The Sequel to the Spider-Man Reboot Already Has an Official Release Date

Clear your calendars, spiderfolk: The new Spider-Man movie will be released May 2, 2014. No, no, The Amazing Spider-Man, published in July 2012. The next Spider-Man, now titled The Amazing Spider-Man 2, released two years after Sony announced today. May 2, 2014 is only 1001 days away, and is also the third anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, the 59th anniversary of Donatella Versace, and Flag Day in Poland.

The Sequel to the Spider-Man Reboot Already Has an Official Release Date

Navy SEALs Movie Starring Navy SEALs Officially Announced

As first reported Vautour, Relativity Media publishes a film about Navy SEALs, featuring real Navy SEALs. The film scripted, bravery, was officially announced Sunday, and the studio is a 2012 release date target. Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh will direct and Kurt Johnstad (300) wrote the script. Bravery following a platoon on a mission to recover a CIA abducted and take the terrorists. The filmmakers had "unprecedented access shipbuilding," according to a press release, and the film will feature fight sequences composed of real events in the lives of men in the film.

Navy SEALs Movie Starring Navy SEALs Officially Announced

Your Box Office Explained: How Super 8 Overcame Its Bad Tracking

This weekend the winners of the Super 8 (asterisk). It 'an estimated 38000000 8000000 The gap between the dollar and $ 13 million more than was expected, as the film follow-up anemic. Who do not have a star in Woody Allen's midnight in Paris, is now moving towards the $ 14 million in its second week of Grosses. This weekend took in $ 6100000 to take less than a thousand screens - Allen, the best showing of Hannah and Her Sisters 25 One year ago (!)

Losers this weekend: And here comes the star. In a week without opening the competition to save Judy Moody and her summer without bummers, we need to put the Super 8 in this category, too. Although better than many expected, the opening of its $ 38 million $ 3 million less than in 2008, Cloverfield. Now there was a monster in America was dying to see!

How it all went down: The Super 8 does not end up more losers than winners is impressive due to the eleventh hour push from Paramount, new, flashy advertisements, the projections of Thursday morning, and a drum beat from the word anima Twitter very positive word of mouth keeps all stakeholders considerable shame not to open at No. 1 when it was the only major new film in theaters. Until last week, despite (or perhaps because?) Trucks in its descent, the Super 8 seemed to be doing their best, not the plot from its explosive trailer began last summer. Unlike the now iconic, the Statue of Liberty decapitated that came to define Cloverfield, Super 8 is posters and print ads with a landscape that is boring, leaning to one side, we say ... nothing. While Super 8 sin, then his head was a transgression implicit "Abrams. Spielberg. Monster Alien.

Will you be there, "the arrogance of his position, which left the film almost forgotten, overshadowed by bombastic show-you-all superhero trailers for summer events.

The report stresses that the whole enchilada costs $ 75 million, haters insist on two occasions, but in any case, the real obstacle in Super 8 was the marketing that could have been. In the winter of 1996, after Roland Emmerich flew to the White House during the Super Bowl XXX Independence Day ad, I remember my girlfriend and with emphasis, half serious: "I do not care if I have to sell my body night: We'll be at the first screening of this "When he reached the Super 8 in trailers instead of awakening interest in the film itself, the first Spielberg-nostalgic atmosphere. . just let eager to rush out and rent Close Encounters of the Third Kind Determined to close the mystery box, never gave Abrams abroad and accused of luring the public: This approach has worked better than mock Cloverfield, but open in February, far from the height of the season special effects.

Meanwhile, the well-examined X-Men: First Class held fast, losing 53 percent of its audience. It's pretty standard for the spandex-heavy movie recording, but it's better than almost every film X-Men save the other. They never imagined a day when a film of Marvel Comics would depend on the review of the movie offended for their livelihood. Ah, the bitter irony!

But as opening day approached, later, Super 8 television commercials became more flamboyant, traditional blockbuster-y, and creation of it. And they seemed to have worked to revitalize interest.

Your Box Office Explained: How Super 8 Overcame Its Bad Tracking

Review Super 8 in One Sentence

This weekend fell JJ Abrams is the Super 8 mystery and hit theaters, land surprisingly good box office returns and Reviews sterling (82 per cent in Tomatometer). But what do you think? Was the final product worthy of the initial secrecy and hype? Were you more into the drama or foreign relations giant killer? And most important: In retrospect, how did you feel Super 8 about Felicity Abrams?

Review Super 8 in One Sentence

Movie Reviews: Trollhunter and One Lucky Elephant

Since the Blair Witch, Cloverfield is a Battle: Los Angeles, a fake documentary genre has conquered the cinema, just like a TV camera sitcom is a comedy. The strategy may be a practical solution narrators have a limited budget, or it can be a crutch to record a couple of ideas. The trick is to use the shaky cam in the service of something greater.

