There’s no easy way to go about this little piece of news — I’ll just come right out with it. Summit Entertainment has announced that the first trailer for Twilight: Eclipse will debut online on Thursday (March 11) at around 6:00a PST / 9:00a EST. The contents of this 90-second teaser are being kept under wraps until it debuts, but we can tell you this: it will include Edward (Robert Pattinson), Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner). It probably won’t have the screaming teenage girls audio track that we suggested to the studio, but we’re okay with that. There’s a reason why we don’t make films, anyway.
In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Edward and Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
Eclipse is directed by David Slade (30 Days of Night) and is said to be much more dark and violent than the previous Twilight films. So dark and violent, in fact, that there have been rumors about the studio wanting to bring in a new editor to work on David Slade’s film — because he’s making it too icky and bloody. Alright, that’s not entirely true. The rumors about the editor change are true, but I made the “icky and bloody” part up. Either way, this third Twilight movie, like the book upon which it’s based, is a departure from the broody, listless first two chapters. We’ll see if that translates to a wider appeal, or if it simply continues to play fan service to the built-in audience. Either way, Eclipse will make money.
Ron Howard and Funny Or Die released another video to push for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency… I think. Honestly, every time I try to watch it and see Heidi Montag I keep thinking she is one of those frightening Japanese sex robots come to life to seek revenge on mankind. Maybe her next 60 surgeries will fix all that.
Ron, buddy, maybe its best you don’t try to sabotage your own cause with the two most hated people in America:
Robert Mustard, Jr., the man accused of shooting two men at a Dallas office building on Monday morning, was apparently trying to get his revenge on a financial advisory firm that he believed had lost all his money.
According to the Fort Worth News, when Mustard approached his financial adviser, Richard Smith, 66, and his son, Chris, 39, in their office yesterday, he accused them of taking "all my money," before opening fire with a 45-caliber weapon.
When police arrived, Mustard was still in the office, authoritiessaid.
Police shot at -- but missed -- Mustard, a disbarred lawyer, who then barricaded himself in an office and shot himself in the head.
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An autistic kid with cerebral palsy gets semi-attacked by Darth Maul at Disneyland. The kid will get his Obi-Wan revenge one day. Fast forward to 2:34 to see the action.
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Each year, just one day before the glamorous Oscars ceremony, the Golden Raspberry Foundation holds a very low-key event celebrating the worst the movie industry had to offer the past year. The strongest contender at the 2010 edition turned out to be Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” which also turned out to be the... (read more)
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Pre-Oscar night means Razzie awards, and although Megan Fox was denied an acting award, Michael Bay scored a hat trick. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was awarded the high honors of Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.
In other shocking Razzie news, my movie wife, Sandra Bullock, vowed in an interview to personally accept the award should she win for Worst Actress (All About Steve). This is especially cool because she’s heavily favored to win the award for BEST Actress tomorrow night (for The Blind Side), and she indeed won the award for Worst Actress tonight, and accepted it.
The iTunes App Store offers Blackjack Revenge for iPhone / iPod touch for free. That's $3 off and the best deal we've seen on this game....
Tap Tap Revenge. Even if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ve probably heard the name tossed around here or there. The popular Tap Tap Revenge franchise comes from iPhone game developer Tapulous, and it’s proven to be one helluva cash cow for the smallish start-up from Palo Alto, CA. Following the release of their new flagship game, Riddim Ribbon, Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem had some time to sit down with us to chat about his company’s good fortunes, what’s in store for the future, and what Tapulous sees as the dominant smartphone platform for 2010.
Tapulous started off with social-networky apps like Twinkle, but shifted its focus to their social-enabled games after seeing the tremendous growth of Tap Tap Revenge. The company is also looking forward to the launch of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad, and will have some iPad specific titles to offer in the near future.
Android isn’t yet in the cards for Tapulous, but they’re apparently kicking around some ideas for breaking into the Android Market. For 2010, it’s going to be all about the iPhone OS and the devices that run it.
Finally, we can apparently look forward to more Riddim Ribbon titles from Tapulous. The first B.E.P edition is just the start, and we’re told that a general Riddim Ribbon release is headed for the AppStore. If you haven’t yet checked out Riddim Ribbon, find it on the AppStore link below.
Riddim Ribbon ($2.99) [iTunes link]
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
L’Immortel (22 Bullets) Trailer
I never really understood how pop stars that sing in English can be so revered in countries where English is not the primary language. Further, I am mystified at how these very same audiences sing back in perfect harmony. After watching this trailer, you see, I wouldn’t mind learning French.
You’ll have to excuse the fact I don’t speak the language of love, and you’ll further have to excuse the fact that this trailer isn’t translated, but this deserves a couple of minutes of your time, no question about it.
