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Jean Reno.. comeback. Please? Underwhelming teaser for mob flick 22 Bullets (L'immortel)
10 November 2009 1:14 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Just a few days ago, our own Marina reported on the latest from Jean Reno, a mob drama called 22 Bullets, postulating that this might be his comeback. We're all hoping so, and now that we have the first footage, I can say I'm thinking it might be another in a long line of crap. C'mon EuropaCorp, you guys make some of the best action flicks!
After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Matteï has gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning, he is left for dead on the docks of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for Tony Zacchia, the only man who would dare to try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he failed.
Teaser after the break. »
Reno has 22 Bullets
5 November 2009 7:19 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Been a while since we were treated to Jean Reno the badass, hasn't it? Not that Couples Retreat was bad, just not the kinda thing I like to see him in. And that Just Visiting U.S. remake, not the kinda thing I like to see period. But that's just me... Reno looks to be back in bloody glory with 22 Bullets, based on the French novel "L'Immortel". He'll be playing a retired mafia hitman who goes after the long-time rival who left him for dead and riddled with 22 bullets. Hence the... »
- Tony Lang
Is Jean Reno making a comeback? 22 Bullets (L'immortel) suggests so!
5 November 2009 5:55 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Oh hello? Is it possible? Could Jean Reno be making a come back? You know, that Jean Reno, the one that once starred in Nikita, The Professional and Ronin before going on to make a load of films so bad they’re not even worth mentioning.
It looks like there is light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. Reno is signed on to star in 22 Bullets (L'Immortel) an actioner being directed by actor-turned-director Richard Berry (who is no stranger to working with Reno - the two have appeared together in a number of films) and adapted from Franz-Olivier Giesbert's bestselling novel. But why all the excitement? This is why:
After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Matteï has gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning, »
U2, Beyonce, Eminem win as MTV awards return to Berlin
5 November 2009 1:05 PM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Berlin - Irish band U2 won the Best Live Act prize Thursday night at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards, after playing a sold-out free gig at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, as part of the awards' return to the German capital for the first time in 15 years.The other winners were Beyonce (Best Female), whose Single Ladies won Best Video and Halo took the prize for Best Song; Eminem (Best Male); Tokio Hotel (Best Group); Green Day (Best Rock Band); maNga (Best European Act); Lady Gaga (Best New Act); Jay-z (Best Urban); Placebo (Best Alternative); Linkin Park (Best World Stage Performance); Pixie Lott (Best Push Artist).The awards were inaugurated in Berlin in 1994, and Thursday's event also saw stars such as Juliette Lewis, French actor Jean Reno and Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko attend.With the German capital currently celebrating the »
In Pictures: 'MTV Europe Music Awards Arrivals'
5 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
British singer Pixie Lott arrives for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 in Berlin, Germany, 05 November 2009. MTV chose the city of Berlin as 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Epa/Soeren Stache Us punk band Green Day arrive for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 in Berlin, Germany, 05 November 2009. MTV chose the city of Berlin as 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Epa/Soeren Stache Spanish-born French actor Jean Reno arrives for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 in Berlin, Germany, 05 November 2009. MTV chose the city of Berlin as 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin »
- James Wray
Roselyne Bosch's 'The Round Up' (Aka 'La Rafle'); French holocaust horrors
3 November 2009 5:21 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and »
- Superheidi
Godzilla Stomps Onto Blu-Ray Nov. 10th
3 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have set November 10th as the release date for Roland (Day After Tomorrow, 2012) Emmerich's 1998 American-ized version of Godzilla on Blu-Ray. According to the press release, this is much more than your typical Blu-ray Disc release because Sphe has teamed up with Sony Computer Entertainment America to deliver a Digital Copy file for the PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) system that will be included on the Blu-ray Disc to be transferred via PlayStation®3 system. Additional special features include: movieIQ, Trivia Game, cinechat, and more. Mathew Broderick (Election, The Producers), Jean Reno (The Pink Panther 1&2), Hank Azaria (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian), Michael Lerner (Love and Other Disasters) and Harry Shearer (This is... »
Before The Fall aka Tres Dias (Film Review)
26 October 2009 3:58 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
There's dark, there's bleak and then there's Javier Gutierrez' Before The Fall (Tres Dias), which is so utterly nihilistic, it makes the ending of Frank Darabont's The Mist look like Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs! This amazing film was chosen to close L.A. Screamfest.
