Trailer Tuesday: Step Brothers (Red Band!) Also, Choke.
May 27, 2008For those of you who may not know, I, Cinemabuzz Writer Guy, recently forayed outside of my family’s businesses, which means that I now have a real job. A job that requires actual jobbing. Hence the lack of updates on this here site.
Speaking of which, wouldn’t it be cool if we all wore edible pants? Not only will I have something ready to eat when I’m hungry while commuting, I shall also have a perennial excuse for not wearing any pants. Like if someone asks "Why aren’t you wearing any pants? And why are you takin— Dude, don’t put that in your mouth, seriousl— Dude that’s your underwear, come on." I’d be all like "SHUT UP THEY’RE EDIBLE."
Anyways, here be the red band trailer for Step Brothers, which reunites the Talladega Nights cohorts - Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. This probably my second most favorite trailer of the year so far, next to the one for The Foot Fist Way.
Much love for the Hall & Oates usage.
Child Stars From the 90s: Where Are They Now? And Are They Bangable?
May 20, 2008Aaaaaaand we’ve hit an all-time low. Good thing people don’t go to jail for what they write and post on the internet! Wait.
Anyway. Haven’t you ever wondered what’s become of your childhood silver screen crushes from the 90s? And if they’ve super foxily blossomed into womanhood more than a decade later?
However, this entry will focus more on the ladies who’ve been creeping under the radar. Not the Christina Ricci nor the Kirsten Dunst types, because we all know how those two turned out (i.e. one never grew past the height of 4 feet, the other has tits that could out-sag your grandmama’s; both ARE bangable).
On a side-but-completely-related note, I personally had a crush on Michelle Trachtenberg when I was growing up watching her as Nona F. Mecklenberg on The Adventures of Pete & Pete. I was never a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer so I didn’t really see much of her after her Pete & Pete days, so one can only imagine how watching her strip down to a bikini in Eurotrip brought about an array of mixed emotions for me. It felt so wrong, yet oh-so-right.
But like I said, we’ll highlight the ones who pretty much have fallen into obscurity, and the first person that probably popped into your head when you read the title of this entry was "that girl from My Girl."
Anna Chlumsky
You May Remember Her…
As that girl from My Girl. Weren’t you paying attention?
Where Is She Now?
She’s currently filming a movie with James Gandolfini, and completed two other projects earlier this year.
I was also surprised to see that she played a pivotal role in an episode of 30 Rock last year, and I didn’t recognize her. For those who follow the show, you may remember the time when Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) first met Floyd (Jason Sudeikis). Lemon mistakenly received a Valentine’s gift from Floyd, which was intended for his real girlfriend at the time, Liz Lemler from accounting.
Chlumsky was Liz Lemler from accounting.
Is She Bangable?
Pervy Cinemabuzz Writer Guy gives Ms. Chlumsky a 10/10 face-wise, and a 1/10 for that f’n blouse.
Donnie Darko Sequel; Arcade Fire To Score New Richard Kelly Film
May 18, 2008The internet has been buzzing this past week over the news that a sequel to Richard Kelly’s 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko is being produced by UK company Velvet Octopus. The good folks over at /Film contacted Kelly’s Darko Entertainment outfit regarding their involvement in the film, and this was Kelly’s reply:
“To set the record straight, here’s a few facts I’d like to share with you all - I haven’t read this script. I have absolutely no involvement with this production, nor will I ever be involved. I have no control over the rights from our original film, and neither I nor my producing partner Sean McKittrick stand to make any money from this film.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, part two will be retardedly called S. Darko.
Moviesonline.ca has the exclusive teaser poster.
The sequel will follow Donnie’s little sister, Samantha, seven years after the events in the first film, as she and her best friend embark on a road trip, during which they will be plagued by "bizarre visions."
Daveigh Chase (Samara from The Ring movies) will reprise her role as Samantha, while Briana Evigan (Step Up 2 The Streets), Ed Westwick (TV’s Gossip Girl), and Justin Chatwin (Goku in the upcoming Dragonball, War of the Worlds) will co-star.
