The story revolves around John Clancy, a former doctor with psychic abilities who is drawn into a serial killer case only to find that the killer also is a psychic, leading to a showdown between the two who can detect each other’s every move.
Abbie Cornish (Seven Psychopaths) has been cast in Solace, the supernatural thriller that Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) will direct starting in May. She joins the previously cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins. Thanks to BD reader Camilla48 for the heads up!
In the film, “An FBI detective seeks the help of a retired and reclusive doctor, to try and solve a series of grisly murders. The doctor was a wiz at the murder game, but lost his mojo when his daughter died tragically. Desperate, the detective presses the doctor to come out of retirement for one more case.”
The film was written by Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, The Possession) is closing a deal to co-star in Solace, the supernatural thriller that Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) will direct starting in May. He joins the previously cast Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins. Per THR, Morgan is playing a veteran FBI agent heading the investigation of a series of grisly murders. He recruits Hopkins’ character to help catch the killer.
In the film, “An FBI detective seeks the help of a retired and reclusive doctor, to try and solve a series of grisly murders. The doctor was a wiz at the murder game, but lost his mojo when his daughter died tragically. Desperate, the detective presses the doctor to come out of retirement for one more case.”
The film was written by Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan.
Colin Farrell (Total Recall, Fright Night, Seven Psychopaths) is closing a deal to star with Anthony Hopkins in Solace, the supernatural thriller that Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) will direct with production to begin in May, says Deadline.
“An FBI detective seeks the help of a retired and reclusive doctor, to try and solve a series of grisly murders. The doctor was a wiz at the murder game, but lost his mojo when his daughter died tragically. Desperate, the detective presses the doctor to come out of retirement for one more case.”
The film’s scripted by Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan. It has percolating long enough that the film’s first credited writer, Bailey, is currently president of production at Disney. The film originated at New Line but never came together quite right, and producers Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson and Matthias Emcke finally got it back and got the financing through Claudia Blumheuber’s Silver Reel. The film was once at New Line, and is now for sale at the EFM by FilmNation.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($30.99) and Blu-ray ($35.99) releases of Seven Psychopaths for January 29th, reports DVD Active.
Extras will include 6 featurettes (“Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths”, “Colin Farrell is Marty”, “Woody Harrelson is Charlie”, “Crazy Locations”, “Seven Psychocats”, “Layers”). The Blu-ray release will also include an UltraViolet digital copy of the film.
“A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu.A screenwriter is drawn into a dog kidnapping scheme by his oddball friends.”
Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Sam Rockwell all star. READ MORE
Starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish and Sam Rockwell, CBS Films’ Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Walken and Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. It sounds and looks like a comedy, but I assure you that it’s insanely violent.
Says Evan Dickson: “No, Seven Psychopaths is not a horror movie. But it is a great one. And I feel comfortable reviewing it on this site because it has copious gore, including a protracted serial killer segment that involves the Zodiac killer, and lots of bunnies. With more (and better) kills than most slasher films, you guys won’t be disappointed.”
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No, Seven Psychopaths is not a horror movie. But it is a great one. And I feel comfortable reviewing it on this site because it has copious gore, including a protracted serial killer segment that involves the Zodiac killer, and lots of bunnies. With more (and better) kills than most slasher films, you guys won’t be disappointed. I feel awkward opening the review this way, like some sort of sleazy guy talking up the physical attributes of a woman to a friend I’ve set her up with, but in a crowded horror weekend I need to get my foot in the door. And, of course, there’s a ton of other stuff to recommend.
While Seven Psychopaths isn’t as touching as writer/director Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, it’s an immediately entertaining high energy romp through a crime world seemingly frozen in time since 1996. Colin Farrell plays Marty as a semi-surrogate for McDonagh, an alcoholic screenwriter stuck on his new script. Sam Rockwell is his best friend Billy, a dog kidnapper with a palpable urge to help his buddy out of a rut. Christopher Walken is… well I suppose it’s best if I let you discover the character framework of the film on your own, since that’s one of the film’s many joys.
