#SEGAnews Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | A Very Sonic Christmas (2024 Movie)

Wait, what is this???

Oh man, what is this...this random surprise!! Sega or Paramount didn't make an entire Christmas Special. But the latest teaser/ad is a fun parody of it:

Aw, this was adorable! And super fun! Very nice little Christmas surprise!

#SEGAnews Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Official Trailer 2 (2024 Movie) Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves

 Here is the trailer for the only upcoming movie I'm currently looking forward. That's right. There. I said it.

HERE WE GO BOIS AND GURLS!!

#HorrorNEWS A Quiet Place: Day One | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn

 And speaking of John Krasinski, here's the first trailer for the Quiet Place prequel, which is looking at exploring the day one of the alien invasion, check it out:

This looks... pretty good. A bit more carnage, action and monsters than what the original films have used us to. But I guess that's what happens in a big city invasion.. Also people might not figure out the alien's weakness before the end of this film.

in theatres June 28.

#SEGAnews SONIC 3 & Knuckles - Trailers

I gotta admit, I just wanted to write this title for this post.

We made it, SEGA bros, a reveal trailer for a 3rd live action Sonic movie.. followed closely by the first proper for a Knuckles spinoff series.

Let's see...

 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Title Treatment Reveal (2024 Movie) 

This looks nice. Pretty nice indeed. It's just a tease, but this better confirm we will finally get a Crush40 song in a Sonic movie!!!

I'd like to see them make the characters slightly older, like when the games went from classic era->Sonic Adventure era. I'm still not convinced skipping SA1 was a good choice, even presenting both stories in reverse order seems odd. Sonic is like a shonen manga, there's an escalation in the level of threats and power-ups. Perfect Chaos goes before Shadow and the Biolizard, based on researches on the Echidnas.... and... Wait and see..

  Knuckles Series | Official Trailer | Paramount+ 

Our boy Knux is here! For a long while I hoped it would have been a sort of Archie Comics-style adaptation of Chaotix or Sonic Adventure.. but instead feels more like a filler episode. You know what? This would have been a nice way to introduce Tikal, the Echidnas, Amy or Rouge... Like before, wait and see...

And that's it for now.

#SEGAnews Knux Spinoff is go!

 So apparently the Knuckles spinoff for Paramount+ just started production.

Thoughts?

Wait and see...

I like these "live action" Sonic films well enough, but after stuff like the new Mario Bros. Movie, I kinda want to see them reboot Sonic as a pure CGi animated film as well, humans in the plot or not. Think  cutscenes from the Sega games. 

Oh, and slightly base it off the IDW comics for some nice exploration and characterisation.
(Sorry SATAM and Archie fans, but I'm not asking for an adaptation of the French comics, the UK comics or the manga, so let's go with a broader appeal closer to the games - and avoid a certain Ken P. as well..)

#SEGAnews Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) - "Final Trailer" - Paramount Pictures

The new Sonic Movie is looking pretty good! The latest trailer is full of hints, glimpses and references to the larger universe of Sonic, from a top notch recent movie poster to the recently announced Sonic Movie 3 and Knuckles limited series!

 

I gotta say.. I'm somehow really hyped for this! Maybe it's the perfect solution to the current superhero fatigue, which Sonic seems to be part of and allude to a lot.

Anyways, the film is out in two weeks!

#SEGAnews Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) - "Official Trailer" - Paramount Pictures

 The Sonic Movie sequel is looking... actually pretty neat?

Who would have guessed we would have MCU-levels Sonic movies? But it does look fun and epic!

Tails looks cute! Eggman's looking Eggmannier! And Knuckles is a badass!

#SEGAnews Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) - Title Announcement - Paramount Pictures

 It feels like AGES since the original Sonic movie came out. Wasn't that the last "real" big theaters movie release? Before, you know... the end of days?

Anywhere, look at this brand new little title teaser released by Paramount Pictures. Such a simple little video, a simple and generic title. But the little nod to Tails and the music create all the hype it needs...

I honestly can't wait! Please, make a less Hollywood cliché story. Rely more on Sonic's universe. And Let Eggman make robotic animals this time!

#Superbowl2020 Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) - Big Game Spot - Paramount Pictures

Now that the Sonic Movie is finally get good press and a warm-welcome from the fans, it seems like Sony and Paramount decided to go all-in on the Sonic Movie hype-campaign.

Check out this... weird ad. Featuring real life champions hyping the fast blue hedgehog:

#SEGAnews Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) - New Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures

So the ones following me on twitter might have noticed I kinda changed my tune regarding the upcoming Sonic movie.

And Paramount/Sony somehow did the impossible. We might actually have an enjoyable family-friendly on our hands!

Here is the brand new trailer, with the remade Sonic model:



It still feels and sounds like a "Sony movie". (Sony as in Smurf movies.) But this new Sonic movie model is miles better!! We went from creepy realistic Sonic to cartoonier cute Sonic!!

Also lot of scenes reshots while they were reworking the CGi. The whole car exchange is different (different clothing for the human dude). Better jokes, less cringe hyper Sonic, more AoSth smartass Sonic attitude.

And I gotta say I loved that Green Hill bit at the beginning!! Wasn't Sonic an alien that crashed on Earth in an earlier leaked draft?? Sounds like a Bay-TMNT level of reworking a doomed reboot.

