Now that the theatrical Super trailer has been released, eager fans can whet their appetites. While Super is set for an April 1st theatrical release, it will screen at Austin’s SXSW Film Festival next week. The movie poster and teaser promise a film rife with unwholesome violent comedy and DIY superhero action.
It looks to be even quirkier than the movie poster and synopsis suggest. Rainn Wilson (The Office), no doubt, will bring his signature weirdness to the role of home-grown superhero Crimson Bolt, who goes out to battle evil after his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). He takes on a sidekick named Boltie (Ellen Page), who may be a little crazy.
Uma Thurman and Michael Angarano star as quirky erstwhile lovers in Magnolia Pictures' new romcom Ceremony. Released on VOD today, and premiering at Austin’s popular SXSW Film Festival next week, Ceremony is a fresh romantic comedy with touching authenticity and wit.
Angarano plays Sam Davis, a man on a mission. Under the guise of taking his estranged best friend Marshall (Reece Thompson) out for the weekend, Sam means to crash his ex-lover’s wedding and stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life. Thurman plays love interest Zoe. She’s engaged to successful documentary filmmaker Whit (Pushing Daisies’ Lee Pace), and prone to “phases.” She also happens to be a good deal older than Sam, and some would say, just out of his league.
I’ve said it before; nothing’s sacred. The iconic 80's sci-fi film Blade Runner is on the sacrificial alter. According to a Deadline report, Alcon Entertainment is in final negotiations to acquire the film rights to Ridley Scott‘s cult classic, which starred a young Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
What does this mean for your average movie-goer? Well, the Warner Bros-based production company Alcon Entertainment is set to acquire all-inclusive franchise rights, which will exclude the right to remake the movie. Well hallelujah, that’s something. However, they can make prequels and sequels, TV spin-offs, and films based on situations portrayed in the original Blade Runner. So expect plenty of re-imaginings and re-boots, maybe even a Sci Fi Channel series (kind of like what’s happened to the Terminator franchise).
It seems like Nicholas Hoult is an extremely hot commodity right now in Hollywood, most recently landing the coveted leading role in upcoming zombie flick Warm Bodies. He will also star in X-Men: First Class playing Beast, and is about ready to shoot Jack the Giant Killer as titular character Jack. On his busy horizon is a starring role in Mad Max prequel Fury Road, set to start filming next year.
Most of you, sadly, haven't heard of the great uber-low-budget horror film called Rubber; a smart, meta film about a psychokinetic killer tire. Out on VOD now and in theatres April 1st, this Magnet Releasing gem has been making the film festival circuit since last fall, and I’m wildly happy to see it getting even a limited theatrical release.
You read correctly, the main character is a tire. It has psychokinetic powers. It blows people up just for the fun of it as it rolls aimlessly through the desert to mellow 70s tunes. It falls for a woman it sees in a convertible and follows her to a cheap motel. It takes showers (and watches others take showers).
In an almost universally expected win, The King’s Speech swept the 83rd Annual Academy Awards with Colin Firth garnering Best Actor in a Leading Role, Tom Hooper with Best Directing and The King’s Speech pulling in Best Picture. It also won Best Original Screenplay. Leading the pack with 12 nominations, it’s little surprise that The King’s Speech performed so well.
What did suprise was Inception’s showing. Doing better than expected, Inception won Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Disney had a good showing with Alice in Wonderland garnering Best Art Direction and Costume Design, while Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
The 31st Annual Razzie Awards “dis-honored” the worst of the worst in showbiz Saturday night in L.A. This year The Last Airbender won Worst Picture and four other awards including Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3-D.
M. Night Shyamalan was also dis-honored with Worst Director and Worst Screenplay for The Last Airbender. Worst Actor this year went to Ashton Kutcher for his work in Killers and Valentine’s Day. The Worst Actress award went to the popular foursome of Sex in the City 2; Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon. That film also garnered the Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel of 2010 award.
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan garnered four awards at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards, basically outperforming any other film. The film won top honors with Best Feature. Aronofsky won Best Director, while Natalie Portman was awarded Best Female Lead and Matthew Libatique was honored for Best Cinematography. Winter’s Bone had been the front-runner going into Saturday’s ceremony with seven nominations, but it only won two awards (for Best Supporting Actor and Actress). John Hawkes and Dale Dickey earned those awards.
James Franco won Best Male Lead for his role in 127 Hours. And The King’s Speech even made an appearance, named Best Foreign Film. Screenwriters Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko won Best Screenplay for The Kids Are All Right (beating out writers of Rabbit Hole and Bone). In a moment we may see again at the upcoming Oscars, Exit Through the Gift Shop won for Best Documentary Feature.
Henry Selick is a like a god in the stop-motion animation field. As the director of some dark children’s cult classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, the news that Selick’s studio is prepping a new scary stop-motion animated film has some fans jumping up and down. Ok, I’m jumping up and down.
Henry Selick’s recently opened animation studio started as Cinderbiter Productions but has recently changed its name to Shademaker Productions (which is, coincidentally, the name of the scary children‘s film they will be making). Though little is known about the upcoming Shademaker, /Film reported that Selick’s new studio is actively acquiring talent.
The indie black comedy Super has a new movie poster. The release of the poster promotes the long-anticipated theatrical release of Super on April 1st, though it will be screening at upcoming film festival SXSW. The movie poster has a great comic my-kid-made-this-crappy-poster-and-I-don’t-care look and feel. Probably a perfect representation of the mood of the film.
