Watch Trailer Two of Gareth Edward's Godzilla

Here's the trailer for Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards who also did the classic Monsters. This truly takes the classic novelty of kaiju films and turns it sideways. And yes, it does have this 'terrifying' vibe to it.

Check out the trailer after the cut.

Godzilla Destroys the Cover of Empire

Superherohype has provided us with our first look at the cover for Empire featuring the King of Monsters himself, Godzilla.

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters) and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston and many more.

Here's what the cover looks like BTW:

New Godzilla Poster Shows More Kaiju Goodness

Yahoo shared a new poster for Gareth Edwards' Godzilla 2014 reboot which is a different perspective of that HALO jump sequence we've seen in the trailer.

Synopsis: "An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence"

Here's the full poster:

PREVIEW: Godzilla 2014 Action Figures

So if you're still wondering what Godzilla will look like when Gareth Edward's Godzilla comes out this year, you're in for a treat because a preview for the licensed action figure has hit the web.

If you haven't seen the trailer, you can find it HERE . There's a bit of articulation if you're into that kind of stuff which is all good. 

It's a bit of a bummer because it's not what I envisioned. It's still better than the "Zilla" version from 1998 and it's still scary as heck. The snout is still an issue though. If you're not into the whole look but still want to buy a Godzilla figure based on the Toho-era then you might want to buy the MonsterArts version.

Here are the links to the hi-res version of these preview photos.

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Godzilla will be released this year and stars Avengers cast members Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Heisenberg himself Bryan Cranston. Distributed locally by Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures.

Credits: Godzilla Movies

The Incredible Teaser Trailer for Gareth Edward's Godzilla

I think "Incredible" just doesn't give enough oomph to describe the new trailer for Gareth Edward's Godzilla reboot. I think the better word, to borrow from Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins is "Stupendous". So, here's the stupendous and magnificent trailer for GODZILLA.

SYNOPSIS: An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

Gareth Edwards directs "Godzilla," which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson ("Kick-Ass"), Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai," "Inception"), Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene"), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient," "Cosmopolis"), and Sally Hawkins ("Blue Jasmine"), with Oscar® nominee David Strathairn ("Good Night, and Good Luck.," "The Bourne Legacy") and Bryan Cranston ("Argo," TV's "Breaking Bad").



as a bonus, here's the first official poster for the 2014 movie.

Credits: The Nerdist

The First Official Look at 2014 Godzilla

Gareth Edwards definitely holds a winner for next year's GODZILLA. The trailer is due tonight and to tease us further here's our first legit look at the kaiju king.

credit http://www.godzilla-movies.com/

So here's the context to the image above, there are basically paratroopers sent to the combat zone where Godzilla is wreaking huge damage. This is a POV of one of the paratroopers as he falls from the sky. Is that a missile about to hit the King of Monsters? Probably. Who knows. 

Oh and director Gareth Edwards also confirms that it's not just Godzilla the world has to worry about as there are other monsters thrashing about. 

Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen. Distributed locally by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Credits: Godzila-Movies

Marvel Studios OFFICIALLY Casts Kick Ass' Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver

Joss Whedon will be getting a new player for his mega-movie for 2015, Avengers: Age of Ultron in the form of Kick-Ass star Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Superherohype reports more on this:

"We both have them," Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told SuperHeroHype of the shared studio rights to the character last summer. "There's a specific arrangement with those two characters that would allow us to use them with 'Avengers,' but not discuss or reference their mutant or Magneto-related lineage. They can use them as mutants and as Magneto's relatives, but cannot have anything to do with 'The Avengers.'"

Avengers: Age of Ultron will be hitting theaters May, 2015 from Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Studios PH.

KICK-ASS 2 Review (Spoiler Heavy)

Here's my review for KICK-ASS 2 starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz Plasse and Jim Carey. It opens August 14 and is distributed locally by Solar-UIP.

So Kick-Ass 2 has finally reached our shores and I must say that it's definitely a great movie. Much like how Percy Jackson went with their own story, the same thing has happened here in Kick-Ass 2. Rather than sticking word for word from the source material, I could warrant around 80 percent was retained from the second volume of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s seminal title.

Still Kick-Ass 2 is a pretty nifty flick. There's a good amount of teen angst plus bloody battles, out and out beatings and laughs here and there.

Rather than focus more on the life of Kick-Ass and his alter ego Dave Lizewski (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) this sequel focuses more on the life of Mindy McCreedy aka Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz). The angst is present there. Seeing those scenes was like sending me back to the time I first caught "Mean Girls" with a non coke snorting Lindsay Lohan.

