Get The Big Picturehttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/en-US2010-03-22T12:45:39ZSquarespace Site Server v5.10.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)First 'Twilght: Eclipse' Clip with Bella and Edwardhttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/22/first-twilght-eclipse-clip-with-bella-and-edward.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-22T11:30:37ZKristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Twilight Vampire Movies VideoThat's the thing about becoming a vampire: There's really no turning back. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is wrestling with that decision in this new clip from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

It's a smart move to give us Bella and Edward (Robert Pattinson) in the first full clip from this movie. They're the story, obviously. However, they're both kind of mumbling here, which isn't entirely new, so I think Twihards might have been more excited by something that had a little more life.

With New Moon arriving on DVD and Blu-ray this past weekend, the timing on this is pretty good. Maybe it'll help the slow box office of Pattinson's Remember Me and Stewart's The Runaways. Probably not.

]]>A Little More Information on 'Final Destination 5'http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/22/a-little-more-information-on-final-destination-5.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-22T08:40:50Z3D Final Destination Horror Movies SequelsWe told you the other day that there would be a Final Destination V, in spite of the fact that the fourth movie very clearly states in its title that it's the final Destination. We assumed it would be in 3-D, like you probably did, and we were all correct.

Shock Till You Drop spoke to producer Craig Perry, who confirms the fifth installment (as if the head of the studio announcing it wasn't validation enough), and talked a little bit about what we might see.

"If we find the right storyline – and we're working on it – then we'll take the lessons we learned from The Final Destination and make the necessary improvements to deliver what audiences expect from this franchise, going back to the original," Perry said. "What I know for sure is that it will be in 3-D and deliver inventive, suspenseful, fun kills. That I can promise!"

]]>Neil Patrick Harris on 'Dr. Horrible' Sequelhttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/neil-patrick-harris-on-dr-horrible-sequel.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-22T05:14:09ZJoss Whedon NPH Nathan FillionThat crazy internet made a big hit out of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and the sequel has been talked about and written about ever since. Neil Patrick Harris would almost certainly have to be a part of any follow-ups, since he's Dr. Horrible and all. But the current plan is bigger than we even thought; NPH says it will likely be a feature film.

"That's their plan," the actor told MTV. "I don't know of what scale. They're talking all options, because they made the first Dr. Horrible in five days on no budget at all — that was its intention."

But it's not as simple as just doing the same thing again and charging people to see something they saw a few years earlier for free. There's a flips side of that, too, says Harris. "You don't want to necessarily make the feature film be an $80 million giant movie, because it defeats the purpose of what the first film was made to be."

]]>Bid Deadline for MGM Extended Through Mondayhttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/bid-deadline-for-mgm-extended-through-monday.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-22T02:20:17ZMGM StudiosTwo studios and one privately held investment group are currently the top candidates to assume control of MGM, which includes its few upcoming projects and a vast and admirable library. But to try to shake up a little more interest, MGM has extended its deadline for bids through at least Monday.

Time Warner, Lionsgate, and Access Industries are likely to place bids, even though Lionsgate has its own issues with minority shareholder Carl Icahn, who is trying to block the attempt to buy MGM. If there are no bids, Variety indicates that Metro "could attempt a recapitalization through investment bank Qualia Capital through a cash infusion and a debt-to-equity transaction that would allow MGM to remain in business as a stand-alone entity."

]]>Why Bryan Singer May Not Direct 'X-Men: First Class'http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/why-bryan-singer-may-not-direct-x-men-first-class.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T23:17:11ZBryan Singer Comic Book Movies Marvel Comics X-MenIf Bryan Singer returns to make another X-Men movie, it will either require plenty of time or plenty of money. HitFix reports that Singer is still bound to make Jack the Giant Killer for Warner Bros., meaning he'll either have to be extracted from that to grease the rails for X-Men: First Class or First Class will just have to wait.

The first almost certainly won't happen because of how deeply Singer is involved in pre-production on Giant Killer. But if he stays attached to that project, he won't have time to make First Class in the next 12 - 18 months, probably. The second part of the plan doesn't fit in with Fox' goal of total X-Men domination. The idea is to start that off-shoot as a franchise, get the second Wolverine movie going, and eventually revisit the original X-Men again.

But there's a third option: First Class can just hire a new director, and that appears to be where Fox might be heading at the moment. Reportedly, the word is out to several directors, "guys who either have real experience in the comic book movie medium or who have heavy credibility with fan audiences...names that would make fanboys happy from the first moment they're announced," asserts HitFix.

]]>Video - Ten 'Clash of the Titans' Clipshttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/video-ten-clash-of-the-titans-clips.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T20:33:40Z3D Clash of the Titans VideoA few days ago, Warner Bros. honcho Alan Horn said all of his studio's tentpole movies will be released in 3-D. That's a money move, primarily. In a few instances, there will be perfectly legitimate artistic reasons for it, meaning the film is shot in 3-D, but as long as people think the conversion process from standard 2-D to 3-D is the same thing as Avatar, plenty of studios will try to showcase the next Alice in Wonderland.

