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Casting Roundup: Anne Hathaway Re-Teams With Christopher Nolan, and More

12, Apr 2013

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Anne Hathaway is getting set to star alongside Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming super-secret sci-fi epic, Interstellar. Nolan is known for working with the same actors – though his desire to have McConaughey in the lead came as a surprise – and, of course, Hathaway, now an Oscar winner for Les Misérables, portrayed Catwoman in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Who knows which other Nolan regulars may crop up in this one? [Deadline]

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Memorable Matchups of 2012 – Part 2

2, Jan 2013

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“Why is he splitting them up?”

“Why are they so long?”

“Why must he take something we love and ruin it?”

No these are not reviews for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. They were the assumed reaction of the tens of people who read Part 1 of my 2012 wrap up; where I dissected the year of Channing Tatum, had two Lincolns square off, and looked at one of the two live action Snow White adaptations. Part 2 will start with…

2 Films, 20 Dwarfs

Snow White and the Huntsman featured Chris Hemsworth as a hunter whose prey is apparently trees since his weapon of choice is an axe, and Kristen Stewart as a Snow White who went to the distinguished school of parted lip acting. There’s a love triangle that nobody cares about – and I’m not talking about director Rupert Sanders, K. Stew, and R. Patt – and Charlize Theron acting with as much subtly as a nuclear explosion. The dwarfs were entertaining but tragically underused.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was what I expected. It’s similar to The Lord of the Rings trilogy in a lot of ways but is not as good as any of them. Where we came to know and love every character in that series we only really get to know Bilbo, Gandalf, and Thorin in this. Meanwhile there are a mess of other dwarfs that are only distinguishable by variations of hair above the neck, and sometimes that doesn’t even do enough to make them stand out. Did it need to be a trilogy? No. Is the book being dragged through the mud? More like dropped in a puddle before quickly being grabbed and dried off quickly. As long as fans of The Lord of the Rings series don’t go into it expecting it to be world shattering they should enjoy themselves. I should mention I didn’t see it in 48fps but I heard mostly negative things about it.

And the Winner Is: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - even though Peter Jackson obviously thinks “dues ex machina” is Latin for giant eagles.

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The Avengers: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

7, May 2012

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There hasn’t been a movie that has been built up the same way The Avengers has. It all started in 2008, when Samuel L. Jackson – as Nick Fury – showed up in Iron Man after the credits had rolled to tell Robert Downey Jr. that he was not the only superhero in the world and S.H.I.E.L.D. had a little something called “The Avengers Initiative” in the works. Speculation ran wild on the internet with people wondering which members of the team would be involved and who the villain might be. As the years went on the details started to mete themselves out. Films like The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, and Iron Man 2 gave us our heroes, villain, and a lead in to what the plot was going to be based around. Finally on May 4, 2012, four years and two days after Iron Man opened in theaters, The Avengers was released to an audience that had been dying to see it.

This is important to mention because it was almost impossible for a fan of superhero movies to not get excited and to not have high expectations. Interestingly, this makes the movie liable to be judged in an extreme way. If the movie was very good, people’s excitement would propel it to be viewed as great. If the movie was a disappointment, people would rightfully be angry about it after placing more money and hours into it than most other franchises. As it happens, Marvel succeeded and The Avengers does in fact tiptoe the line between very good and great. Currently it appears most people think it’s great (already sitting in the global Top 20), but I found it to be closer to the latter. A solid action blockbuster that exceeded the majority of the movies that came before it in the series. As more time goes by and the honeymoon period starts to fade, I think more people will tend to agree with me.  Read the rest of this entry »

Jenkins Splits from ‘Thor 2′

7, Dec 2011

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It was previously announced that Patty Jenkins (Monster) would direct Chris Hemsworth in the Marvel sequel Thor 2, but now she has left the production due to “creative differences”.

The hunt is on for a new director, but Marvel will have to move fast if they want to meet the sequel’s already-announced November 15, 2013 release date. Who do you think they should get to direct the next Thor?

(via Deadline)

Patty Jenkins to Direct ‘Thor 2′

16, Oct 2011

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Marvel’s sequel Thor 2 is already set for a 2013 release; now, they have a director. Patty Jenkins – probably best known for directing Charlize Theron to a Best Actress Oscar in Monster – will be helming the followup.

Other than Monster, Jenkins has directed episodes of TV series such as Arrested Development and Entourage. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the pilot episode of AMC’s The Killing.

This year’s Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, grossed an impressive $181 million domestically, and helped prove that Marvel’s movies have marketability even beyond their “major” superheroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men. (In fact, it is currently ranked #4 among The Best Marvel Comics Movies on Flickchart.) Star Chris Hemsworth just completed his second outing as Marvel’s Norse superhero in The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon and releasing summer 2012.

Thor 2 was originally slated for release on July 16, 2013, but now Disney and Marvel have moved it to November 15, two weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday. It will be an intriguing test, because Thor 2 will be the first Marvel Studios movie not to be released during the summer, and it will come up against stiff competition from The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire (opening Nov. 22), and “The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs”, opening Nov. 27.

(via HitFix)


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