The Return of Page 2

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There has been so much movie news lately that night after night, there is a bunch of stories that end up on “the cutting room floor”. From time to time on /Film, we’ve had a link blog column called Page 2 which rounds up a bunch of the stuff that didn’t deserve a full post or maybe we just didn’t have enough time to get to. I’d love to tell you that Page 2 is back for good, but I cant promise that. The front page news is always my first priority. That said, I promise I’ll try to crank a few of these out a week so that you guys don’t miss some of the goodies that didn’t make the front page.


Empire has a first look at Olga Kurylenko in Neil Marshall’s Centurion (photo above). Olga plays Etain, “a savage-looking Pict warrior woman” who is out for revenge against the Roman’s that butchered her family and cut out her tongue.

Paramount has acquired the big screen rights to John Le Carre’s novel “The Night Manager.” Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing the espionage thriller which tells the story of a “night manager of a European hotel who is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate the network of a dangerous international arms dealer.” [Variety]

watchmen legoSomeone created these custom Watchmen LEGO figures. [mechazilla]

Pro wrestler turned actor Stone Cold Steve Austin has joined the cast of Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables.  [variety]

Alex Proyas talks about his five favorite films on Rotten Tomatoes. The films include Dr. Strangelove, Stalker, The Exorcist, Psycho, and The Godfather. Three out of the five films have a tamatoemeter rating of a perfect 100%.

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I really don’t like the DVD artwork for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. [alwayswatching]

Jessie Eisenberg has been cast as poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, an ensemble thriller about the murder that helped spawn the Beat Generation. [Variety]

Universal is considering a fifth Fast and the Furious film set in Europe. Why, why, why?! [firstshowing]

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Entertainment Weekly has a new photo from Rob Marshall’s musical Nine featuring Daniel Day-Lewis (right) as a “film director surrounded by alpha women”, including Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, and Kate Hudson (left), who plays a Vogue reporter.

Blue Sky Disney is reporting that Pixar’s Up will not have a Toy Story 3 trailer attached, but instead a trailer for Disney’s hand drawn animated film The Princess and the Frog.

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The viral advertisement for True Blood (photo above) was spotted in Auckland, New Zealand. From the looks of it, passerby’s can rip off a wooden stake incase of a vampire attack. Got to love that kind of marketing. But it’s only fun until someone gets stabbed in the chest (which probably explains why I haven’t seen the same street advertising in the overly cautious U.S.) [via: DailyWhat]

This week’s Irish-themed episode of The Simpsons will bow air in Ireland and the U.K., which surprisingly is the first time the show has ever aired an episode outside of the U.S. [Variety]

SNL star Andy Samberg is set to host the eighteenth annual MTV Movie Awards on Sunday May 31st from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA. [CS]

BoingBoing has a look back at the Bollywood Superman.

Love Never Dies, the stage-sequel to Phantom of the Opera will have it’s North American premiere in October at Toronto’s Canon Theater, where the original production launched its Canadian run in 1989. [Variety ]

Karl Urban and Adriana Barraza (Babel) join Amber Heard and Odette Yustman in Marcos Efron’s thriller remake of And Soon the Darkness. The story follows a “young American searches for her friend in Argentina after she goes missing on a bike-riding trip.” [THR ]

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I’m not sure the name of the artist that created this fan-created poster for The Dark Knight, but it was anonomously sent in by a reader. I certainly dig it. [Update: The creator of this poster is Brandon Schaeffer. You can check out his work at http://www.seekandspeak.com.]

