The first official trailer for the action-film-to-end-all-action film The Expendables [XPNDB] is online. The film features an all-star cast of action stars from the 1980s to today including the much-anticipated on-screen meeting of Slyvester Stallone [SSTAL], Bruce Willis [BWILL] and Arnold Schwarzenegger. So much for surpirse cameos.
Every film genre is going 3D these days, and dance dramas are no exception. The Disney franchise that launched the career of Channing Tatum is back with a third film Step Up 3D [STUP3] featuring an all new cast. By now, you already know the formula. A ragtag gang of street dancers come together to challenge the best dance crew in a showdown that will change their lives and, according to one dancer, maybe even the world. "Dance can change things, one move can bring people together, one...
Moviegoers got a 3D lesson in pet care at the theaters this pre-Easter weekend with How to Train Your Dragon [HTRYD]. The DreamWorks Animation film opened with an impressive $43.3 million at the box office. The film unspooled in 3D format in 2,178 of its 4,055 theaters. With the Easter holiday and spring break season, How to Train Your Dragon should have good legs for the coming weeks.
Alice in Wonderland [ALCNW] fell to second place behind Dragon. The Tim Burton [TBURT]/Johnny Depp...
Two new films with literal titles enter the multiplex this weekend. The PG-rated How to Train Your Dragon [HTRYD] squares off against the R-rated Hot Tub Time Machine [HOTUB] in a battle for different target audiences.
With its emphasis on storytelling rather than smirking animals firing off one-liners, Dragon (as recent ads have abbreviated) is the first film from DreamWorks Animation that looks like it could have sprung from Disney/Pixar. The influence no doubt stemmed from director...
Universal has uploaded a fourth and what looks to be the final theatrical trailer for Despicable Me [DESME] on Apple. Whereas the previous teasers featured one scene or focused on one character, the newest trailer finally stitches together the to tell the whole story of the animated movie. We finally meet the three little orphan girls described in the synopsis who enter the life of supervillain Gru and foil his nefarious plan to steal the moon with the help of his army of minions. If you...
After testing seemingly every young actor in Hollywood, Marvel went back to a familiar face and cast Chris Evans [CEVAN] as Steve Rogers in The First Avenger: Captain America [CAPAM]. Evans previously starred as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch in two Fantastic Four films, but the franchise is being rebooted with a new cast by Fox. In The First Avenger: Captain America, Evans will play a U.S. soldier during World War II who becomes a superhero after being injected with the Super Soldier...
Universal has put a redband trailer online for the comedy Get Him to the Greek [GHGRK]. The new trailer adds R-rated language, but otherwise plays out pretty much the same as the previous greenband trailer. Even though Get Him to the Greek was spun off Forgetting Sarah Marshall to feature more of Aldous Snow, Russell Brand [RBRAN] seems to be playing second fiddle again to the character played by Jonah Hill [JHILL].
Three new films took their shot, but none could dethrone Alice in Wonderland [ALCNW], which stayed number one for a third weekend with an estimated $34.5 million. Disney's 3D fantasy has already accumulated $265.7 million to set a new record for a March release.
Fox's Diary of a Wimpy Kid [WIMPY] opened in second place with $21.8 million. The family fiilm had the advantage of a having a rabid fanbase of pre-teens for the best-selling book series.
Sony's The Bounty Hunter [BOUNT]...
Fox and Walden Media have given teenybopper fans of Selena Gomez [SGOME] the first look at her upcoming movie Ramona and Beezus [RMONA] based on the best-selling children's book series by Beverly Cleary. The film is rated G, which should serve as a warning sign for anyone not considered its target audience.
The original Predator was not only a sci-fi action classic, it had the distinction of featuring two future U.S. governors in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura. Twenty years after the urban-set sequel Predator 2, the newest sequel/reboot Predators [PRED3] returns to a jungle setting, albeit on another planet. The teaser still keep the alien hunters in the dark even though we already known they look like. Freeze-frame! However, the Predators appear to have themselves some alien...
