Parody trailers that make a movie from one genre look like it’s from another (e.g. making The Shining seems like a comedy) are popular of Youtube, and now we have the same thing for an actual movie. The US trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island hit a couple of weeks ago and painted this follow-up to Journey To The Center Of The Earth as a rather silly, fun family romp, but not the UK trailer turns everything far darker and more dramatic (until the end at least). It does look like it might be oddly entertaining though. Brendan Fraser bailed on this one after director Erik Brevig was replaced by Brad Peyton, and so this time Dwayne Johnson’s along for the ride, playing Hutcherson’s prospective stepfather, while Vanessa Hudgens and Luis Guzman also have to deal with various strange beasties on the titular island, all while looking for Michael Caine! It’s due in cinemas February 10th.
Newlyweds Trailer – Take a look at Ed Burns new movie
Ed Burns burst onto the movie scene in 1995 as the writer, director and star of The Brothers McMullen, but he’s never really fully capitalised on the promise he showed there. However Newlyweds has been billed as a bit of a return to form, and indeed was chosen as the closing night film of the Tribeca Film Festival. In the film, Buzzy (Edward Burns) and Katie (Caitlin FitzGerald) are a newly married couple living a seemingly conflict-free life. But when Buzzy’s damaged and impulsive half-sister Linda (Kerry Bishe) arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft, her antics threaten to disrupt the couple’s commitment to an “easy” marriage. Meanwhile, with Katie’s sister Marsha projecting suspicions of her own husband’s infidelity onto Buzzy, will the couple’s formerly trusting and insulated life be able to withstand the dysfunctions of their respective siblings? No UK release date is currently set.
Fresh The Woman In Black Trailer – The Daniel Radcliffe flick looks ever creepier
On February 10th, Daniel Radcliffe will be proving there’s more to him than Harry Potter, when The Woman In Black is released. The trailers we’ve had so far certainly suggest this is gonna be a creepy film and this new one way be the eeriest yet! Radcliffe plays young lawyer Arthur Kipps, who travels to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. Working alone in the old mansion, Kipps begins to uncover the town’s tragic and tortured secrets and his fears escalate when he discovers that local children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances. When those closest to him become threatened by the vengeful woman in black, Kipps must find a way to break the cycle of terror.
Titanic 3D Featurette – James Cameron talks about the 3D conversion
James Cameron is hoping the world will go crazy for Titanic again when it gets a re-release next April, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking and with an all-new 3D conversion. Now a new featurette about the movie has been released, which features Cameron bigging up the film and trying to convince us that we really do need to see Jack & Rose on the big screen once more, but this time with more depth perception. Click to take a look.
New WE Trailer – Fresh look at Madonna’s Edward & Mrs. Simpson flick
Poor old Madonna, she doesn’t seem to have much luck when it comes to film. She’s been panned as an actress, so she’s had a go at directing. While there were initally high hopes for WE, it recently been moved out of a prestigious awards run spot and moved to February (although it’ll likely still have an Oscar qualifying run in LA just in case it picks up any nominations). Now a new trailer has arrived for the movie, which mixes a late 1990s take of a young New Yorker who’s obsessed with Wallace Simpson and Edward VIII, and the story of the King and his lover.
Introducing The BFI’s Screen Archive UK – With some fascinating retro featurette
If you ask most people what a film archive is for, they probably think it’s about ensuring that we still have copies of movies like Blade Runner to watch even after a nuclear apocalypse. However, it’s easily argued that a more important part of their job is safeguarding the thousands upon thousand of hours of social history footage that would otherwise be left to rot, and which shows us how people have actually lived since invention of the movie camera (and not just life through a fiction filmmakers lens).
It’s not just about locking the footage away for future sociologists to see what life was like before hover cars and teleportation, but so that everyone has access to as much of them as possible. The BFI and regional film archives across the UK are working together to try and ensure everyone has access to their film heritage for free via a new cataloguing and online access drive – Search Your Film Archives – which you can find at http://unionsearch.bfi.org.uk/
To promote the initiative, three great little featurettes, full of amazing archive footage, have been released, and we’ve included them here for you to have a look at. They’re all pretty fascinating, so watch them and head over new search site to see what footage exists that was filmed near you in the past 100 years.
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