A new trailer has premiered on IGN for Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The summer blockbuster based on the popular videogame series stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. It was recently announced the film would see a premiere over two months early at the annual ShoWest convention in Las Vegas this month. Check out the trailer below. Read the full story

Duncan Jones‘ Moon was widely overlooked for the greater portion of 2009, but pretty much everyone who saw it (except me) was thoroughly impressed. I thought Jones‘ low-budget visuals were breathtaking, and Rockwell puts forth an admirable lead performance, but I had several issues with the story. Nevertheless, I am still looking forward to the director’s follow-up sci-fi film Source Code, which — according to The Playlist — has just received another noteworthy cast member in Jeffrey Wright (Syriana, Casino Royale, W.). Read the full story

Two more spots from tonight’s football event have been released via Disney. The first is for the 100% white Jake Gyllenhaal’s impersonation of a Persian and the second is for the Tim Burton’s 3D Alice In Wonderland adaptation. If you missed the following spots, check them out here: Shutter Island, Robin Hood and The Last Airbender. Read the full story

Vera Farmiga is in talks and Michelle Monaghan is set to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Duncan Jones‘ next film, Source Code, which is being financed by Vendome Pictures and the Mark Gordon Company to be distributed by Summit Entertainment. [THR].

Here are the respective roles the two actresses would/will be playing: “Farmiga will play a hands-on communications officer controlling Gyllenhaal as he travels through time and space. Monaghan is a woman on the train with whom the man is involved romantically.”

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Big name, studio-pushed family dramas without a “holiday” selling point (a la The Family Stone or Everybody’s Fine) are hard to come by these days. So are successful war films. Jim Sheridan’s Brothers is both of these things, and has fought a long, hard war of its own to open in theaters, literally surviving a recession and all the conflicts that it came with. Sheridan lost funding in the middle of production, unable to shoot the helicopter crash sequence as written by David Benioff, only to finally be saved by an output deal struck between Lionsgate and Relativity Media for 5 films, the first being Brothers. Read the full story

Planeta Disney has released a new international poster for Disney’s big 2010 release — Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.  The poster is definitely stylistic graphically and is trying to push the film’s style across visually while trying to hint that the story is epic, but I don’t get the tagline. “COURAGE” in large block letters in red across the entire top of the poster is a little too ‘in your face’ and a little confusing considering no context into the story. I suppose the poster could be considered a teaser poster considering the tagline’s ambiguity.

It is also obvious from the poster’s style that the same team that did the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy are in full force. I’m not a fan of films that seem like they were designed in a lab specifically for the purpose of raking in money, but their success among the everyday movie goers is undeniable.

Prince of Persia is to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films and will take us to the mystical land of Persia, where all the Persians are strangely white and if you’re the hero you can slow down time to fight your enemies. We will meet the brave prince (Jake Gyllenhaal), who joins forces with the princess (Gemma Arterton) to combat dark forces and the Big Bad to protect an ancient dagger that was a gift from the gods capable of releasing the “Sands of Time.” Sound epic enough for you?

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That’s Jake Gyllenhaal, the younger of the talented two siblings, to star in Moon helmer Duncan Jones’ next movie – which will not be Mute, unfortunately – but rather Source Code. Here’s the plot of the film: “The project centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter and must solve the mystery of a train explosion.” [THR].

The extended plot involves going back in time (about 17 minutes) to prevent said explosion. And while the idea of Jones’ ambitious visual style and Gyllenhaal’s odd star qualities combining for this pseudo-blockbuster sounds undeniably intriguing, did it have to sound so much like Deja Vu? With a little bit of Avatar too though, so, who knows?

One would guess this is what happens when Moon, one of the best sci-fi films in the last few years, cannot make back (or barely make back) it’s $5 million price tag. Let’s all hope this one blows the box office out of the water.

Here’s hoping for something great in Source Code, while mourning the postponement of Mute.

What do you think of Source Code and the people involved?

Lionsgate has released a new trailer for Jim Sheridan’s Brothers on Yahoo. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee. It is written David Benioff (The Kite Runner, 25th Hour). Check out the trailer below. Read the full story

IGN has debuted the first trailer for Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The summer blockbuster based on the popular videogame series stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. Check out the trailer below and HD screencaps below.

Mike Newell’s previous blockbuster, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was actually quite good. I loved the videogame series and this seems to have a lot of the same elements. The script looks like it could use the part, but coming from Disney and Bruckheimer this should be a fun summer flick. Check out some HD screencaps below (click for hi-res):

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Variety is reporting today that Daniel Craig has signed on to star in the psychological thriller Dreamhouse directed by Jim Sheridan. The film is set to start production January 25, 2010. Variety describes Craig’s role as “a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.” The film is written by David Loucka and as of now no release date is set.

It looks like Sheridan is looking to pack on a really tight schedule this year. His new film Brothers starring Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal hits theaters Dec. 4th in the US and then internationally over the following 3 months. I am surprised that he would want to start production on a new film so soon. I have always been a fan of Daniel Craig’s work even before the James Bond days (even though that is a plus). I do wonder how this will effect the timing of a new James Bond film since I doubt that we will see a new Bond film in 2010 if Craig is working on this.