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With all the hullaballo surrounding superheroes at the moment you could be forgiven for forgetting that another cultural icon is set to return to our screens this year. Therefore please feast your eyes on this gentle reminder that gentleman spy James Bond will be returning in 2012 with Skyfall.
Remember when Elijah Wood went from a cute child star to a heroic hobbit and then turned into a raging serial killer in Sin City and got all creepy? Well he's at it again in the first official photos from the remake of Maniac.
With the recent news that Anchorman 2 is set to go into production next February, writer and director Adam McKay has given a few hints about the upcoming teaser trailer, whilst a brilliant new poster has been released online.
Chronicle star Alex Russell and stage actor Ansel Elgort are the latest to join the upcoming remake of the Carrie, Collider have reported this week.
Carrie, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel that was original released in 1976 by Brian De Palma, is set to be remade by director Kimberly Peirce with screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and is to be released sometime next year.
Iron Man beats pie. Pie beats vampire.
Is this the weeks box office top ten or the weirdest game of rock, paper, scissors of all time?
The first one.
With the Avengers Assemble juggernaut rolling on, breaking further box office records, it seems that the pressure is on for other superheroes to deliver a similar cash return later this summer.
While I cannot wait for the conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, I was initially indifferent to the reboot of Spider-Man. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two instalments of Sam Raimi’s take on the web slinger, was disappointed by the third chapter but was looking forward to the director making amends in a fourth instalment with Tobey Maguire once again playing the eponymous hero. I was therefore aghast at the announcement that a reboot was in the works. However, the trailers completely spun me around, it didn’t seem to be a rehash of the origin story we’ve already seen and it got me intrigued enough to swing down to my local multiplex when Marc Webb’s effort hits in July.
However, after seeing part of the latest four-minute “Super Preview” which hit the web this week, I’m now wondering once again if there’s any point.
Nothing riles me more than a lazy sequel or the resurrection of a franchise that doesn’t need messing with, particularly when it is in the shape of a new origins story. It was therefore quite a surprise, to me at least, that last year’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes wasn’t quite the travesty it could have been (I’m looking at you Tim Burton). Critically and commercially well received, it is no surprise that a further instalment is in the works.
The Dark Knight Rises, arguably the movie event of the year (with respect to Prometheus and The Avengers, I think Nolan's previous work gets him the leg up), is due to launch in a couple of month's time. We've been treated to the same masterful publicity campaign as we saw for the second film in the trilogy - the first teaser, the graffiti Easter Eggs, the extended IMAX footage where no-one could make out a word that Bane said, the proper trailers, and the careful, slow reveal of images from the set ("leaks" - yeah, sure) and official drops into the world's best movie mags.