District 9 - Description of the new Trailer Posted by b3rt4 at Sunday, July 05, 2009 0 comments Labels: District 9

You may have heard the news online that a new DISTRICT 9 trailer would be in theaters and online next week. Well I can say that I was lucky enough to get an early look at the trailer before the big debut next week!

I don't have anything to show you from the trailer but I took some notes and I'll do my best to relate what I saw. It's much more action-packed than the original teaser but action still does not seem to be the primary focus of this movie.

The trailer runs about 2:20 and starts off somewhat similar to what we saw in ShoWest. Whereas the giant alien ship was a big reveal during the middle of the teaser, the trailer starts off with a shot of the ship from the POV of a truck driving on the ground and then from a military helicopter flying nearby in the sky.

As you see a closeup of the ship looming over the skyline you get title cards that read, "They Came Here 28 Years Ago," "Coexistence Has Never Been Easy" and "Why Won't We Let Them Leave?" Interspersed are some shots from the original teaser including the woman who complains they're spending so much money to keep the aliens here.

After the unedited shot from the end of the first teaser (with the alien in the interrogation room), we see a reporter just outside the alien refugee camp. A news caption on the bottom states that "District 9 Evictions" have begun. There is a caravan of trucks heading inside. We're inside a truck with some soldiers and possibly bureaucrats. One of them (a suit and tie guy) is putting on a bulletproof vest while another says "I thought I was getting a vest?" "Don't worry about the vest, you'll be fine."

Those same people are seen going around to the different houses. "MNU Agents, open up please!" They're searching the areas when the same suit and tie guy from before finds a small metal tube and shows it to the camera. He says there are certain markings that indicate it's definitely alien. As he's fiddling with it, it deploys a burst of vapor in his face. He starts choking and gagging and slams the camera out of his face.

More newsreel footage of "heavily armed forces" heading into the District 9 area. A quick shot of an aliens feet running by. "Nobody knew what this place was." It's nighttime and agents appear to be tracking down an alien on the run. One agent with a flashlight finds something and dusts it off.

This is when the action and quick shots begin so bear with me...

- A human inside some kind of robotic suit. Kind of like IRON MAN meets Ripley's Power Loader from ALIENS.
- Alien slaps a clipboard out of two government workers hands.
- An alien throws a government worker against some trash cans.
- That same suit and tie guy (SATG) thrashing on a medical table while some military guys try to hold him down.
- The robotic suit (it's unclear if it's a robot or human in the suit) makes a huge jump.
- "Find that freak."
- SATG strapped upright to a table in what looks to be a helicopter. He has electrode pads all over his chest and head. He's screaming. A close-up of his clenched fist (something metal attached to his wrist. While not said, it seems implied he might be in the middle of some kind of transformation.)

- That giant robot suit looking menacing.
- A pick-up truck smashes full speed into the robot suit.
- More action between robot suit, military forces and some cars. Robot suit is jumping and shooting. Big explosion.
- A soldier fires a rocket at an alien ship in the distance. Robot suit reaches up and deflects it.
- SATG lying in a decontainment bag looking sickly.
- "It's gonna be quick"
- An alien making a giant leap as soldiers try to track him.
- "it's gonna be clean"
- SATG holding on to what seems to be an alien weapon, fires it at a human soldier. Looks like more of a pulse weapon than anything ballistic.
- An explosion at a government building
- "it's gonna be quiet."

Last shot is another wide shot of the alien ship with helicopters approaching with a voiceover, "There's a lot of secrets in District 9."

All in all, I liked this trailer a lot better than the teaser and even better than the footage I saw in ShoWest. I don't know if it was a deliberate attempt to jack up the action or if this is representative of the movie at all. We still don't have much of a plot to go by but I think that's a good thing. We see glimpses of what goes down but we're not exactly sure where that's gonna take us. In a world where I felt like I saw all of STAR TREK before I actually saw it, that's pretty refreshing...

