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- ‘Mad Max Fury Road’ has intense action, very few CG effects
- John McTiernan’s ‘Predator’ to be remade by a ‘Lethal’ director
- Cung Le may just be the busiest man in martial arts action cinema
- Natural Born Killers: 20th Anniversary | Blu-ray (Warner)
| ‘Mad Max Fury Road’ has intense action, very few CG effects Posted: 25 Jun 2014 01:00 AM PDT  Entertainment Weekly's "Mad Max" Issue THE MOVIE: George Miller (Mad Max Trilogy) returns to the post-apocalyptic-action franchise that put him on the map. Tom Hardy is taking over the role of Max Rockatansky, formerly played by Mel Gibson. Also starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough and Hugh Keays-Byrne. Note: this will be the first Mad Max to incorporate CG elements. Updates: Batch of set photos. | Collider reports that Megan Gale – who almost played Wonder Woman in Miller's cancelled Justice League film – will finally get to team up with the director in Mad Max 4: Fury Road. Director George Miller finally revealed something of a summary via this official press release. Quote: “Mad Max (Tom Hardy) is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron). This movie is an account of the Road War which follows.” | New set photos. | The first look at Tom Hardy as Max. | Production video. | The Playlist reports that Dutch electronic composer and producer Junkie XL (aka Tom Holkenborg) will be doing the soundtrack. Dark Horizons reports that Tom Hardy is going back for more filming. Here’s what he told Flicks and the City: ”[The movie]‘s great. It’s a big old piece; it’s a behemoth of a piece. I’m off there next week to do some reshoots, well not reshoots actually, but doing more. We’re building, building more Mad Maxes, even more spectacular and cool stuff.” According to EW, Mad Max 4: Fury Road is set to hit theaters on May 15, 2015. The new theatrical date makes it 30 years since Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome was released. Let’s hope it’ll be worth the wait. | New photo of Tom Hardy as Mad Max. The Sydney Morning Herald recently interviewed George Miller where he debunked rumors of a Mel Gibon cameo. However, he did mention that Max’s famous Interceptor will appear. As far as the movie, here’s what Miller said: "Our film, luckily after a ridiculous amount of work, is testing extremely well…We're very happy. There has been a lot of doubt about it, [people saying] 'it took so long', but Warners have delayed it until 2015 to go into the top weekend of the year." Collider has collected a pack of audience reactions from a Mad Max: Fury Road test screening. Here a few of them: Reaction 1: "…Mad Max II/The Road Warrior on steroids, go-big-or-go-home, bug-nuts crazy, toss-you-in-the-deep-end mythology… this movie feels like thirty years of Miller holding in passion for a world that he built so long ago, exploding on the screen." Reaction 2: "Weird to not see Gibson as Max but Tom Hardy holds it down just fine. Great action sequences and amazing post-apocalyptic vehicles and costuming with awesome makeup." Reaction 3: "I can't say much about it but let's just hope they do tons of re-shoots before it's released next year, or start again from scratch. Also Tom Hardy can't stop doing the Bane voice. So annoying." BREAKING NEWS: Director George Miller told EW that the film has very few digital effects, intense action, linear story, very little dialogue and "a chase that starts as the movie begins and continues for 110 minutes." Check out the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly for a Mad Max: Fury Road image, courtesy of EW (via Collider). |
| John McTiernan’s ‘Predator’ to be remade by a ‘Lethal’ director Posted: 25 Jun 2014 12:06 AM PDT  "Predator" Japanese Theatrical Poster Hollywood sure loves their remakes these days, and no film is sacred – not even Chan-wook Park’s beloved Oldboy or the Pang Brothers’ Bangkok Dangerous. Still, it’s one thing for the studios to grab the remake rights to a foreign language film that, let’s face it, most American movie-goers haven’t seen. It’s another thing altogether for Hollywood to remake one of their own beloved genre pictures. That’s why today’s news of a Predator remake in the works is so surprising. While the original Predator may have its share of cheesy one-liners, it’s regarded by most as a modern action classic. It’s a movie that many consider Arnold Schwarzenneger’s strongest effort, a movie that would most likely be called John McTiernan’s finest hour if it wasn’t for a little film called Die Hard. Still, even more surprising than the fact that Hollywood would touch the sacred cow of Predator is the news that none other than Shane Black will be directing the film. Before he made headlines for writing and directing Iron Man 3, Black was a talented writer who rose to fame on the strength of scripts like Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. Alongside his meteoric rise as a screenwriter in the late Eighties, Black actually had a small supporting role in Predator as the character Hawkins; this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it part was apparently a way for the producers to try and coax Black into polishing the script for Predator, a task which he repeatedly refused. All these years later, the Predator story appears to be coming full circle, as Black will write the treatment for this new Predator before directing the film itself. The real question is: what modern actor could possibly step into the combat boots made famous by Arnold Schwarzenneger – let alone the other musclebound roles ably filled by Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, and Sonny Landham? Considering that most of today’s stars are cast to be pretty rather than buff, it’s most likely that this new Predator will look and feel radically different than the original. |
| Cung Le may just be the busiest man in martial arts action cinema Posted: 25 Jun 2014 12:04 AM PDT  "Dragon Eyes" Japanese DVD Cover There’s no rest for the wicked – or for a wicked, musclebound Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Fan favorite actor Cung Le has made a name for himself in and out of the ring, thanks to co-starring roles in films like Bodyguards & Assassins and Dragon Eyes, and the man shows no signs of slowing down. In a recent video interview, Cung Le teased several new projects on his horizon. Two of the as-of-yet-untitled movies include a film from Sammo Hung (Killzone AKA S.P.L.) and producer Bill Kong (House of Flying Daggers), as well as a role in J.J. Perry’s directorial debut. Perry may not be a name immediately recognizable to action buffs but chances are you’ve seen his work – he served as fight choreographer on both Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing and Blood and Bone! In addition, Cung Le has mentioned a possible role in the highly anticipated Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny, which would reunite him with both his The Grandmasters choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and his Bodyguards & Assassins co-star Donnie Yen. Lastly, Le is also in talks for a role in the American remake of The Raid, which is currently in-development from The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes. Cung Le clearly has great things coming in the near future, so fans of the talented performer have much to look forward to. |
| Natural Born Killers: 20th Anniversary | Blu-ray (Warner) Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT  "Natural Born Killers" Theatrical Poster RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2014 Warner presents the Blu-ray for Oliver's Stone's Natural Born Killers: 20th Anniversary Edition. Take a hallucinogenic ride through the minds and exploits of two cold-blooded lovers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), and is a powerful, gut-grabbing look at how violence and crime are sensationalized and glamorized in the media. This anniversary edition will contain two versions of the film (Theatrical version and Director's Cut), and a new featurette Natural Born Killers: Method in the Madness, a rare glimpse provided by director Stone, editor Hank Corwin and technical advisor Dale Dye into the creative process that gave birth to this provocative, unapologetically violent piece of American cinema. Pre-order Natural Born Killers: 20th Anniversary today! |
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