National Treasure 3 : Book Of Secret

Walt Disney may not have intended to make a movie franchise out of National Treasure, but one may understand the temptation to make National Treasure 3 following the success of the first two films.

Page 47 Book of Secrets - National Treasure 3The idea of a third movie is also interesting because Benjamin Gates (Nicolas Cage) left us on a cliffhanger issue at the end of the second movie. Indeed when asked about page 47 of the book of secret in National Treasure 2, Benjamin Gates mysteriously answered that it was 'life-altering'! For the trivia: I heard that the 'life-altering' scene was some improvisation from Nicolas Cage.

But damned, such ending should be forbidden! Now we are starving for more answers because of this 'life-altering' issue. Director Jon Turteltaub responded in a press interview that the idea was not set in stone as the basis for National Treasure 3, even stating that it could actually be an introduction for National Treasure 4...

Both Director Turteltaub and Benjamin Gates both acknowledged their interest in pursuing the adventures of Benjamin Gates. Still quite long to wait before the release of National Treasure 3 though. For now the movie is only slated for a 2010 release...

It is because the script of National Treasure 3 is still under works.

Tomb Raider (2013)

The venerable Lara Croft in Tomb Raider will be returning to the big screen in 2013 with a makeover, new origin story, and one lucky lady replacing former franchise star Angelina Jolie.
Graham King and GK Films have bought the feature film rights to the Tomb Raider franchise and, wasting no time, have announced their intent to reboot it into a new series with the first installment swinging into theaters in 2013. King and Tim Headington (executive producer on Rango and The Tourist) will co-produce the first feature.

In returning Tomb Raider to the big screen, King will be looking for a new young Lara Croft to re-tell the young adventurer's origin story. That means Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft is out and a new actress to fill some pretty big shoes - and bra - will be sought.

King has yet to hire a writer for his Tomb Raider reboot but is expected to begin looking for one having successfully secured the film rights.

Angelina Jolie had starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life for Paramount Pictures in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Each was marginally successful at the domestic box office but performed stronger outside the United States in earning over $400 million total between the two films.

Ironically Crystal Dynamics is working on a new Tomb Raider game that will, like the upcoming film, return to Lara's origin story. As of now there is no release time table set for that game.

The Apparition

The Apparition is an upcoming supernatural thriller film directed and written by Todd Lincoln, and starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton and Luke Pasqualino.

When frightening events start to occur in their home, young couple Kelly (Ashley Greene) and Ben (Sebastian Stan) discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, Patrick (Tom Felton), but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying force.

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Teenager Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her father, Christopher Da Silva (Sean Bean),have been evading for years forces of a nature that she does not fully recognize. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, plagued by nightmares and Christopher's disappearance, she discovers that her presumed identity is false and her life's origins too. This revelation leads her to an alternate dimension existing in Silent Hill,^[1] over which a cult led by a woman (Carrie-Anne Moss) and an insane man (Malcolm McDowell) holds power. The female leader is Claudia Wolf and the male leader is Leonard Wolf. Heather is accompanied by a man named Vincent (Kit Harington), a man named Harry (portrayed by an unknown actor), and Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell). Character Dahlia Gillespie (Deborah Kara Unger) from the first Silent Hill film adaptation will also appear in the film.

Hugo

Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key.

Based on Brian Selznkick's award winning and imaginative New York Times bestseller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, this magical tale is Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese's first film shot in 3D.

Moneyball

Moneyball is an upcoming biographical comedy-drama film directed by Bennett Miller, starring Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt and Casey Bond. It is based on the true story of Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, and his attempt to create a competitive team despite Oakland's unfavorable financial situation.
The film, based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael M. Lewis, is set for release on September 23, 2011.

