“Seventh Son” is apparently an adaptation of yet another YA Fantasy franchise I’ve never once heard anyone talk about, and looks more-or-less like the rest of them save that halfway through I started getting a strong sense that the “Castlevania” logo was about to pop up.

Via Bleeding Cool

Tom Hanks is Walt Disney. Emma Thompson is “Mary Poppins” creator P.L. Travers. The movie is “Saving Mr. Banks,” a dramatization of the contemptuous relationship that developed between the two (both notorious egomaniacs known publicly for children’s entertainment) during the lengthy process of Disney trying to secure film rights (and then an actual film) to her books.

Here’s the first (red-band) trailer for Spike Lee’s version of “Oldboy,” which does a decent enough job of laying out the basic story while also making sure to pre-warn fans of the Chan Wook-Park film that no, they probably aren’t going to bother with that last plot-twist (which wasn’t in the Manga both films are based on) …but that they are apparently going to try and do the hammer fight.

PfffffFFFFFF… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ahem…

…HEH. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE HA HA!

Laughter is not technically a comment.

On the one hand, this Chinese Johnnie Walker commercial featuring a CGI Bruce Lee (from “Torque” amd “Detention” director Joseph Khan) is creepy in the way that dead people “endorsing” products generally are. On the other hand, if there’s any celebrity living or dead for whom it can be argued that their cultural presence as a “mythic figure” has so transcended their actual existence that something like this isn’t really that much more “offensive” than Santa Claus selling Coca-Cola… I guess Bruce Lee would be it.

Either way, it can’t be denied that the effects used to pull this stuff of, while still not “there,” are really close to getting “there.” I wonder who the first celebrity will be to “star” in an (otherwise live-action) film as their own years-younger self? It’s not that far outside the realm of possibility for a studio to say “Y’know who would’ve been good in this? Bruce Willis, but like ten years ago Bruce Willis…” and for Bruce Willis (or whoever) to just do the mocap and voice work for that.

Let’s support new things.

via Jezebel

Here’s the interesting-looking trailer for “Wadjda,” notable for being the first full-length movie ever directed by a woman in Saudi Arabia, currently booked for a U.S. opening later this year. Story concerns a 10 year-old girl, Wadjda, doing anything she can think of (including entering her school’s Koran-memorization competition) to cobble together enough money to buy a bicycle. For cultural context: The bike is kind of a big deal because it has only been legal for women to ride bikes in The Kingdom since April – as in, this past April.

Yeah, it’ll be fun to see “classic” lets-pretend-this-is-actually-scary Chucky again; but I think I’ll end up in the minority that REALLY misses Glen and Tiffany…

Y’know, guys? I understand we’re all very, very fond of our tablets and phones and such and there’s an innate tragic irony to a man of vision dying young… but do we really need to be in a rush to enshrine the legacy of Steve Jobs? I mean, it’s not like he was President. Or some kind of great humanitarian (or great villain, for that matter). He didn’t CURE something, and “invent” is kind of the wrong word for his (still exceptionally substantial) contribution to the tech field. Given, couldn’t we have waited for the distance necessary to get a full picture of the man’s life before we churned out the glamorous movie-star biopic version ready for the pedestal?

It’s not so much that “Jobs” (with Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak) looks “bad,” but that it looks so depressingly expected – the Legend of Jobs (offbeat hippie visionary revolutionizes home computing, exiled for being too awesome for square colleagues, returns like Gandalf The White and CHANGES THE WORLD, MAN!!!) meticulously maintained by the iCult solidified into a “Social Network” wannabe. This is actually one of TWO Jobs bios we’ll be getting, incidentally.

Were you feeling, perhaps, that the “Earth = Third World, Space-Station = America” border-control/immigration/class-uprising allegory in “Elysium” didn’t look quite on the nose enough? Well, here are two trailers for Bong Joon-ho’s (of “The Host” and “Mother”) upcoming “Snowpiercer,” in which an ice age has so blighted the planet that the remainders of human society now exist entirely on a gigantic train that travels constantly on a globe-circling track – the richer you are, the closer you live to the engine and get to run the show, while the progressively-poorer live further and further back into the tail. Chris Evans is guy who leads a rebel-uprising among the poor to storm the engines.