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Guillermo del Toro on the Monstrous Scale of Pacific Rim

Source: ComingSoon

June 8, 2012

Production still underway on his Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro spoke with Total Film about the enormous scale of his Kaiju epic.

"When we’re talking about the physicality of the fight," he said, "we ended up building several blocks of Hong Kong. And literally demolished them. We built a building and then we took down the buildings. We built command centres of the robots that were the size of the house. We started them on hydraulic rigs that shoot and elevated them and moved them round so you could really get a sense of the physical nature driving a robot like this."

The film, set for release on July 12, 2013, Pacific Rim is officially described as follows:

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Check out Total Film's full Del Toro interview by clicking here.

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Temple of Heaven Set Up at Warner Bros.

Source: ComingSoon

June 8, 2012

Warner Bros. has plans to develop Temple of Heaven, an action adventure project based in Chinese mythology, Deadline reports. The idea began with producer Jason Reed and the film has now entered the scripting stage with Chad St. John taking on writing duties.

Details are few on the plot of Temple, but its new scribe has another project currently headed to the big screen in Motor City. Also set up at Warner Bros., that film will be directed by Albert Hughes with Gerard Butler, Amber Heard and Gary Oldman attached to star.

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Universal Moving Forward with a Snow White and the Huntsman Sequel

Source: ComingSoon

June 8, 2012

It was reported back in April that Universal Pictures was keen to move forward with a big screen followup to their Snow White and the Huntsman and brought David Koepp aboard to begin drafting a sequel even before the Rupert Sanders fairytale epic hit theaters. Now, Deadline reports that their faith was not misplaced and, thanks to a $56 million opening weekend, a sequel is moving forward with Sanders sought to return.

The first film, now in theaters, stars Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga) as the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with Chris Hemsworth's huntsman, who was dispatched to kill her.

Previous reports hinted that a big screen followup could focus primarily on the huntsman.

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Venom Movie May Tie Into The Amazing Spider-Man

by SuperHeroHype

June 09, 2012

Earlier today, Matt Patches over at Hollywood.com had a chance to talk with The Amazing Spider-Man producers Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach, and during the inteview, he took the opportunity to ask them about Sony's planned Venom movie, which Chronicle director Josh Trank is rumored to be directing.

With the success of The Avengers, it makes perfect sense for Sony to want the part of the Marvel Universe they acquired during the '90s to work together as a whole, so one can expect that they'll take a similar real-life science approach with Venom's origin story as they do with Spider-Man and The Lizard in the upcoming reboot.

Arad explained the bigger picture plans for the Venom movie:

"It's an Eddie Brock story. We want to be as close to the comics as possible. Especially in Eddie Brock's story. But again, pseudo-science is becoming science. All these tidbits about webs, artificial webs, is a huge industry now. Spiderwebs have unique qualities that will be huge for communications, fibers, and so forth. So we have taken the approach that we want to make the huge amazing movie about Eddie."

"He was a journalist. He had the wrong story, he got in trouble for it, he got fired," Tolmach continued, going on to explain how they're approaching characters like Venom. "The whole essence to us for the Marvel characters is stay close to the bible, stay close to the emotional story, and the rest is fun. Look for the worlds to make sense with one another."

"Hopefully,all these worlds will live together in peace someday," he added, which gives us the biggest possible hint of what they might have planned.

While there's nothing in The Amazing Spider-Man that even hints at Eddie Brock or his alien symbiote alter ego, that doesn't means that the already-planned 2014 sequel won't try to set something up or that they're eventually building to having Spider-Man fight Venom in a third installment.

Oh, wait. They already tried that.

Regardless, you can look for a lot more on Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man, including our own interviews with director Marc Webb and the cast in the weeks leading up to its North American release on July 3.

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Benjamin Walker Heads to The Great Wall

Source: ComingSoon

June 8, 2012

Benjamin Walker, the star of the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is in talks to join the cast of Edward Zwick's upcoming The Great Wall, Variety reports.

Drafted by Zwick alongside his writing and producing partner Marshall Herskovitz, The Great Wall will be the first film from Legendary East, a standalone entertainment company dedicated to creating feature film and related content for a worldwide audience.

The film's plot is said to reveal the legend behind a great mystery of our age, answering the question of why the Great Wall of China came to be.

The Great Wall will be produced by Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment, as well as Zwick and Herskovitz.

