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A surprisingly chilling and effective trailer for a completely overplayed exorcism subject matter helped the Anthony Hopkins led horror drama The Rite prosper at this Weekend’s U.S. Box Office Charts. The trailer’s dark tones and well edited footage rewarded Warner Bros. with a $15.1 million opening haul. This may seem like a measly figure especially in light of today’s high ticket prices but when you consider that this past weekend’s overall box office takings were only down 12% from this time last year when Avatar still reigned on top, it makes you realise that January is generally not a hot month for box office business.
The Green Hornet was the #1 movie internationally for the second weekend in a row this week, pulling in just under $16 million throughout 64 international territories. That brings the flick's total to $139.8 million globally. It's doing especially well in the Asian territories.
UPDATED: Disney's animated film had an exceptionally strong No. 1 debut in the United Kingdom.
With the month's international box office finishing significantly down from the total registered in January 2010 -- when Avatar exploded on the foreign theatrical circuit -- Disney Animation'ssnatched the No. 1 spot away from The Green Hornet , grossing just $17.2 million from 4,404 locations in 43 markets.
En 2003, el escritor Warren Ellis y el dibujante Cully Hammer publicaron «Red», una miniserie de cómics que ilustraba una venganza: el ex agente de la CIA Paul Moses, traicionado por sus compañeros, decide cazarlos sin piedad en una espiral de violencia que salpica cada una de sus páginas.
Marty Levine knew that his grandfather's club in East Liberty was part of a jumping post-Prohibition club scene. But he was surprised to learn that the joint almost engulfed Mayor David Lawrence in a scandal.
Henry "Grimm" Itri (right) with the author's grandfather, Albert Rosenthal (middle), and some other gent, on Feb. 4, 1943.
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Image Credit: Stephen Vaughan Two new films are opening wide this weekend: The Mechanic and The Rite . They’ll compete against recent releases like The Green Hornet and The Dilemma , not to mention newly-minted Best Picture nominees The King’s Speech and The Fighter . (Meanwhile, fellow nominees The Social Network and The Kids Are All Right have just hit DVD stores.) Coming soon to theaters: The Roommate and The Eagle . What do all these movies have in common? It’s the The — the definite article, language’s precision instrument, “T-H-E,” a word that seemed bit old-fashioned and archaic just a few years ago, at least in movie titles.
Erick Sermon, half of the iconic EPMD, talked to me on the phone in advance of his Feb. 5 arrival for a Chicago hip-hop seminar, beat contest and cypher dreamed up by Power 92.3's Teefa, her hubby Twone Gabz and promoter John Blaze. My blog buddy, Ruby Hornet, is also involved in an event you can learn more about right here.
Another Year (3 stars) — Four seasons among a longtime happily married couple, their family and friends, including an unhappy woman played by Lesley Manville, in an acclaimed performance, in the latest true-to-life drama from writer-director Mike Leigh. PALIS, UPST
Black Swan (3.5 stars) — Writer-director Darren Aronofsky explores dark psychological territory in the tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman). R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language, some drug use. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, PALIS, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
Debut Projects Include The Green Hornet, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader and FIFA World Cup
LOS ANGELES – January 26, 2011 – Following years of operating in stealth mode, Venture 3D, a leader in the burgeoning 3D conversion market, celebrated its official launch with the announcement of contributions to a variety of recent Hollywood blockbusters including the successful completion of the 3D conversion for the recently opened Sony Pictures’ The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz. Venture 3D also worked on 20th Century Fox’s and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the 2010 FIFA World Cup 3D trailer. Recent projects also include 3D conversion work for Warner Bros., Screen Gems and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
No Strings Attached debuted in first place this week, though that's due more to the lack of competition than any particularly impressive earnings. The Green Hornet experienced a standard superhero decline and settled for second place, while The King's Speech leveraged its 12 Oscar nominations to move in to third. In an increasingly unnerving trend, business was down 27 percent from last year whenled with $47.7 million.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Exorcism scenes show a young pregnant woman (who we learn was raped by her father) writhing and spitting out iron nails. A boy who has nightmares about a demon mule has hoof and bite marks on his torso. The film implies a fatal hemorrhage. The script includes occasional midrange profanity. A couple of lethal crashes are depicted, and Michael has flashbacks to his childhood, seeing his mother dead and laid out in his father's mortuary.
A typically sleepy January at the box office — save for the welcome $33.5 million debut of "Green Hornet" two weeks ago — continues today with the entry of two new wide-releases: Anthony Hopkins' horror flick set against exorcist-minded priests, "The Rite," and Jason Statham's action-fest about professional assassins, "The Mechanic." When the final dollars are counted, those killers will likely be topped not only by the possession-obsessed priests but by Natalie Portman too. Ouch.
The first 12 issues of NOW Comics’ Green Hornet, which were collected in a hardcover collection by Bonus Books in 1990, followed the Green Hornet from the 1930s to the 1960s to the present.
Writer Ron Fortier, with artist Jeff Butler , took the various incarnations of the Hornet – radio show, serial, 1960s program – and weaved them into a cohesive storyline following the legacy of the Green Hornet from generation to generation.
Channel your inner Seth Rogen at Hardee's today. ​ If you've always thought you could be a superhero, here's your chance. As part of its promotion for The Green Hornet, a replica of Black Beauty -- the 1965 Chrysler Imperial used in the film -- is sitting in the parking lot of the Hardee's at 10500 Metcalf in Overland Park. If you can get there by 1 p.m., you can take a photo behind the wheel.
Actor Van Williams shows off a promotional photo from “The Green Hornet” television series, in which he had the leading role. Photo by Willy Cook
Artists often aspire to imitate life, especially in show business. Van Williams, star of the 1960s hit TV series "The Green Hornet," took inspiration from his work as an actor portraying detectives and other crime stoppers. He left Hollywood and worked as an actual cop.
I was prepared to write off "The Green Hornet" as just another superhero movie, aimed at comic-book readings kids. Well, I was partly wrong. The film now playing at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City is aimed at the lower levels of intelligence, but along the way offers some humor and an incredible chase-crash-shootout scene. So all is not lost when sitting in the Galaxy stadium seats.
ALL GOOD THINGS 3 stars. Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, working at the top of their games, star in this "true crime" drama about the scion of a New York real estate family suspected of killing his wife. It's a strange, thrilling tale, begrimed by bad memories, by bad deeds. 1 hr. 41 R (violence, profanity, drugs, adult themes) - Steven Rea
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Now that a certain masked Canuck is dominating the worldwide box office in 'The Green Hornet,' it looks like another Canadian hero could soon be coming to theaters (and theatres!) near you.
According to a recent report in theL.A. Times, Captain Canuck, the red-and-white protector of the Great White North, may be getting his own movie. Richard Comely, creator of the proudly Canadian superhero, claims to be close to a deal with a Canadian production company -- he didn't say which -- to produce a live-action movie about his cordial crimefighter. At $15 million, the reported budget would come to approximately the cost of craft services for Marvel's $140 million 'Captain America' blockbuster, but Comely is thinking outside the box to boost his Captain's worldwide potential.
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Due to a conflict, I passed my tickets to Wednesday’s game to a friend, gratis. After the game I got an email from him asking for his money back. Regardless of what you paid to see the Warriors’ 112-103 loss to the Hornets, the only thing worth any of your money was Chris Paul’s commanding performance. The Warriors’ defense was laughably lax — allowing the Hornets to shoot above 60% for the entire game (down from their scorching 80% rate for most of the first quarter). The bench should have been charged for their seats given their spectator-like production. This is the type of game that leaves fans grumbling. And I’m guessing the fan that paid $450 million for his seat is no exception.
Among the newest collaborators that entered the New Balance zone is the Taiwan-based PHANTACi, a channel for both merchandise and cultures that mixes up the essence of street culture, fashion, and sports that satisfies diverse clients’ needs. This collection shop offers known brands such as Nike including New Balance.
Na ferie kino Åšwiatowid przygotowaÅ‚o specjalny repertuar, znajdzie siÄ™ w nim coÅ› dla tych mÅ‚odszych i trochÄ™ starszych dzieci. BÄ™dzie można zobaczyć lidera Å›wiatowego box office'u - film przygodowy 3D „Green Hornet", magicznÄ… animacjÄ™, przy której wspóÅ‚pracowaÅ‚o aż 15 krajów - „Mia i Migusie" oraz animacjÄ™ 3D - „Safari".
