In the spirit of being really onto it, Wellington City Libraries has New Moon on DVD for you. Reserve it now (everyone else will)! It’s not even afternoon yet.
Special features include “Team Jacob v Team Edward: The Ultimate Love Triangle”.
Our copies came complete with three T-shirts, so there may be a giveaway right here on the blog soon.
Here is some entertainment news! Tickets for Eclipse go on sale tomorrow, WELL in advance of the first screening but you can’t never be too quick with these things can you? Reading Cinemas is on Facebook and Twitter, should you want more immediate information about this historic occasion.
Also a new series of Glee begins tomorrow in the US of A, at long last. But it’s difficult to find out when it begins on television here, unfortunately! A bit like Vampire Diaries, it is a mystery. So until then, here are a couple of promos.
John Marsden’s ever-popular Tomorrow, When the War Began (see also our Top 10 Books with Death and Destruction), is being made into a movie. Yes! That’s right! And the trailer has been released. You can watch it in HD on the official site, at this link. Or just watch this non-HD embedded clip.
It stars Lincoln Lewis, who was? is? in Home and Away, and is perhaps an Australian Taylor Lautner. He is interviewed here.
Michael Cera, so uncool he’s supercool (Superbad, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One, Juno…) is going to be on a big screen near you quite soon (Augusty), in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, where he finds himself – in order to win the heart of Ramona Flowers – having to defeat seven (count ’em, seven) evil ex-boyfriends.
The movie also stars Anna Kendrick, who you’ve seen in the Twilight movies (Jessica), but there’s no Taylor Lautner.
Here’s the trailer:
This time for one minute and thirty three seconds. Which is a whole lot longer than ten seconds. More of Taylor.
A 10-second teaser for a trailer (I know) for the next Twilight film, Eclipse. The 90-second trailer will become available on the 11th at 6am PST (that’s Pacific Standard Time, a US timezone), which is, uh, 3am tomorrow morning? Maths is hard.
Anyway, here’s the 10-second trailer, which has a shirtless Taylor Lauuuuuutner
There is a new trailer for The Last Airbender (which would be called Avatar but it might confuse people) that you can watch at the official site. I would embed it but that is forbidden! It looks to me – and I own all the DVDs so I am some kind of expert – that the film will follow the first series pretty closely. Which is good! You can borrow the series from the library. Not the second and third series though, as for some reason they aren’t available in NZ.
Here’s a selection of films that will be coming soon(ish) to a theatre near you.
Fantastic Mr Fox. On now. We posted about the trailer here.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (March). The Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan are super popular in the children’s fiction collection.
How to Train Your Dragon, with America Fereira and Gerard Butler (3D – March). From the books about Hiccup and Toothless by Cressida Cowell. I mention this because it’s 3D and it therefore looked cool (when I saw it at Avatar).
Alice in Wonderland (3D – March). But is Johnny Depp making the Mad Hatter seem too much like Willie Wonka? Visit the trailer here, and mind the teacups.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (April). Based on the best selling series of books by Jeff Kinney, which are apparently ravingly good and funny. There’s no trailer to be found (by me)!
Toy Story 3 (June/July). Here’s a link to the trailer.
Eclipse (July). The question is, is this the last one, or are they game enough to try and make a film out of Breaking Dawn?
The Last Airbender (July), based on the series Avatar, and directed by M Night Shyamalan (who saw dead people) and starring Jackson Rathbone (Jasper) and Dev Patel. We brought you the trailer here.
Beastly (based on novel by Alex Flinn – see this post about classics remixed) starring Vanessa Hudgens, Neil Patrick Harris, Mary-Kate Olsen and some guy called Alex Pettyfer. Will be at the movies in September, although the trailer says July which is confusing. The trailer:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 1 (November). Then it’s just another six or seven months before the final instalment.
ps The Mortal Engines quartet by Philip Reeve is being made into a movie, with Peter Jackson involved, but that’s not this year.
Exams? What exams?
As with the lovely Taylor Lautner posters, we’ve got another New Moon movie poster that we thought we’d give to the first person who tells us what they thought of New Moon (which we think some of you might have seen already). As usual, the catch is you have to review it in haiku form (explanation here again). Eligible only for WCL YA cardholders. Please add your full name [we won’t publish it]. The poster has folds in it again (sorry).