An enormous meteor, 10 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, is going to hit Earth in three days. In the Spanish town of Laguna, near-do-well Ale (an impressive Victor Clavijo) plans to spend his final days drinking and listening to music. His plans are interrupted when his Mother requests his help--Thomas, Ale's successful brother, has four children home alone in a remote hilltop and she wants to look after them before the End comes.
Once there, they find the children unaware of the impending doom and the Mother decides not to tell them. Because Ale's brother captured a notorious child killer years earlier, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
On the Set of Nimrod Antal's Armored
21 October 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Nimrod Antal has been known as a brilliant music video and TV commercial director in Hungary and he quickly rose to prominence in the states in 2005 with his hit feature film debut Kontroll , which he followed in 2007 with the horror-thriller Vacancy . The helmer, who next directs Robert Rodriguez's Predators , is the first to admit how blessed he is to only have a couple of feature films under his belt and already having had the good fortune of working with talent such as Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne, who all star in his latest film, Armored , a high intensity action thriller about a robbery gone awry. In the film, a group of security guards working for an armored truck company come up with a solid plan to steal millions from one of their own vehicles and in... »
Review: Couples Retreat – Schmouples SchmeSchmeat
19 October 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Here are two questions some people might ask before they even read a review of Vince Vaughn’s latest rom-com type film. “Wait, isn’t Couples Retreat almost certainly going to be rubbish? And won’t its rubbishness correlate inversely to the amount of money it will make?” In short, yes. But I don’t do short here. I do medium. Couples Retreat is basically just another film that uses its paper-thin premise to get all of the actors and crew a free holiday to Hawaii (a la Forgetting Sarah Marshal and A Perfect Getaway). If the end product is watchable then they release it. If it isn’t, then they still release it. Either way they have all had a nice sunbathe. This time four couples (3 white, 1 black) are whisked off to paradise to spend a week in therapy to try and save their marriages. Some didn’t expect the therapy to be mandatory, »
- Joe West
Movie Review: Couples Retreat - A Male Perspective of Marriage Mayhem
12 October 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Jon Favreau, Malin Ackerman, Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, Kali Hawk, Jean Reno, Carlos Ponce Directed by: Peter Billingsley Rated: PG 13. One would think that a movie titled after marriage and relationships would be the ultimate chick flick, but, having been written by Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, this story is very much from the men's point of view. Vaughn (Four Christmases) plays Dave, the anchor of a group of friends at varying stages of married bliss. He has the most stable of the unstable relationships, with a dream job selling "Guitar Hero" (did I say this was from the men's perspective?) while taking his home duties for granted. Jon Favreau (I Love You Man) is Joey, the high school football star turned coach who married young and wishes he could turn back the clock. Jason... »
- Miguel Guadalupe
"Couples Retreat" Debuts At 1st Place At The Box Office
12 October 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
"Couples Retreat" has topped the weekend box office list. The comedy film banks .3 million three-day opening weekend, beating other contenders in the silver screen.
The film - starring Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, and Jean Reno - was released Friday. It was the only newly released movie that made it to top 10.
Chris Rock's controversial docu-film "Good Hair" made .1 million at 14th place. It opened to a limited release in 186 theaters.
At second place is the horror comedy "Zombieland," which grossed million, while the horror "Paranormal Activity" is at fifth place with million.
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Couples Retreat tops the box office. Paranormal Activity impresses most.
11 October 2009 10:56 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Universal Pictures' "Couples Retreat" debuted in first spot with a big $35.3 million debut, averaging $11,780 from 3,000 theatres. The comedy written by Jon Favreau and helmed by Peter Billingsley, stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Ackerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Faizon Love, Kali Hawk and Jean Reno. Sony's "Zombieland," last weekend's top spot holder, stayed on well for second position with around $15 million posted. Total cume for the zombie comedy horror starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin is now over $47.8 million. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" continues to move along nicely with $12 million grossed in its fourth weekend at play, bringing the films total gross to over $96 million thus far. »
Review: Couples Retreat
11 October 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
I like going to films for which I have no idea what they are about, sometimes you are pleasantly surprised and this is what I found with Couples Retreat. Peter Billingsley directs an all-star cast which includes Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman and Kristen Bell. The main plotline focuses on four couples who decide to go away to a marriage retreat together when one of the couples, played by Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell realise that they need help with their marriage. They manage to convince their 6 friends to come along with the proviso that they may have to go to some sort of couples therapy, but only if they want to! After showing them a ‘death-by-PowerPoint’ slideshow and beautiful images from Bora Bora, they manage to convince the others to go along with them. The scenery in the film is fantastic, with »
- Laraine Sztypuljak
‘Couples Retreat’ Movie Delivered Non Stop Laughs
10 October 2009 4:54 PM, PDT | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »
Universal Studios new comedy, "Couples Retreat" hit the theaters this weekend. It looked funny, it quacked funny,and by golly it was funny. Very,very funny. I couldn't stop laughing during this movie. Jason Bateman,Vince Vaughn,Faizon Love,and Jon Favreau were all very funny in this movie. The movie also starred : Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Kali Hawk, and Jean Reno. It really had an all-star cast. "Couples Retreat" centered around the four couples,when Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) have marriage problems and want to go on an expensive therapeutic vacation to try and heal their relationship. They talk the other couples into go along with them because they can't afford the trip without the group rate. »
- Andre@ontheflix
Review: Couples Retreat
9 October 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Sometimes it feels good to get your buttons pushed. Couples Retreat shamelessly trots out a stable of tired old nags and magically transforms them into shining young thoroughbreds by the time they reach the finish line. To stir more creaky metaphors into the mix, Couples Retreat reminds me of an Old World grandmother, happily offering up the same old recipe with gentle but insistent persuasion, urging you to "eat, eat!" And you end up eating far more than you ever thought you would, because old recipes taste really good when fresh ingredients are used.
