Trailer for Luc Besson's Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec movie

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The first full trailer for Luc Besson's Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec  has been embedded below thanks to Yahoo France via Slashfilm.

We've been following the progress of this movie as best as I can and I have to say this trailer is fantastic.The impressive looking trailer is based on the Jacques Tardi comicbooks which where and still are very popular in France, Belgium and other Benleux countries, so yes even the non hollywood movie market are recreating comicbooks for the big screen.

SYNOPSIS:(Source Twitchfilm)The year is 1912. Adèle Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young reporter, will go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes.

Meanwhile, in Paris, it's panic stations! A 136 million-year old pterodactyl egg on a shelf in the natural history museum has mysteriously hatched, and the bird subjects the city to a reign of terror from the skies. But nothing fazes Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose adventures reveal many more extraordinary surprises...
Set in the carefree world before World War I, Adèle Blanc-Sec's adventures see the brave young woman fearlessly battling crooks, corrupt politicians, demon worshipers and mad scientists. Legendary cartoonist Jacques Tardi's original stories perfectly recreate the intrigue, romance and excitement of one of the most tumultuous periods in history.
Adapted and directed by Luc Besson (Arthur and the Minimoys, The Fifth Element, The Professional), Adèle's exhilarating, funny and fabulous adventures will be one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of 2010

 If this movie is given half a chance it could do very well outside France but then again theres sadly too many people lazy to read subtitles so they would have to destroy the movie with a watered down hollywood OTT poor version.


The movie is due to be released in France on APRIL 14TH but if your in Brussels, Belgium on April 9th you can ctach it at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival

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Watch The Oscar Winning Short LOGORAMA

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Well if you watched the Oscars last week you would have seen the Animation Short LOGORAMA , won the Oscar award for best animated short.

Created by François Alaux and Hervé de Crécy the story follows the police chasing an armed criminal through a Los Angeles created out of animated Coperate Logos. Reading and listening to the aftermath of the duo winning the oscar it was a bit of an shock for some, but living outside USA we seem to see and here about movies, shorts for the first time on the awards night or post awards night so at times it doesn't seem much a fuss. As for who some wanted or expected to win I dont really know.

So below is the winning animation in full, so what do you think was it worthy of its oscar or is some of this talk just talk? post your views below.

The trailer for Portugese movie EMBARGO

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If you love all thing absurd dark and damn right obscure ala Coen Brothers you should check out the trailer below for Portugese Movie EMBARGO.
The black comedy was directed by António Ferreira  and is about a hot dog salesman with an invention thats going to revolutionize the shoe industry but he has one one problem he's stuck in his car and cant get out. The Coens would love this script  but if this movie does well in its native Portugal dont be surprised if Hollywood comes knocking on the door and buys the rights to it.

enjoy the trailer which is after the offical synopsis.

Nuno is a man working at a hotdog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno tries desparately to sell his machine, obsessing for the success that would help him get the things he wants out of life. When Nuno is mysteriously confined to his car, he misses the once in a lifetime chance to finally produce his invention, finding his life suddenly embargoed.

EMBARGO (TRAILER) - a film by António Ferreira - based upon the homonymous story by José Saramago from Zed Filmes on Vimeo.

Trailer for Dutch Drama GREAT KILLS ROAD

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Great Kills Road  tells the story of a mans journey to find his ex-wife and his metally handicapped son. He must go to New York City to search for her  and the film shows an foreigner trying to cope with the sheer scale of New York metropolis and this I can relate to. Coming from Scotland the largest city in my country is Glasgow (1.5 million) and I have worked and travelled many times overseas and last summer I travelled to China to Guangzhou a medium sized city for the country and it was 12.5 million, 3 times biger in the whole population of Scotland!!! Its even daunting at times even going to London (which I have to go to in 2 weeks), its the small fish in a big pond!
Great Kills Road is an intimate Family drama and at times feels like a documentary but the trailer below does show that but eventually the trailer does shift gears into a intriguing piece of work. The movie has been a big popular movie when it networked the Dutch Film festivals receiving very positive views, like the source of this post I have tried to get more information on the movie but have been unable to.
Great Kills Road is directed by Tjebbo Penning, check out the trailer below:

Watch Horror Short MAMA before its turned into a feature movie

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Movie Shorts we do like them here at Cinehouse HQ and how many times have you watched a great little short and just wish it was an feature movie? I'm sure pleanty of times we have here and here's one of those shorts thats going to be adapted for the big screen, its MAMA.
Its written and directed by Italian