Midnight in Paris

Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller

Gil (Owen Wilson), a successful but distracted Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), are in Paris, vacationing with Inez's wealthy, conservative parents (Mimi Kennedy, Kurt Fuller). Gil is struggling to finish his first novel, which is about a man who works in a nostalgia shop, and Inez and her parents are critical and demeaning of Gil's decision to give up his lucrative Hollywood career. They do not share his romantic view of Paris, and while Gil is considering moving to the city for inspiration, Inez is intent on living in Malibu. By chance, they are joined by Inez's friend Paul (Michael Sheen), a pseudo-intellectual who speaks with great authority but little actual substance or accuracy on the history and art of the city. Inez idolizes him but Gil, who is an ardent admirer of the Lost Generation, finds him insufferable.
After a wine tasting, Paul and his wife Carol (Nina Arianda) invite Inez and Gil to go dancing. Inez accepts but Gil, sick of Paul and a little drunk, declines and chooses to walk back to their hotel through the streets of Paris, eventually becoming lost. As he stops at a set of stairs, the midnight bells ring and an old-fashioned car pulls up at the corner and he is invited to join a group of fancily-dressed, champagne-drinking party-goers. They go to a bar, where to his shock, Gil discovers he has been transported to the 1920s, an era he admires and idolizes in his to-be-novel. He encounters Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Allison Pill and Tom Hiddleston), who take him to meet Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll). Hemingway agrees to show Gil's novel to Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), and Gil goes to fetch his manuscript from his hotel. However, as soon as he leaves the bar, he is suddenly transported back to 2010.
Gil attempts to show Inez how he traveled into the past, but she refuses to believe him and peevishly returns to their hotel. Just after she leaves, the clock strikes midnight and the car pulls up again with Hemingway inside it. He takes Gil to meet Gertrude Stein, who agrees to read his novel and introduces him to Pablo Picasso (Marcial Di Fonzo Bo) and Picasso's mistress Adriana (Marion Cotillard), a strikingly beautiful student of couture to whom Gil is instantly attracted. The next day, back in 2010, Gil encounters Picasso's painting of Adriana at a museum, allowing him to show up Paul with intimate knowledge of the work.
Over the next few days, Gil spends each night in the past, telling Inez that he is wandering the streets getting inspiration for his novel. His late-night wanderings frustrate Inez and arouse the suspicion of her father, who hires a detective (Gad Elmaleh) to follow Gil. This proves unsuccessful, as the detective attempts to follow the car and winds up lost in the court of Louis XIV.
Gil spends increasing amounts of time with Adriana, who leaves Picasso and has a brief dalliance with Hemingway. Gil realizes that he is falling in love with her, leaving him increasingly conflicted and confused. He confides his predicament to Salvador Dalí (Adrien Brody), Man Ray (Tom Cordier) and Luis Buñuel (Adrien de Van), but being surrealists they consider his position to be totally normal and see nothing strange about his coming from the future.
While Inez shops for furniture at a street market in 2010, Gil connects with Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), an antiques dealer who shares his fondness for the twenties. While there, he discovers Adriana's diary from the 20s in a used book stall, and, after receiving the aid of a friendly tour guide at the Rodin museum (Carla Bruni) to translate it, finds out that she was in love with him. Reading that she dreamt of receiving a gift of earrings from him and then making love to him, Gil attempts to steal a pair of earrings from Inez to give to Adriana but is thwarted by her early return from a trip.
Gil purchases earrings for Adriana and, returning to the past, confesses his love for her. As they kiss on a deserted street, a horse and carriage appear. They are invited inside by a richly-dressed couple and are transported to the Belle Époque, an era Adriana considers Paris' Golden Age. They are taken to the famous Maxim's Paris club, and meet Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Vincent Menjou Cortes), Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas (François Rostain). The enthralled Adriana is offered a job designing ballet costumes, and proposes to Gil that they stay, but Gil realizes that despite the allure of nostalgia, it is better to accept the present for what it is. Adriana elects to stay in the past, and they sadly part ways.
Gil retrieves his novel from Gertrude Stein, who praises his progress as a writer but questions why the main character has not realized that his fiancee (based on Inez) is having an affair with a pedantic character clearly based on Paul. Gil returns to the present and confronts Inez. She admits to sleeping with Paul but claims that it can be forgotten when they return to California. Gil breaks up with Inez and decides to remain in Paris. Taking a walk at midnight, he unexpectedly meets Gabrielle, and offers to walk her home, indicating that they will start a relationship.

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American drama written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. Malick's film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth. After decades in development and missed 2009 and 2010 release dates, the film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its technical and artistic merits, but there were also polarizing reactions in response to Malick's directorial style and, in particular, the film's fragmented and non-linear narrative.

The film opens with a quotation from the Book of Job, when God asks, "Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation...while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" A mysterious, wavering light that resembles a flame emerges. The image is Thomas Wilfred's "Opus 161" from the collection of Eugene and Carol Epstein of Los Angeles, CA. The film cuts to Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) as she receives a telegram informing her of her son's death at age 19. Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt) is notified by telephone. The family is thrown into a world of grief as they try to cope in their tidy suburban home.

