Joey King in 20th Century Studios’ The Princess, exclusively on Disney+/Hulu. Photo by Simon Varsano. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Many of you might be wanting to take a break from the big studio action blockbusters with wall-to-wall bone-crunching stunts and feats of physical derring-do. Well, if you see this title popping up on your streaming services, you might believe that it’s a sweet bit of fairy tale fantasy and a relaxing change of pace for your movieviewing. Um…think again, becuase, this royal heir would stun and surprise at a tea party for the “Disney divas’. After watching this you’ll know that there are few medieval movie heroines quite like The Princess.
Now, when we first meet her, she’s doing the whole “Sleeping Beauty” bit as she sleeps on a fancy feather bed in a room at the top of a castle tower. At...
Many of you might be wanting to take a break from the big studio action blockbusters with wall-to-wall bone-crunching stunts and feats of physical derring-do. Well, if you see this title popping up on your streaming services, you might believe that it’s a sweet bit of fairy tale fantasy and a relaxing change of pace for your movieviewing. Um…think again, becuase, this royal heir would stun and surprise at a tea party for the “Disney divas’. After watching this you’ll know that there are few medieval movie heroines quite like The Princess.
Now, when we first meet her, she’s doing the whole “Sleeping Beauty” bit as she sleeps on a fancy feather bed in a room at the top of a castle tower. At...
- 7/1/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kate Beckinsale in Jolt. Photo credit: Simon Varsano. Courtesy of Amazon Studios.
Beautiful Brit Kate Beckinsale is no stranger to fantasy action flicks after starring in Von Helsing and about five Underworld outings, fighting vampires and werewolves and bears (? – oh my). She looks every bit the part of an ass-kicker, and her stunt doubles work hard to maintain the illusion effectively. Jolt is more science-y and less supernatural than the aforementioned in this new fast-paced, high-octane rush for adrenaline junkies.
Beckinsale stars as a woman with such extreme anger issues, and abilities to act upon them, that she can only function in society while rigged with a device that lets her self-administer an industrial-strength electric shock when triggered. Which occurs often and easily. Her therapist (Stanley Tucci) oversees her attempts at forging a life. When she falls for a guy (Jai Courtney) during a one-night stand, she starts believing for...
Beautiful Brit Kate Beckinsale is no stranger to fantasy action flicks after starring in Von Helsing and about five Underworld outings, fighting vampires and werewolves and bears (? – oh my). She looks every bit the part of an ass-kicker, and her stunt doubles work hard to maintain the illusion effectively. Jolt is more science-y and less supernatural than the aforementioned in this new fast-paced, high-octane rush for adrenaline junkies.
Beckinsale stars as a woman with such extreme anger issues, and abilities to act upon them, that she can only function in society while rigged with a device that lets her self-administer an industrial-strength electric shock when triggered. Which occurs often and easily. Her therapist (Stanley Tucci) oversees her attempts at forging a life. When she falls for a guy (Jai Courtney) during a one-night stand, she starts believing for...
- 7/23/2021
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and trained in the family business, Anna (Maggie Q) is the world’s most skilled contract killer. But when Moody – the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival – is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge.
As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer (Michael Keaton) whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves even tighter.
Directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) and written by Richard Wenk, the film is produced by Arthur Sarkissian, Moshe Diamant, Rob Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, and Chris Milburn.
The film opens only in theaters August 20, 2021.
Maggie Q as Anna, Samuel L. Jackson as Moody, and Robert Patrick as Billy Boy in The Protégé.
As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer (Michael Keaton) whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves even tighter.
Directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) and written by Richard Wenk, the film is produced by Arthur Sarkissian, Moshe Diamant, Rob Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, and Chris Milburn.
The film opens only in theaters August 20, 2021.
Maggie Q as Anna, Samuel L. Jackson as Moody, and Robert Patrick as Billy Boy in The Protégé.
- 5/11/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screen Media Credit: Simon Varsano
Screen Media announced today the acquisition of all U.S. rights to the feature film The Outpost, based on The New York Times best-selling non-fiction book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor from CNN’s Jake Tapper.
In this military thriller, a tiny unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 Cav became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
The film was set to have its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival before the event was cancelled. Screen Media will release the film around the July 4th weekend.
Screen Media announced today the acquisition of all U.S. rights to the feature film The Outpost, based on The New York Times best-selling non-fiction book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor from CNN’s Jake Tapper.
In this military thriller, a tiny unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 Cav became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
The film was set to have its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival before the event was cancelled. Screen Media will release the film around the July 4th weekend.
