Monday, April 30, 2007

Aronofsky's Next: NOAH


It looks like the director of such intense films as PI, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, and last years THE FOUNTAIN is currently writing the screenplay to his next feature length film, an adaptation of the Biblical account of NOAH. The details of the project are pretty vague at this point, but Aronofsky does share part of his inspiration for bringing such an adaptation to life during an interview with a paper called The Guardian. Here is a sampling from the article:
Aronofsky and Noah go way back. When the writer-director was 13, he won a United Nations competition at his school in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn; it was for his first poem, a little effort about the end of the world as seen through Noah's eyes. "That story has interested me ever since," he says, squinting through his yellow-tinted shades and pulling a striped woolly hat on to his head. We are on the decking in front of his hotel, with the snow-dusted mountains spread out before us. Henry, Aronofsky and Weisz's 10-month-old son has just been whisked off on a sightseeing trip with his nanny, and all is tranquil.
The script, Aronofsky tells me, is no conventional biblical epic. "Noah was the first person to plant vineyards and drink wine and get drunk," he says admiringly. "It's there in the Bible - it was one of the first things he did when he reached land. There was some real survivor's guilt going on there. He's a dark, complicated character."

Friday, April 27, 2007

SUMMER 2007 LINE-UP!!!

When 12:01 AM hits next Friday, SUMMER 2007 will officially begin, and what a summer to behold!!! Last year was full of box-office blunders (Poseidon), critical disappointments (The Da Vinci Code, X-Men 3, Fantastic Four), and plenty of folks just wondering what had happened to the real SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER. X-Men 3, Da Vinci Code, and Pirates 2 all carried away huge box-office receipts, but none completely captured the hearts of both critics and movie-goers as in past years, accept for maybe Cars, but even its reception was not as warm as past Pixar films. So what will happen when three of the highest grossing film franchises of all time (Spider-Man, Shrek, Pirates) bring out their third installments within the same month? Expect one of the biggest box-office battles in history, and don't forget that there are plenty of other films just waiting to take their share of the box-office booty that awaits. Some are already hedging their bets for this to be the most successful summer at the movies in history, and here are the films that have the potential to make it happen:

MAY 4 - SPIDER MAN 4









MAY 18 - SHREK 3

MAY 25 - PIRATES 3

JUNE 15 - RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

JUNE 22 - EVAN ALMIGHTY


JUNE 27 - LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD


JUNE 29 - RATATOUILLE


JULY 4 - TRANSFORMERS



JULY 13 - HARRY POTTER 5



JULY 27 - THE SIMPSONS



AUGUST 3 - THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM



AUGUST 10 - RUSH HOUR 3

Hopefully this will be a summer to remember, hopefully. Will Transformer's totally stink, will Pirates take box-office glory for a second year in a row, and will Evan Almighty, the MOST EXPENSIVE COMEDY EVER MADE, drown? Only time and box-office #'s will tell!!!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Elizabeth The Golden Age Trailer

This is going to be one of the greatest films of the year. I know becuase I have already seen a rough cut of it, and that rough cut was one of the most satisfying movie going experiences I have had in the past couple of years. Also, Cate Blanchett proves once again, even in this 3 minute clip, that she is one of the greatest actresses of our time, if not the greatest!

Check it out!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Pirates 3 Trailer

May is looking better and better!

Final Spider-Man 3 Trailer

Can we wait for this film or what!!!