The official YouTube Channel for Iron Sky has released the first five minutes of the film to watch online. It’s mostly the opening credits sequence, but it still has astronauts, gunplays and, of course, Nazis.
As World War II came to a close, several German scientists deployed Nazi spaceships to the dark side of the moon to establish a military base from which they could once again strike out at the countries of Earth. Now, in 2018, they’re coming back.
Iron Sky will open the Gold Coast Film Festival on 19 April 2012. Iron Sky will be released in Australia later in the year from Hoyts Distribution.
Now in cinemas around the country, Paramount and Way To Blue have sent us an Australian exclusive clip from The Devil Inside, appropriately titled Itsy Bitsy Spider. We think that’s a grand name for a new section on the site. “Itsy Bitsy Bits: A Study of Small Things”.
In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.
Bleeding Cool has unveiled very slick Japanese poster and new trailer has been released for Disney/Pixar’s Brave, the next epic adventure from the folks who almost never do anything wrong. Clearly the Japanese have forgiven Disney/Pixar for the antiquated and slightly racist depictions of Japan in the disappointing Cars 2. This trailer offers new footage, and is cut together in a very atmospheric way that gives us a new hope for the film. A higher-quality version is available on the official Japanese site, but the one below has subtitles.
A grand adventure full of heart, memorable characters and signature Pixar humour, Brave uncovers a new tale in the mysterious Highlands of Scotland where the headstrong Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) defies an age-old custom and inadvertently unleashes chaos, forcing her to discover the meaning of true bravery before it’s too late.
Brave will be released in Australia on 21 June 2012 and 22 June 2012 in the US from Disney.
Walt Disney Pictures have shared ten minutes from this week’s big release John Carter online. The footage is essentially the first ten minutes of the film, setting up the Earthman’s mysterious circumstances that led him to Barsoom, or Mars. The multiple escape attempts showcase the humour in the film as well.
In our review for the film, we Highly Recommended it, saying it “is one of the first great science fiction epics of the decade, taking the best elements of the past and updating them for modern audiences”. We really encourage readers to go and see it when it opens this week.
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter – a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet.
John Carteris due in cinemas on 8 March 2012 in Australia and 9 March 2012 in the US from Disney.
The US box office sensation The Devil Inside is now in Australian cinemas, ready to scare the pants off of audiences around the country. Paramount has sent over footage from the Melbourne preview screening, and an interview with occult expert Rev. Bob Larson.
On Tuesday night in Melbourne, Paramount Pictures held a special advanced screening for horror fans to watch The Devil Inside. It was an eerie night, with creeping music playing, crucifix’s everywhere, black birds flying overhead- all while fans rugged up outside preparing to watch the film. With a special introduction from a priest, mentioning that people where watching at their own risk, the film commenced…
Fans were given glow in the dark rosary beads to help them through the night. People were twisting and turning in their seats, grabbing their loved ones hands and covered their faces.
Rev. Bob Larson is the world’s foremost expert on cults, the occult, and supernatural phenomena. He has spoken in more than 100 countries and has appeared on scores of network TV shows such as Oprah, The O’Reilly Factor, and Dr. Phil. More than a dozen major television networks have produced documentaries about his work, and he has been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major newspapers. Bob has written 31 books, translated into more than a dozen languages. His books include four best-selling novels. His 575-page classic work Larson’s Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality is a standard reference encyclopedia at many colleges and seminaries. His latest book is Demon Proofing Prayers. He has starred as a real-life exorcist in his own TV reality show seen worldwide, “The Real Exorcist.”
Q: How grounded in reality, from your experience, is The Devil Inside?
A: “It is after all Hollywood and it is after all the horror genre but at the same time there are some aspects about it which are all too real. The two which come to mind are the issue of demonic transference and the scientific approach in verifying an exorcism, including the dilation of the pupils of the eyes.”
Q: What kind of person can become a practicing exorcist?
A: “Well it takes a religious person, a person of faith. It’s obviously a calling. It’s someone who feels deeply about helping other people. But it’s somebody who has a spiritual vocation. You just don’t become an exorcist and desire to have that knowledge and training. It’s really a higher calling.”
Q: What kind of preparation do you undertake before conducting an exorcism?
A: “Well, there’s a lot of knowledge that’s necessary and I’m speaking of an individual such as myself. Even the priests who are portrayed in the movie don’t just jump into it. The Roman Catholic Church has a ritual of Romana, which is a prescribed ritual but even if you recite a ritual, you have to know what’s behind it. Perhaps more importantly, the movie emphasizes that there are a lot of psychological issues which you have to work through to determine if it’s truly possession or if it’s some other phenomenon, so you have to have a working knowledge of various forms of mental health issues and various ways in which people respond physically and emotionally – which may or may not indicate possession.”
Q: How exactly does a person become possessed?
“Well that is an interesting question and it really does not come up in most of the movies. For example, the original The Exorcist only just briefly touched on it with this reference to a Ouija Board. The one thing that is consistent with all types of exorcism be it Protestant or Catholic or whatever, is finding out the original entry point of the demon because no demon can be expelled unless you discover what it is that got the demon there in the first place and that issue is resolved. There’s always a resolution of something related to the original cause of the possession.”
