The Spot News: First Look At Andrew Garfield As Peter Parker

First Look At Andrew Garfield As Peter Parker

Well it isn't him in the Spiderman suit, or doing anything exciting at all. Just Garfield and Emma Stone, playing Gwen Stacy, sitting and talking. While the other is of the couple kissing. Possibly this is for a scene or maybe between shots. If between shots then we are maybe seeing some behind the scenes love developing.

The Spot News: Wrath of the Titans Casting News

The Spot News: Wrath Of The Titans Casting News

Deadline reported that Edgar Ramirez, who recentlyexcelled in the title role of Carlos, as in Mr. The Jackal, was being offered a leading role. Their headline called him a “God of War” but went no further; shortly afterwards, The Wrap clarified that his role would indeed be just that, and Ramirez would be taking on the mantle of Ares.
Also negotiating for roles are Toby Kebbell as Agenor, and Bill Nighy, who could be playing Hephaestus. Even further down the casting process is Haley Atwell, who will be screen testing for the role of Andromeda, and just one step behind in the race for the same role are Janet Montgomery, Dominique McElligot (those two seem to read for every big film), Georgina Haig and Clemence Poesy.

Source: Bleeding Cool

The Spot News: Red Skull Revealed

The Spot News: Concept Art and First Blurry Image of Red Skull

You are getting a two-for-one! First it is concept art for what the Red Skull could look like in the Captain America movie. The second is a blurry pic from SFX magazine showing Hugo Weaving, who plays the Red Skull, holding the Cosmic Cube or Tesseract.

The Spot News: Three Stooges, still on as well?

By: Robert Acosta

The previous post dealt with a movie that seemed like it was on the rocks because nothing really was moving forward. Same stuff, different movie.

A Three Stooges film has been in talks for quite some time now, but nothing really moved past just talks. Finally, The Farrelly brothers were ready to tackle this giant task. They even had a preliminary cast put together. Benicio Del Toro as Moe, Sean Penn as Larry and Jim Carrey as Curly. Little by little though, the cast started to pull out. No one really gave a reason, except Carrey, for why they were out but they're out.

That was a few months ago. Now, comes news that the Farrelly brothers have a small list of actors they're looking at. Listen to this. Johnny Knoxville as Moe, Andy Samberg as Larry and Shane Jacobson as Curly.

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this cast. The cast listed before with Del Toro, Penn and Carrey seemed like it would have been alright, based more on acting than straight up comedy. This new cast, Knoxville, Samberg and Jacobson seems like it's going to push the comedy. It's an unexpected cast if they get casted. Here is some of the thoughts from the Farrelly brothers in a interview with theWrap:

"The script is ready to go, and we are opening up these roles to the world right now. We'll make it with the best possible people. Our feeling is that no star is too big to audition and no matter who it is, we're going to have to see him in the role. This is not The Flintstones. You've got to be Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard, and that could be a major movie star or an unknown.The plan is to divide the PG-rated film into three, 27-minute segments driven by physical comedy, with a start date of March 14" 


So essentially, we're going to have the Three Stooges shorts the way they were but with a modern cast. With this project my stance has always been, just leave it alone. If you're going after it, please put 200% into this and don't fuck it up. I hope it's in the right hands. 

The Spot News: Uncharted movie, still on?

By: Robert Acosta

Towards the end of 2010, we got word that Mark Wahlberg would be starring as Nathan Drake, the main character of the Uncharted video game trilogy(or soon to be trilogy). With that news came a lot of uproar against Wahlberg for many reasons, valid and invalid.

Since then, things have gotten quiet on this project. You haven't heard a solid plan about who is writing the script or whose direction or who else is going to be in this film. And with that news came the presumption that the idea was scrapped and a sigh of relief would take place.

Hold that thought, and breath.

It looks like the idea, that was really never off, is back on! In an interview with Moviehole, Mark Wahlberg says "David O’Russell is writing right now and hopes to direct. It’s myself, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro and hopefully going to shoot it in the Summer time."


If you ask me, that cast, if true, sounds pretty credible. A lot of people didn't like the Wahlberg pick and have called for actor Nathan Fillion to be cast. That didn't happen. So you gotta take what they give you and hope for the best. Then you have legends Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro. 


I've played very little of this game series, i'm working on my PS3 situation as we speak, and i'll say this. If the movie can match the intensity and great story telling that the Uncharted series has, the movie is going to be great.


Source: Moviehole

Editorial: Money shouldn't equal sequels

By: Robert Acosta

Is it just me or did 2010 seem like the year of sequels? Sequels and remakes. Now i'm all for a 2nd part to a movie or 3rd part and so on. I just don't want the reason why it's being produced to be about money. Because the prior film in the series made a lot of profit, this next movie has to be made.

