May the fourth be with you.
Just had to make that little Star Wars reference, Couldn’t help it!
It is time for yet another Weekend Movie News Wrap Up, this week:
Tom Cruise plans his next 10 years, Peter Jackson has a release date for The Lovely Bones, The Descent gets a sequel and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor gets a new poster.
To find out more - keep reading!
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1. Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones will be released in the fall of 2009 (or as I would call it - the Autumn). There were rumors last week that the film had shut down production due to “creative differences” between Jackson and the art director of the film over how to portray heaven.
When I first heard this I presumed that it was rubbish as these things are usually sorted out long before principal photography would have taken place.
Dreamworks executive Stacey Snider stated:
“It was a very smooth shoot with no dissent, and all heaven sequences requiring sets or Art Dept involvement were completed on schedule in March. The only shooting remaining involves blue-screen VFX elements, which will be shot in June.”
The film is based on Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel, in which a murdered young girl looks down on her family and murderer from heaven.
“Marky” Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci and Susan Sarandon star in the film.
Source: Comingsoon
2. Tom Cruise is busy planning his next few dozen movies.
The Crusier recently had lunch with Sumner Redstone, the head of Viacom - owners of Paramount Pictures - the studio who dropped Cruise following his “crazy behavior” whilst promoting Mission: Impossible III. On the menu at that meal were discussions about Mission: Impossible 4. Cool!
I’m a big fan of the Mission: Impossible franchise and I’d love to see another addition to the series, plus the first three movies have grossed a bucket load of cash. The third film was seen as the under performer in the spy series, and even that grossed almost $400 million worldwide.
Cruise’s United Artists has hired Joel Surnow, co-creator of television’s 24 to pen a spy thriller to be directed by Casino Royale helmer Martin Campbell.
Variety states that United Artists have made it a “priority to find a commercially viable franchise for Cruise.”
It looks like Cruise really loves his spy movies. I wonder what Sumner Redstone thinks about that?
3. A sequel to Neil Marshall’s The Descent is in the pipeline. The $10million dollar horror went on to gross $57 million at the worldwide boxoffice.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
“The script sees the survivor forced back into the system of caves she battled her way out of in the first film, in a bid to locate the rest of her group.”
Marshall wont direct the sequel, Jon Harris, editor of the first film will make his helming debut from a script by James Watkins.
Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza, the stars of the original will also return.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
4. The first poster for the The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has been released at it looks…very red.
Check it out below. Director Rob Cohen has also given an update on his official blog stating that 300 of 964 visual effects shots have been completed and that he will be heading to London on May 27 to start the music recording sessions with Randy Edelman.
I quite like the first to Mummy movies, although the kid in the second, along with some godawful CGI ruin it slightly.
Source: robcohenthemummy.com
5. I’m also going to go out on a wild limb here and predict that a sequel for Iron Man is going to be announced any day now.
That’s it for this week.
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6 Comments
I liked the first mummy alot, the second one I didn’t care much for.
Descent was really solid, I am disappointed it didn’t make its way to theatres around here, I had to rent it.
I’d like to see Tom Cruise not as a lead but as ONE of the leads in a trilogy of epics, I think it would be awesome to have several stars and not have him as the go-to guy but a support character…like some future war flick or something.
I’m going to see Iron man tonight. I’d love to see a sequel where, Terrence Howard is not a terrible character and not have terrible dialogue and becomes iron man for a while, then given the War Machine suit. Then the 3rd in the trilogy can have both fighting together.
Remember how we talked about sequels and remakes? I mentioned Gremlins (Yeah I know what was I thinking?)
Well, I guess the Gremlins Vibe is out… check what I just found!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/apr/30/dragons.den.gremlins.bt
How can you not WANT one of those!?!?!?!
And I loved IRON MAN by the way… Can’t wait to see the sequel!
Also don’t forget Iron Man made over $100 Mil in the box office opening weekend.
You know Vic, I’m a huge fan of Mission Impossible too!!!
I mean the old 60s series… They were simply awesome, I still watch them now and I am amazed at just how cool they made those stories. Sure not all of them were THAT cool, but most of them were. The 80s version or was it the 90s version, wasn’t that good…
You know, people talk about fanfare that makes their hairs stand up on their backs (hairy people only I guess) ;), well the Mission Impossible Theme is so awesome that when I first heard it in the Major Motion Picture M:I, I was actually cheering with the rest of the people!!!! IT was THAT powerful!!!
Now I also have to be very honest here, M:I 2 was horrible… it ruined the story for me. Ethan Hunt wasn’t the same character for me anymore. The hair was also a huge distraction.
Then I saw the third installment… and OH MY LORD!!! I was SOOOO angry! I remember everything about the first episode, heck I even remember part two pretty good. But the third one I can’t remember at all.. except that it had no real ending… or resolution or meaning for that matter.
So I am not happy to say that J.J. A messed that one up for me. The only good thing about that movie was the score…
For me Bourne works much better… feels like a M.I. movie sometimes… granted I’ve still not seed the third one…
But, I’m nostalgic and I love M:I, so if they can bring in a new crew and do it all over again I’m going to be very happy…
Just not super young, pretty people, please… make them unique but at the same time worth investing 2 hours in.
I liked the vault sequence from the first MI.
I also liked the vatican sequence from MI III.Both of those sequences reminded me of the series.
I also like Phllip Seymour Hoffman as the villain .
I thought the movie moved at a very brisk pace,
I credit Abrams for that .
And the film was certainly resolved ,
Hunt was happily married and he had his choice of career opportunities both inside and outside the agency .
I loved the Descent and so a sequel should appeal, but not in this case, for one reason.
(SPOILER FOR FIRST MOVIE)
There were no survivors and she didn’t get out!
What the hell is that about? Did these people not watch the movie? There was a dream sequence of her escaping but the movie ended on her being alone in the dark hallucinating, which was a great ending.
If this sequel goes against the first I’ll not be watching. Sounds like a sequel for the money.
What's your opinion? Leave a comment!