Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Here’s the synopsis for Kingdom, a six episode mini-series coming to Netflix on January 25, 2019:
In a kingdom defeated by corruption and famine, a mysterious plague spreads to turn the infected into monsters. The crown prince, framed for treason and desperate to save his people, sets out on a journey to unveil what evil lurks in the dark.
If you like what you’ve read, my best is you’ll love the trailer. I sure did.
This international trailer makes me want to see Glass even more!
What do you think about the new Hellboy poster above? Yeah, me too. It’s kind of cool but not, ‘Whoa! Stop what you’re doing and check out the new Hellboy poster!’ cool.
There’s a new Hellboy motion poster out today too. You can see it here. Again, kind of cool but not make you move closer to the monitor cool.
On Thursday we get the first Hellboy trailer. I’m hoping for something that’s more than kind of cool.
TKO Studios is a new comic publisher and they’re looking to shake things up with their award-winning artists and writers and the way their comics are released.
TKO Studios seeks to redefine the comic book industry creatively and commercially.
TKO Studios was founded by award-winning comic book, entertainment, business and tech professionals. We create unique takes on established genres, promoting diverse and exciting voices that reflect the modern audience.
Our aim is to publish high quality books and expand the comic book audience using modern methods of marketing, distribution, and audience engagement. We proudly offer the premier issue of each new miniseries available for free digital download.
You read that right, each premier issue of a new series is offered up for free as a digital download. If you don’t like what you see, no harm, no cost. If you do like what you’ve read, you can buy the entire series in any of three formats:
TKO is on to something smart. Now fans can check out the stories before committing to a series they may not like. If they do enjoy what they see, there’s no months-long wait to get the whole story and they can get the story in the format that they prefer.
I’ve checked out TKO’s first four offerings and ordered (as a graphic novel) The 7 Deadly Sins by Tze Chun (writer), Artyom Trakhanov (artist), Giulia Brusco (colorist) and Jared K Fletcher (letterer).
Check out the TKO series available now and coming soon — it won’t cost you a cent and you may find something you’ll love.
Renaldo Matadeen and CBR.com remind us why Stallone Is Still the Greatest Action Star. Here are a few tidbits…
Stallone picks up this accolade for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s his longevity that really puts him ahead in the field. His resume is stacked, with untouchable franchises like Rambo and Rocky under his belt, not to mention other projects that impressed fans of the ’80s and ’90s action scene.
…Creed and Expendables franchises perfectly illustrate his staying power…
…another reason he deserves the title of greatest action star — he’s adapted to the landscape…
That’s another reason why he’s the best action star, period. He mixes drama with his heroics in a style unlike any of his peers. Creed got Stallone an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and he was previously nominated for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for Rocky in 1976, which is something the likes of Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme can’t boast.
Check out the Matadeen’s entire piece, it’s worth your time.
Dan Panosian is back and he brought John Wick with him! (And, yeah, John Wick is thinkin’ he’s back, too!)
The Captive State trailer looks interesting. I’m not 100% sold yet, but am interested in seeing more.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 51 Things We Learned from the Mission: Impossible – Fallout Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
7. They tested shorter cuts of the film per the studio’s request, but each attempt saw the scores plummet. Cruise told them “it doesn’t matter how long it is, it matters how long it feels.”
17. The HALO sequence saw them jumping out of the plane at 25,000 feet, and it’s all done live in a single shot. The city lights below are added in post, but the jump and fall are 100% real. “We talked about this for a year. How are going to get this shot?” The camera operator for the scene is wearing a camera mounted to the top of his own helmet, and the whole thing is a legitimately thrilling sequence. Here, I’ll let a very excited and proud Cruise tell you about jumping out of the plane for the scene. “Now he’s backwards. He leaves backwards. I’m coming right at him. Now I have to get from there I have to get within three feet, not two feet ten inches, not three feet and two inches. I have to be right at three feet to be in focus. Now I go past him in that and we had a window of three minutes to get that shot. Now I do this spin, now you’re in my face,I’m up on my back, he’s going up and around. It really is a dance between the two of us. I had to always make sure that the sunset was on my left shoulder. Now we’re traveling at 200 miles an hour at times toward the ground. I’m coming in, it’s like a sprint, boom, I have to hit him. When I hit him, I have to hit him, I don’t know where I’m gonna hit him on his body, I just have to try and take him out and down. And not break his neck, my neck, and not entangle the chutes, deploy his chute or my chute. Any of those things could have led to serious problems.” They built the largest wind tunnel in the world to train and considered filming some of the sequence in there, but it didn’t look real enough.
27. The “what if” sequence at 44:13 where they show the hijack and subsequent killing of dozens of police officers under the overpass was a concern as paparazzi and Parisian gawkers lined the other side of the river watching. They hung 300 feet of silk across the archways so that people wouldn’t see police being murdered, and the unintentional but welcome effect is the “eerie light” across the scene.
The second Bird Box trailer looks pretty good. I hope this isn’t a case where the trailers are better than the movie.
The headline says it all: The 4th Glass Trailer is Here!
Make no mistake this is not a military operation… and make no mistake, Triple Frontier looks good!
Check out this cool Die Hard print by Sam Gilbey. You can get your own limited edition print from Zavvi.
Source: GeekTyrant.
Today we have the Colin WIlson cover to the French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tête written by Matz and illustrated by Colin Wilson. If you think the the tough-guy on the cover looks like Sylvester Stallone, you’d be right.
See, Du Plomb Dans La Tête was the basis for Stallone’s film Bullet to the Head.
What’s interesting to note is the character (that Sly ended up playing) from the original graphic novel was drawn to look a bit like Sly as Jack Carter. When Sly took on the role for Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill (the director) opted for a different look and Sly agreed. So in the movie Sly doesn’t look like Jack Carter but on the Du Plomb Dans La Tête cover he does.
And now you have the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say).