It might seem like Johnson is doing anything but he's POV focuses more on the growing 'vigilante' trend that Kick-Ass inspired. Joining Lizewski on his 'quest' for Justice is a rag-tag team of vigilantes who call themselves "Justice Forever" led by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). Those segments were fun and all hero-y. Too bad though that it lasted only so long. Still the big 'final battle' gets us our kick for masked vigilantes and caped crusaders.

Massive props to Jim Carrey who seriously fit the role of the Colonel. Too bad though that his role is very, very short much like how Carrey's participation in promoting the film was short-lived.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse brought the laughs in this movie. His "Motherfucker" was spot on. Too bad though that his version of the character came off more as whiny rather than the motherfucking asshole that he really is from the source material.

Mintz-Plasse as THE MOTHERFUCKER

The great thing about KICK-ASS 2 is the fact that they deliberately took liberties on some places and scenes that might not be OK for the squemish. Some of them include the death of Colonel Stripes and the attack on Night Bitch. *The book portrayed the brutal rape of Kick-Ass' supposed girlfriend Katy as well as the violent shooting in the neighborhood* Those scenes would've unsettled viewers; hell I would get this unsettling feeling if I saw that adapted on the big screen.

The action and dialogue was great, a bit gritty and dirty but it's still great. What would you expect from a  movie entitled "KICK-ASS". Cool moments and a wicked, twisted finale as well. Oh and if you're looking for easter eggs, there's a buttload of them here in the film. Same goes for comic book references. And keep your eyes peeled for the next movie adaptation from Millar's KAPOW COMICS; it'll make an appearance and it's also going to feature one of our great comic book artists.

KICK-ASS 2 is now showing! Special thanks to SOLAR-UIP.

‘Chloë Grace Moretz’ Hit Girl is back in Kick-Ass 2

Kick-Ass wouldn’t be half the hero he is without Hit Girl, and no sequel would begin production without her in the mix. Imagined by Award winning writer Mark Millar as a tribute to his eldest daughter, Hit Girl has struck a chord with readers since her introduction and grown exponentially in popularity. The young woman who brought her to life, Chloë Grace Moretz, has been working up a storm—earning critical acclaim in such fare as Let Me In, as well as working with the likes of Martin Scorsese in Hugo and Tim Burton in Dark Shadows and soon to be seen starring opposite Julianne Moore as the title character in the remake of Carrie. Like her co-stars, she was thrilled to step back into her Kick-Ass role as Hit Girl, unfazed by the commotion caused by her appearance the first time around.

"The obvious difference is that I'm older now, and the difference between 11 and 15, which is how old I was when we finished, is that you're a different person, obviously," Executive Producer Neal H. Moretz reveals. "You're calculating more ideas, you're experiencing more things in your own life, you're not just living through other people's eyes, you're making your own decisions."

For the 2010 film, the now 16-year-old actress took the world by roundhouse kick with not only her acting abilities, but her phenomenal mastery of weaponry and martial arts. Indeed, Moretz didn’t know she was prescient when she joked at the premiere of the first film that she wanted to ride a purple Ducati: Hit Girl’s bike of choice in Kick-Ass 2. Laughs Moretz: “To get in the costume again and do all the stunts was pretty amazing. I’ve had such a great time reliving the character and bringing in more dimensions, while taking an older approach to the role. I liked seeing what I could play within the part.”



We meet a now-orphaned 9th grader in Kick-Ass 2, a girl who is more terrified of the treacherous girls in school than she ever was of the villains that she and Big Daddy took down. Moretz describes where we meet Mindy: “She’s skipping school, still being a vigilante and caring more about Hit Girl’s life than Mindy’s. Because she doesn’t have Big Daddy anymore, and Marcus is much more of a normal parent than Big Daddy, she starts to question herself. She promises Marcus she’ll stop being Hit Girl and begins to figure out her life a bit. The thing is…Mindy can’t really change.”

Mindy McCready's life also comes as a direct response to the previous one (also known as 2010's "Kick-Ass"), and that chapter doesn't read the same way this time around.



"Here's this little girl who is basically raised to be an assassin by this man who is insane," director Jeff Wadlow explains. "I mean, Big Daddy is treated like a hero in the first film, but in our film we even take a step back and say, no, he loves his daughter and that's a good thing, but he was totally crazy and he robbed her of any kind of normal life. We try to deal with that in a very real way."

