Movie News

In an effort to better provide for our faithful and always appreciated readers, we’re now going to begin a weekly news wrap-up.  Sure, it’s nothing big but it ought to provide our readers with an easy outlet to catch up on the news, reviews, special features and podcasts that are posted throughout the week.

So I hope y’all dig this little update to the site and hopefully everyone will catch up on any potential news stories they missed throughout the week.

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If you are a Sci-Fi buff such as myself and many of my fellow Shogun Gamer community members then you should be aware that the Alien movie franchise (with the exception of the fourth movie which was meh) is one of the most influential and beloved Sci-Fi cinema ever.

The very first trailer, originally exclusively screened at this year's Comic-Con, for Marvel's Thor has surfaced online and you can view the 5 minute trailer below.

Last week Sega officially announced the video game version of the upcoming Marvel film Thor. Despite the history of the character and the rising hype for the film, the news was met with a rather lukewarm reception. The less than stellar reaction wasn’t too surprising considering Sega + Marvel Comics + movie games = Iron Man 2: The Video Game. Nuff, said if you ask me.

Love it or hate it there’s a new Resident Evil film coming out in September. Once again featuring Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she takes on the Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil: Afterlife (catchy name) is most likely the final installment of the RE film franchise featuring Alice and friends. So what better way to end things than jumping aboard the 3D bandwagon?

Last week was amazing if you’re a fan of TRON since the San Diego Comic Con served as the source of an overflowing amount of goodness.  Not only was there a panel with the TRON: Legacy cast, but a new 8 minute clip was shown along with a new theatrical trailer that was simply awe-inspiring.  Now the TRON hype machine continues to blaze down the Game Grid with the announcement of TRON: The Betrayal from Marvel Comics.

This week ought to be called the Week of TRON as TRON’s impact at the San Diego Comic Con will be huge this week. Not only is a good chunk of the cast going to be there, but extended footage will also make its debut which in turn will hopefully find its way online.  To celebrate this week of geek/tech/sci-fi goodness Disney has released the first of many TRON apps for the iPod Touch/iPhone.

Despite their success in the game industry, Capcom still wants to hit it big outside of gaming and become one of those massive media conglomerates.  But when it comes to transferring their films to the silver screen Capcom hasn’t exactly had the best luck as evident by the two Street Fighter films. Even the films they want to get off the ground are doomed since I doubt the planned Dark Void film will be happening any time soon. Though Capcom does have one film savior as the Resident Evil films have performed well as evident by the upcoming 4th installment in the franchise.

I wasn’t expecting a lot of hate, but folks didn’t seem to dig the new Thor picture that was released last week. Showing our first look at Thor’s father Odin and his brother Loki, many people (perhaps of the uber comic nerd variety) simply hated the look of the costumes. Some said they weren’t faithful enough to the comics while others lauded that the costumes looked too modern.

I’m a fan of animated CG films that don’t feature talking animals so I was somewhat bummed out that animation studio IMAGI was scaling back their internal productions.  Sure, I tore the hell out of IMAGI’s last film Astro Boy but I was optimistic about the future, in particular the CG adaptation of the classic anime series Gatchaman.

Next week is when the glorious San Diego Comic Con happens and that means it’ll be an overload of geek related goodness. In case you don’t know, the SDCC is the place where all the big players in the movie/comic book industry show up to discuss their new projects and most of the time debut footage for the first time.

The retro arcade goodness of Encom is back yet again with a new game. If you’re wondering what Encom is and if it’s some lost and forgotten 1980s game publisher you’re not too far off. Encom is the fictional game company from the film TRON and it has subsequently been resurrected as part of the Flynn Lives viral promotion that’s going on for TRON: Legacy. Awhile back we finally got a playable version of Space Paranoids and now it’s time for Circuit Cycles.

Last week I was lucky enough to get some hands-on time with the upcoming TRON video games TRON: Evolution and Tron: Evolution – Battle Grids.  As a hardcore TRON fan it was definitely an E3 highlight to get a glimpse at TRON’s video game debut on the current video game systems.  Now Disney has revealed the rest of their plans for TRON as they have unveiled some of the core merchandise for TRON Legacy.

So far the Kane & Lynch film, yes there is one planned, has the actors playing the titular characters locked in.  Movie veteran Bruce Willis will be playing Kane while Jaime Foxx is surprisingly playing Lynch, which if you’re familiar with the game is a huge departure for the character.