We got the awesome new Super Bowl TV spot for G.I. Joe: Retaliation a few days early last week, and now we’ve got more brand new footage to tease you with, with a French trailer landing tonight, along with a new image from the film.

Jon M. Chu has helmed the project from a script by Zombieland’s Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and we’ll be getting some familiar faces from the first film returning, as well as a host of new talent too.

Channing Tatum, Ray Park, and Lee Byung-hun reprise their roles from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and joining them will be Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki, Elodie Yung, Ray Stevenson, RZA, D.J. Cotrona, and Walton Goggins.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation will be released on 22nd June this year here in the UK, before setting sail across the Atlantic a week later to hit US theatres on June 29th. The first trailer we caught back in December made everything look pretty awesome, and the Super Bowl TV spot coupled with this new trailer has only furthered the excellent special effects we’ve seen, with a healthy dose of comedy.

With a few more months to go, you can whet your appetites now with some great new footage from the film, followed by a shot of Bruce Willis looking pretty bemused with Dwayne Johnson suitably living up to his character’s name, Roadblock. As usual, click to enlarge.

Source: Collider and ComingSoon.net.

The Super Bowl hits TVs this weekend and that means it’s time for all the studios to showcase their summer movies as it’s viewed by some ridiculous number of people! Many will tune in to watch the New York Giants vs. The New England Patriots while others will tune in simply to see new TV spots and trailers.

Many studios have been releasing TV spots early and this evening we get a new 30 second trailer for G.I. Joe Retaliation. The sequel to the 2009 movie stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Walton Goggins, Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce and according to the trailer Jay-Z who gets quoted by The Rock as one of his tracks is played over it. Epic!

G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation is directed by Jon M Chu and will be with us 22nd June. Have a watch below:

On Saturday, we got our first sneak peek of the G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer which is the sequel to the 2009 movie, G.I. Joe Rise of the Cobra and now the full trailer is here.

This time, veteran hard man Bruce Willis and not so veteran hard man, Dwayne Johnson show up to give the movie extra umph alongside Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson and Walton Goggins. This one won’t be subtle…

 Synopsis: The G.I. Joe team faces off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.

The movie is set for release on the 22nd of June and you can see all our coverage of the movie here.

Here’s the trailer,

Source: Machinima.com

Most weekends not too much happens when it comes to big movie news but someone didnt get the memo as this evening as well as this amazing new poster for The Dark Knight Rises, we have this first look footage of The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis from the sequel to the 2010 movie, G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

The footage comes from ET as is a preview to the trailer which is set to hit on Monday. The film also stars Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Walton Goggins, and is directed by Jon M Chu. It’ll be with us 22nd June.

Source : Thanks for the heads up from BleedingCool

Here’s some lovely lovely new banners from The Avengers courtesy of those lovely (did I mention lovely) people from Marvel.

The Avengers is directed by Joss Whedon​ and after you see this trailer, you’re going to be very keen to see the completed movie when it’s released 27th April 2012.

The Avengers will see many of you favourite Marvel characters all come together to create a rather epic movie. The cast of the new movie includes Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth​, Scarlett Johansson​, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner​, Mark Ruffalo​, Tom Hiddleston​, Jenny Agutter​, Gwyneth Paltrow​, Paul Bettany​ and Robert Downey Jr.​ with all of them getting a brand new poster for their trouble.

Man I love these! Click to enlarge!

Source: Yahoo! Movies , Moviefone

Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel, The Three Musketeers, has been out in our cinemas for about a week now (you can catch up on all things Musketeers-related here), and has been out in other international markets for some time, and in spite of some mixed reviews, its gross box office totals currently stand at just shy of $50m., from an estimated $75m. budget.

It’s important to note, however, that the film is only just being released in the States today, where naturally it’s expected it will find its biggest audience. So it should make a fairly healthy return on its initial budget, I would think.

To coincide with the film’s release across the Atlantic, the film’s first five minutes have gone online over at Apple, via ComingSoon.net, to try and entice you to go and watch it. Of course, there’ll now be many here in the UK who’ve already seen the first five minutes and the next hundred and five, but for anyone who hasn’t and wants to, it’s now available for your viewing pleasure.

The film stars Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, and Juno Temple, and is out in both 2D and 3D, for you to choose which you prefer.

“The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (MacFadyen, Evans and Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richelieu (Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Jovovich).”