The Green Hornet bola populárna dramatická rozhlasová hra, ktorú zaÄali vysielaÅ¥ roku 1936 a vydržala v éteri 16 rokov. Na základe obrovského úspechu podľa nej vznikli doteraz dva filmy, komiksová séria vychádzajúca už vyše 50 rokov a televízny seriál, vÄaka ktorému sa z karatistu Bruca Leeho sta hviezda prvej veľkosti.
Michel Gondry har sikkert set ’The Green Hornet’ som sin adgangsbillet til big time-Hollywood, men først måtte han parkere sin særegne stil og skæve personlighed i garderoben først, og det er resulteret i en dårlig film
Kato (Justin Chou) og Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) løber for livet i Michael Gondrys ’The Green Hornet’. Foto: Walt Disney
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The Green Hornet , il cinecomic con protagonista Seth Rogen in arrivo nelle nostre sale, ci regala una clip dal titolo “Kato Vision” . Tenetevi forte perchè la scena, che potete vedere dopo il salto, è davvero spettacolare: è incentrata su un particolare “potere” del braccio destro di Calabrone Verde, quello di vedere a distanza i pericoli. Il fido Kato, per aiutare chi è in difficoltà, riesce a visulizzare tutte le armi che hanno in mano un gruppo di villain con cui si andrà a scontrare. Da non perdere perchè è azione pura…
★★★ It takes a deft touch to create a protagonist who’s both sympathetic and an indictment of an over-privileged generation. But that’s what writer-director-star Lena Dunham pulls off playing Aura, a would-be filmmaker who has graduated from college and returned home to New York to crash with her artist mother (real-life mom Laurie Simmons) and over-achieving teenage sister (real-life sister Grace Dunham) while she “figures some stuff out.” Dunham is a disarmingly appealing on-screen presence, and she’s just as deft behind the camera, putting together precise compositions that make any comparison to mumblecore just lazy. But her savviest work comes as a writer, constructing a story of 20-somethings-including Aura and the two guys who become sort-of-romantic-interests treating their financially strapped journeys of self-discovery as an inalienable right. Aura’s interaction with a saucy high-school friend (Jemima Kirke) doesn’t always feel fully integrated, and the supporting performances are at times perfunctory. But there’s a wonderfully wise level of self-deprecation to a movie that knows the dismissive power of describing someone as “famous in, like, an Internet kind of way.” (NR) (Nickelodeon Theatre)
Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.
The weekend before I came back to LU, I suggested to my boyfriend that we go see "The Green Hornet" in theaters. The previews were hilarious from what I'd seen, and we both like funny action movies.
The previews didn't disappoint. We both knew going in that it wasn't going to be an amazing action movie or anything, but more funny and slapstick-ish. We got tickets to see it in 3-D, so we were pretty excited.
After being one win away from the United Football League Championship game last season, the Sacramento Mountain Lions find themselves back at Hornet Stadium for another season in Sacramento.
As the first season packed Hornet Stadium, Sacramento Mountain Lions Business Director Joe Wagoner said he witnessed a perfect match with Sac State and the MoLo's.
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Colin Firth's The King's Speech has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive weekend.
Despite four new movies opening on Friday, the royal drama took in £4.2 million - just £200,000 down from last weekend's total - to emerge as the UK's number one film. King's Speech has now made an impressive £18 million after only three weeks in theatres.
One of the most talked-about 2011 summer movies is Warner Bros.' "Green Lantern," based on the DC Comics superhero.
Ryan Reynolds stars as test pilot Hal Jordan, who comes into possession of a "power ring" of extraterrestrial origin. Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins, Temuera Morrison, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi and Jon Tenney co-star. Martin Campbell, director of "Mask of Zorro," "Casino Royale" and "Edge of Darkness" directs.
There's nothing like thinking about the season ahead in the middle of a deep winter freeze. Of course the talk is of trends - what is new and hot and will inspire fashion and food creations?
I looked to Broadway where Spiderman is all the rage. Officially opened or not, this arachnid tale has captured the imagination of theatergoers who don't find the dramatic brinkmanship creepy at all.
ANAHEIM – The movie theater that serves as an anchor for the troubled GardenWalk mall has made another major investment, debuting a large-screen format.
Over the weekend, UltraStar Cinemas held a screening to premiere a 65-foot-wide screen with a showing of "The Green Hornet" in 3D. It's nearly three times as wide as other screens at the theater.
The crime-fighting comedy The Green Hornet stayed at No. 1 around the world again over the weekend, with a draw of $18.7 million in 45 markets, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Starring Seth Rogen in the title role and directed by Michel Gondry, the action hero story opened in ten new markets, climbing to first in Mexico and Australia and second place in Japan and Germany. The film came also came in second place in the US, earning $18 million more this weekend, for a worldwide total of $100.8 million.
Just a year ago, 3D was being trumpeted loud and proud on movie posters. But now? Hollywood appears to be less convinced that 3D is the selling point it once was. As these posters show…
3D has, since Avatar put it at the top of movie studios' agenda a little over a year ago, gone on something of a dramatic journey. We've seen studios stumble over themselves to slap 3D on their movies, even if they weren't shot with that in mind. And we've seen sloppily executed 3D, if not murdering the potential golden goose, then at least chopping one of its legs off.
As the buzz over 3D TV heightens, so does the debate about whether or not it will truly revolutionize the way we watch TV and movies. Tipping the scales against 3D TV is famed movie critic, Roger Ebert.
In a post, Ebert gripes about the elevated price of 3D movie tickets and goes as far to cause the films "inferior and inherently brain-confusing." His dislike is fueled by a letter written by Walter Murch, one of Hollywood’s most respected film editor and sound designers who won an Academy Award for his work on "Apocalypse Now" as well as two Oscars for the "English Patient."
Paramount scored another hit at the North American Box Office with No Strings Attached starring Natalie Portman. The sole wide release for this weekend easily topped a box office that continues to lag 27% behind last year's numbers thanks to a combination of brutally cold winter weather, NFL Playoffs, a so-so selection of films and, of course, the continued absence of an event picture like James Cameron's Avatar.
Le directeur du journal Daily Sentinel se transforme la nuit en super-héros connu sous le nom de Frelon Vert. Il est secondé par Kato, l'expert en arts martiaux.
Cette année s'annonce chargé en terme de films de super-héros. Thor, Captain America ou encore Green Lantern vont s'affronter mais ce serait oublié la nouvelle réalisation de Michel Gondry : The Green Hornet. Un choix de la part du réalisateur mais finalement, il nous étonne souvent donc il y a des raisons de l'attendre. Que vaut donc le 5éme long-métrage du Français ?
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TUNNEL VISION AIN'T A VIRTUE: Naysayers are always ready to pounce when a new technology is introduced. The CD? Didn't sound as good as vinyl. HDTV? Who needs to see the news in high definition? The iPad? Steve Jobs' folly. 3-D TV? You'll never get me to put those goofy glasses on.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- "No Strings Attached," starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, earned the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $20.3 million in gross receipts.
"The Green Hornet," with Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, was a close second with $18.1 million. "The Dilemma," a buddy pic with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, was third with more than $9.72 million.
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed." Ebert reprints a letter sent to him by a Hollywood film editor.
While it's far from the smoking gun that Ebert posits, it's a very good look at the "trick" that is 3D cinema. Walter Murch has worked on several high-profile films including Apocalypse Now and The English Patient , and even a 3D film from the '80s called Captain Eo .
The romantic comedy “No Strings Attached” opened in first place at U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $19.7 million for Viacom Inc .’s Paramount Pictures .
The superhero movie “The Green Hornet” dropped to second place from first in its second weekend of release, researcher Hollywood.com Box-Office said today in an e-mailed statement.
