These days, nights in seem to have become as popular as nights outs (the credit crunch probably being a major contributor) & I am definitely one of those people fitting into that trend.
After a long week at work, I have to say I like nothing better than getting into my baggies on a Friday night and relaxing in front of a good movie. A movie that I watched again the other night was Casino Royale and I have to say that I really do think it it the best Bond film to date. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to surpass good old Sean Connery as the ultimate Bond but Daniel Craig does it. I think it’s not only Daniel that makes this Bond the best but the whole package. It has all the usual Bond film traits without any of the cheesiness that Roger Moore & Christopher Dalton did so well. And of course it has the girls & the cars. Is there anything that those cars can’t do, with their vehicle tracking gadgets & turbo speed. I have to say that if I had to have any car it would be the Aston Martin, what about you?
Some how the new X-Men movie was leaked online just a month before its release date in the states. Hugh Jackman has expressed his disappointment over the leak and his disgust to who ever was responsible.
It has been confirmed that about 100,000 people illegally downloaded the semi complete movie from sharing websites before it was identified and removed before anyone else could do the same. The film is due to be released on the 1st May this year in the US and 29th April in the UK.
Jackman said:-
“It’s a serious crime and there’s no doubt it’s very disappointing. I was heartbroken by it. Obviously people are seeing an unfinished film. It’s like a Ferrari without a paint job.”
Jackman then teased fans with a 20min preview of the film at the event.
With the Films industry struggling at the moment, it is sad to see this situation constantly occurring for the sake of saving £5 for a cinema ticket. If this continues it could see the end of big movie blockbusters like this in the future.
The FBI are still investigating where the leak came from and 20th Century Fox have put their foot down regarding this incident. Having insisted that who ever was responsible would be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law”.
Michael Caine has confirmed that the third installment to the Batman franchise is a long way off.
Caine has played Alfred Pennyworth in the two most recent Batman films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He hopes to reprise his role as the superheros butler in the new movie however, fears its going to take some time before this happens because director Christopher Nolan is very busy on other movies.
Caine said:
“Christopher is doing a picture called Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio which I saw on the Internet. So I imagine another Batman is quite a long way away.
“If they do another one, I’ll probably be the butler. I hope I’m still alive. Michael Gough, who played Batman before me, the last time he played in Batman he was 84.”
He is confident that Nolan will return to direct the next Batman movie and has dropped a hint that the next super villain will be The Ridder, who was originally played by Jim Carrey in the 1995 version Batman Forever directed by Joel Schumacher.
Producer Michael Uslan has estimated that it wont be until 2011 before this film will hit our cinema screens.
James Bond has been voted the most lethal lover in cinema history.
Not surprising though because not only does he put it about a bit by bedding 51 women over 22 films but many seem to end in a body bag -16 to be precise. It was Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) who started the trend after a fling with Sean Connery in Gold Finger she wound up covered in gold paint and dieing of skin suffocation.
Roger Moore was pretty deadly having over a quarter of his conquests bite the dust and George Lazenby even lost a wife. If you want to get it on with any of the James Bond’s then you best make it Timothy Dalton who must have been the safest 007 to sleep with as non of the women he seduced died unlike Pierce Brosnan who managed to get three of his lovers killed.
It turns out that Daniel Craig is the most dangerous Jame bond to get in bed with. He has only played the secret agent in two movies he has seen off three women!!
Marvel have decided to push back the release dates for its up and coming super hero movies Thor & The Avengers to minimise clashing with others they are due to release in the next 2 years.
Thor’s was due to be released in July 16 2010 but has now been Re-arranged to June 17, 2011. The Avengers was originally planned to be released on July 15 2011 however has been moved to May 4Th 2012.
David Maisel, Marvel Studios chairman - said that the reason why The Avengers has been delayed for so long was to space out other ’solo’ superhero blockbusters Marvel plans to release before reunited the characters in the one big superhero film.
“[It] maximizes the visibility of our single-character-focused films, leading to the highly anticipated release of the multi-character The Avengers film in 2012,” he explained.
The plan was to bring out Marvel movies Iron Man 2 and Thor in 2010 and another three the next year The First Avenger: Captain America, Spider-Man 4, and The Avengers. However, it was felt that there wasn’t enough of a time lapse between First Avenger: Captain America and Spider-Man 4 before The Avengers came out, which is basically a team up of all the marvel heroes.
The next installment of the new superman movies is soon to be in development but it looks like Lex Luthor is has reportedly been axed as the main villain as Warner Bros want someone new to be the baddie.
Warner Bros has asked writers to come up with ideas for another bad guy for the new movie which has already been titled as Man Of Steel. Kevin spacey played Superman’s Arch-Nemesis in the most recent film Superman Returns but the new movie is said to take a new direction and the first step towards this is to change the villain - other changes may follow.
Warner Bros have still not been able to agree with a villain they are happy with as of yet and even investigated old ones such as General Zod who appeared in Superman and Superman 2 . However, they haven’t ruled out ideas for a brand new bad guy for the new film.
According to Daniel Craig, it would be better for an American to play the smooth talking secret agent 007 ‘James Bond’ than a British actor - bit strange as James Bond is British!.
The Hollywood heart throb, who plays James Bond for second time in ‘Quantum Of Solace’ feels that the British sense of self-mockery takes something away form the character and that ‘Brisishness’ could be the down fall of the spy character.
“I am always trying to self-mock. I am trying to put it down or to laugh it off but you have got to be careful because false humility is not a great trait,” he said.
“Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier if I was American, because I am deeply English.”
Well its been 2 weeks and The Dark Knight is still number one at the box office and looks in good stead to stay there for a while.
The film took a massive $75.6 million this week which has broken a record for the highest grossing second weekend. The movie has already made an incredible $314 million at the US box office and with out a doubt is set to become the biggest financial hit of the year.
Step Brothers and The X Files: I Want To Believe, are new additions to the table both also ranking quite highly.
1. The Dark Knight - $75,630,000
2. Step Brothers - $30,000,000
3. Mamma Mia! - $17,865,000
4. The X Files: I Want To Believe - $10,200,000
5. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - $9,415,000
6. Hancock - $8,200,000
7. WALL-E - $6,349,000
8. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $4,934,000
9. Space Chimps - $4,375,000
10. Wanted - $2,727,000
Heroes has only just ended and its going to be another 2months before the 3rd installment ‘Villians’ hits our screens however a new web only installment is due to hit the Internet in under a weeks time.
A new addition to the hit series starts next week for web users only. It will follow a new hero called Echo De Mille, a postman hence the title for the mini series being called ‘Heroes: Going Postal’. The first installment will air on NBC.com next Monday
The trailer is out and about on the web and the episode will star a surprise guest appearance by Peters & Nathans Mum from the TV series ‘Angela Petrelli.
When the deadly reaper virus strikes the authorities have no choice but to corner off the whole of Scotland and leave its inhabitants to die before the virus can spead any further. Three decades after this brutal quarantine, the entire population is presumed dead behind a high-tech 21st century version of Hadrian’s wall - but whenthe reaper virus resurfaces this time in London and it become evident that there are survivors of the virus (caught by a satellite) an elite group of specialists are sent into the nightmarish wastelands that was once Glasgow to apprehend one of the survivors to develope a cure by any means necessary
Although the movies story lacks substance for example where did the virus come from? how did it reemerge? why dont the cars windows seem to work during the car chase at the end of the film? and most importantly how come non of the survivors sound remotely Scottish? it is still very entertaining to watch if you enjoy action packed stunts, explosions and a lot of Gorey scenes - definitely not for the squeamish.
