SWEET KARMA trailer and poster
We received this here colorful poster, as well as the gritty trailer, for the Canadian revenge drama SWEET KARMA – and what kind of people would we be if we didn’t share it with y’all? The flick is about to make its World Premiere at Fantasia Film Festival on July 11th, so get a head start by checking out the synopsis and trailer below.
There’s an underground sex trade in Toronto that few people know about. It’s a modern day world of slavery controlled by organized crime that under its thin veil of beauty and seduction is rife with drugs and extreme violence. It’s a world few would deliberately choose to enter, let alone a shy, beautiful 21 year-old girl from Russia like Karma Balint. But unlike the others that inhabit this sleazy world, Karma has one thing and one thing only on her mind. Revenge.
Weinstein talks BASTERDS
Ever since Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (to generally positive – but not mind-blowing – reviews), there has been word floating around that a different, shorter version of the flick would be the one shown to audiences in August, when it opens nationwide. We know that Quentin likes to make his movies long, and we know that distributors/producers The Weinstein Company have a reputation for toying around with – and chopping up – their own products. So whose version will we actually be seeing when the flick opens AUGUST 21st?
In an interview with GQ, Harvey Weinstein poo-poos any talk of a f*cked-with version of I.B., saying (in typically blunt Harvey fashion) “Whatever you’re reading, it’s like some insane blogger… There’s no truth to any of this. He’s not gonna cut. What he’s doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year… Listen—this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don’t think it’s going to be shorter—it’s just a question of rearranging.”
To read the full interview, which sheds some like on some other things – such as a potential BASTERDS prequel in the works – head on over HERE.
G.I. JOE’s Scarlett and Cobra Commander!
A couple of G.I. JOE images to share with you here; both pleasing to the eye, I would have to say. First up: Rachel Nichols (P2, STAR TREK) as “Scarlett”, and may I just eloquently state yowza! Kevlar becomes her (or whatever the hell she’s wearing).
Below the text you see what we can expect from the Cobra Commander, as played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. That is, at least one version of him. Not much to go on, but I would think the toy company might have a vague idea of what the character looks like in Stephen Sommers’ film, don’t you? Guess we’ll see for ourselves when it hits theaters on AUGUST 7th. (Or will we? We all might be summer blockbustered out by then..?)
(Fun fact: I interviewed Rachel Nichols when P2 came out. She’s quite literally a sweetie-pie.)
TF2/STAR TREK scribes want to STEAL
Here are two motherf*ckers who just have it too good: Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. You may know their names because nowadays, they are just about everywhere. They wrote the screenplays for a couple of little indies called TRANSFORMERS 2 and STAR TREK, as well as produced the Sandra Bullock “comedy” THE PROPOSAL – which is also a hit. Basically, they can’t lose. (Once upon a time, they could lose, having worked on bombs like THE ISLAND and THE LEGEND OF ZORRO.)
The two hope to keep their winning streak going with a fun-sounding action/comedy they are producing called LICENSE TO STEAL. Lame title aside, the concept is damn cool: it follows the high-end repo business, in which agents travel all the world to reclaim play toys including private jets and speedboats. It’s based on an article in Salon.com about the real people who do these deeds, but I’m guessing this movie will embellish the details in order to crank up the action. And of course, I’m expecting many, many bikinis to be present.
“Just TRY to repo my shit!”
KILL YA NEXT WEEK WITH MORE
ACTION!
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