Andres Muschietti and Andreas or Andy as he likes to be called will be directing with the king of all things dark and wonderful Guillermo Del Toro producing!!! This short little horror movie is dark, creepy but fantastically created with a simple but solid story and you'll see why Del Toro wanted to get this to the cinema screens.
This great little movie did come out a few years ago and is a big favourite of the source of this post Twitch and its now ours at Cinehouse!!!!

imdb - Litle Victoria is waken up by her sister Lili who insists on leaving the house because somebody unpleasant has come back

Jean Reno looking back at his best with L'IMMORTEL (22 BULLETS) Trailer

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 Jean Reno was to introduced to Hollywood in 1994 when Leon (The Professional) and also introduced Natalie Portman. Like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Jean Reno & Luc Besson seem to have a similar connection of seeming to work together very  well, so after several years of not working together and both people seemed to have went different directions. As Reno's career seem to be going knowhere like many big foreign stars these days.
Like Jackie Chan, Jean Reno has went back to his roots and working again with Besson though it be in his production studio Europa Corp and L'IMMORTEL (22 BULLETS). It puts Besson back in the lead as Charly a Ex-Marseille Mafia who went  straight for 3 years living a quite life with family & wife, but one day he was left for dead with 22 bullets in his body.  There's only one man who would have any reason to kill him was Tony Zacchia and he's made one mistake thats not kill him.
Below is the theatrical trailer for the movie and with it been released by Europa Corp there's a great chance the movie will be released in UK & Ireland through the arthouse cinemas. As for release date it'll be released March 24th in Belgium and France.

MICMACS: Jean Pierre Juenet Interview

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Only a few days left of the Glasgow Film Festival despite my disappointment of myself unable to get to see majority of the movies I wished to see I have to say it has been a fantastic festival .The festival kicked off big style with MICMACS directed by Jean Pierre Juenet and some of you will know who he is others maybe not.
French director has brought us some eccentric but wonderfull movies that have grace the cinemas in his native country along with around the world, movies like Amelie, A Long Engagement, Delicatessen, City of The Lost Children and oddly enough Alien Ressurection his only break into Hollywood.
His latest Movie Micmacs follows the story of a man called Brazil who watches a drive by gang shooting which nearly ends in tradegy for him when a  gun from one of the gang falls to the ground and he is shot in the head. After recovering Brazil with his oddball selection of friends create a plan to destroy the 2 weapons manufacturers involved in the gangwar.
Our good Blog buddy friends at Screenrush caught up with the director and had a little chat about his new movie and you can watch the video interview below and under that is the UK trailer for the movie as well.

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Trailer for Spanish Chiller Juega Conmigo (Play With Me)

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Above is the trailer for Spanish Juega Conmigo (Play With Me) directed by Jorge Jaramillo and Luis Fernando Mora. There's not alot of information on this movie apart from the little info Dread Central (who also struggled) could get. This creepy indie flick is about an very disturbed killer who has an mentality of an child, though its not alot sometimes litttle tidbits can just be as good as getting everything on a plate at once, it keeps the curiousity going.
I have no idea of when this movie will be out but I'll assume it will be sometime 2010 and if we're to go by the horror/thriller movies from Spain thats gone by Im sure this one will be a cracker!

SXSW '10 Swiss Sci-Fi getting royal teatment at fest, watch trailer

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Here's some news from QuietEarth for any sci-fi fans going to next months SXSW festival in Austin Texas. Swiss Sci-fi movie CARGO will be getting its American Premiere at the festival either 17th or 18th March in the festivals "Spotlights Premieres" which means you will watch it in the cinema's biggest screen.
According to Quiet Earth this movie deserves the big screen treatment and looking at the trailer I have to agree.

synopsis:Since the organically collapse of the earth, the largest part of humanity in that lives all, in yard less overfilled room stations.  The single hope to escape this chaos, is RHEA, a heavenly planet, 5 light years of the earth removes.
The story of CARGO plays on the come down room freighter KASSANDRA, on its way to the remote station 42: The young doctor Laura is as only awake on board.  The remainder of the garrison: deep-frozen in the cold sleep.  Laura will have overcome not until four months its long layer.  During its daily control gears through the ghostly empty ship, Laura has more and more the feeling to not to be alone on board.  A reconnaissance mission in the dark and icy freight room ends in a fiasco.  The remainder of the garrison is woke.  A Katz- and mouse game begins, in which is nothing so, how it appears.  What do the mysterious freight containers and who conceal or what yet on board is?  - taken from movie website

Is this Poland's version of Eternal Sunshine?? WJONA POLSKO-RUSKA trailers

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The source of this trailer describes this movie WJONA POLSKO-RUSKA (Snow White and The Russian Red) as Poland's version of Eternal Sunshine of The Mind, Im unsure. First impressions from the poster I think more like an Trainspotting esque movie but as they say never judge a book by its cover, so you have to say the basis of the story is where the Eternal Sunshine links come from.