"What Jeff and I really wanted to improve was the real heart of it," says Moretz. "Because I wanted to show that this girl didn't have a father anymore and how much that affected her. She's really confused and going through the self-torture of, 'Am I killing people because this is what I was raised to believe was a good thing, or am I just murdering people?'"



Moretz also promises that Hit-Girl's physicality will be different in the sequel, thanks to one big change: no guns. Well, mostly no guns.

"I wanted to show this darker side to her, and I also wanted to make the action a little bit different. So we basically scrapped the guns. I do use guns a little bit in the movie, but we basically do hand-to-hand combat and it's just a lot more hands-on."

Drawing on the source material, Director Jeff Wadlow and the producers were interested in exploring what happens when Mindy stops being Hit Girl and grapples with life and love as a high-school student. The director felt that no other performer but Moretz could possibly deliver that. He says: “There’s something incredibly special about Chloë that is hard to describe and quantify, but when you see her on screen you instantly understand. As a director, it was exciting for me to work with someone like her, because normally I like to dissect the character and intellectualize the story. Chloë just gets it immediately; she doesn’t need me to pontificate.”



Wadlow found that the usual manner of directing an actor wouldn’t work with Moretz. He proudly says: “Chloë understands how to create a moment in a way that you can’t teach or talk about it. She just does it, and she does it every take. It’s funny because we’d talk about a scene, about where I wanted it to go or how it fits into the larger story, and sometimes I’d wonder if what I was saying even made sense. But then we’d shoot it, and Chloë would deliver—take after take. I don’t think of her as a kid at all. I talk to her as a peer because she is so incredibly savvy and mature, but also willing to be goofy and not at all self-conscious. She’s just an amazing actress.”



“Kick-Ass 2” is released and distributed by Universal Pictures and United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corp.

Here's the Official KICK ASS 2 Synopsis

In case you live in a rock and you don't know that they decided to make a sequel/ adaptation-to-the-comic book sequel stilled based on a book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.

SYNOPSIS: Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010’s irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2. After Kick-Ass’ (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother F%&*^r—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy.

Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire—leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.

"Kick-Ass 2" is released and distributed by United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corporation.

Legendary and Warner Reveals Godzilla Poster for SDCC 2013

It's that time of the year again when just about the cool stuff gets released and I go batshit crazy trying to catch up. Yep, it's Comic Con International once again. For our opening salvo, here's the GODZILLA poster unveiled for SDCC 2013.

The movie will be released next year (distributed locally by Warner Bros. Pictures Philippines). It's directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron Taylor- Johnson.

Godzilla Announces Cast and Production Begins As Well

BURBANK, CA, March 18, 2013 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today the final principal cast for the upcoming tent pole “Godzilla.” Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, and Juliette Binoche are starring in the film, with David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston.

The companies also announced that principal photography began today on location in Vancouver. Gareth Edwards is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont and Dave Callaham. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

New Kick-Ass 2 Character Posters

The more NSFW Kick-Ass 2 posters have been released online and they're definitely hyping the new up. This new set features Kick-Ass, Hit Girl, The Motherfucker, Black Death, Mother Russia and Night Bitch.

Check out the other posters after the cut...

New Poster, Red Band Trailer and Images for Kick-Ass 2

A lot of cool stuff coming from "KICK-ASS 2" starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse together with Jim Carrey. The film is an adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s "KICK-ASS 2" mini.

I was expecting a really grown up Chloe Moretz here in this new movie but it seems like that's not the case. I remember talking to Mark Millar about this and him telling me and the rest of the Flipgeek's crew that there are some liberties taken from the source material and the film adaptation including the challenge of Ms. Moretz 'growing up' during production and in between the two movies.

Anyway, regardless of that, watch the red band (meaning rated R) trailer for the KICK ASS 2 after the cut.



It's nice that they have Jim Carrey here but knowing what will happen to the guy in the middle makes me sad. Also, is it just me or is the violence tapered down. I kinda remember the cemetery scene to be more.... bloody. 

Also I suddenly remember that there the Motherfucker and his gang of psychopaths did a shooting spree in Katie's neighborhood and did something horrible afterwards. Will that bit make it into the big screen adaptation? 

Check out some of the cool images coming from the trailer as well:














KICK ASS 2 Synopsis:

Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010’s irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2. After Kick-Ass’ (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother F%&*^r—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire—leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.