Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows - First Trailer in HD

I teased you yesterday with two posters for Guy Ritchie's follow up to 2009's Sherlock Holmes and a promise of the first trailer. Well here is that trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in HD which features Robert Downey in drag, Jude Law on honeymoon and Girl With The Dragon Tattoo's Noomi Rapace as a fortune telling gypsy. Who could ask for anything more ?

Pooh, Potter, Muppets, Sherlock and Batman !

There seems to be so many new trailers and posters being released this week that I have decided to post them all together today.

First up, a couple of short trailers for Winnie The Pooh that spoof (or should that be take advantage of) the final instalment of Harry Potter.

The Winnie The Pooh movie had its UK release in April but US audiences have to wait until July 15. It's a very sweet little movie that harks back to the early days of Disney but I'm guessing ticket sales won't be huge for this given its clash with the Boy Wizard.

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Next up is the latest post for 'The Muppets' due for US release November 23 and UK release Feb 17th 2012. The movie stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris Cooper and is Directed by James Bobin.

The story sees Adams and Segel's characters raising money via a Muppet Telethon to prevent greedy oil magnate Tex Richman who discovers oil underneath the Muppet Theatre. It's then up to Kermit the Frog to reunite the Muppets who have all gone their seperate ways.

Segel pitched an idea to Disney in 2008 who then offered him to develop a script with Nicholas Stoller. 

The movie promises lots of cameos, some cracking musical numbers and quite a few laughs. I look forward to this.

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Here is the teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises, due for release 20 July 2012. Once again directed by Christopher Nolan and Starring Christian Bale as 'Bruce Wayne'/'Batman', Anne Hathaway as 'Catwoman', Tom Hardy as 'Bane', Gary Oldman as 'Jim Gordon' and Marion Cottilard as 'Miranda Tate'.

With a budget of $250 million this will be the final part of Nolan's DC Comics character trilogy and rumours suggest it may be filmed entirely in IMAX format film but not in 3D

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Lastly, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the follow up to the hugely successful 2009 movie. This film reunites original stars Robert Downey Jnr. as 'Holmes', Jude Law as 'Watson' and Rachel McAdams as 'Irene Adler' and this time the team join forces to try and bring down their biggest enemy.....Professor Moriarty. Two new additions to the cast are ProductionDiaries favourite Stephen Fry as Sherlock's brother 'Mycroft Holmes' and Jared Harris as 'Moriarty'. The film is due for release for release December 16 and I think these 2 teaser posters look great. TheProductionDiaries.com will feature the first trailer in the next few weeks so keep checking back.

TinTin Full Length Trailer

What do you get if you take the directing skills of 'Jaws', 'Jurassic Park', and 'Saving Private Ryan', mix it with the producers of 'Lord of the Rings' and 'King Kong' and then combine it with the writers behind 'Sherlock', 'Attack the Block' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'Shaun of the Dead' ?????

Well the answer is The Adventures of "TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn", a new performance capture film from Director Steven Spielberg and Producer Peter Jackson. The film stars Jamie Bell as Herge's famous explorer with Andy Serkis as 'Captain Haddock' and Simon Pegg & Nick Frost as 'Thomson & Thompson'.

The movie combines the three stories 'The Crab With The Golden Claws', 'The Secret Of The Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham's Treasure' and will focus on TinTin's first encounter with Captain Haddock and the discovery of instructions as to the whereabouts of a sunken ship and, of course, lots of treasure.

Filming took place in just over 30 days, starting at the end of January 2009 which sounds quick but that is the beauty of performance capture, its nice and speedy due to not having to set up lights etc. Its only afterwards the hard work really starts in post production. Weta Digital (Avatar) will be providing the mammoth amount of CGI required whilst king of the movie themes, John Williams will be providing the score. 

The film will be the first in a trilogy of films with the second being directed by Peter Jackson and the third being co-directed by both Steven and Peter. It's scheduled for release in Decmber 2011 and I think this will be the start of a great trilogy !

We featured the teaser trailer a few weeks ago but here now for your pleasure is the full length international trailer.

New Hobbit Production Diary Number 2 and Dwarf Pics

Peter Jackson has recently uploaded a brand new production diary from the set of The Hobbit and also released some great new pictures of John Callen as 'Oin' and Peter Hambleton as 'Gloin' and another of Jed Brophy as 'Nori', Adam Brown as 'Ori' and Mark Hadlow as 'Dori'

Distant cousins of Thorin Oakenshield, these two doughty Northern Dwarves join the Company out of a sense of loyalty to their kin, and also because they have a substantial sum of money invested in the venture. Along with Bombur, Gloin is the only other married Dwarf in the Company (there being a shortage of female dwarves in general). His wife is an acclaimed beauty with a particularly fine beard. Gloin is the proud father of a young son, Gimli, who will go on to become part of the famous Fellowship of the Ring.

'Oin' and 'Gloin'

These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other. Dori, the oldest, spends much of his time watching out for Ori, the youngest; making sure hes not caught a chill or got himself killed by Wargs or Goblins. Nobody quite knows what Nori gets up to most of the time, except that its guaranteed to be dodgy and quite probably, illegal. Dori, Nori and Ori are intensely loyal to each other and whilst they are perfectly happy fighting amongst themselves, woe-betide anyone who means harm to one of these brothers.

'Nori', 'Ori' and 'Dori'

And lastly, here is the second on set production diary from Peter Jackson and its really interesting to see Andy Serkis in the 2nd unit Director's Chair. Peter, as with all of his 'large scale' films prefers to shoot in blocks and then edits along the way which also gives Weta ample opportunity to start work on the mammoth amount of visual effects shots.

Stephen Fry is GOD !!

Last week I reported on the upcoming BBC drama detailing the furore surrounding the release of Monty Python's Life of Brian. 

Well I have just found out in the past hour that Stephen Fry is to play God in the one off film and will be recording his voice parts today so I am assuming that his role will be animated.

It will be great to see Stephen in this adaptation and I can't think of a better 'character' for him to portray, seeing as most of the UK think he is a god anyway.....................and he is !!

UPDATE: As you can clearly see from the picture below, Stephen won't be animated in the Python drama as his 'God' like dress shows.

I got hold of this picture from Stephen's Twitter account earlier today and he really looks the part. I'm guessing green screen will be used quite heavily for this production as I read the other day it will feature quite a lot of animation, which I hope will be in the same style as the fantastic Terry Gilliam vignettes from the Python series years ago

Deathly Hallows London Premiere to stream on YouTube

Warner Bros. have announced that the Worldwide Premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" will be streamed on the Harry Potter YouTube channel on July 7 live from London's Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square.

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint as well as many other stars of all the HP films will be there alongside the film makers themselves for the exclusive event.

Click HERE for the Harry Potter YouTube channel and don't forget to mark the date in your diary.

The film opens worldwide on July 15.

Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" - First Look

"War Horse" tells the story of a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

Filmed entirely in England the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Eddie Marsan (Dissapearance of Alice Creed, Little Dorrit) and David Thewlis (Black Beauty, Dragonheart) and is based on the children's book of the same name by Michael Morpurgo and the stage adaptation by Nick Stafford.

The screen adaptation is written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Blackadder, Nottinghill) and Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) and is produced by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, directed by Steven Spielberg with music by John Williams.

The trailer looks beautiful and from what I have heard about the book and stage show, you may need to bring some tissues to the theatre for this one !