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First Sam Mendes Video Blog and New Image for Skyfall

With all of the other big releases between now and the middle of the year, it’s easy to forget there’s a new James Bond film coming out at the end of the year, and it’s being directed by Sam Mendes.

007.com has released the first video blog for the film, along with a new photo of Judi Dench on set as M.

Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond’s loyalty to M (Judi Dench) is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Skyfall will be released in the US on 9 November 2012 and in Australia on 22 November 2012 from Sony.

February 22, 2012
Watch the First Clip from The Amazing Spider-man Online

Viral website MarkoftheSpider-man.com has revealed the first clip from The Amazing Spider-man, involving Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) having an encounter with Gwen Stacey’s (Emma Stone) doorman. As you will recall, in the recently released trailer, Parker refers to the doorman as “intimidating”. We can now see why.

The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker, an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy, and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

The Amazing Spider-man is released on 3 July 2012 in the US and 4 July 2012 in Australia from Sony.

February 19, 2012
First Clip from Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here

Fresh from opening the Sundance Film Festival, Hopscotch Films has released the first clip from Kieran Darcy-Smith‘s Wish You Were Here.

Wish You Were Here is a psychological drama/mystery starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price and Teresa Palmer. Four friends – husband and wife Dave and Alice, and Alice’s sister Steph and her new boyfriend Jeremy – lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. However, only three return back to Australia. Dave and Alice come home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy’s mysterious disappearance. When Steph, returns not long after, a brutal secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?

Wish You Were Here is released in Australia on 26 April 2011 from Hopscotch Films.

February 16, 2012
New John Carter IMAX Poster and Featurette Reveals Footage

Walt Disney Pictures (via ComingSoon.Net) has released a new featurette for John Carter, featuring new footage from the forthcoming 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.

John Carter is due in cinemas on 8 March 2012 in Australia and 9 March 2012 in the US from Disney.

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February 3, 2012
New Super Bowl Spot,Banner and Toys from Marvel’s The Avengers

If there was every any doubt it was going to be a phenomenon, here’s the mounting evidence. It’s been a busy day for news from The Avengers, with a new banner, some shots of toys, a whole lot of in cinema merchandise and a preview of the sure-to-be-awesome Super Bowl TV Spot. The Avengers is released in Australia on 25 April 2012 from Disney. It will be released in the US a week later on 4 May 2012.

We get a new banner, showcasing all the characters who have had their own movie to date, a series of concession stand items, the Helicarrier and Quinjet in toy form! The banners and merchandise are sourced from Golden Link, the toys from IGN and the TV spot comes from the official Avengers Twitter.

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel’s The Avengers is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers, first published in 1963.

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February 2, 2012
New Kids Featurette for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace

LucasFilm has released a new trailer for the 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, due out in cinemas next week. This time the focus is on making Star Wars accessible for kids. If we are honest with ourselves, this was the intended audience all along, especially for the first chapter in the prequels, and most of us were probably still in short pants when we saw the original films in theatres.

It also gives younger audiences, probably only familiar with the series from the animated Clone Wars, an idea of what they are getting themselves into if they aren’t old enough to have seen these all before. Lucky bastards! Run! Run while you still can! This was lies Jar Jar! We’ll find you a copy of A New Hope (or as us old folk know it, Star Wars) and get you started right.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D is released on 9 February 2012 in Australia from Fox.

February 1, 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man campaign goes worldwide

Earlier this week, we showed you what happened when Spider-man made his way onto the Sydney Opera House.

This was, of course, part of a worldwide series of events promoting The Amazing Spider-man and more specifically, a special screening event that will be happening in early February 2012 around the world for fans of the film, showcasing never-before-seen footage from the forthcoming film. The clips below are from the equivalent campaigns in the UK, Spain, France and Japan.

The website projected on the buildings is www.TheUntoldStoryBegins, followed by the addition of the local URL, Following these links currently takes viewers to the Supernova website, with details on how to enter.

The Amazing Spider-man is released on 3 July 2012 in the US and 4 July 2012 in Australia from Sony.

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January 31, 2012
Watch Extended Ferris Bueller Super Bowl Commercial Online!

Last week we reported that Honda would be releasing a new commercial starring Matthew Broderick reprising his Ferris Bueller role in a Super Bowl spot by The Hangover director Todd Phillips. Now Honda has released that full video.

In the 2:20 version of the commercial, Broderick plays himself deciding to take a day off work. He then lives out a series of Bueller-style adventures, many of wich recreate scenes from the original film. The ad is for the 2012 Honda CR-V’s “Leap List” campaign, which encourages people to go through their bucket lists. Very much in the spirit of the original film.

We wonder how Ferris would feel about this little bit of corporate shillery? He’d probably just encourage us to go with it, and enjoy ourselves in the process. Now, off to watch that original classic film…

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January 31, 2012
Ferris Bueller Returns for Super Bowl Commercial?

We love all things 80s, as our weekly column 80s Bits will attest to, so the return of Ferris Beuller in any form gives us mixed feelings. However, rather than a full-blown sequel, the return may come in a more commercial package.

A source posting as chuckachucka2012 on YouTube has posted the following video along with this short tease of a message: “We hate to be such a tease, but on a day like today, we just have to. Stick it out until the Super Bowl, or take a “day off” on Monday and catch the big reveal”.

The video teases an aged Bueller ready to take another day off, but we know this is for a commercial. Who could it possibly be, and what would Ferris think about being used as a tool of corporate America? Guess we’ll find out on 5 February.

UPDATE: Jalopnik reports that the ad will be for Honda and directed by none other than The Hangover director Todd Phillips. According to the source the spot is “to mimic much of the original film, except this time prominently featuring Hondas. The big jump the two valets do in Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari? We hear this time it’s going to be a Honda CR-V”.

January 27, 2012
Behind the Scenes Video with Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

First Look Online has posted a (strangely enough) first look at some behind the scenes footage from Ghost Rider sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in this gritty new vision directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank). Neveldine-Taylor prove themselves to be just crazy enough to make this thing work in this behind the scenes video, actually suspending themselves from giant wires and dangling over dangerous precipices to get the shots they need for the film. Bless you all, sirs.

Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – but he may risk everything as he teams up with the leader of a group of rebel monks (Idris Elba) to save a young boy from the devil… and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is released in Australia on 15 March 2012, and in the US on 17 February 2012.

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January 26, 2012