HEADLINES

SECRET J.J. ABRHAMS TRAILER
Two days ago, it was reported that much like how the Cloverfield trailer popped up out of nowhere in front of Transformers, a new secret trailer would be appearing in front of Iron Man 2 tonight. The synopsis for the trailer has now been released so if you want to be surprised stop reading now.

The trailer lasts about one minute and a half.

It begins with the Green MPAA screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo. No Bad Robot at the header.

A train rushes by the screen. We notice that it has lots of cargo. Text comes on the screen: “In 1979, The U.S. Air Force Closed A Section of AREA 51.”

We see the railroad crossing light blinking and ringing as the camera pans up we see some sort of light moving in the background. What is it? A UFO?

More Text: “All The Materials Were To Be Transported To A Secure Facility In Ohio.” No, it appears to be the headlights of a yellow 1970’s truck, which skids in a 180 degree motion, and suddenly pulls onto the tracks.

Point of view of the truck heading into the light. Black screen and white text: “From Producer Steve Spielberg”

We see the truck explode as it hits the train. Then… the cargo train is heading towards the car explosion - BAM. It is wrecked, thrown from the tracks like a wild snake.

The flaming metal body flipping towards the camera. Cars flying through the air. It is INTENSE.

Another black screen and the text: “And Director JJ Abrams”

The camera really slowly moves in on the wrecked pieces of the train, most of which is now just scrap metal. At least one car remains intact.

Black screen, white test: “Next Summer” We see some sparks. Black screen, white text: “It Arrives” We pull up on one of the train cars with a US Airforce logo.

The wheel on the door begins to spin out of control as we pull in closer. The wall of the door begins to bend like some huge force is punching it from the inside. Cut to one second of a close up of an 8mm camera lens.

Cut to black. White text: “Super 8″ The credits at the end were pretty bare.

This sounds like it is going to be awesome. This is how more movies should market themselves. Keep it under wraps to where no one knows anything about it, and then boom, out of nowhere release an awesome trailer that will get fanboys peeing there pants. This film just went straight to the top of my anticipation list for next summer.



ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT COMING
Fox has decided to go ahead with a fourth film of the Ice Age franchise. By the sound of it, I would assume this film will be centered around the breaking up of the continents.

I loved the first film, but they have gone downhill with the past two. After this film, they should make Ice Age: Here Comes A Big Comet.



ZOOLANDER 2 NEWS
Paramount can't decide whether they want to go ahead with Anchorman 2 and Zoolander 2 or not. As of right now, Anchorman 2 is officially dead and it seemed that Zoolander 2 was right behind it. But yesterday, Justin Theroux, Zoolander 2's writer, said that no one had told him to stop writing yet. Hopefully that is good news for the sequel.

I liked Anchorman and Zoolander, but if I had to pick one to do a sequel on, it would be Zoolander. Anchorman would be more difficult. It doesn't really have a need for a sequel. However, Zoolander was kind of formed into a non official super hero. He had a villain, the villain came from a secret society of villains and they set up a whole back story to it. And I liked the characters more from Zoolander than I did Anchorman. Here is hoping at least one of them make it.



KICK-ASS 2 IS A GO......MAYBE
Despite having disappointing numbers at the box office, it appears that Kick-Ass will get a sequel titled, Kick-Ass: Balls to the Wall. Mark Millar wrote the original novel, but has not finished the sequel yet, so I would guess the film wouldn't start until he has completed his follow-up. However, Red Mist himself, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, said on his Twitter to not believe it and that it has not been confirmed yet.

I really hope this gets greenlit. I think there is a lot of potential with the first film, to turn this into a big name franchise. It is always difficult to have a film of this sort succeed, because a large group of the target audience is under age and wouldn't be able to get in. At the same time though, if you drop the rating to a PG-13 one, then you really take away from what makes the film great.




JOAQUIN PHONEIX NOT CRAZY
Many assumed that Phoneix's David Letterman incident, retirement announcement and rapping career stint was all a hoax. Now it has been confirmed. All of that was for a mocumentary that he and Casey Affleck have been working on the past year. Apparently, they showed the film to some potential film buyers last week, so we may or may not see the finshed product very soon.

I'm not sure if this will hurt his career or not. I was pretty bummed at first to see him go out like he did, but then again, this was all pretty funny and I'm sure it will be on film as well.




RISE OF THE APES COMING
Twentieth Century Fox is developing a prequel to the popular Apes franchise. The apes will be done using the CGI technology from Avatar.

Does anyone really care about this franchise anymore? I mean I'm sure they were good back in the day, but the remake was less than thrilling and I really don't care about monkeys learning to walk, talk and take over the world.



MEN IN BLACK 3 IS OFFICIAL
Columbia Pictures announced today that Men In Black 3 was officially happening and even gave a release date of May 25, 2012. The third installment will be shot in 3D and as of right now everyone has signed back on except for Tommy Lee Jones who is currently in negotiations to return.

I am a big fan of the first film, but I think they completely missed with the sequel. I am growing tired very fast of all the 3D stuff going on, but I think that Men In Black would be a fun film to watch in 3D. I hope they really bring their A game with this sequel and I hope after this Smith can get to work on Bad Boys 3.




MI:4 NEWS
With the release of J.J. Abrhams secret project Super 8, now getting a release date for summer of 2011, Paramount decided to spread out the love and push Mission Impossible 4 back to a December 2011 release. Not only that, but they have finally signed a director for the film. Brad Baird will make his live action debut as the director behind the film. Bairds directing credits include The Iron Giant, The Incrdibles and Ratatouille.

I think that this is a very interesting move, but a move I like. I love all three of the animated films he has done and I love the Mission Impossible franchise. It will be interesting to see how he adapts from animation to a big budget, live action film. And we better find out what the Rabbit's Foot was.




AND THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS FRANCHISE JUST GOT WORSE
It is being reported that Dwayne Johnson is in talks to join the cast of Fast Five, the fifth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise. Specifics are not known at the time, but one could guess that he would be one of the fast five.

I like Johnson, but the guy makes horrible movie choices. The first and third films weren't half bad, but the second and fourth films were very bad. Paul Walker arguably the worst actor in America and that is a scientific fact. Vin Diesel has lost any chance of being the big time action star I once thought he would turn out to be and the title "Fast Five" just sounds horrible.

Here is the synopsis of the film: Diesel and Walker are fugitives being pursued by relentless lawmen.

Give me a break. The ending of the fourth one was so unbelivable I would have walked out if it wasn't already the end of the film. They destroyed what little story this franchise could have had.