The Mummy Returns News

The Menomonee Falls Public Library will show two popular films from The Mummy series, starring Brendan Fraser, in its Thursday Monthly Movie line-up for October.

In the movie "The Mummy Returns," Oded Fehr's character, Ardeth Bay, sends messages to the Magi, sworn protectors of the Earth from the evil mummy, Imhotep, using his trusty and majestic falcon, Horus.

Brendan Fraser is explaining the art of acting in special- effects movies, and he grabs the nearest thing at hand - a plastic water bottle - to illustrate his point about pretending.

Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker receive zero writing credit for Stephen Sommers' lopsided Van Helsing , and you can hear the immortal authors breathing a sigh of relief from beyond the grave.

Films such as The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns , which collectively have grossed close to US$850 million, have cemented Rachel Weisz's status as a bankable A-list player.

A scene from 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Director: Stephen Sommers The movie opens on a dark, stormy night with a horse-drawn carriage clip-clopping dismally on a cobbled path.

When it comes to iconic horror characters, Universal has the catalog to beat all catalogs.

Yo Joe! I would say this was inevitable, but then again, the buzz for G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra was so bad that no one knew if it'd do well on its opening weekend.

Holding out for a hero ... Cinema Daniel Carey The mid '70s marked a golden age in American cinema, delivering such enduring classics as 'Taxi Driver', 'Godfather II' and 'All The President's Men'. Then, in May 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars and cinema changed forever.

Some films have no right to be good, but, maddeningly, don't suck. Here I'm thinking of Roland Emmerich's Independence Day , which really is a crescendo of clichA©s synthesized from Lucas, Spielberg, and Area 51 buffs, featuring actors who seem happily oblivious to the cheesiness of the script.

Sommers talks about some of the challenges of directing GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra , getting to keep some of the props and reuniting with past co-stars such as Brendan Fraser... Q. Do advances in CGI make the job easier or more difficult when it comes to directing a movie as big as this? Stephen Sommers: It's changed, because 10 years ago with The ...

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Channing Tatum stars as Duke in 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.' At ease, soldiers -- it turns out there's nothing disastrously wrong with "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," the latest big-budget, live-action film to be plucked from Paramount and Hasbro's shared toybox.

Sommers talks about some of the challenges of directing GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra , getting to keep some of the props and reuniting with past co-stars such as Brendan Fraser... Q. Do advances in CGI make the job easier or more difficult when it comes to directing a movie as big as this? Stephen Sommers: It's changed, because 10 years ago with The ...

DIRECTOR Stephen Sommers, who created such global blockbusters as The Mummy , Van Helsing and The Mummy Returns gives us his latest thrill ride: the high-octane, action-packed adventure GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra .

With "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" set for release in a little over a week, Paramount has release four clips from the Stephen Sommers movie and they're after the jump.

THE MUMMY RETURNS Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:05 Michael Gingold Film Restored Archive Review, Originally Posted on 7/16/2001 Midway through the original JURASSIC PARK, Jeff Goldblum has the line, "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could do it that you didn't stop to think if you should." He's talking about cloning dinosaurs, of course, ...

We see you Joseph Gordon-Levitt! Seen above is the first official look at Gordon-Levitt as the villain Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra .

Excitement and adventure are the order of the day as handsome swashbuckling contemporaries Indiana Jones and Rick O'Connell go head to head on MAX and HBO this July! For the first time in Asia, MAX premieres the "Indiana Jones Quadrilogy," the complete set of blockbuster movies featuring Hollywood's most famous archaeologist, Dr.

Yet another trailer for G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra has hit. I don't completely think this was a final attempt to build buzz and get everyone to forget about the Stephen Sommers rumors , but rather just another trailer that might show in front of Transformers 2 next week as their very last in-theater push.