Terminator 5 will begin shooting in January 2014 and Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed that he’ll be the Terminator once again.
Arnold said to TheArnoldFans.com – “I’m very happy that the studios want me to be in Terminator 5 and to star as the Terminator.”
Paramount Pictures will take over film distribution from Warner Bros., who distributed Terminator Salvation.
Keira Knightley is joining Benedict Cumberbatch for the upcoming Turing Biopic The Imitation Game.
Cumberbatch stars as code breaking math genius Alan Turing. The film examines Turing’s role in breaking the enigma code and also details his treatment after revealing he was gay in 1952.
Knightley will play Joan Clarke, the woman who was briefly engaged to Turing.
Knightley and Cumberbatch previously starred together in the World War 2 drama, Atonement.
I love Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley is my number one girl crush. Honestly, who’s better in a costume drama? Nobody.
The Imitation Game is scheduled for release in 2015.
Remember how yesterday I said that I didn’t care much for The Hobbit...perhaps I changed my mind. Parts of the new Desolation of Smaug trailer made me giddy like a schoolgirl.
Tom Hardy will be starring in The Outsider, a film by Japanese director Takashi Miike (Sukiyaki Western Djano, Ichi The Killer).
According to Deadline Hollywood, “It’s an epic story set in post-World War II Japan, chronicling the life of a former American G.I. who becomes part of the Japanese yakuza.”
Miike directs a bit of everything, but is mainly known for his gruesome and bizarre films, i.e., Ichi the Killer, Imprint…etc. Many of his films have been heavily edited for North American audiences so it’ll be interesting to see how this goes.
Check out the cool new poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
I wasn’t a big fan of The Hobbit - it was way too long and splitting the book into three movies is a huge and obvious money grab. I’m not really looking forward to the movie, but I do want to see Martin Freeman’s Bilbo interact with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Smaug. It’s a Sherlock reunion.
In April, I attended the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo and noticed that dozens of people were dressed as different versions of The Doctor. They were in line for the bathroom, eating pizza, and asking amusing questions at panels. They went to great lengths to emulate The Doctor – this included hilarious accents, strange questions, and weird body language.
I’ve never sat down and watched a full episode of Doctor Who because I’ve always found the fans a little too, I don’t know, fanatical. Come on, I love X-Men, but I stopped dressing up for Comic Expos years ago…Halloween is a different story.
Seeing so many people in costume made me wonder though, what’s so appealing about the show? I decided to creep around on Wikipedia and get a better idea about the show’s storyline. The short description is…
Doctor Who is a British science fiction programme produced by the BBC. The program depicts the adventures of a Time Lord—a time travelling humanoid alien known as The Doctor. He explores the universe in his “TARDIS” a time-traveling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, a common sight in Britain in 1963, when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions the Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs.
Doctor Who is also the longest running science fiction show in the world. Originally it aired from 1963 – 1989 and the series was restarted again in 2005. Despite loving some time period movies, I know I can’t sit through a 1960s TV show. They’ll be references I don’t understand and my time will be spent researching what the hell everyone is talking about.
I decided to start with the 2005 series starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. From what I’ve read Eccleston’s portrayal is less eccentric than his predecessors to better fit with a new generation.
After two episodes, I’m hooked. It’s hard to do good sci-fi on a budget, but the show manages. The characters are well developed and the dialogue is surprisingly funny. I’m resisting that urge to spend the day inside watching as many episodes as possible. I promised myself I wouldn’t get hooked on any new shows and now I’ve chosen a show that has 7 seasons to catch up on plus an additional 26 seasons if I want to watch the original series.
Pray for me…I’m scared what will happen.
Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Prisoners – a thriller about two missing 6 year old girls. The film is directed by Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique, Incendies).
After Keller Donner’s (Hugh Jackman) daughter and her best friend are kidnapped, a young detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) heads the investigation to find the girls. He’s lead to Alex Jones (Paul Dano), but is forced to release him due to a lack of evidence. Believing that the girls are still alive, Donner kidnaps Jones, holds him captive, and will do anything to find out what he did to the girls and where they are.
I think from watching the trailer you’ll understand the characters’ motivations, but there’s definitely some hints as to how far Jackman’s character will go. I started forming opinions on the characters and their ethically questionable behaviours right away. I’m a big fan of Villeneuve because he doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable and sensitive topics. It’s obvious that Prisoners will have some great performances and I’m curious to see how audiences will react.
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