Some small progress on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Jonah Hill-ified 21 Jump Street movie, as Columbia Pictures have formally tagged Friday August 5th 2011 for it’s Stateside release. That leaves quite a healthy window, so production won’t necessarily be starting too soon, but it’s a commitment. Well, at least as much of a commitment as when they announced Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 for May 5th 2011.
Meanwhile, Lionsgate have announced that Dominic Sena’s Season of the Witch won’t be making it’s March 19th appointment. This could be because that weekend is rather busy - The Bounty Hunter, The Runaways, Repo Men and Diary of a Wimpy Kid - or it could be because Lionsgate don’t want to pee in the Nic Cage pool with another off-putting movie from the star ahead of Kick-Ass.
Via Dread Central and Sony’s Twitter
Over the weekend, I found myself at a mall. It was awful. For a sec, I considered going to a movie, but then I realized the sight of hundreds of chubby teenage girls with chubbies for Pasty Pattinson would give me an anxiety attack or the fear. Not only that, but every movie playing I had either seen or…lacked Nicolas Cage. That’s when I realized: I would be tempted to see Precious (yuck), The Blind Side (yuck) or New Moon (girls and gays, you are on fucking notice) if Cage was starring.
The sensation of watching a terrible movie and feeling like a caged animal and watching a terrible movie with Cage acting like one is categorically different. It’s the difference between being punched and robbed by a stranger and slapped by a girlfriend because you deserved it (and subconsciously craved it). During this lonely mall moment, I so could have used the new Nicolas Cage Adventure Set from Brandon Bird. He’s the artist behind the classic Philip Seymour Hoffman Halloween costume poster that we all dig. Hand your lucky crack pipe over to an invisible lizard and explore this braintainment!
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Last month, Lionsgate released a special 30-second Halloween teaser trailer for Dominic Sena’s supernatural thriller Season of the Witch which had us scratching our heads. Sena is best known as the director of fun but disposable action films like Gone in Sixty Seconds, Swordfish and the recent comic book adaptation Whiteout, and I had heard great things about Brian Schut’s script… But the teaser looked like a direct-to-dvd Dark Castle production. The new trailer gives us a much better idea of what to expect, and somewhat raised expectations. Watch the trailer for yourself after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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