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Watch: ‘The Avengers’ Teaser Trailer

Nick Ondras — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:19:33 +0000

Didn’t go to Comic-Con? No worries. The Avengers, Joss Whedon’s colorful Marvel sprawl that hasn’t…well, started filming yet, is finally (?) online. It’s pretty cool if you’re a hardcore fan of the comics, and if you’re not maybe these 40 seconds of Hall H goodness is worth skipping on until…again, this thing hasn’t even started filming yet.

Narration brought to you by Samuel L. Jackson; The Avengers hits screens May 4^th, 2012.

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The Vampire Craze

Matt Rosenberg — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:10:44 +0000

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Is it me, or is there a new vampire movie/TV show coming out 3-4 times a year? It came swiftly and abruptly, but Hollywood is going through what we would call a vampire craze. The blood sucking, sex crazed, violent seeking night dwellers have pretty much taken over. Did somebody just wake up and say “let’s bring back vampires.” Or perhaps it went something like this, “I can’t make a successful money making movie unless it has vampires.”

Interestingly, the rest of us can’t seem to get enough. In fact, foreign film industries are trying the vampire theme out as well. I’m trying to make sense of it, but I’m having trouble. Why is everyone into vampires these days? There has been various forms of vampire legend adaption; everything from romance to violence. We have vampire stories for kids, and we have more violent and sexual adaptions for adults. Lets just take a peak of vampire themed movies/tv in pop culture these days.

True Blood – the HBO series has taken over the Sunday night spot as it entered its second season. To be honest, I haven’t jumped on the band wagon but that’s not to say that the rest of the world has. People go rogue from 9-10 on Sunday nights because of “True Blood.” Sure, Anna Paquin is good looking but I thought Michael Strahan copyrighted the front tooth gap.

Underworld Trilogy – Kate Beckinsale starred in the original in 2003 and returned for the sequel in 2006. In 2009, the final Underworld came out, and although it was weaker than the first 2, unlike Godfather 3, this third installment was actually pretty good. This vampire saga is more like a comic book than anything loaded with pretty cool action scenes. The premise is based off the battle between vampires and werewolves. Big box office success (and DVD success)

Twilight Series – I do not know much about, but this Vampire saga has completely dominated the teen market. I would dare not diss it, as I do not want to become a marked man by 14-16 year old girls. The success of the first movie catapulted the speedy production of the second installment, “New Moon,” who’s trailer can be seen here. It hit Comic Con also, as Nick in his guest post, The Alibi buy mentioned previously.

Now for a runoff… “Let the Right One In” came out earlier this year, 3 “Blade” movies were made, a ton of money was put into “Van Helsing,” random Dracula movies come out once a year, and a new version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is in pre-production.

Even more interestingly, vampires have really sunk their teeth into Japan. “Blood: The Last Vampire” is in theaters now and came from Japanese filmmakers. The story is about a vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan. Ummm, sounds like Blade + a twist of government huh.

Finally, Korean director Chan-Wook Park, creator of 2003 smash hit Oldboy, will have his new vampire movie “Thirst” get released to theaters later this year. Additionally, this movie was all over Comic Con as well. Hollywood Insider, Ron Ashley, tells the Banter that he caught a screening of “Thirst” and the movie is pretty good. On a side note, Oldboy was such a success that Steven Spielberg is currently shooting the US remake starring none other than Will Smith.

I need someone to explain to me this craze. I think vampires are pretty cool and do enjoy their movies, but it’s just like all of a sudden everything is vampire related. If you want to make a money making movie, do a vampire movie. It’s sort of sad, but true. Dear Banterers, please advise.

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Comic Con 2009 Recap in San Diego

Craig Kessler — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:48:07 +0000

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Over 126,000 fans flocked to San Diego, California to check out the 2009 Comic-Con this year. If you’re unfamiliar with this annual festival (which is probably impossible, yet I’ll explain it anyway because there’s probably at least one of you who won’t know what the hell I’m rambling about), Comic-Con is a multi-genre gathering where everything from comic books to sitcoms are talked about by thousands of people. And ever since 1970 when it was founded, we’ve run over to Cali to stay for the three days. And there past days were no exception. CRAZY stuff, man!

At the 39th annual Comic-Con, awesome movie news were

released that had the geek in me screaming to come out. A new trailer, poster and clip from Saw VI, the official title of Tron 2 (which is now Tron: Legacy), two clips from New Moon, announcements for Toy Story 3, and all things Avatar. That’s just the beginning. Batman 3 was officially announced by Gary Oldman, a Jonah Hex poster was released and endless booths for stuff like Iron Man 2 and Sherlock Holmes were there, too. Constant coverage was broadcast on video game channel G4 and miscellaneous Twitter feeds. Even though I couldn’t be there I re-tweeted a lot of the major news as well.

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Guys (maybe even girls, I don’t know, but if there are female life forms out there, who enjoy this, please call me!) like me wept over our not going to the comic book meeting this year. All four-day tickets and single day tickets were sold out months in advance; a new record! Why is this released, to make us feel depressed? There’s got to be more than 126,000 people living in the United States, so many of us were left out with no chance at all of going. Stung by the Green Hornet. (Get it, it’s a movie reference to something that was at Comic-Con this year-oh, forget it.) I don’t preoccupy myself with that. Until I saw that Saturday fans got a free advanced screening of Inglourious Basterds, that was when I got pissed!

That’s why we obsess over this every year, to forget about all of the other bad things in the world. A recession, the health-care crisis, yadda yadda yadda. That’d be a good slogan for Comic-Con. “Who needs a steady-run government when we have Taylor Lautner shirtless?”

Yup, he was there, too.

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This was a guest post by Nick on his Movie Blog. Check it out, he has more movie news, trailers, and rants.