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‘Battleship’ – SR Underground Ep. 39

Ben Kendrick — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:45:30 +0000

The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode thirty-nine of the Screen Rant Underground.

Join host Ben Kendrick as well as fellow SR editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as we give our impressions of new trailers for Anchorman 2, Skyfall, and The Master, discuss AMC’s Breaking Bad season 5 schedule, and Dan Harmon’s exit from Community, as well as review the Hasbro boardgame turned blockbuster film, Battleship.

Screen Rant Underground is available in the iTunes Music Store (where you can subscribe as well as download individual episodes) but if you’re not near your home computer, check out our thirty-ninth episode in the player below.

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: May 20th 2012

Niall Browne — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:57:21 +0000

The Avengers fought-off top competition to retain its strong hold at the top of the box office. The Marvel adventure should gross an estimated $55 million worth of green over the three days, a number which gives the film an amazing $457 million total.

The Avengers is now on track to become the third highest-grossing film of all time at the US box office, and it should beat fellow comic book adventure The Dark Knight in the coming weeks (that film topped out at $533 million). The $220 million Shawarma advert probably won’t beat Titanic ($658 million) or Avatar ($760 million), but it should end its run in the company of those James Cameron films. On a worldwide level, Avengers has become Disney’s highest-grossing film ever, and it will likely beat Harry Potter and ...

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‘Battleship’ Review

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:02:39 +0000

Screen Rant’s Kofi Outlaw Reviews Battleship

Let’s just get this out of the way up front: Battleship the movie has little to do with the Hasbro board game that it is based on – other than the fact that it involves Naval battle on the high seas. What we get instead is a slice of popcorn summer fun from director Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom); a movie that unabashedly celebrates the valor of the men and women of the armed forces.

The story revolves around Alex Hopper (John Carter star Taylor Kitsch), a smart, capable, and totally reckless young man who is chaperoned by his older brother and guardian, Navy Commander Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgård). ...

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The Ultimate 2012 Summer Movie Trailer

Ben Kendrick — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:55:21 +0000

The summer 2012 movie season kicked off in a big way this past weekend with The Avengers – racking up a record breaking $207 million domestic opening weekend box office haul. While you can read our review of The Avengers, hear us talk about the film in a special edition of the Screen Rant Underground podcast, as well as chat about the movie in our Avengers spoilers discussion – we’re already looking forward to what the rest of the summer has to offer movie-lovers.

In honor of our favorite season for film, we’re continuing the tradition of crafting one big all-encompassing sneak peek at the summer blockbuster schedule with an Ultimate 2012 Summer Movie Trailer (which you can find above).

In prior years, our intrepid friend Mike Eisenberg edited-together footage from the most anticipated films in the upcoming release ...

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New ‘Battleship’ Clips Offer Story, Characters & Big Action

Kofi Outlaw — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:04:15 +0000

Let’s be honest: At this point there are a considerable number of people who are still not sold on seeing Battleship, director Peter Berg’s new summer blockbuster based on the Hasbro board game of the same name. The lack of enthusiasm is probably why Universal has released so many clips from the film to help persuade moviegoers into the theater – clips we have rounded up for you here today.

Those who profess anything from indifference to disdain for Battleship have done so for reasons that usually include its total lack of connection to the actual board game it’s based on; the shoehorning of aliens into the plot; and the general sense that Hasbro and Universal are attempting to replicate the success of the Transformers movie franchise, based on the similar designs in ...

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7 Movies We’re Looking Forward To: May 2012

John Hanlon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:13:19 +0000

Over the first four months of 2012, moviegoers have been offered a few great films and a bunch of mediocre offerings. But now, the season of summer blockbusters is set to begin with the highly-anticipated release of The Avengers. Featuring a team of superhero superstars including Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, this film is already breaking box office records.

But The Avengers isn’t the only movie to look forward to this month. May 2012 will feature the release of the long-awaited Men in Black III and the international blockbuster Battleship makes its debut in the United States (it’s already opened overseas).

As we’ve done before, here’s a list of films that we at Screen Rant are looking forward to this month. We’ve settled on 7 films – and this time we’re counting down the movies, ...

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2012 Summer Movie Preview – SR Underground Ep. 35

Ben Kendrick — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:40:30 +0000

The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode thirty-five of the Screen Rant Underground.

Join host Ben Kendrick as well as fellow SR editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as we chat about Francis Lawrence directing Catching Fire, the Magic Mike trailer, and Bryan Fuller interested in a new Star Trek TV series, as well as offer our thoughts on some of this summer’s biggest upcoming film releases.

Screen Rant Underground is available in the iTunes Music Store (where you can subscribe as well as download individual episodes) but if you’re not near your home computer, check out our thirty-fifth episode in the player below.