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New Total Recall Viral Posters Hit the Streets

by SuperHeroHype

June 09, 2012

With less than two months to go before the film hits theaters, Len Wiseman's Total Recall reboot has taken to the streets with its viral campaign. Take a look below at two new poster designs spotted this morning in Hollywood, California.

The address at the bottom of each poster, www.WelcomeToRekall.com leads to the previously-revealed viral site where you can enter your phone number to receive a message about your "vacation package".

Opening in theaters on August 3rd, Total Recall stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho and Bill Nighy.

   

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Sony to Launch New Resident Evil: Retribution Trailer on June 14

Source: ComingSoon

June 8, 2012

Sony Pictures announced today that Resident Evil: Retribution star Milla Jovovich will be participating in a live global streaming webchat leading up to the launch of the film's trailer on Thursday, June 14th at 11:00am EDT at the Regal Union Square Cinemas in New York.

Fans will be able to attend the event by logging on to Facebook.com/ResidentEvilMovie and printing out an invitation; admittance will be granted on a first come first serve basis. Fans at home can log on to that same Facebook page to watch the Q&A live; the event is being translated into ten languages worldwide. Fans can also submit their questions online at Facebook.com/ResidentEvilMovie for a chance to get it answered live by Milla. The full trailer will be posted online after the webchat.

Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth installment of the wildly successful film franchise that has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide to date. Screen Gems will release Resident Evil: Retribution, in state-of-the art 3D, in the United States on September 14, 2012. Sony Pictures Releasing International will handle distribution in most international territories. Metropolitan Film Export will release in France and Constantin Film will release in Germany.

In Resident Evil: Retribution, the Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

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Dark Horse Collects Guillermo del Toro's The Strain

by ShockTillYouDrop

June 08, 2012

Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan bring their New York Times best-selling series of novels, the Strain Trilogy, to Dark Horse Comics with an ongoing adventure that takes a terrifying spin on the vampire genre.

Renowned comics creator David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Silverfish) and artist Mike Huddleston (The Coffin, Butcher Baker) join forces in this comic book adaptation unlike any other - bringing del Toro and Hogan’s vision to life in a story that casts a deadly plague over the whole of humanity. The Strain Volume 1, collecting issues #1-6 of this ongoing series, is a horror story unlike any other.

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Centers for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event - an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness.

The Strain Volume 1 is on sale November 14th in comic shops everywhere.

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First Photo Revealed from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim

by ShockTillYouDrop

June 08, 2012

Total Film has debuted the first image - and Moviehole has scanned it - from Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi action film Pacific Rim.

The picture below shows Idris Elba (Prometheus, Thor) in the film, which opens July 12, 2013 and also stars Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Willem Dafoe, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr., Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman.

Synopsis: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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NECA Unveils Prometheus Toy Line-Up

by ShockTillYouDrop

June 08, 2012

Those masters of movie collectibles at NECA have revealed that they landed the license to Ridley Scott's Prometheus and are creating a few action figures based on the film.

In addition to photos, the company released a video teaser which you can view below.

Series 1 focuses on the Engineers and two 8 1/2-inch figures will be made available.  One in a pressure suit, the other in the chair suit (the recognizable "Space Jockey" design).

The figures are going to be on display at the San Diego Comic-Con next month, however, they will not be available until September.

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Want to See Spider-Man and The Avengers in the Same Movie?

by SuperHeroHype

June 09, 2012

At last year's Comic-Con, Avi Arad was asked about the potential of Spider-man and The Avengers meeting up on the big screen and he brushed it off. He seemed to think Spider-Man had enough stories behind him that he didn't need to be a part of the team.

Now after the movie juggernaut that The Avengers has become, he's having second thoughts.

When talking to Crave Online about it Arad said, "Everything is possible. If something like that happens, it’s great for Disney, it’s great for Sony, if the right story comes in. We are now working on Venom first. It’s our first out, so our thinking is in the right direction. Avengers to me was an expected success so I never looked at it because Avengers was successful.”

"The way to make team-up movies work is to create the raw materials, both technically and creatively, in other movies first," he continued. "Team-ups can happen once you create the character, establish the CG, otherwise it’s not affordable.”

What do you think? Think Spider-Man appearing in an Avengers movie is ever gonna happen?

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Box Office: Madagascar 3 Runs Rampant Over Prometheus

Source: ComingSoon

June 10, 2012

The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.