Now my favorite movie series of all-time seemed to live for that equation. If you haven't guessed it already, my favorite movie series is the Saw series. The profit that the films made were tremendous. The budgets were low and films became very popular, very fast. So, these films, all 7 of them, made a tremendous profit. And it seemed that after, let's say, the 3rd part of the series, the movie was purely going on their big pay day. Now I always argue that all the Saw films have a great story to tell, that interconnect very well. But i'd be avoiding the big elephant in the room if I didn't say that the big profit that they were going to make on another Saw film was partly the reason they kept going.

As I said above, I'm all for sequels. But only if there is a good story to tell. A reason to come back to do another film has to be more than monetary. Movies like Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, The Dark Knight, The Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum all are living proof of that. While the predecessors of all those movies did very well financially, you could tell that the reason for continuing the series was about the movie itself, about telling a good story because they all had one.

On the other hand, you have Beverly Hills Cops 3, Caddyshack 2, and X-Men: The Last Stand as you're gold standard of crap for sequels. Throw in Spider-Man 3 and you've got the whole nine yards of bad sequels. They were all obviously working off the successes of their predecessors, but because they all knew the money was going to roll in if they did another part, the story become secondary. When that happens...well...if you've seen the movies I mentioned in this paragraph then you know.

What got me into this topic? I'm not too sure. The news of a Paranormal Activity 3 got to me a bit, as it's seemingly taking the spot of Saw as the annual Halloween movie. I'll always stand firmly behind this point: Money shouldn't equal sequels.

DVD Releases January 4th

By: Robert Acosta

The holiday season is over, and a whole mess of good DVDs are to be released this month. Lots of good buys, lots of good renters, some collections, TV show seasons, all of the above.

So let's jump right into this weeks releases:
NOTE: Bold means DVD is also available in Blu-Ray

• Machete
• Dinner for Schmucks 
• The Last Exorcism
• Catfish
• El Mariachi/ Desperado(Available in Blu-Ray only)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico(Available in Blu-Ray only)
• Rocky and Bullwinkle Complete Collection

This week isn't exactly a buyfest the way the other weeks of January will be for DVDs but there is certainly a butt load of renters!

I would really only consider Machete being a buy this week but if you don't have a certain type of comedy, it'll be hard to enjoy Machete. Though, if you wanna see some funny, gory kills, then this could also be the movie for you too.

Dinner for Schmucks is a toss up for me. It looks kind of funny, but at the same time, very stupid. Paul Rudd is one of very few hilarious actors in Hollywood so it would be hard to pass on this movie. In the same boat is The Last Exorcism. It looks intense and creepy, exactly what a present day horror film should be. But then again, something tells me that the horror only comes in small pieces, just a couple scenes maybe. 

Finally, i'd like to bring up Catfish. It's a movie that is definitely worth a rent, solely by looking at the trailer. It looks like a tremendous mystery that by looking at that trailer, is almost impossible to solve. I've read about the twist of the movie and it's not nearly as exciting as I imagined but from what i've heard from people who've seen the movie, watching the twist play out is better than reading what happens. 

Little Fockers Review

By: Robert Acosta

Cast:
Ben Stiller as Greg Focker
Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes
Jessica Alba as Andi Garcia
Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley

Plot: Jack Byrnes wants to make sure his family is in good hands when he finds out his health in decline. His Son-in-law Greg Focker seems to be the natural choice to be the "leader" of the family but can he handle the pressure?

Review: I've never been a huge fan of the Meet The Parents trilogy, or newly appointed trilogy. I thought that the first 2 films were alright, but not classics. Not films that should be held in such high regard the way they are. So going into Little Fockers, I expected little. Pun intended.

What I got was not much, but still a bit more than I expected. It's still the same, run of the mill, kind of movie we've seen. There isn't much of a difference in the quality of movie from part 1, 2 and this new entry in the series. Though I have to say, it was funnier than the other 2 films.

The story is a decent one, but a very predictable one. Hell, you can watch the trailer and for the most part put the movie together on your own. So it isn't effective, it's been played out before but watching Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Jessica Alba play it out isn't terrible to watch.

The comedy is a lot better than I expected. I actually laughed out loud during a couple of scenes, so there is some laughter to be had. I'm a very split person on Ben Stiller. His good performances really stick with me(like Starsky and Hutch and Dodgeball) and then his bad performances(Along Came Polly, Duplex) just make me tune him out. Though he works better when Owen Wilson is around, so lucky him.

