TV News: DANIEL CRAIG Will Star In Two More JAMES BOND Moives

It’s great news for fans of the James Bond franchise this week as its been officially confirmed that Daniel Craig, who in 2006 signed up for his licence to kill in three bond movies has now signed to star as Britain’s favourite secret agent in another two, which like the previous ones will be financed by MGM and Sony pictures. The movies will put Daniel Craig into third on the list behind Roger Moore, who played Bond seven times and Sean Connery who played Bond on six occasions (plus one unofficial Bond movie Never Say Never Again). Craig will make it five movies taking over his predecessor Pierce Brosnan who made four.

Personally I see this as great news, for me Daniel Craig has totally re-invented the Bond franchise. I wouldn’t say I’ve been the biggest fan of Bond movies in the past, in fact I haven’t seen most of them. My main squeeze would have to have been the Sean Connery era if any, I’ve only seen Die Another Day from the Pierce Brosnan days and I made my feelings clear on that one a while back now.

2006’s Casino Royale really saw Bond taken back to how it should be, no silly gadgets just pure kick ass action with an actor in Daniel Craig who really did look like he could kick serious ass, the love story was still there as it is in all Bond outings but being the prequel it showed us why Bond dealt with the lady’s in the latter (although made before) movies. Two years later 2008 saw the release of Quantum of Solace, panned by some critics as disappointing and not as good as the first, I don’t share that opinion I think Quantum of Solace was every bit as good and you can check out my thoughts on proceedings here.

In October this year Craig’s third outing as Bond will be released in the UK. Skyfall comes four years after Quantum of Solace and in the mean time Daniel has been off getting married to Rachael Weisz and making other movies such as The Invasion which I reviewed a while back, an unusually long break thanks to MGM’s financial troubles of late, however writers and producers are glad of the break as they feel they’ve had more time to do a “proper” job on the movie which I posted the trailer for a while ago, all the regulars will be back including Judi Dench as M. New people are coming into the mix with “Q” back in the Bond franchise for the first time since the days of Brosnan and will be played by Ben Wishaw, and there is a new bad guy in the shape of Javier Bardem.

Personally I can’t wait for Skyfall, one of 2012’s most anticipated movies and Daniel Craig signing on for another two Bond movies is not a bad thing in my opinion.

I AM LEGEND 2 and HANCOCK 2

Could we be seeing I am Legend 2? It looks like it according to Deadline Warner Brothers have closed a deal with Ovebrook Entertainment to make another I Am Legend following their hit 2007 movie starring Will Smith. They are yet to announce weather the movie would be a prequel or a sequel, the latter may be more difficult as I remember Will Smith running into a group of Zombie looking sorts and blowing himself up along with his lab. I can see where there will be room for a prequel as the story in I Am Legend picked up as the man made virus had took over the world and people were being transported out of New York City, leaving Will Smith to carry the movie himself for the following two hours. That would leave plenty of scope for a movie running up to this.

Will Smith is yet to be back on board with the movie, saying he won’t commit until he has seen a script. Clearly though Warner Brothers are wanting to cash in on what was a massive box office hit grossing $584m worldwide, if they want Smith’s signature then I would imagine it would cost them at least $25m, small change when movies are making this sort of money. Asides from talk of I Am Legend 2 Will Smith is also in talks to bring back his unconventional Superhero character Hancock, again the movie is only in talks right now.

New UK Cinema Releases: 3rd February 2012, CHRONICLE, MARTHA MARCY, MAY MARLENE and JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

There are a couple of good movies out this week but it’s nothing spectacular, nothing that makes me really want to get up and go to the cinema, it really doesn’t seem to matter what is released lately nothing seems to be able to knock War Horse from the top spot. I don’t think anything this week will be changing that so without further adieu let’s see what’s new at your local cinema.

The weeks biggest release has to go to CHRONICLE, the new superhero movie brought to us by Josh Trank, the movies stars Dane DeHaan, Alex Russel and Michael B. Jordan.

