According to a number of media reports, renowned actor and director Mel Gibson is being considered to play a lead role in an action thriller “Blood Father” directed by Jean-Francois Richet, who is well known for films like Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, and Assault on Precinct 13.
According to play details, Gibson will be playing a role of an ex-con and former Hells Angel. The film has been described as a Taken-style action thriller. The script will be written by Peter Craig and it will be based on his own novel. Craig is well known script writer as well as novelist. He worked on scripts of various big films including Ben Affleck’s “The Town”, drafts of Top Gun 2 and “Bad Boys 3”.
As per the script, Gibson will be playing an ex-con who joins up his alienated errant 16-YEar old daughter to keep her safe from drug lords who want to exterminate her. We can easily compare this film to the plot of the Renowned film “Taken” which stars Liam Neeson as the lead action hero who saVes her daughter from the criminals who abduct her. Although, story seems quite similar, but Gibson will surely appear with his unique style for this specific role, AND it would be still interesting to watch. We have watched Gibson before in such roles, but still, it must be an entertaining ride.
“Blood Father” has been projected to start filming in May in New Mexico. As the story of Craig’s novel goes: Lydia Carson runs away from her home, and at age of 17, she deals with a person who increases his profits with inexplicable acts. One day, she finds herself protecting a home in Topanga Canyon in the course of a shakedown. As fatal hostility goes off, she herself turns out to be a target. She runs away down a rivulet and from the hillsides to the coast–by herself, penniless, and scared. Her final preference is her father John Link who has just been released from jail.
Link saves his daughter, but after some days he becomes conscious that her condition is far more unsafe and complex than he considered. He has to adopt his past wild way of life to look after his daughter, reverting to life-threatening previous friends and places of escape.
Keep in mind that Gibson is in talks so far, he has not been confirmed to play the role. What are your views about this film and if Gibson plays the role?
The cast and makers of the FX's American Horror Story came back to the PaleyFest stage and presented sneak-peeks from "Coven" and footage of season 4, with another particular declaration that Michael Chiklis has been casted in season 4. He is coming back to FX 6 Years aftER TV show “The Shield” ended its run, and will play the role of a German ex-Pat running one of the final freak shows in the country.
According to seVeral reports, season 4 will be set in Jupiter, Fla., in 1950, starring Jessica Lange as Fiona Goode. Other cast members are Sarah Paulson as Lana Winters, Evan Peters as Kit Walker, Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau, Frances Conroy as Myrtle Snow AND Kathy Bates -- who were also seen on Friday's board. They will play performers that have been set free by Fiona Goode. Denis O'Hare and Emma Roberts will most likely also come back to the show that reboots itself each season with a totally different tale and plot, and frequently includes the same cast of previous seasons.
AHS team kept chuckling as they thought back about Coven and their New Orleans experience, but didn’t give away enough plot details. Chiklis will be playing the father of Kit Walker and ex-husband of Fiona Goode. Producer Ryan Murphy told that all the actors on the PaleyFest stage would appear in upcoming season.
"My heart was pounding like it is right now. It is a Freak Show, oh man!" Chiklis said after his casting was confirmed. Murphy further said that he had long pursued Chiklis to play a special role in American Horror Story and mentioned that there will be some other new cast members for Freak Show as well. The entire fourth season has been projected to be filmed in New Orleans and Florida.
Previously, Chiklis appeared in two TV shows, CBS' Action Crime drama “Vegas” and ABC's comedy drama “No Ordinary Family”, but unfortunately both shows had to be called off after only 1 season. His 7-season appearance in crime thriller “The Shield” was much admired by audience, and he got 2 Emmy nominations for best actor and won one for his outstanding performance. He also grabbed a Golden Globe award and was nominated for 3 times. When we talk about his film career, his biggest credit he is known for is his role as Ben Grimm in Marvel’s comic based film Fantastic Four.
So, what are your views about his casting in American Horror Story season 4?
