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Angelina Jolie’s Salt trailer now in English

Liam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:14:02 +0000

Now it all makes sense. Angelina Jolie is being set up by some Russian guy. I’m just glad she replaced Tom Cruise in the lead role as seeing him say “someone’s set me up” again would have been tedious, as he was already set up before in Mission Impossible and Minority Report.

The trailer is just like the Russian trailer we got yesterday…just not in Russian. Enjoy!

Russian trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Salt

Liam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:07:46 +0000

I’m sure Columbia didn’t intend for anyone to see the first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Salt in Russia (apart from the Russians obviously) but that’s what’s happened. From the trailer it looks like Jolie has returned to the same action form we saw from her in Tomb Raider and Wanted, although as it is in Russian we can’t really understand what’s going on.

Jolie is seen interrogating a man, who mentions the words ‘Salt’, which seems to cause Jolie to panic as she is then seen running out of the building after blowing out a few windows. Then we see her in a number of disguises as she jumps off bridges, crashes cars, and punches people in the face. I can’t wait for the English version so we can understand why she is acting this way. Allergic to salt maybe?

Well I guess we’ve learned some language skills from this trailer. The Russian word for ’salt’ is spelt a lot like the English word for ‘coat’. It may come in handy if you ever dine in Russia.

As well as Jolie the film stars Liev Schreiber who plays a character called Winter, Jolie’s ally and supervisor in the CIA’s Russian (how ironic) office. There’s also Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays a counterintelligence officer trying to take her down.

Update: Filmonic reader Austin used his Russian skills and picked this up:

someone is supposed to kill the president and she wants to know who it is and he tells her Salt and she tells him that she is Salt and so he tells her that she is a Russian spy. she denies this.
“who is Salt?”

Liev Schreiber is not sure he wants to play Victor Creed again

Liam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:23 +0000

One of my favourite things about X-Men Origins: Wolverine was Victor Creed (aka Sabretooth) played by Liev Schreiber. He was menacing and the character was a vast improvement from the Sabretooth we saw in the first X-Men film. As he wasn’t killed off there could be a window of opportunity for him to return for Wolverine 2 which is in development, however Schreiber has told CinemaBlend that he’s not sure if he’d want to come back.

“I’m over 40 now, and do I really want to go through the physical stuff that it took to pull that off again? I’m not so sure.” At the same time, he sounded a bit like a fanboy when discussing possible futures for his character. “As an audience member, I’d be really interested to see how you’d go from the Liev Schreiber Victor Creed to the Tyler Mane Victor Creed [from X-Men]. So I’d like to see that.”

Is Liev hinting at another Sabretooth recast there? We haven’t really heard much on Wolverine 2 since 20th Century Fox announced they were developing it in May, however there is a good chance it will take Wolverine to Japan and follow the samurai storyline, so Victor Creed might not be needed.

While Liev may be too old to be charging around on all fours, he’s not old enough to be running around with Angelina Jolie in Salt, which will be released next July

5 X-Men Origins: Wolverine character profiles

Liam — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:55:54 +0000

MTV revealed 5 cool character profile videos for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. They feature Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and John Wraith (Will.i.am) all talking about their characters and their motives. We also get some new footage in places. Watch below!

Pics of Angelina and Liev on the set of Salt

Liam — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:53:20 +0000

Some more images from the set of Salt have appeared online. This time we get a look at Liev Schreiber on set with Angelina Jolie in New York. Liev plays a character called Winter, Jolie’s ally and supervisor in the CIA’s Russia office. One or two images also feature Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays a counterintelligence officer trying to take her down.

Click here to check out all 20+ images!

Final X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer!

Liam — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:56:52 +0000

The third and final trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is now online. It was supposed to debut over at MTV however USA Today got in a few hours earlier. The trailer features lots of what we have seen before, with a good dose of new scenes featuring Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Silver Fox (Lynn Collins), Agent X (Daniel Henney) and Gambit (Taylor Kitsch).

