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British comedian Russell Brand's slow ascent in America began by playing a spoiled, incorrigible rocker Aldous Snow in 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall and reviving the character for the spin-off Get Him to the Greek.
After providing the voice for Dr. Nefario in last year's hugely successful Despicable Me, and showing he can perform Shakespeare in The Tempest, Brand is going for broke with two movies opening in April: the animated/live action hybrid Hop and Arthur, a remake of the 1981 comedy. Both movies have new trailers, which depict Brand back in incorrigible mode.
watch the trailers >> Posted 02.10.11 by Ryan -
While Julie Taymor's stage production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is experiencing some technical difficulties during its preview runs, the award-winning director of stage and screen's new movie, The Tempest, is poised to debut in the United States after first being screened at the Venice Film Festival, where one reviewer described it as "vibrant and colourful, with excellent performances."
If you're looking for an alternative to the typical holiday movie fare, this adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name may be your ticket. Check out these four new preview clips to see what it's all about. Academy Award-winner Dame Helen Mirren leads the ensemble cast that includes Felicity Jones, David Strathairn, Djimon Housoun, Alfred Molina, Russell Brand, and Alan Cumming.
watch all 4 new clips >> Posted 12.06.10 by BrentJS -
Warner Bros.' upcoming comic book adaptation of RED follows Bruce Willis as a retired CIA operative who must assemble his old team (John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman) when they are targeted for termination by their old employer. Along for the ride is Mary-Louise Parker, who learns in the latest clip from MTV, why Mirren is considered "Retired and Extremely Dangerous."
Watch the clip >> Posted 10.13.10 by Ryan -
In The Debt, Academy Award-winner Dame Helen Mirren plays an ex-Mossad agent who comes out of retirement to discover why an infamous Nazi war criminal, known as the Surgeon of Birkenau, is still alive 30 years after he was supposed to have been killed. The movie from director John Madden (Killshot) is a remake of the Israeli thriller HaHov (2007), and also stars Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Tom Wilkinson, and Ciarán Hinds.
see all four clips >> Posted 09.23.10 by BrentJS -
While doing press for DC Entertainment’s latest comic book adaptation, RED, at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, Academy Award-winner Dame Helen Mirren joked that one of the reasons she accepted a role in the action-packed movie was to avoid playing The Queen again, and another reason was because she thought it would be fun to shoot some guns as a RED ("Retired, Extremely Dangerous") operative. In this new clip from the movie, the first non-trailer clip released so far, Mirren’s character admits to a fellow RED operative (played by Bruce Willis) that the quiet life of a retiree has left her feeling somewhat "restless" and that she takes the occasional "odd contract on the side" to help scratch her itch for adventure. Like her character, Mirren appears to be scratching her own itch for adventure during this clip, as she unloads on her target with a high-powered machine gun.
catch the clip here >> Posted 09.08.10 by BrentJS -
A new, and most likely final, poster for Watchmen director Zack Snyder's upcoming 3-D flick Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole has been released online. The animated owl movie — from the same studio that made Happy Feet and set for theater release on September 24th — features an impressive cast of Hollywood voices, including Hugo Weaving (The Lord of the Rings), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Helen Mirren (The Queen).
The group of owls on the poster — each with varying degrees of cuteness — stand next to a piece of owl head armor. A fantasy-world landscape looms in the background, in what looks like a cross between Narnia and Middle Earth. But this is not a Hollywood mash-up. Legend of the Guardians is based on the first three books in the Guardians of Ga'hoole series, penned by Kathryn Lasky in 2003. The story follows a young Barn Owl Soren (voiced by 21's Jim Sturgess), who is snatched by evil owls from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. Soren eventually escapes to the island of Ga'hoole and joins other owls in the war against the Academy.
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The first full-length trailer for DC Entertainment's latest comic book movie adaptation, Red, premiered yesterday during the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel for the movie and is now online. Based on the graphic novel of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, RED, which stands for "Retired, Extremely Dangerous," follows a group of over-the-hill CIA operatives who are targeted for termination because they are deemed security risks for their extensive knowledge of the agency's black ops programs. However, these operatives didn't earn the designate "RED" without a reason, as this explosive new trailer demonstrates.
GET BLOWN AWAY BY THE TRAILER >> Posted 07.23.10 by BrentJS -
To prepare for Red's October release, Summit Entertainment is releasing posters of the major characters in the movie. Bruce Willis, in the lead role of Frank Moses, was the first actor to get a poster. Willis' character is an ex-CIA black-ops agent who is pulled from retirement when an assassin tries to kill him and the woman he cares about (Mary-Louise Parker). In order to survive, Frank reassembles his old team, comprised of Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren.
The latest character posters feature Parker and Karl Urban, and use a similar design to the Red comic book created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner. The movie differs from the comic book, fooling some of the actors that there even was source material for the action/comedy movie. Parker told SuperHeroHype in a recent interview that she had no idea Red was based on a comic book, and she wasn't alone.
Parker doesn't read comics and Willis tells Moonlighting Stories >> Posted 07.18.10 by Ryan -
The upcoming Red boasts an impressive cast not unlike the upcoming The Expendables. Only, instead of The Expendables' action movie stars of the 1980s and 90s, Red has an Oscar-caliber cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Richard Dreyfuss. Outside of a large ensemble cast, the two movies also share Bruce Willis, who is only in one scene in The Expendables, but gets to work with almost the entire cast in Red where Willis plays an ex-CIA black ops agent who is being hunted down by other assassins and must protect the woman he loves (Mary-Louise Parker). Willis admitted to SuperHeroHype that he's "never been in a film with so many movie stars," and called his Red cast "the Yankees."
Willis is excited, like, baseball analogy excited >> Posted 07.13.10 by Ryan -
Director Robert Schwentke's upcoming Red may surprise audiences when they discover that the movie is based on a comic book. The story follows an ex-CIA black ops agent (Bruce Willis) who is being hunted down by assassins while protecting the woman he loves (Mary-Louise Parker). The movie, however, boasts a variety of Oscar-nominated talent including Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Richard Dreyfuss, and Ernest Borgnine. Assembling such a cast, for what is essentially a comic book movie, wasn't as difficult as it might seem, according to producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura, who told SuperHeroHype that once Willis was on board, the rest of the cast followed.
Mirren says Bruce Willis is under-appreciated >> Posted 07.13.10 by Ryan