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2009 | 2008
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First Trailer For ‘District B13: Ultimatum’
3 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
While the idea of the “buddy cop” film has lost it’s luster here in the States since Riggs and Murtaugh hung up their guns, the sub-genre has taken on a whole new life over in France. Back in 2004, writer Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Taken, The Transporter Trilogy) brought the worlds of buddy cop films, action, and parkour together. The film was a hit across the globe, and the team is now reuniting to do it again.
The trailer for District B13: Ultimatum gives us a glimpse of the awesomeness that we can look forward to, including leaps from skyscrapers, driving through the second floor of a building, and outrunning a car on foot. Of course, we don’t recommend watching this film in it’s dubbed form over it’s original French dialogue, but you may not have a choice when the movie gets an American theatrical release. »
- Matt Raub
Another 'From Paris With Love' Poster
3 December 2009 4:48 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
It's not as good as the first three (which, for reference, I've included below), but there's a new poster for From Paris With Love, the upcoming flick from Taken director Pierre Morel. It's certainly not a bad poster, I don't think, and I do like the composition by and large. It's just that the other three posters were all excellent and in this, John Travolta looks a little too much like Ming the Merciless.
Poster courtesy of Imp Awards
I have to say, the posters beat the trailers for this hands down, which is a little unfortunate. Still, these have a cool style, so it's a shame that the movie itself appears to be lacking a little in that department. As promised, here are the other posters for From Paris with Love, which shows up in theaters on February 5th. »
- Colin Boyd
Three New Nightmare on Elm Street Photos
3 December 2009 12:19 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Warner Brothers has released a new photos from the highly anticipated reboot of “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” synopsis: Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic. A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who haunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.
Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-bladed glove is Academy Award nominee Jackie Earle Haley (”Little Children,” “Watchmen”). The film is being directed by award-winning music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”), marking his feature film debut.
The teens who are terrorized by Freddy Krueger are played by an ensemble of young actors, »
- Allan Ford
A new official still from A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
2 December 2009 12:32 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Over the past few days a batch of photos from the 2010 reboot of A Nightmare On Elm Street have been making the rounds, prompting many to ask if they're official or just really good screengrabs. Well, Warner Bros. has reacted to said "leak" providing Fango with the latest official look at Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger - a pic that came with a promise: more photos are coming soon.
Take a peek below the jump!
Click the pic to see it in Super-high-res (you'll want to)
A Nightmare On Elm Street is currently in post-production, and is set for an April 2010 release. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, Bad News Bears) in the role of Freddy Krueger, taking over the glove from Robert Englund. The genre-centric cast also includes Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon,) Rooney Mara (Urban Legends: Bloody Mary), Kyle Gallner (Jennifer's Body), Thomas Dekker (Laid To Rest, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
District 13 Ultimatum U.S. Trailer
2 December 2009 9:29 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Up until now, the use of parkour in action movies hasn't quite taken off like some people expected it to. Aside from a scene in Casino Royale, the video game Mirror's Edge and a brief mention on The Office, it's still mostly unknown... which explains why the new trailer for District 13 Ultimatum opens with a dictionary definition of the word. I still don't think this will be the movie to bring parkour to the mainstream (it is subtitled, after all), but its predecessor, District B13, remains the single best merger of the free running style into an action movie setting. I had a lot of fun with the original, so I'm certainly interested in seeing what they can do with the sequel. District 13 Ultimatum will finally get a North American release early next year courtesy of Magnet Releasing [1] and their Six Shooter Film Series, and the domestic trailer »
- Sean
New Images And Official Synopsis From A Nightmare On Elm Street Remake
2 December 2009 4:53 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
In 2010, Platinum Dunes and New Line Cinema will be bringing your nightmares to life once again with a polished remake and revival of one of the most iconic horror franchises in the history of cinema – A Nightmare on Elm Street. Donning the glove and fedora this time around is Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), starring alongside the crispy dream stalker will be Rooney Mara as Nancy.
But of course you know all this already (we hope), the real news here is that three new stills have been released for the movie, which is arguably the biggest horror remake of all time.
Next to Hellraiser, this film is the one I’ve wanted to see remade the most, due to the advances in technology the studio could really go to town on the dream sequences. Having said that I’ve also seen the Friday the 13th remake and I’m currently crossing »
- Craig Sharp
New From Paris with Love Poster
2 December 2009 12:02 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Check out the new poster for action/thriller “From Paris with Love,” Pierre Morel’s follow-up to “Taken.”
A low-ranking intelligence operative (Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
“From Paris with Love” is directed by French filmmaker Pierre Morel (The Transporter, Taken), stars John Travolta (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Pulp Fiction) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Mission Impossible: III). The film also stars Kasia Smutniak, Amber Rose Revah, Melissa Mars, Richard Durden and Farid Elouardi.
