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My New Year’s Resolution is to be damn proud of what I damn do!
Haters come up to me saying “what the hell are you doing wasting time hours in front of the f*in’ Computers all day getting info nobody give a S*t about?”
This new year, they’re going to have my reply,
and this is my reply… “Go suck it, Asswipe!, I do what I want!”.

Having said that, my new year’s message to all you movie buff out there…
Don’t be ashamed of what you want to achieve in life, because if you don’t get it… at least you die tryin’.
What the?!… Why the hell did I just sound like 50 Cent??
I need some sleep, that’s my new year’s resolution.. I’ll just voluntarily pass out, hybernate, or whatever you call it.. and wake up in 2009 where flying hoverboards really exist and McDonald’s Dollar Menu serves lamb-chop.

What’s your New Year’s Resolution, movie buff?

Here’s a video clip from funnyordie of a bunch of celebrities telling us their new year’s resolutions.. some are funny, some are just stupid, and some we’ve said to ourselves before but end up not doing them ever because they’re just plain ridiculous.

Larry The Cable Guy is funny when he does stand up comic, now when he does movies, that’s a whole other un-funny story.
But I gotta admit, I thought Delta Farce was stupid funny.
Here’s Larry th Redneck’s new upcoming movie WITLESS PROTECTION.
As you can see from this picture that it also stars the legs of Jenny McCarthy who appears to be brunette in this flick.

I say.. if all the blond girls of the earth joined forces together to form their own country, a Blond all-girl nation, Jenny McCarthy could be the president…. and I could be the only male immigrant.

WITLESS PROTECTION also stars Julia Roberts unsuccessful brother, Eric Roberts whose last great movie was Best of the Best, let’s see that was like…. one, two,… ooo I don’t know.. about 18 years ago!

WITLESS PROTECTION is about a small town sheriff who thinks he sees a kidnapping in progress and so he rescues the damsel in distress who turns out to be a crucial eyewitness being protected by a group of FBI agents.
Leave it to Larry the Cable Guy to misunderstand a lot of things.
The movie starts February 22nd, 2008… not that you need to remember it.

According to Timesonline, Steven Spielberg reportedly Sacha Baren Cohen (Borat) to play a character in a based on a true story movie of The Trial of The Chicago Seven where Sacha might get paid $3 Million to portray Abbie Hoffman, a figure from the 1960s counterculture who used a series of pranks to campaign against the war.

The story will follow up a group of protesters that disrupt the 1968 Democratic Party convention with an anti war campaign that turned nasty. Demonstrators threw bricks, police threw tear gas and Chicago was engulfed in flames.
Sounds a lot like my neighborhood when I was growing up.

Sacha Baren Cohen doing drama, huh? Let’s see if he has what it takes to be under the direction of the great Steven Spielberg.
This is said to be Munich-like, where it deals with the morality of political attack.
It must be good to be Steven Spielberg, doing all kinds of genre and most of the time, his movies come up awesome.

The article goes on saying that Sacha won’t have to do much to change his looks to play Hoffman because aside from them both being 6 ft tall and Jewish, as you can see from this picture below, him and Hoffman practically look like they could be long lost brothers.

There’s Shaolin Soccer and then there’s Shaolin girls playing Lacrosse while kicking ass, and now this… KUNG FU DUNK, a cross between Martial Arts and Basketball…. though I doubt that combining these two skills is what Lakers need to be unbeatable this season, Stupid selfish Kobe!
No knowing yet if the movie will get released in the U.S. but it definitely hit theaters in Asia by February 2008.
This crazy trailer… and I really mean it by that… has a bunch of Taiwanese flying and all sorts of stuff, it’s fun to watch though we can’t understand what they’re saying because even the subtitle is in Chinese language

Look here.. I’m an Asian.. I came from Asia.
My people do know how to do splits and punch faces with our feet,
But Basketball?… Unless it’s Yao Ming,…Let’s just say that basketball’s not really our forte!
This movie’s gonna be hilarious.

