Trailer Report

Here’s a couple of cool trailers I watched today and are worth checking out:

Title

Safety Not Guaranteed

One Line Synopsis

A guy places a classified ad asking for someone to go back in time with him.

Director

Colin Trevorrow

Screenplay

Derek Connelly

Actors

Aubrey Plaza, Jake M. Johnson, Karan Soni.

Link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079/

 

Title

Citizen Gangster

One Line Synopsis

A WWII vet whose a regular guy starts robbing banks.

Director

Nathan Morlando

Actors

Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly

Link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1709654/

Thomas Edison: RESURRECTOR

Just finished the first 100 pages of the first section of the first draft of Thomas Edison: RESURRECTOR. Two more major sections to write (about 300 or so pages) then onto the rewrite. It’s a blast writing this book and I want to thank all my friends for their kind and encouraging support.

Free Download: Reckoning in Escobara

Reckoning in Escobara, the action-packed sequel to The System – A Detroit Story – by John Silver is a free Kindle download on Amazon.com Thursday March 29 through Sunday April 1st. Get it at:

http://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-in-Escobara-ebook/dp/B006P0O0L4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324591819&sr=1-1

30 Minutes of Less

I was scanning listings this weekend looking for something to download and watch during the week. I downloaded 30 Minutes or Less and I’m glad I did. It’s about a pizza delivery guy who is kidnapped, chloroformed and is forced to rob a bank wearing a bomb vest. Regardless of plot, a lot of the dialog is hilarious as are some of the supporting characters. This is a bargain basement movie and is worth picking if you ever see it in a bin at WalMart.

No Bullet Holes?

Final thoughts on Air Force One (studying old action movie plots). Out of the hundreds of shots fired from machine guns inside the plane (and always missing Harrison Ford) how come not even one round went through the fuselage? In Goldfinger one round hit a window and sucked fat old Goldfinger right out at 30,000 feet!

Current Historical Characters in Thomas Edison: RESURRECTOR

Here’s a partial list of the historical characters in the book:

Thomas Edison

Nikola Tesla

George Westinghouse

Sarah Jordan

Henry Ford

Teddy Roosevelt

Albert Einstein

Harry Houdini (maybe)

 The book is cruising along.

Chernobyl Diaries

Just saw the first trailer for Chernobyl Diaries. Good high concept and hopefully the film won’t descend into a typical slasher clone. It looks like the U.S. release is on May 25th, 2012.

Check it out here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1991245/

 

 

The System Free Download

The System – A Detroit Story – is a free download today (Sunday, March 18), March 19 and March 20 on Amazon.com. Get it here:

http://www.amazon.com/System-Detroit-Story—ebook/dp/B005HZKIBE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313788718&sr=1-1

 

John Carter

I haven’t seen the movie yet,  but I first saw the trailer at the show waiting to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I thought John Carter was going to be a bomb, and it looks like that’s coming true. Why? The story is basically good (written in 1912 by Edgar Rice Burroughs), the CGI is cool, but the film seems to have an obstacle it can’t overcome: overproduction. There’s a definite lack of hip that pervades this film. I think if John Carter was a low budget, net-sourced affair, such as Iron Sky, it would have a much better chance of success and developed a long-tail audience. Even the cheezy 2009 version of Princess of Mars has a cult following (due to Traci Lords).

Here’s some review links:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120309/ENT02/203090320/Review-Sci-fi-epic-John-Carter-underwhelms-thin-plot-characters?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-john-carter-20120309,0,136941.story

Here’s some links to A Princess of Mars:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531911/

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbp4bx_princess-of-mars-trailer-2009-hq_shortfilms

But there’s always Russia!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-carter-box-office-russia-298092

Iron Sky Update

It looks line Entertainment One has picked up Iron Sky for U.S. distribution at SXSW. I believe this film will be an underground hit and according to the article Iron Sky will be in theaters this spring (which it what? Less than two weeks away?).

Check out the article here: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051215