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‘Prometheus’ & ‘Ender’s Game’ Images; ‘Battleship’ Clip Reveals Aliens

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:02:06 +0000

Sci-fi is having a pretty good year at the movies, and that trend is only going to continue into the future. Today we have some new images from what is arguably the flagship sci-fi film for 2012: Ridley Scott’s Alien spinoff film, Prometheus; we also have some new images that the cast and crew of the Ender’s Game movie have been sending out to the Interwebs; finally, we get a look at those aliens no one asked for, in a clip from the blockbuster “adaptation” of the board game Battleship.

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Prometheus

The mystery surrounding Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has made it one of the more exciting movies on the horizon – if only because the mystery amplifies our collective anticipation and imagination. We all want to know how the heady themes and ideas in the film will play out; most importantly, we’re wondering how Prometheus in fact ties to
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New ‘Avengers’ & ‘G.I. Joe 2′ TV Spots; First ‘Battleship’ Clip

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:32:04 +0000

So far 2012 is shaping up to be a fairly good year for movies – and the biggest lineup of blockbusters is still on the way. Today we’ve rounded up some new movie clips and commercials from around the globe to share with you.

We have TV ads that give us a look at Marvel’s lineup of superheroes for The Avengers, as well as the comic book-style action we’ll be seeing in the (hopefully improved) sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Finally, we have the first clip of Peter Berg’s Battleship, an alien-invasion action flick (very loosely) based on the Hasbro board game.

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The Avengers

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New ‘Battleship’ and ‘American Reunion’ Featurettes

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:17:17 +0000

Here’s a mismatched pair for you: the upcoming adaptation of the Hasbro board game Battleship, as helmed (pun intended) by Peter Berg (Hancock) – and the fourth theatrically-released installment in the American Pie franchise, American Reunion, as written and directed by the guys responsible for the Harold & Kumar franchise (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg).

There are new featurettes out for both these films, which will be hitting theaters over the next couple of months. So, if you’d like to learn more about what why exactly there are extraterrestrials in the Battleship movie – or how the original American Pie crew has (or hasn’t) changed over the years, be sure to give each clip a look-over.

Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch (John Carter) as Alex Hopper, an upstart Naval officer who has to lead the charge ...

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Director Peter Berg on Aliens, Rihanna & the Marketing Of ‘Battleship’

Roth Cornet — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:30:48 +0000

Battleship - the film based on the Hasbro board-game – opens in theaters in just two months, and the marketing team at Universal is endeavoring to clarify the film’s tone and appeal in the public sphere. Director Peter Berg and female lead Brooklyn Decker were on hand at WonderCon this weekend to screen some of the footage and interact with the fans.

We had the opportunity to sit down with both Decker and Berg (stay tuned for our conversation with the former) to discuss some of the continued misconceptions about the project, what they are hoping to achieve with it, the inherent marketing challenges involved in a film such as this one, and the very first film based on a board game that Berg made (hint: he was fourteen at the time).

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‘Battleship’ Trailer #3 Features Explosions & Global Destruction Galore

Sandy Schaefer — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:32:04 +0000

Everyone knows that the Summer Movie Season is a time when subtle storytelling tends to get thrown out the window, in favor of blockbuster spectacle – and, most importantly, stuff blowing up.

That will definitely be the case with this summer’s Battleship, the impending adaptation of the classic Hasbro naval warfare board game which (based on previous trailers) bears a distinct resemblance to the Transformers franchise, in terms of style and content.

A third theatrical promo for Battleship has been released, and it features a whole lot in the way of not-yet-seen material involving gargantuan alien vessels blasting cities and warships to flaming bits. Suffice it to say, those Transformers 4 jokes aren’t going away anytime soon.

Battleship was directed by Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Hancock) and scripted by Red writing duo Erich and Jon Hoeber – though, ...

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Interview: Taylor Kitsch Talks ‘Battleship’ & Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’

Roth Cornet — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:47:26 +0000

Taylor Kitsch can be seen this weekend as the titular character in Disney’s John Carter but that is just the first in a series of releases that the Friday Night Lights actor will appear in this year. He stars in Peter Berg’s actioneer Battleship this May and Oliver Stone’s drama Savages in June.

We mentioned the possibility of both Battleship and John Carter sequels in our interview with Kitsch from the Arizona press event for the latter, today we bring you the remainder of our conversation with Kitsch on working with Stone, the tone of Battleship and flying under the radar in Hollywood.

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‘Battleship’ International Trailer & Poster: Aliens, Sailors, & Subtitles

Sandy Schaefer — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:55:33 +0000

Universal Pictures has been (shamelessly?) exploiting the popularity of Michael Bay’s Transformers movies in its advertising campaign for Battleship, another movie adaptation of a popular Hasbro product. It helps that Battleship helmer (no pun) Peter Berg appears to have embraced Bay’s “big, brash, and loud” filmmaking creed with his own blockbuster about U.S. armed forces facing off against an otherworldly threat.

A new international trailer for Battleship has made its way online and it doesn’t include any noticeable amount of new footage (unless subtitles count), but instead mashes together bits of material from previous trailers and TV spots. The result is a good taste of both the film’s “plot” and destructive alien invasion mayhem.