  • Why another Fast and Furious movie? Because enough dumbos went and saw the first three and presumably will follow suit with the fourth.
  • You're right. Movies that make money suck.
  • i am jealous of your minus 29 that is something special
    im glad page 2 is back and fast and the furious is just neat not good but neat ill prob go see it
  • Thanks, Talking goat. I call it my badge of courage.
  • Page 2 oh how i've missed youuu
  • Wow, didn't know that Batman and Indiana Jones were watchmen characters!
  • someone made that themselves..it's not bad
  • That Superman thing is chock full of brilliant. And by 'brilliant' I mean 'litigation'.
  • infrafan
    I don't know. They're probably safe under the laws of parody. lol.
  • it's a good fit for Olga Kurylenko a role where she doesn't ruin a scene by talking..but seriously she looks great in that picture..I really like Neil Marshall let's hope this next film is nothing like Doomsday...I'm really liking the resurgence of the swords & sandals/medieval action flicks..
  • My thoughts exactly on Kurylenko, and Doomsday is one of the funniest movies ever made.
  • Bama Juice
    Yeah, I'm gonna watch the 4th Fast and Furious movie and probably will watch a 5th one too. Doesn't make me a "dumbo" though. =/
  • FnF looks like a good enjoy-the-action flick.

    I'm interested to see a sequel where they return to the original cast after skipping over them for 2 films. i'll wait for the critic reviews and go from there personally.

    I reserve "dumbo" status for Twilight. that should be a new term- "Least it's Not Twilight"

    LiNT
  • FnF looks like a good enjoy-the-action flick.

    I'm interested to see a sequel where they return to the original cast after skipping over them for 2 films. i'll wait for the critic reviews and go from there personally.

    I reserve "dumbo" status for Twilight. that should be a new acronym- "Least it's Not Twilight"

    LiNT
  • wow, news so fast i might explode. i love the bam bam bam, but there was a lot of it in this post.

    the first picture looked a little bit like Keira Knightley to me, just me?

    cool legos, lame cover art for Wrestler

    Fast and Furious in Europe......why? why why?

    9- that really is an all-star cast, should be good.

    Up- i'd rather see a Toy Story 3 trailer, but we'll all live. damn you disney.

    TRUE BLOOD MARKETING is AWESOME!!!

    i'm personally a fan of Samberg, and even if you're not, at least it's just the MTV awards....and who watches that anymore?

    Bollywood Superman- never saw the original

    Love Never Dies- i want to say "why tinker with a classic." but Wicked was spawned from Oz, so i guess it could work.

    and that batman poster is fucking great too.
  • lol, totally thought it was Keira too until I took a closer look and then I realized it was in fact Olga.
  • i just want to re-iterate how fucking awesome the True Blood marketing and TDK fan-art are.
  • I'm not digging the TDK poster.
  • I kind of agree with you, allynd. There's something... off about it. Maybe it's the muted colors?
  • I think it's beautiful.
  • it is pretty much awesome i really like it
  • Palmer
    You are not alone. Well, first I thought it was Natalie Portman, then Keira Knightley, then I read the post. Truly I have come a long way in those few seconds.
  • I could have sworn it was Helena B. Carter and scrolled right on past it. Only after reading did I go back and notice that, yes, it is in fact someone that I would prefer plays a character that is missing her tongue.

    Have to say I agree 100% with Daft's comments here.
  • freemachine
    I'm looking forward to John Le Carre’s “The Night Manager.” His espionage novels are leagues better than other authors. "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy" was one of the most amazing spy mini-series I've ever seen.
  • Palmer
    Man, that Wrestler DVD cover just looks meh. It's not great...but it's not necessarily bad. I'd be better if they just use the poster of Rourke hunched over.

    And on the advertising, it's pretty unique. But sadly, you don't really see that kind of uniqueness in the states. Perhaps a studio's marketing department think we're all mindless-uncultured-zombies?
  • starscream9289
    Whooo Stone Cold in the Expandables!

    WHAT?

    And damn this overprotective country! I want a vampire stake!
  • 1. I would love to learn more about Centurion, just from the photo I can tell its a million times better than 10,000 BC.
    2. Rorschach Lego looks like a zombie Indiana Jones
    3. Randy the Ram looks awesome, but they could have done the cover much better!
    4. PLEASE, stop making freaking F&F movies, the first one was good, but thats it.
    5. Trailer or not, sooooooo excited to see UP!
    6. Viral advertisements work on me, I kinda wanna see True Blood now, is it any good?
    7. I'm definitely digging the TDK poster. Would be soo sick to hang on my wall. B)

