Movie Writings: 2013

Casting News: Still big is the news about Star Wars' Luke, Leia and Han Solo... also Liam Neeson and Giovanni Ribisi might work with Seth MacFarlane... and Sofia Vergara might be in Heat...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/lucas-says-fisher-hamill-ford-are-signed-on.html?mid=imdb

http://www.hitfix.com/news/liam-neeson-and-giovanni-ribisi-circling-seth-mcfarlanes-8-million-ways-to-die

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/03/07/casting-net-vergara-fonda/

Thursday, March 7, 2013

News: Princess Leia

Melissa McCarthy hosting SNL again...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snl-melissa-mccarthy-host-second-426418

Sam Mendes won't direct the next Bond movie...

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/03/06/sam-mendes-james-bond/

Casting: Keri Russell, Jeffrey Wright and Ed Norton...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/keri-russell-joins-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/jeffrey-wright-boardwalk-empire.html?mid=imdb

http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/edward-norton-joins-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-ensemble-comedy-birdman/

And finally, the biggest news in casting: No Princess Leia in the next Star Wars movie!!

http://www.accesshollywood.com/carrie-fishers-rep-she-was-joking-about-joining-cast-of-star-wars-vii_article_76470?__source=rss|imdb|latest-originals

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

News 060313

The MTV Movie Awards will be held in April, with Rebel Wilson hosting... yay!! Django Unchained and Ted leading the nominations list...

http://my.news.yahoo.com/django-ted-lead-comedies-superheros-mtv-movie-awards-013659794.html

Casting news... Princess Leia will apparently show up in the new Star Wars movie and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's new movie cast...

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=36710

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/m-keaton-stone-galifianakis-watts-to-co-star.html?mid=imdb

Lamb of God singer acquitted of fans death in the Czech Republic...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/lamb-of-gods-randy-blythe-acquitted-of-fans-death-in-czech-republic

And finally, Carly Rae Jepsen cancels concert because of homophobia... not hers...

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20679367,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Casting: Storm

Bryan Singer confirms Halle Berry returning as Storm. Personally, I think Angela Bassett is the perfect Ororo, but hey...

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/03/04/halle-berry-storm-x-men-days-future-past/

A bunch of casting news, including Lili Taylor and Harrison Ford...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harrison-ford-signs-anchorman-2-425885

http://www.hitfix.com/news/tv-casting-roundup-lili-taylor-joins-jj-abrams-sci-fi-captain-awesome-gets-a-new-job

Meanwhile, Dexter's number is up...

http://www.eonline.com/news/394287/dexter-ending-after-8-seasons-says-les-moonves?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

And Steven Spielberg's new project...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/spielberg-napoleon-kubrick.html?mid=imdb

Monday, March 4, 2013

Casting: Days of Future Past

More X-Men: Days of Future Past casting news... Omar Sy is joining, probably as Bishop, while Halle Berry has confirmed returning as Storm... woo!

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/03/03/omar-sy-x-men-days-of-future-past/

http://my.news.yahoo.com/halle-berry-im-x-men-days-future-past-001731797.html

Meanwhile, at the box office... Jack the Giant Slayer did not slay the box office much...

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3643

While The Hobbit stands tall globally...

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/hobbit-hits-1b-worldwide-box-office-79936

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Drop Dead Diva

Quick update... Drop Dead Diva is not canceled!! Woohoo!!

http://tvline.com/2013/03/02/drop-dead-diva-season-5-spoilers-renewal-josh-berman-cuts/

Friday, March 1, 2013

News 010313

The third Hobbit movie gets a new release date...

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/third-hobbit-movie-gets-new-release-date-79771

Speaking of dates, Fox is also releasing some important dates regarding its shows...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/fox-sets-following-idol-finales-and-goodwin-games-so-you-think-you-can-dance-premieres

Casting... Gary Oldman will fight apes while Rebecca DeMornay fights McCoys...

