yoho! new hitchhikers guide trailer! c/o…amazon? right whatev, as long as it works. watch the earth get destroyed, meet arthur dent, ford prefect, zaphod…and marvin, woo marvin.

> new hitchhikers guide trailer (via aicn)

word, a thumbs-up came in today from ign for the upcoming comic book adaption constantine. if youre a rabid fan of the original hellblazer series, maybe you’ll never get over the fact that keanu reeves is a non-brit, non-blonde constantine…but id give it a shot just because of all the ridiculously coo pics coming from their camp. its like the way i felt about the cell before it came out and shat on its own plot. gorgeous movie, potentially dodgy script. but this time around the movie just might get the rockin’ visuals along with a plot, so im excited. coincidentally tarsem singh, the director of the cell, was originally attached to constantine…with nicholas cage. see, i think that wouldve been a disaster.

> constantine review (via ign)

[ audio selection | bob marley – midnight ravers ]

shoot, its monday already. and bugger, its also valentines day. i was wondering why i saw people peddling massive flower trays around the streets today. alrighty then…just a brief one for today. ign has two coo articles with steven spielberg today. the first is a brief dialogue about indy 4 and spielberg executive producing the transformers movie. a year and a half from now for indy 4…keep your fingers crossed. and the second article is a lengthy question and answer with spielberg and tom cruise about war of the worlds. its pretty in-depth, talking about what parts of the movie were in homage to the original george pal movie, as well as which parts were taken directly from h.g. wells novel. definitely an interesting read.

> spielberg talks indy 4 (via ign)
> spielberg and cruise talk war of the worlds (via ign)

[ audio selection | chemical brothers – song to the siren ]

oh crap…enterprise got yanked! for those who werent aware (or just didnt give a shit) there has been a star trek of some form or another on air for the past 18 (whoa) years straight…and next season will be the first since where no new star trek episodes will be aired. this is little surprise for many (me included), who saw enterprise as well…crap. and while it was supposedly getting better recently, thanks to the work of manny coto (i never caught an episode, so i cant confirm that), it wasnt enough to stop the axe from coming down. so lets see, crap series gets canned, the last movie (nemesis) tanked, lots of high-profile former trekkies (most noticeably patrick stewart) distancing themselves from the franchise…things arent looking super eh? a break is needed regardless, and many are hoping that this results in rick berman (who has led the franchise since gene roddenberrys death and who many directly blame for the decline of the franchise) losing the helm of star trek. heres just to hoping jolene blalock gets reincarnated or something in a future series…

WAR!
oh, and the new super bowl trailer for war of the worlds is up. still no aliens…but there are explosions. *shrug* i suppose thatll do for now.

> enterprise is cancelled (via ign)
> war of the worlds super bowl trailer (via coming soon via aicn)

i was working on some material for the new tim burton movie corpse bride…promotional artwork, a style guide, etc. so im reading the style guide, checking out the story etc. and as im reading the summary, the summary extends to multiple pages, lays out the whole story, tells me the ending, and fucks me over before i even realize it. gah! so now for the first time (in a while) i ruined the plot for myself unintentionally (when its usually intentional. spoilers, etc). grr…stupid style guides. oh, and the storys a bit fucked up and morbid. you should see some of the character sketches…craziness.

BLOODRAYNE
right, and in other movie news, theres a new “trailer” out for uwe boll’s new game-to-movie and soon-to-be masterpiece bloodrayne. yea, masterpiece. i mean, its uwe boll for chrissakes…maker of great works like house of the dead and alone in the dark. the trailer is so godawful that the movie must be good. they must have so much faith the movie will rock that they can afford to make the trailer look like some 3rd-rate tv movie. go go uwe boll!

note: sorry, the pics not really from the movie. its probably some lingerie model the game company (majesco) hired for promo work with the actual game.

> corpse bride
> bloodrayne trailer (via ign)

i havent really been following the development of the movie adaption of the da vinci code (nor have i read the book, as 90% of the north american population seems to have), but i thought this news was worth noting. there are currently two stars attached to the ron howard movie at this point…tom hanks as robert langdon and jean reno as bezu fache. but cinescape reports today that audrey tatou (amelie) has just been cast for the role of sophie neveu. coo news indeed, amelie’s all grown up now and chasing after the knights templar…woo.

> audrey tatou cast for the da vinci code (via cinescape)

egad…remember that old post about keira knightley’s heinous boy-cut? im happy and relieved to discover that it was indeed for a movie role. specifically tony scott’s domino…with a script by richard kelly (donnie darko) and starring mickey rourke, lucy liu, christopher walken, and a big list of others. knightley plays domino harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter (yea you heard right…and its based on a real person too) and therefore the boy-cut was necessitated by said role. *whew*. coincidentally, ign visited the set of domino, so go check it out.

> domino set visit (via ign)

new batman begins images surfaced yesterday. aicn has 2 links, one to a couple of new images of batman, the batmobile, and batmann glowering at everybody and their grandmother. christian bale looks pretty badass as batman, and the new batman outfit seems to be more textured…less joel schumacher chiseled and more sculpted. very coo. the other link is to a promo(?) image that may or may not feature the new scarecrow. its a pretty dodgy image…but it does match the descriptions so far of the scarecrow. so we’ll see.
oh, and the new fantastic four trailers out too. its um…kinda less-than-fantastic. not terrible…but not terribly exciting either.

> new batman begins images and maybe the scarecrow (via aicn)
> new not-so-fantastic four trailer

via ign, the new hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy one-sheet.

i have to say…i didnt pay too much attention to the upcoming keanu reeves movie constantine (based off the dc comics hellblazer). partly because i wasnt too familiar with the comics, but mostly because of well, keanu reeves. but after checking out the new trailer, i think im starting to take an interest. not that it shouldnt have already been obvious that id take a shine to the hellblazer mythology (i have this thing for all things angels, demons, divine wars, etc…). i also quite like the feel of the movie, the subtle images of the supernatural. reading thru information and excerpts from the original hellblazer however, i do think that keanu reeves might be the wrong constantine. hes not snarky, not wise-assed, and um…not from liverpool. trailers still coo tho.

> constantine trailer