Simon Crowe from Velvet Octopus spoke to Screendaily.com, and assured us that despite Donnie not being involved (because he’s kinda fucking DEAD), there will be "meteorites and rabbits." Wow. That’s very… comforting.
(NEWS ON THE ARCADE FIRE SCORING KELLY’S NEW FILM, UNDER THE CUT)
New Hellboy II, The Dark Knight, Punisher: War Zone Posters!
May 17, 2008Nothing too fancy in this entry, just some sweet-ass new posters from Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight, and Punisher: War Zone.
I didn’t think that Universal could top the Drew Struzan-made Hellboy II: The Golden Army one-sheet which they released at this year’s New York Comic Con, but they managed to do just that, with this stunning poster courtesy of Comingsoon.net.
News On Filipino Sci-Fi Sex and Slaughter Fest "Killdroid"
May 15, 2008There’s this small film that’s been generating a lot of buzz among movie blogs lately, all thanks to this photo which was released by its producers yesterday:
It’s a woman in a short skirt bending over what appears to be a cryogenic chamber, and it definitely caught my attention, in the crotchal area.
So I did a little more research and found one truly cool thing about it, and it’s the fact that this film, Killdroid: A Mechanical Love Affair, is a collaboration between American DVD label Mondo Macabro and Filipino writer-director Rico Maria Ilarde.
Ilarde directed Altar for Cinema One last year, and helmed the "Aquarium" episode of Shake, Rattle and Roll 2K5 in, duh, the year 2K5.
Mondo Macabre is no stranger to Filipino shock exploiters either, having released titles such as Aswang, and the critically-acclaimed Silip: Daughters of Eve. The latter (which stars former Miss Philippines Maria Isabel Lopez, Sarsi Emmanuelle, and Myra Manibog) was even voted in the Top 25 DVD releases of 2007 by Mr. Skin.
The company is also responsible for introducing the now-cult favorite For Y’ur Height Only (which stars 2′9" Filipino action star Weng Weng as Agent 00) to the Western World with its release of the title on DVD in 2005.
Anyway, Twitch received an announcement regarding the film, and it details the movie’s plot:
This is the intriguingly entitled KILLDROID, a collaboration with Philippine-based writer-director Rico Maria Ilarde. The film, described as “a mechanical love affair”, tells of a disturbed Goth schoolgirl who stumbles unwittingly across the remnants of a long abandoned military project designed to create an army of android killers from the processed bodies of dead soldiers. The girl takes on the mysteriously beautiful Killdroid as a lover, only to discover, too late, that its insatiable sexual appetite is inexorably linked with a need for slaughter.
Impressionable goth school girl? Killer robot android with a sex addiction? COUNT ME THE FUCK IN.
(TWO MORE PHOTOS, UNDER THE CUT!)
Max Payne, BioShock, Metal Gear Solid, Grand Theft Auto Movie Updates! Hot Damn!
May 14, 2008Wipe that shit-eating grin off your face because it’s Wednesday! And you know what that means! Do you? Because I don’t!
First off, Filmschoolrejects.com has new photos from the set of Max Payne, which stars Mark Wahlberg as the title character and Mila Kunis as Mona Sax.
That last one is obviously an overhead shot of dead bodies, which would come as no surprise since this film, after all, was based on a game where you shoot people and stuff.
From my end, I’d put the body count at nine: one for each blood stain (that makes 7), another one being at the upper right side (with the guy standing over it), and the last one on the upper left side, by the boxes. Considering its size, it’s either a midget or a puppy, and given the lack of a blood stain, said midget or puppy could very well have been strangled or poisoned. Either way, it’s awesome.
You can view the rest of the photos by clicking here.
The film co-stars Beau Bridges (TV’s Stargate: SG-1 and My Name Is Earl), Chris O’ Donnell (Batman Forever, Vertical Limit), Ludacris (2 Fast 2 Furious, Crash), Donal Logue (TV’s The Knights of Prosperity and Grounded For Life), and Amaury Nolasco (Transformers, TV’s Prison Break), and is set to be released on October 17 later this year.
(BioShock, Metal Gear Solid, GTA news under the cut!)
