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Clash of the Titans teaser trailer!

Liam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:09:03 +0000

The first trailer for Clash of the Titans is now online! When I first saw it I wasn’t too sure on the music, however after watching it a few more times it grew on me. The footage itself looks amazing and I’m glad we’ve only got to wait till March to see this.

Clash of the Titans stars Sam Worthington as Perseus, a man born of a god and raised as a man who is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny.

The film also stars Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, and Danny Huston with Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier directing.

New Avatar videos reveal new footage!

Liam — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:27:30 +0000

A few trailers, TV spots and tie-in commercials have appeared online recently for James Cameron’s Avatar and they are embedded for your viewing pleasure below. If you are satisfied with the trailers we have already seen and don’t want to be spoiled further with new footage then click elsewhere, as these videos have quite a lot of stuff we haven’t seen before.

First up is a Japanese trailer which is similar to the main trailer we got last week, although I’d say 30% is new footage:

Next is a short TV spot, which again shows a few new scenes we haven’t seen before.

Finally we have a commercial which advertises Avatar alongside Coke Zero. 20th Century Fox will probably have a new tie-ins with different products and companies considering the $250 million+ budget the movie had. Watch below:

Has The Tourist finally sorted itself out?

Liam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:46:14 +0000

Okay, so here’s the rundown. The Tourist was originally set up for Bharat Nalluri to direct and Tom Cruise to lead. Charlize Theron also joined as the female lead, however Tom Cruise then left to star in some action/comedy with Cameron Diaz. Sam Worthington was then brought on-board to replace him, however Charlize Theron then left and was replaced by Angelina Jolie. Director Bharat Nalluri also left the project, which prompted Spyglass Entertainment to hire Florian von Donnersmarck as director. Since leaving was the ‘in thing’ Sam Worthington bailed, and now according to THR Johnny Depp will be joining the project. Oh yeah, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) is now directing.

So that’s Cruise + Nalluri + Theron – Cruise + Worthington – Theron + Jolie – Nalluri + Donnersmarck – Worthington + Depp + Cuaron = The Tourist

And what’s this casting merry-go-round movie about? An female Interpol agent uses an American tourist in an attempt to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.

In conclusion, it doesn’t matter who directs The Tourist, as long as they’ve got 2 A-listers in the lead roles. Although, i’m a fan of Alfonso Cuaron and Jolie and Depp together on-screen could work out quite well.

James Cameron’s Avatar vision featurette

Liam — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:38:31 +0000

If the release of the new Avatar trailer yesterday was the highlight of your movie week then you will probably love this new Avatar featurette. It’s 4 minutes long and it contains LOTS of new footage (if you want to stay pure until December I would avoid this), along with interviews and sound-bites from James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver.

The scope and scale of this movie is huge!

The marketing will soon kick in and we will get even more footage, the only problem with that is I don’t want to be too spoiled before it’s release in 2 months. If you watch every trailer and TV spot you will become saturated with the imagery and it won’t be as special when you see it on the big screen. When the marketing blitz arrives I will post some stuff, but not everything.

What are your thoughts on the featurette? Should they show more of these or should they keep their Avatarholes shut for the next few months?

Here’s the second Avatar trailer!

Liam — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:20:05 +0000

Got anything planned for the next 30 minutes? No? Good, because you’ll probably end up watching this new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar on repeat for the foreseeable future. The only word to describe it would be ‘epic’. Watch below:

Here are the download links if you want to see it in HD!

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What are your thought on the new trailer?

Truck driver unimpressed with James Cameron’s Avatar

Liam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:38:57 +0000

A few months ago Sigourney Weaver revealed that the cast of Avatar rehearsed in some Hawaiian rainforests in order to get a better grasp at what it would be like to live on a far away planet. While at the Tokyo International Film Festival last week Sam Worthington told Japan Today about an incident that took place in the rainforest while they were rehearsing. It involved James Cameron, a small camera, and a truck driver.

To get his cast in the mood for Pandora’s jungle, Cameron had them spend some time in the lush rain forests of Hawaii. Worthington recalls one day when he was wearing his avatar costume of ears and a tail and little else. “A truck driver stopped and asked me what I was doing. I said I was making a movie. I pointed to Jim, who was holding a small camera, and told the driver, ‘That’s James Cameron. He made ‘Titanic.’ The driver looked at me and said, ‘Boy, he’s sure gone downhill since then,’ and drove off.”

