Warner Bros has released the first official trailer for DC Comics‘ The Losers starring Zoe Saldana as Aisha, Chris Evans as Jensen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Clay, Columbus Short as Pooch, Idris Elba as Roque, and Óscar Jaenada as Cougar. The trailer looks quite badass, love the cast, love the action, love the joke, love the performance. It looks quite similar to The A-Team, though there are quite a lot of differences as well. It’s based on a graphic novel, so the story should not be bad (will see if I can finish the novel before the film hits theaters later this year.
Originally a Special Forces team seconded to the CIA in the 90s, the Losers were betrayed by their handler, Max, and left for dead following the conclusion of their operation. Eager for revenge and the opportunity to remove their names from a secret CIA death list, the Losers regroup and conduct covert operations against the CIA and its interests, uncovering startling operations spearheaded by the enigmatic villain Max, whose influence within the CIA and US government is unparalleled. The Losers is directed by Sylvain White and will hit theaters on April 16th, 2010 this year.
《麦田里的守望者》作者J.D.塞林格去世. J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91.
Rest in peace, J. D. Salinger.
One of my favorite quote: I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died on Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91.
Mr. Salinger’s literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, announced the death, saying it was of natural causes. “Despite having broken his hip in May,” the agency said, “his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year. He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death.”
Mr. Salinger’s literary reputation rests on a slender but enormously influential body of published work: the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” the collection “Nine Stories” and two compilations, each with two long stories about the fictional Glass family: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”
Disney has debuted quite a few concept art and new photos for Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland over on Animatie. This is definitely another film that’s on my must-watch list for 2010, I’m really looking forward to it.
For all the concept arts and photos, head to Animatie.
Alice in Wonderland is directed by visionary filmmaker Tim Burton, of everything from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure to Beetlejuice to Batman to Edward Scissorhands to Mars Attacks to Sleepy Hollow to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Sweeney Todd most recently. The screenplay was written by Disney’s own Linda Woolverton, of Beauty and the Beast, Homeward Bound, and The Lion King previously. This is based on Lewis Carroll’s beloved series of books that were first published in 1865. Disney is bringing Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland to both digital 3D and 2D theaters, as well as IMAX, starting on March 5th this year.
The Laguna Gamori marine resort complex has announced on Monday that it will host a “One Piece Memorial Log in Lagunasia” theme park attraction from March 20 to June 27. While there have been theme park exhibits based on the One Piece anime franchise before, Laguna Gamori promotes the new project as Japan’s first attraction to follow and recreate the journey of the pirate captain Luffy and his gang.
The complex is located in Gamori City in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, and it already held a “Mighty Atom Exhibition in Lagunasia” event from September to November of last year. That earlier event featured a statue of Tezuka’s Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) character which stood over three meters (10 feet) tall.
ABC has just debuted a new promo for Lost‘s final season. And unlike previous seasons’ no-spoiler-footage policy, we do get some glimpses of new footages in this one. Below is the promotion via Youtube.
And here are some explanation of these glimpses done by IO9.com.
First up, the biggest deal was the return of Claire — with a big gun no less!
Looks like she’s stopped being a smug ghost person with Jack’s Dad and started being a real, gun-carrying person. Has she taken over the role of the feral crazy French woman? People are speculating yes. Either way, we’re just glad she’s no longer a condescending spirit.
Sandwiching the big Claire reveal were two text messages saying “Everything Changes” followed by “Plant a good seed and you will joyfully gather fruit.”
What does it all mean? These were some of the images that Alex’s poor boyfriend Karl was subjected to while being brainwashed by Ben in the Hydra compound. Next up in the line of mind-wiping text are the phrases “We are the causes of our own suffering” and “God loves you as He loved Jacob”. So is the Lost marketing team trying to wipe our minds of all we previously knew about Lost?
Also worth noting, Room 23 was the same room Walt was held in, after he was taken by The Others. In that room, he explained that they made him take tests. Hopefully, this means we’ll learn more about the underbelly of the The Others, and why they are only allowed access to certain things, plus how Walt can kill a bunch of birds with his brain.
Next, the promo asks us who will return? And basically lists off every single side character that we ever loved or hated from Boone to Libby. And speaking of Boone, no that is not who Claire is kissing in the new promo, it’s old footage of her kiss with Charlie. But both Boone and Charlie are known to be coming back to Lost.
But most importantly on the topic of who will be back is the news from Hollywood Reporterthat the man in black, Jacob’s nemesis, played by Titus Welliver, is officially back.
Finally, let’s take a look at the old footage. The promo restates the old dialogue that the survivors believe that they can “change their own destiny,” a fact they took well into consideration when they tried to blow up a hydrogen bomb in last seasons finale. Then we see images of major events in reverse. Which gives the feel of past happenings being erased completely. Which, if the bomb was successful, should have changed the timeline… so we think.
Anyway, I’m quite excited by this promo, and really looking forward to this final season, coming at the beginning of next month!
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