV were going into administration I heard it on the radio the day I came back from holiday so it made me a little depressed to hear this news, I did though know they were in trouble before but I thought that something had to be done to help so that the highstreet wasn't just an wild west town with tumbleweed being seen blowing down it thanks to the recession and major shops having to close.
But thankfully with this news it looks like someone might be wanting to give HMV a helping hand.
According The Sunday Times Universal Music, Sony and Warner Music are getting together a rescue package that is said to be supported by film big wigs Warner Bros., Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox making this a multi-million pound rescue deal to save HMV and stop it from going out of business.
The Sunday Times also reports that the record labels coming in to save HMV want to give the retailer generous credit terms as well as cut the prices of CD's and DVD's.
Industry insiders have said about this rescue package that the big wig record labels and film studios have come in to help save the day because they were desperate keep alive a specialist retailer to avoid cut-throat pricing by supermarkets and internet distributors...one was reported as even saying that:
"They don't want their only choice to be Tesco or Amamzon".
It's understood says The Sunday Times that this entertainment industry consortium are favoring the bid put in for HMV by Hilco- an investor in struggling businesses-.
But this article does also point out that although this news about the big wigs of the entertainment industry coming in to save the day being very exciting they have in fact sat up and taken notice as HMV is said to account for 1/5th of the British CD and DVD market.
But thankfully with this news it looks like someone might be wanting to give HMV a helping hand.
According The Sunday Times Universal Music, Sony and Warner Music are getting together a rescue package that is said to be supported by film big wigs Warner Bros., Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox making this a multi-million pound rescue deal to save HMV and stop it from going out of business.
The Sunday Times also reports that the record labels coming in to save HMV want to give the retailer generous credit terms as well as cut the prices of CD's and DVD's.
Industry insiders have said about this rescue package that the big wig record labels and film studios have come in to help save the day because they were desperate keep alive a specialist retailer to avoid cut-throat pricing by supermarkets and internet distributors...one was reported as even saying that:
"They don't want their only choice to be Tesco or Amamzon".
It's understood says The Sunday Times that this entertainment industry consortium are favoring the bid put in for HMV by Hilco- an investor in struggling businesses-.
But this article does also point out that although this news about the big wigs of the entertainment industry coming in to save the day being very exciting they have in fact sat up and taken notice as HMV is said to account for 1/5th of the British CD and DVD market.
Friday, 18 January 2013
The Call...You have to watch this!
I saw the poster for this new movie with Hallie Berry and this looks like a really good thriller.
The story behind this film is Hallie Berry plays a veteran emergency call operator who must confront a murderer from her past.
I've just been looking for the UK release date for this film that but all I've been getting is bad reviews but I just thought that as she's an emergency 999 call operator she should put the call through to the police rather than keep listening to the call because she's bored and a bit of a nosy bitch and I think it is fair to say that when she makes the mistake of calling a terrified girl back after she's phoned up as she's heared someone enter her house...that it's her fault that the girl gets murdered.
So after that you would have thought that she'd never be put in that situation again but because this is a movie she is put into this same situation and gets a chance to put this situation right i.e she gets the chance to be the hero and actually save another girl that is going to get murdered by the same murderer.
According to IMDb.com The Call is released over in the USA on the 15th March 2013.
The story behind this film is Hallie Berry plays a veteran emergency call operator who must confront a murderer from her past.
I've just been looking for the UK release date for this film that but all I've been getting is bad reviews but I just thought that as she's an emergency 999 call operator she should put the call through to the police rather than keep listening to the call because she's bored and a bit of a nosy bitch and I think it is fair to say that when she makes the mistake of calling a terrified girl back after she's phoned up as she's heared someone enter her house...that it's her fault that the girl gets murdered.
So after that you would have thought that she'd never be put in that situation again but because this is a movie she is put into this same situation and gets a chance to put this situation right i.e she gets the chance to be the hero and actually save another girl that is going to get murdered by the same murderer.
According to IMDb.com The Call is released over in the USA on the 15th March 2013.
Scary Movie 5 Trailer #1!
I saw an image of this film the other day on IMDb.com and I saw the trailer yesterday...this is hilarious.
