Check out the latest trailer for PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2.
After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.
Starring Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Neal McDonough, and Shirley Knight, the film opens on April 17th.
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Let the games begin. Here’s your first look at the brand new trailer for Sony Pictures’ PAUL BLART MALL COP 2.
In this sequel, in which Kevin James reprises the role of Paul Blart, the security guard is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist – and it’s up to Blart to apprehend the criminals.
The 2009 movie was a big box office success. Made for $26 million, PAUL BLART MALL COP saw a domestic gross of more than $146 million after it opened in the United States on January 16, 2009.
PAUL BLART MALL COP 2 is directed by Andy Fickman (THE GAME PLAN, PARENTAL GUIDANCE) and written by Kevin James & Nick Bakay.
Blart rides again when the film opens on April 17, 2015.
Old school grandfather Artie (Billy Crystal), who is accustomed to calling the shots, meets his match when he and his eager-to-please wife Diane (Bette Midler) agree to babysit their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents (Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott) go away for work. But when 21st century problems collide with Artie and Diane’s old school methods of tough rules, lots of love and old-fashioned games, it’s learning to bend — and not holding your ground — that binds a family together.
PARENTAL GUIDANCE will be in theaters December 25, 2012.
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Hot off the heals of the (ahem) “successful” Disney remake ‘Race to Witch Mountain’, director Andy Fickman has been attached to a new Disney family adventure movie called ‘Monster Attack Network’.
…focuses on a team of first-responders who guard the citizens of Lapuatu, a Pacific island that would be a paradise except for frequent attacks by giant monsters that rise from the sea. — Variety
The film is an adaptation of the 2007 AIT/Planet Lar graphic novel written by Adam Freeman and illustrated by Nima Sorat. Scott Elder and Josh Harmon have been brought on to write the script. Disney apparently plans for this to be a “visual effects heavy” project.
[source: Variety]
‘Race to Witch Mountain’. Â Let’s examine that title just a little bit here. Â The word “race” indicates some kind of intensity, a suspenseful adventure that will leave audience hanging on for dear life and gasping for more. Â “Race” makes us think there is some kind of excitement to be had while watching this movie.
To sum up what I think of ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ before my review even really begins, might I suggest an alternative title. Â The film should have been called ‘Plod to Witch Mountain’. Â That’s about all it does. Â It plods along at a very minimal pace, never venturing out of the Walt Disney comfort zone it has made for itself, and ultimately expires as the plane of originality crashes into the Witch Mountain.
This movie was in trouble from the opening credits. Â It spends said the ten minutes worth of said opening credits showing us mind-numbingly tedious stock footage of infrared sonar captures of UFOs and former world leaders talking about the existence of extraterrestrials. Â If you don’t show up for this movie on time, fear not. Â Besides the 20 minutes or so of previews, you’ll have this extra eight minutes shy of eternity of opening credits that provide absolutely nothing.
After that, it’s about 4.8 milliseconds before an alien craft crash lands, the men in black converge on the sight of the crash, and the two aliens, who look like pre-teenagers and have psychokinetic powers, are hailing a ride in Dwayne Johnson’s cab to…where? Â Not really sure. Â I think it was explained somewhere in there, but I must have missed it. Â Oh, yeah, there’s an alien/robot bounty hunter who is after the children. Â Why? Â Not sure of that one, either. Â Either this film didn’t explain much of anything in any sensible way or I must have passed out somewhere along the way from sheer boredom.
You can’t say much for or against Johnson here, really. Â He made his Mickey Mouse-themed bed a long time ago, and he has to sleep in it. Â I’m sure he, as well as Carla Gugino, whose presence here is also head-scratching, cut a pretty nice sized check for this movie, so you can’t blame them all that much.
But it’s not the acting that makes ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ such a snorefest. Â It’s the story, which, remake or not, has very little in the way of originality to it. Â It’s the lame direction from Andy Fickman, who, like it or not, is going to be making flat movies like this for a long time coming. Â It’s the awful, awful, awful special effects that don’t even try to hide the fact that they are just a bunch of 1s and 0s. Â But, above all else, it is the sheer lack of edge or freshness that permeates the entire film.
There is not one original thought in the head of this film. Â The bounty hunter looks like a cross between the Green Goblin (movie Green Goblin, not the original) and the Guyver. Â Really, it looks more like the Guyver than anything, and Screaming Mad George must be… well… screaming mad. Â From ‘Star Wars’ to ‘X-Files’ to ‘Predator’ to ‘Flight of the Navigator’, this film doesn’t hold back in cutting into any other sci-fi films action, and it does it with such lack of embarrassment, just try not to be embarrassed for it.