The Crimson Tide basketball team went into a hostile environment facing a team that viewed the contest as their biggest game of the season. Bama didn't play well at all offensively, which made for a very ugly game, but the result nevertheless was picture perfect: Bama picked up a 68-58 win, keeping Auburn's perfect 0-5 SEC record alive. Bama meanwhile moved into a first-place tie in the SEC standings with Florida, and the rare sell-out crowd went home silently before Bama even cracked 60 points.
The King's Speech claimed the crown for best film at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Saturday, knocking off Golden Globes best-drama winner and presumed Oscar front-runner The Social Network . It also beat out 127 Hours , Black Swan , Inception , The Fighter , The Kids Are All Right , The Town , Toy Story 3 , and True Grit .
For a weekend that frankly gets lost in the mix with everything else going on this time of year, the box office numbers could have been worse. And that's with this past weekend becoming one of the lowest January turnouts since 1992, according to Box Office Mojo.com. So, be happy there's at least some quality out there in theaters right now, or this column might as well be dead. Because the fact of the matter is, no one cares about movies right now. This entire country is gearing up for the Super Bowl in two weeks and after the results of yesterday's NFL championship games, it should be a good one. But, where some will see February 6thas only Super Bowl Sunday, I will see it as the beginning to my annual Oscar tribute as we will only be weeks away from what I call "the Super Bowl of movies," The Academy Awards. So, as the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers put together their final game plan for that first Sunday in February, I will be putting together my game plan for who will walk home with an Oscar.
Cameron Diaz tiene 38 años, se está acercando a los 40 y, a juzgar por las fotos de sus vacaciones en México publicadas en los tabloides, que la muestran en bikini a bordo de un jet ski, se ve tan bien como cuando tenía 22 años, cuando hizo su debut cinematográfico en “The Mask” (1994), fascinó al público y se convirtió en estrella de la noche a la mañana.
HOLLYWOOD biasanya merupakan tempat untuk melihat dan dilihat, tapi bagi penyanyi pop Taiwan Jay Chou, bintang hit besar The Green Hornet, Tinseltown itu menawarkan kebebasan
menggembirakan dari "usikan" para paparazzi di Asia.
"Sebagai seorang artis, saya butuh banyak ruang yang memang saya tidak bisa dapatkan di banyak tempat di Asia," ujar Chou kepada wartawan, jelang pemutaran perdana film superhero China yang dia bintangi bersama Seth Rogen.
BLACK SWAN — At once gorgeous and gloriously nutso, a trippy, twisted ballet fantasy that delights and disturbs in equal measure. Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis star. R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use. 110 minutes.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER — The latest film adapted from the seven-part C.S. Lewis series is arguably the most fun. PG for frightening images and fantasy action. 114 minutes.
Hollywood is usually the place to see and be seen, but for Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, star of the smash hit "The Green Hornet," Tinseltown offers a welcome break from the paparazzi in Asia.
"As an artist, I need a lot of space which I cannot really get in many places in Asia," Chou told reporters Monday ahead of the Chinese premiere of the superhero flick, which co-stars Seth Rogen.
AS children, when there is no boundary to our limitless yet innocent imagination and it is sometimes a wonder the kind of games children come up with.
There is also some commonness in the games we play as children, for example, I would bet that most of us children have engaged into a good old game of wrestling or fighting.
In anticipation of the upcoming feature film, this January as Green Hornet month continues here at derekwc Presents The History of Comics On Film. This particular segment is a quick look at the 2011 video game The Green Hornet: Crime Fighter !
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Siskel & Ebert At The Movies was so influential to my development as a critic (pretty much making me aware the job even existed) that I was going to be warmly disposed toward Roger Ebert Presents At The Movies , Roger Ebert’s attempt to restore something like a serious movie criticism show to the nation’s airwaves, even if it was just a couple of squirrels chittering over movie clips, then racing off to store nuts in Ebert’s office. Instead, Ebert’s assembled a bunch of really interesting talent, come up with some ideas to make the show more of a “newsmagazine about movies” (to steal a phrase from footage of Gene Siskel that played over the closing credits), and roped in Werner Herzog for a guest spot. What’s here isn’t all there, just yet. There are some pretty cheesy ideas that don’t necessarily work, and the two hosts will need to grow into whatever chemistry they have, but the show IS a lot of fun. And that’s enough for now.
Now it’s time for tasty morsels of Hollywood goodness, culled from the kitchens of many chefs.
Clint Eastwood is set to direct the fourth film version of A STAR IS BORN. The story will be altered from the original in that it will occur in the rock music industry rather than acting. Barbara Streisand’s version had a similar twist. In the lead will be Beyonce. Will Smith and Russell Crowe are both being wooed for the male lead.
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Ich muss sagen, dass ich schon früher gern die Bruce Lee-Green Hornet Serien gesehen habe. Leider nicht all zu viel, aber das was ich gesehen habe, war gut. Jetzt kommt endlich einen moderne Version ins KIno. Ich muss sagen, ich habe nach dem Trailer schon einiges erwartet, aber ich wurde nicht enttäuscht.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talks about The Social Network in3D, Transformers, and we end with some Quick Questions
The following is a continuation of my hour-long chat with the new co-host of “At the Movies,” 24-year-old Ignatiy Vishnevetsky. After having covered subjects concerning his new job and his cinephile background, I wanted to delve into his brain’s more analytical corners while continuing to find out what impressed Roger Ebert enough to give Vishnevetsky one of the best jobs in the movies. Sans a somewhat lengthy discussion about what Chicago theater has the most comfortable seats, the following is a full dive into the wisdom of the 24-year-old co-host who is on his way to being one of the most recognized film critics in America. The following includes theories about why the seventh Saw movie might be one of the better films to use 3D, why The Social Network might have looked good in 3D, Michael Bay’s neuroses, and much more.
Arch has free passes this week for the screening of "The Rite" on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7:30pm at Regal Gallery Place in Washington, D.C. Just go to gofobo.com and use the following RSVP code to download tickets: TBDXCP6.
You can get a DVD copy of "Secretariat". You MUST SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS to arch@tbd.com. ONE DVD per household.
With a new year just around the corner, everyone is already anticipating the top 10 DVD movies of 2011. There are a ton a great movies lined up to hit the theaters in 2011 and many of them will be vying for a spot on your DVD shelf. Here are a list of the top 10 DVDs you will want to add to your home. " Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon "- The third installment of the "Transformers" trilogy is likely to follow in the footsteps of the first two movies and be a must have for any man cave. The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle. Director Michael Bay returns to give us another action packed adventure. " The Hangover 2 "- In this gut busting sequel, the guy's head to Taiwan for Stu's wedding. As usual, nothing goes according to plan. If this movie is anything like the first one, it will be a must own DVD of 2011. "Captain America: The First Avenger "- This 2011 DVD release will have guys going back into their childhood memories. Fighting crime, Captain American led the way for future crime fighters. The movie is based on Marvel Comics and most likely will not disappoint. " Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides " – Captain Jack Sparrow returns! Mischief and mayhem await Jack as he runs into an old flame. A hunt for the Fountain of Youth takes them on another adventure filled with nail bitting excitement. This destined to be one of the top ten DVDs in 2011. " Thor "- This movie screams "man classic".The center of the story is the mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. " Green Lantern "- Another action packed crime fighter comes to the movie screen in the "Green Lantern." A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan. Another instant DVD top ten in the making. "Footloose" - A remake of the 1984 movie in which a rebellious teenager moves into a town where dancing has been banned. Add this movie to your top 10 list if you want to show your woman that you have more in mind than blow-em-up action movies. " The Green Hornet "- Not to be confused with another "green" movie, this movie features Seth Rogen in this comedic take on a nationally televised radio series from 1939-1952. It appears this movie will not only be action packed, but have enough comedy thrown in to take the edge off of what could be tense situations. " Saw 3D "- If you love Saw, you must own Saw 3D. A great DVD when you want terror and blood! " Dinner for Schmucks "- Due for DVD release on January 4, 2011, this comedy will have you laughing your pants off. Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis come together to bring this hilarious comedy to your house. It will make you want to have your own "dinner for idiots" for a good laugh.
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Seth Rogen currently stars in the number one movie at the box office, The Green Hornet. But long before Rogen became a big box office star, he starred along with James Franco in the short lived television show, Freaks & Geeks. Rogen and Franco have both found major success on the big screen. They also starred together in the comedy, Pineapple Express, and continue to be close friends.
