After the French actioner District B-13 showed how cool parkour can look onscreen, the crazy athletic practice started showing up in big American movies like Casino Royale, Live Free or Die Hard, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Now, years after the cinematic fad would seem to have passed, comes Tracers, an action project centered around parkour and titled for the name applied to practitioners therof The film will star none other than Taylor Lautner as a bike messenger who becomes enthralled by free-running, a skill that presumably helps him get out of his trouble with organized crime.
This year's staid and congratulatory awards season is now a distant memory, but there's still one awards show left, one that self-consciously defies the pomp and circumstance of the Oscars and the like. The MTV Movie Awards don't take themselves too seriously, as demonstrated by categories such as "Best Fight," "Best Kiss," and "Best On-Screen Dirtbag." Nominations for the summer's awards have been announced, with The Hunger Games and Bridesmaids racking up eight apiece.
With four blockbusters in the bag and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 ready to cap off the hugely profitable film series, Summit Entertainment could probably market the last film in the franchise with nothing more than classified ads reading, "One last Twilight, November 16th." Nonetheless, there will be giant marketing campaign to ensure that the second half is Breaking Dawn is appropriately huge, and today's two new images are but a hint of the promotional fatigue that will set in by Thanksgiving.
Though they may be our central preoccupations, it's not all superheroes and spaceships around these parts. There's a new clip from Bel Ami, for example, which finds Robert Pattinson and Christina Ricci as Georges Duroy and Clotilde de Marelle sharing some pillow talk in late 19th Century Paris. Don't worry, neither is speaking French; as usual, these Parisians simply use British accents.
According to the MPAA green band that precedes this new domestic poster for Bel Ami, the film is rated R, "For some strong sexuality, nudity, and brief language." So, this trailer makes it clear that Bel Ami has something for the largely-female demographic looking to see Robert Pattinson in a non-vampiric context, while the gents can enjoy the strong sexuality. And the lush, period-appropriate costuming.
It's April, meaning that the months-long awards season orgy of accolades, congratulations, and ego is but a distant memory. While the Oscars are the most well-known of all the movie awards, the Razzies are the most recognized joke-awards handed out to regrettable pieces of cinema from the last year. Appropriately enough, the Golden Raspberry statues are handed out on April Fool's Day, and this year, the mock-epic awards marked an historic first, with one film sweeping every category.
Last week, a regrettably brief but wonderfully crazy international trailer introduced us to the first footage from Cosmopolis, the adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel. That trailer was full of nuttiness that director David Cronenberg is perfectly equipped to bring to the screen, from abrupt splattery violence to no small amount of sexiness. A set of four new stills from Cosmopolis don't even hint at the wackiness of that trailer, but they're worth a look nonetheless.
Synopsis: As Bella adjusts the being a vampire in the final installment of the Twilight series, the Cullens and Jacob must band together to protect Bella and Edward's child, Renesmee, from the vampiric Volturi.
After an almost comedically abrupt hype-building glimpse last week, the first teaser for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 has arrived online in full. It's probably a moot point, though, since this trailer was attached to The Hunger Games, and it looks as though pretty much everybody in America went to see that novel adaptation, meaning y'all have probably already laid eyes on Kristen Stewart as the now-vampiric Bella Swan.
Okay, months worth of accolades and awards speculation are over. What better way to cleanse your palette than with the Golden Rasberries, the annual joke awards honoring the very worst in theatrical features. The list of Razzie nominees from the year that was in 2011 is now online, and it contains a surprise or two.