I'm very down the middle when it comes to this movie. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad. The comedic parts push it slightly over the top for me, but not much. Wait for this on DVD, i'm sure they'll pack it with some good special features.

Rating: 3 out of 5

Weekend Box Office Numbers December 31st- January 2nd

By: Robert Acosta

First box office post of the new year! Not that movies making money should excite you in anyway, but it's always good to see movies you like do good, and terrible movies suffer the consequences.

These box office numbers coming up aren't too eventful. Equally so, January is shaping up to be the same. The Green Hornet will make its money. As will The Dilemma and No Strings Attached(I think). Though I don't see any movies really creeping up and surprising us, at least there will be a couple of movies to watch.

Let's look at this past weekends box office numbers:

1. Little Fockers   $26.3 Million
2. True Grit   $24.5 Million
3. Tron: Legacy   $18.3 Million
4. Yogi Bear   $13 Million
5. Chronicles of Narnia   $10.5 Million
6. Tangled   $10.1 Million
7. The Fighter   $10 Million
8. Gulliver's Travels   $9.1 Million
9. Black Swan   $8.5 Million
10. The King's Speech   $7.6 Million

Little Fockers takes the top spot, though not by much. A review for Little Fockers should be right above this, or look in the archive to your right. Good that it's making its money, a solid film. Not that I want a sequel but it should make its money.

Same goes for Yogi Bear, don't want to see a sequel for what was a solid film but I like to see it make its money. 

Next week, Season of the Witch and Country Strong make their debut. So, I expect this top 10 to stay mostly the same. Maybe Little Fockers makes it 3 weeks in a row at #1?

2011 is here/January Movie Releases

We hope everyone had a happy new year filled with lots of fun, health and marathons of good shows. If you missed it, and how dare you if you did, The Three Stooges and The Honeymooners both had marathons going on. Where were you?


Anyway, 2010 was great but we did enough talking about 2010. We gave you a whole damn lists of movies in 2010 that were great(and not so great). We don't want to talk about the past anymore and i'm sure you don't want to hear about it either. 


So 2011 is here! With movies that look a lot more promising than this past year, let's hope they deliver. 


January is also upon us, so let's go to it. January movie releases!:
NOTE: (x)= Limited Release


January 7th

• Season of the Witch
• Country Strong

January 14th

• The Green Hornet
• The Dilemma 
• Ong Bak 3
• Barney's Version(x)

January 21st

• No Strings Attached
• The Company Men
• The Way Back(x)

January 28th

• The Rite
• The Mechanic
• From Prada to Nada
• Biutiful(x)
• Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster 

Robert Acosta:

January is usually not a strong month for movies. Sorry if I sound like a broken record player but it's true. At the very most, only solid films come out of January, but even that can prove to be rare. This month is shaping up to be like the Januaries of old. 

The first week isn't looking too strong(no pun intended) with Season of the Witch and Country Strong being released. Can Nicolas Cage do any right? And Country Strong is looking to be OK, maybe a good story, some good music, but nothing more. Look for a review of Country Strong by the end of next week.

The second week is really looking like the meat of the month, the week that may produce the better movies of the month. I'm not going to say that Green Hornet was my most anticipated movie but i'm definitely looking forward to catching it. Expecting a big performance from Seth Rogen. Also, The Dilemma looks like it could be the first good comedy of the year but i've been wrong before.

In the third week we have a Rom-Com featuring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. This just had fail written all over it but Portman is riding a huge wave into 2011, so maybe it could be good. Wishful thinking. 

I don't have much to say about the last week of January. Movies like The Rite and The Mechanic have seemingly slipped under the radar and dumped onto the last week of a terrible month for movies. See them at your own expense.

Jose Diaz:

Happy New Year. 

2011 is upon us and with it a rather dull listing of movies. January is considered the coldest and darkest month but the movies shouldn’t reflect that. But alas it does. 

There are only two movies released that would maybe put butts into theaters. The Green Hornet starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos, Tom Wilkinson. Movie of the classic series starring Bruce Lee. Looks good and I have been hearing positive things about it so it should end up being the hit of the month. 

Then there’s Season of The Witch starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ulrich Thomsen, Christopher Lee. Witch/devil hunters have to save or kill a girl who is accused of being a witch. Medieval setting, supernatural story, Ron Perlman, and Cage’s hairdo. I mean I wouldn’t mind catching this but I am not going out of my way to see it. 

The rest of the month is as dreary and barren as January is supposed to be so consider these two movies to be the money makers and the continued dominance of the December releases. At least we will save money this month. Here’s hoping that February has a better selection.