Luc Besson (The Transporter, Fifth Element, Taken, Danny the Dog) and Adi Hasak (Shadow Conspiracy) penned the screenplay.
“From Paris With Love” is set to hit theatres on February 19th, 2010.
More movie info and trailer »
- Allan Ford
How To Cinematically Fall Off the Grid
29 November 2009 8:06 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
On August 15th, 2009, Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired magazine went missing. On purpose. He wanted to see if one could disappear into the ether in an age where we are surveilled, swiped, and social security numbered to death. Where our IPs are tracked and we willingly give information about our lives through social networking. In a recent issue of the magazine, Ratliff recounted his attempt to change identities alongside the mad pack of tech savvies who were trying to find him (and earn a bounty of $5,000). It's in that spirit that I wanted to see what we could learn from films about the subject of leaving your life behind and creating a new identity. 1. Double Back The Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The Lesson: One of the first things Ratliff does is allow a toll checkpoint to register his ID tag before tossing it out the window, doubling »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
From Paris With Love
25 November 2009 7:54 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Since his career resurrection in 1994, John Travolta’s hits have dried up a great deal. He’s still A-list, but he’s coasting on past successes. Could Luc Besson and Pierre Morel be providing him with a new hit? From Paris With Love, judging from the excellent trailer, looks set to give Travolta a needed boost. Even the poster looks great!
Travolta (with shaved head and goatee) teams up with Jonathan Rhys Meyers for an action-comedy in which two CIA operatives cause destruction and mayhem in the city of lights (to stop a terrorist attack!) Written by French cinema icon Besson and directed by Taken’s Pierre Morel, this looks like breezy, good fun. Since quitting the directing lark, Besson has made a name for himself writing and producing action flicks with a strong French flavour. The Transporter series and last year’s kick-ass Taken have provided international cinema with »
- Martyn Conterio
Poster For District 13: Ultimatum
23 November 2009 1:56 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
I've never been able to rave enough about District B13, the French action film that introduced the world to Taken director Pierre Morel and used parkour better than pretty much any other movie has since. It's not really the kind of movie that begs for a sequel, being that it's a short and sweet 80 minutes long and ties everything up at the end. But now that a sequel exists, I'm not going to complain. District 13: Ultimatum has Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle returning in the lead roles as the reformed gangster and the cop trying to keep the peace in the notorious B13, where gangs still rule and, once again, there's a threat of the government simply wiping the whole place off the map. It's not directed by Morel, which is a disappointment, and let's face it, it's not likely they'll once again capture the same level of schlock magic. »
Director Chris Weitz Following New Moon with The Gardener
22 November 2009 11:27 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
"There are no werewolves or vampires, just a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles." Variety reports tonight that director Chris Weitz will be following up The Twilight Saga: New Moon with a new drama called The Gardener. Before jumping into the world of vampires, Weitz directed The Golden Compass and About a Boy previously. He's had a rough career so far (dealing with these last two films), but hopefully this project will allow him to settle down once again. Summit Entertainment, who released Twilight, is developing The Gardener with Weitz from a screenplay written by Eric Eason (Manito). From vampires to just a gardener? The Gardener is apparently just a story about a hard-working immigrant who lives in Los Angeles and his efforts to protect his son. Is there something more to this? Because it sounds like it could be a modern hybrid of Michael Douglas' Falling Down and Liam Neeson's Taken, »
- Alex Billington
Samuel Goldwyn Aquires Caine's 'Harry Brown'
16 November 2009 1:36 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
With Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino and Liam Neeson's Taken raking in the dough in the last 12 months, Samuel Goldwyn Films is hoping that trend continues for a few more months. The company has purchased the Michael Caine-as-a-trigger-happy-old-bastard flick, Harry Brown, and will release it in the Us next year.
Caine plays a retired British Marine in the film, who takes the law into his own hands after his best friend is murdered. Vowing to clean up the neighborhood, Brown unleashes his inner Charles Bronson and begins a path of destruction, punk.
We saw the trailer earlier this year, and it looks like it belongs in that category, even though to be as good as Gran Torino or as populist and entertaining as Taken is going to be hard to reproduce. »
- Colin Boyd
Five Minutes of Heaven
13 November 2009 4:06 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Plot: A murderer (Neeson) who killed for the Ulster Volunteer Force (sort of the opposing force to the Ira) prepares to meet with the brother of his victim (Nesbitt).
Who’S It For? Come on, it has Liam Neeson! Assuming you’re not tired of “the troubles”, you want to see it.
