My excitement for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse hit a low last week when the trailer debuted, looking more like a series of bonus scenes to New Moon than a new film. This "behind the scenes" teaser from the New Moon DVD looks a bit better. Enjoy.
News, Video | tagged The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 
Do you want to see a movie? Are you tired of the hassle of paper tickets? Fandango has a service for you. The company is launching a mobile ticketing service allowing you to bypass ticket lines by showing the ticket-taker a barcode on your phone screen, reports TechCrunch. Ticket purchasers will get a text message with a link to a barcode page. Don't expect to go paperless anytime soon though. The service is only available in a few select theaters across the country.
This is a great idea, but only if Fandango is in a sharing mood. If it is trying to become the Ticketmaster of mobile movie tickets, its plan will fail. Ticketmaster makes exclusive deals with venues and then charges a very high premium to users for the ability to buy tickets online. To run this mobile ticket service, theater owners will need to purchase barcode scanners (and probably a computer) for every ticket-taker. That's a big investment. MovieTickets.com is testing out a similar service. Imagine if some theaters only take tickets from Fandango and others from MovieTickets. Not a fun prospect. They need to work together and set up a standard mobile ticketing system that all websites can use. Until they do, you probably won't see a mobile ticketing system in your local theater.
Box Office, News | tagged Fandango, Mobile Ticket This has no news value, but it's pretty good. I wish upcoming Gerard Butler film, The Bounty Hunter, starred a real bounty hunter. Thanks to /Film for the link.
Funny | tagged Boba Fett, Jennifer Aniston, The Bounty Hunter 
Mel Gibson is going to direct an epic Viking film starring Leonardo DiCaprio...then he may retire. In an interview with the LA Times, Gibson discussed his dream project.
“It was the first movie I ever thought about making," Gibson said. "I saw it in my mind back when I was teenager. Seriously, it’s the first movie I wanted to make. And I think it will be the last film I direct. It’s the thing I have been going toward, in a way, since I was young, and I think when it’s done I may be finished.”
His friends and colleagues disagree, however, arguing that he is too restless to ever fully retire. I'd agree. I'm not sure why people feel the need to say they're retiring all the time. I suppose I won't figure that out until I hit that age (and am super famous). In any case, Gibson seems very excited about his new Viking film. Bill Monahan, who penned The Departed and the disappointing Edge of Darkness, will script the film.
"We're going hammer and tongs on the script right now,” Gibson said. “When I was 16, learning about the history of the English language I became fascinated with Vikings. And I imagined what they would sound like, how would they talk and that’s what I will be going for in this film. It’s a challenge though. There's never been a good Viking film, not that I've seen. I think I have found the right way to get into it, though, but I don’t want to say too much. The real problem is making those guys sympathetic. They were monsters."
Interesting. The producer, Graham King, also made note that the upcoming film is not going to be supernatural, like the upcoming Thor movie from Marvel. It's a good article. Thanks to Get The Big Picture for the image and link to the LA Times story.
News | tagged Bill Monahan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mel Gibson, Thor, Vikings Yep, another Predator movie is on the way. This time it's from Sin City director Robert Rodriguez, who co-wrote and is producing the film. At South by Southwest (an annual music and film festival in Austin, Texas) the greenscreen-loving director showed attendees a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at Predators--his take on the series.
I'll withhold judgement until we see more, but Rodriguez doesn't have to rise high to beat out the last few entries in the Predator series. To its benefit, the film has a strong cast, featuring Lawrence Fishbourne, Topher Grace, and Adrian Brody, among others. It's slated to hit theaters July 7, 2010.
News, Video | tagged Predators, Robert Rodriguez 
Arrested Development is arrested...in development...again. While the project was on track to begin filming this year, a new project may push it back. Speaking with MTV, Jason Bateman broke the news that the project is still in the works, but will be pushed back due to a new TV show AD series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and G.O.B. himself, Will Arnett. Video of Bateman's quote and info on Arnett's new series are after the jump.
News | tagged Arrested Development, GOB, Jason Bateman, Mitchell Hurwitz, Will Arnett Ladies, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is approaching. From the looks of this new trailer, it looks like more of the same, with Jacob (wolfman) and Edward (vampire) fighting over a single girl. Lautner and Pattinson sound like their reading directly from scripts. It's odd how a movie can appear so melodramatic, yet have some of the most monotonic performances out there. Hopefully the final movie will look better than this trailer. Eclipse hits theaters June 30, 2010.
I was surprised by Iron Man 2's trailer earlier this week. Now it looks like Robin Hood might be a good movie as well. The new trailer shows bits of the thieve's childhood and some nice battle sequences. It still looks too much like Gladiator 2, but to that I ask myself: what's wrong with a sequel to Gladiator? It was a great film, after all. We'll find out how it all pans out May 14. Until then, enjoy the trailer.
News, Video | tagged Gladiator, Ridley Scott, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe 