Every “laugh”, every “twist”, every “revelation” found within this film is choreographed from about eight miles out. Â Here’s a drinking game. Â Take a sip, just a sip, of your favorite beverage every time Johnson says he is absolutely, positively, unequivocally NOT going to do something. Â Cut to a shot of him doing that exact thing. Â You’ll be hammered in no time. Â The amount of cringes these gags ramp up are staggering.
Not convinced how unintelligent this film is, yet? Â Try this out. Â Johnson, Gugino, and the two kids are driving along. Â Gugino makes some comment about Johnson’s keychain and the Mustang emblem that hangs from it. Â Cue the five-minute spiel about ‘Bullitt’ and how Johnson’s character only ever wanted to race cars. Â Why is this so stupid, you might ask? Â Because it is his keychain, hanging from his keys, in the ignition of the vehicle, and it’s not even his vehicle. Â It’s some Winnebago the four of them picked up in the scene before. Â That, ladies and gentlemen, is just a sample, a smattering, of how stupid ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ truly is.
[Overall: 1.5 stars out of 5]
Remember ‘Heathers’…? Of course you do! The 1988 dark comedy about teens is a popular cult favorite and launched the careers of Wynona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. Well, are you ready for Heathers: The Musical? No, I didn’t stutter. It’s true, but it gets even worse. Andy Fickman, you know… the auteur director responsible for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s masterpiece Disney films including ‘The Game Plan’ and ‘Race to Witch Mountain’… yeah, so he’s developing a musical stage adaptation of ‘Heathers’. Yipee!
The trio has worked on the production under the radar for some time, even doing readings this week in Endeavor’s screening room. The readings saw “Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell playing the lead and Christian Campbell as J.D., with Jenna Leigh Green (“Wicked”), BrokeDown Cadillac lead singer Corri English and Christine Lakin (the CW’s “Valentine”) as the three Heathers. — HR
Fickman isn’t entirely foreign to the musical genre, having directed ‘Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical’ in 2005 with partner Kevin Murphy, with whom he is working with on ‘Heathers’. Fickman claims the original movie offers many “over the top” moments that would give the musical a similar appeal to John Waters’ ‘Hairspray’. Unfortunately, Fickman failed to consider one crucial element… Waters knows how to make an entertaining movie!
[source: Hollywood Reporter]
Moviehole.net had a chance to sit down with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson while at a press junket for his new film, ‘Race to Witch Mountain’. During the discussions, Johnson unveiled some interesting news about the in-development ‘Jonny Quest’ film to be directed by ‘Witch Mountain’ director, Andy Fickman.
Johnson confirmed that he would be playing Race Bannon, the bodyguard/pilot/all-around badass who protects Jonny.
‘’ I love the script, I love working with Andy…’’, Johnson told Moviehole. “I don’t know if you’ve read the latest [draft] but it’s awesome and it’s badass and I haven’t read, this is what I told everyone over at Warner Bros., and I love the studio too by the way, you know, I had my experience with them with Get Smart and they were great, I hadn’t read an action script like that in a LONG time. And that action was unbelievable. That will happen.’’
Johnson also said the rumors about Zac Efron playing the title role might be on the money. Not exactly a solid piece of information, but a little more than just an unfounded rumor.
What do you think? Is The Rock a good choice for the blonde-haired Bannon? Would Efron ruin the character of Jonny Quest? Was there ever a more badass animated character than Race “By God” Bannon? Let us know by commenting below!
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ComingSoon.net/Shock Till You Drop recently spoke with Andy Fickman about the four films RKO will be remaking. Â The producer revealed the first one up will be ‘I Walk With a Zombie’, based on the 1943 classic from director Jacques Tourneur and producer Val Lewton.
The film is about a young nurse who goes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager.  The wife seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever.  When the nurse falls for the plantation manager, she determines to cure the wife even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give the husband what she thinks he wants.
“We’re just getting ready to start going out for casting on that, and we’ll film that in New Orleans in the spring,” Finkman said.
On a personal note, I really don’t want to see this. Â I love everything Val Lewton produced, and I really hope his creations don’t get ruined by lame attempts at remakes. Â If you haven’t seen any of his films, you are missing some of the best, classic horror films ever made.
Adam Marcus (‘Jason Goes to Hell’) is directing the remake with a tentative 2009 release date.
Source: Coming Soon
