Hold the bus....Matt Damon's back in the 1st trailer for Jason Bourne!

Omg I am sooo excited to hear about this piece of news today and I couldn't wait to see it when I first saw it trending on Facebook.

If like me you're a massive fan of the "Jason Bourne" film franchise and haven't seen this first trailer yet as you don't live across the pond in USA, or you didn't stream the NFL Superbowl over the weekend here is the link to watch it over on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBnmKOixDM

So...as you can now see from this first look trailer of this new film where Matt Damon is back to reprise the role of Jason Bourne/David Webb, this looks like the long running plot line of Jason Bourne being a government trained assassin with amnesia has now come to an end and that this trailer seems to suggest that Jason Bourne remembers everything...well I had read an interview that Matt Damon did with GQ Magazine a while back saying that he felt that this amnesia storyline had run it's course and he also felt that he and the filmmakers had done everything they could with this...so I did think that maybe for this film that the filmmakers would go a bit,-I hoped- away from this amnesia storyline, but if you ask me this is a bit sad to be done with such a long running storyline as this has been a pivotal part of what makes these films so good as the audience are made to feel like they are going at the same pace as the character is to find out why people are chasing him and who are these people chasing him.

But I suppose all things have to come to an end sometime.

I do realise as I type this that this sentiment does sound very morbid and may sound very down beat and may even sound as if it's saying that this film won't be as good without this long running storyline of the main character Jason Bourne having amnesia, nothing could be further from this I guess this just shows how the film has moved on from this old storyline and into a new era, and I guess the way that this new movie has got a new title as well "Jason Bourne" instead of the title for this film being like the other films in the franchise such as "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum" or even "The Bourne Legacy" shows again that this film has moved on from the storylines of old.

Further plot details on what this film will be about are still few and very far between except for how this movie will be set in a post- Edward Snowden world, and it has been said by Matt Damon himself that this new movie will reflect the financially risky times of today.

But this trailer does look like Jason Bourne is doing some confronting this time instead of packing a punch to others whether it be in the words of Empire Magazine "...laying out opponents with one punch..." or whether it be with ramming several vehicles down a main road with a van and creating a massive road block.

Also, from this trailer it sounds like to me that,-fingers crossed-, Julia Stilles may be back as Nikki Parsons who was in "The Bourne Supremacy" who was Treadstone's logistical co-ordianator and was part of Pamela Landy's team that went on the hunt for Jason Bourne in Berlin after operatives from the CIA were killed trying to find out about the Russian politician Vladimir Neski's death and it was all set up for her and the CIA to believe that Jason Bourne had killed these operatives, and she went on the run with Jason Bourne in the "The Bourne Ultimatum" and then she changed her appearance, her name and her routine in this film as Jason Bourne told her "He couldn't run with her because they'd be looking for her now" but audiences see her at the end of the film smiling sat in a café somewhere at a news report that says the body of Jason Bourne hadn't been found.

But I have some questions though for the filmmaker's where is Aaron Cross in amongst this storyline?, or will this character actually be in this film? or has this character just been side lined for another film?...who knows.

But for now we'll just have to eagerly anticipate this film's release date of July 29th 2016.

Rita Ora being sued by Roc Nation

The other weekend I was reading in The Sun's newspaper that Rita Ora was going to be suing Roc Nation as according to her Roc Nation had lost interest in her career and had been focusing on Rihanna's career as well as Calvin Harris as well as it being reported that because of Rita Ora's and Rihanna's 'beef' with each other apparently Roc Nation had been listening to Rihanna and holding back songs that Rita Ora would have recorded and letting Rihanna have first dibs on these songs.

But now according to TheWrap.com Roc Nation have slapped a lawsuit on Rita Ora on Friday suing her for $2 million plus along with unspecified damages for four albums that have not yet been delivered.

Also according to TheWrap.com Roc Nation's complaint that it filed with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, Rita Ora signed with Roc Nation back in 2008 when she still an unknown and agreed to deliver 5 albums, only one of which she's turned over.

This complaint goes on to say that Roc Nation invested millions of dollars in marketing, recording, and other costs which were instrumental in guiding Ms. Ora to her current level of success and fame. And Roc Nation also claims in this same complaint to have sunk more than $2 million into her in-progress second album.

Roc Nation has also alleged breach of contract and want $2 million plus damages back along with unspecified damages for the four albums which haven't been delivered.

But this isn't the only complaint that Roc Nation has filed as TheWrap.com says that they filed a cross-complaint to Rita Ora's lawsuit in California with similar allegations on Friday.