I’m still yet to see it, but would quite like to see Anderson’s take on the tale. I personally don’t want to see the first five minutes of any film before I go and watch it – I’d rather see it all in one go, myself. But I’m sure there are plenty out there who would disagree, so without further ado, here’s the video should you choose to watch it ahead of going to the cinema, to get a taste of what to expect. And if you’d like to see it in glorious HD, then you can head on over to Apple here.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed​ version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

Today we get to chat with the man at the helm himself, Director Paul. W.S. Anderson who tells me about the costume that he wore before making the movie, the amazing costumes, working with the fabulous cast and shooting on amazing locations in Germany and how he thinks The Three Musketeers and costume drams are similar sci-fi movies.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed​ version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

In today’s interview, we get to chat with The Three Musketeers themselves, Luke Evans (Aramis), Matthew Macfadyen (Athos) & Ray Stevenson (Porthos). In the interview, we talk about what it was like learning to fight with real swords, what it was like working with James Corden who plays Planchet and of course I manage to get in the question about Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds!

The Three Musketeers is out in UK cinemas now. Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for our final interview with Director, Paul W.S. Anderson and keep track of all our other interviews and coverage here.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

I enjoyed all of the interviews but my favourite by far was with Orlando Bloom. He’s been in so many movies and is a legend in my eyes. Often it’s difficult meeting actors as you see them on screen and can make the mistake of going in and being a bit too silly or a bit too serious and finding the balance is very hard in the 3-5 minutes that you have with them. In the case of Orlando, it was very easy from the start as soon as he welcomed me into the room.  He was very eager to find out what HeyUGuys was and ask question about me which was always a nice start! I’ve edited the video down so it’s all about the movie but he was so kind about HeyUGuys and chatting to him was an absolute pleasure.

I always had in mind to bring up Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds but you never know how well it’ll go down. With him it as a no brainer as soon as I walked in the room so have a watch of the interview below and keep your eyes peeled for the song towards the end. It was a personal life highlight and one I won’t forget in a hurry!

The Three Musketeers is released today, 12th October and our review is live here. You can also see our previous interviews and other Three Musketeers coverage here. Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow and Friday when our interviews with Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans and director, Paul W.S. Anderson will go live.

Author Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel The Three Musketeers has been done to death, time and time again. None so like this swashbuckling silliness that’s child-friendly and borrows heavily from Gulliver’s Travels and the success of the Pirates franchise.

Paul W.S. Anderson’s film centres on young hothead D’Artagnan (Lerman) – as well as lots of gadgets – who comes to Paris to become a Musketeer and encounters with his soon-to-be friends and fellow Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. The Musketeers unite to defeat a beautiful double agent, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

There is no denying how inventive director Anderson and co have been here, as well as injected a lot of harmless fun into the story. The 2011 version has a lot less clashing of swords and far more amazing flying machines – Anderson admitted to his and the production team’s fascination with Germanic contraptions of centuries past at the London press conference. It’s still a shame, though, as the Musketeering quad of Macfadyen (Athos), Stevenson (Porthos), Lerman (D’Artagnan) and Evans (Aramis) makes for a fine group of hearty personalities with some comical banter that gets a little overshadowed by all the gadgets on show – all in order to keep the youngsters engaged, presumably.

It’s also very much a ‘Jovovich show’ – she’s married to Anderson who made her a star in Resident Evil. As the female villain of the piece, Jovovich fares better at being devilish than her male counterparts, but her Matrix slow-mo copycat moves and sporadic catwalk posing and TV make-up ad close-ups tire easily. Anderson appears to be steering Jovovich’s career in a different comedy direction – or getting his missus involved in films that they and their kids can sit down together and watch.

Typecast as a baddie since he burst onto the international scene as Col. Hans Landa in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz does his best, bored villainous piece as the cunning Richelieu and is always a pleasure to watch. It’s the other dastardly men in this, Orlando Bloom as the cocky Duke of Buckingham and Mads Mikkelsen as the war-mongering Rochefort who are most disappointing. Bloom seems woefully ill equipped and miscast to play a conceited villain, while Bond baddie Mikkelsen’s is easily overlooked and pretty much forgotten. Basically, there is not enough theatrics from both to match the film’s goofy sentiment.

Talking of panto, Freddie Fox is a surprise tonic as young King Louis, making the part his own in a vulnerably eccentric manner, and portraying a younger monarch that is more fitting to the time period. His presence outshines that of Bloom’s, even when he doesn’t utter a word. It’s a credit to Fox’s talent and an exciting premise for like roles to come.

Fans of Pirates and Gulliver’s Travels may be tempted by this giddy adaptation, but those who hold the tales of the Musketeers dearly to heart may feel a little wanting.

