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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Online
Saturday, 9 February 2013
watch Breaking Dawn Part 2

Similar to Harry Potter, adopted from a fantasy novel that is not exactly the pride of the literary world, the Twilight series does offer an interesting fantasy world. But ultimately, for the movies at least, the main attraction would have to be the action. It is therefore not hard to understand why both split the final book into two parts. The first part is the setup which incidentally (not intentionally, I'm sure) milks the cash cow to the last degree. Breaking Dawn Part 2 movie will hopefully redeem the movie makers from the curses of the segment of the audience less endowed with the virtue of patience (the majority, I venture to guess) with the action set piece of grand finale for which they have waited so long. In that department, Breaking Dawn Part 2 online did well.

Perhaps a little recap would help, particularly to forgetful souls such as myself, on small details like to kill a vampire, you must tear out its head and toss it into a roaring fire.

"Twilight" and "New Moon" are essentially very, very long establishing scenes focusing respectively on the two heroes, vampire and werewolf who, because they are not French, cannot resign themselves to a peacefully coexisting triangle with their shared love object Bella Swan like Jules and Jim. After these preliminaries, "Eclipse" becomes the most packed and entertaining, not only with the heightening of the tension in the love triangle, but also with intriguing side stories (flashbacks) providing more dimensions of some of the characters including the wolves (how there animosity with the vampires developed) and members of the Cullen vampire family Jasper and Rosaline. Throughout these three movies, we also see the growing menace of the dominating, powerful vampire empire of the Volturi family in Italy.

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Developments - finally, in "Breaking dawn part 1", leading the audience through two key events, marriage and childbirth. The movie ended with Bella after giving birth and struggling on her sick bed at the brink of death, suddenly opened her eyes, with the iris turned red.

Not much needs to be said about the rest of the story, told in this "Part 2". A very thin, unconvincing plot surround the strangely fast-growing child Renesmee (something like 10 times faster than normal) led to a final confrontation between the Volturi on one side and the Cullen family (now with Bella as the strongest vampire of them all) assisted by a generous assortment of friendly vampires gathered globally plus, of course, the wolf pack. Soccer fans may think of this as a sort of World Cup that comes once every four years, with strong teams such as Russia, Ireland, Italy and Brazil.

To reiterate my summary line, I promise I will watch Breaking Dawn Part 2 if action is what you are looking for, you should be satisfied. The twist of sorts in the ending is also meets with general approval, it would seem, from audience and critics.

Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 4:51 AM EST
Sunday, 3 February 2013
ADG honors 'Anna Karenina,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Skyfall'

"Anna Karenina," "Life of Pi," and "Skyfall" earned top honors from the Art Directors Guild at the 17th annual Excellence in Production Design Ceremony held Saturday at the Beverly Hilton."Anna Karenina" and "Life of Pi" are also up for an Oscar for Best Production Design at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24.Sarah Greenwood earned the trophy for best period film for "Anna Karenina," David Gropman was recognized for fantasy film for "Life of Pi" and Dennis Gassner earned contemporary film honors for "Skyfall."In television, half-hour single-camera production designer Judy Becker won for "Girls," and hourlong honors went to Gemma Jackson for "Game of Thrones.""American Horror Story's" Mark Worthington earned TV movie/miniseries kudos.Paula Poundstone, in black -- no white top-hat this year -- hosted the evening for the fourth time. John Myhre won for the "81st Annual Academy Awards" in the awards, music or game shows category, and "Saturday Night Live" production designer Keith Raywood took home an award for best episode of a multicamera, variety or scripted series.Honors for commercial, PSA and music video went to Christopher Glass for an X-box spot.Production designer Hermann Zimmerman -- best known for his spaceship other-worlds designs on the "Star Trek" franchise -- received the guild's lifetime achievement award. Colleagues accepted on his behalf.ADG also inducted three production designers into its hall of fame: Preston Ames, Richard MacDonald and Edward S. Stephenson.Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, ADG honored the four main production designers behind the Bond films -- Ken Adam, Allan Cameron, Dennis Gassner and Peter Lamont -- for outstanding contribution to cinematic imagery. Jane Seymour introed the presentation.


