Chris Weston’s New “Die Hard” Poster!
A little over a year ago Chris Weston made an appearance here with his truly amazing Die Hard poster. Now Weston is back with a new Die Hard poster that rocks just as hard.
Source: JoBlo’s Awesome Art…
Author: Craig Zablo
Saboteur (1942) / Z-View
Saboteur (1942)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Peter Viertel & Joan Harrison & Dorothy Parker
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings and Otto Kruger
The Pitch: “Hitchcock want to make ‘Saboteur’”
Tagline: You’d like to say – IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE!… but every jolting scene is TRUE!!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
After an aircraft manufacturing plant is destroyed by sabotage, an innocent worker, Barry Kane (Cummings) finds himself on the run from authorities who believe he was saboteur. Kane’s efforts to clear himself lead him to a bigger plan of sabotage. Can he prove his innocence and convince authorities of the next planned attack before it is too late?
Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings make a great couple!
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25 Redesigned Movie Posters for Your Favorite 80s Films
This First Blood poster by Ken Taylor is just one of 25 Redesigned Movie Posters for Your Favorite 80s Films.
Thanks and a “Yo!” to John Beatty for the tip!
Tarantula (1955) / Z-View
Tarantula (1955)
Director: Jack Arnold
Screenplay: Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley from a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco.
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll and Clint Eastwood
The Pitch: “Let’s make a giant spider movie!”
Tagline: Bullets Can’t Stop It! Dynamite Can’t Kill It!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Scientists working with experimental growth formulas accidently create and release on the world a giant spider!
Look for Clint Eastwood in one of his first roles.
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Crime of Passion (1957) / Z-View
Crime of Passion (1957)
Director: Gerd Oswald
Screenplay: Jo Eisinger (original story and screenplay)
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr and Faye Wray
The Pitch: “Let’s make a film about a couple where one’s ambitions and lack of morals destroy them, but we’ll flip it so the female lead is the bad ‘guy’!”
Tagline: The stripped-of-shame story of a cop’s wife who committed one sin too many!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Kathy (Stanwyck) is an ambitious newspaper columnist who falls for LA detective, Bill Doyle (Hayden), in a whirlwind romance that leads to marriage. Soon enough Kathy realizes her husband is content with his rank and has no desire to rise to the top. Kathy becomes jealous and envious of others and begins to plot a way to change the status quo. That it involves infidelity and murder matters little to her.
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Hellboy by Frank Miller
Ever wonder what Hellboy by Frank Miller would look like? Well, wonder no more!
Source: Cool Comic Art.
Cabin Fever (2002) / Z-View
Cabin Fever (2002)
Director: Eli Roth
Screenplay: Eli Roth & Randy Pearlstein from a story by Eli Roth
Stars: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong and James DeBello
The Pitch: “Let’s make a horror movie about college kids and a flesh-eating virus!”
Tagline: Terror… In the flesh.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Five college kids head to a remote cabin where they encounter a strange flesh-eating virus.
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58 Things We Learned from James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 58 Things We Learned from James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
24. Glen Campbell’s “Southern Nights” was one of his favorite songs as a child, and he recalls the joy of attending a 4th of July party a couple years ago “at Jane Seymour’s house of all places” where he got to meet Campbell and listen to some live music from the man.
42. Stan Lee with the Watchers “doesn’t mean Stan Lee is a Watcher,”, but “who knows what Stan Lee is.”
55. Stallone asked how his line at Yondu’s viking funeral should be delivered, and Gunn replied “‘Have you seen the movie Babe?’ and he said ‘Yeah!’ I’m like this is you saying ‘That’ll do pig.’” My favorite part of this anecdote is the image of Stallone watching Babe.
Frailty (2001) / Z-View
Frailty (2001)
Director: Bill Paxton
Screenplay: Brent Hanley
Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
The Pitch: “Bill Paxton wants to direct ‘Frailty’ – let’s do it!”
Tagline: There are demons among us
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Adam and Fenton are young brothers, being raised by their single parent dad. Dad is a hard-working loving parent and all is well with the family… until one night when their father wakes them up to reveal that he had been visited by an Angel. The Angel told dad that demons live among them and they have been chosen to slay them.
Fenton realizes his father had gone crazy, while Adam is convinced their dad was visited by an Angel. Fenton hopes this will pass, but when dad brings home a normal looking man who dad claims to be a demon and kills him, Fenton knows this is just the start…
Frailty is a classic that gets better with repeated viewings. Paxton’s acting and direction (the only film he directed!) is point on. Powers Boothe is, as always, excellent. This may be Matthew McConaughey’s best performance. Love the twists and turns.
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“Extermination” – Animated “Terminator” Pitch!
Bruce Stirling and John Knox have created an animated (appropriately enough) pitch for a new animated Terminator series. Some of the scenes remind me of Mathew Reynolds art for Mercenary Seas. While I’m not 100% sold on the pitch, it does have potential.
Check it out below and see what you think.
Risso Takes The Punisher to Sin City!
Eduardo Risso, genius that he is, takes the Punisher to Sin City… and yes, that is Nancy Callahan!
Source: In Trash We Trust
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) / Z-View
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Director: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Talbot Jennings & Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson based on the book by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
The Pitch: “Let’s turn Robert C. O’Brien’s novel into a movie!”
Tagline: Clark Gable as the daring mutineer in the screen’s most exciting adventure story!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
The classic tale of Fletcher Christian’s mutiny against the sadistic Captain Bligh!
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Trailer for “Brawl in Cell Block 99” is Here!
The trailer for Brawl in Cell Block 99 didn’t knock me out, but I still can’t wait to see S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to Bone Tomahawk.
The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
BBC Culture polled 253 film critics from 52 countries to determine The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time. While I question Pulp Fiction as one of the all time greatest comedies, I’ll play along. Using just their list, here are my top six…
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Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008)
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Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
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Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
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Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
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Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)\
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Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