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) gets a helping hand from a statue of Abraham Lincoln, which has magically come to life at the Lincoln Memorial, in “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” Twentieth Century Fox
The cavalcade of superhero madness continues with an all new pic from director Martin Campbell's upcoming DC Comics adaptation Green Lantern. It is the first effort Warner Bros. has put into pushing the film since Blake Lively's publicist came out last week calling the film a disastrous mess.
While none of that has been confirmed, and won't be until the movie's actual release (a similar thing happened with The Green Hornet, and it actually proved to be a critical success), the look of the upcoming cosmic adventure continues to impress. Here we see Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordon and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond having a meeting of the minds, while Tim Robbins's Senator Hammond looks on in the background. Check out this new pic below:
RED (Summit) Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman play retired spies - "Grumpy Old Hitmen" - dragged back into action. The result, based on a DC comic, has a desperate, adorably inane need to please. Director Robert Schwentke - who turns Mirren into Hitgirl - positively dares you to not have a good time. (PG-13; violence, brief language) ***
Mandy Moore's latest film Tangled has topped the international box office chart for the second weekend in a row, raking in more than 14 million dollars.
The Disney animated movie, with Mandy providing the voice for golden-haired Rapunzel, is now approaching the 400 million dollar mark in worldwide revenue after its eighth weekend of release.
Add to Vince Vaughn’s canon of gonzo enthusiasm the blissful image of him using a makeshift blowtorch on a suburban block, screaming, “I’m going to burn your face off!” His act maybe isn’t as fresh as it once was, but Vaughn still puts a charge into movies. Ron Howard’s comedy begins and ends in hokey cliche, but for a brief period in the middle, it carries a slight hint of Billy Wilder, playing uncomfortable stuff for not entirely dumb laughs. Chicago engineers and buddies Ronny Valentine (Vaughn) and Nick Brannen (Kevin James) each have long-term partners: Ronny’s girlfriend, Beth (Jennifer Connelly), and Nick’s wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder). After Ronny sees Geneva cheating on Nick with another man (Channing Tatum), he descends into a world of infidelity where seemingly everyone is cheating. Unfortunately, Howard’s light-but-thorny examination of marital disfunction becomes distracted by pratfalls and standard bromance comedy. Ryder matches Vaughn’s wildness, but Connelly isn’t given a chance and James isn’t up to it. Sports metaphors proliferate until the film sinks into them, finally, senselessly concluding on an NHL rink. PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving sexual content. 110 minutes. Two stars out of four.
“Blue Valentine” is a haunting and subtle portrait of a marriage gone bad.
127 HOURS (R) Thrilling true tale about mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who had to amputate a limb after getting trapped under a boulder in Utah. Director Danny Boyle does a great job of giving a static story some kinetic energy. The pivotal moment is as disturbing as you feared. But the emotional impact of the film is far greater than any gore: The ending will have you crying like a baby. (A-)
Season of the Witch | Two knights escort an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform an ancient ritual to rid the land of her curse that is ravaging the country. PG-13. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman and Stephen Campbell Moore.
Country Strong | A fallen country singer strives to resurrect her ailing career with the help of her husband. PG-13. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw and Garrett Hedlund.
The moderately engaging “Barney's Version” works almost like an old-fashioned temperance movie warning against the evils of sinful drink. Not only does the boozer main character, a successful TV producer named Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti in excellent form) lose his marriage and friends because of alcoholic hazes, he comes down with early Alzheimers' symptoms suggesting the wrath of God at work for his overindulgence.
Cari appassionati di supereroi abbiamo voluto la bicicletta? Dopo anni di attese per la versione cinematografica delle avventure dei nostri personaggi preferiti cominciamo a sentirci inflazionati dai supereroi al cinema.A spanne ricordo che nel 2011 è prevista l'uscita di Thor (29 aprile), Captain America: The first avenger (22 luglio), Green Lantern (17 giugno), Green Hornet (non proprio un supereroe ma assimilato alla categoria, 28 gennaio), per non parlare dell'uscita italiana di Kick-Ass annunciata per il 25 febbraio 2011 a quasi un anno di distanza dall'uscita statunitense (misteri e miopie della distribuzione italiana).
Esce in 3d "The Green Hornet" di Gondry con cameron Diaz e Seth Rogen. L'antesignano dei supereroi dalla doppia vita ha già sbancato il botteghino americano.
L'antesignano dei tutti i supereroi sbarca sul grande schermo a distanza di 75 anni dalla sua nascita. «The Green Hornet» (il Calabrone Verde) personaggio ideato da George W. Trendle e Fran Striker per un serial radiofonico statunitense nel 1936 è ora un film (riconvertito in 3d) che nel primo weekend ha incassato in Usa 40 milioni di dollari. Ora esce (distribuito da Sony dal 28 gennaio) nelle sale italiane, diretto dal francese Michel Gondry, visionario regista (premio Oscar per «Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind») che con 120 milioni di budget battezza l'esordio del suo primo kolossal.
The big screen reboot of the Green Hornet provides another opportunity to bask in a heroic struggle against evil. While the Green Hornet seems to fit neatly into the comic to film craze, the truth is more complex. The big screen outing of this classic pulp hero extends and progresses a message of masculinity, identity, and agency that predates the superhero comic. More than escapism, the Green Hornet gives an U.S. audience nurtured on frontier imagery an example of individual agency that resonates with the effort to believe and achieve the American dream. This message is amplified by the unlikely casting of Seth Rogen to play Britt Reid/Green Hornet. Not seen as an action hero, his turn as the Green Hornet links contemporary circumstances to an imagined U.S. identity nurtured by a selective remembrance of the past.
MOVIE goers in the south-west will be spoilt for choice this week, with the Capitol Cinema in Warrnambool screening what is believed to be a record number of films.
Over the next seven days, fourteen different movies will be screened, and cinema staff will be working around the clock to do it.
The King’s Speech has remained at the top of the UK box office for the second consecutive week, holding off the challenge from new release The Green Hornet .
The movie, and in particular the central performance from Colin Firth, has been gaining major praise this week as Firth picked up Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
Summaries are condensed from Blade reviews and reflect the theater schedule starting tomorrow. Films are rated on a scale of 5 stars (best) to Bomb (worst). The reviewer’s name, movie running time, and abbreviations of the theaters where the movie is playing are at the end of each summary.
Tangled held off decent competition from The Green Hornet to retain the top spot overseas over the weekend. With the exception of The King's Speech , most releases saw modest declines, and overall business trailed last year whenled with $128.9 million (more than the Top Ten combined this week).
No strings attached: Director Ivan Reitman's romantic comedy No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, follows a couple trying to have friends-with-benefits sex without getting all boyfriend-girlfriend about it. It's a movie benefiting from another sparkling, sexy and emotionally available performance by Portman, some clever turns in situations and witty banter that isn't shy about crossing over into Hangover-level raunchy.
The new Box Office The Green Hornet Movie with writer partner Evan Goldberg, Rogen again putting on the mask, and cool emerald dress in the iconic right-thinking. and Director by Michel Gondry, The Green Hornet is much more colorful than the scandal of The Dark Knight. Rogen plays Britt Reid, a playboy Los Angeles turns to the fate of the newspaper publisher assassinated father after the troops and Kato (Jay Chou), to fight crime in the posture of masked criminals.
Between 1963 and 1965 there was a woman’s sexy voice declaring on television “It’s Burke’s law–h”. Burke’s Law featured Gene Barry (from the 1953 War Of The Worlds) as Amos Burke, an imaginative but not very realistic rich police captain solving crime in a Rolls Royce. Enter the highly compelling Kathy Bates forty-eight years later in David E. Kelley’s return to The Practice/Boston Legal place he’s so familiar with and a show that bears a similar title: Harry’s Law.
News on the Planet of the Apes prequel gets pushed back, Storm Shadow returning for G.I. Joe 2 , Arnold Schwarzenegger talks his Hollywood future, Alien's prequel becomes Prometheus and more!