Chronicle is the tale of three American teenagers who one day make a discovery that will change their lives, the three gain superpowers which at first in the movie are used to comic effect. However Chronicle quickly turns face from your normal teenage prank comedy down a darker route with the tag line “what are you capable of” the movie switches to a horror genre with one of the kids using his powers for a more sinister adventure, before long the kids lives are spinning out of control as the three embrace their darker sides.

If I had to liken this to anything I would have to say Skins or Misfits from the UK’s channel 4, it certainly does not resemble any of the big Hollywood superhero adventures we are used to, take a look at the trailer and let me know what you think.

Next up this week its MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, I have to be honest I thought this was a chick flick until I saw the review on Film 2012 with Claudia Winkleman. The movie stars Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson and John Hawkes;

This is not a chick flick, in fact it’s more of a psychological thriller which centre’s on Martha (Olsen) a girl who for two years lived in a hippie like cult, not liking the lifestyle she escapes and goes to live with her sister and brother in law where she becomes known as Marcy May, her family soon discover that Marcy May is haunted by dreams from her past and before long she is struggling to separate dreams from reality as she can’t stop the past resurfacing the family realise that Marcy may need more help than they can provide.

Although this movie is not what I thought I still think that it will be very good, on Film 2012 they were surprised that it hasn’t been mentioned for Oscars and from what I gather Elizabeth Olsen is a lot more talented than her older siblings Mary-Kate and Ashley.

For the kids this week JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, the follow up to 2008’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and stars Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine.

It’s a kiddies adventure movie and it’s in 3D, so no doubt it will do quite well at the theatre, I have never seen the original so won’t be going to see this adventure either. The story centere’s on Sean Anderson (Hutcherson) who convinces his mothers boyfriend Hank (Johnson) to help him find his grandfather (Michael Caine) who is missing on a mythical island.

It’s green screen galore with lots of wildlife and scenery, I don’t think it will be anywhere near as good as Avatar but that is what you could liken it to, enjoy the trailer I have posted below.

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Weekly News: ICE CUBE To Front Run New FX TV Show, WWE CHRIS BENOIT Movie

Ice Cube is a guy that likes to keep himself pretty busy these day’s, he is currently front lining Are We There Yet for TV, the show will be based on the movie from 2005 in which he starred.  He is more recently involved with serious cop drama Rampart (recently reviewed here) and has a role upcoming in 21 Jump Street.

Now he has announced that his company Cube Vision will be front running a new show for FX called Eye For An Eye.  Ice Cube will produce and star along with his Cube Vision business partner Matt Alvarez.  In the show Cube will play a long serving paramedic who becomes sick of leaving violent crimes with people badly hurt in the back of his ambulance, one day he decides to something about it and becomes a little vigilante deciding to go Eye For An Eye.

Who else thinks this sounds a little like Dexter?  Ok he’s not a blood spatter expert but he does work in the medical profession, at least the vigilante side sounds like Dexter, or maybe Person Of Interest.

Ok who loves WWE Wrestling?  Not me, I do like the showman ship involved with the sport and I used to watch a lot of the sport when I was younger, that was when people like the Rock and the Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Scotty 2 Hotty (remember him?  The Worm), most of the guys from back then wised up a little deciding that all the bumps to the head were not doing them any favours.  They followed Hulk Hogan and moves into the movie industry, admittedly most of them have done a much better job than he did but you get my point.  Remember the name Chris Benoit the former Heavyweight World Champion?  Yeah, me too, he was on the go the same time as the guys I mentioned above.  In 2007 Benoit ended his life after he murdered his wife and 7 year old son.

Now SRG Films are planning on bringing his tragic story to the big screen, the movie will be named Crossface and the script is based on the book Ring Of Hell: The Story Of Chris Benoit and the fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry.  Benoit was in the WWE from 2000 until his death in 2007, prior to that he started his wrestling career in his native Canada before moving to Japan.  Benoit's story shed light on the dangers of the sport of wrestling, along with the anabolic steroids found in his home it was also revealed that Benoit had suffered severe Brain damage due to repeated untreated concussions. The first draft of the script has already been submitted with a view to start shooting some time next year.  Like I said above I’m not a fan of wrestling now but this is a movie I would watch.

Weekly News: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, SKYFALL and a New MAD MAX Movie

Some news from what will probably be one of the biggest movies of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises.  The movie has finally wrapped shooting and the films star man Christian Bale has said “I will never be Batman again”, he said that both he and Director Christopher Nolan have come to the end of their Batman era.

It’s a shame really, Christian Bale has done with Batman what Daniel Craig done with Bond, the original starring Bale, Batman Begins was recently reviewed here, I thought it was great and it changed my opinion on who the best superhero is.

The Dark Knight Rises is set years later than The Dark Knight and we will be looking at a much older Bruce Wayne according to the director, and we know the new bad guy is going to be Bane played by Tom Hardy giving Batman a new challenge. There are the only slight plot details he would give away.  Liam Neeson has also distanced himself from appearing in the upcoming movie.

 

More movie news for you now, the other week in the news we unveiled (along with just about every other movie blog on the planet) the new name for Bond 23.  The movie will be called Skyfall and is a standalone movie having nothing to do with it’s two predecessors.  We also found out that British actor Ben Wishaw (Layer Cake, The Hour) had secured himself a part in the movie, only thing was we didn’t know what his role was.

The rumour mill done it’s usual but now it has been confirmed that Wishaw is the new “Q”, a character who has not been seen in a Bond movie since Daniel Craig took over the role for Casino Royale, this will no doubt have Bond enthusiasts doing back flips and suggests that maybe this new Bond movie is going to have a slightly lighter gadgetry side to it.

Anyone here follow me on Hubpages?  No, well don’t worry you haven’t missed much, I really don’t have time to do much there.  I wrote something a while back now regarding the top 5 80’s action movies.  I missed off Mad Max: The Road Warrior starring a very Australian Mel Gibson.  I have been meaning to get round to seeing it, but that just has not worked out as yet.

I may have to get round to it sooner rather than later though.  In early 2012 a new Mad Max film is about to start shooting starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, the movie which will be named Mad Max: Fury Road, I don’t have any plot details for you but I do have a little scoop for you Mad Max fans.  Fury Road will be followed by a second updated movie named Mad Max: Furiosa and apparently they have nearly completed a script for a third which is currently untitled.  The movie makes are also working with video game producers L.A Noire to turn Mad Max into a video game.

New UK Cinema Releases: 2nd December 2011, THE THING, HUGO and HAPPY FEET TWO

Right, It's December so what do you expect?  Christmas movies for one, and this week there are two to mention in what will be a shorter than usual post with probably only one movie which is worth going to see this weekend, unless you have kids of course.

First one to mention this week, The Thing, another remake of a movie where I have not seen the original which was released in 1982 the year I was born.

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen

The plot confuses me a little here, in a Antarctica research station a graduate student Kate Lloyd and a scientist Dr Sander Halvorsen have a falling out due to the discovery of an alien craft.  Kate sides with helicopter pilot Sam Carter to pursue the alien life form.

I do intend on getting around to seeing this movie so stick around for the review in a week or two, want to see a review now?  Then go see Glen at 1 Man, 365 Movies! he done a great review of it just the other week, it'll be sure to give you a laugh.

Next up is a movie I believe they are calling an epic, Hugo is the new animated featurette brought to us from Martin Scorsese, he done Shark Tale remember?

Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Lee

Set in 1930's Paris (that's me put off straight away) Hugo follows the life of a 12 year old boy, named Hugo funnily enough.  Hugo lives in the walls of the train station but soon becomes involved in a mystery involving his father and an automaton.

This is supposedly an epic, for me though I'm really just not interested in the slightest it's a kids movie, one which reminds me a little of the Polar Express.  I don't know why as most of Hugo is not animated  and has real people in, I suppose it's a Christmas movie thing.

Ok to Happy Feet Two now, seen the first one?  No me neither and I don't really intend on seeing this one as it's taken a bit of a panning critic wise, that's not to say they are right but the fact I haven't seen the first will keep me away from the theatre this weekend.

Starring: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink, Matt Damon, Bradd Pitt and Hugo Weaving

It's about a Penguin called Mumble who can dance, argh how cute, I think Mumble is played by Elijah Wood (don't quote me on that).  Mumble tries to bring the Penguin nations together.

That's really as much as I know, seriously.  I mean what do you want me to say.  I have Mumble'd on long enough, right? Right.  I told you this would not be to long, enjoy the trailer. 

Trailer Time: RAMPART Starring Woody Harrelson

I’ve not done on of these posts for a while now and this week I ran across two great looking movies which need to be shared.  I’m going to do them in separate posts so the other will be later in the week.  The first one I’m going to talk about is Rampart starring Woody Harrelson.  I spoke about this in the news a while ago now as it had premiered at the Toronto International film festival in September, there it took a standing ovation and many critics have said that Woody Harrelson may finally win the Oscar he has so narrowly missed out on in the past.

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigournay Weaver, Ice Cube, Steve Buscemi and Anna Heche

Rampart is set in 1999, Los Angeles and is based on the real life L.A.P.D Rampart scandal.  Harrelson plays the lead role of Dave Brown last of the renegade cops, playing by the old rules.  Trying to balance his family life with two broken marriages behind him, Dave becomes more deeply involved with the infamous Rampart scandal.  Take a look at the trailer and let me know what you think.There really is not to much info about this movie just yet, nor do I know enough about the Rampart scandal to tell you too much.  I have checked it out and it involved an anti gang unit (CRASH) set up by the L.A.P.D and a lot of their officers became involved, some were found to be on the payroll of then Death Row records owner Marion “Suge” Knight, with others believed to be involved in the drive by shooting of Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G.

I really think this looks worth your time, it's one of the most explosive trailers I have seen for a long time and due to the rating it’s received I will be watching the movie myself in the next couple of days and have the review for you on Monday, don't want to miss it then make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the site in some way.

Weekly News: ICE CUBE to do fourth FRIDAY movie, COURTNEY LOVE insults a fan, DEXTER renewed for seasons 7 and 8

Great new this week especially if you’re a fan of Chris Tucker, Ice Cube or any of the Friday movies, I don’t know about you but, for me the second two movies didn’t quite cut the mustard so to speak but, the first one, the original Friday starring both Tucker as Smokey and Cube as Craig would have to go down as one of the best hood movies of all time.

I absolutely loved the the 1995 original, I lost count of how many times I saw this movie as a teenager, a bit like Menace II Society it’s one of those that during my teenage years you just had to see.

The movie turned Tucker into a bonified movie star and really brought Ice Cube out as a family guy as apposed to the hard ass Compton NWA rapper we all knew previously.  Now New Line Cinema and Ice Cube are sitting down and passing round a joint whilst discussing the possibility of a fourth Friday movie which Ice Cube will will write and lead reprising his role as Craig Jones.

The hope is now that they can also get Chris Tucker on board to make the movie, I can’t really see him turning it down right now, due to his IRS debt and the lack of any other offers Tucker has lost the box office status he once had back in the 90’s.  One problem though the new religion he follows may stop him from performing the same role as he did in the original movie but, they could bring Smokey back as a reformed character.

 

Next up this week it’s not really news, more of something which just made me laugh.  Courtney Love, heard of her?  Yeah that’s right the one who was married to Kurt Cobain from Nirvana.  Courtney now front’s a band named “Hole” I’m not so sure that’s a great name for a band with a female lead singer and I for one can’t say I have ever even heard of them let alone know any of their music.

Hole were performing in Sao Paulo, Brazil when a fan held up a picture of her late husband, the move didn't really impress Courtney to much and she stormed off stage but not before giving the fan a piece of her mind.  Courtney was tempted back to the stage after no more than a minute but demanded that the fans chanted that the Foo Fighters are Gay, there not of course but what they are is a whole lot better and more successful than her band.

