This one looks like it will be fun! The trailer from Skyline, the first kick-ass invasion film since Independence Day. It hits the big screen this Friday, and I will be in the theater early that day.
The film will be out in March of 2011, I want to see this one so bad I can taste it: SuckerPunch!
Next Wednesday, November 10th, the JICC, or Japanese Information and Culture Center, will be presenting King of Thorn on the big screen. The Medusa virus is sweeping the earth, turning everyone to stone. 160 carefully selected people are put in cold sleep to be awoken in a hundred years, so the human race will survive. But when they wake up, a lot more than a hundred years have passed, if evolution is any judge. The presentation is free although it does require a reservation, which is only fair for what will certainly be the first (and may just be the only) time this Anime feature film will play in a movie theater in North America (even if the screen is technically on Japanese soil, being in the Embassy).
John Carpenter has signed up to take the helm transforming Darkchylde from the graphic novel to the big screen. The premise of the comic book series is a good-hearted young southern belle has monsters inside her nightmares, and sometimes they transform her body to walk the earth for their own purposes. Done right, this one could be interesting.
This weeks winner is the Dreamworks film Megamind 3D. Staring Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, and Tina Fey, this looks to be the second animation of the year where you will be rooting for the bad guy (yes, I am referring to Despicable Me). This one looks like a lot of fun. Also out this weekend the Bollywood Time Travel comedy, Action Replayy.
It played a few weeks ago at Sci-Fi London, and now Monsters goes into limited release in the US this Friday. If it doesn’t play anywhere close to you, the web site says it goes into wide release on December 3rd. The buzz from the film fest circuit is positive, and the trailer looks great; I am so there. Also out this week, again in somewhat limited release, is the third film in the brilliant Swedish trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. This movie wraps up the story begun in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and since the second film, The Girl Who Played With Fire comes out on DVD tomorrow, I will be re-watching both of them before hitting the theater for the final chapter.