No matter what your thoughts are on TRON: Legacy, the fact of the matter is, it didn’t bomb. It surely wasn’t the runaway smash hit that Disney was hoping for, especially with its IMAX box office playing such an important role, but according to Box Office Mojo, the film will pull in $150 million domestically by the time you read this and has made just under that internationally. That’s roughly $300 million against a reported budget of $170 million and would put Disney, hypothetically, in the black way before the inevitable DVDs and Blu-rays hit the shelves later this year.
So, does that mean we’ll get to see a Tron Three? According to one source, yes. Read who and what they’re saying after the jump. Read More »
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One of the many riches coming out of the American Film Market today is the promo art for Red Lights, the next film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes. The art isn’t particularly great, but it has useful info: Cillian Murphy is in the film alongside Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro. More important, he might have a significant role, based on the placement of his name on the poster. Read More »
The cast for The Retreat, a thriller about a a husband and wife who have a strange encounter with a soldier while taking an island retreat, has been shifting around in the last year. Thandie Newton has been the constant, and Cillian Murphy is currently playing the other half of the married couple. Now Jamie Bell has been tapped as the third key cast member. Details on who’s who and what’s what are after the break. Read More »
Nicolas Winding Refn is preparing to shoot the movie Drive next month in LA, and he’s already got Ryan Gosling starring as a guy who has dual lives as a stuntman and criminal getaway driver.
We haven’t had details on the rest of the cast, but repeated praise for Breaking Bad from Refn should have been a clue: he’s now got Bryan Cranston set to appear in the film. Cranston fits so perfectly with the type of actor Refn likes to use; I can so easily see this being a wonderful partnership. Film School Rejects got the info right from Refn, but didn’t get detail on who he’d play. Check our last coverage on the film for an early sales poster and synopsis of the James Sallis novel on which the film is based.
After the break, Andrew Niccol gets Cillian Murphy, and Ethan Hawke joins a quartet. Read More »
Andrew Niccol is prepping I’m.mortal, a sort of sci-fi film with shades of Logan’s Run that already has offered the female lead to Amanda Seyfried. Now Deadline says the male lead has been offered to Justin Timberlake. The film is an explicitly 20-something skewed idea, in which people have to buy time if they want to age past 25. The Seyfried / Timberlake pairing could work well, and I like the idea of Niccol doing more original sci-fi.
After the break, Steve Coogan and Cillian Murphy take new jobs. Read More »
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
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When the trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s new film Inception began to screen attached to early press screenings of Sherlock Holmes, movie bloggers around the internet (including our own David Chen) attempted, from memory, to recall the imagery from the new teaser. It wasn’t an easy task considering all the craziness that happens in the new trailer, which yes, was released online earlier this week (see it here). Warner Bros has finally released an unwatermarked high definition version of the trailer. And since it is a slow news week (blame the holidays), I thought it might be good to create high resolution captures of some of the moments from the trailer. Check them out now, after the jump.
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