From Paul Haggis (Crash), you might want to get a little excited about Russell Crowe’s next film. When wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, John (Crowe) is struggling to keep it together, with a song, his job and a final appeal turned down against her decision all weighing on his shoulders. So he’s down to the last solution to get his wife her life back, break her out of jail.
Retelling the real life story of adventurer Aron Ralston, James Franco stars in the lead role, directed by the fantastic Danny Boyle, 127 Hours sees the mountain climber become trapped under a boulder while canyoneering, and with no-one around to come to his rescue, must resort to desperate measures to survive. I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve been looking forward to this for so long, but the trailer feels fairly underwhelming. Then again, this is Boyle, so I’d still expect the final film to be something pretty special.
We’ve been waiting quite a while for this. Casey Affleck’s ‘documentary’ about brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s drop out of acting to start a rap career. Is it real or fake? No one really knows, but if they pull it off, it might just be a modern day This Is Spinal Tap.
Zack Snyder goes fantasy, which sounds pretty promising already. His next action epic “takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary, with potentially tragic consequences.” We’re in.
This trailer was released a while ago now, but after, as Disney dubbed it, ‘Comic-Tron’ (Comic-Con to you or I), we felt it needed posting here too. It is looking mightily good, and might not disappoint in the end.
Because the first Paranormal Activity just didn’t scare you enough (and Paramount probably want to cash in again too), they’re making a sequel. Looks good though. Due out late October.
Seth Rogen is back doing action, and who’d have thought it, he’s toned up too. Adapting the classic titular character for the big screen, with Michel Gondry at the helm, there no doubt this has got potential, although it’s somewhat worryingly pencilled in for release in the regarded Hollywood dumping ground that is January.
The Green Hornet hits cinemas on 14th January 2011. And it’s going to be in 3-D too.
The new trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife is up, and surprisingly it is showing more promise as new footage is release. Still, we’re very skeptical about the 3-D tech. but maybe Paul W.S. Anderson could pull off some magic this time around. Well, video game adaptation magic that is…
Resident Evil: Afterlife is released on September 10th.
The Duplass brothers are back with more mumblecore, only this time some major Hollywood actors are getting involved too. Following John (Reilly) as he meets and starts to fall for Molly (Tomei), it might seem she’s the perfect girl but her son Cyrus (Hill) can be more than a handful and tried to come between the new couple.
Cyrus is out tomorrow in the States and the Autumn in the UK.
They say actors do one for the bank then one for themselves but for the moment at least, Kristen Bell is working hard on her cash flow. Alongside Josh Duhamel, When In Rome looks like your average chick-flick, this time throwing in a wishing fountain love curse in for good measure, then again, that might be just what you’re after.