This movie tells the story of Silny a hardline nationalist who is anti semtic, racist and a homophobe whose girlfriend leaves him but he soon meets up with satanist Angela. the duo hang around drug dependant nobodies in a environment which can only be described as nihilistic.

The movies story comes from 18 year old writer

Dorota Maslowska who has caused a big stir with his novel simply due to the content and the movies leading character's stance of life. Anyway watch the trailers and you can decide for yourselfs.

Benjamin Heisenberg’s DER RAUBER Trailer

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DER RAUBER (The Robber) is the second full length feature from new German director Benjamin Heisenberg and stars Andreas Lust as Johannes Rattenberger in a true story of an Athelete who became obbessed with robbing banks as a "hobby".

Even during robberies he still thinks like an athelete by measuring his heart rate, stamina and efficiency. Even hidding his passion from his girlfriend  he needs to get his regular fix of heists but he has no goal and like an athlete he must always be alert and on the go.

Like our source QuietEarth I dont know much about the story of Rettenberger apart from the movie is based on a Martin Prinz novel about the athlete who was knicked named "Pump Gun Ronnie". The movie is part of the Berlin International festival  which is currently happening in the city at the moment.

The movie is actually an Austrian movie and according to Imdb the movie is due to be released in Austria sometime this month so it may already be out, anyway check out the trailer below:

Classy Crime-Noir POUTA (Walking Too Fast)

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Nothing better than a old style crime drama set behind the former iron curtain, full of conspiracies, backstabbers and 'missing' persons. I have a friend who now lives in Scotland and was in Slovakia (then part of Czech Republic) and she would tell me about how bad it was and even simple things we take for granted it would have been a miracle then, so a crime genre during the cold war is perfect setting.

POUTA (Walking Too Fast) is the latest movie from Czech director Radim Spacek which is based in 1982 Czechoslovakia when the country was ruled by a totalitarian regime and Anton is an secret Police member. Bored of life, bored, uneasy of the current regime at time seen as pyschopathic he breaks the rules he has followed for many years by not as civic or political statement but a rebellious statement of boredom. Anton is also fascinated with a girl called Klara not through love but for a chanel of escape but his passion sees him up against the people he works for and works against

POUTA is out now in Czech Republic.

The Dutch have a bad case of Ghosts in Zwart Water

 

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How times to people need to be told about old houses and ghosts! ZWART WATER is an Dutch movie by

Elbert van Strien

and sees a family movie into an old b ig house which in its attic has an ghost which is attracted to the young daughter of the family and preys on her. Ok this isnt an original story the ghost thing has been done a million times but what splits good movies from bad is how they execute the story, we expect certain things with a supernatural story but the way you present it is got to be unique.

This is the first trailer for the movie and it does build up the mood and tension of the movie and even throws in a few disturbing images to start off those brown trouser moments. Zwart Water will be out on national release in Holland from March 11th.

Ground Control to Major ZONAD...Here's the full trailer

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Last Week we gave you the teaser trailer and this week its the full trailer for Irish comedy ZONAD .

From beyond the very limits of our imagination comes a stranger. Who is he? What is he? And why is he so thirsty? These are the very questions asked by the inhabitants of Ballymoran, a sleepy village nestled deep in the Gilhooly mountains when they discover a “visitor” in their midst. - Quietearth

So if anyone says to you Irish movies are dull think again after you see this. I do hope this gets a run in UK as its a bundle of laughs, when you can have fun and have a little pot at your nation you are game for a laugh. Zonad is got the humour that got Father Ted tv series popular in the 1990s and if you like that you'll like this.

No dates of an UK release but Zonad will be released nationwide in Ireland from March 17th .

THE SHOW MUST GO ON even at the end of the world

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"The show must go on" how many times have your heard that phrase when people put so much hard work into things and they end up in defeat or embarrasment? THE SHOW MUST GO ON is the name of Croatian director Nevio Marasovic new movie.After many years of pathetic television programme called Big Brother finished and no more Davina Macoll Marsovic had for years thought of an Big Brother inspired movie with a big budget apocalypse setting. His jaw must have dropped and heart stopped when Charlie Broker's  DEAD SET bet him to the game, which had big brother contestants surviving a zombie holocaust.

However Marasovic has went one step ahead and still have the Big Brother contestants but now they must face an all out war which looks like it'll be an Nuclear Bomb will trigger off or has already so its grim outside and time to face reality and survive. I think Deadset coming out wont ruin this movie as they only share the Big Brother part, This does look very good. Hopefully someone nice outthere could send me a screener?!

