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Angels & Demons has a good score

Liam — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:05:45 +0000

Sony have released a new video for Angels & Demons which consists of a collection of clips from the film, combined with the films score by Hans Zimmer. Even if the film ends up being rubbish, at least we can sit with our eyes closed and just listen to the music.

Angels & Demons TV spot

Liam — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:27:20 +0000

Columbia Pictures have released a new TV spot for Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, which you can watch below!

New Angels & Demons poster

Liam — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:06:10 +0000

Sony Pictures have released a new poster for Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons via their Twitter account. This seems to be the latest trend, as Lionsgate have been revealing new stuff on their account also.

Earlier this month the Catholic League announced that they would be boycotting the film. This will no doubt drum up some controversy as we saw with The Da Vinci Code, so expect Angels & Demons to do rather well at the box office.

Catholic League vs. Da Vinci Code: The sequel

Liam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:52:21 +0000

The Catholic League are at it again. After protesting against The Da Vinci Code back in 2006, they are putting on their protesting robes yet again for Angels & Demons.

From The Guardian:

The League, which is led by controversial president William A Donohue, said it would be pointing out what it says are a number of falsehoods in the new film and the Dan Brown book on which it is based. It also claimed Angels and Demons, which arrives in cinemas on 15 May, had an anti-Catholic agenda.
The League’s determination to repeat its campaign against 2006’s The Da Vinci Code is slightly surprising because statements it made in the run-up to the film’s release were widely suspected to have helped, rather than hindered, the movie’s gargantuan $758m (£540m) global box office.

In the new film, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, played once again by Tom Hanks, discovers the existence of the Illuminati, a powerful secret organisation that has been pitting itself against the Roman Catholic church for centuries. Together with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) he follows a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols to the heart of “the most secretive vault on Earth”.

The Oscars had a preview of 2009 movies in the credits!

Liam — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:47:54 +0000

During the credits of the 81 Academy Awards we got a ton of footage from upcoming movies, including our first looking at many. The clips included Sherlock Holmes, Public Enemies, Up, Terminator Salvation, Inglourious Basterds, Monsters vs. Aliens, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Angels & Demons, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and G-Force (to name a few).

Watch the footage below!

New Angels & Demons trailer

Liam — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:37:06 +0000

We have a new trailer for Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, and it looks quite good. The trailer is just an extra long version of the Super Bowl TV spot we got a week or two ago. It looks a lot better than The Da Vinci Code.

Directed by Ron Howard, with Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, and Ewan McGregor. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.

Angels & Demons Super Bowl TV spot

Liam — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:48:35 +0000

Explosions aren’t just limited to movies such as Transformers 2 or G.I. Joe, Angels & Demons can get in on the action too! There aren’t too many explosions mind, most of it is religious woffle troffle and Ewan McGregor in a dress, but it still looks good. Check out the Super Bowl spot below!

Directed by Ron Howard, with Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, and Ewan McGregor. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.

Angels & Demons Teaser Trailer

Liam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:30:14 +0000

The teaser trailer for Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons has just worked it’s way online, and is probably one of the best teaser’s I have seen in a while. Watch it below!

The team behind the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code returns for the highly anticipated Angels & Demons, based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon, who once again finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing, even murder, to advance their goals. Ron Howard again directs the film. When Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati — the most powerful underground organization in history — he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the secret organization’s most despised enemy: the Catholic Church.

Angels & Demons Poster

Liam — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:25:41 +0000

Below is a teaser poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming movie Angels & Demons. Tom Hanks will be back playing Robert Langdon (who was first seen in The Da Vinci Code). This time round Hanks will be joined by Ewan McGregor who is playing a dude called Carlo Ventresca.

Angels and Demons was the reclusive authors third novel after he gave up his job as an English teacher. It tells the story of Langdons brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the worlds most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered.

Pissing Off The Catholics… Again?

Liam — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:41:21 +0000

Apparently, the Catholic Church hasn’t forgotten the firestorm of controversy that The Da Vinci Code (book AND film) dredged up a few years ago.

According to new reports, the team behind the upcoming Angels & Demons film adaptation, including director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks, have been banned from filming in two churches because the movie “does not conform to our views,” said Monsignor Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the diocese.

The crew had asked to film in the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria, two architectural jewels in the heart of Rome that include paintings by Caravaggio, sculptures by Bernini and a chapel designed by Raphael.
Permission was denied in 2007, but the issue [re]surfaced only now that filming is ongoing in Rome, Fibbi said. The Sony-produced film was put on hold during the Writers Guild of America strike that ended in February and is now scheduled for release in May 2009.
“It’s a film that treats religious issues in a way that contrasts with common religious sentiment,” Fibbi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “We would be helping them create a work that might well be beautiful but that does not conform to our views.”
Fibbi acknowledged that the controversy over writer Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” and its blockbuster movie version had weighed on the decision.

The ban won’t extend to the exterior of the buildings, but film crews will not be allowed inside.

Something the church DOES seem to have forgotten is that, by boycotting and otherwise trying to block the release of the movie (and book, for that matter), it only added fuel to the controversy and probably made the franchise THAT MUCH MORE SUCCESSFUL. People who wouldn’t ordinarily have read the book or seen the movie were intrigued by something the church was so vehemently trying to squash.

Lesson to be learned: If you don’t want to make a big deal out of something, IGNORE IT. Besides, they obviously haven’t read A&D, because it has nothing to do with biblical conspiracies. The movie’s going to be successful anyway. Ah well.