“In 2019, a plague transforms the world’s population into vampires. With fewer humans to provide blood, the vampires seek to farm the remaining humans and to find a way to continue their existence. A secret team of vampires uncover a way that would rescue the human race.”

This actually looks pretty good to me! I’m a big fan of Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Peter and Michael Spierig, who also did the 2003 movie Undead. See below for the Undead trailer and HEAD TO YAHOO to see the Daybreakers trailer.

I cannot express enough how much I want to see this movie! It keeps getting pushed back. Some were saying because of money issues and then supposedly it was because John Hillcoat hadn’t finished it yet. I’m not a huge reader, but I literally could not put the book down. I love post apocalyptic stories and Cormac McCarthy has written an absolutely amazing story about an American wasteland after a nuclear winter has set in.  A father and son make their way to the coast. Not sure what they will find, but are certain that better times await there.
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Esquire Magazine’s Tom Chiarella was lucky enough to sit down with Bob Weinstein and see an early version! Apparently it is true that the movie just wasn’t ready to be released last year, and has been set to be released this November instead. The studio is worried about how to market this film, since it is just such a dark and depressing story. Tom has written up a great article which is up at ESQUIRE.COM now. Highly Recommended!

“They want them to say, perhaps for reasons they cannot consciously fathom, to everyone they know: You have to see it. Really.

You do. Not because it’s grim, not because it’s depressing, or even scary. The Road is all of those things, both acutely and chronically. But there was not a single stupid choice made in turning this book into this movie. No wrongheaded lyric tribute to the novel. No moment engineered simply to make you jump.

The terror of it is in a normal world made vacant.”
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Grab the book from Amazon!

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Wow this looks fantastic! I was completely unaware of the original 2005 short that this new feature is based on.

The original 9 directed by Shane Acker was released way back in April of ‘05 and was nominated for an Academy Award. You can check this out below. Disregard the odd added sounds that somehow made it into to the beginning of this clip.

The new full length produced by Tim Burton and featuring the voice talents of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, and Jennifer Connelly will be released in September. I’m really looking forward to this. If the short is any indication, then this is going to be great. Here is the trailer:(extra points for using The Knife in it!)

Any Takashi Miike fans will want to check out a great interview that Twitch did with him recently.

“SA: Your films tend to have a very disjointed sense of humor. After making films that make excessive gore funny in a campy way, how difficult is it to take a superhero protagonist seriously?

TM: It wasn’t difficult at all. As a kid, I grew up watching the show and the sensibility and the humor of the show, which is quite wacky in itself, I think influenced the way I grew up as an adult. Not that Yatterman is everything but it did greatly influence how I grew up as an adult. Perhaps if I didn’t watch the show as a child, I would be a very different director now. That’s something that’s been ingrained in me as a person and a director. I don’t think there’s a big gap there.”

Read alot more over at TWITCHPreview, Rent and Buy Miike videos below!

Related Links:
I09 synopsis of the new Yatterman live action movie.
1977 opening for the original anime! Very cool.
Takashi Miike’s Imdb

I wanted to pass along a bit of info/awareness on a few upcoming movies that look to be great. Let’s hope.
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First up we have a remake of 13 Tzameti! Great Film! I highly recommend seeing the original now.
The remake will feature 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham starring opposite Sam Riley.
Hmmmm, not sure about that lineup, but I guess we will see. For now, check out the trailer for the original:

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A Smokin’ Aces prequel has just been greenlit from Universal! I’m a big fan of this movie. It was just a bunch of senseless guns a blazin’, but I think the great cast and cameos make it a strong action movie.

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Judd Apatow’s next project is called Funny People.
It will star Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman!
Adam Sandler plays a 42-year old comic named George Simmons.
Seth Rogen plays Ira, a 25-year-old deli counter worker and aspiring stand-up comedian who performs for free at a small LA stand-up club.
Ira lives with two roommates, an aspiring comedian who has just been accepted to become an Improv regular named Leo (Jonah Hill) , and a sitcom star who likes to gloat about his newfound salary named Mark (Jason Schwartzman).
If this is even half as funny as Pineapple Express, I’m going to love this movie!
We’ll have to wait till July 2009 for this though!
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Ridley Scott is working on his next sci-fi film!
It’s called Forever War based on the 1974 book of the same name.
He intended to directly follow up Blade Runner and Alien with this, but there was problems with the rights.
““I first pursued ‘Forever War’ 25 years ago, and the book has only grown more timely and relevant since,” Scott says. “It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The Odyssey’ by way of ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.” -via Moviemind
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Last, but not least, we have No DO or The Beckoning.(outside Spain)
This will be directed by Elio Quiroga who directed The Cold Hours.
” Shot in Spanish with substantial high-tech effects, “NO-DO” is a horror story in which a woman sees ghosts. The explanation to their appearance lies in an old NO-DO newsreel (i.e., one of the state-sanctioned documentaries made during Franco’s regime).

The film speculates around the little known “Secret NO-DOs”, made in the 40s for the Catholic Church in Spain. It is told that those confidential films were used by exorcists to document supernatural events using a special film emulsion designed for this purpose. Some “Secret NO-DOs” are rumored to be stored in subterranean vaults in the Congregazione del Santo Uffizio, Rome, but its existence is officialy denied by catholic church leaders.”-via Twitch

As if being singer of the awesome band Stellastarr wasn’t enough, Shawn Christensen is about to join Hollywood. Sort of. His screenplay entitled “Karma Coalition” has been picked up by Warner Brothers! He wrote this while working on the band’s HIGHLY ANTICIPATED third album.
The story centers on a falsely accused fugitive who embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his wife’s death before the world comes to an end.

If you aren’t familiar with Stellastarr then get to it! Truly an amazing band. One of the best live shows I’ve been to.
Myspace
Official
You can pick up the bands last two albums in the Amazon Store on the left.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels= Genius
Snatch=Perfect
Swept Away=Not So Much
Well, it looks like vintage Ritchie is back with RocknRolla.
I usually try not to read early reviews on movies I’m really anticipating, but I did skim through Twitch’s review of it. From the parts I did read, sounds like this should be pretty good.
I’m super excited for this.
Official Site
Twitch Review
CNN Entertainment Write-up

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Now I have to be honest, I STILL do not have cable internet since I moved here. Soon enough though. One of the many reasons that I can’t take my slow dsl connection is for THIS: HULU. The new(ish) video service site brought to you by NBC Universal and News Corp. This thing is awesome! Movie and Tv Show content from over 50 different providers! All Free and LEGAL! No downloading anything. We’re talking The A-Team, Hitchcock,Saturday Night Live,Jackass,Burn Notice,E3 Coverage,Prison Break,Rescue Me etc etc. The list goes on. All Free!
Here’s a little example widget that you can create:

I really wanted to like Fabrice’s Calvaire,(The Ordeal in U.S.) but I just couldn’t. It certainly is not a bad film at all though. It had alot of good atmospheric and stylistic shots throughout. I really liked the whole look and feel of the end of it. There is something here he can work on for sure. I think he is capable of a really good movie and we will have to see if Vinyan will be just that. Head over to Premier France to see a trailer. Its hard to say….. Here is a synopsis: Unable to accept the the loss of their son in the 2005 Tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has convinced herself that the boy was kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that followed the catastrophe… that her son is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot bring himself to shatter his wife’s last hope. Bribing the sinister Mr Gao to take them by boat to the pirate-infested jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the traumatized couple embark on a quest that will plunge them through paranoia and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien universe, a supernatural realm where the dead are never truly dead, and where nightmares, obsession and horrifying reality converge.