Kyle Kerr

Ain’t It Excitin’?

12/20/07 | Awesome, Books, Genius Mode, Movies, Trailers | 0 Comments

This post is all about some BIG NEWS… Some really amazing things that I thought I should share with you all… Of course, none of it is about me, but all of it excites me to no end!

The first thing is about my friend Dawn, who I have mentioned in the past.  She recently finished her first book and sent it off to an agent who expressed interest in it back at the Maui Writers Conference… Well, she just got an email from said agent that was very encouraging!  I’m not going to go into it until Dawn gets some definite answers, because I don’t want to jinx it… I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you Iusey!

Any Peter Jackson fans out there?  Of COURSE there are!  For any of you who don’t personally know me, I am a HUGE PJ fan, and have loved all of the movies of his I’ve seen (including the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, and The Frighteners, and I’m sooo looking forward to The Lovely Bones)… Well, Pete and New Line were having a little tiff… to the tune of about $100 million!  That’s how much money in royalties NL tried to swindle PJ out of for the Rings trilogy.  Because of the success of the trilogy, NL wanted to immediately put into production the film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the trilogy, though both sides refused to work with each other while the dispute was going on.  I don’t blame them… Personally, I don’t see what the problem was.  Give him the damn $100M, because you have the potential to make another BILLION dollars if you team up for another movie (that’s the amount each of the first three made on average in box office receipts alone!).  Well, they’ve finally settled their dispute, and PJ is back on board for The Hobbit (which, from what I can tell, is going to be TWO movies, shot consecutively and released in 2010 and 2011), but only in a producer role!  He’s not going to direct!  What the eff?!  They’re looking at Spider-Man director Sam Raimi to fill Pete’s shoes… As long as PJ’s there to make sure things stay on track, it should still be good… I hope!

Also, for those of you who enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s vision of Bruce Wayne and Gotham City in Batman Begins, the next installment is coming out next summer!  Enjoy the trailer for The Dark Knight below!

It looks even BETTER than Begins!  Anyone else notice that Katie Holmes was replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal?  Katie had scheduling difficulties.  Yeah, she decided to film the ridiculous looking Mad Money with Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah.  I’m not even going to put the trailer on my site, because it looks sooo bad… But you can view it here if you so choose… Good choice, Katie!

Focus Features has become one of my new favorite movie studios, after their release of the brilliant Atonement.  Here are two new movies coming out by the studio that look really hilarious!

In Bruges (January 17, 2008) - This trailer actually has cursing in it, so you probably shouldn’t watch it at work...!

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (March 7 2008)

Until Next…

Kyle W. Kerr