Written by Parveen Maghera
 The Dark Knight Rises offi­cial trailer shines an unfor­giv­ing light on Batman’s ardu­ous chal­lenge yet: to defeat Bane.

After the teaser, the trailer gives audi­ences a greater view of Bane’s demon-like demeanour and intro­duces Catwoman into Gotham City (played by Anna Hathway).

Released by Warner Brothers ear­lier this week, the trailer had hit 12.5 mil­lion views within the first 24 hours of release, break­ing the exist­ing record for iTunes trailer down­loads.

“The trailer went online on Monday at 10:00 am and was soon being watched again (and again) by fans, who parsed over every enig­matic detail”, as quoted from Moviefone.

Following the trailer, Warner Bros. recently released new images for The Dark Knight Rises, unveil­ing Batman’s new wicked weapon and not for­get­ting, his won­drous Batpod. Images also include Bane in his newly stacked half-armour suit.

Starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Gary Oldman, the Dark Knight Rises is set 8 years after the events of The Dark Knight (a prior instal­ment released in 2008) where ter­ror­ist leader Bane, played by Tom Hardy, pushes Gotham City into yet another series of blood­cur­dling events. Batman, played by Christian Bale, returns with an ever­last­ing impres­sion to destroy evil and to end the leg­end, for good.

With its trailer exhibit­ing a con­sid­er­able impres­sion of what the film depicts, it would be a long wait for the full film to be released.

20 July 2012 is the release date for the film in the UK.

Warner releases new Dark Knight Rises images- Total Film 

Written by Parveen Maghera

According to anar­ti­cle pub­lished by Digital Spy ear­lier this year, Director Ivan Reitman said he was hop­ing for Bill Murray to accept the offer to star in the third Ghostbusters instal­ment, con­firm­ing that Murray has the script for the sequel, which was co-written by the orig­i­nal stars Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

However, Murray did not respond pos­i­tively. Digital Spy (via The National Enquirer) recently reported that Murray shred­ded the script and had it sent back to the writ­ers, accom­pa­nied by a foot­note that said,“No-one wants to pay money to see fat, old men chas­ing ghosts.”

Although Murray’s deci­sion would be sig­nif­i­cant for deter­min­ing whether the film would go on, Aykroyd did men­tion in August this year that Ghostbusters 3 will get made with or with­out Murray. Yet again, Aykroyd needs to make a tough deci­sion after Sigourney Weaver had expressed that her return to the cast would only occur if Murray would to take up Venkman’s char­ac­ter.

Nevertheless, Aykroyd seems deter­mined on pro­duc­ing the film but would Murray’s deci­sion ham­per his hopes on deliv­er­ing this sequel?

It is, indeed, not easy to guess.

Bill Murray shreds Ghostbusters 3 script — Total FIlm
 

How many out there know who the Muppets were?

Okay, 3 of you.  So when it was first reported that Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) would be tak­ing on one of the most beloved movie/TV prop­er­ties of all time, The Muppets, need­less to say, reac­tions were some­what mixed.

I grew up watch­ing the mup­pets (which is to say that I am still young by the world stan­dard. I was not sure whether he will milk it for his pop­u­lar­ity of just a spring­board for “I am Forgetting Sarah Marshall” — a sequel of his pre­vi­ous film which is not even in the cards.

Then as par­ody trailer after cre­ative par­ody trailer debuted online and in the­aters, more and more movie­go­ers became cau­tiously opti­mistic that The Muppets would actu­ally turn out to be not just an enjoy­able trip to the the­ater but a wor­thy install­ment in a series that hasn’t seen a big screen release in over twelve years (the last one being Muppets from Space).

Fortunately, The Muppets not only deliv­ers an enjoy­able trip to the movies, the film also addresses a num­ber of rea­sons why the tit­u­lar char­ac­ters deserve to be a sta­ple in the cur­rent cinescape – directly tack­ling the cyn­i­cism of our mod­ern enter­tain­ment offer­ings. That said, the film isn’t overly preachy, and despite a num­ber of celebrity cameos, lets the famil­iar felt-covered faces of char­ac­ters like Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear take cen­ter stage.

Unlike a lot of mod­ern films which have to work hard to keep their audi­ences enter­tained with explo­sions, eye-popping CGI, and “gritty” inter­pre­ta­tions, Henson’s cre­ations are still able to keep audi­ences invested due largely to their heartfelt/charming per­son­al­i­ties. Even Walter, despite being the new Muppet on the block, holds his own along­side his fel­low non-human friends, and will no doubt be a fan-favorite for years to come.

