http://www.movies-illustrated.com Movie news, reviews and features on movies, film and dvd's Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pirates of the Caribbean is set to start shooting on the fourth movie in the series this June and finally it seems the cast rumours are starting to settle down with Johnny Depp now confirmed to return in his most successful box office role of Captain Jack Sparrow. Both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have also stated that they wont be returning for the fourth movie but Geoffrey Rush will be as Captain Barbossa]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/ With the big awards shows now behind us, it's time to take a look at some of the movie posters from the biggest winners from this years Oscars. This week we have hard hitting war flicks, emotional dramas and lots of country music ]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/oscar-special-the-hurt-locker-precious-and-crazy-heart-posted/ Earthling is an upcoming low budget science fiction thriller from a cinematographer Clay Liford who also dabbles in directing, with this being his fourth movie in the directors chair. The synopsis tells us that after a mysterious event in the atmosphere awakens certain people to the fact their life may not be quite what they thought it was, and they are actually alien beings with a big decision to make, whether to stay on Earth or try to find their way back home]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/earthling-science-fiction-movie-trailer/ It's been a while now since the fourth movie in the series hit the big screen and raked in the cash despite getting just above average reviews from the critics, and now we have news from Indy himself that the fifth movie has the basic storyline roughed out]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/indiana-jones-5-has-a-story-harrison-ford-confirms/ One of my favourite Ben Stiller comedies alongside Dodgeball is Zoolander starring the very very dim Derek Zoolander and from the recent news it appears we can finally expect a sequel to the 2001 movie. Ben stiller has talked many times about how he would like to bring the character back and it always seem to be a favourite Stiller movie among those that have seen it]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/zoolander-2-derek-zoolander-will-return/ The aim of the game is pretty simple we show you a movie poster and you have to guess which movie the poster is from. The hard part is that the poster has been pixelated and this makes it much trickier to identify. This week in Pixelated we have a new movie for you, but even though this is a new movie it's also a remake so i think that should help you out a little.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/pixelated-movie-quiz-game-23/ Cop Out is an upcoming comedy buddy cop movie, yes that a lot of descriptive words i know, directed by but not written by Kevin Smith. the movie stars Bruce Willis who is no stranger to playing cops, just not in a comedy role. His buddy is Tracy Morgan a comedian best known for his long stint on Saturday Night Live, and also stars Sean William Scott and Ana de la Reguera]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/cop-out-movie-trailer/ Get Him to the Greek is the somewhat sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall and follows the story of Russell Brand's character Aldous Snow as Jonah Hill character Aaron Green tries in vain to get the British rock star on time to a concert at the Los Angeles Greek Theatre. Although both Brand and Hill return in this movie Hill is playing a completely new character as a college graduate who starts his intern at a record company when he gets the unenviable job of transporting Aldous Snow]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/get-him-to-the-greek-movie-trailer/ This fantasy movie is based on the Solomon Kane character from writer Robert E. Howard, who is most well known for Conan the Barbarian books which have of course already been made in movies. This movie is directed by Michael J Bassett and stars little know James Purefoy in the title role of Solomon Kane]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/solomon-kane-movie-trailer/ The aim of the game is pretty simple we show you a movie poster and you have to guess which movie the poster is from. The hard part is that the poster has been pixelated and this makes it much trickier to identify. This week it's a movie from a good while ago and a cult classic that spawned a couple of sequels, another small clue for you is that this franchise is now finally getting a fourth movie.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/pixelated-movie-quiz-game-22/ Suicide Girls Must Die is a reality TV horror movie which features the very popular Internet models, The Suicide Girls, who like their tattoos, piercings and striped hair and look mighty fine in my opinion. The story in the movie follows 12 of the Suicide girls who are visiting a remote cabin to do a calendar shoot. Everything is getting documented on video camera by Missy and Sawa who are in charge of the shoot, and little to the models knowledge they plan to shoot the first reality horror movie featuring the suicide girls]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/suicide-girls-must-die-movie-trailer/ The next Dan Brown novel to be adapted for the big screen featuring Professor Robert Langdon is The Lost Symbol and Sony are already busy getting the book converted into a screenplay. Doing the honours this time is Steven Knight who also did Dirty Pretty Things, and with the success of the previous two movies in the series you can be sure this movie will be on the fast track.