***~~ (3/5)

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For all our coverage of The Three Musketeers including interviews with the cast, click here.

The Avengers is the next Marvel movie that we’re all very much looking forward to after Captain America: The First Avenger. The Avengers is directed by Joss Whedon and after you see this trailer, you’re going to be very keen to see the completed movie when it’s released 27th April 2012.

The Avengers will see many of you favourite Marvel characters all come together to create a rather epic movie. The cast of the new movie includes Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Jenny Agutter, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany and Robert Downey Jr.

If you’ve missed all our coverage from The Avengers, you can keep track of it all here.

Earlier today, we had a trailer for the trailer but now, the full version is here in all it’s glory! Without further ado, he’s the trailer for the movie for your viewing pleasure!

Last week,  I got to chat with many of the cast from brand new movie, The Three Musketeers which hits UK cinemas this tomorrow, 12th October. Yesterday, we put up the interview with Milla Jovavich and today all those fans of Logan Lerman get a treat as we speak to him and two of his co-stars about the movie.

Joining Logan who plays D’Argtagnan in the movie were Gabriella Wilde who plays Constance and Freddie Fox who plays King Louis. In the interview, we spoke about the amazing costume design, the sword fighting sequences and the similarities that there were for Logan in filming The Three Musketeers and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I’d met Logan at the junket for that movie and chatting with him is always a treat as he’s such a nice guy.

I also ask the trio if any of them watched Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds when they were growing up. Alas they didn’t but did give me a tip that Luke Evans did a great version of the song. Keep your eyes peeled for the rest of the week when the other interview hit for more on that!

This week sees the release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s energetic take on Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers and a few days ago Dave had the chance to sit down with the director and his cast to talk about this new version of the classic story.

While this is a world away from the zombie hijinks of the Resident Evil series Anderson has infused 17th Century France with some of the same coup-de-pied derrière he is known for and its no surprise that Milla Jovovich pops up in the formidable role of Milady de Winter and wields her sword with the best of them.

This is the first of our Three Musketeers video interviews, check back every day this week for more.

Here’s the video,

This evening, Ben and I headed to London’s Westfield Shopping Centre to attend the World Premiere of EOne’s new movie, The Three Musketeers. Many of the cast and filmmakers were present including Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Freddie Fox, Gabriella Wilde, Milla Jovovich and her husband who also directs the movie, Paul W.S. Anderson. We also spoke to one of the writers of the movie,  Alex Litvak, one of the Producers, Jeremy Bolt and Evanna Lynch of Harry Potter fame who was attending the premiere as she was a fan of the movies. We got to chat with most of them about the film, why the got involved and what we can look forward to seeing when it hits the UK on October 12th.

As an aside, we asked Ray Stevenson about whether he’ll be appearing in any upcoming Marvel movies i.e. The Avengers. He steers us off into telling us about filming G.I. Joe 2 but ends saying ‘he is very hard to kill off’ with a semi nod and a wink so we’re wondering if that does indeed mean we’ll see him next summer.

I also spent today at the junket getting 1:1 interviews with all the above so hopefully if we didn’t get the answer you were looking for at the premiere, you’ll get it next week when the interviews go live. In the meantime, have a watch of the premiere footage and interviews below and scroll down to view my collection of photos which you can click to enlarge.

Everything we’ve seen so far for Paul W.S. Anderson’s anticipated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been pretty damn brilliant, from the film’s first trailer at the start of the year to its character posters, and a fair bit more.

We’ve now got a fantastic new clip to share with you from the film, courtesy of IMDB, that shows its female lead, M’lady De Winter (Milla Jovovich) showing the musketeers how to get things done. And she looks awesome doing it, another great role for Jovovich, who is incidentally of course married to Anderson, the pair being long-time collaborators since 2002’s Resident Evil.

“Synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.”

The film clearly has a terrific cast filling every role, and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. Anderson’s a great director in my books, and it looks like he’s made an immense movie with this project. Its 12th October release date is rapidly approaching, so thankfully it’s not long to wait at all before we can see it. Without further ado, here’s the new clip, entitled, “What?” Enjoy.

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Marvel’s Thor was released on DVD and Blu-ray last week and it’s a surprisingly fun film which did very well at the box office despite the God O’Thunder not being a hugely well known character.

The DVD has a ton of these little featurettes which, when combined, form a decent behind the scenes documentary and I thought it would be a nice diversion this fine morning to take a wander through Asgard to see how it was all done.

