Anyway, here’s that latest poster for Let Me In and it’s the first one to not feature Matt Reeves’ name or the fact that he directed Cloverfield in massive type.  Just a nice subtle image.  I love the bare foot footprints.

The film takes place six years after NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system and a probe launched to collect samples crashed over Central America.  Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE.  Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain “the creatures”……  The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

If that doesn’t sound cool I don’t know what does.  I’ve read good things about the film since it played at a couple of film festivals in June so I’m hoping it won’t be too long until it arrives here in Oz.

All four films look pretty damn good to me, and what with these four and trailers for The Town and The Social Network, it’s been a really good week or so for trailers.

As if I wasn’t excited enough about this flick I’ve just found out that Robert De Niro is in it.  I can’t believe I didn’t know that already.

I don’t think it’s necessary and I’m not sure if Jon Hurwitz is actually joking but I was very happy to read that Harold and Kumar 3 will be in 3D.

Hurwitz wrote on his Twitter:

Yes, H & K 3 will be in 3D!  Should definitely increase the audience’s chances of getting a contact high.

I’m a huge fan of the first two Harold and Kumar flicks so I’m excited for the third one anyway, but if it really is in 3D then I’m gonna be even more pumped to see it.  I’m a total 3D whore.

I’ve added Harold and Kumar 3 to the future 3D films list on the assumption that Hurwitz wasn’t joking.

I was already pretty damn excited about the film but the trailer makes me want to see it even more.  I’ve been a fan of Stephen Dorff since S.F.W. and I really think Elle Fanning has some talent.  I absolutely love this trailer and the stripped down song by The Strokes which plays over it.  Awesome stuff.

Somewhere is due for release on December 22nd.

Somewhere is a dramedy which centers on Hollywood’s iconic Chateau Marmont, the hotel of choice of many tabloid-friendly celebrities.  The story is about a bad-boy actor (Stephen Dorff, S.F.W.) who gets an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and is forced to reexamine his life.  Coppola has called it “an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles,” while Focus Features CEO James Schamus describes it as having all the “witty, moving and empathetic qualities that characterize all [of Sofia's] work.”

Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan and Chris Pontius also star.  The film is due for release on December 22nd.

I’m disappointed.  Disappointed and angry. The Karate Kid made $18.8 million on Friday in the US with a weekend estimate of over $50 million now predicted.

I was really hoping that both The Karate Kid and The A-Team would bomb this weekend and it would give Hollywood pause to think about the whole remake business model they’ve been using.  Unfortunately, all the hillbilly retards that Hollywood generally caters to went to see The Karate Kid this weekend which means that Hollywood will continue riding the remake train and update/reboot more of my childhood favourites for no good reason.  And why wouldn’t they?  If all the morons in society gladly spend their money on remakes the studios will be happy to not have to take chances on original films.

Quickly off the top of my head they’ve already remade Halloween, Friday 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Karate Kid, all of which are favourites of mine.  But there’s also a whole host of remakes at various stages of development, including:

Fright Night
Overboard
Akira
American Pie
Arthur
Drop Dead Fred
Escape From New York
Flash Gordon
Fletch
Flight of the Navigator
Highlander
Let The Right One In
Sunset Boulevard

I’m all for remaking a film if the original is shit, but none of the films I’ve mentioned are.  Except for Overboard.  What’s the point of remaking a film when the original is good?  It’s a cash grab by studios who are unable or unwilling to develop original projects and the trend is fueled by audiences who are willing to accept remakes.  At some point the studios are going to run out of films they can remake and then they’ll be forced to develop original stuff.  Why can’t they do that now and save all of us from having limited options when we go to see a movie.

I want new films in the cinema.  If I want to watch Halloween I’ll watch the 1978 original.  If I want to watch The Karate Kid I’ll watch the original with the awesome Ralph Macchio.  There’s absolutely nothing wrong with these films or any of the other ones which are getting the remake treatment.  The only way this remake trend will come to an end in the foreseeable future is if audiences don’t go and see them.  Hollywood responds to the bottom line.  If a certain type of film doesn’t make money then that type of film won’t get made any more.

I urge anyone and everyone to boycott remakes and see something original instead.  Go see Winter’s Bone.