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- Vin Diesel and Marvel - a big maybe
- Latest trailer of Ben Stiller's <i>The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty</i>
- Screening in Tokyo
| Vin Diesel and Marvel - a big maybe Posted: Marvel Studios boss speaks up about casting rumours. Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige doesn't give many public interviews, so when he spoke about the many casting rumours swirling around his movies, it caught our attention. Let's go through this one by one: First there's Vin Diesel. It's been rumoured for months that Diesel would play the tree-creature Groot in Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy. Diesel has perpetuated those rumours with photos and videos on Facebook, where Diesel is one of the most popular actors in the world. Feige said Diesel's deal was "close" to being done. "I think it's close to being official for the Groot character," he told the Huffington Post. "But, not 100% yet." Tease. How about Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Reports surfaced last week that the Looper star, record executive and heartthrob was in contention play Ant-Man in Edgar Wright's upcoming film. Don't get your hopes up. "Sometimes it's because we are legitimately talking, and sometimes it's just because he's a prominent actor out there now," Feige said. "And lots of rumours surround prominent actors." OK, OK, what about Paul Rudd, another rumoured Ant-Man in the making? "Well, nothing is true yet," Feige said. "I like Paul Rudd, too." Double tease. — Reuters |
| Latest trailer of Ben Stiller's <i>The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty</i> Posted: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is tentatively scheduled to open on Christmas Day. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty – The latest trailer for this Ben Stiller project, tentatively scheduled to open on Christmas Day, gives us more clues as to who Walter Mitty is. The earlier trailer was brilliant as it had no dialogue except right at the end. Besides new visuals, this new one has all the bits that appeared in the first trailer only this time we get the conversations. With Stiller, Kristen Wiig and Adam Scott in the cast – Stiller is also the director – it's not surprising that the film promises to both tickle our funnybone and inspire us. Also, from both trailers, it's very hard not to like an underdog like Walter. Based on a short story by James Thurber, it introduces us to Walter – an office worker who is letting life pass him by. He is the first to admit that he might as well just blend into the background. There is a heartbreaking scene in this 168-second trailer when a female colleague (Wiig), whom he is a little in love with, throws a question in his direction. He starts to answer only to realise, a tad too late, that she isn't talking to him at all but to the girl behind him. (Oops. We all hate when that happens to us.) Walter also works for a real douchebag (Scott), a guy who takes every opportunity to belittle him. No wonder Walter zones out from time to time, imagining he is doing something fantastic – including pushing his boss out the window in a tall building. But that is not what this film is about. As the trailer progresses, we learn that Walter steps out of his imaginary world to have the greatest adventure of his life. Awww. Let's hope the film lives up to these two very good trailers. |
| Posted: Nine-day film festival in Japan opens with Hong Kong horror flick Rigor Mortis. Hollywood glitz descends on the Japanese capital this week as Tom Hanks, Robert de Niro and Francis Ford Coppola arrive for one of Asia's largest movie celebrations. A US$50,000 (RM157,000) top prize is up for grabs at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), where movies from around the globe will be competing for recognition. The international film section will award the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix and carries with it a US$50,000 (RM157,000) pay-cheque, while the new Best Asian Future Film Award section, aimed at showcasing Asian and Middle Eastern films, offers a US$10,000 (RM31,000) purse. The nine-day event begins on Thursday with the screening of Hong Kong horror flick Rigor Mortis directed by Juno Mak, which is in the running for the Asian Future award. US heavyweight father-and-daughter pairing Francis and Sofia Ford Coppola are likely to be a big draw for punters, with Sofia's latest directorial offering The Bling Ring being shown in the special screening section for high-profile films. "Since the very first TIFF in 1985 ... (it) has been a platform for talented young filmmakers to win international recognition and find inspiration," organisers said in a statement. Past award winners include Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, whose film, Babel won the Prix de la Mise en Scene, (Best Director Award) at Cannes in 2006, and Michel Hazanavicius, whose film, The Artist won five Academy Awards in 2012. Chief judge, Chinese director Chen Kaige, said in a video message: "We all understand that good films require talent. Without talent nothing can be done. But sometimes I feel like... there is something even more important than the talent, which is the unique personal understanding of the world. "But strange(ly) enough ... most of (the) time we could only find this kind of unique understanding of the world in the early age of a filmmaker's career. So that's why we want to pay very close attention to young filmmakers' works," he said. Last year, 1,332 films from 91 countries and regions were nominated in the international competition, according to organisers. Previous highlights of the festival include the French film Untouchable, the 2011 winner of the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix. It later set a world record for attendance for a French language film and was a long-running hit in Japan. The film festival is also aimed at introducing high-profile international films that have not been released in Japan and promoting Japanese independent movies to the international industry. – AFP RelaxNews |
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