When I sat down to watch this I didn’t really know what to expect. While it lags at a few points, this movie series (if done right) has the ability to be something that can stand out and be original. I have not read the book, so I have no clue if it follows them nor do I care. The lines are drawn from the beginning and you can see who will turn out to be who. John C. Riley did a pretty good job of making you like his character as the film progresses.

While the main character is whiny in the beginning, he slowly comes into his own… as far as he is allowed anyway.  The Cirque is actually full of a few big name stars that all chose the most random parts to play, but it works for each one of them. The film starts off lighthearted as you meet the main characters, and gets a little darker as it moves forward.  I like the twists on Werewolves, and a few other creatures they can bring into the series.

All in all, I liked this film. While I felt it was way too long, it has room to grow if done right. Acting from the big stars was on point while the younger stars need to work on a few things–even though they add their share to the movie. Effects wise, the film was like a vampire comic, if that makes sense at all. “Flash” type running that comes with the blur effect behind it. The weird vampire super strong nails (not sure why that made the film). Nothing was too flashy, but it served it’s purpose.

6 out of 10.

At D23 today the House of Mouse and Johnny depp announced the name and release date for the fourth installment of the POTC franchise.

Walt Disney will re-release Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D as a double feature for two weeks starting on October 2nd. I look forward to taking my kid to see this as they set the standard for pixar movies today.

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As someone who’s seen the original Tron and enjoyed it i can officially say i can not wait for this film. Check out the footage and see for yourself.

“Tron Legacy” is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

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On August 21, the whole world will get its first look at James Cameron’s  AVATAR, when 20th Century Fox and Cameron will debut the film’s trailer everywhere – while select theaters and IMAX® screens will show extended footage prepared by Cameron for this global Avatar event.

The extended look at AVATAR will unspool only on August 21 – and only in 3-D – in select theaters and IMAX®. Details on locations and reserving tickets for this extraordinary and unprecedented experience will be announced soon.

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption, discovery and unexpected love, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.

AVATAR opens  everywhere December 18, 2009.

Comic-Con is in full swing  As we get News on the next Pirates of the Caribbean. “We’re going to shoot ‘Pirates 4′ in April and May of next year,” Aviv said during a recent interview. “We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan.” He said that this time they would only be doing one movie this time that would “hopefully be the first of another trilogy.”

“It’s important to get the story right and it’s important to me to scale it down, because we can’t get bigger,” Aviv admitted. “The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters.” He agreed that there is a lot of Captain Jack Sparrow’s back story that we haven’t seen yet without confirming or denying that we might see some of that in the fourth movie. Still no word on whether Gore Verbinski might come back for the fourth movie.

As more info comes forward Muveepro will keep you up to date.

that is the OFFICIAL title for the new film. Director Joseph Kosinski is on hand, as is producer Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger. From the cast is Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and of course, the veteran from the first film, Jeff Bridges.

Mostly they showed concept art of the new Tron city. One being a view from atop of Mile High Tower, and an updated disc war piece showing the new arena will change as the battle goes one. They just started filming last week but Joe had cut together a key scene to show off at Comic Con in which Hedlund’s Sean Flynn arrives at the old Flynn’s arcade which has been abandoned for 20 years. The place has clearly been vacant for a long time and all the arcade games are covered in plastic but he flicks on the power and the jukebox kicks into the opening of Journey’s “Separate Ways” which was in the original Tron as all of the games comes to life. He sees a blue light emanating from the back wall so he walks back towards it and takes the plastic off the game and it’s the original Tron arcade game. He takes out a quarter to play it but it drops to the floor and he sees a crack on the floor and realizes that it goes behind the console. He pushes the game aside and there’s a secret door with blue light glowing from the cracks and he opens it up and walks in.

A better quality version of the Jonah Hex poster is now online. Directed by Jimmy Hayward, the comic book adaptation opens June 18, 2010 and stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Michael Shannon.

Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood.

“Jonah Hex” first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of “All-Star Western” before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements.