Film: March 2008 Archives
At ShoWest there was a poster for The Mummy. It reminds me of the the old Mortal Kombat poster from years previous! Pretty nice, I think!
I'll be jumping back onto The Mummy at the conclusion of the Speed Racer work that I'm helping with. I really hoping that the trailer for the film will be out soon, so I can share it with you! Also keep up to date with Mummy news over at Rob's site. He'll probably have it up before I will.
Yesterday around 2pm the Wachowskis came into the studio to show us the ShoWest trailer for Speed Racer. For those of you that attended ShoWest during the week, you may have already seen it. The domestic US trailer has some of the clips that are show in the ShoWest one, but this was extended a couple extra minutes. There was a lot of very very sweet work that the facilities have done, and it does get your adrenaline pumping, with the music, the lights, the cars, the sound effects. We've only been working on our own little sequences, not really seeing how it ties in with the rest of the shots, or the movie itself.
I'm back at work this morning on a Sunday, helping out final some shots. Pretty much everyone is working seven days a week these days! I think there are about 50-60 compositors in house just on this show, but I haven't really counted. It's been pretty jampacked in here for the last several months!
Some news from Showest! Here's a little blurb from the Universal booth about The Mummy 3.
After reminding the audience how Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum was the only 3-quel last summer which exceeded the gross of the prior installment, Fogelson introduced the debut of the first trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor by mentioning that not all archeological digs take place in Egypt and not all mummies are wrapped in gauze.
The trailer opens with the Great Wall of China then shows explorers in a cavern with flashlights as they explore and come upon a room filled with the Terra Cotta Warriors of the Dragon Emperor, an emperor who was cursed and turned into a mummy of stone. According to one of the explorers, "no two faces are the same" but then there's some sort of earthquake where the cavern starts to cave in and they start coming to life including the emperor who is on a chariot that starts moving, and we see Brendan Fraser's Rick O'Connell trying to hijack a car to chase after the chariot. Frankly, there was so much stuff to see that it was impossible to keep up with it all, but there seems to be lots of martial arts, huge battle sequences like in the last movie, and lots of Chinese imagery and mythology. One cool scene has an airplane flying through the battlefield and cutting through the Terra Cotta Warriors which crumble as they're hit. There's also a three-headed fire-breathing dragon that looked a bit like Monster X, and there's a funny argument between Fraser and his son Alex, who is older than he was in the previous movie, this time played by Luke Ford, as they argue about how to deal with the situation. Rick tells his son that he's defeated two mummies, but Alex corrects him that he only fought and defeated one mummy, which Rick shouts back, "Twice!" I wish I could have caught more of the trailer as it went by to describe but it looks very cool, with a scope as big and epic as the last movie and hopefully a little more energized with Rob Cohen on board and with the location and mythologies to work from.
Read more over at ComingSoon!
A new Speed Racer trailer is out! This time for the US. Follow this Yahoo link to see the trailer in all it's HD glory.
Another movie, Horton Hears a Who, comes out tomorrow! Some good friends worked on it up at Blue Sky. Congratulations Dan, Ari, and John! I can't wait to see it either. Should be a fun film.
Here's a quick overview from The Hollywood Reporter.
This CG-animated adaptation of "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" is a delight, brimming with colorful, elastic characters and bountiful wit. This family entertainment represents the first big film of the year with a potential for $100 million-plus in domestic markets. A long life on many video shelves is assured.
Apparently there is a brand new Speed Racer trailer playing in front of 10,000 B.C., but unfortunately I haven't seen it yet because I'm in Austin, TX for SXSW. While that trailer is still awaiting its online debut, Warner Brothers has launched two new international trailers for the summer movie. You need to see these - I am excited as HELL for this. I know I may be alone and I know this may create controversy, but it's designed to look like a video game and I think it's going to kick some serious ass. The Wachowski's are back and they're going to blow your mind again with Speed Racer, I guarantee. I'd love to talk A LOT more about this, but I'll save my subjective statements until we have the official domestic trailer released. Stay tuned for more on that this week when that trailer hits.