I don't know how the director Malcolm D. Lee managed to get Charlie Sheen in this film as I would have thought that this was a big risk because of all the trouble in the past especially with the tiger blood and machete wielding so I would have thought that he couldn't play with others mainly for their own safety.
But this looks like the others that he's playing with such as Lindsay Lohan and it looking like that he gets a 5 second role in it where he can do nothing wrong to add to the list of memorable things of Charlie Sheen.
The story to this movie is that Ashley Tisdale and Scary Movie veteran Simon Rex play Dan and Jody who bring home their new baby back from the hospital and start to experience some paranormal activity so with the help of home surveillance cameras and a team of experts they learn they are being stalked by a demon.
This is out in cinemas over here in the UK on the 12th April 2013 if you want to know the dates for when this is out in your country just go to IMDb.com and click on the UK date and it'll show other dates for other countries.
Hallejulah HMV may have a savior!
I was just perusing the internet looking for something to fill the time while I've been snowed in and this story on Ditigital Spy caught my eye.
I was really sad to hear the other day when I came back from a family holiday in Lanzarote and heared on Radio 1 that HMV were going into administration, I couldn't believe this news when I first heard it but I do have to say that I knew before that HMV had been heading for trouble and I had heard that they were going to restructure some parts of the company so as to see if they could try and survive like they started doing live concerts, selling merchandise, mp3 downloads along with other things but alas this wasn't enough...
But now according to Digital Spy OpCapita the retail group who were GAME's white knight in shining armor have been among the many that have approached Deloitte who have been appointed to be HMV group administrators earlier this week including Hilco who own HMV Canada as well as private equity group Endless...but also Digital Spy has reported that there have been "...50 expressions of interest in HMV's assests..."
GAME Retail CEO Martyn Gibbs told The Financial Times that GAME Retail that:
"...We will constantly review our property portfolio based on what is available..."
He went on to say that:
"...We will not rule any stores that are becoming available, be that through an administration or normal property deals".
Digital Spy also reports that GAME Retail are wanting 40-45 store locations in towns where they don't have a presence.
I was really sad to hear the other day when I came back from a family holiday in Lanzarote and heared on Radio 1 that HMV were going into administration, I couldn't believe this news when I first heard it but I do have to say that I knew before that HMV had been heading for trouble and I had heard that they were going to restructure some parts of the company so as to see if they could try and survive like they started doing live concerts, selling merchandise, mp3 downloads along with other things but alas this wasn't enough...
But now according to Digital Spy OpCapita the retail group who were GAME's white knight in shining armor have been among the many that have approached Deloitte who have been appointed to be HMV group administrators earlier this week including Hilco who own HMV Canada as well as private equity group Endless...but also Digital Spy has reported that there have been "...50 expressions of interest in HMV's assests..."
GAME Retail CEO Martyn Gibbs told The Financial Times that GAME Retail that:
"...We will constantly review our property portfolio based on what is available..."
He went on to say that:
"...We will not rule any stores that are becoming available, be that through an administration or normal property deals".
Digital Spy also reports that GAME Retail are wanting 40-45 store locations in towns where they don't have a presence.
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Wolverine is coming back for The Days Of Future Past!
It feels like ages since I last posted anything on here, sorry it's been sooo long but I just got into the festive mood and a lot has happened.
You may or may not have heard but Hugh Jackman is going to be in the prequal sequel to X:Men First Class, X:Men Days of Future Past, using Twitter to gather excitement for this film by saying that:
" (he would) like to welcome @RealHughJackman to the cast of #XMen Days Of Future Past. Very excited! More to come..."
This "more to come..." sounds ominous to me but it definitely has piqued my interest into there being more movie news on this film which has already released this still which I read is from a flashback of Logan/Wolverine's where he has bone claws. To be honest I have only seen the cartoon series of the X:Men that used to be on CBBC and I didn't think that Wolverine had bone claws...so when I saw The Big Bang Theory the other day and Sheldon and Howard Walowitz were having an argument about whether Wolverine had bone claws or not and I saw Sheldon show that Wolverine had in the comic books bone claws I couldn't believe that the next day there was this still from the film "The Wolverine" which is released on the 25th 2013 in the UK up on Empire Magazine's website...well you live and learn something new everyday I think!