Great news for fans of Dexter this week, cable network Showtime have finally managed to close a deal with Michael C. Hall and have renewed their front running show for two more seasons, which will take the show into it’s eighth season.  Both seasons will consist of 12 episodes each with season 7 scheduled to start production next year in Los Angeles.  Last week’s re-appearance of Brian Moser, The Ice Truck Killer sent audience ratings through the roof and they were the highest they have been since the season 6 premiere.  Michael C. Hall will co produce the show as he does now.

New UK Cinema Releases: 18th November 2011, THE TWILIGHT SAGA, JUSTICE and SNOWTOWN

Not a good week for movies I’m afraid, unless you’re a young teenage girl with a fixation on Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, vampires or wolves then this weeks all going to be a bit of a bore at the cinema, in fact I have never heard of the other releases coming out this week, how about you?

So first up this week as you’ve probably guessed is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, leading me to believe that there will be a part 2, and maybe even 3 and so on.

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner

I haven’t seen any of these movies so I promise you I’ll keep this brief, if I get this wrong make sure you put me right.  Robert Pattinson and his girlfriend are expecting a baby, they have some people “wolfs” and “vampires” after them as there child poses some sort of risk to the wolf and vampire coven.  Did I get that right?

Anyway to conclude, I ain’t seen any of them and I certainly don’t intend on seeing this one.  I would rather watch Arthur Christmas to be honest.

Ok I told a little white lie above, saying I hadn’t heard of any of the other releases.  Justice comes out this week, only thing is I just heard of it this week so presumed it would be out in a few weeks.

Starring: Nicholas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce and Jennifer Carpenter

Cage plays Will Gerard a mild man who's wife Laura (January Jones) gets assaulted, Will’s not to happy about that so decides to enlist the help of a vigilante group lead by Simon (Guy Pearce) to help get his own back on his wife’s tormentors.  So it’s pretty much a revenge movie.

Well it’s got Nic Cage in so there’s my first reason not to watch this movie, then there is Guy Pearce, no problem with him really just like him better in the Director chair.  One reason to watch this could be Jennifer Carpenter from Dexter, other than that I’m pretty sure we have all seen this movie (type) done before.

Out of everything that comes out this week Snowtown seems to be your best bet and I’m saying that before I’ve even seen the trailer, don’t worry if you hadn’t heard of it, I hadn’t either until it came to writing this.

Starring: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshal and Louise Harris

A movie based on the real life Snowtown murders which occurred in South Australia between 1992 and 1999, there were 8 victims of serial killer John Bunting (Daniel Henshal) and this movie tells the story of Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) a 16 year old boy living in a housing trust home in Adelaide with his mother, brother and sister.  The family become close, Jamie especially to a charismatic man named John.  Before long Jamie begins to mimic the behaviour of his new father figure John Bunting.

Probably similar in style to Zodiac this movie definitely seems like it will be the most intriguing and thought provoking of the week, warning if you squeamish though, it involves scenes of torture and animal dismemberment.

New UK Cinema Releases 11th November 2011: THE RUM DIARY, IMMORTALS and TRESPASS

A very good week for movie releases once again with three titles that join my ever growing list of movies I want to see, this week also sees the release of the first Christmas movie of the year (the one I'm most likely to see), as always I'll show you the way to IMDB and you can check the trailer for that one over there.  In the mean time lets get on with things here.  Sorry to my regular readers no post yesterday I'm decorating for Christmas so no time for laptop unfortunately, normal service should be resumed over the weekend.

First up it's The Rum Diary starring none other than Johnny Depp, I saw him interviewed on The Graham Norton show in relation to this the other week the movie is based on a novel by the late Hunter S Thompson and was written in either 1959 or 1960 and sat unpublished until Depp convinced him to turn it into something.

Starring: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi, Amber Heard and Amaury Nolasco

It's the story of American journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), a freelance writer who finds himself living in the Caribbean.  It's set in the 50's and Kemp is writing for a washed out Puerto Rico newspaper.  Whilst trying to secure something better from himself and settle into island culture Kemp becomes involved with a group of locals all aiming for self destruction.

Set in the Caribbean in the 50's, sounds like and old Elvis Presley movie, only better.  Depp's character is somewhat extrovert as you would expect and I think the movie looks worth your cinema ticket.