Source: JoBlo

Brothers - First Official Trailer Posted by The ODI at Sunday, July 05, 2009 0 comments Labels: Brothers

Brothers - First Official Trailer - Starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman

Thanks to JoBlo for the clip from ET

Alice in Wonderland - New Character Promo Pics Posted by The ODI at Sunday, July 05, 2009 0 comments Labels: Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland - New Character Promo Pics

Thanks to /Film

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Deadpool Movie To Break Fourth Wall Posted by Iceman815 at Saturday, July 04, 2009 0 comments Labels: Deadpool

Ryan Reynolds has told Empire that he’s insistent on Deadpool’s habit of breaking of the fourth wall to carry over from the comics to the big screen. That means, in effect, that Deadpool/Wade Wilson will sometimes address the audience directly, as with Ferris Bueller, say, or the character of Paul in Funny Games. Other forms of metahumour have cropped up in the Deadpool comics, with him occasionally making explicit reference to his being a Marvel comics character. I’ll give you a handful of examples after the break.

Deadpool’s first metareference apparently came in the fourth issue of his ongoing series. Writer Joe Kelly not only had Deapool ’sing’ the theme tune to the Hulk TV show, in reference to a plot development involving the jolly green one, he also had the characters give a plot recap as though directly to the reader. When future issues needed recaps they were dressed up in all manner of ways, from interviews to stand up comedy monologues.

Coming back from the dead in one plotline, Deadpool was given captions that read ‘Do I still think in little yellow boxes?’ and ‘I missed you little yellow boxes! What fun we shall have together’. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar reference to voice over in the movie.

During Christopher Priest’s run as a writer on the series, Deadpool virtually adopted a meta-mantra: ‘None of this is really happening. There is a man. With a typewriter. This is all part of his crazy imagination.’

For my money, Grant Morrison’s run on the Animal Man comics not only used these same devices first (though he in turn was inspired by Bryan Talbot’s work - and outside of comics, of course, the device is ages old, becoming very popular in theatre almost 200 years ago) he used them to a better end. I wouldn’t want to spoil it for you, but some of the Animal Man stories, particularly The Coyote Gospel, are amongst my very favourite comic books of all time and absolutely worth hunting down.

My pocket comic book expert, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, tells me that Joe Kelly was likely to have been more influenced by John Byrne’s work on She Hulk, a series that coincided with my time working in a comic shop and so which I know quite well. I can definitely see the similarities.

I’m not, at heart, a big fan of breaking the fourth wall. This practice is typically assumed to be the dismantling of a barrier between the audience and the movie, though I’d argue that it is simply replacing on vague barrier with a blockier one.

Screenwriter Ken Levine found that Nicholas Mayer pulled a postmodern trick with the subtitles when filming his screenplay Volunteers. Levine and his co-writer David Isaac have argued that this one change alone ‘destroyed the movie’. You can see the scene and read Levine’s complaint on his blog. One good example, I think, of the risks the Deadpool movie will run.

Knowing that the film is going to be ‘playful’ in this way could be an indication of what directors they might be pursuing for the gig. Any guesses? From what I know about Zombieland, Ruben Fleischer seems like a hot pick.

Source: /Film

Inglorious Basterds - Four New Character Posters Posted by b3rt4 at Friday, July 03, 2009 0 comments Labels: Inglorious Basterds

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - New Sneak Peek Posted by The ODI at Friday, July 03, 2009 0 comments Labels: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - New Sneak Peek

No Nick Fury Action Until The Avengers Posted by The ODI at Friday, July 03, 2009 0 comments Labels: Iron Man 2, The Avengers

Aw, damn! Jon Favreau is currently finishing up the last few weeks of principal photography on Iron Man 2. We expect to see a lot of exciting footage at the San Diego Comic-Con, but I'm certain we won't be seeing any of Samuel Jackson in that footage. MTV talked with Jackson recently and asked him how big his role as Nick Fury is in Iron Man 2. When asked if we get to see him in any action scenes at all, he unfortunately admitted, "Not this time, not yet." Jackson adds, "We still haven't moved Nick Fury into the bad-ass zone. He's still just kind of a talker." So then maybe action in The Avengers? "Looking forward to that, yeah."

Source: First Showing