To satisfy the cravings of the toy enthusiasts and action-genre fans, the film is chock full of souped-up vehicles that the G.I. Joe brand is known for and an elaborate cache of diverse weaponry sure to be fun for fans. For Luke Freeborn, the vehicles art director, it brings out the kid in everyone. "Creating these giant toys and making them come to life is like being a kid all over again. We were all giddy with anticipation to see them actually put to work," he says. The film features a wide array of weapons and vehicles that included two different kinds of tanks, three different helicopters, two different kinds of planes, a souped-up motorcycle, swords, knives, sais and other weapons. Said di Bonaventura, "Bringing these toys to life makes you feel like a kid again and I think people are going to be thrilled seeing something...
- 3/28/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
From Paramount Pictures comes the brand new trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Director Jon M. Chu’s film will be in theaters March 29, 2013 in Real D 3D and Digital 3D. In this sequel, the G.I. Joe team is not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. G.I. Joe: Retaliation is based on Hasbro.s G.I. Joe® characters.
(via Yahoo! Movies)
To satisfy the cravings of the toy enthusiasts and action-genre fans, the film is chock full of souped-up vehicles that the G.I. Joe brand is known for and an elaborate cache of diverse weaponry sure to be fun for fans. For Luke Freeborn, the vehicles art director, it brings out the kid in everyone.
(via Yahoo! Movies)
To satisfy the cravings of the toy enthusiasts and action-genre fans, the film is chock full of souped-up vehicles that the G.I. Joe brand is known for and an elaborate cache of diverse weaponry sure to be fun for fans. For Luke Freeborn, the vehicles art director, it brings out the kid in everyone.
- 12/12/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Edgar Wright's comic book movie is best motion picture comedy or musical and Michael Cera is best comedy actor
With its video game imagery, slacker geek protagonist and sardonic 20-something humour, it is not the type of fare which generally tends to capture the imagination of Hollywood awards body members. Yet the comic book movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World began a late run for awards-season recognition at the weekend after it picked up a gong for best film of the year at the Satellite awards.
British director Edgar Wright's film took the best motion picture comedy or musical gong at the awards, which are handed out by the International Press Academy and mimic the Golden Globes by splitting awards into drama and comedy categories. Star Michael Cera also carried off the best comedy actor award for his turn as the lovelorn yet pugilistic Pilgrim.
The award comes...
With its video game imagery, slacker geek protagonist and sardonic 20-something humour, it is not the type of fare which generally tends to capture the imagination of Hollywood awards body members. Yet the comic book movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World began a late run for awards-season recognition at the weekend after it picked up a gong for best film of the year at the Satellite awards.
British director Edgar Wright's film took the best motion picture comedy or musical gong at the awards, which are handed out by the International Press Academy and mimic the Golden Globes by splitting awards into drama and comedy categories. Star Michael Cera also carried off the best comedy actor award for his turn as the lovelorn yet pugilistic Pilgrim.
The award comes...
- 12/20/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Noomi Rapace has come triumphant over Natalie Portman at 2010 Satellite Awards. The 30-year-old didn't get nominated at 2011 Golden Globes and SAG Awards like the "Black Swan" beauty, but managed to walk away with the Best Drama Actress in a Motion Picture title from the awards presented by the International Press Academy on Sunday, December 19.
The Swedish actress, who stars opposite Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes 2", won the awards thanks to her role as Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Aside from Natalie, she also beat two other Golden Globes and SAG Awards contenders, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lawrence.
While Noomi took home Best Actress for Drama, "Love and Other Drugs" beauty Anne Hathaway nailed the Comedy or Musical category. The male counterparts saw "The King's Speech" star Colin Firth grabbing Best Drama Actor and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" lead Michael Cera securing Best Comedy or Musical Actor.
The Swedish actress, who stars opposite Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes 2", won the awards thanks to her role as Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Aside from Natalie, she also beat two other Golden Globes and SAG Awards contenders, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lawrence.
While Noomi took home Best Actress for Drama, "Love and Other Drugs" beauty Anne Hathaway nailed the Comedy or Musical category. The male counterparts saw "The King's Speech" star Colin Firth grabbing Best Drama Actor and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" lead Michael Cera securing Best Comedy or Musical Actor.
