Stephen Dorff has been laying low in some pretty small movies over the past two years. In fact, the only two that most people are likely to have heard of are Brake and The Iceman, and even then, you'd probably have to strain to find someone who knows of them. Now, it seems that Dorff is continuing his streak of low-key films with his latest, entitled Zaytoun.
Just in case you didn't think this coming Oscar season was going to be crowded enough, we have yet another contender throwing their hat into the ring. Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher has finally been given a prime release date at the end of the year that positions it right where you would expect an Oscar contender to be.
With the amazing epic scope of HBO's hit show Game of Thrones, it's inevitable that some things will have to get left on the cutting room floor, especially when the source material encompasses books that are around 1,000 pages in length. We've already seen deleted scenes from earlier seasons, but now we have the first cut scene from season three, which will eventually be included on the Blu-ray and DVD releases next year.
As one of millions of fans of Zack Snyder's smash hit 300, I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel Xerxes. We've already seen one gloriously beautiful trailer for the upcoming film that showed off the multiple characters and the CGI world they inhabit, but now we have another, shorter international trailer for your viewing pleasure.
In case you didn't hear the news last week, it's been reported that Harvey Weinstein wants to cut Bong Joon-ho's latest film, Snowpiercer, by 20 minutes in order to turn it into a more streamlined action film for English-speaking audiences, with the implication being that he thinks American audiences would be too dumb to understand it as is.
The first thing that is likely to catch your eye about The Company You Keep, the latest directorial effort from Robert Redford, is the vast amount of star power it contains. I can’t recall having seen so impressive a cast for at least the last several years. Take a look at this list: Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Terrence Howard, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Anna Kendrick, and Sam Elliott. These names, most of whom have won or have been nominated for an Academy Award, would be enough to convince most people to give the film a shot, but then again, more details on the film couldn’t hurt.
Olympus Has Fallen was one of two attempts to tell pretty much the exact same story this year, the other being White House Down, turning it into a kind of battle of who could put together the better film involving terrorists taking over the white house and taking the president as a hostage. While this was the first of the two that came out, I actually saw the latter first, and while it had its fair share of problems, I found it hard to lower the hammer down on it completely. Having seen both now, I can even easily say that it did a much better job of conveying the story for some very obvious reasons. However, before we delve into all of that, let’s take a somewhat closer look at what we’re dealing with in terms of plot.
One of the parts of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug that fans are looking forward to most is where Bilbo and his companions meet Beorn the Shapeshifter. There's been much speculation as to how Jackson and his crew were going to handle this infamous character and much concern over them being able to pull it off in a satisfactory fashion.
As a huge fan of Shakespeare, I'm always ready for another adaptation of any of his plays, but what makes this upcoming adaptation of Cymbeline particularly fascinating for me is that it's based on one of the plays I haven't read or seen any adaptation of. So, for me, this is "new material" (despite it being over 400 years old). The thing is, it will probably be new for most people as well given that this is one of Shakespeare's plays that doesn't get a lot of attention (i.e. it's not performed all that much), making a film adaptation a rather splendid idea.
In the second of two big trailer drops today (the first being The Monuments Men), we have a new full-length trailer for Paul Greengrass' upcoming drama Captain Phillips. We'd already seen one trailer a couple of months ago that gave us a small taste of what to expect, but this new one goes even further, giving us a more detailed look at different parts of the film.