I suppose the other catch for me is I should provide an example review haiku thing, so here goes:
The movie begins…
Love, tragedy, danger, then-
“Put the shirt back on!”
The cast of the Twilight films lead the polls (the best actor, best actress, break out actor, best film, and some others) for the 2010 People’s Choice Awards. The People’s Choice awards are voted for by the public (well, the US public), hence their name. They are awards chosen by people, for the people.
I have two posters of the potential 2010 winner of best break out actor (as chosen by some people), Taylor Lautner, to give away! As much as I’d like to have them I simply haven’t the space for any more. If you want one write a haiku (explained here) about Taylor in the comments below. There are only two posters so the first two haiku will get one! Eligible only for WCL YA cardholders. Please add your full name [we won’t publish your name]. The posters have folds in them sorry.
E.g.
Taylor Lautner plays
a werewolf in highschool. So
did Michael J. Fox.
Well, that is if reports like these two are to be trusted. Word is he’ll be starring in a film called Unbound Captives alongside Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman that’ll be filmed right here. Regardless of whether or not the Twilight star’s 2010 working holiday will go ahead (it does look likely), the internet and local media seems to be rather lathered up about the prospect. I’m sure many of you will be too, I however can’t understand the excitement, It’s not as if Taylor Lautner is coming is it?
It is what the title says it is!
So when you write your first (?) film be sure to mention the title in the script.
More new anime has arrived (I mentioned it earlier but now it’s in the catalogue). We have the final disc of the Mushi-Shi series, which is a slow series but well worth watching in its entirety; volumes 1 to 7 of Fullmetal Alchemist; volumes 1 to 3 of Ranma 1/2; and the final three discs in the infinitely awesome Samurai Champloo series, which is now all in the YA area.
Here’s a complete list of anime based on a manga series held by the library. Here’s a list of anime movies, and here is a list of anime television series.
You can make Robert Pattinson’s face through the gentle art of cross-stitch, thanks to the Guardian online. Here are some books in the library on cross-stitch so that you can learn how to make your own fabric Edward. A good Christmas gift in these lean times. I’m hoping for a cross-stitched Taylor Lautner, as he’d make a great cushion.
X-Men Origins : Wolverine is now in the library and ready to be reserved. If you want to watch it! You probably have seen it. It doesn’t have Taylor Lautner in it, so I might give it a miss.
Here’s X-Men Origins : Wolverine in only 30 seconds, to save time.
Are you familiar with the Scene-it? series of DVD games? They’re a series of movie quiz games you can play on your DVD player – sort of like Buzz, but don’t require a console. Anyway, the exciting news is that a Twilight one is coming very soon and is even coming to the Nintendo Wii in some sort of super deluxe package. Team Edward can face off against Team Jacob in trivia showdowns very soon then.
Judging from a website titled Ultramarines The Movie there is to be an Ultramarines movie. It seems a fair conclusion to reach. What are Ultramarines? Why, they’re genetically-modified super-soldiers in space, and part of the Warhammer 40k gaming universe. The movie probably won’t be out for a while, but once a trailer appears we will post it!
While the library doesn’t have gaming, we do have a rulebook (for the Warhammer fantasy RPG); we also carry White Dwarf magazine, and we have some of the related novels (and here’s 5 good reasons why you should read them if you haven’t already).
As the decade draws to a close more and more websites will start posting top 100 lists looking back on the 2000s, or the noughties, or whatever it was we decided to call it. Other websites will do the opposite and post bottom 100 lists, like Rotten Tomatoes has with this, its worst movies of the decade list. Simon and I noticed we had a fair few of these in the catalogue, so if you’d like to watch something terrible for laughs …
82. Supercross: The Movie
81. Extreme Ops
60. The Perfect Man
46. Material Girls
38. Happily N’Ever After
26. Kickin’ It Old Skool
21. Epic Movie
And worst of them all…. 1. Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
Enjoy, I suppose.
Have you seen this video? Go on, give it a watch.
If that made you smile, and really how could it not, we have the full story of Christian the Lion on DVD. It’s called A Lion Called Christian and it tells the true story of two men who bought a lion in a London department store, it’s release into the wild and their subsequent reunions. All very sweet and tearjerking.
And if you want some more things to watch we have these two; 17 Again starring the dreamy Zac Efron and Primeval series two which has giant Mastodons in it.
