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COWBOYS & ALIENS Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: July 28th, 2011 at 3:21 pm

Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens is the equivalent of putting chocolate and peanut butter together and getting a rice cake.  Westerns can be great, sci-fi can be wonderful, and yet the attempt to bring them together has resulted in a bland, flavorless movie.  The script is a mess, all of the storylines are uninteresting, the action is flat, there’s not much room for lead actors Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford to do much beyond growl and grimace, and the usually inspired cinematography of Matthew Libatique is a grand disappointment.  Despite all of these problems, the movie does nothing outright offensive other than waste two hours of your time.

COWBOYS & ALIENS Video Roundup: 4 Clips, 7 Minutes of Behind the Scenes Footage and 2 Featurettes

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: July 15th, 2011 at 10:24 pm

With director Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens on the verge of hitting theaters, Universal has released the EPK (electronic press kit) which includes 4 movie clips, 2 featurettes (A Look Inside and Western Meets SciFi) and over seven minutes of behind the scenes footage from when they were making the movie (B-Roll).  If you’re trying to stay spoiler free, I’d advise you to avoid watching these videos.  However, if you want to see a lot of cool looking footage from a movie I can’t wait to see, hit the jump.

Watch the COWBOYS & ALIENS Super Bowl Spot

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 6th, 2011 at 12:28 pm

Director Jon Favreau has released the Cowboys & Aliens Super Bowl Spot a few hours before kickoff.  Featuring a lot of new footage, the spot does a great job selling the stars (Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde) and the action.  While I was already sold on the concept and movie, I think this ad will excite all the people that have never heard of the film.

Featuring a script by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci & Damon Lindelof, Cowboys & Aliens is one of the big films of summer 2011.  And with a release date a few days after Comic-Con (July 29, 2011), I think everyone attending nerdapalooza next summer is going to get the chance to see it.  But that’s just a guess. I have no inside info.  Hit the jump to watch the spot:

THE LAST AIRBENDER Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: November 25th, 2010 at 8:29 am

Oh, M. Night Shyamalan. You made The Sixth Sense, and the world was ready to declare you the new Spielberg, the new Hitchcock. And your follow ups had fans. Unbreakable, Signs. People liked these movies, but they didn’t have that Barton Fink feeling. But the next three films (The Village, The Lady in the Water and The Happening) kept getting worse and worse, with star Mark Wahlberg recently decrying The Happening as terrible. But with The Last Airbender writer/director M. Night was finally adapting material, which (one hoped) might get his head back in the game. Based on the Nickelodeon cartoon, there was a great story there and there was hope he might rebound. Noah Ringer stars as Aang, a mythical trained “bender” who can fight using air, water, fire and earth, and is called the last Avatar. He’s joined by water bender Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) in protecting him from an evil Fire Lord army (which features Dev Patel, Cliss Curtis and Aasif Mandvi) that are bent on world domination. And my review of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender on Blu-ray follows after the jump.

Teaser Trailer for COWBOYS & ALIENS Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 17th, 2010 at 10:09 am

A couple days ago, the teaser poster for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens went online.  Now we have the teaser trailer for the film.  If you saw the footage they played at Comic-Con, then a lot of this trailer will look familiar.  If you weren’t one of the 6,000 people sitting in Hall H that day, then don’t worry: what they showed us was bad-ass.  Despite the silly title, this trailer confirms what I’ve heard about the movie playing both the western and the sci-fi elements completely straight.  I don’t know how that will play with a populace that seems to crave irony at every turn, but I like the confidence and the willingness to try something original.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  Directed by Jon Favreau, Cowboys & Aliens stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, and Noah Ringer.  It opens July 29, 2011.

First Poster for Jon Favreau’s COWBOYS & ALIENS; Plus Info on The Trailer [UPDATED]

by Jeff Ames    Posted: November 15th, 2010 at 10:20 am

Big news on the Cowboys & Aliens front today – according to Yahoo!, the teaser trailer to Jon Favreau’s anticipated motion picture is set for release Wednesday, November 17 at 1pm ET/10am PT. The trailer will also be attached to prints of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (opening this Friday) according to Favreau himself via his twitter page.

If that weren’t enough, Yahoo also unveiled a slick new teaser poster to the flick featuring Daniel Craig in a dramatic Unforgiven-esque pose, complete with shotgun and futuristic alien device – perfectly capturing the essence of the film’s title. Cowboys & Aliens also stars Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell, and is currently set for a July 29, 2011 release. Hit the jump for the synopsis. [Update: We have updated this article with a larger version of the poster]

New Set Photo from Jon Favreau’s COWBOYS & ALIENS Starring Daniel Craig – UPDATED

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 19th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

Actor Noah Ringer (The Last Airbender) has tweeted a photo (not the one above, which is an official still) from the set of Jon Favreau’s upcoming sci-fi action western Cowboys & Aliens.  Along with Ringer, the film stars Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Walton Goggins, and Harrison Ford. [Update: Universal has informed us that the photo is fake so we have taken it down. Also, Universal tells us that the Twitter account is fake.  Why anyone would want to impersonate Noah Ringer is beyond me.]

Cowboys & Aliens is set to open on July 29, 2011.

