Jason Statham stars as a retired British Special Forces officer who comes out of retirement to track down the man (Clive Owen) who has kidnapped his mentor (Robert De Niro). Dominic Purcell, Daniel Messier, Grant Bowler, and Chuck‘s Yvonne Strahovski also star. The body count starts piling in theaters everywhere on September 23rd.
A prequel to a remake of a film originally based on a novella. Wow, Hollywood sure seems full of original ideas. The Thing is set before the events of John Carpenter’s goriffic film focusing on the Norwegian and American scientists who originally discovered the alien. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Davetta Sherwood star this time around. John W. Campbell, Jr. novella Who Goes There? was first adapted to the screen in 1951 by Howard Hawks (which is the version I still prefer).You can find the trailers for the both of the previous versions of the film after the jump. The Thing opens in theaters on October 14th.
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In a world where people only live until 25 years of age time becomes a valuable commodity. Justin Timberlake stars a man given more time than he can possibly use by a mysterious stranger (Matt Bomer) and soon finds himself on the run. Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Alex Pettyfer, and Johnny Galecki also star. The premise sounds like a so-so idea for a sci-fi short story, but we’ll have wait until October 28 to see if writer/director Andrew Niccol can make it work for an entire full-length film.
We now have our first look at Henry Cavill wearing the tights for Zack Snyder‘s Superman reboot Man of Steel. It’s a definite improvement on Bryan Singer’s design but the odd texture (especially contrasted to the heavy cloth cape) seems a bit out of place to me. To finish my nitpicking I’ll also say the symbol sticks out a bit too far for my tastes (but, once again, it’s better than the Superman Returns version).
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I’m a fan of heist flicks, but I’m not quite sure what to make from this first trailer of Brett Ratner‘s latest which stars Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe and Casey Affleck as hotel employees who are defrauded out of their pensions by a billionaire (Alan Alda) now under house arrest in their hotel. Eddie Murphy co-stars as the thief they hire to help them get their money back. The trailer doesn’t fill me with a whole lot of confidence, but I did enjoy Ratner’s other attempt at a heist flick so I’m willing to give this one a shot. Tower Heist opens in theaters on November 4th.
