A report has arrived ahead of the annual trade show for the American cinema industry, CinemaCon, which has some rather depressing words that will no doubt affect cinema owners and audience members the world over.
It seems that 3D is “maturing” again, tickets sales are expected to drop once again and another rise in ticket cost is expected, one that will be offset by the drop in people going to the cinema. There's a message there for those in the cinema industry, and it's not about increasing prices and offering more 3D films.
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The new trailer for Ron Howard and Peter Morgan's Rush, the film of the amazing battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt for the Formula 1 Championship is filled with passion, drama and high octane racing stunts, and it looks both glorious and poor at the same time.
The full trailer for The World's End, the third in the trilogy of films from the Wright-Pegg- Frost team is not far off and I have to admit that the first trailer I saw I wasn't too taken with. Now this fuller trailer has me more interested.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a pretty unconventional actor, he's always taking roles you don't expect, well that I don't expect anyway. Now his latest film sees him not only leading but also writing and directing, and from the looks of the trailer it would seem he's producing something rather special.
Matthew Cooke made an interestingly titled documentary called How to Make Money Selling Drugs last year and I've only just seen the trailer. Now before you get all excited I don't actually believe it is a guide on how to do it and succeed, looking at it more closely it might just come away with a different message, at least I hope it does.
Fast and Furious is losing Justin Lin, arguably one of the men responsible for the growth of the franchise and now he's leaving the franchise as the studio wants to increase the turnaround of the films, note that isn't increase the quality just the quantity. Bowing to the ongoing Hollywood mantra of “More and Bigger" and not “Better".
I haven't really been sold on a modern remake of a slasher film, after all the attempts to remake old horror classics and cult films has been far from successful, even with recognisable names in them. Watching the previous Maniac trailers that what I've been thinking and no matter how stylish or unique they looked with the point of view camera, I wasn't convinced.
There's a much more complete trailer arrived for Man of Steel and one that shows off the effects in the film much more than we've seen to date. This isn't one talking about the origins or skirting around the plot line and characters of the film, here we're straight into the deep end.
There's not a great deal of story to be gleaned from the trailer for Blood Ties but there are three key things you should know up front that should make you leap towards this trailer. One is that it is directed and co-written by Guillaume Canet with James Gray also co-writing, and then there's the cast list.
Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Daniel Wu, Karolina Wydra and Anamaria Marinca star in this story about a space mission from Earth to Europa, which as you will no doubt know is one of Jupiter's moons, to investigate the findings from an unmanned probe that has discovered an ocean beneath the surface of the planet, an ocean with living organisms within it.
Last I remember it was Charlize Theron who was working on a remake of Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance as both producer and star, well that was 
I wasn't a big fan of Ben Wheatley's Kill List (Filmstalker review) but then I know the writer and director has a strong following, and so he will have for his latest film, A Field in England. That said the trailer doesn't do him any favours to be honest.
I’m getting really excited about the film 2 Guns, not only is Denzel Washington looking like he’s in charge and still managing to deliver style and grab the ladies, Paula Patton’s character has fallen for his, but there’s Bill Paxton in the background who is undoubtedly going to deliver the Paxisms I love to see.
According to reports the Weinstein Company’s plan to create sequels to its 2000 hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually going ahead. Marred by a lengthy legal battle and delays it looks like we’re finally seeing the project move forward with a script, two leads and a director announced.
David Mamet has just cast the lead in his next film that he plans to write and direct. The film is called Blackbird, and while some of that might get your attention for a few moments it’s the plot of the film that is the most interesting part.
There’s a new trailer for Pacific Rim online and it’s being touted as the big one. Pacific Rim is the film from Guillermo del Toro that sees massive monsters from another realm attacking Earth and humanity fighting back with giant robots.
