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The first trailer for writer-director Todd Lincoln's new supernatural horror movie, The Apparition, has been released online and it immediately reminded us of the anonymous quote that opens W.W. Jacobs's classic horror story The Monkey's Paw — "Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it." Though ostensibly a "haunted house" movie, wherein a young couple (Ashley Greene and Sebastian Stan) find their new home plagued by an evil presence and turn to an expert in the supernatural (Tom Felton) for aid, the new wrinkle to that old genre standby is that the "horrifying apparition" that plagues the couple was conjured into being by parapsychology students intent on proving that belief in the supernatural alone is enough for it to exist.
watch the trailer >> Posted 05.24.12 by BrentJS -
Marvel has released online one of the four deleted scenes that will be included on the upcoming Blu-ray release of Captain America: The First Avenger. The action-packed scene features Steve Rogers' (Chris Evans) childhood friend, James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), fighting alongside Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough) and the rest of The Howling Commandos at the Battle at Azzano against the hordes of HYDRA and their devastating new weaponry.
Unlike most deleted scenes, which add little to the plot and are not really missed in the final cut, this scene actually depicts a pivotal moment that could have easily been left in director Joe Johnston's final cut of the movie. It was Bucky's capture by HYDRA following the conflict in this scene that propelled Rogers from playing the hero on USO stages to becoming a real hero by single-handedly invading the HYDRA base to free Bucky and the rest of The Howling Commandos.
watch the deleted scene >> Posted 10.19.11 by BrentJS -
When Captain America: The First Avenger opens this Friday — Thursday if you're lucky enough to be in San Diego for Comic-Con — comic book fans will be treated to a very faithful adaptation of the "Star-Spangled Avenger." The character was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the early '40s to combat, at least on paper, the Nazi threat, and Cap's (played by Chris Evans) movie origin stays true to the comic books, with most of the movie taking place during WWII.
However, one character who receives a slightly modified or updated portrayal in the movie is that of Cap's kid sidekick, James "Bucky" Barnes. There's nothing "kid" or "sidekick" about Bucky as portrayed by Sebastian Stan. Rather, he is a tough, battle-hardened soldier willing to risk his life alongside Cap, even without the "Super Soldier Serum" that empowers his friend. In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Stan discussed Bucky's movie relationship with Cap and explained why he should not be considered a sidekick. He also discussed possibly portraying the character in future movies.
what did stan say about playing Bucky? >> Posted 07.19.11 by BrentJS -
Following hot on the heels of the release of three new character posters and two new TV spots for director Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios has released a set of new still images from its newest comic book movie adaptation. Once again, CineMarcado, the Brazilian movie site that revealed the new character posters, is the first to get their hands on the new still images and post them online. The set contains better quality versions of some images that have previously appeared in magazines, like the shot of James Barnes (Sebastian Stan) sporting a very non-standard issue jacket for a U.S. soldier (his "Bucky" costume, perhaps?), and never-before-seen stills like the image showing Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), the man responsible for creating the process that turned Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) into Captain America, about to lose his life to the Nazi assassin Heinz Kruger (Richard Armitage).
more about Captain America: The First Avenger (Spoilers Ahead) >> Posted 06.03.11 by BrentJS -
We recently got a few sneak peeks at Marvel Studios' Captain America: The First Avenger thanks to the latest issue of Empire magazine. Now, Russian entertainment site SpiderMedia.ru has posted online the full set of images from Empire, which includes the first high-quality shots of Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips and Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt, aka the Red Skull.
The site also has a larger, high-quality version of the first image of Sebastian Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes that accompanied a recent article about the movie that ran in the online edition of the L.A. Times, and a few images from the French magazine Première, including a photo of some cool looking Hydra stormtroopers.
more about Captain America: The First Avenger >> Posted 02.06.11 by BrentJS -
In advance of the airing of the first trailer for director Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger during this weekend's Super Bowl, Marvel Studios has released, via the L.A. Times, the first still image from the movie to feature Sebastian Stan as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. Bucky appeared in the very first issue of Captain America Comics way back in 1941 and was very much a "sidekick" to Cap during his wartime adventures.
But Johnston told the Times that "Bucky isn't a sidekick" in First Avenger and that he has a "darker edge" than in the comics. Johnston also revealed some minor plot details that explain the "interesting relationship" between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Bucky.
what did Johnston reveal about Bucky? >> Posted 02.03.11 by BrentJS -
Marvel Studios recently "wowed" comic book movie fans by releasing the first still image of title star Chris Evans in action in the full star-spangled costume of the patriotic hero in Captain America: The First Avenger. But, Cap won't be fighting off the evil Nazi hordes of the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) alone in the movie; he'll have his youthful sidekick, James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), by his side. While we have yet to learn whether or not Stan will be sporting Bucky's trademark domino mask and red-and-blue fighting duds in the movie, the young actor recently discussed the special relationship between Cap and Bucky in an interview with MTV and also talked about the experience of shooting some of the movie's action sequences.
what did Stan say about playing Bucky? >> Posted 01.18.11 by BrentJS -
Sometimes actors get excited and say more than they should. That's certainly the case for Hayley Atwell, who was interviewed on the red carpet by Leicester Square TV before the BAFTA Television Craft Awards and dropped some casting news for the upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America, in which Atwell will play Peggy Carter.
When asked about the cast, Atwell slipped and unofficially confirmed that Tommy Lee Jones had joined the cast.
What, exactly, did Atwell say? >> Posted 05.27.10 by Ryan -
The biggest news coming out of Marvel Studios lately was the announcement that Chris Evans would be donning the winged mask and hoisting the trademark shield of the "Star-Spangled Avenger" in director Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. Publicized just one week before San Francisco's WonderCon comic book convention, everyone expected Evans, who was invited as part of the panel discussion for his latest movie, The Losers, to discuss the role, but he was extremely tight-lipped. After dodging several interviewers, he did say that Captain America is "a great character to play." In a new interview snippet, MTV tried to get him to comment on the casting of Sebastian Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes, Captain America's WWII sidekick, and Evans' response was hilarious!
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Only a few weeks before the official casting announcement was made, Chris Evans' name was not even on the list of actors assumed to be in contention for the lead role in director Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America, Marvel Studios' adaptation of its popular patriotic comic book superhero. That just goes to show how tightly wrapped in secrecy Marvel Studios is keeping its closely-connected superhero movies leading up to the super-team movie The Avengers in 2012. Now, for the first time, Evans has publicly commented on landing the role that puts him in the distinguished company of his fellow Avengers, two-time Oscar-nominated actors Edward Norton (Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk) and Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark in Iron Man 2), and newcomer Chris Hemsworth (title character in Thor).
Read more from Chris Evans Posted 04.05.10 by BrentJS