Monday, 26 March 2012

English movie Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans (2010 film)

Clash of the Titans

Directed by	Louis Leterrier
Produced by	Basil Iwanyk Kevin De La Noy Richard D. Zanuck
Screenplay by	Travis Beacham Phil Hay Matt Manfredi
Based on	Clash of the Titans by Beverley Cross
Starring	Sam Worthington Gemma Arterton Mads Mikkelsen Alexa Davalos Ralph Fiennes Liam Neeson
Music by	Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography	Peter Menzies Jr.
Editing by	Vincent Tabaillon Martin Walsh
Studio	Legendary Pictures The Zanuck Company Thunder Road Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	April 2, 2010
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$125 million
Box office	$493,214,993

Clash of the Titans is a 2010 fantasy action remake of the 1981 film of the same name (the rights to which had been acquired by Warner Bros. in 1996). The story is very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus. Directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Sam Worthington, the film was originally set for standard release on March 26, 2010.However, it was later announced that the film would be converted to 3D and was released on April 2, 2010.The film grossed $493 million worldwide, though it received mainly negative reviews from critics.
A franchise is set to start as a sequel, Wrath of the Titans, will be released on March 30, 2012, in 3D and IMAX 3D.

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Cast

Sam Worthington as Perseus the demigod son of Zeus
Gemma Arterton as a woman cursed with agelessness after refusing the advances of Poseidon. She guides Perseus in his quest and narrates the Titanomachy at the start of the film
Mads Mikkelsen as Draco, leader of the Praetorian Guard
Alexa Davalos as Andromeda, princess of Argos, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia and the Princess that will be sacrificed to the Kraken
Jason Flemyng as Acrisius/Calibos, a king of Argos transformed into a hideous beast
Tine Stapelfeldt as Danaë, wife of King Acrisius, mother of Perseus
Nicholas Hoult as Eusebius, member of the Praetorian Guard
Hans Matheson as Ixas, member of the Praetorian Guard
Liam Cunningham as Solon, member of the Praetorian Guard
Liam Neeson as Zeus, the leader of the gods of Mount Olympus and father of Perseus
Ralph Fiennes as Hades, god of the Underworld
Jamie Sives as a Commander.
Ian Whyte as Sheikh Sulieman, the Djinn who assisted Perseus and the praetorian guards of Argos
Pete Postlethwaite as Spyros, Foster Father of Perseus
Elizabeth McGovern as Marmara, Foster Mother of Perseus
Polly Walker as Cassiopeia, Queen of Argos, wife of Kepheus and mother of Andromeda
Vincent Regan as Kepheus, King of Argos, husband of Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda
David Kennedy as Kepheus's General
Kaya Scodelario as Peshet, Andromeda's handmaiden
Luke Treadaway as Prokopion, the cult leader who leads the people of Argos to sacrifice Andromeda
Danny Huston as Poseidon,god of the sea and earthquakes
Izabella Miko as Athena, goddess of warfare, battle strategies, wisdom and justice
Tamer Hassan as Ares, god of war and bloodshed
Luke Evans as Apollo, god of the sun, music, poetry, art, healing, archery and medicine.
Nathalie Cox as Artemis, goddess of forests, the moon, hills, hunting and animals
Nina Young as Hera, goddess of women and marriage and wife of Zeus
Agyness Deyn as Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty
Paul Kynman as Hephaestus, god of the forge, blacksmiths, fire and volcanoes
Alexander Siddig as Hermes, Messenger of the Gods and the god of travelers and thieves
Charlotte Comer as Demeter, goddess of the earth and agriculture
Jane March as Hestia, goddess of the hearth
Natalia Vodianova as Medusa, the Half-Demon mortal Gorgon
Mouloud Achour as Kucuk
Ross Mullan as Pemphredo
Ashraf Barhom as Ozal

