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Forgotten Films: A Boy and His Dog

26 November 2009 12:09 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Forgotten Films [1] is a semi-regular feature on Film Junk where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. With all the post-apocalyptic movies that have been coming out lately, I thought it would be a good time to look back at one of the lesser known classics of the genre, L.Q. Jones' A Boy and His Dog. Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, the movie takes place in the year 2024, after not one but two additional world wars have been initiated by humanity -- the latter of which leaves the Earth devastated by nuclear missiles. As a result, a large part of the movie presents a familiar desert wasteland setting that has come to be associated with post-apocalyptic tales over the years. A young, pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson stars as Vic, an 18-year-old nomad who lost his »

- Sean

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John Hillcoat’s Road Trip

26 November 2009 10:53 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

When John Hillcoat, director of the postapocalyptic saga The Road, sits down to talk to Fangoria, he has just come from seeing off Cormac McCarthy, author of the source novel, who was in town for the film’s premiere. So it would seem McCarthy is happy with the screen adaptation (Now Playing in theatres from Dimension).

“Oh yeah, he’s very pleased,” Hillcoat says, acknowledging the challenge of translating McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning prose into cinematic terms. “It’s such rich material; it’s very visual and dynamic. You’ll never get the poetry of the language, because it’s a different medium, but the story and the dialogue are brilliant, and the obstacles that the characters are up against is what makes it very special.”

There are plenty of obstacles for the movie’s hero, known only as The Man and played by The Lord Of The Rings’ Viggo Mortensen, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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DVD Review: ‘North By Northwest’ 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray

26 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

One of the most visually stunning, action packed, clever and suspenseful of all Alfred Hitchcock movies, his 1959 masterpiece North By Northwest finally gets the Blu-ray treatment it deserves. Featuring a terrific remastering with lots of great supplemental material and beautiful packaging the movie really shines and Warner Bros. has clearly pulled out all the tops to bring this classic film to a new generation of audiences.

Just in case you’re not familiar with this Hitchcock masterpiece, it stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a young Martin Landau in a story featuring one of Hitchcock’s signature conceits: the wrong man. Grant’s Roger Thornhill, mistaken for superspy George Kaplan by a group of sinister agents led by James Mason’s Phillip Vandamm, is taken to a county house, forceably intoxicated and almost murdered. He barely manages to escape with his life, mostly due to his high »

- Chris Ullrich

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Francis Lawrence to Adapt Graphic Novel In The Small?

26 November 2009 5:48 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence has been attached to a ton of upcoming projects lately, including the Sgt. Rock movie [1], I Am Legend prequel [2], The World Without Us [3], The City That Sailed [4], and a futuristic Samson and Delilah movie [5] (among others). Somehow with all those movies in development, he's still currently lacking a project that's actually ready to shoot right now. With that in mind, he is apparently on the verge of signing on to direct a movie based on the Michael Hague graphic novel In The Small. According to Pajiba [6], the project would reteam Lawrence with Constantine and I Am Legend producer Akiva Goldsman, whose Weed Road Pictures picked up the rights a couple of years ago. The premise sounds kind of cool: a mysterious "blue flash" leaves all of the human race shrunk down to just six inches tall. A brother and sister lead two factions as they struggle to survive, »

- Sean

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'I Am Legend' Director To Shrink Humanity

25 November 2009 7:17 AM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »

Word has surfaced concerning yet another project that director Francis Lawrence is developing."In the Small," which is based on a Michael Hague graphic novel, concerns a strange explosion that leaves all humans six inches tall, yet nothing else is affected. Those who survive the transition are forced to create a new social order and adjust in a world where man is no longer at the top of the food chain. As they attempt to find out what happened, humanity is faced with a new and existential threat.Regarding Lawrence's projects in development: No No and Double No on the "I am Legend" prequel. If ever there was a movie that screamed "this is a self-contained tale, leave it alone, a prequel is pointless because the meat of the story was already told and anything told before the time frame of the story is merely set up and besides we »

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Fred Enjoys Walking on The Road

24 November 2009 10:45 PM, PST | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »

Finally, one of the latest Hollywood trends is something I.m into. I.ve explored the recurrent vampire crazes and torture porn and westerns and musicals, gotten what I could out of those. The one I.m really into is the post-apocalyptic survival. I could watch my favorite stars gather supplies all day long.