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/the-lost-symbol-dan-brown-sequel-coming-to-the-big-screen/ ]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/fast-and-furious-five-gets-a-name-fast-five/ M. Night Shyamalan's latest feature film The Last Airbender now has its first official teaser trailer and you can take a look at it right here. In typical Shyamalan style the trailer doesn't really give anything away but it sure looks pretty]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/the-last-airbender-movie-trailer/ This week with Pixelated our unique movie poster quiz game, we're going easy on you, we have a recent movie and one that if you don't get we will banish you to the basement where there is no daylight and more importantly no DVD player. ]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/pixelated-movie-quiz-game-21/ The fourth movie in the Mad Max series is looking to be on the big screen in 2011 and it will be a twenty six year gap between this movie and the last, Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome. On the cast for certain is Charlize Theron as a yet unamed character and rumoured to be playing Max Rockantansky himself is Mark Hildebrandt, although this is just rumoured currently ]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/max-max-road-fury/ Takers is an upcoming all star cast filled crime thriller that sees a crew of high level theives who are drawn into a robbery against a gung ho detective aiming to spoil their plans. The cast of the robbers include Paul Walker, Chris Brown, Idris Elba and Hayden Christensen. Also on the cast we have Zoe Salander who you might recognize from Avatar although in this movie she is noticbly less blue. Played the good guy in the movie is Matt Dillon the hard boiled cop who is looking to take the crew down]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/takers-movie-trailer/ This week in Posted our round up of the coolest and newest movie posters we have to very different poster styles for you to take a look at.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/cop-out-and-happy-tears-posted/ If you ski or snowboard, you might want to give this trailer for Frozen a miss. Frozen follows the trials of two snowboarders and a skier played by Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell and Shawn Ashmore. The trio end up trapped on a ski lift before their last run down the slopes, but the slope staff don't realize they are up there and all the lights and electricity is turned out leaving the three stranded]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/frozen-movie-trailer/ The new Predators movie directed by Nimrod Antal, and produced by Robert Rodriguez has it's first unofficial photos released and they show us some of the main cast and more importantly the Predators themselves. Hopefully this will be a nice step back into the world of the Predators and take us away from the miserable AVP movies thats really didn't hit the mark]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/predators-new-on-set-photos/ Pixelated returns to your web browser after a short hiatus and we have a more modern movie poster for you today. The aim of the game is to work out which movie poster this is, after we pass it through our special Pixelated filter that makes your job much harder. The clue this week we have already mentioned this is a recent movie and was pretty well received.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/pixelated-movie-quiz-game-20/ News has broke that Moon director, Duncan Jones has now got his leading cast for upcoming science fiction thriller Source Code. After the critical success of Moon it appears that the fast rising director has pulled together a great cast for Source Code which is due to start filming early this year, and is pushing his other project Mute out of the way until Source Code is finished. ]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/duncan-jones-directs-jake-gyllenhaal-and-michelle-monaghan-in-source-code/ Vin Diesel has confirmed by his Facebook page that he has received a two story script for the next two Fast and Furious franchise movies. It seems that Diesel is back on board for the franchise that made him a household name, as he describes in his post below.]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/faster-and-more-furious-as-two-sequels-are-confirmed/ With the new A-Team movie all set to surface in summer this year, the first trailer for Joe Carnahan's big screen version of the TV hit show has arrived. We get to see all the team do their thing in possibly one of the most disappointing trailers i've seen this year so far!]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/a-team-movie-trailer-surfaces-we-love-it-when-a-plan-comes-together/ Good news for the Bond franchise, well possibly good news, with Sam Mendes rumoured to be in the running for the directing mantle on the next James Bond movie. Daniel Craig is returning once again in a role he has successfully made his own, after an explosive start in the brilliant Casino Royale and a decent outing in the slightly lacking Quantum of Solace]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/sam-mendes-rumoured-to-be-the-next-bond-director/ Good news for fans of John Carpenter's The Thing as a shooting date has now been announced for the prequel to the classic horror movie. The currently un-named prequel is set in the Norweigan Antartic base that we caught a glimpse of at the start of the 1982 original]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/the-thing-prequel-is-coming/ The 2010 upcoming remake and re-imagining of George A Romero's The Crazies has it's first trailer out, and stars Timophy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in the lead roles of David and Judy Dutton. The Dutton's find themselves in the middle of a very strange situation when their small town in Iowa is hit by a mysterious plague that infects the locals through the water supply]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/the-crazies-movie-trailer/ The Universal Soldier franchise has it's third movie in the main series and this time it's bringing back the origional stars alongside some new ones. This time around the main character is a new Uni-Sol, a new generation of the origional project named NGU and played by MMA and former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei 'The Pitbull' Arlovski. The new NGU has been developed by a rebel faction who took the origional technology and enhanced it to a higher level. With their one man killing machine in hand the rebels gain control of a nuclear power plant and use it make their requests known]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/universal-soldier-regeneration-movie-review/ Furry Vengeance is an up and coming comedy movie starring Brendan Fraser as Dan Sanders a real estate developer who finds that in the Oregon Wilderness his new housing plans face major threat from the most deadly of creatures.. yes the local wildlife. Furry Vengeance also stars Brook Shields and Tammy Sanders and Ken Jeong and Dick Van Dyke and is all set to be released on the 7th of May 2010]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/furry-vengeance-movie-trailer/ With the release date for Prince of Persia nearing, then we are getting to see more and more or the movie and its stars. No doubt Walt Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer, who teamed up for the very successful Pirates trilogy are expecting similar things from the Prince of Persia and from what has been shown so far they should be feeling confident]]> http://www.movies-illustrated.com/prince-of-persia-dastan-featurette/