No one was more excited than I when Britain's Hammer Studios returned with a vengeance a few years ago. From their remake of Let The Right One In to the intense ghost story The Woman In Black, it was wonderful to see the UK's premiere horror brand bringing some good scares back to the screen. The company now hopes to continue its roll into 2014, with a reboot of the Hammer classic The Abominable Snowman getting underway.
Nothing screams "Christmas!" like a new Martin Scorsese film. We almost missed out on it this year, but thankfully The Wolf of Wall Street is all set to hit cinemas on Christmas Day. In preparation for the release, which is now barely a month away, a few more bits and pieces of promotional material have hit the Internet, including several new stills and one very bizarre video.
The release of Jose Padilha's remake of RoboCop is only a few months away, so it's time for the trailers to start getting into the more human aspects of the tale. While the footage we've seen so far have focused on the robotic and action elements of the film, the latest international trailer for RoboCop introduces us to the man inside the high-tech suit.
47 Ronin, the film that director Carl Rinsch referred to as "Kurosawa on meth," has had a long and difficult journey to the big screen. Beginning all the way back in 2011, the 3D samurai flick has gone through script difficulties and a changing release date, only to hit the Internet with a few trailers that were, shall we say, less than impressive. With its ultimate release only a month away, 47 Ronin is now ramping up the promo campaign, hitting us with two new clips of monsters, baddies and Keanu Reeves.
What's better than having one Fifty Shades of Grey film? Having TWO Fifty Shades of Grey films, of course. And if producer Dana Brunetti gets his way, that's exactly what we're going to see. Two versions of the film, one rated R and the other NC-17. Be still my girlish heart.
There is at least one thing that we will be able to say about Darren Aronofsky's take on the Noah story: it's going to be epic. Did we expect anything less though? While we've had glimpses of Aronofsky's biblical tale, until today we had no idea what Noah was truly going to look like. Now we do, and the vision, while spectacular, is also a little bit mixed.
Start planning ahead for those 2015 Valentine's Day dates to the cinema, because the most disturbing romance ever to grace the silver screen will be coming your way. The adaptation of E.L. James's popular BDSM novel (and I use that term loosely) Fifty Shades of Grey has plans to hit cinemas on Valentine's Day 2015.
Yesterday we had our first proper poster for Disney's Maleficent, a somewhat revisionist take on one of their classic villains. As we might have expected, that poster was just a precursor to the first teaser trailer for the film, which was released today. At least now we have more than just images; we have a real look at what Maleficent is all about.
It has been a long time in coming, but Disney's Maleficent is finally here! By 'finally here,' I mean that the marketing campaign has begun. The film does not actually premiere until next May. But the first poster for Maleficent has been released, and now you too can relive all the terror that your three year old self might have felt for Disney's finest evil fairy.
With the premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug rapidly approaching, the airwaves and Internet tubes have begun to fill with those all-important featurettes that films depend upon to remind us of their existence. In the latest featurette from Peter Jackson's team, we get a tour of the house of Beorn, the big bear/man who will figure heavily into at least a portion of the second Hobbit feature.