But according to Rita Ora's attorney, Howard King who has said according to a statement provided to TheWrap.com that:

" Jay Z has personally and graciously promised Rita complete freedom from Roc Nation, the details of which are now being finalised..."

He goes on to say:

" We believe that Roc Nation's distributor, Sony Music, has required Roc Nation to file this action to preserve whatever rights Sony might have pending resolution."

This sounds like to me with her attorney saying this that Rita Ora's team believe that this lawsuit isn't coming from Roc Nation itself but from it's distributor Sony Music, and that this lawsuit isn't serious as Jay Z and Rita Ora and her team are trying to sort this out themselves so that this doesn't go to court...but to me the $2 million plus does sound very harsh to be wanting in a lawsuit but I'm guessing and to the sounds of it so does Rita Ora's team that Sony Music are covering themselves if this matter does go to court.

So with all this going on who knows if Rita Ora will be reprising her role as Mia Grey in the "50 Shades Darker" and "50 Shades Freed".

Kim Basinger to star in "50 Shades Darker"

While I'm on here blogging along the lines of "50 Shades" I thought I just might put it up on here that according to an article TheWrap.com wrote on 28th January Kim Basinger has signed a deal to play Christian Grey's former lover Elena Lincoln in the sequel "50 Shades Darker", and that Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson will return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.

This sequel is set to be directed by James Foley for Universal Picture's and Focus Features and will be produced by Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, Marcus Viscidi and the author of these books herself E.L James with her husband Niall Leonard adapting both books and writing the screen play for both "50 Shades Darker" and "50 Shades Freed".

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson won't be the only original cast members returning to these films though also according to TheWrap.com Luke Grimes who played Elliott Grey will be reprising this role, Eloise Mumford who played Anastasia's friend Kate who couldn't go to the original interview with Mr. Grey and Max Martini who played Max in the first film will also be reprising their roles.

According to TheWrap.com both "50 Shades Darker" and "50 Shades Freed" will be shot back-to-back and according to TheWrap.com Fifty Shades Darker is scheduled for release on Feb. 10, 2017 and Fifty Shades Freed will be released on Feb. 9, 2018. The release pattern effectively establishes the month of February as a new tentpole corridor for Universal, which has timed the series to the romantic Valentine's Day holiday.

Lets hope with all the news I heard from other movie news websites that E.L James will be happier with these film versions of her books.

But TheWrap.com website does say though that both these sequels are pencilled in to be up against animated movies from Warner Bros. so depending on what these are there could be some serious upsets as to which movie takes in the most money.

Well someone had to do it...Marlon Wayans has made a spoof version of "50 Shades Of Grey"

You may or may not have seen this yet but there is finally a spoof version of "50 Shades Of Grey" called "50 Shades Of Black", this for me at least had to be done and thanks to Marlon Wayans who wrote and stars in this film according to IMDb.com and Rick Alvarez who also wrote this movie.

Here is the link to the IMDb.com page where you can watch the trailer for this film in case you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4667094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

This to me looks like it's going to be funny and that it deserves you giving it at least a try as the original film of "50 Shades Of Grey" was in my opinion just begging to have a spoof film of itself made. 

I say this because after me and my sisters gave into the mass wave of everyone talking about how they'd seen it and the actual film being marketed as "very steamy" especially with getting singers such as Beyoncé, The Weekend and Ellie Goulding to perform sexy sounding songs for this film which when me and my sisters saw it had more moments where we could imagine seeing something happening that would bring big laughs more than there being moments where you actually thought this is a bit of what it's said on the tin.

One of the big laughs has to be for me the main fact that Beyoncé, The Weekend and Ellie Goulding have written songs or rather in Beyoncé 's case covered her own song "Crazy In Love",- which to me sounds more just like a slowed down heavy breathing cover version of her own song,- and that these were the only sexy bits of the movie as the actual movie is more awkward than trying to be a "steamy film about S&M"... and that these were the only sexy bits of the movie and unlike all radio stations including my local radio station Spire FM saying girls will be dragging their boyfriends to see the movie as well as mothers will be dragging their husbands to see this movie if I was in that position I would definitely give the film a miss all over again and just change the fact I have this now on DVD and every moment just seemed like to me a head scratching moment one scene that springs to mind is the scene in "50 Shades Of Grey" where Anastasia wants to try out being hit with a paddle and afterwards she tells Christian "don't ever do that again".

But according to TheWrap.com this film of Marlon Wayans' has only scored a 14 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has many more critics including its own film critic Alonso Duraldo writing that:

"But we still wind up with a slapdash movie that's more unbearable than the heavy-breathing best-seller and it's emotionally timid screen adaption, even though the dreadful "50 Shades Of Black" has the audacity to think it's earned the right to mock the slightly-less dreadful "50 Shades Of Grey" phenomenon".