- 12/20/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Less than a month after announcing the nominees of the 15th Annual Satellite Awards, the International Press Academy has unveiled the winners on December 19. Dominating the list in movie were "The Social Network" and "Inception" with three gongs each.
Continuing its glorious moment at awards shows this year, "Social Network" took the coveted best drama kudo. The film once again landed honors to David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, for directing and adapting the story into a script respectively.
"Inception", which dominated the nominations list with eleven, took home best cinematography title. The sci-fi by Christopher Nolan was additionally honored for its Original Score as well as its Art Direction & Production Design.
"Alice in Wonderland" also got multiple prizes, one for costume design and the other for visual effects. "Toy Story 3", in the meantime, was picked as the Best Animated or Mixed Media by the International Press Academy.
Some stars...
Continuing its glorious moment at awards shows this year, "Social Network" took the coveted best drama kudo. The film once again landed honors to David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, for directing and adapting the story into a script respectively.
"Inception", which dominated the nominations list with eleven, took home best cinematography title. The sci-fi by Christopher Nolan was additionally honored for its Original Score as well as its Art Direction & Production Design.
"Alice in Wonderland" also got multiple prizes, one for costume design and the other for visual effects. "Toy Story 3", in the meantime, was picked as the Best Animated or Mixed Media by the International Press Academy.
Some stars...
- 12/20/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
This evening the International Press Academy announced the winners of the 15th Satellite Awards and The Social Network took home six wins including Best Picture (Drama), Director (David Fincher) and Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Additionally, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World took home the award for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) and star Michael Cera won for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical), which makes for two awards giving the awards circuit a bit of a different flavor.
Anne Hathaway taking Best Actress in Comedy/Musical is a bit of a surprise over the ladies of The Kids are All Right and Noomi Rapace besting Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman in the Drama category is also a shift from the norm. It's almost as if they couldn't decide on any of the better performances and settled with the lesser ones. Rapace's performance, especially, is by no means Best Actress material.
Anne Hathaway taking Best Actress in Comedy/Musical is a bit of a surprise over the ladies of The Kids are All Right and Noomi Rapace besting Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman in the Drama category is also a shift from the norm. It's almost as if they couldn't decide on any of the better performances and settled with the lesser ones. Rapace's performance, especially, is by no means Best Actress material.
- 12/20/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The urban world of "Yup Yup Man" is a very dangerous place. Crazed robbers, carjackers and drug dealers almost always shoot their victims. Crime is more than rampant -- it's inescapable -- and rising to defend the innocent is a comic book-loving schizophrenic who recycles cans for a living.
A perplexingly shallow and therefore mildly inflammatory tract on the toll a violent world can have on a guy, "Yup Yup Man" premiered at the recent Dances With Films festival of underdog indies. In his feature debut, writer-director Glen Klinker is attuned only to the sensibilities of blinkered romantics.
Yup Yup Man (William Bumiller) is named for his constant interior dialogue with voices. He twists, looks around, says "yup, yup" and generally doesn't pose a threat to anyone. Overflowing with opinions when he gets going, he has only two significant friends: Jack David Bowe), a bartender, and Jillian (Jocelyn Seagrave), a pretty lonelyheart who gets a charge out of Yup Yup's obvious devotion to her.
The lead is a fan of comic hero Dark Justice and longs to stop all those murderers and rapists he constantly hears about via TV news reports. In a strained series of scenes, Yup Yup and Jack create a costume that transforms the former into the "Caped Crusader". What happens next is that the film's disturbing moral cynicism, if not outright racist attitude, shows Yup Yup succeeding in stopping crime -- by killing the minority perpetrators on the spot.
He kills so many that the excited media and police believe there's a serial killer loose. Meanwhile, Yup Yup stops twitching and saying "yup, yup." He shaves, dresses better and starts seriously romancing Jillian. Instead of responsibly exploring the rather serious issues raised, however, the film's agenda turns into a fifth-rate crime thriller with the increased time spent on local thug Boxer (Matt Gallini), a one-man platoon of death who shoots or ill uses everyone who crosses his path.