M. Night Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz Interviews – THE LAST AIRBENDER Director and Cast On 3D, Video Games, Bollywood and Saying Goodbye To TWILIGHT

by Ron Messer    Posted: July 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm

There’s never been anything small about M. Night Shyamalan’s career.  As a mostly unknown 27-year-old filmmaker, his first studio film, Wide Awake, received a splashy March 15, 1998 premiere at New York’s Ziegfeld Theater with an introduction by sitting Vice-President Al Gore.  At age 29, his next film, The Sixth Sense stunned audiences around the world and reaped global grosses of $672 million along with two personal Oscar nominations for Shyamalan.  Later that year, his first screenplay for a studio film that he didn’t direct, Stuart Little, took in $300 million, worldwide.  Shyamalan’s next five films grossed $1.1 billion, worldwide.  The critical reception may have cooled over his past few films, but it served to shoot the stakes even higher for his new film, The Last Airbender, which opens today.  However, Shyamalan gives off the sense that he wouldn’t be happy with anything less than a monumental challenge.

Collider caught up with Shyamalan and some of his cast this week.  Hit the jump for the highlights from roundtable interviews with Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz, including Shyamalan on his long, strange trip to 3D, Patel on Bollywood’s “God-awful” yet bankable movies, Rathbone on scoring his perfect Girlfriend and Shyamalan on why he doesn’t want “two feet tall Daniel Day-Lewises.”

THE LAST AIRBENDER Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 30th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

I hate everything about M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender.  I hate that it’s racist.  I hate that it takes a great, easy-to-adapt show and completely disrespects the material.  I hate the performances.  I hate the special effects.  I hate the borderline non-existent 3D that serves only to jack up ticket prices.  I hate the lack of imagination.  I hate the embarrassingly bad script that would be laughed out of a Screenwriting 101 class. I hate the consequences if this movie is a success at the box office.  I hate the consequences if it fails at the box office.  I hate that this movie exists.  And “hate” isn’t a strong enough word.

Over 30 Images and 11 Posters for Director M. Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: June 23rd, 2010 at 9:32 am

Paramount has released the full press kit for director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender which includes are over 30 images and 11 movie posters (domestic and international).  While some of the images have been previously released over the past six months, there are a lot of new ones.  So if you’ve been counting the days till The Last Airbender gets released, hit the jump to check out the images.  The film stars Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi and Cliff Curtis.

3rd Trailer for THE LAST AIRBENDER

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 23rd, 2010 at 3:40 pm

The latest trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender goes heavy on the plot.  Special individuals can control the elements, the clans based off the different elements are going to war, and it’s up to the last airbender (Noah Ringer) to save the world from destruction.  But more than the plot, I think the biggest stand out is that Last Airbender may have some cool fight scenes.  I’m not sure about all the other big special effects, but Shyamalan may have figured a way to take the abilities of the individual characters (air, water, earth, fire) and use them for some cool showdowns.

The new trailer puts the “3D” stamp on the film that was announced yesterday.  However, it only has two months to make the conversion and that could lead to the lousy-looking 3D we saw with Clash of the Titans.  However, unlike Clash director Louis Leterrier, Shyamalan will be overseeing the conversion process.  Nevertheless, the film wasn’t made with 3D in mind and Shyamalan now has to quickly figure out how to apply it to his movie.  Hit the jump to check out the new trailer along with the official synopsis.  The Last Airbender hits theaters on July 2nd.

THE LAST AIRBENDER Has Two Months to Affix “3D” to Its Title

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: April 22nd, 2010 at 6:00 pm

It turns out that The Green Hornet isn’t the only tentpole in town getting the 3D conversion treatment; a “senior official” at Paramount talked to Harry from AICN about adding a third dimension to this summer’s The Last Airbender, the adaptation of a Nickelodeon cartoon of a similar name.  And while Hornet has nine months (with a new January 2011 release date) to get its act together, Airbender has just over two months to bend its projection toward the audience if it intends to keep its July 2nd release date (Deadline confirms it does).  More after the jump:

Noah Ringer, Star of THE LAST AIRBENDER, Joins COWBOYS & ALIENS

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: April 18th, 2010 at 3:07 pm

If you’re twelve years old, and you looking to break on to the Hollywood scene, all you need to do is practice, practice, practice . . . karate.  Noah Ringer already (and a bit controversially) landed the lead role for Paramount’s upcoming summer tentpole The Last Airbender, and now Variety reports that director Jon Favreau likes the young actor for a character in Cowboys & Aliens.  Note that Ringer has not a lick of acting experience to his name, but he does have a black belt!  Ringer will join Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and the recently cast Harrison Ford to act out the words of screenwriting team Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek) and Damon Lindelof (Lost).  More after the jump:

New TV Spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am

A new TV Spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender debuted during last night’s Olympic games.  The commercial has some new footage from the movie…but not more than 4 or 5 seconds.  Saying that, I’m starting to get excited for the movie as the footage has looked very cool and I’m a huge fan of Shyamalan’s early work.  I’d love for Airbender to be a return to form.  We’ll all know July 2.  Hit the jump to check out the new ad:

New Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 10th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

While I wasn’t too impressed with the Super Bowl spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, Yahoo! Movies has now debuted a full trailer for the film and it serves as a good reminder that while Shyamalan has seemingly lost all his talent for writing, he’s quite talented with his visuals.  Rather than crumble under the weight of a his first blockbuster feature, it looks like Shyamalan has created a rather impressive world in both the visual effects, the costuming, and set design.  Whether there’s a good script underneath all of this remains to be seen, although he has at least some guidance with this being his first adaptation rather than a new story from his dried-up mind grapes.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer along with the official synopsis.  The Last Airbender hits theaters on July 2nd.

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