    Just wanted to throw my 2 cents.
    Thank you sooo much for bringin back Page 2!! <3
  • 1. I would love to learn more about Centurion, just from the photo I can tell its a million times better than 10,000 BC.
    2. Rorschach Lego looks like a zombie Indiana Jones
    3. Randy the Ram looks awesome, but they could have done the cover much better!
    4. PLEASE, stop making freaking F&F movies, the first one was good, but thats it.
    5. Trailer or not, sooooooo excited to see UP!
    6. Viral advertisements work on me, I kinda wanna see True Blood now, is it any good?
    7. I'm definitely digging the TDK poster. Would be soo sick to hang on my wall. B)

    Just wanted to throw my 2 cents.
    Thank you sooo much for bringin back Page 2!!
  • I want to go to new zealand now.
    I honestly thought that was kiera knightly at first.
    Those legos are pretty impressive... but that poster is incredible.
  • it's around the age of King Aurthur so the tribal thing was expected...
  • B33
    The Fast and the Furious franchise ended with the first iteration of the series of films. Shame the studio felt the need to continue to run it into the ground.
  • B33
    The Fast and the Furious franchise's integrity ended with the first iteration of the series of films. Shame the studio felt the need to continue to run it into the ground.
  • Angela
    I love Allen Ginsberg, should certainly be an interesting topic. Can't wait for 9!
  • coolposter
    I was going to ask why Two-Face is never included in the fan art posters but then I looked at it once more and raised my eyebrow and smiled smugly to myself.B)
  • freemachine
    I wonder what the Sunday night TV lineup is like in New Zealand if they pushed True Blood to Wednesdays at 9:30pm? Do they have some kick ass show I've not heard of?

    PS: the Firefox spell checker doesn't have "Zealand" in it's dictionary, which I find odd.
  • JavaJunkie
    Much better Watchmen Legos HERE!
  • I've been waiting a long time for this...
  • You think that Wrestler cover is bad? Look at the Slumdog Millionaire one
    http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/slumdog-mi...

    It beats the Wrestler by miles. I can't see anymore!
  • "This week’s Irish-themed episode of The Simpsons will bow air in Ireland
    and the U.K., which surprisingly is the first time the show has ever aired an episode outside of the U.S."

    should be "premiered" an episode outside of the US, right? A country without simpsons on TV is like being left out of human civilization.
  • i love page 2 !!! THIS IS GREAT NEWS~
  • tHE BACKGROUND IN THE FAN POSTER IS THE JOKER'S SOCKS. i took a pair of them off this morning before i jumped in the shower at 6.45am.
  • Palmer
    Man, that Wrestler DVD cover just looks meh. It's not great...but it's not necessarily bad. I'd be better if they just use the poster of Rourke hunched over. And the True Blood marketing is pretty unique. Sadly the marketing executives in America think we're just a bunch of mindless-uncultured zombies.
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin in 'The Expendables'? Wow. The bloke has the charisma and acting talent of a dead-dog on the big screen (no doubt he was brilliant when I was ten watching Wrestlemania, but he cannot act),
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin in 'The Expendables'? Wow. The bloke has the charisma and acting talent of a dead-dog on the big screen (no doubt he was brilliant when I was ten watching Wrestlemania, but he cannot act).
  • that woman looks like Keira Knightley.
  • Sweet TDK poster. I also dig the Superman!
    Nice to see the Daniel Day Lewis action as well; what a stud!
  • I'm looking forward to the new season of True Blood so much I can't stand it.
  • deathmetalhero
    YOU SIR ARE TALKING TO A DUMBOS! Ill be throwing my money away on a ticket to fast and furious when it comes out for sure. FEED ME MORE MINDLESS GARBAGE HOLLYWOOD!
  • If by dumbos you mean people that are into cars, then yes call me a dumbo as well. Its been said before and I'll say it again. Not all movies have to be Oscar-worthy masterpieces. Its ok for fun movies with cool stunts to exist.
  • JPDyno
    Come on, even if your into cars, Too Fast was crap, and Tokyo drift was garbage.
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