Eagle Eye Movie Trailer - What Do You Think?
Paramount/DreamWorks just released a new theatrical trailer for Eagle Eye, which I’m guessing must be attached to prints of Wanted (which hits theaters this Friday). The new D.J. Caruso-directed fast-paced race-against-time-thriller which stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as “two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.”
The trailer picks up where the teaser left off, and doesnt let up. Is it just me or is this film looking better and better? The action looks intense, and need I remind you that the movie is based on an original idea from Steven Spielberg?! Watch the trailer below and tell me what you think in the comments!
Watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo. Eagle Eye hits theaters on September 26th 2008.
Cameron, Spielberg Remember Winston at Funeral
Stan Winston wasn’t just a monster mogul. He was also a kid at heart, a Beatles fan and a Hollywood visionary.
That’s according to colleagues who gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday to remember the Oscar-winning special-effects master, who died June 15 at age 62 after a seven-year battle with cancer.
“He inspired a generation of fans,” James Cameron, one of the F/X maestro’s closest collaborators, said at a private memorial service at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary.
“I think that just maybe the words of a bunch of people who didn’t even know him personally may be his best tribute,” Cameron continued before reading aloud a number of online tributes from fanboys at Ain’t It Cool News. The Titanic helmer also revealed that he spoke to Winston the day before his death and proclaimed their mutual love.
Winston, who died of multiple myeloma, earned Academy Awards for creating the out-of-this-world monsters in Cameron’s Aliens and Terminator movies, as well as the eye-popping dinos populating Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.
For his part, Spielberg hailed Winston’s extraodinary ability to turn artists’ imaginations into reality.
“What Stan did is that he took our dreamshe took all of our dreamsand he blended them with his own dreams,” said Spielberg. “He then workshopped those dreams with pencil, clay and, later years on, the computer. He would basically give life to all of our ideas. He would make them come to life.”
Other showbiz associates and friends in attendance: Aliens star Sigourney Weaver; actor Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 cyborg in T2; Iron Man filmmaker Jon Favreau; and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his True Lies sidekick Tom Arnold.
Son Matt Winston recalled that after a tearful goodbye to his family, filled with kisses, hugs and laughter, the last song his father heard was the Beatles’ “All My Loving.”
Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Star in Incredible Love. Meow.
Hey Life: why? After millions of lunch room dream movie arguments in the ’80s; after spiders launched webs inside their Planet Hollywoods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are finally teaming up on screen! It’s inglorious, bastards. The Times Online reports that they’ll co-star in the highest profile Bollywood flick to date, Incredible Love, the story of an Indian stuntman who can’t find true romance in the States (aw). C’mon, just have a duel with Nerf rockets instead.
The film is headlined by Indian stars, Ashkay Kumar (Singh is Kinng) and Kareena Kapoor (Bewaffa) and will film at Universal Studios, a first for the flashy Indian cinema. Apparently, Stallone will have a larger part than Arnold, and it wasn’t clarified whether they’d be playing their real life selves. Expect it to be cheeky, cheeky like that photo above.
“Sajid Nadiadwala, the producer, said his success in landing Stallone and Schwarzenegger reflected the growing power of the Indian film market and Bollywood’s increasing cooperation with Hollywood studios that are keen to cut costs.”
Indeed. Earlier this month, Steven Spielberg made a landmark deal worth $500 million plus with Indian entertainment company Reliance ADA. For more on that situation, click to see the post Dreamworks For Dummies. If all of this Bollywood news makes you want get your party on, let us suggest Bombay the Hard Way and the newly released King Kahn and the Shrines (seriously amazing with Bollywood-inspired cover art) as the soundtrack.
In other news: The Love Guru was a massive flop this weekend. Cool.
So Why Did Jonah Hill Turn Down Transformers 2?
One day at the end of April we heard news that Superbad actor Jonah Hill was in talks to appear in Transformers 2. However, a few days later it was reported that he was no longer in talks. I was happy about this because I wasn’t too keen on him being in Transformers 2, and it turns out he wasn’t either.
IESB got some interesting info about why he turned the role down:
“Apparently, Jonah was more or less offered the part in the room, but then had to go into Bay’s office to read the script - because it’s so super top secret and the plot is so extra-specially complex, you know.”
“Jonah sits down, opens the script. The character of the chubby sidekick is named “Jonah.” How perfect. Jonah reads 20 pages of the script, puts it down, and silently walks out of the room. Wants no part of it. Next thing you know, his reps call Bay, he’s off the project.”
Turning down a huge movie like Transformers 2 is a bold move, however I can see why he did it. He probably doesn’t want to be typecast as the chubby funny sidekick for the rest of his life. He played a chubby sidekick called Jonah in Knocked Up and he had been offered to play a chubby sidekick called Jonah in Transformers 2.
There was a time when Shia LaBeouf himself played the comic relief side kick, in movies like I,Robot, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and Constantine. Thankfully, he’s kissed Steven Spielberg’s ass enough so he no longer has to play them roles now, instead he’s getting comic relief sidekicks of his own.
Could we be seeing Jonah Hill leading a sci-fi action franchise sometime in the future? Time will tell…