Dredd 3D Trailer Judge For Yourselves

The first trailer for Dredd 3D the big screen reboot of 2000AD cult comicbook hero Judge Dredd has arrived, with its shiny helmet and permanent frown firmly in place.

On the up side it already looks far more credible than the embarrassing mid 90′s version which starred Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider. On the downside it looks a little too much like this year’s recent action hit The Raid. With most of the plot centered around watching our two heroes fighting their way up through a building controlled by a powerful drug lord and her army of evil minions.

Star Trek’s Karl Urban plays the scowling lawman who was evidently too busy coming up with an endless array of justice themed one-liners to learn how to smile.  Juno starlet Olivia Thirlby plays his  inevitably pretty young sidekick, presumably hoping that shooting people in the head makes her more popular than coining the phrase “Honest to blog” did.

 

Taken 2 Trailer Arrives

Inspired by movie audiences unquestionable love of watching Liam Neeson kill things in a skilled and violent manner, he’s reprising his role as heroic retired CIA agent Bryan Mills for Taken 2.

The full length trailer below reveals that unleashing his fists of fury to rescue his daughter from evil kidnappers in Luc Besson’s original 2008 action thriller has its consequences. As once again generic looking bad guys are trying to take his family from him…

Clearly these particular bad guys haven’t seen Taken, Unknown, The Grey or any of the other films which convinced adoring fans just how good Liam Neeson is at killing things. From the looks of the above trailer looks like someone’s going to learn the hard way. You do NOT take Liam Neeson’s stuff. Evidently he’s not a sharer.

Taken 2 hit cinemas with the furious strength of a Liam Neeson hand slap on October 5th.

Ridley Scott Plans Prometheus Sequel

The relentless viral marketing, hype and fan expectations for Prometheus might have been greeted by an ambivalent shrug from disappointed audiences who saw the actual film, but that hasn’t deterred director Ridley Scott continuing with long rumoured plans for a sequel.

Scott has confirmed his enthusiasm for continuing the story, admitting it was always his intention to stretch things out for a second film. If you still haven’t seen Prometheus , be warned that Scott’s musings on the sequel do give away the ending of the first film. So read on with caution:

“From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel. I really don’t want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to Shaw saying, ‘I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from.’”

Scott also intimated that the inevitable sequel will also likely borrow his original title for Prometheus, which was Paradise. The famously abrasive director also elaborated on what that Paradise might actually involve.

“I’d love to explore where [Dr. Shaw] goes next and what does she do when she gets there. Because if it is paradise, paradise cannot be what you think it is. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous… Because [the Engineers] are such aggressive fuckers, I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God.”

Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Full Trailer

The first full official trailer for Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 was released today in honor of Edward Cullen’s 111th Birthday.

In the long awaited final chapter of the Twilight Saga Bella and Edward build their army to defend their new daughter Renesmee. The Cullens gather the other vampire clans as they prepare for a final confrontation with the villainous Volturi.

The brief trailer gives fans their first proper look at Kristen Stewart as Bella as a New Born Vampire. It also offers glimpses of a rapidly growing Renesmee and the many new vampire characters introduced for the climatic finale to the much adored series.

Breaking Dawn Part 2 arrives in cinemas on November 16th which should give you just enough time to get your Team Edward t-shirt washed and ready.

Frist Look at Angelina Jolie as Maleficent

Walt Disney Studios announced today that production began Wednesday, June 13th, on “Maleficent,” starring Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie. They also released the above teaser image of Jolie looking both beautiful and sinister as the real life embodiment of the iconic Sleeping Beauty villain.

Directed by two-time Oscar winning production designer Robert Stromberg (“Avatar,” “Alice in Wonderland”), in his directorial debut,  “Maleficent” is written by Linda Woolverton (“The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast”) and executive produced by  Jolie herself.

Co-starring in the film are Sharlto Copley (“District 9”), Elle Fanning (“Super 8”), Sam Riley (“On the Road”), Imelda Staunton (“Vera Drake”), Miranda Richardson (“The Hours”), Juno Temple (“Atonement”) and Lesley Manville (“Secrets & Lies”).

This is the untold story of Disney’s most beloved villain, Maleficent, from the 1959 classic “Sleeping Beauty.” The film reveals the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora.

Behind-the-scenes talent includes Academy Award winning cinematographer Dean Semler (“Dances with Wolves,” “In the Land of Blood and Honey”), production designer Gary Freeman (“Saving Private Ryan,” “The Bourne Supremacy”), two-time Oscar nominated costume designer Anna B. Sheppard (“Schindler’s List,” “The Pianist”) and seven-time Academy Award–winning makeup artist Rick Baker (“Planet of the Apes,” “Men in Black”).

“Maleficent” is scheduled for a March 14  2014 release in 3D.