Earlier this week, we got a look at a new banner for next month's Olympus Has Fallen featuring a very tense-looking Gerard Butler over an image of the White House aflame and the tagline, "When our flag falls, our nation will rise." Now, both Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman have banners of their own, each actor getting his gravitas on atop the same image.
FilmDistrict took some its letting the world see any substantial promotion for next month's Olympus Has Fallen. Now that it has started showing off the actioner, though, FilmDistrict just can't stop unveiling new bits of marketing for the White House-set thriller. You know that old saying, "Once you start promoting Olympus Has Fallen, it's tough to stop promoting Olympus Has Fallen."
The latest examples of this truism are two new official Olympus Has Fallen photos, along with a banner that effectively conveys the concept using two succinct images and the tagline "When our flag falls our nation will rise."
Opening in theaters on February 1st is the new action crime thriller from legendary director Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) entitled Bullet to the Head. The film features superstar actor Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables 2), as well as Sung Kang (Fast Five), Sarah Shahi (Old School), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (The Thing), Christian Slater (True Romance), and Jason Momoa (Conan the Barbarian).
On behalf of IAR, our sister music site ArtistDirect had a chance to sit down with Sung Kang and Sarah Shahi, as well as veteran director Walter Hill to talk about their work on Bullet to the Head. The iconic director discussed how he got involved in the project, making an homage to the classic action films of the '70s and '80s, and why he thinks all of his movies are basically Westerns, while the two actors talked about working with Hill and Sylvester Stallone, shooting in New Orleans, and what it's like to be punched in the stomach by Rocky.
If you didn't see the Indonesian film The Raid – released in Stateside theaters last year as The Raid: Redemption – then you missed out on the finest action movie in years. It's one hundred minutes of gorgeously photographed and edited action that is comprehensible yet brain-bruising in its brutality and inventiveness. And it's getting a sequel.
Merantau Films and XYZ Films announced the commencement of principal photography on The Raid 2, and in order to prove the impossibly good news, they also supplied several official images from the sequel, including a few behind-the-scenes pictures.
Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner have come so far in the four movies since they first lived life a quarter mile at a time in 2000's The Fast and the Furious. And now we have a pretty good idea of just what their next adventure will entail, as Universal Pictures has released the first official synopsis for the sixth installment, hitting theaters this summer.
Chris Pine managed to play a convincingly confident Captain Kirk, somehow managing to preserve William Shatner's strut while also adding a comedically sharp self-awareness. Having accomplished the major feat of reinvigorating James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek, Pine is at the center of a new reboot for Paramount Pictures.
At the end of this year, we'll see Pine's take on the title character in Jack Ryan, but right now, we've got a pair of pictures from the film showing off Pine, as well as Kevin Costner.
Two and a half weeks out from the release of A Good Day to Die Hard, Fox is opening up the floodgates on the fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise. Today, that means a new official clip from the sequel.
20th Century Fox has meted out the first official clip from A Good Day to Die Hard, which hits theaters on Valentine's Day.
Spoiler alert: The Clip contains Bruce Willis, punching, and mayhem on the road.
This week kicked off with a reminder that despite his reputation, Richard B. Riddick is, in fact, a sensitive soul who loves the rain.
Now, the week ends with another image from this year's Riddick, but if the earlier picture showed the Vin Diesel character's softer side, then this one reminds audiences that Riddick is also a dangerous sociopath.
Ever since John McClane first uttered the words “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker” in Die Hard almost twenty-five years ago, Hollywood has been copying the extraordinary success of that film. In fact, the groundbreaking movie actually created its own sub-category of action film that has been repeated many times and affectionately referred to as “Die Hard on a plane,” as in the case of Passenger 57, or “Die Hard on a boat,” as in the case of Under Siege, or even “Die Hard in a hockey rink,” as in the case of Sudden Impact. Actually, I once heard a story about a studio executive that pitched an idea to a writer and said, “Its Die Hard in a building!” The writer replied, “Hasn’t that been done before?” To which the executive quickly answered, “Yeah, but only in the first movie!”
Well, now audience can get ready for a new twist on the “Die Hard in a …” concept, “Die Hard in the White House.” In fact, there are actually two “Die Hard in the White House” films coming out in 2013, believe it or not. However, it is not unusual to see Hollywood release two similar high-concept films at the same time. Remember when asteroid movies (Deep Impact, Armageddon) were all the rage? And don’t forget that there was two films featuring the 16th President (Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) released last year. So it should be no surprise that Training Day director Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen, which opens in theaters on March 22nd and features Gerard Butler as a Secret Service agent saving Aaron Eckhart’s President from terrorists, is being released just a few months ahead of Independence Day director Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, which similarly finds Channing Tatum’s Secret Service agent trying to save Jamie Foxx’s President from terrorists.
Last week, I had the pleasure of being invited to the Olympus Has Fallen mixing stage, along with a select group of journalists, to see the new trailer for the film (which was released online yesterday), as well as three unfinished scenes, and a chance to speak with director Antoine Fuqua about his new movie. As anyone who has had a chance to see the trailer can tell you, it looks extremely cool and I was personally very impressed with all the footage that I saw.