Trailer Tuesday: X-Files: I Want To Believe
May 13, 2008"I Want To Believe?!" More like "I Want A Better Title!" AM I RIGHT?!?
Okay. Anyway, new trailer!
And like I did with The Incredible Hulk trailer before, I took a few snapshots of scenes which you may have missed from the clip.
Scully appears to have returned to practicing medicine. Mulder: "I need you on this with me."
Xzibit, looking like he just got goatse’d by a midget in a cooler. (What? It can happen.)
Okay, I honestly don’t know what in the shit this is. But it kind of reminds me of Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire.
Captain America’s Shield Was In Frickin’ Iron Man!
May 12, 2008And apparently, the serum used to create Captain America will be a significant plot point in the upcoming The Incredible Hulk.
But first, the shield. According to the guys over at First Showing and Slashfilm, it appears right around the 90-minute mark in Iron Man, as Pepper Potts walks in on Tony Stark dis-armoring in his lab, after the incident between him and Rhodey’s fighter jets. See if you can spot it in this animated GIF:
And here’s a clearer photo, courtesy of First Showing:
"HOLY CRAP," right? But wait, there’s more!
List-O-Rama: The 15 Best and Ass-Kickingest Opening CREDITS Ever (Part 3/3)
May 9, 2008Ye, thus speaketh Cinemabuzz Writer Guy, we have come to the conclusion of thine list of the Best and Ass-Kickingest Opening Credits In History. He who opposes his choices can sucketh an egg. But really, I am expecting at least one death threat for what I selected as the all-time greatest opening credits… of all time.
But before anything else, I would just like to address the ones that I managed to leave out of this here list. Superman: The Movie, Memento and Panic Room easily come to mind. I couldn’t find spots for Planet Terror and Catch Me If You Can either, because of their similarities to sequences which I’ve already included. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party was also a sentimental favorite which I could’ve at least placed at number 15, but couldn’t.
And finally, Weedur brought to my attention the amazing opening titles to Robert Altman’s The Player, which involved an eight-minute tracking shot. Unfortunately, I had already completed the list at the time and could not make the necessary alterations.
Without further ado, here be the cream of the crop, the Five Best and Ass-Kickingest Opening Credits Ever:
#5: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
After see-sawing with films such as the genre-twisting 28 Days Later and the less-than-impressive House of the Dead, big screen zombie fare received a huge rejuvenation in 2004 courtesy of the remake to George A. Romero’s 1978 classic. This was Zack Snyder’s (Watchmen, 300) directorial debut, and was written by Jenna Fischer’s ex-husband, James Gunn (Slither, Troma’s Tromeo & Juliet).
Dawn of the Dead was a fast-paced feast for the eyes, and what kicked it into gear was its opening credits, a montage of photos and news coverage of the events surrounding the dead becoming undead. And the song that plays over it? The ominous opus by Johnny Cash, "The Man Comes Around," which was Snyder’s first choice as background music.
Jonah Hill, Teresa Palmer Out of Transformers 2; Isabel Lucas In?
Director Michael Bay has confirmed that talks between Jonah Hill and the producers for Transformers 2 have broken down, and that Australian actress Teresa Palmer was never even considered for a role.
Good thing I ended the subject of my earlier entry with a question mark, because I would have made a complete fool of myself had I jumped to conclusions. Because, you know, the last thing I’d want is to not be taken seriously as a blogger/reporter.
Also, here’s a photo of a mustachioed Dakota Fanning with a pig.
Anyway, in keeping with the trend of friggin’ hot Australian women with regard to the Transformers movies (Rachael Taylor in the first, Teresa Palmer being rumored for part two), it appears that another actress from Down Under, Isabel Lucas, has been cast in the sequel.
Speaking of things "down under"… Nah, nevermind. I guess one really can’t go further downhill from Dakota Fanning with a mustache.
By the way, Ms. Lucas is a relative newcomer to the business, having only a regular role in the Australian soap, Home and Away under her belt. She will, however, star next to Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, and Willem Dafoe in the upcoming futuristic vampire movie, Daybreakers.
