Comic-Con Gallery Update

I’ve added more photos from Comic-Con in the gallery, including portraits for Entertainment Weekly. Check them out!

Appearances > 2010 > Comic-Con 2010: “Battle: Los Angeles” Panel (7.22.10)

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July 30th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Gallery Updates

New Battle: Los Angeles Comic-Con Interview

About.com has posted their interview with Aaron from Comic-Con. Click here to check it out.

July 29th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

Battle: Los Angeles official site

With all the craziness from Comic-Con, silly me has not linked to the viral campaign that has begun from B:LA. Thanks to Joy for the heads up on ReportThreats.org. While there, click on W.A.T.C.H for some more in-depth information tied in with the film.

ReportThreats.org

July 28th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

Rum Diaries Delayed Because of Pirates and Press?

Source: Film School Rejects

One of the many films that Oscar watchers have been talking about may not see the light of day until next year. Rum Diaries for a while now has been pegged as a film with Oscar chances written all over it, but even if it lives up to what plenty are saying, just don’t expect to see on during next year’s Oscar broadcast considering we may very well not be seeing it until 2011.

That’s what Aaron Eckhart told me and one of the possible reasons why: Depp is off shooting Pirates 4 and that renders him unavailable to do press. Eckhart sounded pretty unsure about the release date, and he had this to say.

“I don’t know. I heard next year that’s [when] it’s going to come out. Johnny is making Pirates of the Caribbean and I think that he’s too busy to promote something right now. He’s working in Hawaii. I think they’re going to wait to put it out next year.”

This makes pretty crystal clear sense. Depp is a publicity juggernaut and him promoting a film certainly wont hurt its chances of success. Still, it means that a film is being delayed from seeing the light of day because the main actor won’t be around to toss into a press conference.

I’m sure any Hunter S. Thompson fan will find this as sad news, but who knows, maybe Depp could become available by year’s end. This still isn’t anything official, but from what Eckhart says, we most likely won’t have us some Rum Diaries this year…

July 28th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

Rabbit Hole to premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Rabbit Hole will be making its premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival! Check out the official festival site for dates and tickets.

Source: Los Angeles Times

July 28th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

2 Second Snippet of Battle: Los Angeles

Yes, you read the title right. Is this a major tease or what?!

July 25th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

More Comic-Con Videos

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July 25th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip

Battle: Los Angeles Comic-Con Panel Videos

Several posts ago, I posted the first part of the B:LA panel from Screen Crave. Here’s the rest they have uploaded.

July 24th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies

Aaron Eckhart on Jen Aniston’s Signature “Sweetness & Innocence”

Source: OK! Magazine

July 23rd, 2010 1:47 pm / Author: Patricia Ramos

She doesn’t have the nickname “America’s Sweetheart” for no reason. Jennifer Aniston’s former co-star Aaron Eckhart opened up to OK! about the 41-year-old beauty’s charismatic nature and why her good vibes are so contagious!

“Jen has a sweetness and an innocence in a reality that no other person has,” Aaron told OK! exclusively about his Love Happens co-star at the Battle: Los Angeles panel during Comic-Con 2010 Thursday in San Diego.

“She has the ability to be the girl next door as well as this adventurous [side],” Aaron continued. “You’d think that she was just going to live quietly in a white picket fence and two cars, and then she’s off jet-setting with rockstars and this kind of stuff.”

Aaron had no problem expressing his feelings for Jen, who he immediately felt a connection to.

“She has this duality in her that people are attracted to. She won me over the second I met her.”

July 24th, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • News and Gossip

“Battle: Los Angeles” Wows Comic-Con Crowd

By Borys Kit
July 22, 2010

Source: ABC News

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) – Sony unveiled its first look Thursday for “Battle: Los Angeles,” the studio’s “Black Hawk Down”-meets-”District 9″ take on a space invasion.

The March 2011 release doesn’t have the big stars like the actioner “Red” nor the big comic-book brand name of “Green Lantern” or “The Avengers,” so audiences at the annual Comic-Con gathering were unsure what to expect.

The extended clips, however, with their embedded-Marine aesthetic, combined with a destruction of Los Angeles on a massive scale, seemed to put the movie on people’s radars.

The scenes only hinted at the look of the aliens and Jonathan Liebesman, onstage with producer Neal Moritz and actors Aaron Echkhart and Michelle Rodriguez, said he wanted to create aliens that were not creatures nor insects.

“We wanted something that literally alien,” he said. “We designed something that had an almost a hint of biomechanical to it. And I haven’t seen anything like this before.”

The point-of-view look generated a lot of discussion during the Q&A.

“When I saw 40 minutes of this the other day, I literally grabbed my hands like an Xbox,” described Rodriguez. “It’s really like a first-person shooter game.”

Eckhart, meanwhile, said he was convinced to do the movie by Liebesman, who showed him a presentation involving soldiers doing urban combat in Fallujah to show how he wanted to shoot the movie.

“We made a war movie. With aliens. Jonathan brought me to the part.”

July 23rd, 2010 by Jamie • Leave a comment • Movies, News and Gossip