There is so much snow here, it is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Throw in a cold snap which left my car with a frozen battery and I'm not enjoying this winter as much as I should be. And it's only January! But oh well, only minor setbacks. University is back in full swing so my life is slowly creeping toward that hectic, frenetic pace that I'm so used to (and will probably miss when I'm done). My plans to get ahead this year are faltering quickly with my lack of a car, which makes things just that much more difficult, but I still hope to get things rolling. That said, onto the news:
London, Jan 17 (Calcutta Tube) Hollywood funnyman Seth Rogen proposed to his girlfriend Lauren Miller when she was wearing nothing but a pair of underpants and says her father isn’t impressed with the engagement story.
‘The Green Hornet’ actor had planned an elaborate proposal, but decided to pop the question to his girlfriend of six years right then in their home in case he lost the ring, much to the unhappiness of his future father-in-law, reports contactmusic.com.
I am not a journalist – I just play one, as the saying goes.
The author's media credentials for the North American International Auto Show. (Photos by the writer.)
So what was I doing at the Press Preview of the North American International Auto Show a few days ago at Cobo Hall? Even though I’m an architect in my day job, I also do some writing for EcoGeek.org, a blog focused on issues of technology and the environment. And I’ve also contributed to several other online media outlets in the past few years.
Whether it's the Ferrari trashed in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or the campy car of a Caped Crusader, the silver screen's four-wheeled vehicles are the ultimate dream machines.
Often, they eclipse the actors.
Most of us have a favorite. Now, with the release of "The Green Hornet," Hollywood is putting a car in a starring role again. The Black Beauty, a custom Chrysler Imperial -- the car chauffeured by Bruce Lee in the 1960s TV series -- rides again in the new movie starring Seth Rogen.
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The Green Hornet showcased a ton of product placements.
The series-based film has its fair share of booze and cars. Sources claim that months before the movie began production, the role of Black Beauty—the coveted vehicle in the film—was auctioned of for a reported $35 million.
It took 29 mid-1960s Chrysler Imperials to create enough "Black Beauties" for the Green Hornet, which opened as the nation's No. 1 movie this weekend. And after all that carnage that goes with making a big-budget Hollywood action movie, how many are left? Just three, according to the film's car coordinator.
regala ai suoi lettori tre copie di Green Hornet curate dalla Panini Comics nella sua nuova serie scritta da Kevin Smith .
Per ricevere il fantastico regalo basta rispondere a questa domanda: " quanti gol ha segnato Marco Borriello lo scorso campionato? " Per rispondere basta consultare le schede calciatori di Sportlive e trovare la pagina del bomber giallorosso! ;)
Après avoir achevé la promotion de son dernier film, The Green Hornet , Cameron Diaz a accordé quelques interviews dans lesquelles elle reste fidèle à elle-même, c’est-à-dire on ne peut plus franche !
Si Reese Witherspoon est une adepte des potins people , ce n’est pas le cas de Cameron Diaz, qui se porte bien mieux en jouant à la sourde oreille ! L’actrice, qui sort actuellement avec Alex Rodriguez, a l’habitude de voir sa vie privée étalée dans les journaux, puisqu’elle a vécu une romance des plus médiatisées avec Justin Timberlake .
If you were one of the millions who went out to see Sony's The Green Hornet this past weekend, you'll want to enter a very special giveaway SuperHeroHype and the Weekend Warrior are doing in conjunction with the IMAX Corporation, who were nice enough to supply lots of cool prizes, some of which you can see below.
LOS ANGELES — Superhero movie "The Green Hornet" flew to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, final figures showed Tuesday, thrilling audiences with special effects but leaving some critics cold.
The Michel Gondry flick, starring favorite Seth Rogan, took in $40 million in the four-day holiday weekend -- $33.5 million for the regular weekend period -- with its tale of a young playboy businessman who becomes a butt-kicking crime fighter, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.
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Actress Cameron Diaz appeared on TBS' Conan on Monday promoting The Green Hornet , it starts talking Hornet around the 6:25 mark, funny stuff...
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Afgelopen weekend ging de superhelden-actiekomedie The Green Hornet (RT = 42%, IMDb = 6,8) met o.a. Seth Rogen en Cameron Diaz in de States in première. En dit ging de film van regisseur Michel Gondry succesvol af. Met een budget van circa $90 miljoen verdiende het namelijk zo'n $34 miljoen. Ook de komedie van The Dilemma (RT = 26%, IMDb = 5,1) van Ron Howard werd losgelaten op het bioscooppubliek. De opbrengst van zo'n $17,5 miljoen is echter niet enorm opzienbarend.
Qu’est-ce qu’est allé faire le génialissime et poétique Michel Gondnry dans un blockbuster à gros budget et son histoire de super-héros justicier ? C’est la grande question que la majorité des fans d’Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, La Science des rêves ou Human Nature ont dû se poser. Pourtant, que cela soit dit, en y repensant, Michel Gondry n’est finalement pas qu’un cinéaste qui fait ses films avec des rouleaux de cartons et du scotch. Et The Green Hornet, après vision, avec ses explosions, ses courses poursuites en voiture, ses flingues à doubles canons et sa machine à café made in Shanghai, reste tout à fait convenablement un film d’auteur – un film de son auteur.
The final battle nears for Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, left, and Voldemort, played by Ralph Fiennes, as the saga of the boy wizard draws to a close in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." (AP photo)
A momentous finale lies ahead for Hollywood this year. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is the biggest screen farewell since the final “Star Wars” movie, closing out a decade of adventures for the young wizard.
If the truth will set you free, then you might say that Robert Redford has a vision of movies becoming a force for liberation. No, not the ones like “The Green Hornet” or “No Strings Attached.”
At the opening press conference of last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the actor, filmmaker and part-time Utah resident was discussing the dwindling reach of traditional news media when he posed the question, “Where are people going to get the truth?” Some of that truth, Redford went on to say, is likely to be uncovered — and dramatically showcased — by documentaries.
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Image Credit: Jaimie Trueblood; Chuck Hodes With this weekend’s solid-but-unspectacular opening for The Green Hornet and the disappointing debut of The Dilemma , Hollywood is marking an unhappy milestone: Box office revenues have now been down from the previous year’s tally for 10 consecutive weeks. After a bruising holiday season littered with high-profile misfires like The Tourist, How Do You Know, and Gulliver’s Travels , the major studios are hopeful that 2011 will bring a reversal of last year’s worrying 5 percent decline in overall movie attendance. 2011 is not off to the most encouraging start. Though final numbers aren’t in yet, this weekend’s total box office haul looks like it will come in 25 percent below last year’s. Yes, last year at this time audiences were still flocking to the 3-D hit Avatar . Still, 10 straight down weeks stings—and not in a good Green Hornet way.
Here’s our weekend box office report and various movie news tidbits we may have missed.
This week:
The Green Hornet stings the top of the box office; Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg say I Hate You Dad ; Robert Downey Jr. talks sequels and Sherlock Holmes ; Jeffrey Dean Morgan opens the Dibbuk Box for Sam Raimi; Nick Stahl is under Locke & Key and get ready for an Alien Sleeper Cell.
The superhero film drew the lowest No. 1 weekend gross overseas since Oct., bumping 'Tangled' to No. 2 while 'Fockers,' 'Tron' and 'Tourist' hold strong and round out the top five.
A lackluster weekend on the foreign language theatrical circuit saw Sony's high- budget The Green Hornet narrowly taking the No. 1 box office slot with an estimated $16.1 million grossed from 2,981 offshore screens in 35 markets.
The Green Hornet comfortably took top spot over the Martin Luther King Box Office weekend with its $34 million opening sum, almost doubling the gross of its nearest challenger, the big name flop The Dilemma , directed by Ron Howard & starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.
It was a lovely morning at the Sony Pictures lot where the talent and crew of the “Green Hornet” gathered to chat about their upcoming release. In attendance was writer and star Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Director Michel Gondry and Producer Neal Moritz.
-an Action fehlts nicht, auch der '66 Chrysler Imperial ''Black Beauty'' ist nur so mit Knallern vollgestopft, wirklich viele coole Gadgets, durch die es nur so vor blauen bohnen wimmelt.
-Story ist auch gut, zumal die 30er Radioserie eine super Vorlage gibt.
