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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Sets The Beasts Loose In The New Teaser

Eighteen years, seven book and eight films later, Warner Bros. has all but earned well over 7.7 billion reasons to move forward with author J.K. Rowling’s 2001 extension of the Harry Potter universe, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Director David Yates, who helmed four of the eight preceding Harry Potter films, is the man behind the lens and accordinly gets double the attention this month following the most recent trailer premiere for his upcoming summer spectacle, The Legend Of Tarzan. SYNOPSIS: Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four “Harry Potter” blockbusters. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief […]

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN Gets A Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Director David Yates is on deck this coming Summer for another suitable entry for moviegoers of the True Blood kind, The Legend Of Tarzan. Alexander Skarsgård is up and about adapting the key character of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic work and there’s no question we have tons of CG to go around, but Skarsgård sure looks the part. Margot Robbie plays the more civilized Jane who falls in love with him while we get a villainous looking Christopher Waltz, along with Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt, and for some reason, Samuel L. Jackson who looks like he’s itching to drop an F-bomb in the new trailer…even though he doesn’t. This one opens on July 1, 2016 in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX, so mark your calendars. SYNOPSIS: It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for […]

TARZAN Filming Is Now Underway

Lee B. Golden III

Following the previous announcement of actor Alexander Skarsgård for the title role of Tarzan, an official press release was issued last week confirming production. It’s the latest of MANY cinematic renderings of the classic agile hero dating back to the 1930s and it took well over ten years for the film to finally get off the ground following producer Jerry Weintraub’s announcement of the film back in 2003. My own intuition says this one is going for a PG-13 audience considering the rate at which action movies are getting rated as such these days, much like the sharp turn The Expendables franchise took with its third installation this year, as well as Robocop and many others. Could it work for a new generation of filmgoers? It’s probable. Most people have a lot to say about a movie before they see a trailer and decide if it garners their interest. At […]

Warner Bros. Announces The Production Of TARZAN Starring Alexander Skarsgard

Lee B. Golden III

It seems a little too early for another Tarzan film considering actor Kellan Lutz just made his way to the role in the form of a CG-animated adventure from director Reinhard Kloos and Constantine Film Produktion, even though that one hasn’t seen the light of day in the U.S. as of yet with releases in Germany, Singapore and throughout Europe. But that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros from moving forward with its own incarnation of the classic character with actor Alexander Skarsgård, who was also a briefly rumored pick for the character of Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s upcoming reboot of The Crow until it was debunked. Take it or leave it, the era of remakes and reboots continues. Let’s just hope the creative vines here are strong enough to to keep this one swinging high at the box office upon its premiere. And on that note, here’s the Businesswire Press […]