Here's the much better looking new US, Japanese and international posters:

Here's some screenshots comparison, courtesy from sonicstadium.org:

You know, some of those almost makes me think this was "all part of the plan", no matter what PR said to the press. Like some of those were clearly badly rendered. Just look at Sonic sitting in the car, it was so static, so bad...

Was this all a public stunt? The delays were always planned to release it in a Deadpool february-kind of way... How did that early Sonic 3D model pass public showcase??

I mean look at this, it's night and day, I can't believe the whole "making VFx artists work over time, delay the film, fix Sonic"-thing.

LOOK AT THIS SHOT!!

#MovieNEWS Terminator: Dark Fate - Official Trailer (2019) - Paramount Pictures

A new trailer is out for Terminator: Dark Fate! And they managed to do something no Terminator movie did before, including T2, not spoil too much twists with the trailer.

It all still looks and feels pretty mysterious so far...



Looks like the future has changed once more. But nothing can be altered so it will all end up repeating itself once more... I imagine...

#SEGAnews Sonic The Hedgehog (2019) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures

What the heck is this monstrosity?

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ABOMINATION!?!?



Worst movie ever made? Probably....

People are already comparing it to the 90s Super Mario Bros Movie or the Street Fighter one... Seriously? These movies are like fine desserts compared to this crap. This is like fast food vomit in comparison.

And the worst is that the cast is not even that awful, a Dr. Eggman Jim Carey channeling is 90s crazyness, Sonic voiced by Ben Schwartz and this random Tom Wachowski guy - James Marsden, the sheriff of Green Hills. But the entire rest? The visuals? The tone? The plot? The jokes? Goddamn...


I only believe this was purposely made awful, so people will go to theaters to hate-watch this film. People love to hate-watch stuff nowadays and then complain about it on social media.

And yes, the poster is probably the least awful thing of this whole reveal...


Sonic The Hedgehog hits theaters November 8.

#MovieNEWS Dora and the Lost City of Gold - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures

I never thought I'd be hyped for a "Dora the Explorer" movie, but there we are.

They basically made an Indiana Jones film and made it seriously. I mean, like a teen Tomb Raider, if you will. And they got Eva Longoria and Michael Peña as Dora's parents. They even got Benicio Del Toro and Danny Trejo doing some voices!

Here's the pretty darn good trailer:



I am absolutely not familiar with Dora, aside from pop culture references to it. This show's way after my time. But this does look... better than the recent Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider films. So... ehhh, why not.

I mean, they got me at Michael Peña. Who am I kiddin...

#MovieNEWS The Cloverfield Paradox is out!!!! What!!?!?!

And while nobody expected  it, J.J.Abrams and his Bad Robot production just randomly released the next third Cloverfield movie on Netflix!!!

What!?!?!

The film had been teased for a while, not to such an extend as the past two films. But they still stealthy launched the "augmented reality game" on social media and whatnot. I've only seen a couple videos on it on youtube.

And then a Superbowl teaser announced its released right away on Netflix the next day - today.

What!!!!

So we now know the long-awaited Paramount scifi film God Particle about people trapped in space during an alien invasion ended up now called The Cloverfield Paradox!

Major Hollywood studios are pretty hesitant to put smaller budget flicks on the big screen, nowadays. Specialyl in the middle of all these big loud superhero popcorn flicks. And since Paramount and Netflx worked out such a great similar deal with the Natalie Portman scifi film Annihilation recently, they decided to do the same. This is a $40 million-budget "little scifi film". And from the looks of it they already made it immetiatley profitable since they randomly unveiled it on Netflix earlier!!

Word of mouth works great with these mysterybox-type Abrams films.

Actually, I can't wait to check this out, personally.

But enough talk, here's the trailer for now:



This one was directed by Julius Onah. And it stars the always great Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Bruhl, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Chris O’Dowd, Ziyi Zhang and David Oyelowo.

It's funny to thing 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE was announced 2 months before its release date. THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX was revealed just 4 hours before its release. Since they already said CLOVERFIELD 4 has finishing its production, we might expect an even stealthier and faster release for it??

I can't wait to see people dissect this film apart. What if the biggest twist and mystery box was that these films have all been in the Lost universe and part of the Dharma conspiracy??

MR John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.

The man with the patch has escaped N.Y. Try L.A. in the apocalypse.

Snake Is Back.

Eyz takes a look at John Carpenter's impressive filmography in the following reviews:
John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter's Escape from New York
Halloween series - Halloween (2007) - HII (2009)
Halloween (Chaos! Comics)
One Good Scare - NightDance - 30 Years of Terror - The First Death of Laurie Strode
Christian Nyby's The Thing from Another World / "Who Goes There?" and other scifi classics
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Thing from Another World (Dark Horse Comics) - Climate of Fear
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness / John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
"They Live" and other scifi horror tales / John Carpenter's They Live
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned / John Carpenter's The Ward

#Movie NEWS! Zoolander 2 - Official Teaser

The movie nobody asked for, but I kind of expected it after Anchorman 2 to be honest:



YESSSSS!! Hope it's at least half as good as the original, and we're in for some great comedy. But has Ben Stiller done anything good recently? (Serious question here!!)