As you’ve been informed by the marketing campaign, they get on the bad side of gangster boss Charlie (Woody Harrelson) via the deeply misguided kidnapping of his beloved Shih Tzu. The first half of the film takes place in a version of LA I haven’t seen onscreen in years, an immediately-post Pulp Fiction rendering of the town. From the very opening scene the film is strangely – and intentionally – dated. I was discussing the film with my friend Simon and I think he nailed the aesthetic (and perhaps the creative impetus) on the head, “Like somewhere in Ireland, a young McDonagh was watching ‘Suicide Kings’, ‘Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead’ and ‘Two Days In The Valley’ and thinking, well, this kind of sucks, but it would be kind of cool if…”
That “if”, of course, is the sum total of liberties McDonagh has taken with these tropes in order to make them feel fresh and relatable again. The film eventually becomes something of a spiritual quest as our heroes embark on a journey to Joshua Tree in order to seek refuge. Throughout all of this, Marty is still wrestling with his script, also entitled ‘Seven Psychopaths. Billy and Walken’s Hans chip in with ideas, each note of their reflecting where they are in their lives. Billy is begging Marty to pile on the carnage (which is gloriously visualized), even though Marty’s shying away from the violence of his own work. Hans, meanwhile, is searching for threads of meaning in Marty’s work and inserting his own where there are none to be found. The whole film almost plays like a hyper violent edition of Adaptation or Bullets Over Broadway.
If you like to peer deep into your films, Seven Psychopaths offers a lot to chew on. But not at the expense of its immediacy. It’s alternately fun, broad, frightening, tragic, gory and hilarious. It truly soars along and takes detours I would have never expected. It’s a film I can’t imagine anyone regretting seeing, even you dear horror fiend.
Follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.
I love Seven Psychopaths. It’s not horror, it’s a crime comedy. But it is supremely gory. If you remember director Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges you know he doesn’t f*ck around. And, to put it crassly, this movie has a sh*tload more kills than that one (it’s also smart, funny and thoughtful). Thus, I feel like I can wholeheartedly recommend it to you. While it might not be scary, it’s certainly got more of the red stuff than most of the R-rated horror movies that have come out this year. I’ll fill you guys in with my review later this month.
The film, “Follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.” The movie also stars Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko.
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Don’t forget to like Seven Psychopaths on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Head inside for the film’s trailer along with a brand new behind-the-scenes video! READ MORE
I love Seven Psychopaths. It’s not horror, it’s a crime comedy. But it is supremely gory. If you remember director Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges you know he doesn’t f*ck around. And, to put it crassly, this movie has a sh*tload more kills than that one (it’s also smart, funny and thoughtful). Thus, I feel like I can wholeheartedly recommend it to you. While it might not be scary, it’s certainly got more of the red stuff than most of the R-rated horror movies that have come out this year. I’ll fill you guys in with my review later this month.
In the meantime, here’s a Sinister mashup trailer to help bridge the gap between this film and something you’re already excited to see.
Head inside for the actual trailer. Seven Psychopaths opens on October 12th. READ MORE
DVD Active reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($30.99), 2-disc Blu-ray ($35.99), and 3-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($40.99) releases of Total Recall (2012) for December 18th. The DVD release will include the theatrical cut of the movie, plus 3 featurettes (“Total Recall With Insight”, “Science Fiction vs. Science Fact”, “Designing The Fall”), and a gag reel. The Blu-ray releases will include theatrical and extended cuts of the film, all of the above features, plus commentary with Director Len Wiseman, 7 Total Action features (“Colin Farrell”, “The Tripping Den”, “Quaid’s Bedroom”, “Kate Beckinsale”, “Lobby Escape”, “Jessica Biel”, “Quaid vs. Cohaagen”), and 5 Pre-Visualization Sequences (“Apartment Waterfront Chase”, “The Fall Fight”, “Flight and Tripping Den”, “Elevator Chase”, “Sequences Car Chase”). The 3-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo will also include a digital copy.
“Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world, Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.” READ MORE
Columbia Pictures’ Len Wiseman (Underworld) directed Total Recall remake is here. And it’s sort of what it looked like all along. It features fine performances by Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Fright Night), Jessica Biel (The Tall Man) and a surprisingly fun turn by Kate Beckinsale (Underworld, Laurel Canyon). It’s not poorly made, but it gets bogged down too often in weightless CGI and loses sight of its story. It’s also severely watered down and features none of the bite of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 original.
“The film is big, expensive and boring. It thinks that its spectacle and budget (not to mention its overabundance of lens flares) will convince the audience that they’re having a good time. ‘Total Recall’ is a total nightmare of a remake – a serviceable film that undercuts and devalues its source material. It’s A CG filled, PG13 watering down of Verhoeven’s 1990 film with little to no understanding of what made the original work.”
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Total Recall, in theaters August 3, is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick.
Total Recall – on a technical level – isn’t necessarily a poorly made movie. It looks nice, the action is somewhat coherent (if not entirely thrilling) and it contains some decent performances. Watching it, it became clear to me that I don’t dislike Len Wiseman’s work because he’s not talented. He’s actually got some chops. I just dislike his work because of the way he chooses to use his talent.
When this remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 film was announced, everyone claimed that they were actually reinterpreting Phillip K. Dick’s original story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” Of course, as always, this wasn’t really the case. For the first hour or so the film is a beat-by-beat remake of Verhoeven’s but without any of the color, characterization, wit or fun. Farrell plays Quaid as being equally unsatisfied with his life as Schwarzenegger’s character in the original, living in a modest apartment with his beautiful wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale), his life having fallen short of his own expectations.
Sure, there are some changes. There’s no mention of Mars. Instead we have the United Federation Of Britain (UFB) and The Colony (located on Australia). Quaid must travel back and forth between the two via “The Fall” a train that bores through the center of the Earth in 17 minutes (naturally adjusting for a nifty gravity change halfway through). There, the character no longer works in construction but assembles police drones that look like an awful lot like Imperial Stormtroopers. Seriously, there’s a lot of Star Wars in this movie. The set design is also drastically different. I know that’s an odd thing to bring up, but The Colony looks so much like Blade Runner‘s Asian-tinged dystopia that I hope Sony gives Warner Brothers some kind of deal for those sets on the sequel.
Aside from all of that, it’s more or less the same at the beginning (minus the entertainment). Quaid’s been entertaining the idea of visiting the memory implantation service Rekall for a while now, and one day the new guy on the job gives him a card that serves as the tipping point for him to do so. If you’ve seen the original, you pretty much know what goes down at Rekall. Quaid almost immediately becomes a fugitive and the girl of his dreams (literally), Jessica Biel’s Melina, shows up to help him on the while he’s on the run.
After that the film differs significantly from the original. Instead of doing what sci-fi does best, giving us big ideas peppered with thrilling action, it becomes one long chase sequence. It’s so unrelenting and so much stuff is flying around onscreen you pretty much feel like you’re in the 3rd act of Revenge Of The Sith via The Fifth Element right up until the mano a mano fight between Quaid and Bryan Cranston’s Cohaagen. There are some interesting set pieces along the way, an elevator shaft chase is nicely executed and there’s a comparatively inspired zero-gravity gunfight, but so much is thrown at you that you literally want to disengage from the film.
It’s also worth noting that, for a movie that’s supposedly about such things, this Total Recall isn’t actually interested in exploring the “what is real and what isn’t” angle. Questions of identity and the perception of reality are only vague, temporal bridges to the next action sequence. In fact, the only real standout in the film’s second half is Kate Beckinsale. Her Lori is a composite of both Sharon Stone’s character and Michael Ironside’s Richter from the first film (i.e. she lives longer and is the primary assassin on Quaid’s trail) and she’s the MVP of all this unrelenting action. All glower, sleek moves and improbably styled hair – she’s the only one in the movie who seems to be having fun.