While the over­ar­ch­ing sto­ry­line in The Muppets isn’t the most imag­i­na­tive nar­ra­tive in the series, the com­bi­na­tion of social satire and gen­uinely endear­ing char­ac­ter moments suc­ceeds in deliv­er­ing one of the most sin­cere install­ments of the fran­chise. As men­tioned, Segel side­stepped the lime­light and puts Walter cen­ter stage. Walter is the world’s biggest Muppet fan – and des­tiny calls when he trav­els with his bio­log­i­cal, yet human, brother Gary (Segel) and Gary’s girl­friend, Mary (Amy Adams), to Hollywood. Walter becomes the only per­son capa­ble of reunit­ing the Muppets, who have all gone their sep­a­rate ways, so that they can stop a rich oil tycoon, Tex Richman (Chris Cooper), from tear­ing down the iconic Muppet Theater.

This film was for­tu­nately helm by peo­ple who wanted to see the Muppets back on screen rather than pros­ti­tut­ing them­selves over an 80’s icon (Patrick Harris –Smurfs and Jason Lee –Alvin and the Chipmunks — are YOU LISTENING?)

Without giv­ing much away, this film attempts to make a film OLD school, no CGI effects, no 3D gim­micks, just good old fash­ion pure cin­e­matic expe­ri­ence. With a good sto­ry­line, good moral val­ues, and funny and heart­warm­ing songs, this film will go a long way. It teaches some­thing miss­ing in teenagers now a days– SELF BELIEF.

This is the per­fect fam­ily movie for Christmas or any occa­sion as when you watch it together, it binds you. And if a teenager walks out of the movie to say –BORING. Then I feel sorry for this generation.

With 97% approval rate with ROTTEN TOMATOES, the crit­ics got this one right-BIG TIME. But you know what? I am cer­tain it will not be a big BOX OFFICE hit in terms of money because a cer­tain 26% crappy film about Vampire sex and babies are pol­lut­ing the world now.

 … and this time, set in LA. 

In a recent inter­view on The Graham Norton Show, Bradley Cooper, star of the Hangover series, con­firmed that the sec­ond sequel-cum-finale of Hangover is in script­ing. He hopes for film­ing to begin in September 2012.

Filmmakers were crit­i­cised for reusing the tem­plate of Hangover Part I in its sequel, which was released in May. However this time, Bradley Cooper informs us that the finale’s tem­plate will most likely devi­ate from the for­mula (the trio you see above gets smashed one night and cleans up their mess the fol­low­ing morn­ing) of its pre­de­ces­sors. Also, Part III will be filmed in Los Angeles.

Once again, Director Todd Phillips is co-writing the finale script with Craig Mazin (script co-writer of Part II). Apparently, Mazin’s idea of the end­ing to Part III includes the death of Doug’s (played by Justin Bartha) fam­ily mem­bers, friends, every­body from the first movie and his dog.

Also, Zach Galifianakis (play­ing the role of Alan Garner) heard in June that the finale’s plot is about Stu (played by Ed Helms) and Phil (played by Bradley Cooper) aid­ing Alan’s escape from a men­tal sanatorium.

It is how­ever unlikely that either plot will be used.

Bradley Cooper Talks ‘Hangover 3? –ScreenRant
 

 It isn’t every­day that a film­maker uploads his full-featured film, on the Internet for rent, while it is still being screened in the­aters. Nonetheless, Director Gary Hustwit announced this pleas­ant sur­prise on twit­ter, this morning :

In a way, this almost serves as an infor­mal ‘International release’ for the film, as it streams read­ily in HD to mil­lions worldwide.

Urbanized con­cludes Gary Hustwit’s ‘Design Trilogy’, which fol­lows Helvetica, which took us into the world of the ubiq­ui­tous font, and Objectified, which got us think­ing more about the prod­ucts we use every­day, and the obses­sive thought that goes behind indus­trial design.

Now ‘Urbanized’ fea­tures urban design, the think­ing that goes into the plan­ning and build­ing of cities. Choke full of insight­ful inter­views, with some of the most influ­en­tial thinkers, plan­ners, archi­tects, and pol­i­cy­mak­ers in the field, Urbanized feels both very much like a log­i­cal next step, as well as fit­ting wrap for the series of design-centric movies.  

You can watch the full film in our embed, or head on to the offi­cial site for more information.

Address Is Approximate

Address is Approximate is a stop motion film released 11 days ago by Tom Jenkins. Ingenious from start to end, this beau­ti­ful film shows that tech­nol­ogy is not just glit­ter and flash, but can be used for some­thing remark­ably marvelous.

Written by Dennis Lam, Edited by Andric Tham

When was the last time you recall see­ing a Filipino film? Amidst curi­ous shrugs and rolling eyes, cer­tainly, the answer is, “Not that I can remem­ber, no.”

Perhaps, we’re not all strangers to Filipino tal­ent. It wasn’t so long ago that Arnel Pineda’s song­writ­ing genius – of pop­u­lar rock band Journey – graced the air­waves for the first time since “Don’t Stop Believing” was first released in the ‘80s, all thanks to hit tween show Glee.

Curiously, the impact of the Filipino film indus­try is hardly pal­pa­ble out­side of its shores.