Review: The Road

The Road has some beautiful wreckage along the way, striking shots of burnt out forests and some boats beached on a highway! You can definitely tell the world has been spent when these folks are slugging along.

The supplies are not as plentiful as perhaps in movies like I Am Legend where he still had half of New York to go through, or Dawn of the Dead where they had a whole shopping mall. Yet the little treasures are delightful. By the time they get a new cart, awww man, that.s the stuff. »

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Lawrence gets Small

24 November 2009 3:17 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Since I Am Legend, director Francis Lawrence has been juggling a few potential projects, including Sgt. Rock, a kung fu Snow White, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor, and a follow-up to the Will Smith blockbuster. Now according to Pajiba, he's also developing a movie based on Michael Hague's graphic novel In The Small. While the book was apparently aimed at more of a young teen audience, someone with Lawrence's visual acumen could undoubtedly do wonders with the source material,... »

- Dave Davis

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Hugh Jackman To Box With Robots In 'Real Steel' For DreamWorks

24 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

One of the very real dangers facing society today is the possibility of losing one's job to a machine. The "Terminator" series tells of a bleak future in which humanity is an endangered species, a ragtag resistance movement which has nearly been crushed beneath the iron heel of self-aware automatons. When will people learn?!

Richard Matheson, author of "I Am Legend," was aware of this danger long before most. He wrote a short story called "Real Steel," in which a professional boxer is forced out of the sport when robots replace humans as competitors. Rather than the story taking a dark turn, the former boxer and his son bond over a robot boxer of their own. Life, as ever, imitates "The Simpsons" (yes, I am aware Matheson's story predates that episode... just let me make my joke). Now, Variety reports that "Real Steel" is about to get... err... real-er, as »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Hugh Jackman in the ring for Real Steel

24 November 2009 5:11 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Hugh Jackman has signed on to play a former boxer in Shawn Levy's futuristic thriller where robots are the heavyweights

Hugh Jackman has signed on to play a former boxer who launches a new career as a promoter of battling robots in Real Steel. Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks is backing the project, which is being billed as an $80m (£48.25m) futuristic play on the Rocky films. Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy will take charge of the cameras.

In the film, Jackman's character is forced to leave a life in the ring when robots replace human fighters as the biggest draw. He stumbles upon a discarded machine that always seems to win, and sets about using it to try and revive his fortunes, along the way bonding with an 11-year-old son he has only just met.

Despite Real Steel's similarities to the oeuvre of Michael Bay, Levy »

- Ben Child

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DreamWorks Gears Up For Real Steel

24 November 2009 1:40 AM, PST | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider have green-lit the $80 million, sci fi feature Real Steel, to star actor Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman. The film will be the first picture for the studio since raising $650 million production funding from J.P. Morgan Securities and India-based Reliance Big Pictures. Disney also contributed $175 million, for the exclusive distribution of new DreamWorks titles. Real Steel, adapting author Richard "I Am Legend" Matheson's short story, will be set in the future, where human 'blood-sport' boxing has been outlawed for being ultra violent and high-tech 'rock 'em sock 'em ' robots pound each other out in the ring instead. In the 1963 Twilight Zone episode Steel, written by Rod Serling adapting the Matheson story, boxing in the future (1974), involving human fighters has been criminalized, with the field now dominated by 'fighting robots'. Former boxer 'Steel Kelly' manages an older model 'B2-model' robot called 'Battling Maxo'. When another robot »

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Hugh Jackman Likes Real Steel

