The Last Airbender... No Longer Called "Avatar"

As a fan of the animated series, I can say that I'm not to excited for this film... Reasons:

• they nix'd "Avatar" from the title, probably b/c of James Cameron
• M. Night Shyamalan is not my favorite director, ESPECIALLY for this property
• Noah Ringer doesn't have Aang's flair/personality
• all the characters are wrong and I hate it.... ahhhhhhhhhhh HULK SMASH

Ok, so if I take my fanboy hat off and look at this just as a film... I guess it'll be good for the kids, and anyone who didn't watch the series...

Thanks to FSR...

Ponyo... it looks like Totoro...

Is it just me, or does this look like it was made around the time (1988) of My Neighbor Totoro...
Is Hayao Miyazaki getting lazy and just selling his old films to Disney???
Are they just repackaging an old product for the western marketplace???

I don't know the answers, all I can say is that I feel nothing for this film. Aside from the shock that they are trying to pass it off as new.... Which it might be... but really doesn't look like it... *bah* at least he's consistent....

Thanks to FSR as per usual...

The Box... First Trailer = *gasp*

Film School Rejects has the first trailer for The Box... I don't want to say anything about it yet, just go and watch it and I'm sure to be discussing it more as time goes on...

Writer/Director: Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, S.Darko)
Actors: James Marsden (X Men, Hairspray, Superman:Returns), Cameron Diaz (The Mask, Gangs of New York)

A Perfect Getaway - Trailer

At first this trailer seems to embody one of those mock trailers... You know the ones that let us see what Jaws would have been like as a love story, or the the touching story about father and son in The Shinning...

Well A Perfect Getaway starts out just like that, and then....

FSR Gets a NEW One-Sheet for 9

I don't know how FSR does it, but they are always on top of everything regarding 9... Here is a one-sheet that they, ummm, "found"...

9 being and animated film directed by Shane Acker, that I believe will be one of my favorite films of '09 (up there w/ The Brother Bloom)...

It has everything going for it, from Coheed and Cambria playing in the first trailer (prob. not in the film, but I'm a sucker for "Welcome Home") to the voice acting of Chrispin Glover, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, and Martin Landeau...

First Trailer
Second Trailer

You know where I'll be Sept 9th

500 Days of Summer... Oh how I want to see this...

In December, when I found out that 500 Days of Summer was going to premiere at Sundance I was pretty excited. I'm not going to say much more as the following links speak for themselves...

Clips from /Film
Trailer from FSR
International Trailer from /Film

Director: Marc Webb who is known for his music videos. Such as "Love Like Winter" by AFI