Happy Easter! Hope you all had an Easter as good as mine. And for you non-religious folk, I hope you just had a happy weekend in general. Now onto the news.
In the beginning...- So, there has been a new trend in movies lately (superhero movies in particular), that seems to have really gotten kicked off with The Dark Knight. That is the whole bit on releasing the first few minutes of a film. This week saw two such releases. One of these is from Days of Future Past. It is labeled as "opening fight scene", so not sure if it is the very beginning of said film. The other is the first three minutes of Joss Whedon's film In Your Eyes (which you can see over at EW.com). The question is, is this a good new trend. I guess my personal opinion is that if the material is good, then yes. Trailers now seem to be giving away the whole plot of movies lately. In the case of In Your Eyes, the first three minutes were intriguing enough with the setup for me to want to see the film. I didn't need key scenes from the rest of the movie spoiling things in a trailer. Mind you, a well put together trailer can do wonders still. They just really need to stop giving away the whole plot.
Speaking of trailers, and X-Men, the final trailer has been released this week. Up until now I have only been mildly enthusiastic about this movie. Between that opening fight scene and this new trailer, however, I must say my excitement level has gone up a couple of notches.
Future endeavors?- One final bit of X-Men news and I'll move on. It is well known that Marvel/Disney has not really wanted to combine efforts with Fox and Sony with superhero movies. That is fair enough, because they are trying to get rights back to their properties. But, could something be brewing between Fox and Sony? Sony has announced that they will have a mid-credit sequence in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 of the X-Men. Not quite worth getting too worked up over yet because it is apparently just a scene from the new X-Men movie and has no cross-over implications at all. However, this collaboration does indicate that the two studios are communicating with each other positively. One can only hope that maybe we'll see Spider-Man show up in Fantastic Four or X-Men in the future, or vice versa. One can dream of said cross-over anyway.
2 Fast 2 Furious- In body double news, the show must go on with Fast and Furious 7. Universal officially announced that Paul Walker's brothers, Caleb and Cody, will be filling in for any of his unfinished scenes. Paul had gotten most of his dramatic scenes filmed already, so they won't have to fill in for a lot. I realize that for Universal, this is mostly, if not completely, about not losing money by having to scrap the movie for rewrites and reshoots. But, I do like that they will not be just CGIing him into these remaining scenes, and also Paul's brothers get to honor his memory in a unique way, which also means that this decision was family approved.
Disappearing act- Have to give a mention to one trailer that was released this week. That is for Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Just had to mention it because it looks like a good new thriller, and I'm just a huge fan of the director David Fincher. Everything he does, if not great, is at least very interesting.
And that ain't no bull- In the realm of completely bizarre news, we have the release of the documentary The Final Member. This film is about two men who are both vying to be the first human to have their "member" be the first human penis in the Iclandic Phallological Museum. While you are wrapping your head around that little tidbit, I'll get onto the actual bizarre part of this story. Drafthouse films is the production company for this film, and if you pre-order the movie here, you get a little souvenir along with it. That would be a wax-sealed glass jar containing an actual bull penis. So, I guess it is a little bit of bull after all.
Well, that's it for tonight. Have a pleasant week.
Until next time.....remember to always grab the bull by the horns.
Weekend top 10 at the box office:
1 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier $26.6M
2 - Rio 2 $22.5M
3 - Heaven is for Real (new release) $21.5M
4 - Transcendence (new release) $11.2M
5 - A Haunted House 2 (new release) $9.1M
6 - Draft Day $5.9M
7 - Divergent $5.8M
8 - Oculus $5.2M
9 - Noah $5.0M
10 - God's Not Dead $4.8M
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