You know what they call a movie that has many latino and latina movie voice stars in it?: SOUTH OF THE BORDER and names like Salma Hayek, Andy Garcia, Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Edward James Olmos are just some of the well known people that are going to be voicing different animals in this upcoming movie about a Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Drew Barrymore) who gets lost in Mexico City while vacationing there.
I thought the movie Cats & Dogs was pretty funny, maybe this ain’t gonna be bad too.

Although… having Salma Hayek playing an animal instead of her beautiful self is kind of a turn off.
As you can see, this movie also stars Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, Cheaper by the Dozen), a cute all-American girl whose talent won’t stand a chance against those names I mentioned… if they acted as humans.
Here are some images from the movie which opens August 8th, 2008.

It’s not recent but since not much movie biz info happening right now… here’s a hilarious clip, covered in two video formats, of SNL sketch “Sofa King” featuring Transformers star Shia LaBeouf, who will also be in the upcoming Indiana Jones 4
A commercial about an immigrant family saying the best sofa in town using the funniest tagline ever!
You wanna know how to get away with saying F word on national TV, here’s one way to do it…

Checking.. checking… okay, it’s still the holiday season, so let’s check out some more of Jack Black and Mos Def adventure from the upcoming movie BE KIND REWIND,opens Jan 25th, 2008, where Jack’s character erases every movie video tape at Mos Def’s video store and so they team up to make new version of every single movie, fan-made, youtube style.

Here are three clips, the first one is the sweded trailer for Driving Miss Daisy.
The second one is the sweded trailer for Boyz N The Hood, Jack Black looks funny with the glasses and the fro.
In the third clip, Jack Black briefly explains to us what ‘Swede-ing’ is.

If you could swede a movie, what would you like to swede?

Actor/Producer/Writer/Director… did I miss anything?… all that Tyler Perry who started as a playwright and took his stories to the big screen, he is one of the most successful Hollywood persona today, gaining fame and fortune and with movies that have good moral family message (Madea movies, Daddy’s Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?) he’s also gained huge fanbase, those of us who love feel-good movies once in a while. I admire a person who after becomes a millionaire still hasn’t lost his or her integrity.

Tyler Perry will be in a movie that’s not his own for the first time ever…. apparently someone named J.J. Abrams is a fan of his work or maybe it’s Tyler Perry who’s secretly been a Trekkie all his life? Who knows? But according to UGO, Tyler will be in the new STAR TREK Movie about the crews of Starship Enterprise when they were young.

The article goes on explaining that they have filmed Tyler Perry’s scene a while back. Apparently the scene involves a courtroom/assembly where the young Captain Kirk is facing expulsion from Starfleet Academy for “cheating” on one of his critical tests. Tyler Perry plays the head of the academy overseeing the assembly.

You wouldn’t believe who snitched/ratted on young Kirk?
To read the whole article, just click HERE

BTW, STAR TREK first teaser will be shown in front of the movie Cloverfield on January 18th.
According to UGO, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves had seen the teaser trailer was very amazed, he said:..

“That’s what excited me about seeing the trailer, was that I thought ‘Well, this does look completely different and new,’” he marveled. “But while having all the stuff that will make fans of ‘Star Trek’ still feel fulfilled.”

Not that I’d know what that “all the stuff” consists of.. but I’m sure you Trekkies out there would have a field day over this. And I’m not just talking about those who are so into this stuff that they don’t know how to talk to girls.

I’m also talking about you Star Trek fans who are not open about it because you have to act adult now, but you have a hiding place for Star Trek shrine stashed away somewhere in a secret room in the basement…
repressed childhood memories that are just aching to explode when the new movie arrives December 2008.

We just got done with Christmas and right now just waiting for New Year to come… and since it’s a long weekend, so I figured why not watch Star Wars Holiday Special.

This is not a joke or fan-made, George Lucas actually made this and it was broadcast on TV back in 1978.
It’s got everybody, even Harrison Ford as Han Solo. The story is cheesy and because of that it’s hilarious, especially when he tells Chewbacca and his wife that they are like a family to him. LOL!