Jack O'Brien (Sean Penn) is adrift in his modern life as an architect. On the phone with his father, he confesses that he thinks about his dead brother every day. When he sees a tree being planted in front of a building, he begins the central reminiscence of the film.
The film cuts to a dramatization of the formation of the universe. As the galaxies expand and planets are formed, Jack's voice is heard asking various existential questions. At other points in the film, these questions and observations are voiced by other members of his family, as well as his younger self. On the newly formed Earth, volcanoes erupt and microbes begin to form. Eventually, the camera settles on a beach, where it reveals an Elasmosaurus lying with a fatal gash on its side. In a forest, a young Parasaurolophus is wary of predators. Later on a riverbank, the Parasaurolophus lies wounded. A Troodon emerges and examines the wounded dinosaur. The Troodon places its foot on the Parasaurolophus' neck, preparing for the kill, but then reconsiders after watching it struggle. The predator wanders off.
In a sprawling neighborhood in Waco, Texas, the O'Briens are reintroduced, living in a different, much older home. The young couple are enthralled by baby Jack, and his two brothers quickly follow, as their family grows. The film settles on the family as Jack (Hunter McCracken) reaches adolescence. Mr. O'Brien struggles to balance his sense of paternal duty with the overwhelming love he has for his sons. He is stern and abusive, while also deeply affectionate and nurturing. In contrast, Mrs. O'Brien is childlike and empathetic, having a more permissive attitude towards her sons.
Mr. O'Brien covets wealth and regrets failing to become a great musician. He files patents for various inventions, but does not get any lasting endeavor off the ground. At one point, he takes a trip around the world trying to sell his inventions. While he is away, the boys enjoy unfettered access to their mother, and Jack experiences the first twinges of rebelliousness. Goaded by other boys his age, Jack commits acts of vandalism and animal abuse. He later trespasses into a neighbor's house, and looks at her underwear. Jack is confused by his experiments with violence.
Mr. O'Brien's plant closes, and he is forced to relocate the family. He reconciles with Jack, asking forgiveness for his harsh treatment of him.
The film returns to the adult Jack, who is walking on rocky terrain. He tentatively walks through a wooden door frame which is erected on the rocks. On a sandbar, Jack is reunited with his family and all the people who populate his memory. His father is happy to see him. His mother is overjoyed when Jack's memory resurrects his dead brother. She thanks Jack, kissing his arm twice. The film ends with the same mysterious, wavering light from the opening.

The Wolverine (2012)

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky

Casts: Hugh Jackman ... Logan/Wolverine

Synopsis: Wolverine travels to Japan to train with a samurai warrior

When Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky backed out of The Wolverine a little over a week ago, it left the promising comic book drama in the lurch.

Part of the anticipation for the film, in which Hugh Jackman’s X-Men character ventures to Japan and encounters a legion of samurai warriors, was having the provocative tendencies of Aronofsky channeled into a commercial action-adventure movie. Jackman himself has been bulking up, gorging on protein and working out to build muscle, in anticipation of the project’s start. Then Aronofsky said he could no longer commit to the project because the Japan shoot would interfere too much with his personal life.

Jackman says he’s not quitting now.

The actor was in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners, to reveal the first scenes of his upcoming robot-boxing drama Real Steel. (More on that film in an upcoming Inside Movies post.) After the presentation, he told EW that The Wolverine remains very much alive — he’s staying on board, and the script by The Usual Suspectsscreenwriter Christopher McQuarrie is still in play.

“So now we’re out looking for a director,” Jackman shrugged. “We were pretty much ready to go. The script is fantastic — the best we’ve ever had, which is why it attracted Darren in the first place. His personal situation precludes him from doing it now, and I feel for him. But now we need to find a director.”

Jackman wouldn’t cite any preference, but said the team is aiming for another prestige filmmaker, not just someone to yell “action” and “cut.”

“We’re not going to settle. We’re going to find a director as good as Darren, if not better. Well, as good,” Jackman said. “Everyone is still pushing forward to getting it done.”

The actor did acknowledge a little impatience, especially since he’s growing weary of his protein-powered, muscle-building diet. “I can’t be eating too many more chicken breasts,” he groaned.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

The release date for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has been set at November 16, 2012 which is a full year after The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 hits theaters (Nov. 18, 2011).

Summit Entertainment has recently confirmed that Academy Award winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls) will direct The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner all return as the stars, with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett also back for the final two instalments. Stephenie Meyer will produce the project.

Special Forces

Special Forces is a 2003 American war film directed by Isaac Florentine and written by David N. White. The film starring Marshall R. Teague, Tim Abell and Danny Lee Clark.

