The folks at Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival have unveiled their 2012 film lineup, and the slate is looking diverse and amazing as usual. Movies.com reminds us that we’re still waiting on names for the Midnighters and Short Film programs, but with nearly 130 films already announced, there’s still plenty to get excited about.
Two of the biggest must-sees that pop out immediately are Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall-written 21 Jump Street adaptation (we chatted about it here) and the Joss Whedon written and produced The Cabin in the Woods. Both got excellent early reviews at press screenings, which is why the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator’s genre feature will be opening the fest on March 9. The Hill, Channing Tatum and Nick Offerman-starring remake of the Johnny Depp high school cop TV series will follow on March 12. Find out what else we’re digging, and check out a few trailers past the break.
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Let’s put this right out front: nobody’s looking forward to The Dark Knight Rises more than we are. It led off our list of 2012′s most anticipated movies; we sing the praises of every new teaser they put out in our weekly “Trailer Park” roundups. This is a movie we’re really, really looking forward to. But you have to draw a line somewhere, and we think this might be it.
According to Variety, tickets are now available for the first, midnight IMAX screenings of The Dark Knight Rises — that’s right, six full months in advance. So if you’re one hundred percent certain that you won’t have anywhere to be at 12:01am on the night of Thursday, July 19th, you can hop on over to Fandango (here’s the link for my fellow New Yorkers — that IMAX screen at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 is a peach), plop down your $20, and have yourself a ticket right now. You might wanna choose the “print at kiosk” option, though, because the chances of misplacing the “print at home” ticket within the next six months are pretty high. Borderline astronomical, we’d say.
Oh wait, you can’t. The midnight screening six months from now is already sold out.
So, seriously, how out of control is the Hollywood Hype Machine these days?
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If you’ve been curious how Joss Whedon was going to juggle all of the superheroes in The Avengers without making a narrative mess of things or accidentally turning the Marvel universe on its head, then you’ll be glad to hear that he planned ahead. “I set out with a very simple problem: There is no reason for these people to be in the same movie,” he explains to Entertainment Weekly. “So that’s what my movie has to be about. So much of the movie takes place from Steve Rogers’ perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird ass world. Everyone else has been living in it.”
Interesting. Is it wrong that we’d rather see the film from Tony Stark’s point of view? Sure, Robert Downey Jr. can’t help but steal every scene that he’s in, but vanilla old Captain America (as played by Chris Evans) has to be the dullest member of the team. We get the idea of using him as a straight man, but wonder if he’s got the chops to carry a film when he’ll be sharing the screen with charismatic showboats like Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson. [via Collider]
If you’re a proud member of Joss Whedon’s loyal army of fans, then these fictional album covers designed by computer game concept artist Joey Spiotto might be just the thing to decorate your apartment’s walls. “I was always a fan of old vinyl art of children’s music, so I wanted to incorporate a retro feel,” he explains. “I’ve never really had a chance to design an album cover, and when I started thinking about what would be a fun illustration to do for Serenity, I thought since music was such a strong component of the show, that an album would be perfect.” Click through to check out his original effort, as well as additional work from the series, including pieces inspired by Buffy, Caprica, and Dr. Horrible, all of which are available for purchase as prints in his Etsy shop.
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Hey, guess what: 2012 is like, four days away. Exciting, eh? Well, aside from that whole Mayan calendar/end of the world business. And that there’s going to be a Presidential campaign all damned year, and the economy’s still in the toilet, and Community is on a “hiatus”… On second thought, 2012 is already looking pretty terrible, and it hasn’t even started yet.
No, wait! There will be new movies! Many, many new movies. And don’t kid yourself: plenty of them are going to be terrible (I mean, there’s a Battleship movie coming out, for God’s sake). But some of them look awesome! So in the spirit of cautious optimism, join us after the jump for a look at ten 2012 releases that we’re genuinely looking forward to.
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Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got a whopping eleven trailers for you this week, offering everything from animation to big-budget studio comedy to Sundance hopefuls; check ‘em out after the jump.
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Today at Flavorpill, we were happy to be among such great company in BuzzFeed’s roundup of websites’ office art. We were impressed by this Legend of Zelda fan’s adorable 8-bit marriage proposal. We were really excited to see the newly-debuted poster for Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon’s forthcoming horror flick. We liked what this lady to had to say about Facebook etiquette, and on a slightly-related note, we decided that a condom ad disguised as a friend request from your unborn child was definitely not OK. We found this video about how to lose $2400 in 24 seconds a bit predictable, but oddly satisfying to watch. We tried to imagine The Sound of Music with Mia Farrow as Liesl. We thought that @everytweetever was a pretty hilarious send up of all the junk that clogs up Twitter. And finally, we hoped not to have dreams about the world’s biggest insect — which is apparently so huge that it can eat carrots — when we go to bed tonight. Carrots!
The men of Serenity never looked better in this set of awesome and attractive Firefly art prints. If you miss the Joss Whedon show as much as we do and want to keep a little galactic mojo close by, Quantum Mechanix’s new five-poster set designed by artist Megan Lara is beautiful and should make any Browncoat happy. Mal, Wash, Jayne, Simon, and Book are all featured in the Firefly Les Hommes series, looking totally dreamy. Next up: Art Nouveau space cowboys on tees? Yes please. (Someone make that happen.) There’s also a Les Femmes poster set — all of which we’ve shared past the break. Visit Quantum Mechanix’s site for details on how to preorder. Read More »
We all knew Joss Whedon was a genius, but if we needed conclusive proof that he is also a raging workaholic, well, here it is: A week after we learned that he’s preparing an indie Much Ado About Nothing for the spring festival circuit comes news that Whedon and Kai Cole’s microbudget studio Bellwether Pictures already has yet another project in the works. In Your Eyes is a supernatural romance that Whedon has apparently had written for a while but knew wouldn’t be a good fit for a traditional studio. The film will be directed by the relatively unknown writer-director Brin Hill and produced by Cole and Michael Roiff (Waitress, Save the Date). We still don’t know much about the movie, but if the words “Joss Whedon” and “supernatural romance” are any indication, it’s what Buffy fans have been waiting years to see. [via Deadline]
After a weekend of teasing, Joss Whedon’s loyal army of fans still hadn’t received confirmation that his seemingly too-good-to-be-true independent film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was anything more than an elaborate prank. Sure, there was a website, and actors close to Whedon were tweeting about it — but how could the guy ever have found time to make a secret movie while he has so many other projects in the works?
Well, never mind how he accomplished it, but it looks like Much Ado About Nothing really, really is real. Whedonesque has posted a new press release about the project, sent by Whedon and Kai Cole’s new micro-studio, Bellwether Pictures, for which Much Ado will be the first feature. Shot in just 12 days in Santa Monica — oh, guess that’s how he did it — the adaptation will reflect Whedon’s belief that the play is “a deconstruction of the idea of love, which is ironic, since the entire production is a love letter – to the text, to the cast, even to the house it’s shot in.” And, yes, it really does star a raft of your favorite Whedon alums: Amy Acker (Fred from Angel) is Beatrice, Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel‘s Wesley) is Benedick, Nathan Fillion (Firefly‘s captain) is Dogberry, and Fran Kranz (Dollhouse‘s Topher) is Claudio. Much Ado should be done by spring, at which point it’s headed for the festival circuit (and hopefully, eventually, a theater near us).
