On the verge of what could be a record-breaking weekend for The Hunger Games, the gang run down its potential, along with our trailer roundup (Prometheus, Dark Shadows and Snow White and the Huntsman) and cover Sin City 2, Jurassic Park 3D and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles news. Lastly, John and Simon review 21 Jump Street.
Josh Trank’s next film won’t be featuring Marvel’s First Family or Spider-Man’s loveable nemesis, but the comic book The Red Star instead.
It’s a big week for new releases, with several of the holiday season’s most critically acclaimed and financially successful films such as The Muppets, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Adventures of Tintin hitting DVD shelves.
Michael Bay might be screwing with your childhood again. In talking about his studio’s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, he has put one of those four magical words from the ’90s in doubt.
Hunger what? All week we’ll be giving you a crash course in “Hunger Games” phenomenon. We’ll begin by taking a look at the world of The Hunger Games, a dystopic future where appointment TV is a bloodsport that pits 24 teens against each other in a battle to the death.
It’s taken quite a long time for Long Walk to Freedom to near production, but the Nelson Mandela biopic will finally begin shooting on May 26. Idris Elba, who stars in the upcoming Prometheus, will play the South African President.
As the sole new release this weekend, action comedy 21 Jump Street easily hopped into first, while The Lorax held up well in its third frame, again eclipsing the fading John Carter.
