Shah Rukh Khan in Toronto on Oct 26th for RA One Premiere...You Betcha!

Hey Indian Cinema fans, do we have a scoop for you. Looks like King Khan himself, Shah Rukh Khan will be in Toronto to attend the premiere of his upcoming movie Ra One.

I've got a press relase on its way, once I get a chance to look at it, I will post more details.

In the meantime, if the recent IIFA awards was any indication, folks should start warming up their vocal cords now.

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#Yesplease!! - Star Wars Muppets Action Figures Coming to Disney Theme Parks This Fall

I seriously, seriously need to have these.

The Muppets dressed as Star Wars characters is the most brilliant idea ever.

Don't think so?

Well stop reading this blog.

Seriously..go away.

How can you not love Beaker as C-3PO/Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as R2-D2, Link Hogthrob as Han Solo/Fozzy the Bear as Chewbacca, and Sam the Eagle as Obi-Wan Kenobi/Gonzo as Darth Vader with his chicken Camilla serving as a Stormtrooper. And of course, it wouldn't be the Muppets with Kermit and Miss Piggy who are Luke and Leia. Hold on...aren't the dating?

Awkward.

Anyways, here are some images.

Enjoy.


 

source - ComicsAlliance

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Transformers 4 AND 5 shooting back to back..Shia and Michael Bay not involved? There is hope!

The rumours for the Transformers series have been kicking around for awhile. Who is in? Who is out? Who do we not want? (I'm looking at both you Micheal Bay and your buddy Shia LaBeouf).

The good folks at Empire have recently reported that indeed Paramount Pictures will be bringing us more in the much-maligned, yet still potentially awesome Transformers Franchise. Seems that they will be going the Matrix route and shooting both Transformers 4 AND 5 back to back.

Here is the best news of all.

Michael Bay went on his blog to let the world know that he is not going to be involved with the movies. Furthermore, it seems that Shia LaBeouf has officially indicated that he is out.

THANK GOD for both pieces of news.

And a nice little nugget to leave you with. There is a rumour swirling around that Jason Statham is the next guy.

Let that be true and have Neill Blomkamp as its' director and I am all the way in.

Now excuse me while I give a sacrifice to the movie-making gods to make this happen.

source: Empire.

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Transformers 4 AND 5 shooting back to back..Shia and Michael Bay not involved? There is hope!

The rumours for the Transformers series have been kicking around for awhile. Who is in? Who is out? Who do we not want? (I'm looking at both you Micheal Bay and your buddy Shia LaBeouf).

The good folks at Empire have recently reported that indeed Paramount Pictures will be bringing us more in the much-aligned, yet still potentially awesome Transformers Franchise. Seems that they will be going the Matrix route and shooting both Transformers 4 AND 5 back to back.

Here is the best news of all.

Michael Bay went on his blog to let the world know that he is not going to be involved with the movies. Furthermore, it seems that Shia LaBeouf has officially indicated that he is out.

THANK GOD for both pieces of news.

And a nice little nugget to leave you with. There is a rumour swirling around that Jason Statham is the next guy.

Let that be true and have Neill Blomkamp as its' director and I am all the way in.

Now excuse me while I give a sacrifice to the movie-making gods to make this happen.

source: Empire.

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Really dope fan-made Title Sequence for Tin-Tin with stuff from each of the Books


Steven Spielberg's Tin Tin is coming out soon and while that would usually be a huge deal for me, I am pretty certain that I am going to pass on it as it is done in that weird almost real-life animation method. It's just too creepy for me that they are meant to be life-like but are still computer-generated.

One very cool saving grace for me is this fan-made title sequence for the film. It features elements from each of the 24 books of the iconic character.

I am really impressed by this as it is ridiculously well done. It reminds me very much of the title sequences from the 60's and 70's. Spielberg would not lose out at all if used this.

What say you?

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Shah Rukh Khan in Toronto on Oct 26th for RA One Premiere...You Betcha!

Hey Indian Cinema fans, do we have a scoop for you. Looks like King Khan himself, Shah Rukh Khan will be in Toronto to attend the premiere of his upcoming movie Ra One.

I've got a press relase on its way, once I get a chance to look at it, I will post more details.

In the meantime, if the recent IIFA awards was any indication, folks should start warming up their vocal cords now.

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American Reunion Red Band Trailer ..and it's pretty much what you'd expect

I was going to give this a pass. I mean how many of these movies can you make. The first couple were funny and made huge stars out of the cast. But I am getting old and this stuff shouldn't be funny anymore right?

Right?!?!

Alright, I have to admit that I laughed out loud during this trailer, much to my chagrin, and that earned this trailer a spot here. The whole gang is back and if the the movie is like the trailer, then it will definitely worth the watch.

What say you?

source  -  Empire.

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Chickens Singing Cee-Lo's F@#K You can only mean one thing..The Last Epic Muppets Trailer

Those long-time readers of this site know that the most anticipated movie for me this year is the Muppets. They have had quite the brilliant marketing campaign and I, along many of you who have reached out to me on le Twitter and Facebook are just as giddy to see the likes of Miss Piggy, Kermit and Animal grace the big screen.

