Into The Woods is another amazing musical by Stephen Sondheim. He's the mastermind behind Sweeney Todd and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. His musicals are always full of interesting characters and intricate music. SWEENEY TODD was adapted into a film in 2007 with moderate success.
Now his next musical to be adapted is INTO THE WOODS. This musical smashes classic fairy tale characters (Cinderella, The Baker, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk) into the ultimate story. There's an evil witch who looks to teach various characters a lesson or two.
It pays to be friends with Christopher Nolan. First time director, but long time cinematographer, Wally Pfister, has an all-star cast for his first sci-fi film, TRANSCENDENCE. Whether or not he can stand on his own as a director remains to be seen.
Here's the synopsis:
Dr. Will Caster is an artificial intelligence researcher who strives to create a machine that possesses sentience and collective intelligence. Extremists who oppose technological advancement target him, but their actions drive him toward his goal. Caster also wants to become part of the new technology, and his wife Evelyn and his best friend Max Waters, also researchers, question the wisdom of this drive. Caster's goal to acquire knowledge becomes one to acquire power, and he seems to be unstoppable.
I hope the beer and buffalo wings are flowing right now for you! If you're not into the actual Super Bowl game, good thing there is always plenty of funny commercials and new movie trailers to keep your interest. Here's your first trailer drop for today... Johnny Depp in the western version of PIRATES, I mean THE LONE RANGER.
THE LONE RANGER comes out July 3rd, 2013. It is directed by Gore Verbinski. It stars Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Tom Wilkinson.
Johnny Depp has become one of the most hit or miss actors working today. It feels like the PIRATES movies ruined him a little to the point where even his non-blockbuster movies were a little off (see THE RUM DIARIES). So I'm a little skeptical to see him reuniting with director Gore Verbinski with another big Disney movie. What has me interested is the hope that Armie Hammer will have a decent role for once. That guy is charming as hell in interviews and he hasn't been given a chance to shine post-THE SOCIAL NETWORK. So check out the trailer below which comes to us via the folks over at Screen Rant.
I usually don't like to just reiterate what other sites write, but I am so excited for this, so I needed to share it. /Film receieved a press release from Disney stating director Hans Zimmer will team up with everyone's favorite Mexican-by-way-of-Sweden flamenco/metal guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela to score their upcoming atrocity that is director Rob Marshall's PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES. This has me excited beyond belief and might be the only support I lend to this movie. As I stated before, the synergy between popular indie musicians and movie scores is becoming more lucrative for both ends. They are an amazingly talented duo, and I cannot wait to see what they do in a movie score format.
Check out a video of their performance of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven:
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be released May 20, 2011.
Here's a big old post with more trailers from the Super Bowl so far!
First up, is BATTLE: LOST ANGELES. This movie has me excited of being a different kind of alien invasion movie. It seems to have more of the gritty, urban warfare style. It's a welcome change instead of more wise cracking Will Smith movies. My only apprehension is SKYLINE looked just as cool if not more, and well...we know what happened there.
The CAPTAIN AMERICA teaser is very effective, showing quick part of the origin story with Chris Evans going through his transformation. The best part was the single image of Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull. I'm pretty lukewarm on this movie, as it reminds me of lower tier Marvel movies like DAREDEVIL and THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
RANGO, was a movie I was very apprehensive against, but I have warmed up to it. Once the earlier trailers hit and I got a feel for the style and the type of story it was, I'm more excited for what will be Johnny Depp's redeeming performance after ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
THOR was a particularly great teaser, and it gave enough action shots that make you wonder what the hell is going on. It's very well cut, and the scope of the movie seems to be epic on scale, that will probably be matched only by THE AVENGERS movie. Two complaints...what's Sauron doing here, and please don't let their be too much love/hate banter between Thor and Natalie Portman's character.