Princess Leia singing… and I’m kinda sure if they had to do this all over again, they wouldn’t wanna

Here’s the full movie and have an awesome rest of this holiday season, movie buff!

Joblo is really cool movie news website that’s been around a long time.
In delivering info, they use a language style that makes them sound like they’re members of a college frat house.
They have this segment every year that awards many different categories of excellence, from best acting to the coolest character of the year.
They ask people to recommend any name and movie so they would have a big collection of nominees and then movie lovers everywhere would be able to vote for the winners of each category.

I have my suggestions and so… this is my pick for the year 2007.

What do you think? Did I miss anything that deserves recognition?
Add your suggestions in the comment section below.

Best movie: BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD

Favorite Movie: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD

Worst Movie: DRAGON WARS

Best Director: Sydney Lumet (BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD

Best Screenplay:

P.T. Anderson, adapted, THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Diablo Cody , original, JUNO

Most Overrated Movie: SMOKIN’ ACES

Most Underrated Movie: STARDUST

Trippiest Movie: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Best Comedy: DEATH AT A FUNERAL

Best Horror: THE ORPHANAGE

Best Animated: PERSEPOLIS

Best Sci-Fi: SUNSHINE

Biggest Disappointment: BALLS OF FURY

Biggest Surprise: ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS

Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE

Best Supporting Actor: Steve Zahn, RESCUE DAWN

Best Supporting Actress: Kelly McDonald, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page, JUNO

Favorite Celebrity of the year: Jessica Biel

Coolest Character of the year: McLovin SUPERBAD

Best Music of the year: All the music in AUGUST RUSH

Best Trailer: 300

Best DVD: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD collector’s edition

Best Action Sequence: THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

Most Memorable Scene: Opening scene of BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD

Best line: “What’s the most you ever lost in a coin toss, friendo?” NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

What do you think? Did I miss anything that deserves recognition?
Add your suggestions in the comment section below.

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Simon Pegg is the next big comedy movie star, he’s the new Jim Carrey, only a bit more bumbling and prone to situations that might bring pain physically.
Simon is no stranger to slapstick humor and in his upcoming comedy HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE, he’s going to put his body to the test of hurt and agony again to earn our laugh. The movie arrives October 2008.

The story is about Sydney Young (Pegg) an employee working for a popular magazine but he can’t seem to be popular among people mainly because as you can see from watching this trailer, he gives reason for people not to like him but when he gets a job in a conservative magazine company, he starts to get the success and popularity he longs for including becoming a confidante to character Sophie Maes played by The Hottie from Transformers movie, Megan Fox.

Jeff Bridges and Gillian Anderson co-star
This movie also stars Kirsten Dunst as Simon’s character’s love interest, but Kirsten’s presence in any movie for that matter is not that big a deal… until she makes a public apology statement for having played Mary Jane in all Spider-man movies.

The producer of the fourth installment of TERMINATOR franchise, Moritz Borman spoke to Empire via The Sun and clarified a few things about the anticipated project.
He explained that the new trilogy will set in motion the situation building up to the ultimate moment when they would be forced to send a terminator to go back in time.

In other words in the movie TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS, the story will mostly revolve around the times prior to that… kinda like Star Wars: Episode I where you didn’t have Darth Vader yet.

So it does make sense not to have Arnold in the fourth movie and have him in the fifth or the sixth movie instead.
Here’s what Mortiz Berman had to say about all this:…

“I can tell you this much — this is the story everybody has been waiting for. Namely, we’re in the future. The part of it where Arnold’s character has not yet been built but is on the drawing board.

“And in the next two episodes we’ll get to the point where time-travel is more in the foreground. It’s the war against the machines, the start of Skynet taking over the world.”

But Borman hinted that Californian governor Schwarzenegger could feature in two subsequent movies.

“It’s convenient that he hasn’t been built at this point of the story, as Arnold has more important things to do right now, but that doesn’t mean he might not re-appear later in the trilogy,” he said.

“He knows the material and is very supportive of what we’re doing. There might even be hints of his character in this one.”