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 4:04 AM EST
Monday, 28 January 2013
Disney Halts 3D Star Wars Re-Releases

Anakin Skywalker can go on scowling, pouting and whining just as much as he likes; it won’t get him anywhere. And certainly not back on cinema screens, as Disney and Lucasfilm have decided to postpone releasing the rest of the prequel trilogy – i.e. Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith on 3D for now.If you’re thinking this might have something to do with the companies being a little busy preparing to make Episode VII (you might have heard something recently about JJ Abrams scoring the job of directing it), then you win a wookie cookie. So yes, while The Phantom Menace escaped back into the world last year,  Clones and Sith are now sitting in re-release limbo."Given the recent development that we are moving forward with a new Star Wars trilogy, we will now focus 100 per cent of our efforts on Star Wars: Episode VII in order to ensure the best possible experience for our fans," the company says in a press release on the franchise's official site. "We will post further information about our 3D release plans at a later date."So don’t get too downhearted if you were looking forward to seeing the two other prequel films on the big screen again – we’re sure they will show up at some point, either leading into the new baby or once the hoopla around it is at a level enough to pounce and offer up more tales from that galaxy far, far away.


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 11:01 PM EST
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
47 Ronin Promo Posters Online

Once touted as Keanu Reeves’ big return to martial arts action, Samurai tale 47 Ronin has instead been busy fighting negative buzz about runaway production schedules, squabbles between director Carl Rinsch and the executives, rising costs and shifting release dates. So it’s almost a surprise to see the first promo posters for the film escape into the world, whether officially or not. Take a look in the gallery below. {47 Ronin posters}Ronin, which features Keanu alongside a mostly Asian cast (including Rinko Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Sanada and Cary-Hiroyuki-Tagawa), finds a band of Samurai warriors in 18th century Japan seeking to avenge their master’s death.It’s all based on a real account of a group of Ronin (masterless Samurai) who really did undertake such a mission, and which has been embellished and altered through the years in Japan.The film version adds in various elements, including some more fantastical trappings (witches, giants etc.) and Keanu’s character, who is apparently half-Japanese and half-British.This is, of course, just the first glimpse. We’ll have to wait and see a trailer to get a real sense of the movie. And it's set to arrive across the pond on December 25. But here’s a question to be going on with – are you hopeful for this one?


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 1:23 AM EST
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Hollywood figuring out China B.O.

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Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 1:14 AM EST
Friday, 11 January 2013
'Argo' wins best pic at Critics' Choice Movie Awards

"Argo" won best picture at Thursday's Critics' Choice Movie Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.Hours after being overlooked for a directing nomination at the Academy Awards, "Argo" helmer Ben Affleck also won that prize at the kudofest."I would like to thank the Academy," Affleck joked. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding. This is the one that counts."Jennifer Lawrence won two awards and shared in a third. Lawrence scored comedy and action acting awards for "Silver Linings Playbook" -- which itself came away with three other prizes, including top comedy and top ensemble -- and "The Hunger Games." Bradley Cooper of "Silver" was named top comedy actor.However, the prize for best actress went to Jessica Chastain of "Zero Dark Thirty." Best actor went to Daniel Day-Lewis of "Lincoln."Phillip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master") was tapped as top supporting actor, while supporting actress kudos went to Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables."Screenplay honors went to Tony Kushner ("Lincoln") for adapted and Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained").Top foreign film at the CCMAs went to "Amour," while the animation prize was presented to "Wreck-It Ralph" and the documentary kudo to "Searching for Sugar Man."Other nods in the action genre went to "Skyfall" and its lead actor Daniel Craig. Quvenzhane  Wallis earned top youth acting honors for "Beasts of the Southern Wild.""Life of Pi" (cinematography and visual effects) won two below-the-line honors, as did "Anna Karenina" (art direction and costume). "Zero Dark Thirty" spliced together editing kudos; "Cloud Atlas" put on the makeup award.Judd Apatow received the previously announced Louis XIII Genius Award and had fun with his speech, taunting "Lincoln" director Steven Spielberg and Day-Lewis.