-Humor wird wohl auch nicht oft bemängelt werden, die RunningGags
The Green Hornet takes down The Dilemma, while True Grit continues to impress. Here's our US box office round up...
With a new weekend comes a new release slate. This weekend, The Green Hornet and The Dilemma came up for public appraisal, and the clear winner is Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and the Black Beauty. Of the two new releases, The Green Hornet was the biggest success, bringing in $34 million in a decent, if a bit soft new release.
Well it’s a New Year!! 2011 to be exact and this particular year brings with it a glut of comic book based movies this summer. Captain America, Thor, Green Lantern, the X-Men, etc. are hitting the big screen to hopefully capture our imaginations as well as our wallets.
So, be that as it may … I decided to resurrect my first article for CBMovie.com.
Los cómics están de moda. No hay más que echar un vistazo a la cartelera cinematográfica, que en menos de cinco años ha recogido éxitos de taquilla basados en superhéroes como Spiderman, X-Men, Batman o Ironman , además de otras arriesgadas propuestas como las adaptaciones de novelas gráficas como Scott Pilgrim contra el mundo o Kick-Ass . En 2011 llegan The Green Hornet, Thor , el Capitán América y Linterna Verde . A los fans de los superpoderes les espera un agitado año repleto de viñetas que cobran vida en la gran pantalla. Para tomar parte en la eterna batalla entre el bien y el mal tal y como dicta la moda actual, Converse lanza las zapatillas que tanto héroes como villanos elegirían para completar su traje.
Met: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos, Tom Wilkinson, Edward Furlong e.a.
Onlangs (in onze bespreking van ‘The Tourist') hadden we het nog over het lullige lot van Hollywoods met de regelmaat van de klok ingevoerde expat-regisseurs. Wees creatief, maar vooral niet te veel, en was je handen vooraleer je aan de lopende band komt staan, dat is het devies voor de buitenlandse talenten die zich gretig naar Tinseltown laten lonken. Een ervan is alvast een uitzondering. Frans videocliptalent Michel Gondry, u allen bekend van ‘Be Kind Rewind', ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' en ‘The Science of Sleep', kon in Amerika best gedijen zonder aan creatieve kracht in te boeten, zo leek het. Tot nu. Gondry stapt met ‘The Green Hornet' mee in het rijtje gewillige topregisseurs die zich voor de kar laten spannen van een grootschalige blockbuster en bevindt zich daarmee in het gezelschap van schoon volk als Bryan Singer (‘X-Men', ‘X2', ‘Superman Returns'), Sam Raimi (‘Spiderman'-trilogie), Darren Aronofsky (het op stapel staande ‘The Wolverine'), Sam Mendes (de volgende, voorlopig titelloze James Bond) en Kenneth Branagh (het er verschrikkelijk camp uitziende ‘Thor'). Heeft Gondry dan misschien een speciale, uit alle poriën fantasie uitademende superhero movie in elkaar kunnen knutselen? Nope, ‘The Green Hornet' is een bovengemiddeld plezierige, maar weinig indrukwekkende genrefilm geworden die maar op een zeldzaam moment de aanwezigheid van een groot talent verraadt.
Superhelden-Filme sind in der Regel echte Kassenschlager. Seit Donnerstag läuft 'The Green Hornet', bald kommt 'Green Lantern' in die Kinos.
Logisch, dass auch PC-Spiele als lohnende Investition gelten. Doch die Qualität bleibt oft genug hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Egal ob Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man oder Batman. Zu jedem Kinofilm musste in der Vergangenheit eine Spielumsetzung her, denn die Blockbuster versprachen reißende Absätze auch an den Kassen der Spielehändler.
While the latest reboot of The Green Hornet is buzzing along at the box office, its television predecessor didn't fare as well -- it lasted just one season of 26 episodes.
But the show did jump start the career of Bruce Lee , playing the sidekick servant Kato, and amass a cult following.
Maggie: Over the holidays, Tom Spurgeon starting running his annual interview series. He stopped at #20 and it’s one of my favorite comic creators ever, Jaime Hernandez of Love & Rockets. They talk about digital comics, work-for-hire, deadlines, formats and Jaime’s process. Great stuff. As someone who’s met Jaime on several occasions and read whole issues of L&R direct from the original art, I enjoyed the heck out of this interview. (In fact, I heartily recommend the entire Comics Reporter Interview series for this season. You can find the list of all 20 interviews and their links here .)
Very few gave Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen's Green Hornet much of a chance. Where they right not to? Click for my take...
This is gonna be a divider! And for many reasons, not just the "fans of the Green Hornet will hate/non fans will like" theory(which of course is valid), but even if this was the first time any of us had heard of the character, Michel Gondry's movie is still the type to divide audiences. Is it an action movie with comedic elements? A comedy with some action? A parody even? Make absolutely no mistake, it's a comedy. Green Hornet is played for laughs throughout. It's not complete farce, and SOME drama creeps in, but don't expect the director or the cast to take the film or themselves seriously at all. Good job it's damn funny then eh?
Optimist Nationals 2011- WA’s Chris Charlwood ‘C Dog’ wins
2011 Optimist Nationals - 14 year old West Australian Chris Charlwood has been crowned the 2011 Optimist National Open fleet Champion with a victory in the final race to claim a narrow one point victory over defending champion Nia Jerwood after another frustrating and fickle day on Pittwater that saw just one race completed in the Open fleet.
When it comes to movie videogames, developers have the choice to go the G-Force / Avatar route and make a game that’s compelling on its own, or they can take the Kick-Ass approach and release a steaming pile of refuse and hope the name brand brings in the sales. The Green Hornet for iOS opts for the latter route. And while it’s not as unplayable as Kick-Ass, it is a rushed, clunky, wholly unimaginative cash-in.
Those who tuned into "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Thursday night got a special treat. Renowned filmmaker and director of "The Green Hornet" Michel Gondry brought his signature style to Kimmel's set, directing the entire show and pulling off some hilarious bits.
Starting with the monologue, which Gondry made into one of his elaborate dream sequences, he used special cameras, props, music and more to make then entire hour-long show his masterpiece.
! Même s’il assure avoir perdu une vingtaine de kilos pour se glisser dans la peau du Frelon Vert (traduction de The Green Hornet ), ce gros nounours de Seth Rogen était bien le dernier acteur à paraître crédible dans la peau d’un super héros qui tente d’emballer Cameron Diaz ! L’acteur fétiche des comédies de Judd Apatow en a pourtant dans le ciboulot en dépit de son air benêt : co-scénariste sur The Green Hornet , il s’est taillé un rôle sur-mesure et 100% inédit, celui du super-héros super agaçant ! Pendant les trois quarts du film, on a qu’une envie, flanquer une raclée à ce pauvre type de Britt Reid – ce que fait très bien son acolyte dans une scène déjà culte. Jeune milliardaire oisif, Britt hérite du journal de son père, The Daily Sentinel (même style de journal à l’ancienne comme le Daily Planet de Superman). A la suite d’une blague de potache, il décide de devenir The Green Hornet , un héros masqué qui passe pour un gangster au yeux du public, mais en profite en fait pour combattre le crime en secret. Il a la chance de se dégoter un « sidekick » super efficace en la personne de Kato, un jeune employé de la maison qui se révèle expert en arts martiaux et en création de gadgets aussi géniaux qu’improbables (le pistolet à gaz). Kato devient aussi le chauffeur de sa création, Black Beauty , une voiture classieuse et truffées d’armes fatales.
If this guy in a hat and overcoat could fight crime in a cool car with machine guns built into the hood -- why couldn't I?
It was short-lived and got pretty silly at the end but I loved the 1966 ABC TV series The Green Hornet.
I was too young to realize that Bruce Lee was practicing a fighting style that had a long and storied history or that he would later go on to become a cultural icon. But loved the Black Beauty (an Imperial Crown sedan), Green Hornet’s tricked out ride and the Hornet’s Sting and most of all the minimalist costume that eschewed gaudy tights, briefs and pointed cowls for an overcoat, suit, mask and porkpie hat. That’s a costume I could put together with just one quick raid of my Dad’s closet!