Since the previous more than a decade, we have had to face the fact that the previous mega budget Godzilla movie, directed by Roland Emmerich in 1998, failed to meet the expectations of the fans, but this May, that streak will at last finish. Director Gareth Edwards, who suddenly started his career in Hollywood a few Years ago with the highly admired low budget sci-fi movie “Monsters”, is at last bringing the cinema’s iconic creature back. Everything we have watched regarding it until now has given us extreme optimisms for what he has made, togethER with the brand new footage that was presented at CinemaCon.
Film opens in plant with actress Juliette Binoche wearing a biohazard outfit to examine a breach, while the “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston examining some images AND finding out something is badly erroneous. He struggles to assist Binoche, but fails. He reaches a lobby which is swiftly filling with a poisonous gas, and with tears in his eyes he shuts the door so as to save his life as well as lives of rest of people – most probably letting Binoche die.
After watching thrilling scenes in trailer – including speech of Joe (Bryan Cranston) regarding the reality being concealed from the people, “Inception” star Ken Watanabe telling the egotism of humans, and different scenes of obliteration. The next relatively long sequence started on the beach where a damsel was looking at the sea. Surprisingly, the waves become gigantic and terror spreads around as alarms go on. Then we watch a gigantic tsunami in between skyscrapers, with citizens getting frightened, running over vehicles and bawling. When the city is completely drowned under water, a man on top of a building fires flare, and exactly at that moment we see the chest of the Godzilla.
From there the footage includes some scenes that we have already watched in trailer, including the airplane jump. But, Godzilla was still not shown clearly – just like in all of the marketing content until now – but the last scene did include the Godzilla roaring behind a smoke cloud.
The footage for Godzilla didn’t show any new thing as compared to other movies at CinemaCon, but it still is one of most anticipated films of the year. If it is able to successfully offer all the aspects that fans are expecting, it can turn out to be one of the highest grossing films ever.
Childhood superhero icons are being introduced in theaters for the first time. Right from the beginning, the mega-budget film based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was bogged down in disceptation. When it was declared that Michael Bay would be working as the producer, and most probablY these turtles would be aliens, the film production has been the topic of much controvERsy since then.
The debate is still going on with the launch of the first teaser trailer of the movie, directed by Jonathan Liebesman (who is known for Battle Los Angeles, Wrath of the Titans, AND The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning). The trailer shows initial look at the ninja turtles with Megan Fox starring as lead actress.
The trailer depicts that Ninja turtles are not aliens, but are genetically modified in a lab experiment, as the trailer opens with William Fichtner telling Fox that, "Heroes are not born. They are created. That’s what your father and I were trying to do. Create heroes."
What are your views about that change to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ folklore? The origin of the TMNT has been restated and changed over the years, all the way through a range of comic books and cartoon remakes. One thing they all have normally is mutagen, the extraordinary chemical stuff that mutated usual turtles in ninja turtles; therefore, they are called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The precise specifications and structure of the mutagen has changed over the years. From time to time it just either makes them larger, or it provides them superpowers. It has always been the means for the Turtles’ subsistence.
It seems that the whole story is filmed in New York City and the complete trailer also shows us more plot details on the crime that has infected the City. We see gun-hauling hooligans appearing from the sewers and bringing about turmoil in the city. Then we see two ninja turtles fighting with the criminals, and in the end, they happen to come across the Megan Fox on the roof of a building.
While Michael’s movies are frequently disparaged for their story aspects, excessive explosions in action and exaggerated comedy, the fact is that the director’s skill at staging outstanding action series is his greatest characteristic as a filmmaker. Maybe his experience on this specific subject of the movie could eventually make TMNT a more thrilling film, if nothing else.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is projected to be released in cinemas on August 8 this year. Has the trailer impressed you?
We are only a couple of months away from watching the battle between humans and apes in “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”, the sequel to Rupert Wyatt’s amazingly much admired reboot “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. It is the one which both sci-fi and action filmgoers are restlessly awaiting and it has become most anticipated film of the YEar.
