A new trailer for Illumination Entertainment’s 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me has just debuted online!
The newDespicable Metrailer doesn’t reveal much about the movie, but it’s worth watching for enjoyment. The movie includes a wonderful cast including Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement and Julie Andrews.
Movie will be in theaters July 9, 2010!
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon.
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
The world’s (second) greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.
You know what…the trailer doesn’t show any of this story. You can see it at Apple.
October issue of Empire features James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar. Two more pictures from film are available online. The first picture shows the movie’s villain, Stephen Lang’s tough-as-nails and literally battle-scarred Col. Miles Quaritch, piloting a human battleship known as the Dragon. The second picture shows Sigourney Weaver in her human guise as Dr. Grace Augustine, a human scientist who works with Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully on the alien planet of Pandora. If you’ve seen the trailer or the preview at IMAX theaters, you know this is probably one of the most anticipated films this year. I am sure we will hear more about Avatar before its December 18, 2009 release date.
Pixar fans probably know that Disney is re-releasing both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 October 2009 in 3D. Each movie has been totally rendered again in 3D by taking all the original files. The plan is to show the movies back-to-back with an intermission for just a couple of weeks in movie theaters. You’ll enjoy this trailer because it’s funny and neat to watch. Have fun!
James Cameron premiered a 24-minute reel of Avatar at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam. The reaction was nothing but jaw-dropping, positive applause and amazement, although media attending were sworn to report only the audience reaction, no details about the footage or characters.
THR reports that Cameron said much of the footage came from the first third of the film. That there were also glimpses from unfinished portions of later battle scenes involving warring sides clashing over control of the fantasy world Pandora.
Cameron spoke about how the action builds to nonstop in the latter portions of the film. The film is populated by strange life-forms in a world of unprecedentedly rich fantasy elements. Sam Worthington, who also attended the screening, plays an avatar — a remote-controlled character created by melding his crippled human form into a super-human being — whose fate lies ultimately in doing battle with his own former race.
I recommend that you read the THR article on the presentation. Although the media was sworn to report only the audience response, there is quite a bit of detail about the movie and the process.
I look at these production stills, which ACIN posted, I am awed, amazed, bedazzled and very curious what the movie beholds. Come December 18, 2009 I will find out.
ComingSoon.net has a detail description of the 24-minute footage. I guess, The Insider wasn’t sworn to secrecy — it’s worth the read.
To advertise the international release of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) is making innovative use of augmented reality (AR) and face tracking technology to give Transformers fans the chance to picture themselves with the original 3D CGI head of legendary Autobot leader Optimus Prime.
Guests to ‘We Are Autobots’ (http://www.weareautobots.com) can also obtain a hidden message from Bumblebee featuring a montage of Decepticon footage from the new movie. TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN will be released in the UK and Ireland on June 19th and internationally on June 24th 2009. ‘We Are Autobots’ has been produced using the original 3D models of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee that appear in the film.
“Flanimals” is coming to the big screen with the help of Universal-based Illumination Entertainment creating a 3-D animated feature based on the children’s book series by Ricky Gervais.
Gervais will voice the lead character, and the script will be written by Matt Selman (The Simpsons).
The four-volume series of creatures so ugly and misshapen they are cute and endearing is illustrated by Rob Steen. The story encompasses a world inhabited by these 50 species of creatures. Gervais’ character, a pudgy, perspiring purple creature, goes on a mission to change the world.
Elisabeth Shue is set to star in Dimension Films’ Piranha 3D, filming begins in May.
Horror redo helmed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) is set for a March 19, 2019 release.
According to Variety, Shue plays the town sheriff trying to save the lake and her family from being devoured by the sharp-toothed fish. Adam Scott will star as a diver for the U.S. Geological Service who helps discover the piranha outbreak.
Up is an adorable story about 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen who sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. However, he discovers he is not alone because Russell, a young explorer, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
Hugh Jackman has bowed out of Steven Soderbergh’s Cleo, a 3-D live action musical due to schedule conflicts. Jackman will be hosting the Oscars this February, and then his X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel will be in the movie theaters.
Soderbergh is also negotiating with Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Cleopatra while Ray Winstone might play Julius Caesar.
According to Variety, Soderbergh has said he wants to inject the famous historical love story with rock n’ roll songs and a style akin to an Elvis musical. The music was written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script is by the group’s former bass player, James Greer, who is also an author.
3-D animated feature based on the children’s book series by Ricky Gervais.
Hugh Jackman has bowed out of Steven Soderbergh’s Cleo, a 3-D live action musical due to schedule conflicts. Jackman will be hosting the Oscars this February, and then his X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel will be in the movie theaters.