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A Christmas Carol is taking shape nicely.  I am impressed with the second trailer offering more information about the film and insight into the making of the film. The animation looks awesome with even more detailed work in the background.

I am going to see this movie just to listen to the music!!! 

Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. The band of rebels is lead by The Count, played by the Academy Award Winning Philip Seymour Hoffman,Quentin the boss of Radio Rock, Gavin the greatest DJ in Britain, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave and Young Carl who comes of age amidst the chaos of sex, drugs and rock n roll. The film features rockin’ selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens just to name a few. 

The movie opens November 13, 2009.

Disney’s A Christmas Carol seems to be banking on Robert Zemekis portfolio (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Polar Express) to promote the movie. The trailer shows lots of special effects with the plot being unclear, thinking we all know the story by Charles Dickens.

I didn’t recognize John Travolta, right away, in the trailer. He looks so different.  From Paris With Love Travolta is a mean, son-of-a-gun and bald.   I like Travolta, but I am not sure if I like the movie.  I know, the movie has been sitting in the can for awhile for the reasons, which I can’t confirm. 

The movie also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the Pierre Morel thriller about a young embassy worker and a US secret agent on a high-risk mission in Paris.

Now, finally, February 5, 2010 is the release date.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief  Trailer #2 looks better than Trailer #1, but the film still seems dorky.  The feedback that I am hearing is that the movie is not following the book, which is loved by so many kids.  Christopher Columbus is an excellent director and I hope he can pull this one off.  My fingers are crossed.

My gut feeling is that this will be a great movie because Gary Marshall directed the comedy with a long list of stars. Yet, the trailer does not do the movie justice.  This is the first one, so perhaps we will see more in the next one. I look forward to the movie when it opens February 2010.

I haven’t heard of this movie before. It’s based on the character created by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Captain Solomon Kane is a brutally efficient 16th Century killing machine. Armed with his signature pistols, cutlass and rapier, he and his men unleash their bloodlust as they fight for England in war after war on all continents.  

Starring British actor James Purefoy (The Philanthropist, Rome, Vanity Fair) and directed and written by Michael J. Bassett, the film will be screened as part of  the Toronto International Film Festivals Midnight Madness line-up on Wednesday, September 16. 

With Solomon Kane, Conan and his other heroes, iconic American writer Robert E. Howard created the genre now known as “SWORD & SORCERY,” in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

The first seven-figure selection from the Toronto film festival is Weinstein Company’s picked up of U.S. and German rights to A Single Man. The Tom Ford-directed adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel came from Venice, where Colin Firth won actor kudos.

Funny movie!  I love the beginning when Woody Harrelson’s plays the theme from Deliverance and then says to the Zombie “You’ve got a pretty mouth.” Is that sick or what?!

It might surprise you to know that both Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwartzenegger will be back to take on the action movie world in 2010’s The Expendables. It might be especially surprising since, at last report, California was one bus token away from complete fiscal Armageddon, so what is the governor doing running around in movies?

But anyway! A trailer was successfully bootlegged out of Venice for The Expendables, and we’ve got it directly below thanks to the magic of YouTube.

If you think it looks a lot like every other movie Stallone was ever in, then you’re probably not too far off.  Except, of course, this one has Jason Statham.  And Jason Statham is pretty much always awesome.

The teaser trailer, meanwhile, is of relatively poor quality but such is the way that all bootlegs pretty much go.  You will, however, get to see how very cookie-cutter this action flick will be in advance, so you’ll know in advance if you want to see it.  Frankly, I’m probably in because I enjoy this kind of mindless eye-candy.  And somewhere, an entire studio hopes against hope that you will be too.