By the time Arnold’s going to be involved in this project, he’s not going to be governor anymore, allowing him to wear the old leather jacket and sunglasses again.
I don’t think we need to see his naked body in that bubble-like teleportal vessel. Last I heard, he’s not buff anymore.

In the article, Moritz did not confirm that Christian Bale would play John Connor as it was previously reported.
O, man! I thought it was a done deal?! What the hell?
Moritz better be bluffing, trying to mess with our minds and all.

“Everyone is assuming there is a John Connor and a Terminator in the script. Connor is in there along with another figure, but who is that figure?”
“I’ve heard everything from SYLVESTER STALLONE to VIN DIESEL, and other ones. I can tell you that Vin Diesel is not somebody we’re currently talking to.”

O no.. Not Sly! He already got two franchises, Rambo and Rocky, he can’t have this one too!
From the last info we had here, it was mentioned that this ‘figure’ Moritz spoke of would have name: Marcus.
I’m guessing this so-called ‘figure’ might be a character who’s a renegade badass or a desperado whose actions cross paths with or help ignite the resistance which will then be led by the charismatic John Connor.
So… maybe the young actor Channing Tatum (Step Up, Stop-Loss) could play that role.

Thanks to Impawards, home of the latest Rokin’ movie posters, here we have a poster of HANCOCK, Will Smith’s gigantic face wearing sunglasses that has a reflection reminding us of the desolate NYC from I Am Legend though I very much doubt that was the intention of this poster.
In HANCOCK, hitting theaters July 2nd, 2008, Will plays a washed up superhero who’s lazy and pretty much a loser and he romances the wife (Charlize Theron) of his PR consultant (Jason Bateman) trying to repair his image.

That entry title is a wordplay on a title of an old soap opera… which I never watched BTW, ehm…
Today is like the day of movie pictures, either they just keep showing up or that it’s still the holiday season and not much movie info’s going on around the web…. yeah.. not much going on, alright.

Here are some images from upcoming movies. What do you think?

1) BOLT

Disney’s new 3-D Animated movie about a dog who’s lived his whole life in an action TV show. One day he accidentally gets out into the real world and finds that he doesn’t really have superhero powers.
Reality bites, don’t it?!

I bet it feels as terrible as when Truman found out his whole life was just a show.
Starring the voice talents of John Travolta, Bruce Greenwood, Woody Harrelson, and Thomas Haden Church.
BOLT arrives 2008.

2). THE SICKHOUSE

It’s a horror flick about an archaeologist who digs up a medieval hospital site and accidentally unleashes the spirit of the plague doctor who loves, just like any horror film villain, killing living beings. Now she’s going to have to work against the clock to unlock the secrets and destroy the curse before history repeats itself all over again.

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From moviesonline, here’s the latest image from next year’s post-apocalyptic movie DOOMSDAY starring the sexy Rhona Mitra. I’m a big fan of the TV series Nip Tuck and she has a recurring role in one of the seasons, I think it was that one year where there was a serial killer named Carver, well anyways she was last seen in the poorly reviewed horror movie Skinwalkers.

DOOMSDAY takes us to England a.k.a Great Britain, the land of Shakespeare and bad teeth.
The story is about a deadly plague broken out, forcing the government to build a wall to protect survivors who are not infected while the victims are left forgotten.
Years later, in the future, the virus breaks out again, so they send a team of operatives to go into the hot zone and investigate the possibility of a cure.
Sounds like I Am Legend without great acting.

Jason Statham seems to be doing a lot lately, we just saw the trailer of his new upcoming movie THE BANK JOB and now… thanks to moviesonline here’s an image from his latest project DEATH RACE which is a remake of the a movie with the same title.

The story is placed in future America where a prisoner (Statham) is forced by the warden (Joan Allen) to compete in brutal, dangerous car race alongside his fellow inmates.
That’s when you know that wardens and COs everywhere are getting bored, eh? They set up something for the sake of entertainment.

I hope the crowded prison system in California is not thinking about a similar method for their solution.
DEATH RACE crashes into theaters September 26th, 2008.