This though I can imagine is the first of a lot more news on this movie to come and with the UK release date of X:Men Days Of Future Past being the 18th July 2014 this I can't wait for...check IMDb.com for other countries release dates:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
*If your not sure how to get other countries release dates just click on the underlined UK release date.
You may or may not have heard but Hugh Jackman is going to be in the prequal sequel to X:Men First Class, X:Men Days of Future Past, using Twitter to gather excitement for this film by saying that:
" (he would) like to welcome @RealHughJackman to the cast of #XMen Days Of Future Past. Very excited! More to come..."
This "more to come..." sounds ominous to me but it definitely has piqued my interest into there being more movie news on this film which has already released this still which I read is from a flashback of Logan/Wolverine's where he has bone claws. To be honest I have only seen the cartoon series of the X:Men that used to be on CBBC and I didn't think that Wolverine had bone claws...so when I saw The Big Bang Theory the other day and Sheldon and Howard Walowitz were having an argument about whether Wolverine had bone claws or not and I saw Sheldon show that Wolverine had in the comic books bone claws I couldn't believe that the next day there was this still from the film "The Wolverine" which is released on the 25th 2013 in the UK up on Empire Magazine's website...well you live and learn something new everyday I think!
This though I can imagine is the first of a lot more news on this movie to come and with the UK release date of X:Men Days Of Future Past being the 18th July 2014 this I can't wait for...check IMDb.com for other countries release dates:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
*If your not sure how to get other countries release dates just click on the underlined UK release date.
Monday, 3 December 2012
Wolverine might be coming back for the next X:Men film!
I just saw this and I have to say that I'm not sure of what to make of this piece of news as it's exciting to hear that Hugh Jackman who has played Logan/Wolverine in all the X:Men films so far including a cameo role in X:Men: First Class is reported to be in talks to return to this role for the sequel to First Class X:Men: Days Of Future Past.
But here's where my excitement ends as according to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog this sequel X:Men:Days Of Future Past will feature actors from the first X:Men film which saw Magneto and co. kidnapping Rogue so as to transfer his power to her so as to make everybody that was human an X:Man so as everybody could be equal, and that The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision Blog also reported that on Monday Brian Singer who directed the first two X:Men films announced that Sir Ian McKellan who played Magneto in the first two as well as Gandalph the Great in The Hobbit which I read the other day on the BBC website that New Zeland for the premiere of the film there turned the location for this to the opening of a Hobbit House in The Shire and rebranded its self for the evening as the Middle of Middle Earth which I thought was amazing and that it must have looked really spectacular, is coming back to this X:Men film as well as Patrick Stewart who played Charles Xavier in the first two films....but I just thought that both in the comic books and in the second X:Men film which was on recently on E4 Charles Xavier (the one played by Patrick Stewart) had been killed off.
If your not sure what the story for X:Men:Days of Future Past is then I'll fill you in this according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision Blog is a story that unfolded over two issues of Marvel Comic Books called "The Uncanny X:Men" in 1981 that was written by Chris Claremont and came from the artists John Byrne and Terry Austin. The story was set in partially in an alternate future partially in the present. In the alternate future surviving mutants had been rounded up and put into concentration camps and giant robots called "Sentinels" patrolled America and most of the X:Men had been hunted down and killed.
This has kind of already been done in the X:Men TV show Alphas where from the trailers that I keep seeing of the new series all the mutants were rounded up and put in a maximum security prison and then the government wanted them out so as to help fight crime and reband with the team leader who played Noah Vosa in The Bourne films as the Charles Xavier character so as to stop the Magneto character led group of rogue mutants from creating crime.
In the present day the X:Men were forced to stop a key event from happening in order to make sure this alternate future didn't happen.
Oh I get it now! You could put Nicholas Hoult (Hank) who has got another film coming out which is suppose to fill the gap left by Twilight "Warm Bodies" where he plays a zombie and falls in love with a human here is the second trailer for it:
Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto), James McAvoy (Young Charles) and Jennifer Lawrence (Raven/Mystique) in the past part and then but Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in the present But still how on earth are you going to revive Patrick Stewart's character after Jean Gray's split personality The Pheonix ripped him to shreds.