Clash of the Titans is the guinea pig for Warners, and it was going to do well, anyway. This is one of those instances where it will just earn significantly more because it will sell hundreds of thousands if not millions of tickets at $3 or $4 more a pop. So do the math. And the studio had to race to get the 3-D conversion done, announcing it (and delaying the release date by a week) just about two months ago.

These clips aren't in 3-D, obviously, but some of them point out why Warner Bros. thinks the film and the conversion are woth the extra investment.

]]>Box Office - 'Alice' Rules, 'Bounty Hunter' Disappointshttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/box-office-alice-rules-bounty-hunter-disappoints.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T17:19:48ZAlice in Wonderland Box Office Gerard Butler Jennifer Aniston Universal StudiosIn seventeen days, Alice in Wonderland has made about $265 million in the US, over half a billion worldwide. This frame was the sixth most lucrative third weekend ever, as $34 million more rolled into its coffers to help make $350 million a conceivable number - the most ever for a movie released in March - and the global ticket sales should make it one of Disney's biggest movies ever in terms of raw, unadjusted revenue.

It received little resistance from three new movies, even though two of them exceeded $20 million at the box office. One of those, the second place finisher Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a surprise. The other, The Bounty Hunter, was supposed to make over $20 million, but probably a little more than it did.

For Bounty Hunter, the numbers aren't terrible. Yet. It doesn't strike me as following the average movie blueprint, making about 30 - 35% of its box office total in the opening weekend. If it does, it's only because there's nothing playing in the adult comedy/romantic comedy/action comedy sandbox until Date Night, but I expect it to fall rather quickly, finishing with around $50 million or so. That's just enough to break even, but of course, studios aren't in the business of breaking even.

]]>Mickey Rourke Talks 'Iron Man 2'http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/mickey-rourke-talks-iron-man-2.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T14:21:49ZComic Book Movies Iron Man Marvel Comics Mickey Rourke Robert Downey Jr SequelsNot one to toe the company line, Mickey Rourke is talking Iron Man 2, and he may have said a little too much for Marvel's liking. In an interview in the May issue of Total Film, cited by Comic Book Movie, Rourke talked about his costume for the film and may have dropped something of a bombshell. We'll spoiler alert that for you.

First, Rourke explained why he went for the role fresh off his Oscar nomination for The Wrestler. It couldn't be the money, since Marvel doesn't like to pay anyone but the lead actors, although the summer movie exposure won't hurt.

"I normally don't really care for that type of film but I saw the first one and they very much took a chance by having someone like Robert Downey, Jr. - who's not your conventional action hero - play the role," Rourke said. "He didn't make it stereotypical like Spider-Man, like Batman and all that shit."

]]>This Week in Trailers: 'Predators', 'Megamind', 'Statham's 'Mechanic'http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/this-week-in-trailers-predators-megamind-stathams-mechanic.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T11:16:58ZTrailersWe finally got a full trailer for Predators, and it looks really good. Not, you know, Best Picture good, but summer horror/sci-fi reboot good. That's more than we can say for Megamind, a new DreamWorks cartoon. Yeah, it's just a trailer, but if this is the best introduction they could make, I'm not encouraged.

We also saw a little something for Jason Statham's new Charles Bronson remake, The Mechanic, another flick with Best Actress nominee Carey Mulligan, and our second trailer for a book in the past couple of weeks, the prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Bad-ass = Predators

Doesn't look like a lot of brain power went into Megamind

Dig it: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

The Greatest with Carey Mulligan, Pierce Brosnan, and Susan Sarandon

Statham, a gun, a car: The Mechanic

]]>Carl Icahn's Latest Attempt to Buy Lionsgatehttp://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/3/21/carl-icahns-latest-attempt-to-buy-lionsgate.htmlColin Boyd2010-03-21T08:05:19ZLionsgateAfter slowing upping the ante on a proposed takeover of Lionsgate, investor and minority shareholder Carl Icahn now wants the whole ball of wax. Icahn, one of America's richest men and an experienced corporate marauder, has been trying to increase his stake in the company in an effort to stop what he sees as a bunch of bad financial moves.

The latest measure came Friday, as Icahn offered $6 a share to assume what would amount to total control of the company, even at only 30% of stock. LGF stock closed the week at 6.11 a share, thereby leading to a statement from a studio spokesman that Icahn's offer was "financially inadequate and not in the best interests of Lionsgate and its shareholders."

If Icahn can wrest control away, it really would be his shop. He's already announced that he'd replace existing management and the board of directors and he would keep Lionsgate from going after film libraries, like MGM, for example, which is currently up for bids.

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