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Tron & Twilight sequels to film in Vancouver next year
Monday, December 22, 2008
Ah, it pays to have friends in the right places I tell you. While Santa and his team of elves prepare to launch their sleigh in two days, we’ve got our own early Christmas present to share with you: confirmation that two highly anticipated sequels will start filming next year in that land close to the North Pole, Canada. Specifically, a town by the name of Vancouver, British Columbia will be the place where the sequel to Twilight, New Moon, and Tron 2, the sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 special effects movie will shoot in 2009. Continue reading…
Posted at 5:19PM by Patrick
Jennifer Lopez getting knocked up for film biz
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Jennifer Lopez has signed on to her first new movie project since giving birth to twins two years ago. The Latin music sensation and crossover Hollywood actress will headline Plan B, a new romantic comedy for CBS Films.
In the new movie J-Lo will play a woman who is desperate to start a family but is tired of waiting for true love to come knocking at her door. She winds up getting artificially inseminated and on the very day when she discovers that she is pregnant, she winds up meeting the man of her dreams. As Forrest Gump once told me, “Life is like a box of chocolates. One day you pick a chocolate that you really like and the next day you find out that you’re knocked up with some stranger’s kid which puts a crink in your dating schedule.” Oh, you were so right Forrest, so so right.
What comes next for the project is to secure a director and then move towards the first day of filming, which is being targeted for March or April next year.
Posted at 10:27AM by Patrick
Luke’s lightsaber sold for out-of-this-world price
Friday, December 12, 2008
Remember that auction for all those wonderful, one-of-a-kind items from dozens and dozens of Hollywood movies from the past 80 years? It took place yesterday and several of the lots that went up for bid actually went for quite a bit more than what was estimated, like that little doohickey from a galaxy far, far away. How much did the hero prop of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from the original 1977 Star Wars movie go for? It wasn’t for $180,000 which is what the high estimate was.
Try $240,000.
Who says that there’s a recession going on? Continue reading…
Posted at 4:36PM by Patrick
Watchmen video journal goes easter egg hunting
Monday, December 08, 2008
On the 6th of every month the people running the official Watchmen movie website release another behind-the-scenes video showing us another slice of how they made the movie. For December we have the opportunity to look at some of the film’s more important props as well as “easter eggs”, fleetingly short scenes or even solitary items positioned in a scene that fans of the Watchmen graphic novel will ID. Continue reading…
Posted at 2:14PM by Patrick
Kung Fu Panda has a choke hold on Annie nominations
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
No, don’t go skipping ahead to the next blog story just because you know this is the time that awards season begins! This next piece isn’t about any possible Oscar contenders, no Golden Globes, no Peoples Choice Awards, and it’s not even about what stinkers are up for the 2009 Razzies. No, this one’s about one of the cooler awards that are given for the best animated films of the year: the Annies. I wonder if their award looks like a small redheaded girl? Continue reading…
Posted at 11:09AM by Patrick
MovieSet @ AFM: Red Sonja artwork and movie premise
Thursday, November 13, 2008
MovieSet scored this promotional artwork for Robert Rodriguez’s Red Sonja starring Grindhouse uber-babe Rose McGowan as the crimson-haired heroine. We also have to show the movie’s storyline detailing how we’ll be introduced to Red, who her pals are, what her motivation is for hacking bad guys with her blade and who the big meanie guy is. I haven’t seen this shot of Rose as Sonja or such a detailed premise for the film anywhere online so, by Crom, MovieSet may have the online exclusive here. Click through to see the full goods.
Posted at 3:20PM by Patrick
MovieSet at AFM — Day 1
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Check it out: photographic evidence. The first snap is of the MovieSet display at AFM 2008: that’s MovieSet CEO/founder Colleen Nystedt seated at the table on the 7th floor of the Loews Santa Monica Hotel. The second shot is from a vantage point up high looking down on the atrium. You can see the action and some posters displaying some of the films being shopped at the market. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:45AM by Patrick
Join the new MovieSet today!