Warm Bodies is coming out over in the UK in 8th February 2013 go to IMDb to see the other release dates for other countries.
Speaking of films that are suppose to fill the gap left by Twilight there is a film coming out called "Beautiful Creatures", I heard ages ago about this film which does to me sound very much like Twilight but the only different is that it's the girl this time that is the mysterious one and not the guy. In this film the story is that Ethan wants to get out of town but then he meets Lena (mysterious one) who is a witch.
Here is the second trailer for this movie which according to IMDb.com comes out in the UK on 13th February 2013 go to the IMDb page to see the release dates for other countries.
But here's where my excitement ends as according to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog this sequel X:Men:Days Of Future Past will feature actors from the first X:Men film which saw Magneto and co. kidnapping Rogue so as to transfer his power to her so as to make everybody that was human an X:Man so as everybody could be equal, and that The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision Blog also reported that on Monday Brian Singer who directed the first two X:Men films announced that Sir Ian McKellan who played Magneto in the first two as well as Gandalph the Great in The Hobbit which I read the other day on the BBC website that New Zeland for the premiere of the film there turned the location for this to the opening of a Hobbit House in The Shire and rebranded its self for the evening as the Middle of Middle Earth which I thought was amazing and that it must have looked really spectacular, is coming back to this X:Men film as well as Patrick Stewart who played Charles Xavier in the first two films....but I just thought that both in the comic books and in the second X:Men film which was on recently on E4 Charles Xavier (the one played by Patrick Stewart) had been killed off.
If your not sure what the story for X:Men:Days of Future Past is then I'll fill you in this according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision Blog is a story that unfolded over two issues of Marvel Comic Books called "The Uncanny X:Men" in 1981 that was written by Chris Claremont and came from the artists John Byrne and Terry Austin. The story was set in partially in an alternate future partially in the present. In the alternate future surviving mutants had been rounded up and put into concentration camps and giant robots called "Sentinels" patrolled America and most of the X:Men had been hunted down and killed.
This has kind of already been done in the X:Men TV show Alphas where from the trailers that I keep seeing of the new series all the mutants were rounded up and put in a maximum security prison and then the government wanted them out so as to help fight crime and reband with the team leader who played Noah Vosa in The Bourne films as the Charles Xavier character so as to stop the Magneto character led group of rogue mutants from creating crime.
In the present day the X:Men were forced to stop a key event from happening in order to make sure this alternate future didn't happen.
Oh I get it now! You could put Nicholas Hoult (Hank) who has got another film coming out which is suppose to fill the gap left by Twilight "Warm Bodies" where he plays a zombie and falls in love with a human here is the second trailer for it:
Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto), James McAvoy (Young Charles) and Jennifer Lawrence (Raven/Mystique) in the past part and then but Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in the present But still how on earth are you going to revive Patrick Stewart's character after Jean Gray's split personality The Pheonix ripped him to shreds.
Warm Bodies is coming out over in the UK in 8th February 2013 go to IMDb to see the other release dates for other countries.
Speaking of films that are suppose to fill the gap left by Twilight there is a film coming out called "Beautiful Creatures", I heard ages ago about this film which does to me sound very much like Twilight but the only different is that it's the girl this time that is the mysterious one and not the guy. In this film the story is that Ethan wants to get out of town but then he meets Lena (mysterious one) who is a witch.
Here is the second trailer for this movie which according to IMDb.com comes out in the UK on 13th February 2013 go to the IMDb page to see the release dates for other countries.
And finally the other filler for the Twilight gap is The Host, the trailer has finally come out for it and it looks like a few of the things that go on in the book have been changed...Thank God! as my opinion of the book was that it was dull as dishwater! Here is the trailer for you to peruse:
According to IMDb.com this is due for release in the UK on the 29th March 2013, look at the IMDb page to find other country release dates.
X:Men Days of Future Past is out over here on the 18th July 2014.
I just wanted to put this film trailer up because I saw it the other day and it's new...it's a first official trailer for Hansel and Gretel (not sure if I've spelt this right but watch and enjoy anyway):
This is out over here in the UK on the 15th March 2013.
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