So, what are they doing now to make the sequel to meet the enhanced expectations of the fans? They haVe released some new pictures from the set where the actors are monkeying around wearing their motion-capture outfits. Not precisely what fans would term as super marketing, but at least main actor Andy Serkis (who is playing Caesar) also exposed a few more plot details. Thanks to his moving motion-capture performance as Caesar, the first film succeeded to impress the audiences with its convincing storyline, providing the sort of pertinent epic entertainment that few anticipated.
According to the plot details, this sequel shows the era after ten years when a lethal virus has annihilated most of the earth’s inhabitants. In the meantime, Caesar along with his ilk have spent all these years preparing for the battle and increasing their own community, which has thrived on the fringes of San Francisco (even as the residents of that city have had particularly difficult time).
The unrecorded truce between remaining humans and the genetically modified apes has been spoiled. War is about to happen! So why is the leader of the apes – Caesar – being so welcoming with the characters played by “Zero Dark Thirty” star Jason Clarke and Keri Russell? Are they struggling to have another truce and make a deal? Is this sequel spoiled for the fans by now? Certainly not.
We can judge from the second picture that the apes has really resort to violence against humans and their intelligence has grown to such an extent that they can now use human made weapons including snipers and machine guns. Well, it that’s the case, then it is pretty convincing to see how the human population gets annihilated and apes become dominant.
Andy’s further details revolve around the back story instead of the actual storyline we will see, but it absolutely develops an isolated world that all fans are eager to watch, when the film turns cinemas into a battle zone on July 11. Perhaps by that time we will have chance to see another trailer.
Now, You really should brace yourselves for the upcoming war drama “AmERican Sniper” by one of the best directors of Hollywood, Clint Eastwood.
It seems that the casting process of the film is almost complete; howeVer, it is still under pre-production. Previously it was announced that the two times Oscar nominated star Bradley Cooper was confirmed to play the lead role in this film. Now, as per a number of media reports, Kyle Gallner has joined the cast of American Sniper, alongside Bradley Cooper.
Gallner is known for a number of horror as well as drama films including “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “The Haunting in Connecticut”, “Jennifer's Body” AND “Red State”. Other actors who have joined the cast of the film are Sienna Miller (known for Stardust, Casanova, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Jake McDorman (known for “Live Free or Die Hard”), Luke Grimes (known for “Taken 2”) and Cory Hardrict (Known for Battle Los Angeles, Warm Bodies and Gran Torino).
Jason Hall has been announced to pen the script for the Warner Bros.’ war drama American Sniper. Bradley, besides playing the lead role, is also serving as the producer under his 22nd and Indiana label, together with Director Eastwood, Robert Lorenz (‘Million Dollar Baby’ and ‘Mystic River’), and Peter Morgan (known for Frost/Nixon, Rush, The Last King of Scotland, and The Queen). The independent entertainment company, Village Roadshow Pictures, will co-produce and co-finance the film along with Warner Bros., whose vice president development and production, Jon Berg, will supervise the whole production process for the studio. The film production has been projected to be kicked off next month in Morocco.
Bradley will appear as much admired Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who is recognized as one of the Best Snipers in American Military History and killed most terrorists with his snipers than anyone ever have. While Gallner’s role may seem quite strange to some people, as he will live up to the character of Winston, an Arkansas inhabitant who gets the nickname “Goat” when his initial kill in Iraq is a wayward goat. Plot details have not been provided.
The film has already become much anticipated and is being considered one of the best upcoming films. Bradley Cooper has also been tapped for upcoming film “American Blood”.
What are your views about American Sniper? Did you like the cast so far?
It was expected after so much criticism over the biblical story adaptation.
Oscar winner star Russell Crowe, who is playing the lead role as ‘Noah’, probably seems angry over the critics and he doesn't look to be caring about their theories and statements.
"We've had probably over a year now of very harsh criticism from a bunch of people who have put their name and stamp on an opinion that's not even based on the movie or seeing the movie," He said, during an interview. "Just an assumption of what it could be or how bad it could be or how wrong it could be in their eyes, which I think quite frankly is bordering on absolute stupidity. Because now, I think, people are seeing the movie and they're realizing how respectful it is and how potent it is."