Production

The Clash of the Titans remake project started in 2002 under producer Adam Schroeder and writers John Glenn and Travis Wright. They wanted to drop the "cheesy chessboard manipulation of characters" by the gods. In The Wright/Glenn version of Clash, various pantheons were mixed together. The Main villain was the Sumerian Sea Goddess of Death and Destruction, Tiamat. Perseus was originally kidnapped by an avatar of an unidentified Cthonian Earth Goddess, who planned to have him married to Andromeda so as to develop better relations with humanity. The Earth Goddess and Perseus proceed to fall in love. Zeus prepared to engage in war with Tiamat; taking the aids of other gods (such as Thoth, Marduk, Yahweh and Osiris). A High Priest named Fantasos starts a Cult of Tiamat that quickly conquers the city. Andromeda was originally a promiscuous spoiled Princess who possessed various male sex slaves. Though the mixing of Mythologies and the Perseus-Earth Goddess romance was abandoned, the concept of a Goddess enraged at arrogant humans and demanding a sacrifice and the Cult of the Evil God (Changed from Tiamat to Hades) was retained into the final production. Producer Basil Iwanyk revived the project in 2006 with a rewrite by Travis Beacham, a fan of the original, who intended the script to be "darker and more realistic". Lawrence Kasdan and director Stephen Norrington signed on in 2007. Kasdan gave the script another rewrite from the Beacham version. But Norrington was unsure about his direction for the project because he did not grow up with the original. Leterrier, who did, contacted Norrington through their shared agent about replacing him. By June 2008 Leterrier joined the project and Warner Bros. greenlit the film. Leterrier noted the original Clash of the Titans inspired the climax of his previous film The Incredible Hulk – a battle in a burnt-down courtroom with temple-like columns – and has compared modern superheroes to Greek mythology.
Writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi took over the script during July 2008 and used Beacham's draft as a starting point. They focused on the mythology and telling the story through Leterrier's eyes. Hay and Manfredi had to rewrite the script in less than a year using a very active process. Leterrier sought Ray Harryhausen's involvement, and reunited with Hulk concept artist Aaron Sims, who had already been working on Clash of the Titans with Norrington.
Louis Leterrier, during an interview, revealed that he is a big Saint Seiya (also known as Knights of the Zodiac) fan. He specifically cited the armor that the Gods wear in his film remake as a sign of homage and respect to Saint Seiya. Masami Kurumada (the author of Saint Seiya) was even asked to collaborate with the production team on poster designs.
Sam Worthington took the role of Perseus because he wanted to make a Clash of the Titans for his nine year old nephew's generation. During filming the cast had a few laughs about the costumes but he took it very seriously "so the audience doesn't have to." Worthington also did not wear sandals while filming, he instead painted toes on his sports shoes so he could perform the stunts better.

Filming locations

Teide National Park (Tenerife) is the most visited national park in Spain and one of the most visited in the world, and place of filming of some scenes from the movie.

Filming began April 27, 2009, near London, at Shepperton Studios, and also at Pinewood Studios and at Longcross Studios, near Chertsey, in Surrey. Filming also took place in Wales, the Canary Islands (Spain) (primarily at the World Heritage Site, Teide National Park in Tenerife), Maspalomas Dunes, Gran Canaria, and Timanfaya National Park in Lanzarote. Aerial photography was conducted in Iceland and Ethiopia.
Filming of volcano scenes at the Harriet hole in Dinorwic Slate Quarry in Wales wrapped at the end of July. This slate quarry has also been used for locations for Willow and Street Fighter.

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Friday, 23 March 2012

The most popular film Avatar

Avatar (2009 film)

*Avatar*

Directed by	James Cameron
Produced by	James Cameron Jon Landau
Written by	James Cameron
Starring	Sam Worthington Zoe Saldana Stephen Lang Michelle Rodriguez Sigourney Weaver Joel David Moore Giovanni Ribisi
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Mauro Fiore
Editing by	James Cameron John Refoua Stephen E. Rivkin
Studio	Lightstorm Entertainment Dune Entertainment Ingenious Film Partners
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	December 10, 2009 (London premiere) December 18, 2009 (United States)
Running time	162 minutes 171 minutes (re-release)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$237 million $9 million+ (Re-release)
Box office	$2,782,275,172

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Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora.

Development of Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, for a planned release in 1999, but according to Cameron, the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the film. Work on the language of the film's extraterrestrial beings began in summer 2005, and Cameron began developing the screenplay and fictional universe in early 2006. Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion. The film made extensive use of cutting edge motion capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional viewing, viewing (using the , XpanD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats), and for "4-D" experiences in select South Korean theaters. The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology.

Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was internationally released on December 16 and in the United States and Canada on December 18, to critical acclaim and commercial success. The film broke several box office records during its release and became the highest-grossing film of all time in North America and worldwide, surpassing Titanic, which had held the records for the previous twelve years. It also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion.Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction. The film's home release went on to break opening sales records and became the top-selling Blu-ray of all time. Following the film's success, Cameron signed with 20th Century Fox to produce two sequels, making Avatar the first of a planned trilogy.

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Monday, 19 March 2012

English movie Fast Five

Fast Five' looks to shift the box office into high gear

Hollywood is hoping that "Fast Five" will finally rev up ticket sales this weekend in what has so far been a dismal year at the box office.
With a tagline that boasts "summer starts early," the fifth movie in the popular street racing franchise is the first in a string of big-budget studio event movies that will be released over the next few months. The film debuts as ticket sales in 2011 are down 17% and attendance is off 18%. For weeks, movie industry executives have lamented the state of the box office, placing their hopes on summer season "tent-poles" such "Fast Five" to get people back in the habit of going to movie theaters every weekend.