The movie monster Trollhunter Norway, directed by André Øvredal, opens with the corpses are popping up everywhere on the field. A trio of college filmmakers aspiring to obtain their pocket cameras and went in search of what they think is a poacher. They find a strange thin hair who lives out of a van for Team A. It also smells something. That the hunting is considerably larger than the game: trolls.

The construction is slow and obvious, but full of eccentric, comic detail - such as tanning beds and ultraviolet guns in the van, or the government behind security service, who used the bear dead as decoys. TSS has identified many species of magic - including Tosserlad, and Ringlefitch Jotnar - and details like: They were all born after a gestation period of ten to fifteen years, with a head, then quickly develop more (none of have them) as tumors. And yes, they love the smell of a Christian man.

I began to think that Øvredal could go to more aggressive style comedy Zombieland, but the film never fully commit, then falls into a lot of herky-Jerky fleeing goblins (which once seen, are the flashy-looking than you want to find the channel SyFy). What was cool and scary The Blair Witch twelve years ago (like a long shot on the floor when the guy holding the camera freaks out, or a night vision shots of walking through the forest), just do not have more, and is much more ØvredalIn his bag of tricks.

Lucky elephant

Lisa Leeman confused documentary An elephant lucky introduced the kindly circus ringmaster David Balding, who had an elephant in Africa aged sixteen years ago, and turns it into a bizarre mix of cow and daughter Balding trained elephant named Flora and created a viable business - Circus Flora - around her. She even walked down the aisle behind him at his wedding. But somewhere along the way, Flora has lost his desire for a signature tower standing, sitting, and running it: to open and close the bag with his suitcase. "It's hard to believe that I made a mistake to take the life of an elephant and merge it with mine," said Balding.

The film begins sixteen years after they found him Balding, when the now aging businessman trying to find a suitable home for the elderly Flora. Balding, as well as emotional and Animals in captivity, the process is a struggle. When you do not settle in a zoo, he acts violently, and is forced to move. Soon, the owners of the book of Tennessee Elephant making misleading statements Flora of post-traumatic stress disorder, which repealed Baldings dubious theories about separation anxiety. Managing elephant falls into a strange battle, in which each party claims to know the thoughts of animals.

This is a portrait Balding wave here, but little sense of the life of circus and how he came into the store, and virtually no recognition of the history of Flim-Flam circus ring master. Cropping a postscript of this awkward oddball Americana sketch as a call for pro-pachyderm justice, but there is too little context to justify without more argument. You can imagine Errol Morris document into a clinical obsession with animals of the conflict - a successor to Gates of Heaven. Or, Werner Herzog is an atavistic grotesque inability to tame a wild animal nature, Grizzly Mon Instead Leeman applies to sappy and light, transforming what could have been a marquee attraction at a sideshow .

Movie Reviews: Trollhunter and One Lucky Elephant

Movie Review: In A Better Life, Worthiness Is a Vice

It 'hard work to make good movies, people are just trying to do the right thing, especially if you do not seem to be little risk of harming him. Where's the drama? A better life, Chris Weitz presents Carlos, a Mexican father and an illegal immigrant, that usually the rich gardens of Los Angelenos his teenage son. Weitz challenge is to make a man more than any man Carlos. Weitz does not succeed completely, perhaps because the problem is a problem with the movies too often, the merit of the film is tied up his vice president.

Carlos played with great dignity formidable Demian Bichir, a recurring player in the weeds, which was a hard Fidel Castro in Che, Steven Soderbergh. Unshaven, with dirt under their fingernails, Carlos is a single parent, gardener, and a sacrifice, day Saint whose only fault is his generosity to strangers and his teenage son Babyfaced, Luis. Like Luis, José Julián young actor is less convincing as a nice guy who could not understand the sacrifice of his father. The film won the distance between father and son Americanized, but Julian does not seem quite there. At first, her feeling disconnected purpose: Luis, naive and sheltered by his father, gets just for being cute, but it is increasingly clear is a defect of character and actor.

Carlos is trying to update their lives borrow money to buy their own trucks groundskeeping - but when it does, it has been stolen. Luis groped in her neighborhood the gangbangers, then he and his father, Finding a car in a sort of watered-down riffs and The Bicycle Thief. The film establishes that there is no time for the life of Carlos, but the work, the last of which are frivolous pursuits as her son. So we know Carlos mainly work - and we discover what we already knew - that it is a sacrifice, hard-working, decent and generous to a fault. Some details, in particular - a single action or unexpected - could have made more credible. Bichir, despite the presence of Carlos safe has never been more than the idea of ​​a man we should admire. And 'so emotional.