I mean, how can you not be at least giddy at the thought of Jean Reno and Luc Besson reuniting once more for a movie about hitmen, revenge, tender mercies of the heart, and violence of the bloodiest kind? I’ll answer that for you, you can’t feel anything less than hope.
The trailer opens with the most delicate soundtrack, a tune in the operatic vein that stands in stark contrast to the bloody bullets that sit in a metal pan. A mother and child lay in a bed. While I don’t know what’s being said, again, the contrast makes an impression on me. It’s all very serene and surreal.
It’s easy enough to infer what’s happening on the screen just by watching what’s being told through the pictures. Reno looks like he’s recovering from being riddled with gunfire while we also flash back to a simpler, quieter time of his life. What’s more is that even though I don’t speak French I do know enough that an interstitial that states this movie is “Inspire de faits reels” means that what we’ve got here is an inspired tale of realism and, for that, I love that Besson can’t get absolutely nutty with the story.
Wherever the truth lies I have to say it at least warrants hearing it out. How could you not be intrigued by a hitman who leaves killing behind, starts a new life, a few years later finding himself on the wrong end of a phalanx of bullets, and then living to tell about it? There is much talking going on in the middle of this thing which I obviously can’t infer, there is subtlety I wish I could understand, but all you need to know is that he had a kid, had a life, and had it all taken away at about the one minute, thirty second mark. It’s about here that we see a brilliant
Don McKay Trailer
This is a joke, right? A farce, perchance?
There is no way this could be anything else but a Tommy Wiseau inspired kind of film because the intended effect this trailer should have had, I believe, is supposed to make me think this is a sultry story of misdirection, misinformation, and the dark secrets we keep from one another.
Um, no.
I honestly don’t mean to be harsh but this trailer utterly fails to stoke the embers that a good, cerebral, Hitchcock-ian thriller ought to do. First time director/writer Jake Goldberger delivers on setting up a promising story but it simply collapses as every frame unfolds.
I sincerely love the beginning of this thing. I do. I was hoping to extol the thunderous powers of Thomas Haden Church, as he just has that presence about him, but as we see the twilight that’s falling on a sleepy hollow, him standing on a doorstop introducing himself, it’s the old sea hag who reiterates his name at the door (Melissa Leo) that just pushes this trailer in a downward direction, waterboarding it completely.
From the way it opens, I was hoping this was a story about a guy who has come back to slaughter a small family in a murderous rage, a prisoner who has come back to kill! Instead, I get Elizabeth Shue. Writhing, no less, on a bed in a negligee, asking whether he got her letter? Whaaa? What letter? Why are you twisting around in your underthings like that? It looks like these two were old boyfriend/girlfriend from high school but it’s all very weird in the way its executed.
In what sums up the oddity that is this trailer, at one point Church is standing behind Shue and he tells her, in a lecherous strangler voice, how beautiful she is…as she curls her hair. Then you get Leo putting on this affect of some strange school marm as she talks and it all comes off as trite.
Further, Shue can’t seem to be clothed in anything less than the back catalog of Fredrick’s of Hollywood and, in a pièce de résistance, you’ve just got to watch as Church says the line, “You’re lying to me.” Dare I say it tops, “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!” but I honestly think it does.
I don’t care about this movie as not only does this trailer completely give away his hand, ensuring I really only need to watch the last ½ hour of it, but it just doesn’t inspire confidence or clarity. Pass.
A Film With Me In It Trailer
This is a classic example of when seemingly interesting movies get saddled with poor trailers.
What I enjoy most of director Ian Fitzgibbon’s, who is also bringing us this year’s Perrier’s Bounty, telling of a tale of a guy who just happens to be in the proximity of three people who randomly all die around him is the way the trailer just flows. I realize that it’s a lot to take in with a plot as complex as this as you watch it but the trailer paces itself appropriately and it comes off very, very funny.
The angles used, the shots that sort of linger on the decedents as the confusion and consternation grows within our protagonist Mark (played by writer of the film, Mark Doherty) and the comedic relief in his buddy Pierce (Dylan Moran) who does a smash up job laying out everything that we’re thinking and plays the fool to his role as serious straight man.; the two of them click in the grand tradition of comedic teams like Pegg/Frost. To wit, we see a chandelier fall on a guy, we see a man get a tool stuck in his jugular as he bleeds out on the kitchen floor, and a woman who eats it after falling on a sharp object on her way down from fainting at the sight of a dead man under a chandelier.
It’s all very amusing in how quick we get to this point, and how this trailer just zooms along in establishing the problem our heroes face, but the one and awful issue I have to take contention with is the wretched guitar music driving it all. Was there no one who could hear that what we are seeing on the screen doesn’t necessarily match up with the generic, stock a-chords wailing in the background? It’s obvious there wasn’t and the trailer merely ends with a whimper as it should have been energizing because of the restraint shown in keeping things vague to the viewer.