Klinker is an inept storyteller who assumes that cheap emotions will cover for the lack of logic, credibility and coherency. The connecting of Yup Yup with Boxer for the final rounds of bargain-basement mayhem is mighty strained. But it's the implied message that removing a few felons from the streets by any means necessary is an acceptable coming-of-age rite for schizophrenics, or anybody, that makes one leave the theater with a queasy feeling.
YUP YUP MAN
Screenwriter-director: Glen Klinker
Producers: Glen Klinker, Debi A. Monahan
Director of photography: Yoram Astrakhan
Production designers: Luke Freeborn, Penny Barrett Carter
Editor: Eric Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Yup Yup Man: William Bumiller
Jack: David Bowe
Jillian: Jocelyn Seagrave
Boxer: Matt Gallini
Robert: Chase MacKenzie Bebak
Deb: Debi A. Monahan
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A perplexingly shallow and therefore mildly inflammatory tract on the toll a violent world can have on a guy, "Yup Yup Man" premiered at the recent Dances With Films festival of underdog indies. In his feature debut, writer-director Glen Klinker is attuned only to the sensibilities of blinkered romantics.
Yup Yup Man (William Bumiller) is named for his constant interior dialogue with voices. He twists, looks around, says "yup, yup" and generally doesn't pose a threat to anyone. Overflowing with opinions when he gets going, he has only two significant friends: Jack David Bowe), a bartender, and Jillian (Jocelyn Seagrave), a pretty lonelyheart who gets a charge out of Yup Yup's obvious devotion to her.
The lead is a fan of comic hero Dark Justice and longs to stop all those murderers and rapists he constantly hears about via TV news reports. In a strained series of scenes, Yup Yup and Jack create a costume that transforms the former into the "Caped Crusader". What happens next is that the film's disturbing moral cynicism, if not outright racist attitude, shows Yup Yup succeeding in stopping crime -- by killing the minority perpetrators on the spot.
He kills so many that the excited media and police believe there's a serial killer loose. Meanwhile, Yup Yup stops twitching and saying "yup, yup." He shaves, dresses better and starts seriously romancing Jillian. Instead of responsibly exploring the rather serious issues raised, however, the film's agenda turns into a fifth-rate crime thriller with the increased time spent on local thug Boxer (Matt Gallini), a one-man platoon of death who shoots or ill uses everyone who crosses his path.
Klinker is an inept storyteller who assumes that cheap emotions will cover for the lack of logic, credibility and coherency. The connecting of Yup Yup with Boxer for the final rounds of bargain-basement mayhem is mighty strained. But it's the implied message that removing a few felons from the streets by any means necessary is an acceptable coming-of-age rite for schizophrenics, or anybody, that makes one leave the theater with a queasy feeling.
YUP YUP MAN
Screenwriter-director: Glen Klinker
Producers: Glen Klinker, Debi A. Monahan
Director of photography: Yoram Astrakhan
Production designers: Luke Freeborn, Penny Barrett Carter
Editor: Eric Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Yup Yup Man: William Bumiller
Jack: David Bowe
Jillian: Jocelyn Seagrave
Boxer: Matt Gallini
Robert: Chase MacKenzie Bebak
Deb: Debi A. Monahan
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The urban world of "Yup Yup Man" is a very dangerous place. Crazed robbers, carjackers and drug dealers almost always shoot their victims. Crime is more than rampant -- it's inescapable -- and rising to defend the innocent is a comic book-loving schizophrenic who recycles cans for a living.
A perplexingly shallow and therefore mildly inflammatory tract on the toll a violent world can have on a guy, "Yup Yup Man" premiered at the recent Dances With Films festival of underdog indies. In his feature debut, writer-director Glen Klinker is attuned only to the sensibilities of blinkered romantics.
Yup Yup Man (William Bumiller) is named for his constant interior dialogue with voices. He twists, looks around, says "yup, yup" and generally doesn't pose a threat to anyone. Overflowing with opinions when he gets going, he has only two significant friends: Jack David Bowe), a bartender, and Jillian (Jocelyn Seagrave), a pretty lonelyheart who gets a charge out of Yup Yup's obvious devotion to her.