,' was never finished), one season of 'The Green Hornet' TV series in the mid-1960s, and a handful of minor film and TV roles,Bruce Leeleft an indelible mark on moviegoers and film history. Lee died at the age of 32 from an allergic reaction to medication only days before the premiere of the Hollywood studio-financed 'Enter the Dragon.' He didn't get the chance to see 'Enter the Dragon' become a major commercial hit, based primarily on his star-making turn, or the long-lasting pop culture influence his last film would have on Western audiences, including countless imitations on film and related media (e.g., Marvel Comics' Shang Chi character), and a renewed (if not just new) curiosity in studying Asian martial arts.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Peter Fonda discovered a dead man slumped in his car after an apparent suicide, officials said on Thursday.
Fonda, best known as the star of 1969's "Easy Rider" and the son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, found the body on Wednesday afternoon in a section of west Los Angeles and called police.
Suddenly, there’s a rush of new films, three about marriage difficulties, three on human rights, two pure Hollywood and an entertaining Canadian.
These are today’s titles:
THE GREEN HORNET: Loud, dumb and sometimes fun. Only sometimes though. Point Grey High School’s two most famous graduates have crafted a superhero comedy that delivers a few laughs early on, outrageous action later on and nothing much consistent anywhere. Seth Rogen, who also wrote the script with his long-time best friend, Evan Goldberg, plays the masked crime fighter like pretty well every Seth Rogen character we’ve seen before. He’s a wisecracking slacker, not a debonair playboy as the previous radio and TV incarnations had him. Whether running the newspaper he inherits or chasing criminals, he’s rather inept but convinced he’s a sharp idea man. It gets tiresome under much long-winded dialogue.
Motorcycle fanatics take note: "The Green Hornet"-- a 3-D action comedy treatment of the radio program, comic book, and TV show franchise-- hits theaters today, and features a mildly customized Harley-Davidson V-Rod Muscle , kinda like the one you voted (or didn't vote for) in our Long Term Harley-Davidson Moto Poll .
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- This time last year, "Inglourious Basterds" star Christoph Waltz kicked off what ended up being an awards season sweep with a win at the Critics' Choice Awards.
Cameron Diaz at 'The Green Hornet' premiere Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011
You don't usually combine the Internet and old-time radio in the same sentence. Yet in the mid-1990s, the Internet helped revive dramatic radio! As people began expressing their interests by creating personal websites, linking with like-minded fans in webrings, and posting to newsgroups, they discovered that they could do far more than just "chat"! They could send image and sound files to each other, or post them on their sites for others to download! As home computers became more powerful and network capacity and speed increased, the files became bigger! What once were small jpegs and sound bites (like a single song), became huge pngs and pdfs and complete albums and podcasts! Now, old-time radio fans could send or receive complete episodes of radio shows (including many that had never been put on record or cassette)! Companies like Radio Spirits, which began by issuing shows on cassettes and cds, created websites where fans could order cds, or download digitally-remastered classic radio episodes! Streaming audio quickly followed, enabling listeners to enjoy shows without filling up their harddrives. An entire new generation discovered the "Theatre of the Imagination" as they began listening to classic radio dramas on iPods and other mp3 players while travelling or on laptops and desktops while working and studying! There were even attempts at all-new "classic radio"-style podcasts like Chicago Radio Theatre. Among the more popular series was...you guessed it...The Green Hornet!
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Image Credit: Zade Rosenthal/Marvel Studios; Michael Muller/Marvel Studios; Nels Israelson Do you love superheroes? I mean seriously love superheroes? Then 2011 is your year, my friend. Today marks the long-delayed release date of, and this summer we’ll be treated to four major comic book movies: Thor , Green Lantern , X-Men: First Class , and Captain America . All of those movies are positively begging audiences to love them enough to qualify for a trilogy, and Thor and Captain America are both essential cogs in Marvel’s beautiful vision of an Avengers movie mega-franchise. But considering that all of these films are based on characters who aren’t very well-known to the masses, it’s worth asking: Is 2011 the year that superheroes achieve total cinematic domination? Or is it the year that the superhero genre stumbles?
From Seth Rogen's performance, the script and Michael Gondry's direction to the ultra-violence, Christoph Waltz as the villain and more, 411s Shawn S. Lealos takes a look at The Green Hornet !
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The 3D superhero pic should sell in the mid-$30 million range; numbers for the latest Vince Vaughn comedy ‘The Dilemma’ will probably be much lower.
Fueled by younger males, Sony’s 3D superhero pic The Green Hornet should sport a potent sting this weekend. Universal’s The Dilemma , directed by Ron Howard, will have a tougher time and could bring muted numbers for a Vince Vaughn or Kevin James comedy.
’s Edward James Olmos Talks 3-D and Disappointed Dads
In his 33 years in the business, Edward James Olmos has become the man to go to for paternal savvy: He got an Oscar nomination for his role as a dedicated teacher in 1988's Stand and Deliver , won an Emmy as the stern but protective Lieutenant Castillo in Miami Vice , and was the human race's protector as Battlestar Galactica 's Admiral Adama. Starting tomorrow you can see him in The Green Hornet as yet another father figure: He's the wise newspaperman No. 2 to Seth Rogen's media-magnate-by-inheritance. We chatted with Olmos about Gondry’s comic streak, racial casting in Avatar , and the time his dad didn’t speak to him for two years.
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Michel Gondry's directorial career has been an uneven one, swinging from highs (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to lows (The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind), yet at least whatever he offered was ident ifiably his own.
Hard to know why he was persuaded on board for this, a trashy superhero comedy (in yawnsome 3D) that tries to reproduce the innocent charm of its origins as a 1930s radio serial. Part of the problem is its lead: Seth Rogen has massively overdrawn on his teddy-bear charm (cf Jack Black), and his attempts to put a comic slant on the eponymous playboy-turned-nincompoop-vigilante just don't catch fire – he's looking trimmer these days, but he's lost his pep along with the extra pounds. Jay Chou as his crime-fighting partner, Kato, fares slightly better, even if his diction is on a par with Jackie Chan's. The script is incredibly slack (that's Rogen's fault, too, co-writing with Evan Goldberg) and wastes the immaculate timing of the Austrian actor Christoph Waltz (an Oscar winner for Inglourious Basterds) as a criminal kingpin who's insecure about his reputation. Halfway through it more or less stops trying to amuse us and turns into a demolition derby with the volume turned up, and you realise the cars and the gadgetry have been geared all along for an audience of 12-year-old boys. And even 12-year-olds might feel insulted by the cursory role handed to Cameron Diaz as Rogen's simpering secretary.
It would be too much to expect inspiration in "The Green Hornet." There's nothing here but a concept and a marketing and merchandising strategy, at the center of which somebody - oh, no - had to come up with an actual movie. No one loved it into existence. No one had a dream. Yet even under these canned conditions sometimes people come up with a way to do it, some invigorating new idea. That didn't happen this time.
Traditionally, January is not a month for blockbusters. It’s a month when studios can dump bombs and hope that smaller movies get some attention.
That’s what happened with Sony’s Paul Blart: Mall Cop which cost an estimated $25 million to make and earned $183 million at the global box office in 2009. That same month Taken performed well for Fox earning $227 million on an estimated $26 million budget.
In six hours you can catch the first showing of The Green Hornet at the Palace 17 (you'd think for your trouble they'd put it on the Odyssey screen) or you can stay home and watch this way more entertaining 1940 Universal serial starring Gordon Jones as the Green Hornet and Keye Luke as Kato:
The new Green Hornet movie is a goofy superhero send-up. But the franchise has a serious past. Dig into some Hornet history and learn how its heroes went from radio and comics to TV, and finally to Seth Rogen.
The Green Hornet has been an enduring character, but a vague one. Most people can remember the name, but few can manage to remember specifics about the actual character. The current movie, with Seth Rogen as the star and one of the writers, looks a little like an Apatow superhero film. It's shot through with humor and centered around a hilariously incompetent superhero and his long-suffering partner. Earlier Green Hornets were much more serious. Although sidekick Kato has always been long-suffering.
Aretha Franklin isn't going anywhere - certainly not to the Afterlife. So the Queen of Soul announced by phone Wednesday on Wendy Williams ' talk show. "My health is superb. It is superb," said Franklin, 68, a month after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed condition. So is she battling cancer? (It's pancreatic or bladder cancer, depending on reports.) The diva, who is recovering at a hotel-casino in Detroit, didn't say.
