Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up to Ted, which surprised everyone with $550 million worldwide against a $50 million budget, is a wild west adventure titled A Million Ways to Die in the West. MacFarlane stars, co-wrote and directs the movie with a huge cast featuring; Charlize Theron, Neil Patrick Harris, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, Amanda Seyfried and Sarah Silverman.
A new red band trailer has been released for the movie so you know what that means:
Blazing Saddles it is not. I won’t write it off with a cast like this. There could be some good laughs to be had provided they were not all in the trailer.
A Million Ways to Die in the West releases on May 30th.
How can the guys at Honest Trailers make fun of the original Robocop? It is a near-perfect piece of 80’s American cinema complete with Red Forman telling bitches exactly what to do.
Leave. He tells them to leave.
Don’t worry, they don’t make fun of it. In fact, they believe as we all should. The original Robocop is amazing in every way.
We know that it should not be remade. What is happening can not stop. I will go to see it because I am a huge Joel Kinnaman fan so if I get a decent attempt at “the future of law enforcement” it will be OK. Kind of helps when I have a free ticket as well.
People decided to ride along with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube again this weekend. Before you judge me for that horrible beginning please be gentle. It is early and I have no excuse for it.
After setting the record for biggest January opening, Ride Along easily kept the top spot with $21.1 million with January’s other big story, Lone Survivor, poised to cross $100 million next week.
There was only one new release this week. I, Frankenstein could not even keep up with the horrid first week of The Legend of Hercules only bringing in $8.2 million. Both of those movies were released by Lionsgate, although I am sure the studio is not worried as they sit on the mound of cash from The Hunger Games franchise.
This Sunday will be the 27th annual Royal Rumble event so I figured I would quickly put up some of my favorite moments from the show. There are only seven items, because I actually would like you to have the time to see them all, and because I wanted to leave plenty of room for anyone else to let us know about their favorite moments from the yearly event that begins the “road to WrestleMania”.
Let us know of some of your memories or link us the video in the comments below. Also, tell us who you think will win this Sunday.
These are in no particular order.
2005 Royal Rumble
http://youtu.be/tUB5L20tlFg
Easily one of the best eliminations ever came in 2005 when Snitsky went full retard on Paul London. This definitely was his fault.
2010 Royal Rumble
One of the most surprising returns because Edge was thought to be on the shelf for four more months. What still burns me is that as I watched this on PPV, two of my good friends were watching it live at the show, but I did get to witness Edge’s last match at WrestleMania the next year, so no worries.
1999 Royal Rumble
The only true “holy sh**” winner in Royal Rumble history. Sure, you knew he would not main event WrestleMania but that did not keep me from yelling at the television.
2012 Royal Rumble
Kofi has had many memorable Royal Rumble moments. This one sticks out the most to me. He may not ever win the Royal Rumble but he is one of the most entertaining parts every year.
2008 Royal Rumble
There have been many returns during the Royal Rumble match. Booker T, RVD and Diesel are some that come to mind. The reason why I picked this was because it was Piper returning to MSG and the New York crowd popping like they should for a legend like him.
2000 Royal Rumble
Not having to do with the Rumble match but one of my favorite moments. Tazz made his WWE debut against Kurt Angle and ended his undefeated streak. Angle would go on to win the world title in October and Tazz would go on to have one good match against HHH on Smackdown and get his shirt ripped off by Stone Cold in 2001.
2007 Royal Rumble
The final eight minutes of the Royal Rumble was something wrestling fans had been waiting years on. Since making his comeback Shawn Michaels had not gone on-on-one with The Undertaker. As the last two men standing in the match they dazzled the audience and showed us but a taste of what was to come at WrestleMania 25 & 26.
Marvel is shaking things up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by announcing that Deathlok will be making his first ever live action appearance on the show. The character Mike Peterson, played by J. August Richards, will become the cyborg that is celebrating his 40th anniversary this year.
Maybe this will help me clear out my DVR of backlogged episodes of the show to get to see the character. To say I have been disappointed by A.O.S. is an understatement. I understand that first seasons are rough sometimes but there were some episodes that I trudged through with no enjoyment. Maybe, with the introduction of Deathlok and appearance of Lady Sif from Thor, the show is turning a corner.
I think A.O.S. would be better served by 13 episode seasons like Sleepy Hollow. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep certain kinds of shows interesting for 22 episodes a season.
Latino Review has come across some rumors (which is what they are good at) about the Star Wars universe extending into the offices of Pixar.
There are no firm details because this is pure rumor but the rationale makes complete sense with Disney owning both Star Wars and Pixar, so a combination is likely to happen sometime down the road. The thought of it does sound exciting.
To anyone that would downplay this as a bad idea, I don’t get it. The Star Wars property is not hallowed ground that can only be touched by certain people. Pixar have made some of the best movies over the past twenty years whether they are animated or not and I, for one, want to see what they can do in a galaxy far, far away.
Now if you will excuse me, I will go watch the first twenty minutes of Up and try to hold in the hurt.
Frozen has become one of Disney’s biggest hits ever but how would things be if they were a bit more…not Disney?
Check out this video of some scenes from the movie that have some very well placed bleeps for a whole new Frozen experience. I would pay money to have a version of the entire movie like this.
NBC has released a trailer for the upcoming second season of Hannibal and…..damn. Just…damn.
The first season was a cornucopia of weird killings perpetrated by Hannibal Lector while he implicated Will Graham as the killer. Now, as Will tries to plead his case from behind bars, Jack Crawford and company try and discover the truth. By the looks of things at the very end of the trailer he finds out just that.
Hannibal returns on February 28th. It was, by far, my favorite new show of last year.
The first trailer for Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, was creepy, moody and got me excited to see the movie.
This one…not so much.
It has taken away any aspect of this being a movie solely about Sleeping Beauty’s villain and looks like a live-action telling of the children’s novel. I have seen Alice in Wonderland. I have seen Oz: The Great and Powerful. This new trailer makes it look like this will be more of the same instead of something unique.
January is no longer becoming a month for Hollywood to dump its leftovers. After Lone Survivor had the second biggest January opening ever, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart decided to one-up them. Their buddy flick, Ride Along, brought in a staggering $41.2 million, doubling the studio expectations making it the biggest January opening ever. You can expect a sequel to this (presumably called Next Ride Along followed by After Next Ride Along) before you know it.
Jack Ryan’s return to theaters was not what the character is used to. Shadow Recruit could only manage $17.2 million, only half of the opening gross for The Sum of All Fears 11 years ago. The movie only had a budget of $60 million so it may be able to break even with worldwide totals when all is said and done.