- 4/20/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A shirtless Jason Momoa, Conan the Barbarian Emma Stone-Viola Davis' The Help: Solid Box Office to Help Best Picture Oscar Nomination Chances Down one spot this weekend (Aug. 19-21), Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes collected $16.3 million (-41%) according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Officially budgeted at $93 million, the Planet of the Apes reboot starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, Andy Serkis, and John Lithgow, has taken in $133.76 million after three weekends. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D will be gone from the top ten box-office chart in no time at all after opening in third place with a meager $12.02m at 3,095 locations. About 45% of the adventure comedy's returns originated from 3D locations. Spy Kids 4 is the worst-performing Spy Kids movie to date; in fact, it'll have trouble matching its relatively modest $27m budget — let alone recover it.
- 8/22/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Chicago – Sword and sandal epics are almost expected to have wooden acting and absurd dialogue. The new film “Conan the Barbarian” meets those expectations, and doesn’t offer any action or originality to counteract the anticipated flaws.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The film is a redundant mass of stand-offs and battles, that has as a reasoning the eventual heroics of Conan (who is birthed on a battlefield and given a Jesus-like reverence). These confrontations are literally 80 percent of the film, and concedes with predictable and explicit probability that Conan will reign supreme. The scenic elements are the highlight of the film, it is the humans that trod upon it that spoils the atmosphere, and the movie.
Corin (Ron Perlman), is the leader of the Barbarians, a warring tribe in an ancient society that fights a supernatural power by scattering pieces of a mystical, conjuring mask that supposedly can make the dead rise back to rule the earth.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The film is a redundant mass of stand-offs and battles, that has as a reasoning the eventual heroics of Conan (who is birthed on a battlefield and given a Jesus-like reverence). These confrontations are literally 80 percent of the film, and concedes with predictable and explicit probability that Conan will reign supreme. The scenic elements are the highlight of the film, it is the humans that trod upon it that spoils the atmosphere, and the movie.
Corin (Ron Perlman), is the leader of the Barbarians, a warring tribe in an ancient society that fights a supernatural power by scattering pieces of a mystical, conjuring mask that supposedly can make the dead rise back to rule the earth.
- 8/19/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
MTV News has been with the reboot throughout its rocky road to release.
By Eric Ditzian
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano/ Lionsgate Entertainment
"Conan the Barbarian" star Jason Momoa hasn't actually seen the previous versions of his sword-swinging adventure — or, as he once put it to MTV News, "the Arnold stuff" — but we have clear-enough memories to know Schwarzenegger's franchise became straight-up silly after the 1982 original and was in desperate need of contemporary reinvention.
Robert E. Howard's barbaric creation deserved better than a faceoff with Wilt Chamberlain in "Conan the Destroyer." Conan finally got it, with Momoa's new film hitting theaters on Friday (August 19). But there was a long and rocky path toward that theatrical release, with filmmakers joining then quickly departing the project and various Hollywood players being unable to kick things into production. Come with us on a journey called the MTV News cheat sheet,...
By Eric Ditzian
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano/ Lionsgate Entertainment
"Conan the Barbarian" star Jason Momoa hasn't actually seen the previous versions of his sword-swinging adventure — or, as he once put it to MTV News, "the Arnold stuff" — but we have clear-enough memories to know Schwarzenegger's franchise became straight-up silly after the 1982 original and was in desperate need of contemporary reinvention.
Robert E. Howard's barbaric creation deserved better than a faceoff with Wilt Chamberlain in "Conan the Destroyer." Conan finally got it, with Momoa's new film hitting theaters on Friday (August 19). But there was a long and rocky path toward that theatrical release, with filmmakers joining then quickly departing the project and various Hollywood players being unable to kick things into production. Come with us on a journey called the MTV News cheat sheet,...
- 8/19/2011
- MTV Music News
MTV News has been with the reboot throughout its rocky road to release.
By Eric Ditzian
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano/ Lionsgate Entertainment
"Conan the Barbarian" star Jason Momoa hasn't actually seen the previous versions of his sword-swinging adventure — or, as he once put it to MTV News, "the Arnold stuff" — but we have clear-enough memories to know Schwarzenegger's franchise became straight-up silly after the 1982 original and was in desperate need of contemporary reinvention.
Robert E. Howard's barbaric creation deserved better than a faceoff with Wilt Chamberlain in "Conan the Destroyer." Conan finally got it, with Momoa's new film hitting theaters on Friday (August 19). But there was a long and rocky path toward that theatrical release, with filmmakers joining then quickly departing the project and various Hollywood players being unable to kick things into production. Come with us on a journey called the MTV News cheat sheet,...
By Eric Ditzian
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano/ Lionsgate Entertainment
"Conan the Barbarian" star Jason Momoa hasn't actually seen the previous versions of his sword-swinging adventure — or, as he once put it to MTV News, "the Arnold stuff" — but we have clear-enough memories to know Schwarzenegger's franchise became straight-up silly after the 1982 original and was in desperate need of contemporary reinvention.
Robert E. Howard's barbaric creation deserved better than a faceoff with Wilt Chamberlain in "Conan the Destroyer." Conan finally got it, with Momoa's new film hitting theaters on Friday (August 19). But there was a long and rocky path toward that theatrical release, with filmmakers joining then quickly departing the project and various Hollywood players being unable to kick things into production. Come with us on a journey called the MTV News cheat sheet,...