With Couples Retreat, the filmmakers gently but persistently prod, saying "Laugh, laugh!" and you end up laughing far more than expected. The set-up feels familiar: four couples, all at different stages of their relationships, go on an island retreat intending to have fun in the sun, but instead are forced to undergo counseling. In the process, »
- Peter Martin
Review: Some laughs are better than none at all in 'Couples Retreat'
9 October 2009 6:42 AM, PDT | Denver Movies Examiner | See recent Denver Movies Examiner news »
It's easy to pick on romantic comedies. They usually follow a fairly easy paint-by-numbers principle that involves personal worlds falling apart before they can be put back together again with pixie dust and a kiss. Usually everyone goes home happy and the story is wrapped up in a pretty bow. That's what audiences will also find in the Peter Billingsley directed, Vince Vaughn co-written, comedy Couples Retreat, to which I say, "So what?"
Where is it written that in order for a rom-com to be a decent flick, it has to shatter the genre's pretenses and mold the story into a believable (i.e. it has to have the possibility that it could happen in "real life," whatever that is) and soulfully-enriching experience that is guaranteed to solve whatever problem you and your significant other may be going through? The job of a dutiful rom-com is to provide audiences laughs »
Plus1’s “Couples Retreat” review
9 October 2009 3:20 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
I’m going to do something I usually don’t do for my reviews… I’m going to start with my rating: 5 stars! That’s right, this movie written by John Favreau, Vince Vaughn, and Dana Fox and directed by Peter Billingsley (long-time friend and business partner of Vince Vaughn but better known as Ralphie in A Christmas Story) had me Rotflol with a big ol’ Simpsons grin all over my face. Produced by Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show, Couples Retreat doesn’t go overboard with crude, rude, or lewd humor. It delivers on humor gained from life and doesn’t take itself too seriously about marriage and long-lasting relationships. What Couples Retreat manages to do is present a caricature of four types of couples we all know well, and lets us look at life from their perspective.
After an opening montage of marriages from the 50’s through 2009, we »
- Plus1
The Reject Report Heads Off on a Couples Retreat
8 October 2009 10:25 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Well, it makes it really easy to do a Reject Report column when only one new movie rolls out in wide release. It's called Couples Retreat and it is the movie we will preview in this week's box office report. First, though, I want to talk about a movie that is still in limited release right now. It's called Paranormal Activity and it has been a sensation everywhere it has been playing so far. It has been selling out midnight screenings and has already grossed a little over $1 million. Just on Wednesday night alone it grossed $100,000 in 33 locations, putting it ahead of flicks such as Jennifer's Body, All About Steve and other movies. This weekend the movie rolls out in 44 cities in 159 locations and if the sellouts continue and the buzz continues for this movie it has a shot at a real wide release very soon. Already this movie is being compared to The Blair Witch Project in »
- John Cairns
Movie Review: “Couples Retreat”
8 October 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: October 6, 2009
The players: Director: Peter Billingsley, Writers: Dana Fox, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Jean Reno.
Facts of interest: None.
The plot: Four couples travel to a resort on a tropical island and soon realize they are forced to partake in therapy sessions.
Our thoughts: “Couples Retreat” is a totally forgettable comedy. There, I said it. It’s neither refreshing nor really funny, spending more than 100 minutes focusing on four simpleminded couples incapable of dealing with the problems in their relationships. Despite a couple of decent moments, this one’s a big drag, folks. »
- Franck Tabouring
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