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First pic of Schwarzenegger’s new movie ‘TEN’!

Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s new movie TEN, directed by David Ayers (End of Watch, Street Kings, Harsh Times), about members of an elite DEA task force that find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house, sees an Arnold playing member John ‘Breacher’ Wharton and looking like a total bad-ass! 

Joining Schwarzenegger in the movie is Malin Akerman, Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello and a few others that fill out the cast nicely.

Schwarzenegger tweeted out today a picture that shows him in DEA uniform holding a M-16 with a cool hair cut and jacked. “I’m having a great time working with @DavidAyerMovies on my new movie, Ten. Check out my look:”

The former Terminator and Governor of California has another 4 movies filming right now and they all look pretty good: Triplets, Unknown Soldier, The Stranger, The Tomb, The Last Stand. They all have a 2013/2014 release date.

What are your thoughts on Arnold’s new look? Leave your comments below.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Top 5 Monsters of All Time!

When such cinematic detritus as Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (read our review) is out in theaters, blatantly robbing people of their hard earned money, it is then when one can appreciate in a better light the remarkable work Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.

Recently, he spoke to ABC/Univision.com about monsters and his realtionship with them in film and his perspective is far more than generic and equivocal – it is passionate and comprehensive. He is a connoisseur of the genre and his films reflect it, whether he is directing them or producing them. So when asked to name his Top 5 monsters in Hollywood history, he was not shy on quickly divulging the information:

1. Frankenstein’s Monster

2. The Loch Ness Monster

3. Ridley Scott’s Alien

4. The Bride of Frankenstein

5. Bram Stoker’s Dracula

You can read his insightful interview right here.

And if you’d like to check out the trailer of his new produced horror movie Mamá, catch it below. January 18th, 2013 seems too long to wait!

Leaked video of Latino Paranormal Activity film!

For those of you who had a chance to see ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ this weekend and stayed until the VERY end of the credits, you saw a “button” (term to describe a very short scene/clip of an upcoming movie,) of the new untitled Latino spin-off of ‘Paranormal Activity’. According to Paramount publicists, this is not a teaser nor a trailer.

For those that did not see it, there is a leaked video that was just released, courtesy of Tinypics.com, that shows the “button” in question that many who left the theater early never saw. Why Paramount calls it a “button” is beyond me, but what’s even more mind-boggling is that Paramount didn’t want the press to know of it. According to a source at the studio, it was supposed to be kept a secret from the press. None of this makes sense to me, but I call this a missed opportunity on their part.

Nevertheless, many questions remain unanswered such as a specific date for the release of the film, the name of the movie, official plot, cast names, and when an official teaser or complete theatrical trailer will launch. What you read any where else is pure and simple speculation, including Christopher Landon, son of Michael Landon, directing. Paramount is not giving any official word on the untitled Latino-spinoff yet.

Christopher Landon

What we can tell you is that ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ premiered at #1 this weekend at the box office with $30.2 million dollars, which for a film that only cost $5 million dollars to create is a high profit. What we can also tell you is that with Hispanics attending the film twice more than any other group, which constitutes 25 percent of the audience (to only 16 percent of the population), Latinos are 80 percent more likely to watch a movie on their first weekend, offering big money to movie studios.

As of our last phone call, Paramount is staying mum on everything. We’ll continue to get to the bottom of this movie and report it as it comes our way.

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Avatar 3D

Hace once años, el Titanic de James Cameron zarpó diciendo adiós al gran espectáculo de Hollywood. La epopeya de aquel barco fue como una despedida del cartón y piedra. En unos años, Peter Jackson unió por un momento el cartón de los decorados de antaño con la era digital. Las prótesis se mezclaban con las telas azules. Este universo, ha seguido mezclándose aunque cada vez con menos brillo – Robert Zemeckis ha ido dándose con la misma piedra desde hace seis años-, dejándose seducir más por lo azul que por lo real. Pero once años después de este barco, Cameron da por fin la gran bienvenida a esta era digital y del 3D. Avatar es un avatar del Hollywood de antes con el de ahora. El director le ha dado al cine de los grandes espectáculos pirotécnicos, un traje nuevo, hecho a medida y donde convergen estilos, ideas y nuevas tecnologías, todo ello envuelto en un tono muy cerca de ‘Dances with Wolves‘.

Avatar cuenta una historia clásica de un soldado en tierras extrañas y como por accidente termina involucrándose en la vida de los habitantes de ese lugar. Como en Dances with Wolves o The New World (la historia de Pocahontas contada por Terrence Malick), Avatar es un relato sobre las culturas extranjeras y desconocidas por el mundo occidental. Sabiendo esto, Cameron no trata de dar a la historia ningún matiz novedoso –algo que es criticable, y por el que lo criticará más de uno-, sino que centra su atención en el nuevo mundo que descubre su personaje principal. Es en este punto donde la película funciona a toda máquina, la curiosidad del personaje de Sam Worthington es el motor de la historia, y Cameron logra que sintamos lo que siente él. Los hermosos lugares, los matices de los personajes y la lograda ambientación son todo un triunfo en mayúsculas para su director. Lo que no ha logrado Zemeckis en tres películas, Cameron lo logra en una. Por primera vez, la tecnología 3D se justifica para entender todo lo que sucede a nuestro alrededor.

En estos dos años de intentos tridimensionales, Avatar es la reina absoluta al lograr imprimir imágenes inolvidables, con texturas impresionantes, y llena el vacío que hay entre la pantalla y los ojos del espectador. Cameron construye un nuevo mundo entero y ese es su acierto, sobrepasando los defectos de un film algo largo y pesado en su primer acto, y falto de originalidad. De estos defectos también destaca una música de James Horner que no acaba entrar en el oído como hacia en Titanic o Legends of the Fall, y la canción final es casi un despropósito artístico. Una pecata minuta que se olvida rápido gracias a la presencia de Sigourney Weaver y todos los guiños a Aliens.

A modo personal, Avatar me recuerda a esas películas de antes – y que ahora sólo saben hacer los señores de Pixar – que te invitaban a soñar y entender que Hollywood es la fábrica de sueños.