“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.” You can write that one down as one of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey‘s most memorable quotes, but the first clip from the highly anticipated December 14 release — as well as the latest behind-the-scenes postproduction video – were both trumped by four other pieces ofHobbit promotional material this week.
The Best Stuff
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey IMAX Midnight Posters: Even as someone who isn’t a diehard Hobbit/Lord of the Rings fan, I still want one of these to hang on my wall — the Gollum one to be exact. But the best part about this quartet of posters is that they’re for some of the franchise’s most loyal followers, the ones with midnight IMAX tickets.
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It went from simply killing walkers to hoarding them in hopes your family would return to normal to treating them Michonne-style and using them as a defense tactic, but now we’ve got Milton and he’s putting the infected to use like never before.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone so the race is on to get those shopping lists taken care of in order to have gifts ready to go for the holidays. Whether you’ve got a friend or family member who’s the person who has everything, the person who never wants anything, or the one who’ll sport a smile no matter what you get them, if he or she is aHunger Games fan, we’ve got you covered. Not only did the fandom unite to bring you the best of the best of Hunger Games gift ideas, but the fine folks at Smart Pop Books have also made Movies.com the third stop on The Panem Companion Victory Tour. We’re repping District 3 by unveiling the book’s District 3 graphic as well as a snippet from the District 3 chapter of the book.
Are you toying with the idea of taking the plunge and making your first feature? In need of a little inspiration? Meet writer, director and actor Alexander Poe. After graduating from Columbia University’s Film MFA program, with good friends and talented peers by his side, Poe just went for it and made his first full feature, “Ex-Girlfriends.”
Writer-director David O. Russell excels, but his stars steal the show. Bradley Cooper makes for a charming and enigmatic lead, but Jennifer Lawrence steals his spotlight. While everyone involved in “Silver Linings Playbook” pushes the bar higher and higher, it’s Lawrence who’ll be the toughest to top.
Ever since “Teeth” hit Sundance back in 2007, actress Jess Weixler has been in the spotlight while also flying under the radar, choosing smaller, independent projects, letting her sink her teeth, no pun intended, into meatier roles and get the opportunity to work in the most appealing environments. Well, the abandoned mental hospital she shot “The Normals” is wasn’t particularly appealing, but after a major redesign courtesy of a top-notch art department, it was all beagles, mind games and a ton of mints.
Not out of your Turkey Day food coma just yet? Have no fear; I’ve sorted through all the hot new movie promotional material and picked out the delightfully riveting and laughably disastrous for you. Sit back, relax, sip some Alka-Seltzer and take a look.
The “Red Dawn” remake has had a cloud over its head ever since MGM’s financial difficulties, the last minute enemy nationality change and the long delayed release, however, as a proponent of the 1984 original and a true believer that the story had major remake potential, some hope prevailed. I’m allowed to be optimistically naïve every once in a while, right?
There’s nothing real about a guy who freezes his foes with a blue ray that shoots out of his hands – or at least as far as we know – but writer, director, producer Jordan Galland takes an exceedingly grounded approach to the life and world of superheroes in his latest feature, Alter Egos.
The Twilight Saga may be on its way out, but 2013 looks to be the year of the young adult book-to-film adaptation, and based on the promos that recently hit the Web it will finally be leaps and bounds beyond sparkly brooding vampires.