The Movies That Moved Me: Paul W.S. Anderson’s MORTAL KOMBAT
It will be thirty years come Sunday since this movie hit the big screen in the U.S.. What are you watching this weekend?
paul w.s. anderson
MONSTER HUNTER: Milla Jovovich And Tony Jaa Team Up In The Official Trailer
Going two-for-two this week following the trailer premiere for Jiu Jitsu is actor and martial arts star Tony Jaa, at long last getting in some monster-huntin’ screentime with actress Milla Jovovich who leads the way in Paul W.S. Anderson’s latest, Monster Hunter. Anderson’s already been on a major PR campaign in the last few weeks teasing bits of the film, including through this year’s virtual New York Comic-Con which wrapped a few days ago. Behind our world, there is another: A world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (T.I. Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower. In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters the mysterious […]
Happy 25th Anniversary, MORTAL KOMBAT
If you feel at like the first official teaser for Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat is taking way, WAY longer than it should to arrive, you’re not alone. It’s been eight months since the film wrapped shooting in Australia, and you can’t help but imagine if we might have gotten one sooner had this terrible, horrible, no good, very VERY bad pandemic settled in. I’m thinking we would’ve. Frankly though, this takes nothing away from the conversation starter that was Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1995 endeavor from New Line Cinema, etching in the likes of Robin Shou (Liu Kang), Cary Tagawa (Shang Tsung), Christopher Lambert (Raiden), Bridgette Wilson (Sonya Blade), Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage), Chris Cassamassa (Scorpion), Talisa Soto (Kitana), François Petit (Sub-Zero), Trevor Goddard (Kano) and Keith Cooke (Reptile) into cinema history. That a feature adaptation was in the works was a total surprise for me, firstly seeing Ashby in a […]
MONSTER HUNTER: Tony Jaa Joins The Milla Jovovich-Led Cast For The Live-Action Game Adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: The last two years saw the quiet development of Monster Hunter from Resident Evil franchise duo Paul W.S. Anderson and producing partner Jeremy Bolt. The adaptation of the hit 2004 video game IP is now finally taking shape with word that actor and martial artist Tony Jaa will play The Hunter, joining the casting line-up announced earlier this evening at The Hollywood Reporter. For every Monster, there is a Hero. An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter, before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours. As The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit noted on Tuesday evening, actor and recording artist T.I. Harris is joining the cast as Link with famed Hellboy persona Ron Perlman playing Admiral, leader of the Hunters’ crew. The film […]
HUMMINGBIRD: Sci-Fi Action Thriller Recasts For A Third Time With Milla Jovovich To Star
The lists of actresses that we don’t know of serving as candidates for upcoming sci-fi thriller, Hummingbird, probably stretches beyond previously reported mentions of Zoe Saldana and Olivia Munn. At any rate, we now have word out of Berlin that noted Resident Evil franchise star, actress Milla Jovovich will lead the film instead with cameras aiming to start rolling this summer. Swedish duo Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerström are attached to direct the project from a Black List script by John McClain, now with a vision and tone keen on echoing thrillers like the Bourne franchise and Luc Besson’s 2014 blockbuster, Lucy. .Hummingbird will center on a female black-ops assassin whose latest mark forces her to rethink her identity and her purpose. The film was announced in October of 2016 and has since been revised by Jovovich’s husband and noted Resident Evil franchise helmer Paul W.S. Anderson. Mark Gao and Gregory Ouanhon, […]
Because Six Live-Action RESIDENT EVIL Movies Weren’t Enough, A Reboot Is In The Works!
I can’t be too bothered with Screen Gems’s Resident Evil movies of the last…what… the last seventeen years? Personally I’ve only seen maybe four of them and as forgettable and copycat they’ve been with some of the action set-pieces I sort of stopped caring, as much as I love Milla Jovovich too. That said, I’m sure the franchise has had plenty going for itself otherwise it wouldn’t have amassed more than $1.2 billion dollars at the global box office. Apparently however, that’s not enough for the studio who now tells Variety that a reboot with ANOTHER SIX MOVIES is in the works as confirmed by Germany-based Constantin Film chairman of the board Martin Moszkowicz while at Cannes. The film franchise takes its cues from the 1996 Capcom video game which currently has 27 installments. Constantin had a hand in producing each of the films featuring Jovovich as nomadic superhuman warrior, […]
‘Resident Evil’ Duo To Tackle MONSTER HUNTER Franchise For The Big Screen
Deadline reported on Monday that Paul W.S. Anderson and producing partner Jeremy Bolt are now well on the way to adapt the hit Capcom video game, Monster Hunter for the big screen. The widely popular game series hailing from Japan for the Playstation 2 first emerged in 2004 and has since succeed with up to a dozen games spanning several consoles and platforms with a thirteenth already on the way for March. For every Monster, there is a Hero. An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter, before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours. The news comes in the wake of major success for Anderson in the years since he proved himself back with the 1995 adaptation of Mortal Kombat. His latest milestone […]
RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER Lands An International Teaser Trailer!
Every now and then I’m a little bit delightfully surprised that this will be the titular final installment of the longstanding Resident Evil film franchise. I’ve still only seen the several of them – I can’t even remember which ones since they all look the damn same, all I know is that this franchise is full of monsters, big guys with big guns, bigger stunts, and scantily clad and badass female characters all led Milla Jovovich who, in my own view, might as well lead another action film franchise. Just no more Resident Evil movies. Pretty please. SYNOPSIS: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces […]
[UPDATED] It's The End Of Alice's Story In The International Trailer For RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER
I fail to recount the last fourteen years in which we’ve spent watching Sony and Screen Gems re-envision Capcom’s longstanding popular game franchise, Resident Evil. We have Milla Jovovich, however, who continues to lend us an action heroine at the center of one woman’s journey through a world rife with zombies, and outlaws in various forms against an evil corporation responsible for turning much of mankind into said zombies in the first place. Alas, it looks like more of the same derivative craziness with Paul W.S. Anderson sitting back at the helm for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and the latest trailer looks nothing short of the usual, promising big setups, more lazer dodging, more menacing Iain Glen, and so on. Moreover, as the new international trailer insists, Alice has, indeed, “played a long game”, and a winning one at that; A billion dollars in on its big screen investments […]
NYC's Videology To Host A FREE Screening Of MORTAL KOMBAT This Friday!
1995 couldn’t have been a better time to be a gamer and martial arts movie fan. It was the year that we got the best of both worlds with New Line Cinema’s release of the hit live-action adaptation, Mortal Kombat, pitting three Earthrealm warriors in a multi-dimensional medium of supernatual proportions where the fate of our planet would be decided in life-or-death battles. For a PG-13 iteration of a relatively violent game, the film banked critically and commercially well among fans and movie goers alike, and new article posted on Tuesday at The Hollywood Reporter gets right down to the nitty gritty on how it all began, from dealing with naysayers and coping with location challenges, to off-set drama and on-set injuries, and finally its theatrical release. Moreover, of course the film led to a less-than-expemplary sequel but it still purported hopes for a third that never came, and nowadays […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.