By: preme | On: 22 Oct, 2008
Basically all comic book movie fans know that part of Marvel Studio’s and Paramount Pictures line-up includes an adaptation of Thor. Over the last several months there has been plenty of rumors for a lead star. From Triple H (WWE) to Kevin McKidd but there hasn’t been any more than that.
On Monday, IESB.net confirmed with Daniel Craig that he was offered the part of Thor. IESB said that they heard he was on a short list for the character but “Craig said yes they [Marvel] did approach him but he turned it down. He added jokingly, it would have been too much of a power trip, both Bond and Thor, and running around with long hair and a hammer.”
Umm… I love Craig but I’m glad he turned down Thor. The part just didn’t fit him. That’s something I respect about some big time actors. They’ll turn down roles because they know it’s just not right.
Hopfully they’ll find someone who’ll be perfect for Thor.
-Phil
By: preme | On: 07 Sep, 2008
In New York City’s modern whirl of fashion and publishing, Mary Haines seems to have it all–a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father’s venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler, leads another enviable life–as a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York’s cutting edge. But when Mary’s husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen, a sultry “spritzer girl” lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie’s relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen and author Alex Fisher, all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.
Also Known As:
The Women (Inferno)
Production Status:
Released
Logline:
The story centers around bickering, divorce and competition amongst a supposed group of friends.
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Adaptation and Remake
Release Date:
September 12th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking.
Distributors:
Picturehouse
By: preme | On: 31 Aug, 2008
A vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time is trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal.
Also Known As:
Georgiana
Georgiana: Dutchess of Devonshire
Production Status:
Released
Genres:
Art/Foreign, Drama, Adaptation and Biopic
Release Date:
September 19th, 2008 (limited)
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and thematic material.
Distributors:
Paramount Vantage
By: preme | On: 23 Jul, 2008
Adapted from the Will Eisner’s graphic novels, “The Spirit” tells the story of a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows of Central City.
The Occtopus — who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face — has other plans. He’s going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this coldhearted killer from the city’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront…all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.
Genres:
Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Release Date:
December 25th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors:
Lionsgate
Production Co.:
Batfilm Productions, Odd Lot Entertainment
Financiers:
Lionsgate, Odd Lot Entertainment
Filming Locations:
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
By: preme | On: 18 Jul, 2008
Mamma Mia! is the worst-directed “good” movie ever. If it wasn’t for the effervescent charms of ABBA’s sparkling songs, and the brave earnestness of the uniformly superb cast, it would be an unbridled disaster. No matter her impressive theatrical résumé, director Phyllida Lloyd is the song and dance version of Uwe Boll. Her choices behind the lens are so shockingly bad, and her grasp of cinematic language so surprisingly weak, that you wonder how amazing this movie would have been had someone with a modicum of moviemaking skill shown up to take control.
A prime example of Lloyd’s motion picture incompetence comes toward the very end, when Streep is singing her heart out to “The Winner Takes It All.” It’s an emotional moment, the pinnacle ballad in a character’s crazed, out-of-control life. As the Oscar winner delivers a knock-out performance, her delicate gestures giving way to facial expressions racked with regret, Lloyd circles the actress, her camera constantly swirling around the action. By the fourth or fifth revolution, we want the visual merry-go-round to stop, if only to give Streep a chance to connect. But instead, the audience must endure more whirling dervish nonsense before a final shot saves everything.
Much of Mamma Mia! is like this, random moments of acting/musical brilliance boondoggled by Lloyd’s aggravating designs. A pier-side chorus line of “liberated” ladies really sells “Dancing Queen,” even if our filmmaker can’t capture the moment properly for maximum impact. Our young lovers sing “Lay All Your Love on Me” with the appropriate passion, even as their director adds goofy men in scuba gear as a Monty Python-like distraction.
And remember, this is a good movie, a film buoyed by ABBA’s undeniably infectious music. The minute one of their classic kitsch hits comes cascading across the speakers, all flaws are forgiven, carried away on puffy cotton candy clouds of pop chart charms. It’s hard to maintain a sour attitude with ’70s staples like “S.O.S.,” “Super Trouper,” or “Take a Chance on Me” bouncing in your brain. And given the fact that Streep, Brosnan, and Seyfried acquit themselves admirably, we have no real qualm with the content.
Also Known As:
Mama Mia!
Mamma Mia! The Movie
Production Status:
Released
Genres:
Comedy, Musical/Performing Arts and Adaptation
Release Date:
July 18th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Distributors:
Universal Pictures Distribution