Entertainment Weekly did an interview with Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard about their experience on the set of Green Lantern near the end of its filming.
These videos are from Mexico city’s press conference for The Last Airbender with Jackson Rathbone and M. Night Shyamalan taken by a fansite. Basically Shyamalan rips a reporter a new one after she asks him if he’s selling out in order to win back the audience he lost with his previous flops because they have lost their faith in him. He goes off saying “If I thought like you I would kill myself” and goes on to tell her that her point of view is crass, dismissive and cynic.
MTV brings a first behind the scenes look at AMC’s the walking dead. based on robert kirkman’s comics, the show is set to premiere the 2nd week of october.
Paramount Pictures has released a new video clip from M Night Shyamalan’s big screen adaptation of The Last Airbender. The 41 second clip shows Sokka’s (Jackson Rathbone) reaction to the ships of the Fire Nation approaching.
A four minute set visit video report for Marvel’s Thor on Entertainment Tonight. The piece mostly consists of an interview between stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, but also features a bit of behind the scenes footage from the set.
Plot Synopsis:
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, “Thor,” which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A beautiful, young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes his first love. It’s while here on Earth that Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Release: May 6th, 2011
The short was directed by Kevin Tancharoen, who did the remake of Fame last year. Judging from this short, Kevin is the perfect director for this movie. Jacks is played by Michael Jai White. Michael played Spawn and was in Undisputed II. Michael makes a great Jacks (Jax). Sonya Blade is played byJeri Ryan, who played Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager. Baraka was played by the very talented Lateef Crowder, who plays the Brazilian fighter in Undisputed III. Scorpion is played by Ian Anthony Dale. Ian plays Kazuya in the upcoming big screen version of Tekken. Johnny Cage was played by up and coming martial arts sensation Matt Mullins. Still working on who played Reptile. Will update when I find out. The fight choreography was done by Larnell Stovall. Larnell did the fight choreography for Undisputed III and is one of the best fight choreographers in the business.
The Frouds are the designers of the sets, props and various puppet creatures that inhabit the world of The Dark Crystal, as well as the other Henson fantasy-world seen in Labyrinth. Interviewed this weekend at a signing of their new fortune-telling card set, The Heart of Faerie Oracle, they revealed that the next Dark Crystal movie is very much still on, that they have done “some designs” for it, have been “talking to the director” and have “been involved with the script”. These guys are any future film’s strongest link to the first, and it can only help to have them intimately involved.
I think the Frouds’ designs, and then the Hensons’ creation and puppeterring of the designs, are at the heart of why The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth have endured so well. Quite what problems there have been in getting another movie to the big screen, I do not know, but I’m sure it has something to do with financiers not quite understanding how beloved (and therefor marketable) these characters are.
