Final Trailer For Nolan's Final "Batman" Film!

The final, final, final trailer for this Summers "The Dark Knight Rises" has been released online courtesy of Nokia. I generally think that Warner and DC should just release the whole bloody film online seeing as we've seen so much footage from the final Batman film. There's a lot more of Batman vs Bane in this final trailer, which is so much "shivers down my spine" feel to it, especially the part when Bane walks towards Batman and just says "Mr Wayne" to him.........fucking shiver and a half.
Here's the link to the trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQqjK47c04

First "DREDD" Trailer Hits The Net!

Finally the first official trailer for "DREDD" has hit the net! Fans were given a teaser of this full trailer yesterday. It was only like 10 seconds long, but it was insane looking. So much was going on, well action wise and Karl Urban looked bad-ass as Dredd. 

Now after watching this full trailer, I'm actually not that sure if Karl Urban is right for the role of Judge Dredd. He's good, but not great. I really feel as though he's putting on a tough voice to sound tougher than he really is, whereas Sly Stallone, as much as his Dredd film wasn't too great, never had to do that with his voice. He also sounds like he's doing an impression of Batman. Also, his one liners are also sounding pretty bad. I don't know if that's just because of the way the trailer has been cut, but they sound as bad as Stallone's ones from the older film. I just hope they don't have Urban's Dredd say the law speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qolk_rDA9xU

The film itself looks good, but now great. The trailer is a bit cheesy. I like cheesy action films, but this seems a bit too cheesy if you know what I mean. I will deffo still go and see it, but I do think the studio need to release another trailer before the official release later this year. On a high note, visually it looks amazing and they have a few "bullet-time" sequences, which are pretty awesome. 

Here's the link to the leaked trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxvXAW3Nfwk

"Dumb & Dumber" Sequel No More!

That's it! It's all over before it even started! The planned "Dumb & Dumber" titled "Dumber & Dumber To" is according to Jim Carrey a "no-brainer". Carrey has left the project saying that the studio behind the upcoming direct sequel to the 1994 comedy classic have "showed a lack of ethusiasm regarding the project".
Filming for the sequel was set to begin later this year, but by the looks of it now, it ain't happening unless the studio try their fucking hardest in getting Carrey back on board.
It's quite sad that the sequel isn't happening anymore, because I was really looking forward to seeing Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels together again as Lloyd and Harry.

Final "Amazing Spider-Man" Poster!

Final "Expendables 2" Poster!

Horror hidden in the dark of Ireland

I think by this point it is very evident that I am a massive horror fan, and it is no secret I am also a filmmaker (the main reason I have restrained from reviews, as I harp on again and again in my infrequent posts), and maybe it is time to let you know that these two loves are not separate. I have been trying to hold my tongue until I was in a more solid place, not liking people who get ahead of themselves and put the cart before the horse, but now, I can officially declare that I have written the horror film I want to make as my first feature as director.

While doing a photo shoot in a forest for a college project, Kate and Brendan uncover a passageway in an abandoned and derelict. It leads to darkness and seems to go on in to infinity. Though Kate is cautious, Brendan decides to explore the passage, but ends up disappearing. When he returns, he feels amazing, and his entire demeaner is changed. While trying to figure out what it is, they introduce more friends to the passageway, with everyone feeling amazing after using. But, then, things start to turn when people are unable to control themselves and something inside them starts to take over…

Just some of the many inspirations.

For a country so rich in folklore, it is astounding how minimal the horror output is from Ireland, and what there is tends to err on the side of typical. Now is the time for this film to be made. Bubbling under the surface is a revolution of independent Irish cinema, and we filmmakers are getting louder and louder with our ‘no compromise for money’ ethos. I served as one of the producers on the independent mystery thriller, Sodium Party, and I know that when the right group of people who want to make a good film get together, nothing can stop them. Sure there is a place for trailers and personal assistants, but there are those of us who know that the innovative can make a €10,000 film look like a €500,000 film.

This is what I want to do. I want to make the kind of horror film I would love to see, and this is a film that has been touched on by other filmmakers, but never from the perspective I have wanted to see. Equal parts bed-wetting terror and hair-pulling tension, I am going to make a horror film with an intensely psychological value, much in the vein of masters like David Cronenberg or John Carpenter. I am not saying I am in their league, but Irelandneeds someone to try something intelligent and different!  This film will be Hellraiser by way of The Shining, with its toes in Martha Marcy May Marlene, and (as I noticed as I finished writing) a heck of a nod to classic Italian horror of the 70s.

So why this film? Why a passageway into who-knows-what? Well, I have grown up in a time watching people lose sight of what is important in life, including myself, and I have recently lost someone very important to me, which has made me acutely aware that sometimes you have to step back and realise just what it is you are doing. I don’t want to preach, I don’t want to judge, but I do want people to question. Whether that is a cultural or a personal experience will be an individual's own experience.

I hope to procure a relatively workable budget (compared to Sodium Party, anyway!) and know that this film will be made by a talented cast and crew, not by a big budget. A good film involves dozens of people, and there are more than enough talented folk just waiting in the wings! Whether I can find investors, or raise the money with like-minded people, or scrimp and save and shoot it on weekends for a few years, I will make the horror film I want to see, and want the world to see that Irish cinema is able to be exciting and risk-taking. Best of all, I genuinely love making horror films and think this would be a great way to kick it all off to what could be a long road of scares!

If you are interested, please drop me an e-mail at richmwaters@gmail.com. Even if it is just to be kept informed, you are very welcome. The more people who want in, the better! You know I am a horror lover, and I am making this film as a horror lover.

Let’s scare the shit out of em!

"House" Star Possibly Playing Villain in "RoboCop" Reboot!

British actor Hugh Laurie, who is famous in America for playing TV favorite Dr Gregory House in hit show "House" is in negotiations with MGM to play one of the villains in their 2013 reboot of "RoboCop". He will be playing the CEO of OCP, which in the original film was Dick Jones.
It's yet unknown if Laurie has officially signed on the doted line or if the role is still Dick Jones or the same character with a new name. There's also news that the studio hope to still bring in an actor to play a newer version of Clarence Bodicker in the upcoming reboot.