Next up this week it's Immortals a movie with a equally impressive cast as The Rum Diary, I saw the first trailer for this that long ago I thought it would have been out by now.

Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff and Freida Pinto

Mickey Rourke is out to cause Havoc as King Hyperion, making his way through Greece in search of the Epirus Bow, a weapon that could destroy Humanity if placed into the wrong hands.  Ancient law dictates that the Gods must not intervene so in order to stop King Hyperion Zeus secretly chooses Theseus (Cavill) to save the people from Hyperion and his army.

Not the kind of thing I would usually watch, it took me long enough to see Gladiator, this movie does look really good though and it's one I think you would probably appreciate more if you see it at the cinema.

Last trailer here for you now and it's Nicholas Cage (you know the broke guy) being Nicholas Cage in Trespass.

Starring: Niholas Cage and Nicole Kidman (I haven't heard of the rest)

It's all in the title really, Trespass suggests that Kyle (Cage) is rich, he lives with his very attractive wife Sarah (Kidman) there home gets broken into and they are held to ransom by a ruthless gang of thugs.

Sounds a bit like Hostage starring Bruce Willis, I said above I added it to my watch list, I'll take that back I think I may have seen this movie many times before only with different actors.

Last one to mention this week, it's the first Christmas movie of the season Arthur Christmas is the movie I'm most likely to see out of all the one's I've mentioned.  It comes with an impressive cast (voice's) including James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie, It does look quite good fun to be honest nothing better than a Christmas movie at Christmas.  You can go check out the trailer at IMDB.

Weekly News: Bond 23 is SKYFALL, New JASON STATHAM Movie, OASIS Reunion?

So finally it’s official after months of speculation relating to the title of the new Bond movie, affectionately named Bond 23 up to Thursday when the movie’s producer Michael G Wilson finally confirmed the movie will indeed be named Skyfall.

Taking a step away from Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace the movie is working on a standalone script which Daniel Craig says is great.  We have known all along that Craig would be back for his third outing as bond and Judi Dench would play his boss.  We know now also that Javier Bardem will play the villain, French actress Berenice Marlohe will probably be the bond girl.  Naomie Harris has been confirmed to play a field agent and Ralph Finnes, Albert Finney and James Whishaw have all Ben confirmed.

The press conference also brought one more thing a little sneak at the synopsis.  Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her, MI6 is under attack and Bond must destroy the threat no matter how much personal the cost.

The movie begins shooting next week November 7^th, shooting will take place in London , China, Turkey and Scotland.  The movie opens in the UK on October 26^th 2012 then onto North America November 9^th 2012.

Some news on a new Jason Statham movie for you now, Hummingbird is the name and its an action/drama which is due to start shooting early next year.  A quick plot summary, Statham will play an ex Special Forces soldier who becomes trapped in London’s criminal underworld, he gets a chance to escape the life when he assumes someone else’s identity.

This looks really good, right?  I mean Jason Statham has never played an Ex Special Forces soldier in any of his movies has he?  Oh wait there are these.  All the Transporter movies, The Killer Elite, The Mechanic and The Expendables.

Don’t take that as if I won’t like this new movie, I have seen all bar one of the above movies and they are all real kick ass action movies, yes Jason Statham plays it safe but as far as ass kicking in movies goes he tops the bill.

Celebrity tweets can be a little forth coming these day’s, can’t they.  Just the other week Beady Eye’s Liam Gallagher tweeted to say that Oasis would be re-forming in 2015 for the 20^th anniversary of their biggest album “What’s The Story (Morning Glory)”, he claimed that it was all his older brother Noel’s idea, sounds good to me.

That was until I saw Noel Gallagher on the Jonathan Ross show the other week, he stated that he had not said that at all and not being on Twitter he was unable to respond quick.  He did tell NME magazine that was the case also, that has brought Liam out fighting saying that once his older sibling realises that he’s not as good without him or indeed the rest of Oasis he would be back on board for the reunion tour.