Thursday, November 06, 2008
After many, many countless hours of hard work the MovieSet programming gurus have finally released their latest creations. You may have already seen some small changes appearing on the site, such as the phase indicator, but today comes the big one. After registering your username on MovieSet you can now become fans of individual movies, specific genres as well as become friends with other MovieSet users. Let the social networking begin! Continue reading…
Posted at 10:33AM by Patrick
We’ve got trailers
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Things are moving fast at MovieSet. Not only are we close to raising the curtain on our film crew toolkit that will revolutionize how the production and marketing of a film is done, we’re getting loads of new content on our film sitelets (which now number over 200). And if you want to see new trailers, we’ve got those too:
Charlie Kaufman’s Synchdoche, NY has already been talked about on this blog before and I’m looking forward to seeing what his latest effort is especially since he’s also the film’s director. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theater director who builds a miniature recreation of New York inside a New York warehouse, complete with actors playing real people going about their everyday lives. Watch the trailer and get a taste of what Kaufman has in store for us.
From the director of American Beauty and Road to Perdition comes Revolutionary Road, an adaptation of Richard Yates bestselling novel. The film reunites Titanic stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio who play a 1950s American couple who seem to have the perfect suburban life — and that’s precisely why they are unhappy with their lives. Click here to watch the trailer.
Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd play two thirtysomething men who refuse to act their age in Role Models. When the two guys run into legal trouble they have to pay back the community by performing community service. Click here to get a taste of the flick.
Nineteen-year-old Casey Bell is being haunted by the soul of her unborn brother. After experiencing nightmarish events Casey decides that the only way to be rid of her haunting is to have an exorcism performed on her. That’s the premise of The Unborn, directed by Batman Begins screenwriter David Goyer. The trailer looks freaky.
Defiance stars current 007 Daniel Craig as one of three Jewish brothers who, while hiding from the Nazis in the Belarussian forest during World War II, begin to assemble a resistance to their oppressors. The trailer is waiting for you right here.
And in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the four former zoo animals from the first film are back in this DreamWorks sequel. Instead of being stuck on an island in the warm latitudes the animals hit Africa and try to learn if they can rejoin their families or if their time spent in civilization has changed them too much. Zany trailer action awaits!
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Lots of new MovieSet films to tell you about
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
The ace content team at MovieSet have gotten genetic boosts and cybernetic finger implants, which is the reason why there have been a lot of new (and more to come!) MovieSet sitelets launched in the past week. Let me give you a rundown of what’s new so you can spend the rest of your afternoon watching trailers and getting educated about what’s coming soon to a theater near you.
City of Ember — based on the bestselling tween novel, the movie stars Bill Murray as the mayor of a subterrean city where the planet’s last surviving humans moved to generations ago. With the city’s power supply close to running out it’s up to one girl to discover the secrets behind her city’s construction and if there is a way out before darkness falls.
The Longshots — Watching the trailer for this one and you can’t help but get that same feel-good for rooting for the underdog vibe that We Are Marshall or Varcity Blues have. Ice Cube plays an uncle to a underprivledged girl who has natural talent as a football quarterback. Persevering against all odds, the girl rises to the challenge and begins to lead her team to victory. What really threw me for a loop is that The Longshots was directed by Fred Durst — yeah, that Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit. Crazy, huh? If you didn’t know who Durst was in a former life there’s no way you would have guessed he made this film.
Bottle Shock – Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Freddy Rodriguez and Rachael Taylor star in this film that shows us how the California wine scene exploded in the mid-1970s and put NoCal grapes on the palate of world culinary culture.
Disaster Movie – The same creative team behind Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie and Date Movie continue to spoof popular movie culture with their latest send-up. Can you guess what genre they’re poking fun at this time? C’mon, three guesses.
Slightly Single in L.A. – Rumer Willis (Bruce’s baby girl) stars in Christie Will’s examination of several friends working in the L.A. showbiz scene.
The Day the Earth Stood Still — Keanu Reeves plays the alien visitor in this contemporary remake of the classic 1951 tale of mankind’s first encounter with aliens. The trailer promises that we’ll get to see Keanu’s BFF, Gort, the robot with heat vision. Blink at the end and you’ll miss him.
And that’s all for now but I’d advise you to get prepared for a lot more new films making their way onto MovieSet very shortly.
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