Overall, by the end of this I know generally what’s happening but it’s not really clear what is going to occur when people find out about these deaths. I think I could have been more excited for a movie that at least looks like it could be a rather funny yarn but, instead, I’m just thankful when it ends.
Salvage Trailer
I’ll state that this looks like genuine fun.
Not only does this trailer hit the right notes with what you ought to do in order to generate some interest in your movie but it tantalizes you with with its opaqueness, not revealing anything that might reveal too much, and has you guessing throughout its running time. That’s also its greatest strength: you have to keep watching to try and mentally put together a puzzle that seems to be right there in front of you.
Is this a zombie movie? Is this a Red Dawn kind of film? How can you have zombies in a Red Dawn kind of film? All these kinds of questions bubble up but it shows a complete sense of restraint on the filmmakers’ part in not just spilling everything in order to generate buzz and for that I am impressed.
How this trailer accomplishes greatness really is attributed to the first 25 seconds. It’s a microcosm, really, of how it ought to be done for all films where confusion and disorientation are at the crux for a film’s plot. Writer/director Lawrence Gough should be proud for slapping the wrist of any money man who wanted desperately for him to reveal what was going on.
You have a good score that instantly makes you feel on edge, uncomfortable; you have no voiceover, no interstitial, to spoon feed your mind about what you’re going to see; quotes from people who have seen it and liked it thoroughly; and just a hint, a smidge, of the plot. These four things at the outset of a trailer will work every single time in order to get people to stick with the trailer long enough to get you through the next 25 seconds and it does so with this trailer fantastically.
The next 25 are filled with guys armed with machine guns who are breaking down doors, people who are getting shot, bloody hands smearing across glass, women freaking out everywhere, and I have not one iota of insight into what’s ultimately happening here. I think it has more to do with an assault of a small community that anything else but since everyone is covered in gore I could care less. I’m in.
This trailer paints this as a movie that moves quick, has some good production values, and at least has the pull-quotes in order to stick it squarely on my radar as a movie I’d like to more about. Successful trailer any which way you look at it.
How I Ended This Summer
What I appreciate about this trailer is how it eases you into its world.
There is nothing wrong with being launched from a supine position straight into the air at a 100 miles an hour as you get detail after detail about what a movie is about but this one wants to put your slippers on, put a hand under your elbow, and assist you out of bed gently.
Director/writer Aleksei Popogrebsky evokes a sense of isolation and bareness with the opening shot of this trailer which, no doubt, will prove to be a theme explored later on as who shows a desolate land only to have a movie filled with cherubs and BJs.
Oddly, the tone is upbeat when we meet our headphone festooned interloper, star of the film, who is spending some time with the men who man a station that seems to track and report on weather patterns. Who knows what they report on but the mood is jaunty as we watch this guy milling around the site just exploring the area and kicking back. Somehow he messes with the natural order of things and really changes the mood.
The kid is smacked around a little bit and the whole trailer just devolves into a series of quick cuts. Cuts that don’t explain why the leader of these guys just has a mental collapse but his meltdown is my enjoyment because the way things are communicated in the last third of this trailer it compels you to watch. You don’t know what is going to happen, whether there will be a wholesale slaughter of everyone, and you sure don’t know how this kid is going to escape a madman who’s armed and ready to mow down a few people.
In all, this is a thrilling trailer that tantalizes you with the promise for something wicked and even gives you a little something to show you a load of seriousness is about to be delivered to the middle of nowhere.
In case you missed them, here are the other trailers we covered at /Film this week:
Interaction Studios has launched a new game in its Chicken Invaders series, Chicken Invaders 3: Revenge of the Yoke Easter Edition. The titles revolve around intergalactic chickens invading the Earth, seeking revenge for the oppression of their Earthly kindred. Gamers fight for Earth and to protect other planets in the solar system....
In the latest prank from Remi Gaillard, the rabbits finally get their revenge on the hunters. I'm sure there is a crude joke about going down the rabbit hole to be made here.
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No one knows for sure just how seriously this movie is supposed to be taken.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror was written, directed, and self-financed by a Vietnamese refugee turned mid-level Silicon Valley software salesman. It tells the story of two Valley bigshots who launch a green tech startup together.
But it's too late! Global warming is out of control! Which drives birds to launch all-out war on the human race! Somehow!
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It’s time to rock out, with your… Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre out.
Glu Mobile has just released Guitar Hero 5 for webOS! The new entry brings 20 songs for you to play with, from Bowie to Blink 182… So turn it on, tune it up, and strum away to your hearts’ content. I’m not going to describe how to play the game, you already know how to play, right? And if you don’t, it’ll take you roughly 5 seconds to pick up. So, if you want to get down to it, you can pick up Guitar Hero 5 in the App Catalog right now for $5.99.