Initially considered an unusual choice, Branagh looks like he’s had the time of his life with his cast and there’s a little time spent with the designers of the film.

Take a look,

The Design of the Bridge

On the Wardrobe

On the Amazing Set

On Directing the Cast

On the Makeup of Laufey

We got the first trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s upcoming adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers, back in March this year, and it was utterly awesome, promising so much for the film.

Since then, we’ve seen plenty of great things from the film, including a full set of character banners and most recently a TV spot, that have only increased my desire to see it.

Now, courtesy of IMP Awards, we’ve got a great new poster for the film to share with you, ahead of its 12th October release here in the UK. Admittedly, it’s pretty similar in its design to this UK quad poster that we’ve already seen, but it is nonetheless immensely awesome and has some great additions to that quad poster too – most notably, the ridiculously cool flying gunships in the sky.

“Synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.”

The cast is terrific, and Anderson is such a great director, so I can’t wait for this to come out. Just a few more weeks, and then we can all go and revel in its awesomeness. Until then, here’s the new poster to enjoy.

Every time we post something on Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D reinvention of Alexandre Dumas’ classic swords and moustaches masterpiece The Three Musketeers there is a small pang of sadness that Hollywood hasn’t yet seized on the obvious big screen adaptaion of Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, if only for the Moby reworking of the theme song.

Yet this serving of Resident Evil in Corsets is almost upon us and there’s a new TV spot and poster out which emboldeneds the view that Anderson and Co. are hoping for a Sherlock Holmes style reinvention of a literary classic.

Anderson’s trump card may lay in his cast, with Christoph Waltz looking likely to walk all over the rest of the mob* yet there’s one too many lingering shots of Milla Jovovich leaping through the air, engaging in some crazy swordplay for my liking.

Anyhoo, this may very well be the best adaptation of the tale ever, still – it’s no Dogtanian.

Here’s your trailer and poster, courtesy of IMPA.

*said mob includes Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom to give you an idea.

Production on the GI Joe sequel, now titled GI Joe 2: Retaliation rather than Cobra Strikes, has now begun, with Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, posting a picture of himself in character as Roadblock via his Twitter.

Variety also reports that Justified’s Walton Goggins has signed on to join the rest of the cast, much of whom are similarly new to the new series, for the sequel to 2009’s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Retaliation, which will be released in 3-D, is to be helmed by Jon M. Chu, whose previous credits include Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and the second and third Step Up instalments. Ostensibly, this sounds like a totally different change of pace for Chu, given his past features. But when you think about it, so much choreography has to go into both dancing and fighting when you film it, so in that respect, his experience could prove useful.

Of the original cast, Channing Tatum, Ray Park, and Lee Byung-hun will be reprising their respective roles as Duke, Snake-Eyes, and Storm Shadow. Joining them will be Johnson as Roadblock, Adrianne Palicki as the female lead Lady Jaye, D.J. Cotrona and RZA as Flint and Blindmaster, Elodie Yung as Jinx, Ray Stevenson as Firefly, Joseph Mazzello as Mouse, and now Walton Goggins as Warden Nigel James. And in a somewhat unexpected move, Bruce Willis is also in talks to join as the original GI Joe, General Joe Colton.

With the writers of Zombieland, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, having penned the script for this sequel, and with the cast shaping up to be pretty interesting, it could definitely be worth checking out when it comes out, with Paramount currently aiming for a 29th June, 2012 release.

This new picture of Johnson as Roadblock is pretty much everything you’d expect. He’s kitted out in his army gear hefting a bit of a menacing weapon, ready to stop anything that comes his way. He also tweeted this great line along with the photo:

“1st day of shooting. 110 degrees. Bring It. #GIJoe”

By my estimation, 110 degrees Fahrenheit works out just north of 40 degrees Celsius, and Johnson’s attitude is just ridiculously awesome. Essentially, throw anything you like at him, Nature, he can do whatever the hell he sets his mind to. I must confess that I’m still yet to see The Rise of Cobra, but I’ll make sure I’ve seen it by the time Retaliation comes out next year, because it’s definitely got me interested. Without further ado, here’s the new picture of Johnson in character. As usual, click to enlarge.

eOne have released the new UK trailer for their new movie, The Three Musketeers on their twitter feed. The poster is a variation of some of the other posters that we’ve seen over the marketing campaign. The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz.

If you missed the trailer for it, you can check it out here.

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman ) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas ’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz ) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom ) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich ).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

The Three Musketeers hits cinemas in 3d  12th October.

Click the image below to enlarge.