Considering Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Album out sold Beady Eye’s debut Different Gear, Still speeding by over 200%, Liam can dream.  I’m off to see Noel and his High Flying Birds next year, so I’ll be letting you know what I think.

New UK Cinema Releases: 4th November 2011, IN TIME, TOWER HEIST and MACHINE GUN PREACHER

A great week at the cinema if you didn’t already know, unlike last week this weeks top four movies are all ones which I want to see, granted some more than others but I think they’ll all be pretty good.  Let’s get on with it then.

Top rated this week is Justin Timberlake’s new action thriller In Time, I posted the trailer for this some time ago and it’s certainly seen some action.  I hope it lives up to the hype.

Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy

Set in the future where people stop ageing at the 25, from there they are given one more year to live.  If you have money you can buy all the time you want, if you don’t have money then your time is up, sounds simple.  Not so much, when Will Salas (Timberlake) is given the gift of time from another person he finds himself being hunted by the systems police known as “Time Keepers” lead by Raymond Leon (Murphy).

This really does look promising and is top of my list for this weeks movies to see, it has a hint of Equilibrium (2002) about it and I love that.  I have said before that I’m a Timberlake fan and Cillian Murphy is no slouch either.

Next up this week Tower Heist, it’s an action comedy crime caper brought to us from director Brett Ratner.

Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick

A group of hard working guys find out they have fallen victim to a wealthy business mans scheme.  Not to pleased about it they hatch a plan together and decide to rob his high rise Residence.

Ok so the plot seems pretty thin but, I think this will be pretty enjoyable.  I don’t think Murphy and Stiller have worked together before and they should bring the comedy to the forefront on this one.

Machine Gun Preacher now, a true story well it’s based on a real person anyways, Seems worth a look.

Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon

Like I said above, the movie is based on a real person.  Sam Childers (Butler) is a former drug dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who have been forced to become soldiers.

It does look a good movie and if there is one thing that Gerard Butler is good at it’s playing the tough guy, it kind of reminds me of Blood Diamond a little.

Next up for you is a movie that I put out the trailer for a while ago now, kind of like Cape Fear, Straw Dogs is released this week and ranks up with In Time of movies I want to see this week.  Everyone has a breaking point and in this movie David Summer’s (James Marsden) is just a little higher than everyone else’s, want to see the trailer click HERE.

Weekly News: THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, THE JANSON DIRECTIVE, BEVERLEY HILLS COP TV Show, INDEPENDENCE DAY Sequels

Some TV news for you first of this week, the news relates to The Walking Dead.  The break away hit AMC show is only three episodes into its second series .  The season 2 premiere drew the biggest ever cable ratings with 7.3 million tuning in to catch the “walkers”, the show faltered only slightly on it's second episode “Bloodletting” drawing 6.7 million viewers.

The show already airs here in England and its international roll out is this weekend, that is expected to draw anywhere around 10 million viewers.  So what does the show get for it’s star status?  An AMC spoke said earlier this week “today we are proud to announce that the dead shall live as we proudly renew The Walking Dead for a third season on AMC and globally”.  Not bad considering how far into the second season they are.

Let’s not forget though the show still has a little room to falter as Frank Darabont, the show runner for the first season and beginning of this one, left the show half way through, will it still have the same capture.

Whilst we are on the subject of TV, I will slip this one in for you, you may well have caught it on the Person of Interest reviews, if not then the show has had a full season order from CBS taking us past the 9 we already have.  The show has been the highest watched new drama this season with an audience of 13.97 million, thanks mostly to it’s 9pm slot which was previously filled by CSI.

Also getting high ratings is Homeland, this show has also just been renewed for a second season thanks to large audiences, no doubt helped by Dexter which airs just before it.

Who loves the Bourne movies?  I do, go check the review.  Good news if you like them too, as something just as good seems to be on its way to the big screen.  The Janson Directive is the last book published by late writer Robert Ludlum, who of course wrote the Bourne books.  Now Universal have hired a script writer to turn The Janson Directive into a movie.