It’s great to see somewhat ‘legendary’ series like this come to webOS… Me thinks Palm can use all of the help it can get, and titles like this can only be a good thing. I’ve heard a mixed-bag of commentary on this release already, so if you do load ‘er up… Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments.
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What motivated Michael Bay to say yes to a third Transformers movie? The desire to help his friends and stimulate the economy, according to the explodo director. Plus, watch the trailer for new videogame Transformers: War For Cybertron.
In a recent TV interview, Bay explained that the origins of Transformers 3 lay in his sense of responsibility to his friends, AKA Paramount Pictures:
The true story is we went to Vegas to celebrate ['Revenge of the Fallen'] crossing the $400 million mark domestic. I said I'm excited to do my small little movie. They said, well we're here to talk about that. I've become friends with these guys that run Paramount and they [told me,] 'We're going to get fired if we don't have a 2011 franchise,' so I'm like you can't let these guys down." The economy's been so rough, it's kind of important. When you say yes to movie like this you automatically give 3000 people jobs. 1000 for the toys. 2000 for the filmmaking. I'm going to put [the small film] on hold and do it right after ['Transformers 3'].
We're sure that the massive payday that Bay will undoubtedly make from the third installment didn't hurt that much either, but somehow, we're not sure that plays so well into this particular narrative.
Meanwhile, if you're jonesing for new Transformers before 2011's new movie (which may or may not be in 3D; Bay said that testing is currently taking place to see how it'd look), there's always the upcoming tie-in videogame, Transformers: War For Cybertron, which lets you pretend to be either an Autobot or Decepticon before they decide that Earth is where it's at. Here's the latest trailer:
'Transformers 3' Director Michael Bay Testing 3-D, Promises 'New Characters,' 'A Lot Of Twists' [MTV Movies Blog]
I know this isn’t much, but Michael Bay’s official website has been updated with information big action sequences will be shot for Transformers 3 in Chicago and Moscow this time around. Of course, that doesn’t really tell us much, as the Asian power plant opening sequence of Revenge of the Fallen was actually filmed at a factory in Bethlehem, PA.
I posted this video called “Pennies for Tollbooth” nearly 4 years ago (at the suggestion of my friend Peter). It turned up on a recent CNN story about toll takers taking their revenge on people who annoy them.
Thanks to viewer Emily from Ohio who noticed it, and told me. I’d otherwise be oblivious. Well- in fairness, I still am.
I remember reading a lot of angry comments from people that thought I was bothering the guy. Truth is, I added the honks later. There was nobody behind me.
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There's been some interesting discussion in our comments section lately about Ngmoco's freemium model -- first they made headlines by endorsing it even to the detriment of one of their most popular games, and then they bought Freeverse and the conversation started up again. But while customers don't seem to like the freemium model very much, there's a growing number of examples that go the other way, and here's another: Appy Entertainment is a company that's been doing fairly well with a game called FaceFighter, but last weekend, they decided to drop the price of that game to free, and use the giveaway to promote their newest game, Tune Runner. And the plan worked extremely well -- after just a week, their original music game is rivaling Rock Band and Tap Tap Revenge for downloads.TUAWTune Runner rises to the top on a wave of free originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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There's been some interesting discussion in our comments section lately about Ngmoco's freemium model -- first they made headlines by endorsing it even to the detriment of one of their most popular games, and then they bought Freeverse and the conversation started up again. But while customers don't seem to like the freemium model very much, there's a growing number of examples that go the other way, and here's another: Appy Entertainment is a company that's been doing fairly well with a game called FaceFighter, but last weekend, they decided to drop the price of that game to free, and use the giveaway to promote their newest game, Tune Runner. And the plan worked extremely well -- after just a week, their original music game is rivaling Rock Band and Tap Tap Revenge for downloads.TUAWTune Runner rises to the top on a wave of free originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
God of War III should arrive on March 16 and the PlayStation 3 exclusive is one of the most expected titles of this year. After all, Kratos has never had an adventure on current generation consoles until now and, with the upcoming title set to end his revenge saga, players are eager to know everything about the videogame before it actually comes out.
A NSFW movie trailer for Showgirls 2 has shown up online… wait a second, Showgirls 2? Really? That’s right, someone raised $25 million to shoot a sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s controversial and widely panned 1995 cult film Showgirls. Directed by Marc Vorlander, Showgirls 2: The Story of Hope is about a stripper who dies from a dose of contaminated batch ofcocaine, and her brother who goes on a mission to find the responsible and enact revenge. It looks horrible, and not even Hollywood horrible. It looks like bad 1980’s skinemax horrible. You can watch the trailer now on Showgirls2.com. Thanks to movieline for discovering this.
