Dec 15

Full 8 Min Trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

What is up with the trailers for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”?!? Not happy with just releasing a teaser and then a trailer, Sony wants to show us a lot of footage so they released an extended 4 minute long trailer and now they have released this very long, extended, 8 minute long trailer! I’ve never seen a marketing campaign quite like this before. If you think trailers already give away to much of the film, you may want to turn away now.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is directed by David Fincher and stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson.

The film released December 21st in the US and on January 12th 2012 in Australia.

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Dec 15

POSTER: The Dark Knight Rises

Another striking image for “The Dark Knight Rises”. This second teaser poster for the film gives us a good indication that the story is based on the comic Batman-Knightfall. At this point details about the films plot are still a little in the dark (see what I did there!) but we should, hopefully, know a little more when the prologue footage hits IMAX theatres this week in front of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. In the meantime, enjoy this wonderful poster art.

The Dark Knight Rises comes out on July the 19th 2012. Continue reading

Dec 12

INTERVIEW: Simon Pegg on Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol and The Adventures of Tintin

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Touring Australia with two major blockbusters being released in December from Paramount, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. We were lucky enough to sit down at a roundtable with Simon Pegg when he visited Sydney.

We chat with Mr. Pegg on working with Tom Cruise, his expansion of the role of Benji, the experience of working in motion capture and the giddy thrills of Nazis melting and fulfilling a dream of  working with Steven Spielberg and holding onto cinema as an art form. He also let slip some details about the upcoming conclusion to the so-called “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy”, The World’s End.

If you hear a yelp, followed by lots of laughing, fear not! We didn’t attack the actor. Instead, it was director Brad Bird, who we spoke with earlier in the day, sneaking back into the room to pull Simon Pegg off his chair as part of a practical joke. If only we’d been filming it!

On The World’s End

“We’ve written it. We’ve written the frist draft, and now we’re trying to write the second. But Edgar’s in LA, and I’m in Hartfordshire in the UK, and because BT didn’t set my Internet up when they said they would, me and Edgar couldn’t Skype and carry on with our second drafts. So I was just angry at BT and decided to blame the hold-up in writing on them”.

“I’m really excited. I can’t start wait to start shooting this movie, which we really will hopefully do sometime next year after I completeStar Trek. It’s very much the culmination of those first two films. It will make those series of films a trilogy. You know, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are related insomuch as the personel involved and a few kind of little in-jokes as well, but they’re really very different films. Whereas World’s End is like the answer to the equationShaun times Hot Fuzz. And it seals it it as a three part film series”.

It’s going to be really good I think, I’m very pleased with it…We wrote it so fast compared to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz because it came so easily, because we have this language now with each other. But it was really fun to right with Edgar again, and we’re dead excited about this film. It’s going to be awesome I think”.

We’d like to thank Way to Blue and Paramount Australia for making this possible, and of course Simon Pegg for his generous answers.

About the Roundtable

The interview took place on 4 December 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Participants in the roundtable included  David McVay from Geek Actually, Richard Gray of The Reel Bits, Geoff Reid of Cinefools, Matt Pejkovic of Matt’s Movie Reviews, David Longo of Damn Good Cup and Jorge Duran of The Spotlight Report.

About The League
In the beginning there was chaos, a vast information network that provided few islands of hope. Then there was a light, a shimmering hope in the darkness. A portal for lovers of the wonders of celluloid and the entertainment industry. Then there came another, and another ushering in a golden age of wonders the likes the world had never seen. By day, they live out their lives as the humble David McVay of Geek Actually, Jorge Duran of The Spotlight Report, Richard Gray of The Reel Bits, Dave Longo of Damn Good Cup and Josh Philpott of Hip Hop Net. But when the signal goes out they come together as one! The League assembles! Tremble all who dare stand in its path!

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is released in Australia on 15 December 2011 from Paramount. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is released in Australia on 26 December 2011 from Paramount.

Text originally written by Richard Gray – TheReelBits.com

Dec 12

INTERVIEW: Brad Bird – Director of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

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Touring Australia with Paramount and the Australian launch of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, we were lucky enough to sit down at a roundtable with Brad Bird when he visited Sydney. The film marks Bird’s live action debut, although he counts the masterpieces The Iron Giant, Ratatouille and The Incredibles amongst his credits.

We chat with Mr. Bird on working with J.J. Abrams, on jumping in at the deep end using IMAX cameras, finding an insurance company mad enough to allow Tom Cruise to swing about on buildings in Dubai, on the possibility of Jeremy Renner replacing Tom Cruise in the franchise, directing actors in a live action environment coming from an animated background, the process of working with Michael Giacchino on the score of the film, the possibility of a sequel to The Incredibles, the freedom of working within a franchise, breaking Pixar habits, working with the biggest star in the world, advice for aspiring (or is that perspiring) filmmakers.

We’d like to thank Way to Blue and Paramount Australia for making this possible, and of course Brad Bird for his generous answers.

About the Roundtable

The interview took place on 4 December 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Participants in the roundtable included  David McVay from Geek Actually, Richard Gray of The Reel Bits, Geoff Reid of Cinefools, Matt Pejkovic of Matt’s Movie Reviews, David Longo of Damn Good Cup and Jorge Duran of The Spotlight Report.

About The League
In the beginning there was chaos, a vast information network that provided few islands of hope. Then there was a light, a shimmering hope in the darkness. A portal for lovers of the wonders of celluloid and the entertainment industry. Then there came another, and another ushering in a golden age of wonders the likes the world had never seen. By day, they live out their lives as the humble David McVay of Geek Actually, Jorge Duran of The Spotlight Report, Richard Gray of The Reel Bits, Dave Longo of Damn Good Cup and Josh Philpott of Hip Hop Net. But when the signal goes out they come together as one! The League assembles! Tremble all who dare stand in its path!

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is released in Australia on 15 December 2011 from Paramount.

Text originally written by Richard Gray – TheReelBits.com

Dec 12

TRAILER: Chronicle

This is intriguing… I was kind of over the whole ‘lost film’ style of films like “Cloverfield” and “The Blair Witch Project” but this one might just have won me back. “Chronicle”, the new film directed by Josh Tank (“The Kill Point” TV series), is the story of a group of kids who develop super powers and keep a video diary of their exploits. Now it might just be because I am a comic book geek but this interests me and I want to see this. Fox has made a trailer available to us and you can watch it below.

New technologies and social communities allow us to record, post and comment on every second of our lives, sharing our every emotion and opinion with the world, no matter how mundane. For three high school classmates who suddenly gain superpowers from a mysterious substance, the chronicle of their ordinary lives is about to take on extraordinary turn.

Initially they use their powers to play innocent pranks on each other and people around them, but soon they gain confidence and learn to control their powers better to take on more difficult tasks.  Their newfound sense of immortality and impunity will force them to evaluate their own morality to ultimately decide where to draw the line about how far they should go.

“Chronicle” stars Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael Kelly. The film opens across Australia February 2nd, 2012. Continue reading

Dec 12

CLIPS – Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Next week on Film Actually, the official movie podcast of Geek Actually, we review “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”. To get you warmed up for that show and the release of the film on the 15th of December, our friends over at at Paramount Pictures Australia have made a couple of clips available for us to watch. Check the clips out below.