Samuel Goldwyn Films just released a brand new official trailer and poster for The Yellow Handkerchief, starring Academy Award winner William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Maria Bello and Eddie Redmayne.
Maria Bello made a strong impression on me when I saw her in The History of Violence. Kristen Stewart character seems stronger than Bella in the Twilight movies. She looks pretty good in this trailer.
The first time I saw Maria Bello on film was in the movie The History of Violence. She grabbed at her role and gave it all she got as a loving wife and mother who finds out her sweet loveable husband is at former and brutal hit man.
So, I am happy to hear that Bello is in final talks to join Adam Sandler’s the all-star comedy untitled film. I look forward to seeing her in a comedy. With her talent, she’ll bring the comedy to a whole new level.
I have posted about this film a couple of times already because I think this is a sure fire hit. As a reminder, the script centers on high school friends who reunite 30 years later. Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek and Maya Rudolph are part of the ensemble.
I have to admit, when I got my hands on a copy of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, I was eyeing it like a dubious fish that someone set in my hands and requested I add to the soup. No, no…this wouldn’t do at all. They changed the Evey O’Connell. Alex was a major character. There wasn’t even REALLY a Mummy in this one. And where’s Egypt? Where’s Imhotep? Nope, nope…not having this. This is a slap in the face of established canon. This is…this is actually not half bad.
That was about what it was like for me, watching this new Mummy installment.
This time, the O’Connells, along with college-age ne’er-do-well son Alex are off to China. The elder O’Connells are there at the behest of the British government to return a priceless artifact, while Alex is there to oversee the museum opening of his first major archaeological find–the Dragon Emperor. But a set of doublecrosses later brings the legendary Dragon Emperor back to life, and poises him to pick up where he left off, ready to conquer the world. Now it’s up to all the O’Connells, and some new allies, to settle a brand new “mummy”s hash permanently.
A special advance heads-up on this one: purists WILL be offended.
I’m sorry, there’s just no better way to put it than that. This is not the Mummy series you’ve come to know and love. There’s a new Evey, like I said. Maria Bello, however, will handle the job just as ably as her predecessor. Everything I’ve already said is fully applicable. But it’s not all doom and gloom–Brendan Fraser is still a top-notch adventurer, and his son is definitely no slouch either. Even Jonathan will be back with the team, and providing the comic relief we’re all used to. There are even some improvements, and plenty of action and comedy and thrills to go around. For instance, there’s a great scene involving a truck full of fireworks in the middle of a Chinese new year celebration that’s just jaw-dropping. Read the rest of this entry »
Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson are set to star in the indie drama Rape: A Love Story.
Harold Becker will direct the movie and filming is scheduled to start in June.
I think the casting is perfect for the story that is based on the Joyce Carol Oates novella published in 2003. The grim story focuses on a mother (Bello) recovering from a brutal gang rape who is stalked by the perpetrators but is protected by a sympathetic cop (Jackson). Breslin will play the woman’s12-year-old daughter, who witnesses the attack.
Following the “overwhelming audience response” to Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Film School Rejects are reporting that Rob Cohen is already planning to make a fourth film in the franchise. Where will the next movie be set? Where else can you get mummies? Peru, of course!
Both Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello suggested South America to be the next location for the fourth film. Cohen had more to add.
“What I’m really happy about is that, by taking ‘The Mummy’ out of Egypt and putting it in China, by exploring a different approach to the quest for immortality, we now have it clear that the ‘Mummy’ franchise can travel,” he said. “Now we know that if we want to go to Mexico or we want to go to Peru, we can because there’s a cultural truth there of the mummies and these beautiful cultures… So I think that somehow that might make the basis of a good story.”
As expected, no release date was given, though you can expect to see the film in another three years.
Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an larger-than-life movie that races from the catacombs of ancient China to the neon-lit streets of post-war Shanghai and high into the spectacular Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.
The first full-length trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is available exclusively at www.papajohns.com through 12:00 a.m. (EST) on Sunday, June 22. Papa John’s is a promotional partner of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
all she got as a loving wife and mother who finds out her sweet loveable husband is at former and brutal hit man. 
I have to admit, when I got my hands on a copy of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, I was eyeing it like a dubious fish that someone set in my hands and requested I add to the soup. No, no…this wouldn’t do at all. They changed the Evey O’Connell. Alex was a major character. There wasn’t even REALLY a Mummy in this one. And where’s Egypt? Where’s Imhotep? Nope, nope…not having this. This is a slap in the face of established canon. This is…this is actually not half bad.
Following the “overwhelming audience response” to Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Film School Rejects are