Weitz is telling the truth, and not to say oblique. His story is a simple parable, and the deliberate stimulation and increased score by Alexandre Desplat give the film the impression of a modern myth. With the release of his movie and supernatural New Moon The Golden Compass, Weitz does not avoid the sense of morality primitive black and white, either. Carlos is a good man, surrounded by leaves: tatted of gangsters and thieves, weak men. His justice is not in doubt. That means not much else is, either.

Movie Review: In A Better Life, Worthiness Is a Vice

Movie Review: With Cars 2, Pixar Finally Whiffs

Even Pixar ever make a lemon. It's not that you will receive two cars (or, rather, the middle son, 9 years) from point A to point B, a little 'entertainingly, Pixar standards but outrageous for a shoo-in Oscar virtuosity, this is a further disappointment for the better .

Up to the expectations the fans of Pixar's', and the toy-based spectacular sequelizing franchise, which has earned more than about a dollar for children gazillion market is difficult: after you take the commercial risk of a green and peaceful planet the robot and grizzled old man to fly a home sad, there is no logic in taking an easy victory lap. Talking cars are easier to sell because it was the first film. And the two shots against Lightning McQueen car fun nasty F-1 Racer Francis (voiced by John Turturro in his worst DeLouise Sun) is a three-city international competition to promote a new type of green fuel.

No doubt there are some interesting bright, cartoon greeting card assembly that the use of each of the cities - Tokyo, Paris and London - and McQueen is a fast, sprawling racing is a plastic material, number of pixels, the excitement of video games Great Tourism. But it becomes confusing, or at least confusing. Race sponsored by former oil tycoon with a questionable past, creates a bond like James with a subplot of confidence McQueen, rusty tow truck Mater, pal (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy in a voice that leaves galunking and continue to be puffing out from the cliche idiot). And 'because it was a shoulder comic relief in the first film is like giving Jar-Jar Binks to see the movie with a love mess Mater hot little coupe (Emily Mortimer) and 007-as a super-spy (Michael Caine, who can bang-up distribution, which is a more elegant piece of movie storytelling.)

However, when Mater is such a dull clunk, the story plays less like a parody of Bond and more like a paragraph of this episode of Chuck.

Apparently, the emotional through-line is growing friendship between McQueen and Mater, but these two are physically separated much of the film, as Mater is lost in a miasma of clean fuels, oil reserves secret secret agents , and romance. Even for a movie about cars is a lot of plot machines. What is usually so exceptional Pixar films - that Miyazaki-like ability to tap into something universal and simple - is absent. With three distinct races to run an international conspiracy to unravel, and a pit crew crowded supporting characters who each need their time, Sprint is the film transitions so fast and so suddenly that the film is just grinding its gears trying to quit.

Does your child have fun? Sure, but a green-energy-page plot is too complex. What parents, politically, seems to focus grouped loophole. Lefties are flattered by the automotive environment, the ideals, conservatives cheer when it seems that green energy is not working. Do not worry, the shareholders of Disney: Not a car cross-branding opportunity was in danger.

There is plenty of vrooom and zoooom, but two hours of life can be confusing and a bit 'boring to recurrent mood Doofus Mater and McQueen frequent competitions. Perhaps it was easier to animate Pixar animals or toys, or a robot cowboy because we had always imagined that their personality. As children, when we played in the car, drove them, we killed them, jumped from the couch - and imagine themselves in them, jumping off the scale, or a ring around the track in plastic brittle. We wanted to drive a car, not cars. Maybe we need a vehicle traffic will always remain a mechanical fantasies - empty inside without any humanity.

Movie Review: With Cars 2, Pixar Finally Whiffs

The Change Up Movie Review

The Change Up Movie Review: Gear "to open in theaters in the country, offering the public body swap comedy fans, if they are not interested in growth, to" Monkey "Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds star two friends -. The man and his family lawyer, a friend of the man-child CAD - who pine for each other everyday, only to find their wishes granted with disastrous results.

Frankly, there are not many people in my life, I want to share their lives. I have a blog about the movie to life so well, it's not so bad. But this does not mean that people are not in space-fiction film that I would not trade places with for one day. There are many such people.

Check out the top five movie characters I would swap with the body after the jump!

Marty McFly from "Back to the Future"
If I only have one day to live in the shoes of Marty McFly, I think it would be nice for me to prevent the abolition of space-time continuum. On the DeLorean at my disposal, I would grab the almanac, he wrote a few years ago and boy bar mitzvah gift me a lottery ticket that never goes down, or maybe visit my family a cowboy. This is assuming that I have relatives cowboy, I think. I am sure that I do not.

Nick Marshall's "What Women Want"
Although I am currently in a happy relationship for over five years, there are times that I have absolutely no frickin know that my significant other wants. How can I fix it? Swap bodies Mel Gibson character in "What Women Want," of course! There is much I could learn from Nick Marshall in the day, storage, and use that knowledge every time I have a problem with the boss - who, if she read it, not often. Seriously.

The Change Up Movie Review