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 12:14 AM EST
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Tom Hiddleston praises Thor: The Dark World as “truly fantastic”

Filming on Thor: The Dark World wrapped just before Christmas, and Tom Hiddleston has wasted no time in singing the sequel’s praises.“It’s fantastic, truly,” he tells the Press Association. “We are making an amazing film, and we’re having a wonderful time.”Returning as malicious god Loki, the brother of Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Hiddleston went on to praise director Alan Taylor (best known for Game Of Thrones) for "deepening" Thor's world.“It's so exciting to have established characters and an established setting in the world, and we are working so hard to cook up something new,” he says.“That is what is exciting me - taking what we know, taking what we love and deepening it and giving it an extra dimension.“I think director Alan Taylor is really shaping up the world of Asgard and the world of these characters.”In Thor: The Dark World, the titular Thunder God must fight against a primeval race led by Christopher Eccleston’s Malekith the Accursed.It will also see the return of Natalie Portman as Thor’s love interest, Jane Foster, as well as Stellan Skarsgård and Kat Dennings as her fellow scientists.Thor: The Dark World opens on 30 October 2013.


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 1:39 AM EST
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Watch Skyfall online - feels very artificial

Skyfall is the twenty-third James Bond film, produced by Eon Productions and distributed by MGM and Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2012. And finally I decided to watch skyfall online to see what the fuzz is all about. But this Bond adventure left me disappointed, here are the reasons: 1. The "super hacker and PC geek" is really getting annoying and is slowly taking first place as a lazy story vehicle from "the prophecy told us so". Explode something with hacking a computer? yeah, sure... I am not sure that my mom would buy this and she has problems watching a DVD.

2. Nearly everything in this movie feels like the director or writer wants it to go there and does not feel organic or in a natural flow. For example, why should Bond use a house in a very open area for a fight when he is outnumbered? Just because he was born there? There was no advantage for him picking that building, with the exception of the "secret passage".

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3. There is no real Bond - girl in this movie. Every woman in this feels really tagged on. There is no real chemistry between Bond and his sexual partners in this movie.

4. I could not follow the decisions of the characters. "Take the shot" - scene for example: Chances for Bond to retrieve the hard drive was quite high, especially considering Bonds reputation. Shooting a moving/fighting target on a moving train from that far away really only makes your chance bigger if you really make sure that you kill the target and that would mean that she must kill Bond, too. So why did M order the shot and why did the girl not shoot multiple times so that she can make sure to retrieve the hard drive?

5. Unbelievable developments, like, did anyone really understand why Bond cannot hit anything in the mid of the movie, but near the end he takes masterful shots with an old rifle? I don't want to go too much into detail and nitpick everything. I believe that Skyfall movie might be quite cool for some people. But for me, a natural flow, believable characters and decisions are what makes a good movie. "Skyfall" was an entertaining movie, but not a great one.

Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 12:51 PM EST
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
UK trailer for Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder

To The Wonder, the next release by the uncharacteristically prolific Terrence Malick has released a UK trailer.The trailer for the film is available to watch below, and while it’s unlikely to convert any Malick-sceptics, fans of the auteur’s style will lap it up.Featuring a philosophical voiceover from Javier Bardem, the bulk of the trailer focuses on Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams as they generally skip, prance and brood their way through variously blustery fields.Count us in.Watch the trailer below:To The Wonder hits UK cinemas on 22 February 2013.


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 11:50 PM EST
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Samuel L. Jackson Cast In Kite

In his time, director David R. Ellis has helmed Final Destination 2, Cellular, Shark Night and, um, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, but now he's got the toughest challenge of his career ahead of him: adapting the furiously violent and much-loved anime Kite into a live-action Hollywood thriller.Aiding him in his quest is Samuel L. Jackson, who previously worked with Ellis on Snakes On A Plane back in 2006. Jackson announced his involvement with the project while on promotional duties for Django Unchained, where he mentioned to Movies.com what he had on his slate after the RoboCop remake wraps."After [RoboCop], I'm going to do this live-action version of Kite, the Japanese anime," he said. "I'll be doing a live-action version of that in Johannesburg."Released in two parts before being edited together as a 60-minute piece for the US market, the 1998 anime told the tale of an orphaned schoolgirl called Sawa who sets about finding the killer who murdered her parents. Helping her are the two corrupt detectives on the case of the double homicide, Akai and Kanie, who take her in as guardians, and, um, [click here for the grisly details].Growing up to be a seriously bad-ass assassin, the resulting story is twisted and bloody and definitely one to keep an eye on, if only because chances are it'll be a tough one for the BBFC to put an 18 stamp on.Still, with Jackson and Ellis on board, it looks like it's actually, genuinely, definitely going to happen, which should herald the start of hundreds of thousands of anime aficionados crying into their chawan. Let the fanboy fury commence!


Posted by harrypotter7fullonline at 1:43 AM EST

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