Monday, February 13, 2012

SAOIRSE RONAN IN "THE ORDER OF THE SEVEN"! DYNAMIC MINDBLOWING TRAILER FOR "ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER"! EMMA THOMPSON & VIOLA DAVIS JOIN "BEAUTIFUL CREATURES"! GRAMMY 2012 FASHION REPORT

You probably remember how I've told you a couple of times that there will be three not two Snow White projects in Hollywood: beside Tarsem's MIRROR MIRROR and Charlize Theron's SNOW WHITE
AND THE HUNTSMAN there is also SNOW AND THE SEVEN, which has just changed its name into THE ORDER OF THE SEVEN in an effort to erase all similarities with the famous fairy tale. According to "Variety" the film has also signed in Saoirse Ronan for the lead role in the film which was supposed to be a Snow White story set in China with samurais instead of dwarves, but will now be a story about Olivia Spencer, a British expatriate in Hong Kong, who finds protection with a group of outlaw warriors. When an evil empress comes into power, Olivia helps the warriors reclaim their royal ties to the kingdom. Disney has changed the story to avoid parallels with the other two upcoming blockbusters and they are also trying to get some of the big stars from China, Russia and Japan for the roles of the warriors in order to increase the international appeal of the film.

HOLLYWOOD SPY HEADLINES
Beside THE HUNGER GAMES, ENDER'S GAME and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, one of the new YA saga's to hit movie adaptation is BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Margaret Stohl-Kami Garcia. Beside youngsters Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert, the cast has recently added two critically acclaimed ladies Emma Thompson and Viola Davis.
The story follows two teens who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl's family for generations. As "Deadline" reports, Emma Thompson will have quite an interesting dual role of Mrs. Lincoln, a small town religious zealot, and Sarafine, who is the dark witch who possesses her. The film is being directed by Richard LaGravanese, who wrote screenplays for THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE VOYAGE OF DAWN TREADER, PS I LOVE YOU (which he also directed) and for WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. He is currently also writing the script for UNBROKEN, Universal's WW2 drama about Louis Zamperini, a US athlete who not only competed in infamous Olympic games held in 1936. in Berlin in front of Hitler, but who also got captured by the Japanese who held him as POW in one of their war camps.

It doesn't often happen that a studio reveals a new trailer on Monday, but that's what has happened today: 20th Century Fox has released the first mind blowing trailer for ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE
HUNTER
which premiers in cinemas in June. Starring Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper, this strange epic horror follows the infamous American President Lincoln whose mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an axe, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. This $70 million movie, produced by Tim Burton, is directed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov.

GRAMMY 2012 FASHION REPORT
Have you watched Sunday night's GRAMMY 2012 AWARDS? For us outside of USA it's a show filled with musicians we've never heard off :) Who was best dressed for you at the red carpet? We know that, unlike actors, singers usually have no taste in fashion, but some of them looked nice, like that lady, whom I've no idea who she is, Carrie Underwood,
who looked profound in her ice white glittering gown, or Katy Perry who is generally the trashiest creature ever to appear in the music world, but she looked lovely this time in her dazzling blue gown which even matched the dead Smurf on her head (and by Smurf I mean that unnatural hair colour of hers). Adele, the star of the evening, opted for
refined black and I deeply respect and love her decision to be a vocal star not a visual one and thus opting to always stay elegant and simple. Taylor Swift, whose songs we've never heard outside USA, looked interesting in her princess Irulan from Dune dress, and so did Kelly Rowland who is more popular in Europe then in USA.