The Voices is just one of those films that deserve your attention. Not because it’s a blockbuster flick, but because it has an intriguing premise. The movie is strange dark comedy that sees Ryan Reynolds as a likeable factory worker who talks to his pet dog and cat. It’s the kind of film that any pet lover (like myself) would enjoy watching. It made its debut over at the Sundance Film Festival last year where it was met with positive reviews and was called one of the darkest comedies of the year.
Now Lionsgate has released the first trailer for The Voices, which you can see right after the jump.
In one of the more unexpected bits of news in recent memory, Paramount and MGM have decided to begin developing a sequel to the recent action horror-fantasy, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
The movie only made $54 million here in the States—not at all a good number for a movie like it. But what it had in its favor was that its production budget was only around $50 million. And one should never underestimate the power of overseas box office numbers; in foreign markets Hansel & Gretel pulled in $150 million, which is why a sequel is now beginning to grow.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Directed by Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare Paramount Pictures
Rated R | 88 Minutes
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola first gained the attention of Hollywood with his 2007 film, Kill Buljo, a parody of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
Since then, Wirkola has released a pair of low-budget horror comedies with 2009’s Dead Snow, a film about Nazi Zombies in the mountains of Norway, and 2010’s Kurt Josef Wagle And The Legend of the Fjord Witch, a send-up of first-person found-footage movies that combines elements of The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and [â—REC].
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is Wirkola’s first big-budget American film, an R-rated fantasy comedy produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. The film picks up with Hansel (Jeremy Renner, The Avengers) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) years after that traumatic incident involving a witch, some bread crumbs, and a gingerbread house.
These past few years we’ve been seeing an interesting twist on childhood fairytales. Red Riding Hood and Snow White and the Huntsman are perhaps the most interesting of the latest Hollywood trend, but neither match the overall silliness and absurdity that is Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.
The first trailer had poor CGI, Gatling guns in medieval times, and cheesy lines. This new red-band trailer seems to be focused on the humor and the plot of the film – if you can really call it a plot.
Check out the latest NSFW trailer and the poster for the film below.
The first image of Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton from their upcoming action fantasy Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has been released via Entertainment Weekly.
In the movie Renner and Arterton play the fairy tale siblings, who are now all grown up and have a severe hatred of witches—for one reason or another—and spend their time dispatching of them, as you might have gathered from the title.
You can see the first image by continuing on below now.
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