FortunatelY, none of the aforesaid denunciations came straight from the Vatican, where Russell previous month had a chance to get together with Pope Francis after a couple of unsuccessful efforts. His notion of the head of the Roman Catholic Church was nothing if not smoldERing.
Russell Crowe revealed that he is not a Catholic at all, AND that he has never experienced any association with any earlier Pope. He further said that he in fact liked the new pope who is altering the manner of the approach we look upon the Pope, and he considers it as extremely superb thing. Russell said that he was really privileged and honored to be in that location.
The Gladiator star went on to assert that this biblical epic will encourage constructive dialogues about significant matters related to our religions, our stewardship of the earth, our link with animals, and our spirituality. This film would make viewers think, who are we in this world? All such incredible topics need to be discussed. This film is an Art and such films can do magnificent thing for the humanity.
Russell didn't in fact get the opportunity to show the Pope his biblical movie and to know his response or view about it. However, the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi had verified previous week that the appeal from the movie's producers for classified viewers was declined right away. He also told them that the Pope was not interested in watching the movie as he was unable to provide any public support.
So, what are your views about this film?
These days, there are rumors circulating among media sources that the Disney, which lately got the rights to make more Indiana Jones movies, seemingly wants to give a James Bond touch to the lead character of the film. So, who would put on the cap after highly admired Harrison Ford? According to the rumors, the studio is considering Bradley Cooper for the lead role as Indiana Jones.
As per a number of media sources, Bradley is just one name on an extensive list of actors who are under consideration to play Indiana Jones, but Bradley tops all of them. It has also been reported that Frank Darabont, who is the well-known director of “The Green Mile” and “The Mist” (and also wrote a much better script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal), has already come up with a brilliant concept for this film project. But, we are not sure that whether these claims or news are true or not.
It is also being reported that 71 year-old Harrison Ford may reprise his iconic character one last time in this most speculated and anticipating Indiana Jones film. Let us consider “The Hangover” star Bradley Cooper and Frank Darabont are teaming up to enliven the concept of Indiana Jones as an American James Bond. It would imply that the several talented actors could carry on this role for a number of years in the future. It really seems fairly awesome idea, isn’t it?
According to various film experts, Indiana Jones still has that prospects and this character doesn't need to get older with everY movie. It would be a great idea to reboot this franchise and continue forward with all new actors and the storyline. The huge fan base of Indiana Jones will love to watch the remake, if it is helmed appropriately by talented directors and script writER.
There haVe been a lot of discussions regarding the 5th installment of Indiana Jones franchise, AND the famous director Steven Spielberg had said in 2011 that he and George Lucas had already decided on the type of the 5th film. He, nevertheless, said, "I don't know where George is with the story. There is no 'Indy 5' until George says there is."
Again, this is still not conformed news, but you can speculate about this rumor and hope it to be true. But what if this turns out to be true? Then, it would be awesome news for fans. Who do you think should play the role of Indiana Jones?
Famous film star Gwyneth Paltrow and English singer/songwriter Chris Martin are separating after 10 Years of happy marriage life. Paltrow publicized this news on her website, Goop, with a picture captioned "Conscious Uncoupling."
The joint announcement of the couple read, "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate."
The 41-year-old Oscar winnER Paltrow AND 37-year-old Coldplay musician Chris have 2 kids named ‘Apple’ and ‘Moses’, and in their touching, a bit inexplicably entitled, announcement cited 'Conscious Uncoupling', they came clean that both had expended much time struggling to save their matrimony.
They further explained that they are, nevertheless, and always will be a family, and that they are more faithful than they have ever been. They said that they are parents primarily, to 2 extremely brilliant children and they demand their solitude to be esteemed at this hard time of their lives. Paltrow said that she and her husband have always carried out their matters confidentially, and they are optimistic as they intentionally disengage and coparent, they can go on in the same way.
Just previous year, the “Iron Man” star has praised his hubby enthusiastically while giving an interview to a magazine. When she was asked about the greatest decision of her life, she said, "to marry my husband". And about a couple of months ago, she revealed to another media source that she and her husband were going through some difficult times in their relationship.
