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VOTD: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm
Posted on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 by Hunter Stephenson
Two ferns and two of the greatest men of their generation, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Between Two Ferns‘ Zach Galifianakis, sit in the dark and cut a slab of funny magic. Excerpt:
ZG: You are in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Hamm: Yes. [nods]
ZG: Why?
Hamm: That’s a good question.
Sure, you might have seen it already, watch it again. And write a letter to AMC demanding that Galifianakis get a small role on Mad Men as Peggy’s new one night stand. And that concludes this installment of Slashfilm’s Video of the Day.
H/T: Comic’s Comic
/Filmcast Ep. 30 - The Day the Earth Stood Still (GUESTS: Laremy Legel, Devin Faraci, and Neha Tiwari)
Posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 by David Chen
In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra and Adam discuss their apprehensiveness about a Crow remake, ponder the cheesiness of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer, and debate the choice of Chris Weitz to take over New Moon. Special guests Neha Tiwari and Laremy Legel (from the Film.com podcast) join us. Devin Faraci from CHUD also joins us to report from Butt-Numb-A-Thon and explains the use of the term “Watchmen” in the new film.
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Wolverine Trailer Attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still
Posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
ComingSoon has confirmed that the first (non Comic Con exclusive) movie trailer for Wolverine will be attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still on December 12th. And apparently Fox isn’t going to put the trailer online until some later point, forcing comic book geeks to see their potentially bad sci-fi remake (I say potentially, because I have yet to be impressed with the footage released thus far, and the move of announcing the attachment of a Wolverine trailer smells of desperation).
And we all know that the trailer will be bootlegged and leaked onto YouTube. It always happens. And its a shame because hundreds of thousands, if not millions are subjected to these subpar quality bootleg trailers, and its all the studios fault. If I were Fox/Paramount/Insert Studio here, I would release new movie trailers online on Saturday morning. Give the theaters 24 hours of exclusivity, forcing hardcore fans to make the journey, yet preventing hordes of Internet readers from being exposed to an inferior trailer presentation. After all, this is an advertisement we’re talking about. Wouldn’t you want your potential audience to see it in it’s best possible presentation?
New Posters: Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Earth Stood Still and Quantum of Solace
Posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
I just got home from seeing Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (yes again… what a wonderful film) and noticed the new posters for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button hanging in the lobby of the Sundance Kabuki theater in San Francisco. I snapped some photos with my iPhone (hence the low light artifacting). Click on the images to enlarge.
Also, /Film reader Christopher M found a digital copy of the poster for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. The design is a little different than the one that was on display at the red carpet during the AFI Fest.
And below that we have an extremely cool poster for The Day The Earth Stood Still, found on IMPA.
And RopesofSilicon found this explosive poster for Quantum of Solace (how did we miss this? And is it even real?).
“Gort Lives” Lets You Submit Your Own Gort Artwork
Posted on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 by David Chen
Fox has officially launched “Gort Lives,” as part of its Day The Earth Stood Still website. The new site feature allows you to submit your own interpretation of what Gort should look like. You can also check out and rate the submissions of others. To those unfamiliar, Gort is the robot sent to destroy earth, and his appearance/design in the original 1951 film was rather iconic.
While this is foremost a publicity project, aspiring Gort designers should know that the highest rated submissions will apparently be displayed in sleect IMAX theaters and also featured on the eventual DVD. So if you’ve ever thought that the original Gort was a bit too bland for your tastes (blasphemy!), it’s time to dig out the ol’ digital canvas.
The Day the Earth Stood Still 5 Minute Trailer
Posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
20th Century Fox has released a five minute trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still on Yahoo. As expected, much of the extended trailer was featured in the television presentation last month. From what I gather, I think I’m the only one who thinks this looks bad. But even I’ll admit, Gort looks cool.
Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” is 20th Century Fox’s contemporary reinvention of its 1951 classic. Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor’s appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described “friend to the Earth.”
The Day The Earth Stood Still hits theaters on December 12th 2008.
Fox aired an extended seven minute look at The Day The Earth Stood Still during Fringe last night. It’s basically a nicely edited together version of the footage which was shown at this year’s comic con. Pretty underwelming if you ask me. What do you guys think?
Three The Earth Stood Still Clips Revealed at Comic Con; Gort Confirmed
Posted on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
The Day The Earth Stood Still director Scott Derrickson, star Keanu Reeves, and producer Erwin Stoff opened the first major panel of Comic Con 2008. Here are the three things I learned about The Day The Earth Stood Still remake from the panel:
Erwin Stoff actually proposed the idea f a Day The Earth Stood Still Remake to a producer shortly after the release of Speed, but a regime change prevented the project from developing into a film until nearly 15 years later.