Expectations: I’m a fan of Nesbitt after seeing his performance in Bloody Sunday, and how can you not expect great things from Liam Neeson? So yeah, I was hoping for a tour de force two man acting showdown.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Liam Neeson as Alistair Little: Neeson plays the adult version of Little, after his time in prison. Despite the set up of the film, the two leads spend very little time together, so »
- Megan Lehar
Five Minutes of Heaven (review)
12 November 2009 1:51 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
After a disastrous foray into Hollywood with the tepid sci-fi potboiler The Invasion German director Oliver Hirschbiegel returns to the realms of uneasy morality he explored in his portrait of Bunker Hitler in Downfall... and this difficult, uncomfortable film, which similarly deconstructs the notion of what “evil” is, hits even closer to home for today’s mess of a culturally fractured world. Back in 1975, a teenaged Protestant hitman (Mark Davison) killed a Catholic man, because that’s what “good” Protestant men did in Northern Ireland back then, in front of the man’s 11-year-old brother. Now, today, the two men are brought together by a television show seeking a sort of Irish version of the South African truth-and-reconciliation plan: Liam Neeson (Taken) is the former hitman who has put his life, since he got out of prison for that murder, to better use; James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday) is the grownup »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Summit Entertainment Warms Up to 'The Cold Light of Day'
11 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
After the surprise success of Liam Neeson's Taken earlier this year, kidnapping is all the rage (at least on film) with different twists and turns to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Summit Entertainment thinks they have a winner as Variety reports thev've joined with Intrepid Pictures in financing The Cold Light of Day, a Scott Wiper and John Petro script which follows an American whose family is kidnapped while on vacation to Spain, who's left with only hours to find them, uncover a government conspiracy and the connection between their disappearance and his father's secrets. Wow, will he also juggle chainsaws? The producers are currently seeking a director to shoot the film entirely on location in Spain by early next spring. We'll let you know when they find someone. Summit continues to make great strides in making more high profile projects (like Duncan Jones directing »
- Ethan Anderton
Two Terrific New 'From Paris with Love' Posters
10 November 2009 8:43 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Almost exactly a year after Taken stormed American theaters, director Pierre Morel will return with From Paris With Love, a great title for a movie that is about the exact opposite. Oh sure, it's Paris, but love is probably the wrong emotion.
The film stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte or Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan or Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Only in France. I hate to be so reductive about it, but it's an oil-and-water cop movie; the rest is just details.
However, From Paris with Love has some of the coolest posters in the game this year. The first, a flip of the Eiffel Tower as a gun, is terrific, and I like these new character posters, too. Click to enlarge: »
- Colin Boyd
From Paris With Love Markets to Blood Splatter Analysts, Action Junkies
10 November 2009 3:02 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Lionsgate has released two new posters for the upcoming actioner From Paris with Love, from Taken director Pierre Morel and French uber-producer Luc Besson. The film stars John Travolta as a batshit crazy FBI agent who must work with a Us Ambassador's aid (Jonathon Rhys Meyers) to stop a terrorist attack in Paris. A leaked trailer from late 2008 sparked much discussion about whether or not this movie was going to be a wild ride or an epic dud, but we've since seen a much better second trailer -- which you can see for yourself below. From Paris with Love is scheduled to hit theaters here in the U.S. on February 5, 2010. Check out the new posters below, courtesy of Lionsgate (click to enlarge). »
- Neil Miller
From Paris with Lovely Posters
10 November 2009 1:07 PM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Blowing up theaters in February 5, 2010, check out two posters for “Taken” director Pierre Morel’s action-thriller “From Paris With Love”. The film stars John Travolta as an American spy who tries to stop terrorists from blowing up America by blowing up Paris. Hey, if I gotta trade Paris for the good ol USA, I’ll take it. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the young American agent who must assist the badass John Travolta on his mission. Much killing, stuff blowing up, and general Luc Besson nonsensical mayhem ensue. A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Two posters from Lionsgate for your viewing pleasure. »
- Nix
New Posters: From Paris with Love
10 November 2009 5:54 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Two new posters have been debuted for John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers new movie, From Paris with Love on CraveOnline. It’s directed by Pierre Morel who previously brought us Taken starring Liam Neeson which did surprisingly well at the box office.
It’s set to be released 12th March in the UK and it looks like we might see a different side to Travolta in what looks like his comedy action role. If you’ve not seen it, check out the trailer which I posted a while ago and then click the images below to enlarge.
Synopsis: A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
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- David Sztypuljak
2 New Posters for Pierre Morel’s From Paris With Love
10 November 2009 5:14 AM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
Crave Online has two exclusive posters from Pierre Morel’s follow-up film to the hit Taken. The film is called From Paris With Love. The action comedy comes from a story by famed Director Luc Besson.
A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
Tags: From Paris With Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Pierre Morel
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- Kevin Coll
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