It seems it will be a Vietnam veteran movie which follows Paul Janson, an ex Navy Seal and member of a covert government organisation.  He is plagued by memories of the Vietnam War and how his commanding officer handed him over to the enemy to be tortured.  Janson is working on a job trying to rescue an important man but his plans go wrong and before long he becomes then hunted, he’s left with no choice but to follow clues leading him to a massive scandal.

So Stallone loves making sequels to his old movies like Rocky and Rambo but, Eddie Murphy is one actor who isn’t going to be doing any of that.  Talk of Beverly Hills Cop IV (4) has been doing the rounds for many a year now but it has never amounted to anything more than speculation.

Rolling Stone magazine have an interview coming up with Eddie Murphy who has told them that a fourth Beverly Hills cop movie won’t be done and he is preferring the idea of producing a spin off TV show of the hit 80’s movie, check what he said to them below.

They’re not doing it. What I’m trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley’s son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. I’d do the pilot, show up here and there. None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise. If you have to force something, you shouldn’t be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing. It was always wrong.

I’m not so sure how a TV show of Beverly Hills Cop would work, I loved the first and second movies, third one was a bit of a joke and I really wouldn’t want to see a fourth so I’m pleased there not doing it  but, a TV show?  Let’s see if it comes off.

It seems we are all about series renewals and sequels this week so why not mention another.  Rumours of a follow up to Independence Day have been doing the rounds for years now but it seems they are moving forward and the scripts are expected to be handed into Fox by December.

The studio have said that there will be two sequels shot at the same time, so that’s ID2 and ID3, they of course would like there star man Will Smith back to take the lead but his involvement still isn’t confirmed after he asked for a salary of $50m to do the movies.  The studio has said that they are prepared to make the movies without him, why?

No script details have been released as of yet but to leave box office gold like Will Smith out would be a big mistake in my opinion.  Would the first movie have been such a hit without him?  Would you even go see the second and third it he wasn’t the star?.... I’m not so sure I would be quite as lured, for me they should be making it their business to get Smith back on board.  The first movie took $800m worldwide and with Smith in for the sequels I think they could gross even more.

New UK Cinema Releases: 28th October 2011, THE HELP, THE IDEAS OF MARCH, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN and ANONYMOUS

First up for you this week, The Help a movie which to be honest does not interest me in the slightest, if you enjoy watching stuff about the American civil rights movement, then this may be right up your street.

Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer

The movie is set in the 1960's, way before I was born and it follows an aspiring writer who decides to write a book on an African American maids perception of the family she works for and the hardships that they go through on a day to day basis.

So like I said, I'm really not into this at all and can say without any doubt that this is one movie that I won't be making any efforts to go see either at the cinema or on DVD.

There really isn't a lot going on this week unless you are into the above or like presidential political movies.  I'm of course talking about Clooney's new offering The Ideas Of March.

Starring: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ryan Gosling

This movie is based on a play and follows a new member of staff working for a presidential candidate, the newbie soon gets a a crash course in dirty politics during his run on the campaign trail.

Again a movie which really doesn't interest me, I see Clooney in political stuff like this and think Syriana, a crap movie in my opinion and I for one am surprised I didn't switch it off.  I don't think I will be seeing The Ideas Of March.

Onto another movie which I won't watch now but, I do have to say that the casting for The Adventures of Tintin is pretty impressive plus the movie is directed by Spielberg.

Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg

Based on books, I believe.  Tintin goes on an adventure with Captain Haddock, they are hunting for treasure which is on a sunken ship which was captained by Haddock's ancestor.  One problem though, they aren't the only ones looking for the treasure.

Like I said above I don't think I will be going to see this, if I do it'll be for Serkis or Craig, I think this may be along the lines of Polar Express only on a boat.  I haven't read the books or seen any of the cartoons and don't intend to now.

Last movie to tell you about now and as always I'll shove you in the direction of IMDB, over there you can check out the trailer for Anonymous, which beilieve it or not is another movie that I won't be going to see.  It's a period drama and has something to do with this guy who supposedly penned a Shakesphere play.  Enjoy the trailer and I'll be back with some better movies next week, hopefully.