The trailer has been released for the forthcoming action flick The Green Hornet, which improbably stars Seth Rogen as the titular character. Jay Chou plays Kato, the role that made Bruce Lee a star in the 1960s TV series. The good news is that Rogen has apparently gone on a strict diet that has reduced his roly poly physique to something akin to an average build, but the movie appears to be a weird hybrid of reverence for the source material combined with the kind of belly laughs one might expect from a Rogen flick. The usual elements of contemporary action films are present: lightning fast cuts and ear-splitting, awful music. We'll try to be objective, but for the moment we'd rather they brought back Van Williams to star! Click here to view trailer
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Sony:
CULVER
CITY, CA – JUNE 29, 2010 – On his 90th birthday, Sony Pictures Digital
Productions is excited to announce the renaming of its 119-seat screening
theater after visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. The honor comes
just days after the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) paid
tribute to the creative legend in London with a special award feting his
contributions to film.
The Ray Harryhausen Theater will be formally dedicated on Monday, July 12,
2010, with the unveiling of a sign displaying the theater’s new name, a
reception, and the screening of one of Harryhausen’s seminal hit films,
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. The 1963 classic, originally produced and released by
Columbia Pictures (now part of Sony Pictures Entertainment), has been
lovingly restored to its original splendor by Sony Pictures. The filmmakes
its debut on Blu-ray Disc onJULY 6– the
fifth Harryhausen Blu-ray title from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the most
of any filmmaker from the label. The disc features new commentaries by
Harryhausen himself, as well as Oscar®-winning director Peter Jackson, along
with film historian Tony Dalton and visual effects expert Randall William Cook,
and a new interview with Harryhausen with filmmaker John Landis.
“It’s an incredible honor to have this theater named at the studio I called
home,†says Harryhausen. “It means as much to me as my Academy Award® and the
BAFTA honor I just received, especially knowing that it is a working theater
where visual effects artists and animators work every day.â€
The theater, located on the Culver City, Ca. campus of Sony Pictures Digital
Productions, is the screening theater of Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony
Pictures Animation and Sony Imageworks Interactive. Used on a daily basis
in the creation of modern visual effects and animated features, the theater
represents the living legacy of Harryhausen’s lifelong career, as Sony’s
artists continue to develop and practice new animation techniques for bringing
fantasy to life, much as the facility’s namesake did throughout his career.