2012-12-06

New G.I. Joe: Retaliation Poster Promises A Very Conspicuous Channing Tatum

Watch Breaking Dawn Part 2 Online Once upon a time G.I. Joe: Retaliation was going to be a centerpiece of summer 2012, picking up from the mediocre start of G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and giving the franchise new life by bringing in big names like The Rock and Bruce Willis. There were trailers, posters, toy lines, everything-- until Paramount decided at the last minute to shift the movie's release by more than 9 months, scheduling it for March 29, 2013.

Watch Life of PI Online Though they never admitted it, it wasn't hard to guess their reason. All signs pointed to Rise of Cobra star Channing Tatum being killed off early in the film, apparently at his own request-- Tatum knew his career was going places and he didn't want to be shackled to this franchise. The producers allowed it, but then early in 2012 it was clear that the double whammy of The Vow and 21 Jump Street had made Tatum far too big a star to kill off. Tatum went back in for reshoots, the movie was recut, and now you just have to take a look at the film's brand-new poster to realize he's a much bigger part in it than. Take a look at the new one-sheet below, via Yahoo!:

WATCH HYDE PARK ON HUDSON ONLINE We've seen other King novels adapted for television and film, some with greater success than others. Those who liked King's novel may be disappointed to learn that it has lost its director (and hopeful that it finds a new one soon), but fans will likely agree that the most important thing is that it gets done right and the film does the story justice.

WATCH CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE WEDDING ONLINE Driving a car with Barbra Streisand in the passenger seat seems possibly like the most terrifying thing on earth, since she's one of a rare breed of performers who truly earns the word diva. But Time Magazine's Joel Stein dared to do it anyway, in the name of his regular column there, and in the process may have stumbled upon an actual bit of movie news, which he presents with absolutely no fanfare whatsoever.

Watch Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Online This is your basic nightmare of a pile of Photoshopped people, with the most famous people literally the largest on the poster, and poor Adrianne Palicki hovering in her tiny little corner, wondering how she's being so neglected. Obviously if they're reintroducing the fact that Channing Tatum is actually in this they need to cram him in among all the other faces, but wasn't there a more elegant way to do this? Bruce Willis looks like he's been copied and pasted from the Expendables 2 poster, for God's sake.

Watch Breaking Dawn Part 2 Online With Jon M. Chu behind the camera, after making the surprisingly fun Justin Bieber concert film Never Say Never, I'm still interested in G.I. Joe: Retaliation-- provided it's not the Frankenstein of action movie cliches this poster seems to be promising.

Watch Killing Them Softly Online While the final Twilight movie continues its box office success, the feature adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's non-vampire novel The Host is set to arrive in theaters in a matter of months. We've seen the recently released trailer, and now a bevy of new photos from the sci-fi film have made their way online, showing us Saoirse Ronan's characters Melanie and Wanderer.

Watch twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Online Directed by Andrew Niccol, The Host is set on earth after aliens called "souls" have inhabited the bodies of most of the human population. Ronan stars as Wanderer, the soul who has taken the body of Melanie Stryder, a girl who was a part of what's left of the human resistance and who continues to resist from inside her mind as Wanderer controls her body. The trailer gave us a look at the set-up for the story, which includes a love triangle (or quadrangle) between Melanie (Ronan), her boyfriend Jared (Max Irons), Wanderer (Ronan) and another non-inhabited human Ian (Jake Abel), who takes a liking to Wanderer.

Among the newly released photos are these two, which appear to show the scene in which Melanie is surrounded by Seekers - the souls assigned to capture resisting humans and bring them in for habitation - and one where she's falling. This is presumably the scene at the start of the story that leads to her injuries prior to being inhabited.

Yes, in a way this is pretty much just a setup for a movie that's nothing but Jewish mother jokes. But when that Jewish mother is played by Barbra Streisand, you have to pay attention, especially when she's taking on her first starring role since 1996's The Mirror Has Two Faces. And even though Rogen has kind of a crass stoner reputation, he doesn't really deserve it, having played fully rounded-out characters in films like Take This Waltz and Knocked Up. He may be a schlub, but he's a menschy schlub, and someone with an innate warmth that ought to make him well-suited to a road trip movie like this.

The Guilt Trip is directed by Anne Fletcher, who previously made the smash hit Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy The Proposal. In other words, she is not a woman you want to underestimate, and even though The Guilt Trip is one of the smaller Christmas releases this year, it's got a ton of potential to take everyone by surprise. After all imagine yourself with your family around the holidays, trying to figure out what everyone will want to see. Is it going to be Django Unchained or Zero Dark Thirty? Probably not. The Guilt Trip is the family compromise movie that also looks funny enough to be worth the time.

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