USA Today were also given some new character shots which can be seen below.

Images combined by /film

Liev Schreiber getting salty with Angelina Jolie

Liam — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:17:12 +0000

According to MovieHole Liev Schreiber (aka Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is in talks to join Angelina Jolie in the action-thriller Salt.

The movie, which starts filming next month in New York City, sees Jolie play the title character, a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.
We’re told Schreiber is up for a “major role” in the picture.

Jolie recently said she was going to cut down her movie roles due to her ever growing brood of children, so for her to be interested in filming this means it must be special in some way.

New Wolverine images + three 60 second TV spots coming!

Liam — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:05:28 +0000

IGN, ComingSoon and LatinoReview were each sent new images from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. They feature a cool shot of Gambit played by Taylor Kitsch, an epic shot of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) going against Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) and a third of Sabretooth looking like a menace. Despite being photoshopped to hell and back, they still look cool.

It appears 20th Century Fox are starting to pump up the marketing, as we will be getting 3 minutes worth of footage between now and next week.

Beginning Sunday, viewers across the nation can witness the origins of one of the year’s most anticipated movies, when Twentieth Century Fox debuts an exclusive, three-part reveal of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE on FOX.
For this unprecedented promotional event – which is too big for one night – the studio has created three special 60-second spots, one leading into the next, and which together form a narrative. The first spot airs this Sunday (February 15) on “Family Guy,” the second on Monday (Feb. 16) on “House,” and the third on Tuesday (Feb. 17) on “American Idol.”

Fox may not be the most loved movie studio but they sure as hell know now to market stuff!

Liev Schreiber originally set to wear muscle suit for Wolverine

Liam — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:08:10 +0000

Some of the characters that will be appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be larger than life, in more ways than one. We have the Blob, played by Kevin Durand in a fat suit, which should be a sight to see. We also have Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth, who was originally going to wear a muscle suit to bulk him up and make him look more menacing, however he decided he would get muscles his own way.

From Details magazine:

Just over a year ago, Schreiber was “smoking a pack and a half and drinking my nuts off” on a Broadway stage eight times a week in a blistering, virtuoso performance in Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio. Then he was cast as Sabretooth, the supervillain in this summer’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, opposite his friend Hugh Jackman. (”The very large and very muscular Hugh Jackman,” he says.)
“I started to read blogs in the comic world with things like ‘That’s the dumpiest, most out-of-shape Sabretooth I’ve ever seen in my life!’” he says. “They gave me a muscle suit at the beginning. I was so humiliated I thought, I’ve got to try to do this on my own.” Jackman helped him train, putting him on a diet so poultry-intensive that Schreiber jokes they were becoming “the Hitler and Mussolini of the chicken world. But I felt like I owed it to the genre to be big.”

It’s good to see Liev was dedicated to his role, unlike Kevin Durand. If you land the role of The Blob you eat and eat until you become horribly obese. Wearing a fat suit is just a cop out. Shame on you Kevin Durand! Shame on youuu!

Hugh Jackman responds to reshooting

Liam — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:04:44 +0000

Hugh Jackman has responded to the X-Men Origins: Wolverine reshooting fiasco. From AICN:

Hey everyone -
It’s Hugh Jackman, sending this note from freezing Vancouver. I have read a lot of your online comments regarding the footage that we are currently shooting and I share your passion for the Wolverine character and the movie – I owe it all to you guys!
I wanted to reach out and let you know that due to scheduling conflicts with certain cast members and location/weather considerations, we had to wait until now to shoot a couple of scenes. Please rest assured that WOLVERINE will be badass and hopefully meet all of your expectations. I am stoked by the positive response to the teaser, which clearly reflects the tone and scope of the film. If you like that, we’ve got much more in store!
In the meantime, here’s an exclusive shot of some characters you may recognize…
Cheers,
Hugh