Derrickson confirmed that Gort is definitely in the movie. He claims they went through hundreds of different possibilities in the conceptual stage but came back to something that wasn’t very different from the Gort from the original film. Weta is still working on the design.
Klatu’s spaceship and suit is more organic than technological.
They also showed three clips from the film. I have to admit that I wasn’t very impressed by the previously released movie trailer, and the new footage didn’t get me any more excited.
The first clip began with Klatu, played by Keanu Reeves, being wheeled through a dark hallway into an US government interrogation room where he is hooked up to some kind of lie detecting equipment and questioned by an official.
“Are you Human?” the interrogator asks.
“My body is…” Klatu responds.
“Do you feel pain?”
“My body does…”
“Are you aware of a pending attack on the US?”
“You should let me go…”
Klatu takes control on the interrogator and finds out which exit to escape the building. He then sends out a signal which disables all the guards. They all fall to the ground.
The second clip was a much smaller innocent scene between Klatu and Jaden Smith’s character Jacob in the back of a pick-up truck.
“You aren’t so scary,” says Jacob. ” You don’t even look like an alien….”
Klatu responds: “Its so i can talk to you…”
“What were you before?”
“Klatu…
“I told helen we should kill you…”
“Did you mean it?”
“Before….”
“Whats gonna happen to us?”
“I was thinking the same thing.”
The third clip was more of a highlight reel / extended trailer comprised of half finished special effects shots and clips from the film. Someone from the US government shows up to Connely’s door.
“Dr Bensson come with us, Everything will be explained on route.”
Helen is told not to be afraid. Cut to a Connely watching the interrogation from behind a two way mirror. Klatu takes control of the government official.
Big balls of light descent upon earth in various cities worldwide. The usual shots of people looking up at the sky. A big ball of liquid rises from the oceans. Connoly in hazmat suit. Cut to the scene in the trailer where Klatu tells Connely that “If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.”
Smoke overtakes huge truck tearing it apart. Same thing happens with a stadium. The electricity in a major city goes out. And the ending shot is a tease of Gort, but much like the trailer, we don’t see much of anything.
And finally the clip ended with Jaden Smith’s character asking Klatu “What’s gonna happen to us”.
In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Peter, Adam, and Devindra lament the damage that Joel Schumacher has done to the Batman series, get excited about the possibility of an Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes, and try to make sense of Hancock. Also, Peter reports on the geekgasm that was his trip to LA. Special Guests include the illustrious Adam Kempenaar from the Filmspotting podcast as well as Andy Sorcini from The Drill Down.
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“My name is Klaatu Reeves and I have come to Earth to warn you of Hancock.” The first trailer for December’s big budget remake of 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still is now online after premiering in front of Will Smith’s ne’er-do-well superhero flick. Under an icy blue tint, the preview quickly evokes Close Encounters, The Abyss, Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, Contact and Langoliers before closing in on the modern green message, an aspect that Keanu Reeves has mentioned briefly in the press….
“The version I was just working on, instead of being man against man, it’s more about man against nature. My Klaatu says that if the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. I’m a friend to the earth.”
The special effects by Weta Digital—the emphasis here is on a large alien orb and apocalyptic destruction—seem crisp and foreboding enough. Glimpses of a cast that includes Jennifer Connelly, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm (his first major movie role) and Kathy Bates, give the impression that director Scott Derrickson (Exorcism of Emily Rose) may have crafted a classier Day After Tomorrow. If so, that would slightly exceed most fanboys’ early expectations for the film. Alas, do you see Gort? Check out the comments.
Watch the trailer in high resolution on filmweb.no.
Synopsis: Updating the 1951 sci-fi classic’s Cold War and religious themes, Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, a mysterious man from another world who warns Earth’s humans that unless they change their gluttonous and harmful ways and pay more attention to the planet’s needs, aliens will swoop down and destroy them for good. :0
The Day the Earth Stood Still opens on December 12th.
Discuss: What do you think of the trailer to The Day the Earth Stood Still? Does it appear to be what you expected? Will Reeves make a Klaatu for the ages? Also, Gort fans, chime in.
The Day the Earth Stood Still Movie Trailer on Hancock
Posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
I have just confirmed that the movie trailer for Scott Derrickson’s The Day the Earth Stood Still remake will be attached to prints of Hancock, which hits theaters next week.
The contemporary re-imagining of the 1951 science fiction classic stars Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor’s appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson (Jaden Smith) get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described “friend to the Earth.” Kathy Bates also stars. The Day the Earth Stood Still scheduled to hit theaters on December 12th 2008.
New Posters: RockNRolla, Dragonball, The Day the Earth Stood Still
Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
Film1.nl has the first poster for the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves. Even though we’ve heard virtually nothing about this project since the first casting announcements, Fox is still planning on releasing the film on December 12th 2008.
/Film reader Christopher M sent over this poster for Guy Ritchie’s RockNRolla.