"It's hard being married. You go through great times, you go through terrible times. We're the same as any couple", she said during an interview. She also revealed that she had sought advice from her late dad in this regard.
The famous duo had met in October 2002. They dated for almost a year and then married in December 2003 in a covert formal event at the Santa Barbara courthouse. It happened so fast and secretive that even the family members and friends were not invited. After few days, the beautiful actress had declared that she was expecting her first baby with him, Apple, who was born in 2004.
What do you feel about their separation?
As the new trailer of the film indicates, there are much risky aspects for upcoming installment of X-Men franchise. As duly histrionic as that looks as the main part of a time-travel motion picture, there is an explanation as well as criticism to such discourse, indicating the prospects of the X-Men franchise itself and the likelihood to re-visualize its prospects after this summer’s latest sequel.
We already have somewhat idea what comes after ‘Days of Future Past’, as the name and launch date of 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse has already been publicized several weeks ago, and producer Bryan Singer has told that it will be the sequel of the ‘First Class’ into the era of 1980s considering the flashback timeline.
But ahead of that, DOFP provides the X-Men franchise an opportunity to remake itself and get rid of the shackles (and continuity) of all earlier films, mainly the dissentious 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, which not only lacked the Bryan touch, but also reallY excluded the “modern” element of the franchise by putting an end to 3 of the main charactERs in a single incident.
In theory, if Wolverine’s undertaking does well in this May’s film, then he will have changed the prospects or upcoming eVents of the First Class cast in some way that will imply that the dystopian, machine-filled future that Magneto AND Professor Charles Xavier live in has stopped to be, or in any case has turned out to be significantly better.
The range of such variations relies on the audacity of the movie makers but brings in all ways of prospects that could be followed not least of which being the likelihood to remake fan-most wanted characters recast from their earlier emergence, with every character exempted from any imminent history presented in the initial 3 X-Men films.
If helmed suitably, it’s a win-win for filmmakers. They have a chance to reorganize the timeline in a best way, but without needing to enlighten fans that the previous films didn't “take place.”
That said, this idea can be balled up and cause problem. After all, completely changing the “future” of the X-Men does possibly nullify the films that certainly built a huge fan base, which runs the threat of disappointing the viewers who are most eager about the franchise.
Is the risk of pushing away X-Men admirers worldwide worth making an effective formation for a new superhero world with the possible jackpot of numerous franchises in a promotion? In few months, we will have an idea whether Fox has actually a 2nd opportunity when we talk about its superhero attributes.
On Monday, Paramount Pictures gave it’s a CinemaCon presentation at Colosseum at Caesar Palace of Las Vegas in order to make theater official realize that they had something big to deliver a best summer at the box office. The key individual Michael Bay was not present at Colosseum at Caesar Palace. He was probably busy in not only the post production of “Transformers: Age of Extinction”, but also in 2 other film projects — a reboot of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the found-footage horror film “Project Almanac”.
Bay's nonappearance didn't bring about a bad impact on the Vegas-based CinemaCon presentation. Mark Wahlberg – the lead actor of upcoming Transformers – strode around the stage pompously to demonstrate an extended look at the expected runaway success.
“It is bigger and better than the other three combined,” Wahlberg said, continuing to expect that the movie will turn out to be the biggest hit of this YEaR.
The 20 minute preview was maybe the most extensive look yet at fourth installment of Transformers Franchise. Wahlberg plays a severely caring father and suffering because many bad things are happening to him due to a broken down truck. The reVelation that the truck is in fact a Transformer brings about a huge battle between Autobots AND Decepticons. From there, the battle extends worldwide, as humans fight with machines, typically to the loss of city schemers. In the sneak peak, we also have a short glimpse of Optimus Prime riding a Dinobot that has turned out to be a fan favorite, and will make its first cinematic look in this sequel.
Besides setting up the video recording, Wahlberg shared some special private moments with the audience, as his ten year old daughter came with him to the stage. He revealed that the last time he visited Las Vegas almost ten years ago to demonstrate footage of one of his most admired films “The Italian Job”. He told that he and his pregnant wife were expecting his daughter at that time.
