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Wanted on DVD and Blu-ray

Liam — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:25:19 +0000

Today is the day that Wanted will be hitting the shelves in DVD and Blu-ray form, and below we have two videos showing us some behind the scenes stuff that you will get to see if you decide to make a purchase. The first gives us a look at how they filmed the rotating train carriage sequences with James McAvoy and the second is a look at how they managed to get a bus flying through the air. I’m surprised how much green screen was involved!

Wanted, Wolverine And Transformers Games Coming

Liam — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:45:39 +0000

MCV reports that Activision is taking on the games for both X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:

In addition, a brand new Transformers outing, dubbed Revenge of the Fallen, which will tie-in with the new Paramount movie. There was also news of another movie licence – this time for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

A game based on Wanted is also in the works. The game will be published worldwide by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is being developed by game developer GRIN.

The “Wanted” video game will feature intense third-person action, taking combat to a new level with iconic moves — such as “curving bullets” and “Assassin Time” — drawn directly from the film, as well as an innovative, multi-layered cover mechanic. The storyline of the game will pick up where the movie leaves off, providing fans with another chapter to explore both Wesley’s journey into becoming an uberassassin and the epic fiction of the Fraternity.

Quote Of The Day: James McAvoy On Farting

Liam — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:14:24 +0000

“To be fair, it really helped, but it came with a massive side effect of me violently farting. It was so often and so vigorous, I couldn’t stop.

-James McAvoy on taking muscle-gain supplements for his role in Wanted

Wanted 2 Script Currently Being Written

Liam — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:31:20 +0000

[Some Wanted spoilers]

Variety say that Universal Pictures have decided to keep Wanted producer Marc Platt for five more years, where he will begin work on Wanted 2 with director Timur Bekmambetov and writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.

Wanted was designed as a franchise from the very start, and the writers are going to have to rack their brains considering most of the original cast were shot through the forehead or temple.

“The writers are at work already, and those creative discussions are taking place,” said Platt

Their intention is to get James McAvoy back into gunslinging mode and we will have to wait and see what the writers do with the script to see if Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie or Common return.

Wanted To Become A Trilogy?

Liam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:34:17 +0000

I saw Wanted the other day and I enjoyed it. Good action, nice twist towards the end and of course, Angelina Jolie. It seems a lot of people thought the same as me because it did rather well for an R-Rated movie. It is the second biggest opening that didn’t reach number #1 (damn you Wall-E!) and has already made back its budget with a total of $90 million as I type.

Universal are currently choking on money, and when they finally spit it out there is a good chance they will be wanting more. (See what I did there? The movie is called Wanted and I said ‘wanting’ and made it italic…I’m hilarious!)

Cinema Blend are saying that a source told them that Universal want to go international next time round. Spoilers below.

For the sequels their idea is to take Wanted international, and have James McAvoy’s Wesley character fighting Fraternity cells all over the world. It seems Sloane isn’t the only Fraternity leader who has been ignoring the instructions of fate, it’s something that’s been happening for centuries, and that means a lot of Sloane’s peers are now pretty pissed off at Wesley.

They also say:

It’s surprising, since by the end of the film both Jolie and Freeman’s characters are quite definitively dead. That’s no barrier for Hollywood though. The plan is to involve them in flashbacks which will explore the past of Angelina Jolie’s Fox, and allow us to meet the man who trained and recruited her. That person could become a major villain in the sequels, which would explain the flashback links to Jolie and Freeman.

Bring it on I say!

WALL-E Takes An Early Lead!

Liam — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:07:42 +0000

Friday box office estimates are in! Wall-E has shot out of the gates with a cool $23.3 MILLION, while Wanted is close on his heels with $18.7 MILLION…! If they keep this up, I’m going to say that Wall-E will rake in $80+ million this weekend, and Wanted will be in the upper $50 – lower $60 million! GREAT WEEKEND TO BE A MOVIE STUDIO!

Has anyone seen either of this weekend’s debuts, yet? Sound off below on your opinions of the movies!

New WANTED Poster!

Liam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:33:23 +0000

This is probably one of the coolest movie posters I’ve ever seen. It features a collage of scenes, including snippets of dialogue from the movie!

Click on the image for a larger version to see better… The more you look, the more you notice!

Extended Wanted Opening Sequence!

Liam — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:04:06 +0000

Below you’ll find (what’s supposed to be) the first seven minutes of the upcoming Wanted movie!

I’m going to see this movie anyway, and the action shots are really, really cool, but… doesn’t it look a little, I don’t know, CHEESY to anyone else? All those times with James McAvoy screaming (and some cheese dialogue, too), and there are about 100 slow-motion shots in just these seven minutes ALONE. Ah well, guess we’ll find out if it’s good or not in a few weeks!

Angelina Jolie looks amazing, though! I know many a guy who’d KILL to be in James’ place in that while she’s hanging out the windshield!

Morgan Freeman: ‘Shoot This Motherf**cker’

Liam — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:07:17 +0000

We’ve heard Morgan Freeman say the words fate, fraternity and flies in previous Wanted trailers, but never this F word! In a new R-Rated trailer Morgan Freeman gets all Samuel L Jackson on us by demanding someone shoot someone else who he is obviously not keen on….if you know what I mean.

As with most R-Rated trailers there’s blood, violence and keyboard attacks. Enjoy!

“Shoot The Wings Off The Flies!”

Liam — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:19:18 +0000

…demands Morgan Freeman in the new Wanted trailer. We’ve seen a few trailers for this movie, most have been in foreign tongue but still cool and show us things we haven’t seen before. This trailer is no exception, as we see more curved bullet action, more flying cars and yet more Angelina Jolie.

I typed Wesley Gibson into Google just like James McAvoy did and I got 2.3 million results. But then again I can’t curve bullets so I guess were even.