More excerpts from the book The Film That Changed My Life .
JOHN WATERS(director of Hairspray ) on The Wizard of Oz
“And when they throw the water on the witch, she says, ‘Who could ever have thought a good little girl like you could destroy all my beautiful wickedness?’ That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.”
Britney Spears is piling up impressive airplay stats for her new single, “Hold It Against Me,” which broke records for single-day spins at both MediaBase and BDS, her label, Jive Records, reported Tuesday, a day after the song went to radio.
But another pop music act is experiencing a sense of déjà vu with the bouncy song written for Spears by Max Martin and Dr. Luke , with its chorus built around the lyric “If I said I want your body now/Would you hold it against me?”
After fading badly in the second half of losses to the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic before traveling to New Orleans, the Warriors decided to turn that trend around.
Monta Ellis (FSY) scored 29 points and Golden State beat the New Orleans Hornets 110-103 Wednesday night.
Well, it's time to look at the films likely to make the biggest dollars at the box-office, but will any of them truly stand out as some of the year's best? Below we're looking at the films that will serve as the largest measure of escapism throughout 2011 as a new batch of superheroes will test whether or not they deserve big screen treatment, robots will once again blow things up, animated cars will again talk, a barbarian returns, cowboys fight aliens, Nic Cage is angry and at the wheel, death continues to stalk teenagers and Justin Bieber refuses to say "never". It's going to be a wild ride…
Looking at entertainment news around the state and nation, a Michigan native will host a new Travel Channel show, The International Auto Show will showcase a superhero's car, TV's portrayal of midlife crises have gotten more serious, Americans watch a lot of TV, a compilation of works by Spanish-speaking writers has been released and Eminem and Taylor Swift buck the trend of fans turning to digital means to listen to their songs.
A chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) hopes to be a hero in the old West in “Rango,” due in theaters March 4.
It’s not fair. For the first few weeks of every new year, the movie business spoils us.
Then cold, hard reality sets in.
Right now we have all those prestige Christmas releases — “True Grit,” “The Fighter,” “127 Hours,” “Black Swan,” “The King’s Speech,” etc. — still in the theaters.
With the arrival of the New Year, Hollywood is prepared to hurl another salvo of films into theaters to see what sticks. The first few months don’t have much of a reputation for delivering blockbusters, but that’s not going to stop filmmakers from trying to put movie tickets in your hand.
January’s wave of movies are like the disposable pawns filling out the front line in chess. We’ll see if this year’s selection can buck the trend.
Last Sunday, the critics at the Post-Dispatch assembled lists of the most anticipated new releases in their respective fields for the first quarter of 2011.
But at the movies, winter is a burial ground. While the Oscar-contending films lure the last of the stragglers, the new releases are a woeful bunch. But like a city without a playoff-caliber football team, movie fans await the spring, when the Cardinals report to spring training and buzzworthy flicks return to the multiplex.
So it’s 2011, a new year. Well, WHOOPEE. Let’s be honest, what that means is that you’re fatter, older, depressed and evidently so bored that you’ve resorted to reading these pointless witterings that purportedly showcase the latest film trailers on the STV site. Let’s face it dear reader, you’re in one hell of a rut, and you’ve got no-one else to blame other than yourself. Congratulations.
Featurette is All About the Action Posted 01.06.11 by BrentJS
Columbia Pictures recently released four new clips from director Michel Gondry 's ( Be Kind Rewind ) The Green Hornet adaptation that showcased the movie's blend of action and comedy, but the new featurette that just debuted is all about the action. The featurette contains commentary from Gondry, title star and co-writer Seth Rogen , co-writer Evan Goldberg ( Pineapple Express ), and Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz , who plays the Hornet's primary antagonist, Chudnofsky. Rogen explains that practical effects were always used in favor of CGI whenever possible and praises stunt co-ordinators Scott and Andy Armstrong , who also provide some insight into how they conceptualized and executed some of the crazy stunts seen in the movie.
Para todos los amantes del cine también hay adelantos de lo que podremos ver este año. Vía se han dado a conocer el mes en que algunas de las películas más esperadas llegarán a las salas de nuestro país.
Iniciamos con The Green Hornet en enero bajo la dirección del francés Michel Gondry y la participación de Seth Rogen, Jay Chou y Cameron Diaz.
Sony starts off by showing off Internet-integrated products
Sony North America President Phil Molyneux speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
LAS VEGAS — Move over 3-D televisions. Internet connected TVs are the new darlings of the massive Consumer Electronics Show — the annual gala for everything from audio woofers to digital cameras to smart phones — that opened here Wednesday.
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Today was the official start of Consumer Electronics Show otherwise known as CES. And though it started slow the show started to pick up later in the day and ended pretty good. The Sony press conference started with a 3D trailer of The Green Hornet. After the trailer the 2 heroes of The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen and Jay Chou, and the CEO, President, and Chairman of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer. After talking about the movie with Seth and Jay; Sir Stringer started talking about the future of Sony and its 3D function throughout its Sony products, as well as a new way to listen to music for all of its products.
Video interview of Green Hornet's Jay Chou on playing his superhero sidekick character Kato...
Britt Reid is the son of LA’s most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene – until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father’s more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves – protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato’s clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves.
Assista a 4 clipes inéditos do filme "Besouro Verde"
A Columbia Pictures está se preparando para o lançamento nos Estados Unidos do filme “Besouro Verde” (The Green Hornet) em 14 de janeiro e está provocando as pessoas com algumas cenas inéditas. Quatro novos clipes surgiram que mostram Britt Reid e Kato em ação.
Slovensk kin tartuj nov rok filmami, ktor mu uspokoji fanikov komernej zbavy za vek peniaze aj milovnkov osobnejch prbehov a osobitejch autorskch vpoved.
Vo tvrtok m premiru vpravn Tron, ktor vynikne najm na vekch pltnach multiplexov, aj drma Single Man, ktorej azda viac pristane komornejie klubov prostredie. Takto pestros subuje cel janur.
dont la deuxième saison battait alors son plein. Les choses auraient pu en rester là (la série a plus que vieilli tant visuellement qu'au niveau des intentions globales à la différence de, au hasard, Batman ), mais c'était sans compter sur le culte qui entoure dorénavant Le Frelon vert généré surtout de par la seule présence de Kato, le fidèle assistant d'origine asiatique et maître en arts martiaux, aka Bruce Lee dont c'était là les grands débuts.
Kato comes to Britt's rescue when he is about to be attacked by some armed men, and the duo is involved in a street chase with police.
Columbia Pictures is gearing up to the U.S. release of "The Green Hornet" on January 14 and is teasing people with some sneak peeks. Four new clips have emerged online with two of them seeing Britt Reid and Kato in action.
January is finally here, and in the movie world that means one thing: mind-numbing tedium. Oh, sure, fans can tune into the various award shows for a momentary diversion. But because of those awards, most studios have already released all their good stuff in December. And that leaves January as a vast dumping ground for all the second-rate films that Hollywood has deemed unworthy of serious consideration. It's enough to make a movie fan want to hibernate until February.
Several big budget films also due to be released in the coming year January 5, 2011
A new year has arrived, and for comic book fans, that simply means the calendar is ticking another day closer to one hotly anticipated release or another.
Half the fun is in the buildup felt while waiting on new projects, and 2011 certainly isn't lacking in excitement.
There's no doubt, the "Green Hornet" will be action-packed. (Courtesy of YouTube)
WASHINGTON - Next month, the creator of the breakthrough 3D megahit "Avatar" ventures below ground with "Sanctum," a thriller that follows a team of cavers who descend miles below the earth's surface only to be trapped by a flood.
Over the years, I've interviewed quite a few actors who have put on the tights and played superheroes. Here are some of their thoughts on their alter identities:
"I know I'm biased, but Batman had the best villains. We had legendary stars like Vincent Price (as Egghead) and Burgess Meredith (as the Penguin). My personal favorite, of course, was Julie Newmar as Catwoman. She gave me curious stirrings in my utility belt!"