You may have noticed I’m comparing it to the original an awful lot. Shouldn’t a film stand on its own merits? Yes. Unfortunately though, not only is this film light on merits, it actually operates under the assumption that you’ve seen the original to the extent that it relies your pre-supposed knowledge of it to get you through its own narrative shortcomings. An early scene at Rekall would be incomprehensible if you hadn’t seen the original.
The film is big, expensive and boring. It thinks that its spectacle and budget (not to mention its overabundance of lens flares) will convince the audience that they’re having a good time. Total Recall is a total nightmare of a remake – a serviceable film that undercuts and devalues its source material. It’s A CG filled, PG13* watering down of Verhoeven’s 1990 film with little to no understanding of what made the original work.
*This movie is utterly bloodless. You do get a brief glance of the three-breasted prostitute, but it’s thrown in so lazily it’s almost insulting. There are no other mutants in the movie, just her. A woman walking around with three breasts for no reason.
I’m not entirely sure that Seven Psychopaths is a horror film, but it looks awesome. And if it winds up being as bloody (or bloodier) than In Bruges, well it still won’t be horror – but maybe your gore levels will be satiated. I mention In Bruges because helmer Martin McDonagh also tackled that film.
Written and Directed by Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh, the comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. Co-starring Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Zeljko Ivanek.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. Head inside for the pics! READ MORE
Holy sh*t! There’s obviously a lot of horror in the Midnight Madness selections of the Toronto International Film Festival, but I’m not sure if you were expecting this many big fish! For starters, we’ve got Rob Zombie‘s The Lords Of Salem. Next? The 26 director anthology The ABC’s Of Death. Not enough? How about Nicolas Lopez‘s Eli Roth/Selena Gomez starrer Aftershock. Still hungry? Then there’s JT Petty‘s Hellbenders 3D.
TIFF’s Midnight Madness selections will present the major world premieres for those films, the first time any kind of general audience sees them. But that’s not all! Head inside for the full listing of films! We’ll be updating you throughout the day with image galleries for these selections so keep checking back!
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE
Columbia Pictures’ Len Wiseman (Underworld) directed Total Recall remake is well on its way. And that means another clip! In today’s installment of viewing-the-movie-one-clip-at-a-time, evil Kate Becksinsale suggests Colin Farrell kiss Jessica Biel goodbye, because they’ll both be dead soon. And right after that Kate kills them both they get away!
In theaters August 3, “ ‘Total Recall’ is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.”
Head inside to check out the clip. READ MORE
Columbia Pictures’ Len Wiseman (Underworld) directed Total Recall remake is well on its way. In fact it will be here in less than two weeks, which provides me with a somewhat convenient segue to discussing this new clip that Total Film got their hands on. It certainly references a scene from Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 classic, and it makes you think it’s going to emulate it – which at this point I wish it would – before it defiantly heads down a more boring path. I kind of wanted Colin Farrell to have the zany disguise in this case (which is somewhat hypocritical of me, given how much I castigate this one for being too much like the original).
In theaters August 3, “ ‘Total Recall’ is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.”
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The boys over at Empire have landed another five character posters for Tim BUrton’s upcoming Frankenweenie, this time featuring Martin short as Mayor Burgemeister and Nassor, Burton veteran and general legend Martin Landau as Mr. Rzykruski, Catherine O’Hara as Weird Girl, and Atticus Shaffer as Edgar “E” Gore. You can see all the posters below, but can read about them by clicking the aforementioned link. In theaters October 5, “After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life—with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor’s fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new “leash on life” can be monstrous.”
Also, via website Heart Attack, comes a trio of Taiwan banners for Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall, the Len Wiseman-directed remake in theaters August 3. “Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) working for the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.”
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When Columbia Pictures releases Len Wiseman’s Total Recall, in theaters August 3, a lot of us will be shocked at how similar it is to Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 adaptation of “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Thus far nothing says otherwise.
