We have a release date for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s sequel (but it’s more of a prequel) to Sin City will open in 3D on October 4, 2013.  Mickey Rourke will return to play Marv and  Jessica Alba will reprise her role as Nancy Callahan.  Rodriguez and Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar-winning screenwriter Willliam Monahan (The Departed).  Here is a synopsis via Amazon.

Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight’s thinking of all the ways he’s screwed up and what he’d give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he’d give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he can’t let himself lose control again, can’t ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls. With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece!

Opening this year is The Wachowskis’ and Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of Cloud Atlas, from the concept art [see and see] alone it looks like it’s going to end up a monster of a movie.  The finished film is reported to run at 2-hours and 44-minutes.  You can see it in theaters on December 6, the film stars Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Keith David and Jim Broadbent.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation — the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

Click for full size.

It was just two years ago when we had the displeasure of sharing the new that Paramount had passed on a sequel to Anchorman, we can now look forward to the sequel and here’s a poster too!

Will Ferrell appeared as Ron Burgandy on Conan and announced that Anchorman 2 is a go (see video below). Deadline confirms the sequel will have Judd Apatow producing, McKay writing and directing, and Ferrell starring with Steve Carell and Paul Rudd. Here’s Ferrell’s appearance on Conan, teaser trailer coming soon!

The action romantic comedy Hit and Run has a trailer below, and it’s clear that it would have worked better as a re-band but what can you do?  Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in the movie; he plays as an ex-getaway driver who exits the Witness Protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles.

Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, when they are chased by the feds, and increasingly dangerous, when Charlie’s former gang of criminals enter the fray.  That would be Bradley Cooper in the dreads.

Watch the trailer below, Hit and Run hits theaters on August 24th.

Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin will bring Steve Jobs’ life to the big screen says Variety, the movie will be based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography simply titled Steve Jobs.  Sorkin wrote The Social Network for which he won the Oscar; he was also nominated for Moneyball.

“There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing,” Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in a statement.

There are rumors that Noah Wyle and George Clooney are in the running to play Jobs. these have not been confirmed.  There is also an indie pic being made starring Ashton Kutcher titled Jobs.

Orlando Bloom isn’t looking so good in the recent trailer for the Lance Daly directed film The Good Doctor.  He has a Lloyd Christmas haircut and a strange way of keeping girls in his life.  A dark role for the dream boat can’t be a bad thing can it?

Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) is an ambitious but anxious young doctor, eager to impress his superiors and colleagues: but things are not going Martin’s way and he can’t seem to shake off his insecurities. When 18-year-old patient Diane (Riley Keough) is admitted for a kidney infection, Martin steps in, getting the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession.

The Good Doctor opens on August 31st, here’s the trailer:

• Roger Donaldson will direct Pierce Brosnan and  Dominic Cooper in November Man. [thr]

• Here is some cool character art From Pixar’s Brave. [comingsoon]

• New spoilerish international Prometheus TV spot. [metacafe]

• Alan Rickman will headline CBGB, story of famous N.Y. club. [variety]

• Channing Tatum to star in Roland Emmerich-directed White House Down. [deadline]

Red Band Trailer for Shark Thriller Bait 3D and The Amazing Spider-Man 4-Minute Super Preview below:

The Amazing Spider-Man 4-Minute Super Preview

Welcome to another week in The City of Films!  We have some fantastic treats for you this week and it all starts off with City Strip #102.  It’s good, almost too good.  We should have sold it to a better site come to think of it.  Kevin, stop doing such cool work.

The Summer Movie Guide is up so be sure to plan your summer viewing.  Check out Strip #102 right here.

 “No CGI can match what Vic can accomplish.” –Steven Spielberg

That quote is from the introduction to The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman.  Spielberg is talking about Vic Armstrong, and trust me when I say you DO know him.  He’s been stunt doubles for James Bond, Superman and Indiana Jones.  He’s directed action scene in Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3 and the recent Thor blockbuster.  You can see his work this summer in The Amazing Spider-Man too!  This is a great look at the industry; Vic Armstrong’s memories are page turners.

He’s been part of the business for over 40 years and in that time played the most iconic on screen heroes.  Harrison Ford joked (image above), “If you learn to talk I’m in deep trouble.”  That says it all about his ability don’t you think?  He’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell you, and they’re all here in this newly updated version of the successful memoir from released last year.

“Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend in the film world.” –Martin Scorsese

One of the coolest credits on his long list (far too long to put here) is “Unicorn Master” on Ridley Scott’s Legend.  Can I get that business card?  This memoir spans his career from his horse riding beginnings to one of the industry’s most sought-after action coordinators.

One of my favorite stories in the book concerns his work on Richard Donner’s Superman.  Vic explains how he and Christopher Reeve would clash on the set because Reeve wanted to do his own stunts.  Reeve’s was a professional and very involved in his character, he wanted to do it all understandably says Vic.  One night they were filming some shots for Superman II, it was the scene in Metropolis with a few alien baddies and Superman getting a manhole cover thrown at him which tosses him back into a car window.  Yes, Reeve’s wanted to do this.  [watch the scene here]

I went into the dressing room to get my kiss curl put on when Chris walked by and stopped in the doorway.  ‘What are you doing?’ he asked.  I told him about the stunt.  ‘No, I’m doing it’ he said.  ‘Chris you can do whatever you want, but don’t stop me from earning a living’, I replied.  Off he went in a huff.

He explains the stunt in detail and the rest of the night, he got “beaten up like hell” he says.

After getting changed I was leaving for home and Chris Reeve, bless him, came over, gave me a thumbs-up and said ‘Jeeze, Vic, you’re right, I’m glad I wasn’t doing that mate.  Thanks a million.’

He’s a master of the craft and has some very big names making these claims for him if you’re still unsure.  He jumped from a horse to a tank for Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg, off a helicopter onto a mountain peak and lives to tell the tales.  This book is fun and easy to read, it’s written with passion and most noticeably from the perspective a fan of movies, one of the many reasons I couldn’t put it down.

The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman: My Life As Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and other movie heroes

Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date: May 17 2011, Updated May 2012
Authors: Vic Armstrong, Robert Sellers
Paperback: 352 +16 color photos

PRE-ORDER IT TODAY!

From Amazon.ca

From Amazon.com

Check out all of our Book Reviews here.