23 November 2009 10:43 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Exciting greenlight news overnight - particularly if you're Empire's Helen O'Hara - as phoenix-from-the-flames studio Dreamworks has announced that it'll be Australian all-singing/dancing/acting/snikting sensation Hugh Jackman who'll star in Real SteelThis is one of those projects which Steven Spielberg, wearing his producer's hat (virtually indistinguishable to the untrained eye from his director's hat), has been quietly developing for some time. Variety informs us that the plot follows a boxer who has little option but to turn promoter after the sport shifts to putting robots rather than humans in the ring. At around the same time as Jackson's character discovers he has an eleven year old son, he stumbles upon a run-down robot which proves remarkably adept at his favourite sport.Quite a lot of the production cogs for Real Steel seem to be firmly in place. The screenplay, adapted from a Richard Matheson short story (he who gave us the brilliant original, »

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Black Friday Movie Deals: Walmart

23 November 2009 5:35 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Our good friend and Eic Erik Davis (that's me!) had a very thoughtful idea for the holiday season: Why not scan the early flyers for the Black Friday sales, and report back to you -- the ravenous movie junkie -- to let you know where to find the best treats on the day after Thanksgiving? We'll be bringing you deals for a variety of stores and online retailers all week long. Here's what we've posted so far so you can keep track:

Black Friday Movie Deals: Best Buy

Black Friday Movie Deals: Target

Walmart opens at 5am on Friday, November 27th. I've highlighted the most notable (for being awesome) deals in bold.

DVD/Blu-ray

17 Again (DVD) $9.00

Aliens In The Attic (DVD) $9.00

Blazing Saddles (DVD) $2.00

Blood Diamond (DVD) $2.00

Braveheart (Blu-ray) $10.00

Casino Royale (DVD) $2.00

Facing Giants (DVD) $2.00

Fast & Furious (Blu-ray) $10.00

Fireproof (DVD) $9.00

GI Joe (DVD) $9.00

Gladiator (Blu-ray) $10.00

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets »

- Erik Davis

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Francis Lawrence May Direct 'In the Small' Before 'Sgt. Rock'

23 November 2009 2:22 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

From one comic book to another. Pajiba is reporting that I Am Legend and Constantine director Francis Lawrence may end up directing an adaptation of a graphic novel called In the Small before he ends up directing the Sgt. Rock adaptation we wrote about a few weeks ago. They explain that Lawrence is attached to a lot of projects, but he doesn't have a "go project" yet, but if everything works out, he could be on In the Small, which is being produced by Akiva Goldsman. Apparently first-time writer Laura Harrington wrote a draft based on Michael Hague's graphic novel for Warner Bros. Sgt. Rock is in for rewrites, but this is ready. In the Small is about a strange explosion that leaves all humans six inches tall, yet nothing else is affected. Those who survive the transition are forced to create a new social order and adjust in »

- Alex Billington

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Black Friday Movie Deals: Target

23 November 2009 11:15 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Our good friend and Eic Erik Davis had a very thoughtful idea for the holiday season: Why not scan the early flyers for the Black Friday sales, and report back to you -- the ravenous movie junkie -- to let you know where to find the best treats on the day after Thanksgiving? To those who choose to brave the stores on 11/27/09, you have my best wishes. I'll be sleeping.

We'll be bringing you deals for a variety of stores all week long. Here's what we've posted so far so you can keep track:

Black Friday Movie Deals: Best Buy

For Target, the 2-Day Sale starts Friday, November 27, at 5 a.m

2001: A Space Odyssey (blu-ray) -- $12.99 Baby Mama (standard) -- $3.99 Christmas Vacation (standard) -- $5.99 The Dark Knight (blu-ray) -- $12.99 (standard: $3.99) Elf (standard) -- $3.99 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (standard) -- $3.99 Gone With the Wind (blu-ray) -- $12.99 Goodfellas (blu-ray) -- $8.99 Gremlins (blu-ray »

- Scott Weinberg

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Blu-ray Review: Terminator Salvation

22 November 2009 5:47 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

This is a great month for Blu-ray releases, with a series of blockbusters tailor made for the High Def generation taking advantage of the new format. Terminator Salvation, released tomorrow, is a perfect example of a film given the deluxe HD treatment, not only in terms of sound and picture quality but also in the Blu-ray exclusive extras available.