The lead is a fan of comic hero Dark Justice and longs to stop all those murderers and rapists he constantly hears about via TV news reports. In a strained series of scenes, Yup Yup and Jack create a costume that transforms the former into the "Caped Crusader". What happens next is that the film's disturbing moral cynicism, if not outright racist attitude, shows Yup Yup succeeding in stopping crime -- by killing the minority perpetrators on the spot.
He kills so many that the excited media and police believe there's a serial killer loose. Meanwhile, Yup Yup stops twitching and saying "yup, yup." He shaves, dresses better and starts seriously romancing Jillian. Instead of responsibly exploring the rather serious issues raised, however, the film's agenda turns into a fifth-rate crime thriller with the increased time spent on local thug Boxer (Matt Gallini), a one-man platoon of death who shoots or ill uses everyone who crosses his path.
Klinker is an inept storyteller who assumes that cheap emotions will cover for the lack of logic, credibility and coherency. The connecting of Yup Yup with Boxer for the final rounds of bargain-basement mayhem is mighty strained. But it's the implied message that removing a few felons from the streets by any means necessary is an acceptable coming-of-age rite for schizophrenics, or anybody, that makes one leave the theater with a queasy feeling.
YUP YUP MAN
Screenwriter-director: Glen Klinker
Producers: Glen Klinker, Debi A. Monahan
Director of photography: Yoram Astrakhan
Production designers: Luke Freeborn, Penny Barrett Carter
Editor: Eric Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Yup Yup Man: William Bumiller
Jack: David Bowe
Jillian: Jocelyn Seagrave
Boxer: Matt Gallini
Robert: Chase MacKenzie Bebak
Deb: Debi A. Monahan
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A perplexingly shallow and therefore mildly inflammatory tract on the toll a violent world can have on a guy, "Yup Yup Man" premiered at the recent Dances With Films festival of underdog indies. In his feature debut, writer-director Glen Klinker is attuned only to the sensibilities of blinkered romantics.
Yup Yup Man (William Bumiller) is named for his constant interior dialogue with voices. He twists, looks around, says "yup, yup" and generally doesn't pose a threat to anyone. Overflowing with opinions when he gets going, he has only two significant friends: Jack David Bowe), a bartender, and Jillian (Jocelyn Seagrave), a pretty lonelyheart who gets a charge out of Yup Yup's obvious devotion to her.
The lead is a fan of comic hero Dark Justice and longs to stop all those murderers and rapists he constantly hears about via TV news reports. In a strained series of scenes, Yup Yup and Jack create a costume that transforms the former into the "Caped Crusader". What happens next is that the film's disturbing moral cynicism, if not outright racist attitude, shows Yup Yup succeeding in stopping crime -- by killing the minority perpetrators on the spot.
He kills so many that the excited media and police believe there's a serial killer loose. Meanwhile, Yup Yup stops twitching and saying "yup, yup." He shaves, dresses better and starts seriously romancing Jillian. Instead of responsibly exploring the rather serious issues raised, however, the film's agenda turns into a fifth-rate crime thriller with the increased time spent on local thug Boxer (Matt Gallini), a one-man platoon of death who shoots or ill uses everyone who crosses his path.
Klinker is an inept storyteller who assumes that cheap emotions will cover for the lack of logic, credibility and coherency. The connecting of Yup Yup with Boxer for the final rounds of bargain-basement mayhem is mighty strained. But it's the implied message that removing a few felons from the streets by any means necessary is an acceptable coming-of-age rite for schizophrenics, or anybody, that makes one leave the theater with a queasy feeling.
YUP YUP MAN
Screenwriter-director: Glen Klinker
Producers: Glen Klinker, Debi A. Monahan
Director of photography: Yoram Astrakhan
Production designers: Luke Freeborn, Penny Barrett Carter
Editor: Eric Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Yup Yup Man: William Bumiller
Jack: David Bowe
Jillian: Jocelyn Seagrave
Boxer: Matt Gallini
Robert: Chase MacKenzie Bebak
Deb: Debi A. Monahan
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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