The studio just now released a third clip from the film that mirrors a classic fight sequence from the initial sci-fi epic, which begs the following questions: which fight scene is better, and who would you rather have kick your ass?
Below we’ve added both the fight between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone in the 1990 version, alongside the scuffle between Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale in the reboot. Personally, I’d rather have Beckinsale jumping in my face. You?
In the remake, “Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) working for the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.” READ MORE
As many of you know, I’m not against remakes. To me, a good movie is a good movie, it’s as simple as that. With Columbia Pictures’s remake of Total Recall on the horizon, we’ve been provided with a third clip that sort of continues to rub me the wrong way. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it looks bad, it just looks, the same? If you’re going to remake something, it should be it’s own vision instead of some off-beat resemblance of a classic (see 2004′s Dawn of the Dead). I guess we’ll know more on August 3, but until then here’s a clip featuring the baddies played by Bryan Cranston and Kate Beckinsale.
Len Wiseman directs the reboot, “Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Biel) working for the head of the underground resistance (Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.” READ MORE
Screen Daily reports that Bong Joon-ho (The Host) has wrapped shooting what looks to be Korea’s most expensive film to date, Snow Piercer. According to investor/distributor CJ E&M, the shoot wrapped over the weekend in Prague and Bong will finish post-production in Korea. They aim to release the sci-fi thriller next year, although specific dates are still in the works. Budgeted at roughly $39.2m (KW45bn), Snow Piercer will be Korea’s most expensive film by far. Kang Je-gyu’s war movie My Way currently holds the record with a $24.5m (KW28bn) budget. Based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige,” the film is about the microcosm of human society surviving on a train that goes around in a snow-covered, post-apocalyptic world. The film was shot entirely on location in the Czech Republic, except for a day’s shoot in Austria for some scenery. Park Chan-wook is producing with his company Moho Film. Snow Piercer features a multi-national cast with Captain America star Chris Evans in the lead. He is joined by Song Kang-ho, who previously worked with Bong on The Host, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Jamie Bell and Ewen Bremner.
German sales outfit Raspberry & Cream has picked up Asian horror title Remington And The Curse of the Zombadings, a gay zombie film from the Philippines, says THR. Raspberry & Cream will handle world-wide sales on the title, a low-brow comedy about the homophobic Remington who is cast under a spell and becomes gay himself. The film has proved a box office hit on its home turf, earning close to $1 million with 250,000 admissions, making it one of the most successful indie features ever in the Philippines. Director Jade Castro also produced Remington through the Manila-based writer/producer collectives ufo Pictures and Orgin8 Media. Star Mart Escudero won the Golden Screen Award, the Pilipino equivalent of the Oscar, for best actor in a musical or comedy for his performance.
Lastly, below we’ve added a second clip from Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake, in theaters August 3, that pits Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel in a shootout against Kate Beckinsale and her Imperial troopers (seriously, does it not look like a scene out of Star Wars?) READ MORE
On Friday the 13th Sony Pictures took to Hall H to share three upcoming titles with San Diego Comic-Con attendees – one of which blew the roof off the place.
Stars Matt Damon (pictured) and Jodie Foster joined director Neill Blomkamp and producer Simon Kinberg on stage to share the insanely gory first footage from Elysium. Inside you’ll find Evan Dickson’s report from the panel alongside video interviews with all four attendees!
The panel also focused on two other genre titles, the forthcoming Len Wiseman-directed Total Recall (in theaters August 3) and Rian Johnson’s insane time travel thriller Looper (September 28), starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt.
Dickson recaps the footage and panel presentation inside. READ MORE
I think Len Wiseman is a poor director who makes overly complex sequences and completely negates good story structure and character development. In short, he can make things look cool, but they’re still boring. That’s talent. Such is the case with the first ever clip from Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall, which just premiered on Yahoo!. It displays Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) about to enter ReKall when the police arrive and disrupt the process. The camera then goes on a blitz more nauseating than Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Enjoy.
Total Recall, in theaters August 3, is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. “Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) working for the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.”
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