This week we take a look at some January 2010 films: Denzel Washington in the post-apocalyptic action film The Book of Eli and Michael Cera in the C.D Payne book adaptation Youth in Revolt. On Blu-ray, Sam Raimi’s cult classic (aren’t all of his cult classics?) Darkman with Liam Neeson and the ’80s incarnation of timeless sci-fi hero Flash Gordon.
Hello and welcome back to Trailer Tracker, where we at Player Affinity pound the gavel and play judge, jury and possibly executioner to the newest trailers hitting the web. On this lovely week in June we take the blue pill and visit The Smurfs, venture to ancient Britain
Last night, a deal was finalized to have cult filmmaker and director of the three “Spiderman” films, Sam Raimi, helm a 3-D prequel to the classic Wizard of Oz. Making the announcement more enticing yet is Robert Downey Jr. He is by far one of the most desirable stars around and has been tipped to portray the famed “wizard”. Unlike Raimi, Downey Jr. has not been locked in to the tentatively titled Oz: The Great and Powerful, but writers want to develop the role for him. The production sounds suspiciously similar to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland from the huge star in a major role to the director’s off-kilter style to the mythical land to the format (the list goes on).
Post-apocalyptic fiction has been a mainstay of the literacy scene since Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and this has lead onto other novels such as The Stand, Ridley Walker, Children of Men and The Road and films like the Mad Max Trilogy, Wall-E and 28 Days Later. Now the Hughes Brothers have attempted the genre after a nine-year hiatus from directing.
The always soft-spoken and awkwardly verbose Cera plays yet another character that fits his mold in Twisp, a teenager with divorced parents who loves Fellini films and vintage vinyl and really, really wants to get laid. It’s a semi-romantic aspiration as well, but the depths to which he’ll let his hormones take him is at times even implausibly absurd.
In The Karate Kid remake, Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) must overcome a variety of obstacles, such as moving to a new home and being bullied at school. In lieu of this weekend’s surprise box office hit, let’s check out ten other underdog sports films. Since we tend to do a fair amount of these at PAM, we’ve developed a name for these Top 10 list, called “The PAM-10,” which may or may not be inspired by all the college sports conference realignment lately …
It is no secret that Warner Bros. had a box office hit in Clash of the Titans, which made more than $300 million domestically on a $125 million budget. So despite many poor reviews, news of a sequel isn’t too surprising either. The studio is making a huge push to get the film in the works before star Sam Worthington ends up in Pandora again for the next Avatar sequel. Three writers have been hired to get the job done and improve upon the original, according to THR’s Heat Vision.
