2013-11-07

This project might turn into?

Watch Thor The Dark World Online Johnson is currently filming James Wan’s Fast & Furious 7, and will star in the HBO pilot Ballers in the near future. But maybe after that, we can finally get a chance to watch him break a demon’s kneecaps. As has been established, Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World is already aiming at a big name cast, with Josh Brolin and Bryce Dallas Howard said to be attached to the project, but now another name has entered the rumor mill. Unnamed sources have reportedly informed Hypable that one of the actors being considered for a part in Jurassic World is none other than Jason Schwartman - though there are no details available about what kind of role he might play.

Watch One Direction This is Us Online Should he actually be up for a part (you should definitely be taking this rumor with a grain of salt), the film would be the biggest project that Schwartzman has been a part of in his career. Since making his debut in Wes Anderson's Rushmore back in 1998 the young actor has largely stuck with indie movies, television and smaller-budget studio titles. Some of his most notable work has come in his collaborations with Anderson - with movies like The Darjeeling Limited, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom - and his next work with the filmmaker, The Grand Budapest Hotel, will be out next March. You can spot him in the credits sequence in the trailer below:

Watch Bad Grandpa Online Gender treatment: the one subject the entirety of humanity agrees on all the time without fail. No wait, I must be thinking about something else. Two people in the same room generally have at least one conflicting view of either gender's roles in society, so international bonding over the subject is impossible. So it’s rather surprising that some theaters in Sweden will boldly examine gender bias in cinema by publicly posting films’ A-ratings according to the Bechdel Test, which examines the role women play in a film by asking three questions. A) Does it feature two female characters? B) Do they speak to each other? C) Do they speak to each other about something other than a man?

Watch Thor 2 Online The Bechdel test, the creation of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, will be applied in four Swedishcinemas, and one of them is Bio Rio, an art-house cinema in a trendy district in Stockholm. "The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Star Wars movies, The Social Network, Pulp Fiction and all but one of the Harry Potter movies fail this test," said Bio Rio director Ellen Tejle in an interview with The Guardian. Even though Teile says the Bechdel rating won't actually be a judgment on the movie's quality, it's unclear exactly what knowing a film has a Bechdel "A-rating" is supposed to tell people before paying for a film.

Watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Online It’s somewhat troubling that the rating system is supported by the state-funded Swedish Film Institute and cable TV network Viasat Film, who said it would start using the rating system in its film reviews, and is airing only Bechdel test-passing films on a November 17 "Super Sunday", such as The Hunger Games and The Iron Lady. There’s been some public outcry, saying the SFI shouldn’t have a say in what movies should or should not include in their stories.

Watch The Conjuring Online Another negative view comes from physicist Tanja Bergkvist, who writes a blog about Swedish "gender madness," who said, "If they want different kinds of movies they should produce some themselves and not just point fingers at other people." Seems like a narrow-minded view, but the basic point is clear. Female-fronted films like Gravity and Haywire, just by existing, will do more to promote more female-led pop cinema than pointing out George Clooney’s The Monuments Men has a shitload of dudes in it.

Watch Don Jon Online For social change, the A-rating is a noble but clumsy move, and probably won’t alter the cinematic landscape. If only we could start rating films based on their writing, acting, direction and overall quality instead of all this politically-fueled stuff. At this point in time we don't have any official plot details about the movie, though there have been some rumors that Trevorrow and Pat Crowley's screenplay begins back on the legendary Isla Nublar where Jurassic Park has actually managed to become the place that Richard Attenborough's John Hammond dreamed of in the first movie. Naturally, not everything stays peaceful and nice in the park as disaster once again strikes and a group of humans must try to survive. In addition to Brolin and Howard other actors said to be attached to the film are Iron Man 3's Ty Simpkins and Kings of Summer's Nick Robinson. With Universal Pictures scheduling the movie to come out on June 12, 2015 production is likely to start up some time in the first half of next year.

Watch Escape Plan Online Seal Team 666 is based on the 2012 novel from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Weston Ochse (which you can find here), and follows the plainly named Jack Walker (Johnson), whose SEAL training is interrupted when he is called away with a handful of other SEALS and a dog for a special ops mission where the risks are a tad more severe than bullets and landmines. The team will take on demons, killer cults, possessed people, and above all else: EVIL! As it happens, an ancient cult is "dead" set on bringing out a more monstrous force to take on not just the U.S., but the entire world.

Common sense is telling me to be guarded about what this project might turn into, but films like The Mummy and 300 prove that CGI-heavy some-against-all flicks can work quite well on the large scale that it looks like Seal Team 666 will shoot for. I just hope the demons are actually scary, and not cartoonish like the bad guys in Van Helsing. Look at that, I mentioned two Stephen Sommers movies in the same paragraph. Did he utilize a wishing well to get this movie into production, hoping he gets the job?

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