Posts Tagged ‘Season of the Witch’
Some small progress on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Jonah Hill-ified 21 Jump Street movie, as Columbia Pictures have formally tagged Friday August 5th 2011 for it’s Stateside release. That leaves quite a healthy window, so production won’t necessarily be starting too soon, but it’s a commitment. Well, at least as much of a commitment as when they announced Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 for May 5th 2011.
Meanwhile, Lionsgate have announced that Dominic Sena’s Season of the Witch won’t be making it’s March 19th appointment. This could be because that weekend is rather busy - The Bounty Hunter, The Runaways, Repo Men and Diary of a Wimpy Kid - or it could be because Lionsgate don’t want to pee in the Nic Cage pool with another off-putting movie from the star ahead of Kick-Ass.
Via Dread Central and Sony’s Twitter
Over the weekend, I found myself at a mall. It was awful. For a sec, I considered going to a movie, but then I realized the sight of hundreds of chubby teenage girls with chubbies for Pasty Pattinson would give me an anxiety attack or the fear. Not only that, but every movie playing I had either seen or…lacked Nicolas Cage. That’s when I realized: I would be tempted to see Precious (yuck), The Blind Side (yuck) or New Moon (girls and gays, you are on fucking notice) if Cage was starring.
The sensation of watching a terrible movie and feeling like a caged animal and watching a terrible movie with Cage acting like one is categorically different. It’s the difference between being punched and robbed by a stranger and slapped by a girlfriend because you deserved it (and subconsciously craved it). During this lonely mall moment, I so could have used the new Nicolas Cage Adventure Set from Brandon Bird. He’s the artist behind the classic Philip Seymour Hoffman Halloween costume poster that we all dig. Hand your lucky crack pipe over to an invisible lizard and explore this braintainment!
Here is the rundown from Bird for the $10 play set...available here.
The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set consists of a double-sided 8.5 x 11 inch play background and one 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of nine vinyl cling stickers: 3 full-body Nicolas Cages, battle axe, skateboard, ice cream cone, scary ghost, parrot, and space helmet. Create scenes, mix and match accessories. Vinyl cling stickers can be used again and again!
I dig that the skeletal spectre is included, as it plays into next year’s release of Cage’s shitty-soundstage-looking Season of the Witch. Peter recently posted a trailer in case any Cage enthusiasts missed it. However, I’m already wishing that the parrot could be zapped into an iguana as tribute to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and I’ll pretend the ice cream cone is an amphetamine-reptile (records?) induced hallucination. But pink skateboard decks and proportional battle-axes are worth a squirt.
There is little doubt that Bird’s stickers will be a huge hit, so perhaps he can make a more expensive and lavish version using all of the shit that Cage blew $38 million on. As Vulture recently reiterated in flabbergasted awe…
Among Cage’s purchases were several yachts, a jet, a castle, over 50 cars, over $1 million dollars worth of comic books including Action Comics Number One which featured the very first appearance of Superman, several mansions including one in New Orleans (that may or may not be haunted), two Bahamanian islands, real shrunken heads, and a $500,000 Lamborghini once owned by the Shah of Iran.
He also has dropped $276,000 on a dinosaur skull (reportedly out-bidding Johnny Depp), 2 non-malt liquor real King Cobras (Moby and Sheba) and a pet octopus.
The joy provided by well-crafted stickers of all that jazz would cease allowing me to notice the release of the next 20 Twilight films (anyone who believes Summit will stop at the original source material after the fourth film: please). But wait! The flip of the “haunted castle” background is an edible cockroach a mortgaged Bahamanian island…
<3 Escape. <3
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Last month, Lionsgate released a special 30-second Halloween teaser trailer for Dominic Sena’s supernatural thriller Season of the Witch which had us scratching our heads. Sena is best known as the director of fun but disposable action films like Gone in Sixty Seconds, Swordfish and the recent comic book adaptation Whiteout, and I had heard great things about Brian Schut’s script… But the teaser looked like a direct-to-dvd Dark Castle production. The new trailer gives us a much better idea of what to expect, and somewhat raised expectations. Watch the trailer for yourself after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
The film stars Nicolas Cage as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade (Ron Perlman) to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague.
“A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch (Claire Foy) to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grieving knight (Ulrich Thomsen), an itinerant swindler (Stephen Graham) and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight (Robert Sheehan) join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl.When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardizes the knight’s pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.”
Click on the image below to watch the trailer in high definition on fandango.
Season of the Witch hits theaters on March 19th 2010.