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/gary-oldman-leads-human-resistance-in-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/rebecca-de-mornay-hatfields-mccoys-nbc-425502

And finally, 90210 gets canceled...

http://tvline.com/2013/02/28/90210-cancelled-by-the-cw/

Thursday, February 28, 2013

News 280213

Top Chef Season 10 crowns a winner! And it's finally a woman!!

h ttp://www.eonline.com/news/392823/top-chef-seattle-finale-winner-takes-all-in-new-look-last-round?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

Casting news... Halle Berry back for Days of Future Past?

http://www.eonline.com/news/392634/halle-berry-back-for-x-men-days-of-future-past-director-talks-quot-biggest-quot-film-yet?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

And a new Green Goblin has been cast...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/amazing-spider-man-chris-cooper-424874

Meanwhile, Michael Ealy is in a futuristic cop in a new show...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/michael-ealy-fox-fringe-jh-wyman-jj-abrams-424956

And, the WGA has listed the greatest screenplays...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/wga-best-screenplays

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

News 270213

Godzilla reboot has a new star...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/godzilla-reboot-taps-cosmopolis-star-juliette-binoche

Meanwhile, Jay Hernandez has a new show...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jay-hernandez-fox-gang-related-424509

American Horror Story, Boardwalk Empire and Arrested Development gets new stars...

http://tvline.com/2013/02/26/american-horror-story-season-3-cast-kathy-bates/

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/boardwalk-empire-signs-ron-livingston-regular-79446

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/26/arrested-development-ben-stiller/

And Bobby Brown gets sentenced...

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20677636,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

News 260213

Jennifer Lawrence is catching fire after her Oscar win...

http://www.eonline.com/news/391950/jennifer-lawrence-goes-back-to-being-a-brunette?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

Speaking of Oscars, Seth MacFarlane's ratings are in...

http://www.eonline.com/news/391690/2013-oscars-ratings-seth-macfarlane-bumps-up-numbers-from-2012-mdash-how-does-he-rank-against-previous-hosts?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

In casting... Covert Affairs actress has a new pilot...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/covert-affairs-actress-star-abc-424457

While Gillian Anderson returns to TV...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/gillian-anderson-nbc-drama.html?mid=imdb

Monday, February 25, 2013

Oscar Winners

Yay Adele, Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway!!

http://www.imdb.com/oscars/nominations/?ref_=rto_nb_acd

The Oscars are happening right now! Christoph Waltz had already won Best Actor... I thought it was gonna be Tommy Lee Jones, who had won the SAG Award... sigh...

Anyway, Anne Hathaway will win Best Supporting Actress... and I think Jennifer Lawrence will win Best Actress and Daniel Day Lewis Best Actor...

Ben Affleck and George Clooney will get their second Oscars each for Argo...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

News 190213

Argo continues to dominate...

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/zero-dark-thirty-argo-win-writers-guild-awards-20130218

And... Star Trek has a new poster out...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/star-trek-into-darkness-gets-a-nifty-motion-poster-narrated-by-benedict-cumberbatch

Meanwhile, Fergie is preggie...

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20510101,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent

And Michael Jackson's son is now a reporter...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/michael-jacksons-son-entertainment-tonight.html?mid=imdb

Thursday, February 14, 2013

News 140213

Lady Gaga cancels tour....

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20673668,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent

Meanwhile, the late Nora Ephron will be honored...

http://www.thewrap.com/awards/article/nora-ephron-honored-writers-guild-east-awards-77496

And Gerard Butler sues Motor City producers...

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/gerard-butler-sues-producers-motor-city-4m-77571

In TV News...

Dylan McDermott has a new show...

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/dylan-mcdermott-cast-cbss-hostages-pilot-77501

And Ron Weasley gets a new power...

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/harry-potter-star-rupert-grint-star-greg-garcias-superhero-pilot-cbs-77636

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Review - Husin, Mon & Jin Pakai Toncit

Yup, went and saw the sequel to the awesome Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah... well, awesome is used loosely, if we ignore some of the problems... anyway, yes, twice... and I paid for both times, not watching for free... watched once with my niece and nephew, and watched another time with a friend...

So Mamat Khalid's using the same characters from Zombi Kampung Pisang and Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah, the good folks at Kampung Pisang. The story goes... Husin, played ably by Awie, returns to Kampung Pisang, after leaving at the end of the events of HKLBR... because he has gone bankrupt... and as soon as he steps back to his hometown, weird things started happening...

Such as the flying girl in red and also Dr Samsudin, who apparently is the devil incarnate... and no, I am not spoiling anyone because when the doctor shows up in a car, the license plate spelled HE11, ya know... HELL... and he was reading a newspaper from hell...

By the way, the flying girl is the girl who was flying at the end of HKLBR... but she was a different character in that movie... but it's not so subtly revealed later that she is the same character...