After a great kick-off week for the month of June, two movies battled it out to keep the box office love going. On Friday, it was a fairly close race between DreamWorks Animation's animated threequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Ridley Scott's sci-fi prequel Prometheus (20th Century Fox), but according to studio estimates, Madagascar 3 came out ahead by roughly $10 million to win the weekend with an estimated $60.4 million.

Once again featuring the voice cast of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer as escaped zoo animals, Madagacar 3, DreamWorks Animation's latest opened slightly higher than last summer's Kung Fu Panda 2, but failed to equal the $63 million opening of its 2008 predecessor.

After launching a week earlier overseas, Ridley Scott's Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Charlize Theron, won Friday with $21.4 million, just a million more than Madagascar 3, but showing true signs of fanboy frontloading it dropped to $16.1 million on Saturday and ended the weekend with an estimated $50 million in 3,394 theaters, roughly $14.7 thousand per site. The anticipated summer movie grossed $9.1 million of that amount in the 298 IMAX screens where it opened domestically with its global IMAX take increasing to $12.1 million. Internationally, Prometheus grossed $39.2 million to bring its overseas total to $91.5 million.

Charlize Theron's other movie, the Universal Pictures hit Snow White and the Huntsman, co-starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, dropped to third place with $23 million having grossed $95.8 million domestically in the last ten days. Internationally, the fantasy revamp brought in $24.6 million in 52 territories this weekend to bring its global cume to $182 million.

Will Smith's own sci-fi franchise Men in Black 3 (Sony) took fourth place with $13.5 million, bringing its North American total to $135 million. Internationally, it brought in an additional $38.3 million to bring its total to $488 million.

Currently the biggest blockbuster of the year (and highest-grossing movie since James Cameron's Avatar), Marvel's The Avengers took fifth place with $10.8 million with its domestic total at $572 million and global box office close to reaching $1.4 billion.

Remaining in sixth place, the British sleeper hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight) added another $3.2 million to bring its total gross to $31 million, followed by What to Expect When You're Expecting keeping its 7th place showing with $2.7 million and $35.7 million total.

Peter Berg's action flick Battleship (Universal) took eighth place with $2.3 million and $59.8 million total, which is only a tip of the iceberg compared to the $235 million the movie has grossed internationally for a global total of $295.4 million. Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy The Dictator (Paramount) fell behind it with $2.1 million for ninth place with $55.2 million total.

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (Focus Features) finally broke into the Top 10 with $1.5 million after expanding into 96 theaters. It's grossed $3.7 million so far with plans to expand nationwide on June 29.

The Top 10 grossed $165.9 million, up nearly 12% from last year when J.J. Abrams' Super 8 topped the box office with just $35.4 million.

Although it dropped out of the Top 10, Lionsgate's biggest hit to date, The Hunger Games, finally crossed the $400 million mark this weekend, making it one of only 14 movies to make that amount domestically (not including inflation).

Opening in limited release was Daryl Wein's rom-com Lola Versus (Fox Searchlight), starring indie darling Greta Gerwig, which took in roughly $34 thousand in four theaters in New York and L.A., while the Sundance comedy hit Safety Not Guaranteed (FilmDistrict), starring Greta's Damsels in Distress co-star Aubrey Plaza, brought in $100 thousand in nine locations in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, averaging roughly $11 thousand per site.

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Is The Hangover Part III Heading to Tijuana?

Source: ComingSoon

June 10, 2012

As production gears up for a May 24, 2013 release, rumors about The Hangover Part III are beginning to mount. It was The Film Stage who this morning noted a two-week-old report from Life and Style Magazine that suggests that the Wolf Pack might be heading to Tijuana for their allegedly final adventure.

"A lot of it will be shot in Los Angeles," a "secret source" told to outlet, "but then they are going to do the crazy scenes in Las Vegas again and then one wild week in Tijuana."

Though by no means a confirmation of the Mexican locale, The Las Vegas Sun confirmed this week that the new film will, indeed, spend some production time in Sin City, shooting in and around Caesar's Palace and on the Las Vegas strip.

"Obviously we always envisioned it as a trilogy," director Todd Phillips told us some time ago, "The third would be very much a finale and an ending... I haven't discussed it with these actors yet. [It would] not follow the same template, but is very much a new idea."

A subsequent report suggested that the plot of the third film may deal with Zach Galifianakis's Alan being sent to a mental institution and Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Stu (Ed Helms) having to break him out. At this time, however, nothing is confirmed about the Warner Bros. comedy sequel outside of the release date.

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