“Good Never Looked So Bad!”
…says the voice over man on the third and possibly final trailer for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. As usual it looks weird and wonderful, and I believe some monster and creature lovers would call it a visual orgasm.
Around the 1 minute mark some music starts to kick in, which was also used in a trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. This inevitably started to get me thinking about Jessica Alba and I have no idea what happens in the last 40 seconds of the trailer. This is why movies shouldn’t use the same trailer music!
Geek Deals: Buy Two Blu-Ray Discs Get One Free, 56% Off Lost on DVD
My friend Mike over at GWS sent me a note that Amazon.com is having a sale on Blu-Ray. You can buy two get one free on select titles including: Independence Day, Predator, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Day After Tomorrow, Ice-Age, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Terminator, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Usual Suspects, Sunshine, Cast Away, Robocop, Wall Street, AVP, Die Hard, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Die Hard 2, 28 Weeks Later, The Last Waltz, Species, Phone Booth, and many others.
Each of which are already 30% off the MSRP (anywhere from $20 to $28). You could walk away with The Terminator, The Uusual Suspects, Scorsese’s The Last Waltz for around $41! Or you could buy Die Hard, Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance for $55.90 (more than half the regular retail price of $119.94)
Meanwhile AICN points us towards this super deal on the television show LOST. LOST is by far my favorite show on television. I don’t even consider it a show, it;s more like a never ending movie. If you haven’t gotten LOST yet, now is the time. The show is better than ever. (Neil at FSR, I’m talking to you - buy now!) Or if you were one of those lame-os who left the series during season two, now is a time to come back to the island. Right now Amazon has all three seasons of LOST on DVD for 56% off - $79.99 for all three seasons combined! That’s less than $27 per season. Order now because the sale will expire at the end of the day!
Jason Reitman says No Juno Sequel
The Hollywood rumor-mill is starting to spin the idea of a Juno sequel. You might be scratching you head wondering: Why would they even consider making a Juno sequel anyway?
Juno has taken in over $136 million at the box office. By the end of its theatrical run, Juno will likely have grossed more (domestically) than Superbad, Enchanted, Bee Movie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Live Free or Die Hard, Hairspray, Ocean’s Thirteen, Ghost Rider, Beowulf, SAW IV, Halloween, Sweeney Todd, and Resident Evil: Extinction. And I’m sure we’ll see another Fantastic Four movie, and they’re already prepping two more SAW films.
But director Jason Reitman wants no part of a sequel, citing possible story problems.
“I can’t see it. She got pregnant once; I just can’t see her getting pregnant again,” Reitman told the New York Post.
And with Diablo Cody being the IT screenwriter of the moment, I don’t think she’ll be finding time to work on a potential continuation. That’s not to say that the studio might not demand a sequel (hey, it’s easy money). And didn’t Searchlight proceed on a sequel to 28 Days Later without Danny Boyle’s participation? (Boyle was technically credited as executive producer). Readers are telling me that I’m incorrect about Boyle’s lack of involvement.
Juno is a much different entity and I don’t see any sequel talk progressing without the interest of Cody or Reitman. Kevin Smith made a Clerks II more than a decade after the release of the first film. So you never know if a story might present itself later on which may lead to a cinematic reunion.
Rumor: Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk Comic Book Movie Crossovers
I hate to publish rumors, especially with the recent spell of inaccurate information spreading its way across the interwebs, but this is just too good not to comment on.
When I was a kid, I was big into comic books. And I was a sucker for comic book crossovers, where one superhero would team-up or fight another superhero in a special comic book release. As I got older, I learned that these issues usually were never as good as the headline on the comic book cover. But every time a crossover issue came out, I still bought it.
Until now most comic book movies have operated in separate universes. Sure, there have been easter egg background references like the mention of Gotham City on a news report in a Superman film, or new superhero introductions as was Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, but no two comic book films have collided. Until now that is.
AICN is reporting a rumor that Marvel has shot a scene between The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man which will somehow play and be connected in both films. Can you imagine that? When I first heard this news I had a geekgasm, and was overrun with excitement. But after I started to assess the possibilities I realized that much like the comic book crossovers from my childhood, this is probably not a good idea (or at least not as great as it sounds). And from the sound of it, the idea seems to be an afterthought, and not something that was constructed to bridge both films together. It instead sounds like a last minute gimmick, which could have been great if it was fully developed. Again, this is all just speculation.
What do you guys think? Would you like to see more big screen comic book crossovers or should the superheroes stick to their own respective films?
Iron Man hits theaters on May 2nd, 2008. The Incredible Hulk hits theaters one month later on June 13th, 2008.