Battleship stars Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch (who also headlines next month’s John Carter) as Alex Hopper, a capable ...

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‘Battleship’ Featurette: Real Sailors Recruited to Battle Aliens

Sandy Schaefer — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:22:27 +0000

Between MMA fighter Gina Carano starring in this past January’s Haywire and real active-duty SEALs appearing in this month’s Act of Valor, there’s somewhat of a trend in filmmaking right now where true professionals are recruited to (essentially) play themselves onscreen. Oddly enough, that’s also the case with Universal’s upcoming Battleship movie.

That director Peter Berg’s adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game – which throws an alien invasion twist into the traditional naval warfare “plot” of the source material – could possibly be striving for true “authenticity” seems peculiar, to say the least. Based on the previous theatrical trailers and TV spots alike, it’s been pretty clear: this flick is a mindless bit of popcorn entertainment ~~that rips off~~ on par with the Transformers movies.

However, as can be noted from a new ...

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‘Battleship’ Super Bowl Trailer is All About The Alien Invasion

Rob Keyes — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:11:20 +0000

Last summer saw the first full trailer for Peter Berg’s unique take on Battleship, showcasing how the classic Hasbro board game would play out in live-action if one of two opposing naval fleets were replaced by alien invaders and all of the ships were loaded with good-looking people. The second Battleship trailer was more of the same and for those looking for eye candy and action, it mostly delivered.

Reaction was mixed to our early looks at Battleship with all footage demonstrating a clear case of style over substance with a heavy use of Transformers-esque visuals and sound effects, intertwined with laughable character moments. Can Universal Pictures swing some positive buzz with their most important marketing push yet, a TV spot during Super Bowl XLVI?

Featured in the Battleship TV spot is Canadian actor Taylor ...

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Movie Image Roundup: ‘Spider-Man’ ‘Hunger Games’, ‘Battleship’, ‘Men in Black 3′ & More

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:13:23 +0000

A lot of websites are still in the midst of offering movie fans a preview glance at the upcoming films of 2012. While not quite as extensive (or informative) as our own Screen Rant 2012 movie preview, some of these other sites instead have the fringe benefit of debuting new images and photos from a variety of films, so today we’ve collected 17 new images we thought you SR readers would like to see.

If you have any interest in films like Peter Berg’s big screen adaptation of the Battleship board game, Lionsgate’s adaptation of The Hunger Games, Pixar’s first princess fairytale, Brave, Judd Apatow’s return to Knocked Up universe with the spin-off film This is 40, or Sony’s new look for The Amazing Spider-Man - then be sure to take a minute to browse through our gallery.

The images come our way courtesy of the LA Times‘ ‘Year in Movies’ ...

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‘Battleship’ Trailer 2 & Poster Tease Aliens & Large-Scale Destruction

Ben Kendrick — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:35:52 +0000

As promised in our recent interview with Battleship director, Peter Berg, the second trailer for the board game to film adaptation has arrived on schedule. Where as the original Battleship trailer teased the movie’s “twist” – that naval forces would be fighting an alien invasion instead of each other – the latest sneak peek at the film puts aside all pretense, offering a glimpse at the extra-terrestrials as well as an indication of the film’s large-scale scope.

In Berg’s Battleship, no one seems to be safe as the aliens appear to attack humanity by land, sea, and air.

There’s no doubt that many filmgoers are still especially skeptical of Berg’s Battleship adaptation – some out of loyalty to the “source material” (the board game) and others out of sheer revulsion at an obvious aim to ...

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‘Battleship’ Edit Bay Visit; Trailer Preview & New Images!

Roth Cornet — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:55:21 +0000

Peter Berg thinks he may have gone crazy. Or at the very least, that’s what he laughingly said in reference to tackling a film of Battleship’s scale during our edit bay visit in late June. In truth, the Hancock/Friday Night Lights director was looking to get into the business of the “big special FX, five-quadrant films that go out all around the world at the same time and have a huge impact and a huge audience.”

After seeing (and loving) Transformers, he began to think of other properties that could serve that very function; as the son of a WWII historian (and a naval fanatic himself) he decided to pitch a film based on Battleship. He has since found it to be the most “creatively challenging” project of his career. The inherent challenges were finding the right story ...

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‘Battleship’ Trailer Looks Like Transformers 4

Rob Keyes — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:49:37 +0000

In today’s day and age, a film about navy fleets duking it out on the high seas doesn’t cut it. Insert aliens, mystery and a large budget and we have Battleship, a film inspired by the Milton Bradley board game and one that James Cameron uses to exemplify the film industry’s lack of creativity.

Another one of the many films that didn’t make an appearance at Comic-Con International 2011, Peter Berg’s Battleship instead has its debut trailer release a few days after the big event. While it’s a shame we didn’t get to see it and its cast on stage in San Diego to talk about the film last week, the trailer was worth the wait… If you were looking forward to Transformers 4.

Featuring a cast of up-and-coming stars, the sci-fi actioner, Battleship, is set to debut ...

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