Upcoming Release: Skyline

This weekend, I saw a trailer for a movie that looks like my kind of movie.  It’s called Skyline and it’s yet another alien invasion movie, but it looks like it has some great special effects.  Here’s the synopsis:

“Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.”

The movie was directed by Colin Strause and Greg Strause. It stars Donald Faison Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, David Zayas, and Brittany Daniel and it is set for a November 12 release date.  Here’s the trailer:

Devil

Well, as I reported about a month ago, M. Night Shyamalan is co-producing a new movie coming out on September 17, 2010 called Devil.  According to IMDb, the plot of Devil is:

A group of people trapped in an elevator realize that the devil is among them.

The directors are Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle and the cast includes Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, and Bojana Novakovic. The movie starts Friday, September 17, 2010 and it is rated PG-13.

I just saw the trailer on TV for the first time.  Here it is:

Day X Exists ~ Salt begins July 23, 2010

Thanks for coming to Slurpee Chronicles for Day X Exists game hints.

Intro video was made using the Talking Tom Cat app on my iPhone.  I added transitions in the trailer using iMovie on my Mac.  Just because.

M. Night Shyamalan producing “Devil”

M. Night Shyamalan is co-producing a new movie coming out on September 17, 2010 called Devil.  According to IMDb, the plot of Devil is:

A group of people trapped in an elevator realize that the devil is among them.

The directors are Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle and the cast includes Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, and Bojana Novakovic.

Here is the trailer for Devil:

Enter the Hobbit

OK, The Hobbit movie is scheduled to begin filming in June or July 2010. The plan is to film two movies at once, with plans to release parts 1 and 2 at Christmas 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Like LOTR, The Hobbit will film in New Zealand, but Guillermo del Toro will direct and Peter Jackson will produce. Jackson decided not to direct this time because he didn’t want to compete with himself. You may be concerned about whether del Toro’s direction will be vastly different from Jackson’s style. Well, one good thing is that the same team who wrote the screenplay for the LOTR trilogy will also write The Hobbit’s screenplay (Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Phillippa Boyens).

Apparently, scripts for both parts are finished. There are lots of rumors swirling around about who will play the major roles, although it seems to have been established that Sir Ian McKellen will play Gandalf. I mean, who else can play him, really? I keep reading that Tobey Maguire is being considered to play Bilbo Baggins. Ah, well, we’ll see.

Check out The Hobbit Movie site for lots of great info like movie news, forums, and gossip .