The Hunger Games: New trailer for the rapidly approaching film...

It really isn’t that long now until the film comes out (the 23^rd of March) and here’s a new, shorter, trailer to drive fans wild and entice the uninitiated (Although with 7.5m books sold since the last trailer debuted that number is rapidly diminishing) along for the ride.

Synopsis...

“Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.”

Directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) Th Hunger Games is the first in a hoped for four movie series based on the best selling trilogy of “Young Adult” novels.

G.I Joe: Retaliation TV Spot (Super Bowl)...

OK I’ll come out with this straight away...I thought the first of these films was almost complete and utter crap. I’m sure it was fun for some, but mostly I just found it very, very lame. Buuuuut, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the look of this film.

Much of what was poor about the other film appears to have been ditched and we get to see Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis kicking ass instead. Oh and Jay Z quotes too...

Synopsis...

“A follow-up to the 2009 release of G.I. JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA, which grossed over $300M worldwide, Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with HASBRO and di Bonaventura Pictures, commences production on G.I. JOE: RETALIATION. In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. Directed by Jon M. Chu, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Brian Goldner, from a screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe(R) characters, the film is scheduled to be released on June 29,2012.”

Bond 23: Fist official shot of a bearded Daniel Craig in ‘Skyfall’...

It’s hard to believe that they’ve been making James Bond films for 50 years now. Another of the legal delays that have plagued the series on numerous occasions means that this is only Daniel Craig’s third go at the world’s greatest spy.

The word...

“SKYFALL, from Albert R Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his third film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.

Joining Daniel Craig the cast includes Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw with Albert Finney and Judi Dench as M. The screenplay is written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan. SKYFALL will begin its worldwide roll-out later this year in the UK and Ireland on October 26th and in North America on November 9th.”

To be honest...I can’t wait.

Red Lights: Trailer for the supernatural thriller from the director of Buried...

Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Aliens) & Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, In Time) play Margaret Matheson & Tom Buckley; they investigate (in other words prove false) paranormal activity. However things take a turn for the weird when they stumble across Robert DeNiro’s (Heat, Limitless) Character, Simon Silver, who is a “World Renowned Psychic”.

Synopsis...

"A psychological thriller which explores the human brain’s perception mechanisms and the diffuse frontiers between belief and science, RED LIGHTS starts out from the experiences of two rationalist scientists who dissect phenomena from the metapsychical world, and the clash of forces with a world famous psychic they bring about. The past and the present of each the protagonists contain still unrevealed shadows, setting in train a dark story of growing tension, full of unexpected twists and turns."

The film has been written and directed by Rodrigo Cortés who directed the half excellent Buried with Ryan Reynolds. (That film was very well directed and acted and merely let down by the story not matching the other elements) So there’s every reason to hope this will be better than your average supernatural thriller.