Our review of the film is here, and it was one of the few positive reviews the film garnered. While the bleak aesthetic and the hopeless atmosphere which pervades the film are convincingly conveyed in the production design many were disappointed that McG had not managed to elicit a similarly complex and convincing response from the cast.

Worthington aside the performances are plain and perfunctory, and while the familiar Terminator tropes are present the film played out the epic action without the shadows of destiny and fate behind it. The thrill »

- Jon Lyus

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Stan Lee Talks More About ‘Thor’ Cameo

19 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Given his history of cameos, (Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil, etc.) it’s not exactly shocking that Lee will be getting one in Thor.  Here’s what the George Washington of Marvel Comics said to MTV about meeting with the film’s director, four-time Academy Award nominee, Kenneth Branagh:

“I had lunch with Branagh, [who's] the nicest guy in the world as well as the most talented… months ago, when he was first starting on the movie, he said he would get a cameo for me.”

There ya have it.  In case you’re insane and want to know exactly when Stan Lee will appear in the background of the film selling hot dogs or whatever, he had this to say to those dogged MTV folks when pressed for details:

 

“I think he has more important things to think of at the moment with the movie — like who he »

- Scott Miller

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Awesome Daybreakers TV Spot

18 November 2009 9:36 AM, PST | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

2009 is pretty much finished theatrically for horror films (unless you count New Moon). However, there is the Ninja Assassin and The Road, for post-apocalyptic fans, --probably one of the best end of the world books I have read since I Am Legend -- to keep us busy in November. The horror/comedy Transylmania in December, and don't forget the potential biggest cinematic disappointment for the next ten years, Avatar. None of them are really horror films but they're the next best thing. Horror fans will have to wait until the first weekend of 2010 for the great looking vampire film Daybreakers to hit theaters. »

- Tornado Trailer Ted

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20,000 Leagues Sunk

17 November 2009 9:42 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Variety are reporting today that Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a project that had Terminator: Salvation helmer McG attached as director, has been shelved indefinitely by Disney (full story here). It seems they are concentrating instead on other projects such as Pirates of the Caribbean 4, a director for which was announced earlier today (read our story here).

Probably the most interesting aspect of this story, for me at least, was that Will Smith was rumoured to be attached to play the lead. In itself not all that strange, but just last week the proposed Old Boy remake, again starring Smith, with Steven Speilberg attached, was also reported to be collapsing. IMDb lists 25 projects in development for Smith, including sequels for Hancock and I Am Legend, but as yet nothing is in production. Considering Smith hasn’t appeared on the big screen since last year’s Seven Pounds, why is »

- Barry Steele

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'2012' Is Old News: Hollywood Apocalypses Through The Decades

13 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Today, Roland Emmerich's latest world-ending epic, "2012," hits theaters. John Cusack, Amanda Peet and their pals race around the world, beholding one scene of devastation after another as an eco-catastrophe tears the planet apart. The story's premise is built on the belief that the apocalypse will come in the year 2012, as foretold by the Mayan calendar.

Unfortunately for Mr. Emmerich, Hollywood has already trashed the lovely planet Earth roughly a bazillion times over. From viral outbreaks to zombie uprisings, global warming to alien incursions... the people of this world have seen, suffered through and been almost completely annihilated by any threat you can imagine. Looking back through Hollywood history, the world was wiped out countless times, and long before the year 2012.

The '60s

For any movies where the time of the apocalypse isn't specified, it's a safe bet that the action occurs in the "present day" in which the movie was made. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king

13 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses. Crab monsters and humanoids from the deep. T-bird gangs and towns that dreaded sundown. His name is Roger Corman. And on Nov. 14, he will receive an honor that no one would have predicted: an honorary Academy Award. The 83-year-old B-movie titan has made nearly 400 films as a director and producer. From the start, Corman was a magnet for hungry young actors, writers, and directors who would work for slave wages for the chance to make their first film. They called it the "University of Corman," and the alumni include Francis Ford Coppola, »

- Chris Nashawaty

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