Anyway, the movie opened with a scene where characters walk through the woods and the male character met a fiery death, with the girl running away safely... and the scene was repeated, with different characters and different time, to show that this would be the running theme of the movie...

So basically, the movie is about a deal with the devil that the original settlers of Kampung Pisang made... the devil is now taking back what's rightfully his via the deal... which included Husin, Usop and Wan... that's when the flying girl comes in... hoping to save Husin from a fiery death...

Of course, this is Kampung Pisang... nothing bad ever happens here... except that it almost always does... but things always have a way of working things out... like when people died from eating a toxic rendang and turned into zombies... inject them with some miracle drug and the zombification process would stop and give them their lives back... or normal humans when perceived by others as ghosts, can do what ghosts do like jump from rooftops and climb into houses unseen/unheard... but then when people realize that it's actually human, she suddenly cannot do those things anymore...

In any event, this movie employs the same technique and same jokes from HKLBR... some are funny but some are flat because it has been done... although many people in the cinema hall were laughing like crazy... one man's meat is another's poison I guess...

The acting's the same but it's kinda spoiled by the bad dubbing/editing job... in some scenes, you can totally see the actors' lips not moving or moving too fast... and then, there's some scenes which need not be in the movie at all like the music video, or the flashbacks to show the two old guys in the 60's...

But, it is not a bad movie... it's also not a good movie either...

News 130213

We will find Nemo again soon...

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/albert-brooks-hooks-deal-to-reprise-in-finding-nemo-2/

Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy is a mix of CGI and robot...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/guardians-of-the-galaxys-rocket-raccoon-to-be-mix-of-cgi-and-rotomation

Meanwhile, Bellatrix Lestrange will clean up to play Liz Taylor...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/helena-bonham-carter-and-dominic-west-to-play-elizabeth-taylor-and-richard-burton-for-bbc

Still on TV... Peter Sarsgaard joins The Killing... while ABC's new pilot is The L Word reunion...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/the-killing-peter-sarsgaard.html?mid=imdb

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/12/abc-drama-pilot-stages-l-word-reunion/

And.. Devon Aoki welcomes a baby girl...

http://www.eonline.com/news/387855/devon-aoki-welcomes-a-baby-girl?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

News 120213

The Walking Dead continues to succeed...

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/11/the-walking-dead-record-rating/

TV News... The CW renews three shows... yay!

http://tvline.com/2013/02/11/cw-renews-supernatural-vampire-diaries-arrow/

Plus, casting... Josh Holloway and Matt Jones have new shows and Dracula nemesis have been cast...

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/josh-holloway-to-star-in-cbs-drama-pilot-intelligence/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-dracula-jonathan-rhys-meyers-van-helsing-cast-420537

http://tvline.com/2013/02/11/mom-pilot-cbs-matt-jones-cast-breaking-bad/

Meanwhile, Wolverine's new trailer looks set to debut soon...

http://www.hitfix.com/news/wolverine-teaser-trailer-looks-to-be-paired-with-g-i-joe-retaliation

Friday, February 8, 2013

Review - A Good Day to Die Hard

Bruce Willis is too old for this shit... and he mentioned it a few times in the movie... in fact, it's like there's a resurgence in older action stars these days, with The Expendables, and Tom Cruise... apparently, there are no younger stars who can carry a movie yet...

Anyway, A Good Day to Die Hard is the fifth installment of the Die Hard series... Willis returns as John McClane, the gung-ho New York cop who gets into trouble a lot...

The last Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard, showed us McClane's daughter, Lucy (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). This time, it's his son, Jack (Jai Courtney), who gets the spotlight, working as an undercover CIA agent in Russia.

The movie's fine as an action movie. It even has a red herring or a surprise twist close to the end, which I almost figured out, right before it was revealed, so that's a good thing. :)

However, the movie has too much destruction, for destruction's sake. And there was just way too much shouting in the beginning. After a third of the movie went by, then it goes on to become a pretty decent movie.

And don't get me started on the plot holes... the most glaring one would be the one involving Chernobyl and explosion... not gonna say what it is as it will spoil the scene/movie, but watch out for that... bugs the hell out of me...

Bruce Willis is in his element here, and is matched well with Jai Courtney. Hopefully the next Die Hard movie will allow the daughter to kick ass...

In other news, Bryan Singer donates money to USC...

http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/bryan-singer-donates-5m-usc-school-cinematic-arts-76686

And... the guy responsible for Yoda has died...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/07/stuart-freeborn-yoda-maker-dies