First Official Photos From Disneys The Sorcerers Apprentice
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:12 AM | From /Film
Fanboyz have scored a scan of the first three official photos from Disney's live-action film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I'm guessing that the photos appeared in the same AMC catalog that the Alice in Wonderland photos were scanned from over the weekend. Click on over to Fanboyz to see the uncropped images in larger resolution.
Loosely adapted from the classic story from Fantasia, and based in modern-day Manhattan, Nicolas Cage plays Balthazar Blake, a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege (Jay Baruchel) to help fight the forces of darkness. Celebrity illusionist Drake Stone (Toby Kebbell) joins forces with an evil sorcerer named Horvath (Alfred Molina), to "gain ultimate powers." The film, also features Teresa Palmer (Bedtime Stories) as Baruchel's love interest and Monica Bellucci (Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded) as Veronica, a sorceress and the long-lost love of Cage's character. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is set to hit theaters on July 16th 2010.
parody : THE MATRIX silent film starring Charlie Chaplin
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:32 PM | From GeekTyrant
The black and white pill? Or the black and white pill?
Here’s a fun thing that just popped up. With all of the amazing advancements in technology at filmmakers fingertips, here’s a a silent movie take on one of the most visually groundbreaking film of it’s time, The Matrix.
In this retro version of The Matrix, Neo [...]
What if The Matrix was made in 1905 as a silent comedy starring Charlie Chaplin? It would probably look something like this 7-minute Russian television skit, embedded after the jump.
via: io9
Early Buzz: Is Kick-Ass The Best Superhero Movie Ever Made? Trailer Coming Soon
Lionsgate held a round of test screenings in the last couple days for Matthew Vaughn's big screen adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series Kick-Ass. I'm not quite sure why they are testing the film, as I know the studio knows they have a great movie on their hands. Also, I heard about screenings in both Los Angeles and London. Lionsgate released a batch of character teaser posters, launched the film's official website iamkick-ass.com, and the trailer will be online on Sunday November 15th (at least according to the countdown clock, although the weekend date seems a bit odd).
A friend called it "one of the best movies" he's "EVER SEEN" and claimed that he got more of a movie high off of that than the first MATRIX. Someone else called it a cross between Matrix and Shaun of the Dead (you will see that the Matrix comparisons are pretty consistant) ...
Matrix Producer wants to make Muhammad Biopic
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:18 PM | From GeekTyrant
One of the producers of the Matrix, Barrie Osborn, is about to embark on another great adventure. He is setting out to make a big-screen biopic on the prophet Muhammad. He is looking to make this quite an epic film, which has will have a budget of about $150 million dollars. That a pretty big [...]
Seriously? Matrix Producer Wants to Make a $150m Biopic of Islamic Prophet Muhammad
It's not every day I get to tag a /Film story with 'Muhammad'. So I guess I should thank evident crackpot producer Barrie Osborne, one of the men behind The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, because he wants to make a giant film about Muhammad. Yes, that Muhammad -- the founder and prophet of Islam. A couple of cartoons depicting his image were once enough to generate a global outcry. (Visual depictions of the prophet are forbidden by Islamic law in some sects.) How will things work out when a producer puts up twenty-four pictures of him every second? Poorly, which is why Muhammad will not be seen in the movie that depicts his life.
In a way, this could be an interesting formal exercise: how do you make a movie about a person without ever putting them on screen? (Answer: get the Coen Brothers to make The Muhammed Who ...
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal. The film will be co-written and directed by Larysa Kondracki (Viko, The Vanished). This will be Kondracki's feature film debut and I'm very interested to see how this turns out.
The film stars Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener), Monica Bellucci (Matrix Reloaded), David Strathairn (Bourne Ultimatum) and Venessa Redgrave (Robin Hood).
Is There Subtle Racism in Movie Posters?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:07 AM | From Cinematical
A dizzying array of elements are involved in creating a movie poster -- everything from contractual requirements dictating the size of the stars' names to psychological studies on which colors and fonts produce which emotions in viewers. But Ron Henriques at Latino Review suggests there might be more to it. In a very amusing article -- or an infuriating one, depending on how seriously you take it -- he shows multiple examples of what he considers racist "rules" in the way minorities are shown in posters.
For example, Henriques says it's only OK for a minority (he's mostly talking about African Americans) to brandish a gun in a movie poster if they're cops, secret agents, or FBI. What's more, he says, the posters tend to make it clear that the person is in law enforcement, either through costume elements or in the text on the poster, lest observers think he's a criminal. (White people, he implies, are allowed to hold guns on posters without being identified as cops.) "Perhaps this will change in time if the powers that be will get over their fears that minorities brandishing weapons on a simple movie poster is going to make their kids go postal," Henriques writes, making it hard to tell whether he's exaggerating for the sake of humor or whether he really believes that that's what movie marketers believe.
Another of his observations: Minorities brandishing weapons often have their faces partially obscured from the poster. He shows American Gangster, Smokin' Aces, and Matrix Reloaded as examples; in each case, the black actors' faces are cut off just above the nose. But in fairness, so are the white actors' faces.
Monday, September 21, 2009 9:14 AM | From Cinematical
Time hasn't necessarily been kind to the Wachowski Brothers sci-fi trilogy, The Matrix. Granted, most of the blame can be placed at the doorstep of the Wachowskis themselves, thanks to some rocky sequels, although, I know I'm in the minority when I say that I kind of liked the final installment, Revolutions. But that probably had more to do with a soft spot for William Gibson styled techno-babble than anything else. But for today's Scenes We Love, let's all think back to the the spring of 1999, when the world was new, and you didn't have a clue what the Matrix was.
Now, whether this comes down to my extraordinary powers of observation or I've just seen too many movies, I can usually spot a plot turn coming a mile off. But in a million years, I couldn't have guessed that when Keanu swallowed that red pill he was about to wake up in a pile of goo as a human battery in an A.I. ravaged world...so suffice to say, I never saw it coming. The movie might be full of philosophical gobbledygook and borrow from every anime and comic book you can think of, but I never cared, because The Matrix (whatever it's faults) wasn't just a tired rip-off, the Wachowskis distilled all that pop culture into a movie like no other.
The Wachowskis did the unthinkable (or at least the unthinkable to our spoiler-happy culture), they managed to keep a secret. The trailers let you see teases of all the kung fu, slo-mo bullets, and latex that was to come (we even got a trademark Reevesian 'whoah'), but all the shocks and surprises were kept until you were in that darkened theater and Morpheus (as played by Laurence Fishburne doing equal parts Yoda and Shaft) takes you down the rabbit hole...whoah, indeed.
Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:07 PM | From Latino Review
Christopher Nolan is going to release Inception on July 16th, 2010. Then, he's going to tell us if he's doing another Batman. Nolan's offerings have always been tiny mind-fucks if they didn't feature the Caped Crusader, and Inception's sci-fi action within the archetecture of the mind might be the first post-Matrix attempt to explore mind-interfacing in a way that makes us realize The Matrix wasn't the be-all-end-all of this sci-fi concept.Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are on set in Los Angeles, where Nolan is wrapping up Inception. Click the pic below to be taken to the source.
Source: Faded Youth Blog
A dizzying array of elements are involved in creating a movie poster -- everything from contractual requirements dictating the size of the stars' names to psychological studies on which colors and fonts produce which emotions in viewers. But Ron Henriques at Latino Review suggests there might be more to it. In a very amusing article -- or an infuriating one, depending on how seriously you take it -- he shows multiple examples of what he considers racist "rules" in the way minorities are shown in posters. 