Q: What does a demonic presence need from the possession of a human body?
A: “It’s really pretty simple; a demon is an invisible spirit being. It has no capacity to do actual evil, it needs a physical body, so for example, a demon cannot rape somebody, a demon can’t pull the trigger of a gun and a demon can’t start a war. It’s through the body of somebody, if they’re sufficiently induced by the demon, that the demon accomplishes actual evil in the world.”
Q: Have you ever come to any physical harm conducting an exorcism?
“I have come to physical harm, but not often. I’ve since learned to be very, very careful. I had my ribs broken once, which was probably the most serious, that’s because I was not sufficiently careful. But there’s always the danger of violence and I will not do an exorcism ever alone. If I think there is going to be the potential of violence, I will always have several very strong men available. I’ve seen a case, in Australia actually, where I had 11 strong men hanging on to body parts of just the one man.”
Q: In The Devil Inside, there is a scene at the Vatican where students are being tutored on the subject of exorcism, is this common in reality?
“It is not common at all. In fact, of the entire Roman Catholic Church, that is the only sanctioned instructional institution. And as far I know, we are the only ones, even in the Protestant community who officially train people. Now there are others who in an ad hoc way try to give people instruction on how to conduct an exorcism but certainly not within methodical approach that we do. It’s something that’s extremely rare.”
Q: In the movie we are shown what appears to be ‘demonic transference’, which you have already briefly touched upon. Is that something you’ve actually experienced or just Hollywood fiction?
A: “Actually that is very real and something that you’ve got to be careful of. Demons are always looking for someone who is accessible, they will try to go into another body during the process of the exorcism, so the exorcist has to always be in control of the process so that doesn’t happen. Sometimes people unwillingly get demons by being in relationships with others who have demons. That can particularly happen in a sexual sense; we find that happening all the time. “
Q: How do you feel Hollywood has portrayed the subject of exorcism in the past?
A: “I think Hollywood has done a very poor job for the most part. That’s because they are mainly interested in entertainment and drama and the actual reality of exorcism may not be all that entertaining. So what you have in The Devil Inside is a horror movie and with that a certain amount of entertainment but the first half of the film is a pretty serious discussion and in that dialogue, you do learn more about exorcism than any other movie has ever communicated.”
Q: Would you recommend audiences go and see The Devil Inside when in is released in Australian cinemas?
“Well I don’t recommend it in the sense that as a spiritual person there are elements in the movie that I’m a little uncomfortable with. However it is reality and it is Hollywood, but if you want something that comes closer to authenticity, this is the movie that has it. And it’s also a pretty scary movie, even for me there were times when I jumped out of my seat!”
The first of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Production Diaries is here for 2012, via the official Facebook page, as Peter Jackson and the crew leave Hobbiton and head out on location. Jackson teases The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which he says he won’t be able to show you until 2013, but this is mainly about showcasing the amazing New Zealand landscapes.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyfollows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever … Gollum.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released on 26 December 2012 in Australia from Roadshow. The film will debut in the US on 14 December 2012.
A few days ago, we posted some photos from the set of the Star Trek sequel from J.J. Abrams. Now thanks to SplashNewsOnline, we get to see a behind the scenes video as well. If you can excuse the really annoying voice-over, which tries to paint this as the Federation’s Funniest Home Videos, this gives life to the scene and gives us no doubt that Benedict Cumberbatch is the bad guy. Or just a bit stroppy.
Very few details have been released about the notorious secretive Abrams’ follow-up to his first hit, but Roberto Orci and co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are the writers behind the film.
The sequel, as you can tell from the photos, has begun shooting and is set for a 3D and 3D IMAX release in 17 May 2013 from Paramount.
Paramount has sent over three clips from Like Crazy, ahead of its release this week in Australia, proving once and for all that falling in love always involves making a chair and riding around in go-karts. Does every “falling in love” montage involve go-karts or bumper cars? We say yes.
A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and of the Special Jury Prize for Best Actress for Felicity Jones, Like Crazy depicts both the hopefulness and the heartbreak of love.
Disney’s John Carter is almost here, and we’ll be able to bring you a full review next week when our embargo lifts. In the meantime, Disney has sent over a new clip showcasing the extended sequence in which Carter (Taylor Kitsch) battles the white apes. Following that is a sizzle reel, and we mean sizzle, for anticipated sci-fi film.
From Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes “John Carter”—a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). “John Carter” is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
John Carteris due in cinemas on 8 March 2012 in Australia and 9 March 2012 in the US from Disney.
With box office smash The Devil Inside out in Australia next week, Paramount has sent over a collection of clips to get us in the mood for some scares.
In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.
The official YouTube Channel for Iron Sky has released the first five minutes of the film to watch online. It’s mostly the opening credits sequence, but it still has astronauts, gunplays and, of course, Nazis.