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“My deepest hope is that this is the first movie in a summer that can turn around all the negativity that’s been out there about the box office,” said Nikki Rocco, president of domestic distribution for Universal Pictures, the studio releasing “Fast Five.”
The "Fast and Furious" series has performed impressively in the past, with the previous four films grossing more than $1 billion around the world. According to people who have seen prerelease audience surveys, "Fast Five" is on target to open to slightly more than the $71 million that the most recent movie, "Fast & Furious," debuted with in 2009. But because the market has been so depressed this year, Universal is projecting a lower figure of about $60 million.
Either way, the movie would have the highest opening weekend of any film so far this year (beating "Rio's" $39.2 million) and take in exponentially more than either of the two other pictures in wide release this weekend. "Prom," a coming-of-age film that is the first to be put into production by Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross, should collect about $8 million. "Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil," the 3-D animated sequel to 2005's 2D "Hoodwinked," will likely sell about $7 million worth of tickets.
"Fast Five" opened in a handful of foreign markets last week and has already collected $34.6 million overseas as it debuts in 10 additional countries this weekend. Domestically, the movie is generating the most buzz from males, particularly younger ones, though interest among women is decent as well. As with the previous "Fast" films, this movie is expected to be especially popular with Latinos and African Americans.
Universal is banking on attracting a broader global audience to "Fast Five," since its budget is significantly higher than for 2009's "Fast & Furious" and its genre was switched from a pure underground racing movie of its predecessors to a heist film. The movie cost at least $170 million to produce, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the film's budget. A Universal spokeswoman said the actual cost was $125 million.
"Fast Five" takes place in Rio de Janeiro and reunites stars from all four "Fast" movies, including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and Tyrese Gibson, and adds newcomer Dwayne Johnson. The studio is hoping that such updates will push the new film's worldwide tally past $353.2 million, which is how much the fourth installment collected two years ago.
Meanwhile, "Prom" is pretty much "Fast Five's" polar opposite. The movie cost only $8 million to produce and features a cast of up-and-coming young actors, targeted largely at one segment of the audience: teenage girls.
Movies aimed at young women have fared decently at the box office in recent months. "Soul Surfer" and "Beastly," both set in the world of high school, each opened to about $10 million and have since gone on to gross just less than $30 million domestically. If projections are correct, "Prom" will likely do a bit worse.
The second "Hoodwinked!" film was initially scheduled to be released in January 2010. In fact, toys based on the film's characters actually made it into Burger King kids' meals for a brief period early last year. But the movie was postponed by distributor the Weinstein Co., which was financially troubled at the time, and has since been converted to 3-D.

Financed by Weinstein Co. along with animation company Kanbar Entertainment, "Hoodwinked Too!" went into production with a budget of $30 million, according to a person with knowledge of the budget but was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The Weinstein Co. declined to comment on the film's budget. Last year, the Weinsteins and Kanbar went to court over issues related to the film's delay.
The first film, a satirical spin on the classic "Red Riding Hood" fairytale, cost even less to make and was a surprise hit, collecting $110 million worldwide. The sequel is on track to fare much more poorly and will likely be overshadowed by two other family films still in theaters: "Rio" and "Hop."
Overseas, Paramount Pictures releases the Marvel superhero film "Thor" in 29 foreign territories this weekend, including the United Kingdom, Korea and Russia. Its debuts in the U.S. on May 6.

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Saturday, 17 March 2012

Apocalypto The most popular film fo the world

Apocalypto (2006)

139 min - Action | Adventure | Drama - 8 December 2006 (USA)

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Ratings: 7.8/10 from 121,698 users Metascore: 68/100
Reviews: 994 user | 270 critic | 37 from Metacritic.com

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate

Director:

Mel Gibson

Writers:

Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia

Stars:

Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo and Dalia Hernández

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From Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award®-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture, 1995) comes the thrilling historical epic APOCALYPTO. This intense, nonstop action-adventure transports you to an ancient South American civilization, for an experience unlike anything you’ve ever known. In the twilight of the mysterious Mayan culture, young Jaguar Paw is captured and taken to the great Mayan city where he faces a harrowing end. Driven by the power of his love for his wife and son, he makes an adrenaline-soaked, heart-racing escape to rescue them and ultimately save his way of life. Filled with unrelenting action and stunning cinematography, APOCALYPTO is an enthralling and unforgettable film experience.'