I can understand what the guy was thinking seeing Worthington wandering around a rainforest in a makeshift alien costume. I wonder if he still thinks Cameron has gone downhill after he sees the finished film in December? That’s assuming he will see the film.

With only 2 months left to go it’s expected 20th Century Fox will release a new trailer in the near future. When Fox revealed the teaser trailer they renamed August 21st to ‘Avatar Day’, so they will probably let us know in advance when the next trailer will hit.

Empire reveal some new Clash of the Titans pics

Liam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:48:31 +0000

Empire were sent some exclusive new images from Clash of the Titans, and they look quite cool. The image above features Sam Worthington as Perseus who has a run in with some witches. When I first saw them I thought they were creations of Guillermo del Toro, which is a good thing.

“He’s just your golden hero that you’re meant to follow,” says Worthington of the old Perseus. “I feel when my Perseus starts out, he should be this bombastic tank. The gods have killed his family. He’s Charles Bronson! He’s gonna go for revenge, and the best way to achieve that is to kill the Kraken. Well, to kill the Kraken you gotta kill Medusa. To get to Medusa, you gotta take on the witches. Then once he kills the Kraken, he’s gonna kill fuckin’ Hades and Zeus and everybody else! But along the way he needs to learn to calm down, ask for help. And out of that comes the true hero. A hero isn’t someone who leads men; a hero is someone that’s in the trench with the men.”

Click here to see the rest!

We will probably get a trailer soon as there are only 5 months to go before it is released.

A bunch of new Avatar stills online

Liam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:34:08 +0000

Spoiler TV were sent six super hi-resolution images from James Cameron’s Avatar. I’ve seen a few of the images floating around the net before, but they were scans from magazines and low quality. These, however, are big enough to have as a your desktop wallpaper. The image above shows Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) asking Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) how he likes his eco-friendly space coffee.

Click here to see more images, including a shot of Sigourney Weaver sitting with Joel Moore and Worthington in a lab, while Michelle Rodriguez stands behind them looking all tough.

Behind the scenes of Clash of the Titans

Liam — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:26:09 +0000

MTV were invited to the set of Clash of the Titans and in between takes they managed to interview members of the cast, including Sam Worthington, Gemma Arterton, Liam Cunningham and former Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen. The video below also shows us some behind the scenes action from their shoot in Wales.

Clash of the Titans is directed by The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier and also features Liam Neeson as Zeus and Ralph Fiennes as Hades.

Sam Worthington on reaction to Avatar trailer

Liam — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:43:07 +0000

The reaction to the Avatar teaser trailer has been mixed. According to the Filmonic poll 75% of readers liked the trailer, although there are still those who were disappointed by it and those who simply weren’t impressed. That divide in opinion seems to be the case across the internet. Well Sam Worthington, who plays Jake Sully, recently spoke to ComingSoon.net who asked him for his thoughts on the reaction, and this is what he had to say:

“It’s gotta hell of a lotta hype,” he admitted to us. “I read all what was said yesterday about the trailer. I can see their point, but as I said, it’s not meant to be built for an Apple Mac, it’s built for IMAX, it’s built for 3D, that’s what he’s designed it for. He’s designed it to bring people back to the cinema. It’s interesting that he’s released that trailer and the next day, he shows it on IMAX. It’s one extreme to the other. We get the criticism and then we get the rave reviews of what it really looks like in its own formula. That’s obviously going to get people to think and go, ‘Damn right! I’m going to go and see this at the cinema.’ Jim has always said to me that he wants to bring people back to the movies, and he’s a smart enough man for that to be tactical.”

He also addressed some Terminator Salvation criticism:

We just have try and do the best character we can do at that time. I can nitpick with the best of them, man, and go down the list of things I saw on IMDb where they found holes in it and go, ‘You ARE f*cking right. If there was a big ten-ton robot coming outside that gas station, surely we would f*cking hear it!’ And I missed that! So I go, ‘I gotta be a bit better when I’m looking through my scripts!’ So that kind of raises my games a bit, ’cause I feel like an idiot for not saying it to McG.”

I like how Worthington just says what he thinks and hasn’t been influenced by the Hollywood PR machine. Not many actors will admit faults in their movies. It’s interesting to find that he reads IMDB, although reading the trolls over there won’t be healthy in the long run. He should just read Filmonic instead.