The opening is around the corner, however the good folks at Disney have dropped one last trailer and man it is awesome!

Behold the greatness that is The Muppets:


About  the Movie
James Bobin ("Flight of the Conchords") is at the helm of this new Muppets movie, which follows Walter and Gary (Segel), two die-hard Muppet fans and roommates who must save Muppet Theater by reuniting Kermit, Piggy, and the entire troupe to stage an "old-fashioned extravaganza." The cast is full of all kinds of celebrity cameos and other great random appearances, including Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Alan Arkin and Billy Crystal. Shooting is already finished, and Disney will be bringing The Muppets to theaters everywhere on November 23rd, Thanksgiving week.

source: FirstShowing.net.

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Xavierpop and Pixar says goodbye to Steve Jobs

Recently we lost one of the greatest minds of this generation. Our version of Henry Ford succumbed to his long battle with pancreatic cancer on October 5th, 2011.

Steve Jobs defined entrepreneurship for this modern age. He was hands down one of the few men I, like millions of others, looked up to. His tenacity and never wavering quest for perfection was the perfect blueprint for those of us looking to carve a niche in whatever area of business we were looking to take on.

He was inspiration to me not only in the products that he created but moreso in his leadership style that truly made him a vanguard.

There has been plenty said about him already and I imagine that there will be plenty more said in the annals of history.

For now, I will simply say..

Thank you.

For the inspiration..
And showing us that the impossible is possible.

With this being a film blog, the best tribute I would like to show is from Pixar, the company he created that with no surprise, changed how we view films.

 

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@MovieJay's Review of Restless

It's to the credit of director Gus Van Sant that Restless ultimately rises above conventionality and formula into the touching romantic drama that it is. You've seen this material before from Dying Young to Untamed Heart about the complexities involved with young people and dying. There are plenty of slice-of-life flicks to be had, but nary has there been a film that I have been able to call a slice-of-death picture. Restless  is a movie that engages us every ste p of the way with it's two quirky misfits, a young terminally ill woman and the fragile young man she shares her last romance with. Together, their love is fueled by their fascination with mortality in how we see them worshipping at the shrine of death.

Annabel is dying of cancer who after a long fight with cancer has been informed by her doctor that she has roughly three months to live. She lives in a house with her older sister Elizabeth, a woman in her mid-30's, who on the ride home back from the hospital stifles Annabel's attempt at humor almost as if to repress her own dread about the fact of having to eventually lose her baby sister. Elizabeth would rather not have to think about dealing with it while Annabel greets this news with uncommon wisdom and acceptance which immediately draws us to her.

Enoch is a young man, scrawny, awkward and shy, whose at times furtive movements with his head and eyes remind us of a bird. He lost his parents tragically in his boyhood and it appears that's where his zest and wonder for the living world was lost as well.

Traditionally in movies, characters meet in train stations and airports, libraries and shopping malls, bars and clubs. Generic places with predispositions for wacky behavior that often involve misunderstandings. Not so in Restless where the early courtship scenes take place in or outside of funeral homes and at cemeteries.

Annabel and Enoch become aware of each other as mourners at a funeral where a man employed by the funeral home begins to sniff out Enoch as an all-too-regular mourner when Annabel comes in and covers for Enoch, saving them both from further embarrassment and trouble. Outside the funeral home is where their dance begins. What is said between them in these scenes is not as important as the feeling of them. Annabel's winning heart and openness attract Enoch from the land of the dead, a place where his closest confidante is a ghost in the form of a former Japanese WWII pilot named Hiroshi.

Is Hiroshi an imaginary friend or is he a re-incarnation in Enoch's mind of someone else close to him? The movie doesn't care too much to explain this, but that's fine since we simply accept Hiroshi the way he is and the way Enoch sees him. And besides, like Annabel's older sister Elizabeth (who looks down on Enoch as a troubled slacker) Hiroshi is a character who serves as a clear-eyed counter-balance to the two young lovers and their naive hearts which have promised to put cancer and dying on the back-burner while their romance develops.

We feel like we're in good hands with Van Sant here who invests us deeply in all four major characters. From Annabel, played by Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre) with touches of sweetness and mysticism to Enoch played with tenderness in his first major film performance by Henry Hopper, son of the late Dennis Hopper, to Elizabeth and Hiroshi, the two older characters who bring weariness and realism to their roles.

I'm doubtful that Restless will find a large audience in these days where younger adult movie-goers tend to run from complexity towards the easy gratification of stuff blowing up real good. That's too bad, because this is a movie worth spending time with even if it is one of Gus Van Sant's "minor" films compared to previous titles like My Own Private Idaho, Elephant, Good Will Hunting, or Last Days. It may be "minor" Van Sant, but it is unique nonetheless in how it not only gathers our sympathy for Annabel and Enoch, but transcends it's story into a meditative experience where we are allowed as an audience to consider our own mortality. Not simply from the perspective o f "what would you do given three months to live?" but something more thoughtful having to do with how we would feel about it and whether we could come to terms with it with as much grace as young Annabel.

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