- 8/19/2011
- MTV Movie News
Directed by: Marcus Nispel
Written by: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman
Legend of prose, comics and movies, Conan the Barbarian comes to life as never before in a new 3-D action adventure starring Momoa (TV’s “Stargate: Atlantis”) as the Cimmerian warrior. Adapted from the original works of the character’s creator, Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of this 80-year-old icon, “Conan” tracks a personal vendetta to avenge his father’s murder that becomes an epic battle as the hero realizes he’s the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Nispel (the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” remakes) directs. (Lionsgate Entertainment)
Photo by Simon Varsano, courtesy Lionsgate Entertainment
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Written by: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman
Legend of prose, comics and movies, Conan the Barbarian comes to life as never before in a new 3-D action adventure starring Momoa (TV’s “Stargate: Atlantis”) as the Cimmerian warrior. Adapted from the original works of the character’s creator, Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of this 80-year-old icon, “Conan” tracks a personal vendetta to avenge his father’s murder that becomes an epic battle as the hero realizes he’s the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Nispel (the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” remakes) directs. (Lionsgate Entertainment)
Photo by Simon Varsano, courtesy Lionsgate Entertainment
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- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Directed by: Marcus Nispel
Written by: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman
Legend of prose, comics and movies, Conan the Barbarian comes to life as never before in a new 3-D action adventure starring Momoa (TV’s “Stargate: Atlantis”) as the Cimmerian warrior. Adapted from the original works of the character’s creator, Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of this 80-year-old icon, “Conan” tracks a personal vendetta to avenge his father’s murder that becomes an epic battle as the hero realizes he’s the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Nispel (the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” remakes) directs. (Lionsgate Entertainment)
Photo by Simon Varsano, courtesy Lionsgate Entertainment
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Written by: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman
Legend of prose, comics and movies, Conan the Barbarian comes to life as never before in a new 3-D action adventure starring Momoa (TV’s “Stargate: Atlantis”) as the Cimmerian warrior. Adapted from the original works of the character’s creator, Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of this 80-year-old icon, “Conan” tracks a personal vendetta to avenge his father’s murder that becomes an epic battle as the hero realizes he’s the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Nispel (the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” remakes) directs. (Lionsgate Entertainment)
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- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
'I've never played a role that was played by someone else,' star tells MTV News of Arnold Schwarzenegger's version.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano
"There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it at all," Stephen Lang told us about the "Conan the Barbarian" reboot in which he co-stars. His point was that even unapologetic fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger's over-the-top films have to admit that, by the time Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain popped up in 1984's "Conan the Destroyer," the franchise had veered from campily charming to just plain silly.
With Jason Momoa slipping into the title role, Lang promised, this new "Conan" would have more in common with Robert E. Howard's swashbuckling original stories than the Governator's movies. That's certainly the impression we've received from early photos and a teaser trailer, and that's exactly what...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano
"There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it at all," Stephen Lang told us about the "Conan the Barbarian" reboot in which he co-stars. His point was that even unapologetic fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger's over-the-top films have to admit that, by the time Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain popped up in 1984's "Conan the Destroyer," the franchise had veered from campily charming to just plain silly.
With Jason Momoa slipping into the title role, Lang promised, this new "Conan" would have more in common with Robert E. Howard's swashbuckling original stories than the Governator's movies. That's certainly the impression we've received from early photos and a teaser trailer, and that's exactly what...
- 4/28/2011
- MTV Movie News
'I've never played a role that was played by someone else,' star tells MTV News of Arnold Schwarzenegger's version.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano
"There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it at all," Stephen Lang told us about the "Conan the Barbarian" reboot in which he co-stars. His point was that even unapologetic fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger's over-the-top films have to admit that, by the time Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain popped up in 1984's "Conan the Destroyer," the franchise had veered from campily charming to just plain silly.
With Jason Momoa slipping into the title role, Lang promised, this new "Conan" would have more in common with Robert E. Howard's swashbuckling original stories than the Governator's movies. That's certainly the impression we've received from early photos and a teaser trailer, and that's exactly what...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Jason Momoa in "Conan the Barbarian"
Photo: Simon Varsano
"There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about it at all," Stephen Lang told us about the "Conan the Barbarian" reboot in which he co-stars. His point was that even unapologetic fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger's over-the-top films have to admit that, by the time Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain popped up in 1984's "Conan the Destroyer," the franchise had veered from campily charming to just plain silly.
With Jason Momoa slipping into the title role, Lang promised, this new "Conan" would have more in common with Robert E. Howard's swashbuckling original stories than the Governator's movies. That's certainly the impression we've received from early photos and a teaser trailer, and that's exactly what...
- 4/28/2011
- MTV Music News
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