Is Penelope Cruz feeling Melanchonic for Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia'

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Has Lars Von Trier found his leading lady for Melancholia? According to various sources from the Playlist article Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is the one.

The reports say Von Trier and his assistant Anders Refn have told Danish television they have always had Cruz on their mind and she'll lead the line in the movie which will explore the pyschological view of an disaster.

It is said the movies budget will only be around $5million mark with shooting for the movie to happen in Sweden, as in when it'll happen no one knows but it'll be sometime this year as they plan to show the movie at the Cannes 2011 festival.

The name of this movie Melancholia comes from the name of the planet which will threaten earth's existance as its looms closer to our blue little planet. 'This is going to be a pyschological drama with sci-fi elements to it'states Von Trier ' with no happy endings' he also says. This is getting me very excited as I do love science fiction and movies with a element of sci-fi and too many movies always end with a happy ending so it's going to be good to see a bad ending! if like Antichrist do expect something even more bizzare and twisted for the ending and bring the shock and excitement he brought at last years festival well we are all in for a treat.

If Penelope Cruz is going to take the part I do hope she knows what she's getting into just ask Nicole Kidman, Emily Watson, Bjork or Bryce Dallas Howard what they think none have ever returned to work for Lars Von Treir again all. Peoplem like to say we torture ourselves in certain ways to achieve certain things as in Lars Von Treir he definintely "tortures"  people but only improvised in front of the camera.

Theatrical Trailer for Belgium's AMER

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When I was invited to the press Launch of This years (month's) Glasgow Film Festival I was so eager to see the programme for The Frightfest @ Glasgow (UK's biggest horror/fantasy festival) apart from [Rec]2, Splice and Frozen it was that Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani's homage to all things Giallo AMER was going to get its U.K premiere as well!!!
Both directors will be attending  to present the movie and I'm still waiting on my press passess which im hoping that I get a pass to see this. Over the years Ive came to love everything Italian inspired from my best schoolfriend, to a ex-girlfriend, to the food and actually working in Sorrrento Italy as well. Through these times ive met great people as well as many movie fans more die hard than me who introduced me to alot of classic horror/thrillers I wouldnt have looked at before including Giallo. From there my passion has grown.

Amer just looks so brillant! stylish, classic but modern enough to keep any modern thriller/horror fan happy, anyway less of me read the synopsis and enjoy the trailer!

synopsis:Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her? - IMDB

Frightfest Link: FrightFest@Glasgow

Dutch Animated Short PIVOT now online

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Pivot is perfect proof that animation doesnt have to be the glizty  effexts with very detailed graphics to be visually pleasing as well as entertaining. This little short from Holland  uses minimal to great effect in details, colours, very basic but effective low-polygon style. Created by Kevin Megens, Floris Vos, Arno de Grijs and André Bergs with music sound from Alex Debicki.

The story is simple one about a man who was taking pictures and witnessed a murder happen. He also is able to get one of the killer and has to run for his life, but things turn for worse when the hunted becomes the hunter with a very dark sad ending.


Pivot from Pivot on Vimeo.

Fantastic Looking teaser for KORE

Kore. 2010. Teaser from Macgregor on Vimeo.

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When you see the name of the director of this movie MacGregor you wouldn't think he's Polish? He is and his full name is Miguel de Olaso and above is the latest teaser trailer for his upcoming movie KORE.
Slashfilmc ouldn't get alot of information on the movie same with their source TwitchFilm but what we do know is that Twitch compare this movie a cross between the futuristic landscape of Blade Runner meets the grime reality of Blomkamps District 9 and with that description thats enough to win me over possibly you?

According to sources this teaser is part of a trilogy but a different part of the world connected with his other near completed short Similo which there's  information either. Looking at MacGregor's Vimeo site it says under the trailer "coming some day", lets hope its soon!!!

Link:You can find more  work by Macgregor here

A new Teaser Trailer for Luc Besson's Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

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Via Allocine (Screenrush'sFrench  big brother) the second teaser trailer for Luc Besson's  Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec has debuted online.
In the first teaser trailer we didnt see Adele herself but now we get our first opportunity to see her, played by the beautiful looking Louise Bourgoin. Based on the popular French comicbooks by Jacques Tardi the movie follows the adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec a young roving reporter who will go to any lengths to achieve her aims. Taking on the Egyptian mummies, the police, monsters and other distractions including a prehistoric pterodactyl which you see glimpse of in the trailer. This is big blockbuster movies French style !
Apart from the director Luc Besson , Mathieu Amalric is known to British/Irish movie fans through his time with Steven Spielberg's Munich also Qauntim of Solace and more recently Mesrine movies.
No dates of when this will come to UK and Ireland but this monster of a movie will be out in France on April 14th, hopefully we can enjoy it no long after that!