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Jan 22,2013

Bruce Willis talks ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’

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Bruce Willis has spoken out about his forthcoming new film A Good Day To Die Hard.

Willis will reprise his role as no-nonsense cop John McClane in the flick, a character he first made famous in the first installment in the franchise, 1988′s Die Hard – and in an interview with Total Film, he said the main aim was to make a film which lived up to the legacy of the original.

“I’m really pleased to continue to be asked back to do other versions and other incarnations of Die Hard,” he said.. “The first one really is… that’s all there is. Everything else is just trying to be as good as that film.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Jun 10,2011

‘Looper’ Gets A Release Date For 2012

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For a movie involving assassination by way of time traveling to the past, setting the theatrical release date in the future seems a bit odd. Why set Looper for September 28, 2012 when you could prove the point of the movie so much more effectively if you released it sometime back in 1995? I heard that September was pretty good for movies.

Anyway, the film stars Bruce Willis and Joesph Gordon-Levitt as assassins who use time travel to kill their targets. Actually, they get their assignments from the future when their targets commit a crime. Kinda like a reverse Minority Report. Sort of. But instead of Spielberg it’s the guy who did Brick. Sounds good to me. [Source]

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Feb 27,2010

“Cop Out” sets sights on “Shutter Island”

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Bruce Willis takes on Leonardo DiCaprio at the weekend box office in North America as three restricted movies vie for adult audiences.

The buddy-cop movie “Cop Out,” starring Willis and Tracy Morgan, opens Friday along with the similarly R-rated horror remake “The Crazies.”

Warner Bros.’ “Buddy Cop” likely will duel for first place with DiCaprio’s “Shutter Island,” which opened at No. 1 last weekend with $41.1 million. The Paramount suspense thriller has prospects of fetching as much as $20 million this time.

But Warners distribution president Dan Fellman said director Kevin Smith’s comedy has at least a shot at copping weekend bragging rights. “It’s going to be a competitive weekend,” he said.

Prerelease tracking surveys show that “Cop” holds strongest appeal among older men. That overlaps a bit with at least a portion of the broad base of support for “Island.”

“The Crazies,” a remake of George Romero’s 1973 horror film, targets younger demos, so it might overlap with “Island” but not as much with “Cop.” At midweek, tracking showed the Overture Films release headed for a bow in the midteen millions. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nov 30,2009

Hit The Town With Your Hotter Robot Double When Surrogates Hits Blu-Ray And DVD

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The future is here, and it looks like Bruce Willis in a bad wig. You might have missed Surrogates when it opened this past September, since its opening weekend only pulled in $15M or so — I guess the combination of Bruce Willis + action doesn’t carry the weight it once did. Quite frankly, you didn’t miss that much. While the script flirts with plenty of promising ideas, they’re largely ignored in favor of standard action clichés and Willis glowering a lot. Still, there’s a bit of fun to be had, and if you’d like to watch Bruce Willis save us all from gorgeous, dead-eyed robots, Surrogates hits Blu-ray and DVD January 26th.

Willis stars as FBI agent Tom Greer, policing a near future where nearly everyone lives their life by proxy through idealized robot avatars. You can do anything you want without fear of injury, be anyone or anything you like, but not everyone is crazy about this brave new world. After the destruction of two avatars kills their human operators as well, Greer stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the whole world. To make matters worse, Greer’s own avatar is soon destroyed, leaving him overwhelmed at having to deal with the world first-hand for the first time in years. Read the rest of this entry »

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Oct 13,2009

World of surrogates

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Director Jonathan Mostow likens his new movie to a mirror for people to see which way they are heading

MOVIES based on graphic novels have a niche market and, lately, quite a few have made it to the big screen and become popular. The latest is Surrogates, which is based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele.

The movie is set in the near future where human-like robotic surrogates go out and work and socialise while the real humans control their look-alikes from the comfort of their home,
Crime rates have fallen drastically for some reason and people even get to decide what their surrogates look like, opting for perfect versions of themselves.

All seems hunky-dory until two surrogates are destroyed and, even more shocking, the hosts of these surrogates also end up dead, despite well-placed safety measures.

FBI agent Thomas Greer (Bruce Willis) and his partner, Jennifer Peters (Radha Mitchell), discover a serial killer is on the loose and he possesses a powerful weapon that can bypass the surrogates’ safety features. Read the rest of this entry »

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Oct 05,2009

How Bruce Willis got a celluloid face-lift for his ‘Surrogates’ robot

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Patrick Kevin Day interviews some of the top talent behind the camera in Hollywood to find out how the achieved the movie magic we all see on the screen. His Scene Stealer feature (along with Liesl Bradner’s series of Wizards of Hollywood posts) are intriguing glimpses in the EFX world and you can read more of them here. — Geoff Boucher

In order to make 54-year-old Bruce Willis’ surrogate robot look like a man in his mid-30s in the sci-fi film “Surrogates,” Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson oversaw some work worthy of a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. Read the rest of this entry »

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