Ouch...that seems a bit harsh to me to say about a spoof film that is all about comedy which another critic has seemed to have forgotten saying:

"And it is prone to too obvious gags, including ones made by everyone, including your mother, who once texted you that she once read the book."

This seems also to me a bit harsh to say as the reason spoofs work as well as comedies is they hit you right in the face with the most obvious jokes to make you laugh out loud...and usually there are some subtler jokes interwoven into them but for the most part it's the obvious jokes that really make you laugh as audiences watching the film can probably see what the joke is for themselves but don't want to say it out loud and these comedy films just say "Hey I'm just saying what we're all thinking".

Anyhew...I get that some people are going to think this is funny and some aren't but these critics when they're writing their critiques of the film even they have to admit that some of the scenes they describe sound just a tad funny like:

"...(there's a 'torture' scene where Christian reads to Hannah from the book)..."

And:

"...Black's mother Claire's (Jane Seymour) mistakenly tasing of Hannah ends with her claiming she's 'standing her ground'

This could just be me that finds this last bit a tad funny, but now that I think about it as I write this I think "why would someone's mother be 'standing their ground' by tasering someone?"...unless this film was trying to suggest that their was more going on between mother and son...but I guess that's a whole other thing.

This film is out on 11th March in the UK and if your in another country and want to know when it's released just go to IMDb.com's website and click on the release date it says underneath the title of the film and it will show you the release date for other countries...so you'll just have to wait until then to see just how this stacks up and just how funny this spoof film really is.
 

There's going to be another Die Hard film on the film horizon? Han't there been enough already?...

You may or may have not heard already but according to both Collier.com and Empire Magazine's website Len Wiseman has announced that there will be a prequel/sequel to the Die Hard film franchise called Year One, where he told Collider.com that he "...wasn't going to do it without Bruce. I'm also not going to do it with Bruce being a cameo bookend gimmick...".

But reading this article of Collider.com's it does sound like Len Wiseman has had to do a lot to get the Die Hard fans such as myself back on side and that he like myself understands that the more modern releases of the Die Hard films have been shit and not up to the really good action packed, good story of the first three Die Hard films...but I would say though that the more modern Die Hard films are watchable even though they're so bad and they're not so bad to watch of an evening when there's nothing on television.

As he goes on to say that:

"After doing the fourth one, there were so many conversations that Bruce (Willis) and I were having about what he put into the character for Die Hard 1. That character comes in with so much baggage, emotionally, and experience. He's already divorced, he's bitter, his Captain hates him and doesn't want him back. So what created that guy."

And he goes on to say:

"We've never seen the actual love story. We know it's demise, but we've never seen it what it was like when he met Holly, or when he was a beat cop in '78 in New York when there was no chance of him making detective. It's always something I've been thinking about, and now we're doing it. And it ties in."

But thinking about it now, this does sound to me anyway a bit try hardy, like Len Wisemen and Bruce Willis have either seen how bad the more modern release's of Die Hard films are or how bad the reactions have been to the more modern releases and have thought if there were to be another Die Hard film released what would it be about and how or what would it need to have to be better than the other more modern releases of this film franchise...well I have just one thought on that maybe if there was going to be another film maybe don't give it a stupid title like the others such as "Die Hard 4.0" or "A Good Day To Die Hard".

It might be a nice idea now that I think about it to see when Holly and John McClane met but this is suppose to be a more action based film franchise and these films aren't really about the romance between Holly and John McClane it's more about the action of how an off duty policeman keeps getting caught up in terrorist plots when he's off on holiday, and if the movie makers were to simply go off piste and make it a sickly sweet romance or more of a when "Harry Met Sally" film then I think they'd have even more bad reactions from audiences, but I'm sure,-or rather I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that-, the film makers aren't going to turn this next film into a romcom like that film and are probably just like in other films going to have the guy get the girl at the end of the movie after all the action or adventure in the rest of the movie.

But in another attempt to reassure fans by saying that:

" The film will take place on New Years' Eve 1979..."

So this sounds like to me that Len Wiseman is trying to say that this prequel/sequel will have the feel of the first film which took place at Nakatobi Plaza where the company that Holly Gennaro works for in New York is having their Christmas works party but just as John arrives from the airport to join her at the party the Plaza gets taken over by terrorists led by Hans Gruber played by Alan Rickman who ends up falling off the building after he takes Holly hostage and John McClane  pushes him out the window but just as the audience thinks Holly's safe he gets stuck to the watch she's wearing nearly taking her with him, but thankfully John McClane manages to take off her watch so Hans falls off the building leaving Holly behind amidst the chaos that was caused.