“This is her first time in Vegas and hopefully her last,” he jested.
Paramount brought out and showed other influential celebrities like David Cross and Will Arnett for inspection and admiration of new footage from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” in a playful hour and half long show. The turtle movie, which is intended to grab teenage audience, revolves around a grittier version of four turtles who clean up city from crimes with help of April O'Neil (Megan Fox).
The film shooting is set to recommence on James Wan’s Fast & Furious 7 which needed to be reorganized after the sudden death of the co-star, Paul Walker. We all are aware that there have been rewrites on the continuation along with that Walker’s role, Brian O’Conner, will remain a superstar of the movie. However, currently we are starting to hear the news on what the ingenious team of the Fast & Furious series will do to take the place of the Walker in the upcoming part.
The production of the film has already been started and there have been changes in the scripts after Walker’s death. Previously, it was reported that Walker’s character will be shown as dead in the rest of them film. But now we are getting the news that the creative team of Fast and Furious Franchise may bring in a replacement for the part of Walker.
A number of media sources has reported how the production team has planned to progress with the project. A source says:
"They have hired four actors with bodies very similar to Paul’s physique and they will be used for movement and as a base. Paul’s face and voice will be used on top using CGI."
There are many rumors that that Paul’s own brother might be used as substitute for the late actor. It seems that Universal studio, Wan and the producers have decided to do so in an attempt to complete the project in most effective way.
It is not a latest approach. This method has currently been used by the creators of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, after the sudden death of Philip Seymour Hoffman who was playing one of the lead characters. CGI technology has become so much advanced today that it can be used to come up with such visual tricks. Is it the most effective choice? Definitely not. But mega budget film projects have to go for complex imaginative options to defend their investments following misfortune. A number of media reports are hinting that Fast fans will acknowledge the solution if it can revive Walker’s character.
Paul’s co-star and best friend, Vin Diesel, meanwhile paid yet another tribute to him on Facebook by sharing a picture with the enigmatic caption "The Two Pauls", and fans have been asking Vin about the other Paul guy beside Walker.
What are your views about such a new tactic to fill the gap left by the sudden demise of the late actor?
Lionsgate’s “Divergent” directed by Neil Burger, who is best known for the film “The Illusionist”, seems to be releasing at the lower end of some estimates, with initial proceeds showing the teen-oriented sci-fi film may not reach current expectations of a $60 million-plus home launch.
According to other calculations, “Divergent” would take around $23 million at nearly four thousand cinemas on Friday — counting $5 million from late shows Thursday — and finish with almost fifty million dollars by the closing stages of the weekend.
This still indicates that the sci-fi adventure will take over the weekend box office, as forecasted, in the midst of huge support from the desired targeted fan-base of juvenile males and females, though it’s quite difficult to forecast how well it is grabbing the attention of other types of audiences. Reviews have been nothing special with around forty percent recent rating on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregation site.
The expected national launch for this film is the 2nd best of this year, dropping behind only comedy animated film “The Lego Movie”. Shailene Woodley (known for The Descendants), the lead actress of the film, has been very lively in promotional campaigns.
Friday estimates also demonstrated a considerable tumble for Disney’s “Muppets Most Wanted,” finishing with $20 million, which is $5 less than previous weekend. Investors put the shares of Lionsgate reserve on the market, as it took a tumble of almost 8%, falling to $2.35 and finished with $27.60, which is considered the lowest finish since July previous year. It’s worth dropped by 25% since November and Lionsgate officials have been trying to modify Wall Street’s forecasts for “Divergent” in upcoming weeks.
James Bobin’s “Muppets Most Wanted” starring Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, and Tina Fey is also expected to fall well short of the launch weekend of 2011′s “The Muppets” that had earned almost $30 million over its first weekend. The 3rd weekend of comedy animation film “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” seemed probable to top all other films with nearly $3 million, boosting the overall profit around $80 million worldwide.
The Harold Cronk’s faith-based movie “God’s Not Dead” did decently on its opening day with $2.7 million on Friday at around eight hundred theaters.
What are your views? Which movie did you like the most?