Casts:
Marshall R. Teague as Major Don Harding
Tim Abell as Jess
Danny Lee Clark as Bear
Troy Mittleider as Wyatt
Daniella Deutscher as Wendy Teller
T.J. Rotolo as Reyes
Eli Danker as Hasib Rafendek
Scott Adkins as Talbot
Vladislavas Jacukevicius as Zaman
Michael Saad as Hrankoff
Rimante Valiukaite as Saira
Andrius Zebrauskas as Bureaucrat
Cezaris Grauzinis as Muldan Soldier
Henrikas Savickas as Vassily
Geoff Parish as Private Regional Command
Adomas Gotesmonas as Little Boy
Kestutis Jakstas as British Prisoner
Dainius Kazlauskas as Terrorist
Audrius Bruzas as U.S. Soldier #1

INHALE

This film got no press but it is well-written, has a great cast/performances, and an ending that's a knock-out. Dermout Mulroney gives a dynamic performance as a father who is pushed to the brink to help his dying child. Diane Kruger is equally as good as a mother squeezed to the breaking point. The film is intense and fast-paced. The direction is FANTASTIC. The Music is well-done and the art direction sets the tone. Rent it. You won't be sorry.

The story is about a young couple who's daughter need a lung transplant. Everything seems hopeless until their Doctor gives them a lead that takes the desperate father into Mexico, to buy his way onto their donor list. But what he finds both surprises and shocks him. And he is faced with an impossible choice. IT IS A GREAT MOVIE!

Dark star hollow

Director: John Carl Buechler

Writers: Dan Griffin (screenplay), Matthew J. Fougerousse (creator), and 2 more

Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Ron Perlman and Josh Hartnett

In 1960, David Sinclair makes a deal with the devil for the life of his wife. He floods Bright Star Hollow, but doesn't claim all the souls. Forty years later, he is given a second chance.

TEN YEAR

Ten Year is an upcoming 2011 romantic-comedy drama film directed by Jamie Linden as his directorial debut and will be distributed by 20th Century Fox.
A group of friends reunite at their high school reunion, each with their own unbelievable revelation story since they separated. George, Jonathan and Luke are best friends and promise to remain in contact, even though they live far apart. Three years later, the three friends decide to have a homecoming party for their close friends from their high school days.

Straw Dogs - Everyone has a breaking point

Director: Rod Lurie
Writers: Rod Lurie (screenplay), David Zelag Goodman (earlier screenplay), and 2 more credits »
Stars: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Review :
Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" remains a most disturbing, morally ambiguous confrontation between the brute code of uneducated farmboys with the complex attempts at rationalization by a sophisticated, neurotic, hyper-educated urban college professor attempting to escape the responsibilities of living in an increasingly complex world. It is also a magnificently constructed motion picture, elegantly photographed, brilliantly edited, hauntingly scored, with powerhouse performances from every actor.

This wholly unnecessary remake on the other hand is amateurish swill - banal photography, drama-class acting (and why not? all the characters have been reduced to caricature), and soap-opera rewriting. It's basically a television movie with some sex and violence thrown in for the fan-boy crowd. It's even got the requisite car-chases, and supposedly pointed dialog about adultery and motivations, blah blah blah.

Graceless, visually dull, with no sympathetic characters, but a lotta boom! crash! foe those who think loud noises and pyrotechnics make up for lack of intelligence and imagination.

Jack and Jill

Director: Dennis Dugan

Release Date:11 November 2011

Starring:Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino

Genre:Comedy

Summary:”Jack and Jill” is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack’s wife.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Director: Marc Webb

Release Date: 3 July 2012 (3D/2D theaters)

Starring:Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, Sally Field

Genre: Action, Adventure

Summary:Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. The series began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was relaunched with a new numbering order in 1999. In 2003 the series reverted to the numbering order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010. A film based on the comic is set to be released on July 3, 2012 in 3D.

The Dark Knight Rises

Director: Christopher Nolan
Release Date:20 July 2012
Starring:Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Nestor Carbonell, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King, Brett Cullen, Chris Ellis, Josh Stewart
Genre:Action, Adventure, Drama
Summary:Christian Bale returns as Batman to battle Tom Hardy as Bane and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman – No plot details have been announced.

Fright Night

Director: Craig Gillespie

Release Date:19 August 2011

Starring:Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette

Genre:Horror

Summary:Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.

Friends With Benefits

Director: Will Gluck

Release Date:22 July 2011

Starring:Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson

Genre:Comedy, Romance

Summary:Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) think it’s going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood romantic comedies would have them believe. They soon discover however that getting physical really does always lead to complications.