Making it sound like Len Wiseman may be trying to give hope to the fans like me that he will try to make this new film as good as "Die Hard" was by taking it back to the basics of one off duty policeman having to do his job despite wanting to spend some time with his wife that he's separated from over the holidays and despite not having any idea how to deal with terrorists.

And that:

" It's really working into the plot, with the '70's having ramifications on present day Bruce. It inter-cuts in a very fun, imaginative way with present- day John McClane."

Sounds intriguing to me...but I guess we'll just have to wait and see what this will actually look like when the movie finally comes out.

But another thing that might put this new film on shaky ground is how it has been suggested in this Collider.com article by Len Wiseman that the production an unknown actor as you can't possibly think of the character John McClane without thinking of Bruce Willis.

As Len Wiseman says that:

"It has to be somebody that has the swagger and has the confidence, but also the charm, the wit, the charisma and the toughness. It's asking a lot, especially in somebody that's younger. It has to feel like the guy owns it, rather than is trying to put it on."

So this sounds like to me a bit like the never ending debate that always follows the James Bond films of who will play this part next...so from now until whenever this film finally gets released let the names start being thrown into the hat.

A New Labyrinth in the works?

I have always been a big fan of David Bowie and his music...I mean who wouldn't be a fan of David Bowie's music? and I still can't believe such a music legend is dead, not only this but I saw the other day the unbelievable news that a new Labyrinth was going to be made.

I know people say that this film is a cult classic but I think it's just soooo bad it's hilarious...but then again now I think about it according to Entertainment Weekly "...this was the last film that the Muppets master Jim Henson made before his death in 1990..." so obviously this was a man that had had previous with working with puppets and making family fun films for the cinema screen...but this did fail commercially when it was released in 1986 so says Entertainment Weekly....can't think why maybe it had something to do with the dulux dog puppet that looked very much like it ran on wheels at the end of the movie.

Anyhew...for all the movie's faults this is still something I would say you should definitely take a look at if you haven't seen the film, but if you have already seen the film you'll already know that the story to this film sees David Bowie playing the role of King Jaroth the Goblin King who snatches away a teenage girl's (played by a young Jennifer Connelly) baby brother away after she wishes her baby brother away and takes him to his fantastical castle where she has to get him back before the King turns her baby brother into a goblin....with the help of some muppets of course.

I've just read on Rollingstone.com and I didn't even know this but apparently this film was originally written by Monty Python Terry Jones and produced by George Lucas...so I think I'm right in thinking that this film was suppose to be a comedy of sorts.

According to both Empire Magazine's website and Rollingstone.com this film will not be a remake it will a sequel of sorts to the original movie.

And according to Rollingstone.com:

"TriStar ( an arm of Sony's) has inked a deal with the Jim Henson Company to produce a new version of the film, with Guardians of the Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman charged with penning the new Labyrinth script."

So apart from this there is nothing else known about what will become of this, whether it'll just be an idea that never sees the light of day or whether it'll actually get the green light as they say and gets made we'll never know.

Fast and Furious 8 News Update!

Since news of Fast and Furious 8 broke Vin Diesel's Facebook page and the movie news website's have started revving up their engines-sorry about the pun I just couldn't resist!- for any news regarding this film.

According to a report on Empire.com's website that was posted yesterday director F. Gary Grey has just returned from an investigatory trip to Cuba as well as having eyed up locations to shoot this film in both Iceland and Russia eventhough you may or may not have heard that through the medium of Vin Diesel's Facebook page Fast and Furious 8 would be going for a New York location.

Universal Studios has confirmed that "they're seeking approval" from the USA and Cuban governments and the special licences have been applied for as you may or may not already know that for years American and Cuban relations have been as described by The Guardian Newspaper "cold war hostilities" as for years Cuba has been isolated by America, and as of a report on their website posted on the 17th December 2014 President Barack Obama has said he intends to take steps to relax travel as well as commercial and diplomatic restrictions in exchange for releasing Americans as well as dissidents held in Havana.

And as a step towards this relationship between America and Cuba beginning to be repaired Empire.com reports that last year Bob Yari's independent Ernest Hemingway biopic "Papa" which starred Giovani Ribisi (in case your wondering who this is he played the bad guy in both Ted films) was allowed to be filmed in Cuba as via loopholes this was classed as a documentary.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has already been confirmed as returning for this 8th film in the Fast and Furious film franchise. Also Empire.com says that Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast members are looking like strong contenders to be also coming back for this 8th film that has a pencilled in release date of April 14th next year.