Bryan Singer's Jack The Giant Killer Trailer and Poster

The Spot News: Jack The Giant Killer Trailer and Poster


Here is Bryan Singer's first film done in 3D, Jack The Giant Killer. And going by the trailer it looks to be a rather good and action packed film.

Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter Poster

The Spot News: Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter Poster Is Here


The first official poster for Timur Bekmambetov and Seth Grahame-Smith‘s Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter uses lenticular tech to show two distinct images. Of course lenticular photos on the net do not work unless they make a gif file or something so here are the two views.

Coming Soon: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked

Coming Soon: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked

Plot: Third film in the "destroy childhood memories" series, I mean Alvin and The Chipmunks series. Shipwrecked and stranded on an island. Singing pop songs. Yeah we were all wanting this sooo badly...

Cast: Matthew Gubler , Amy Poehler , Jesse McCartney , Andy Buckley , Lauren Gottlieb , Tucker Albrizzi

Release Date: December 16th, 2011

The Avengers Movie Banners

The Spot News: The Avengers Movie Banner Posters

I would love to get these. But on another note I fell like they should have spread the cast out a bit instead of having the main Avengers one one banner then the rest of the, a "B" team, on the other.

Prometheus Movie Poster

The Spot News: Official Movie Poster for Prometheus


Cool and ominous poster. Can't wait to catch this when it comes out.

Mission Impossible- Ghost Protocol Review

Movie Review: Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

By Jose

Plot:

The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.

Cast:

Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Paula Patton (Jane), Simon Pegg (Benji), Jeremy Renner (Brandt), Michael Nyqvist (Hendricks/Cobalt), Samuli Edelmann (Wistrom), Vladimir Mashkov (Sidorov), Lea Seydoux (Sabine Moreau)

Review:
You will either leave the theater excited and satisfied or scratching your head.

Let me go ahead and just say the Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol is a great action packed movie. It is fun and exciting Then leaving you wanting to see what will be the IMF’s team next mission. But if you are used to the “realistic” action/spy/terrorist type movies we have been getting. And “realistic” meaning what goes on and what is done and shown makes sense in the real world. Then the head scratching will commence.

Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol delivers some seriously great action sequences and technology but they are held in the fantasy world. I mean one of the best action scenes in the movie is where Ethan Hunt (Cruise), has to free climb up a sheer glass side of the tallest building in Dubai. Using only gecko like gloves and nothing else. Really cool scene but really unbelievable. How can I sit there and see Ethan Hunt where gloves and climbing the building with only his gloved hands and barley any footing and not say to myself that (no pun intended) is impossible in any way or form. Oh then he loses a glove so then it is only one glove. So that means that Ethan Hunt has some dynamic upper body strength in order to accomplish this? Really?

Many other scenes make you stare in both wonder and disbelief. The end sees the villain Hendricks/Cobalt being an somewhat older guy than Ethan Hunt matching him in fighting skills. Yet all Hendricks is is a crazy physicist out to nuke the world to create another world from the ashes. Who can also fall head first down a long drop onto a car then concrete floor and survive.

Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol was great. The screening we caught was in an imax theater and our seats, even a bit closer than I would have liked, were decent seats. The sound system was great too. Overall a great movie experience. The movie brought Ethan Hunt back to IMF after a stint in a Russian jail. Reuniting him with Benji who is now a field agent. And new comer Jane. There is a bit of a mystery with Ethan’s past specifically his wife, but I don’t want to spoil it here because there is a connection to other things/people throughout the film. Searching for launch codes to nuclear missiles. Brings them to the Kremlin searching for information on Cobalt. Really awesome explosion happens a bit later on. What I liked about MI-Ghost Protocol is the comedy bits. They were not forced and flowed naturally, breaking the tension that an action movie brings. I have talked about this before but I love it when movies do this especially serious/action/horror movies. The comedy bits help “cleanse the pallet” so to speak. Given us a break from constant action.

The cast was great as well. Really liked the inclusion of Brandt (Renner). He worked really well with the trio. Benji (Pegg) was hilarious and perfect in his role. And Jane (Patton) was gorgeous and wonderful. Not sure if I have see her before but good lord was she nice to see. I do have to mention this, I caught it along with Robert, but there seemed to be some tension of the sexual kind between Ethan Hunt and Brandt. It becomes obvious during one scene where Brandt mentions the everyone has secrets and then looks at Ethan Hunt.


Final Thoughts:

Again it is not an outright complaint to the movie itself because it was good, but the fantastical action scenes really took me to suspend belief for this type of movie. The cast was great and Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol will hopefully do well enough to get another Mission Impossible movie made with this cast.

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Thor 2 Director and Writer Search

The Spot News: Marvel Narrowing Down Search for Thor 2 Director and Writer

Since the news of "creative differences" causing Patty Jenkins to leave the directors chair of Thor 2. Marvel is searching for a new director and writer.

For director Marvel is eyeing two prime candidates to helm the sequel: Daniel Minahan, known for his work on Deadwood, True Blood and, most recently, Game of Thrones (the episodes “A Golden Crown,” “You Win or You Die” and “The Pointy End”); and Palookaville director Alan Taylor, a veteran of Homicide: Life on the Street, The Sopranos and, again, Game of Thrones (the acclaimed “Baelor” and the Season 1 finale “Fire and Blood”).

Marvel was already looking for another writer to take a pass on Don Payne’s script when Jenkins left. The shortlist is believed to include John Collee (Happy Feet, Master and Commander: Far Side of the World), Robert Rodat (Falling Skies, Saving Private Ryan) and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Beowulf).

Source Spinoffonline.com

Amazing Spider-Man Teaser Poster

The Spot News: Amazing Spider-Man Teaser Poster

Superhero Hype has unveiled a stunning new poster for The Amazing Spider-Man, director Marc Webb’s upcoming Columbia Pictures franchise reboot. Sadly there is a watermark from superhero hype ruining the image a bit.

Opening in 3D on July 3, The Amazing Spider-Man stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan, Denis Leary, Chris Zylka, Campbell Scott, C. Thomas Howell, Julianne Nicholson and Annie Parisse.

Also here are some photos from a recent filming location in NYC.

Coming Soon: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Coming Soon: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Plot: Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

Cast: Robert Downey Jr. , Jude Law , Noomi Rapace , Jared Harris , Eddie Marsan , Stephen Fry

Release Date: December 16th, 2011

Men in Black 3 Trailer

The Spot News: Men In Black 3 Trailer

Sony Pictures has rolled out the teaser trailer for director Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black 3, which finds Agent J (Will Smith) traveling back through time to uncover secrets that will save his partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), the agency and the entire universe.

Men in Black 3, which opens May 25 in 2D and 3D, also stars Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, Jermaine Clement and Michael Stuhlbarg.