Saturday
07Jun2008
'Hancock' Featurette Saves the Day
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 10:32AM
We already know that
Hancock will be one of the biggest hits of the
year.
Will Smith is Mr. Fourth of July in Hollywood,
having opened Independence Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II,
and Wild Wild West on that weekend. You laugh at WWW, but it still
made $50 million in its debut...and he's a much bigger star now. All I'm saying
is don't be surprised if the returns this July 4th read something like "Hancock
- $85 million".
He plays a superhero by default in the film. Being able
to save the planet gives him great power, but as a dying Cliff Robertson once
told us, with great power comes great responsibility. Hancock doesn't want the
responsibility.
Here's a look behind-the-scenes of Hancock,
featuring Smith,
Charlize Theron,
Jason Bateman, director
Peter Berg, and producer
Michael Mann, who was Smith's director for
Ali and is one of the most underappreciated filmmakers of all time.
I don't know exactly why there are Japanese subtitles in
this featurette, but I kind of enjoyed them anyway.
Only eight films this decade that were released in June
have managed to hit the top ten in terms of annual box office gross, so this is
more or less a month off in the middle of summer. The next movie with hopes of
having near universal appeal is this one, another reason Hancock will
flirt with $275 - $300 million.
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Reader Comments (2)
I have skipped the theatrical releases of the last few Will Smith movies:
I rented "Switch" at Blockbuster.
Then a few years later, I rented "Happiness" on Netflix.
This year, I rented "I am Legend" at the local RedBox.
What's to stop me from downloading "Hancock" on I-tunes in a few months? I'll tell you (and it's not the Fresh Prince's charisma).
I love Jason Bateman. Somebody please make this guy a bona-fide movie star, and do it soon! Dude is great in everything he touches these days (read: "The Kingdom", "Juno", and "Arrested Development"), even making bad movies better (read: "Smokin' Aces"). I have such a man crush on Bateman right now that it makes me want to give "Teen Wolf Too" a second chance.
(Guy Ritchie, I hope you are listening, because it's oh so elementary...)
Not to be pedantic, but that's korean, not japanese. You can tell korean by the prevalence of circles in the characters. japanese (and chinese as they're the same characters) are for more flowing and linear.