Bunches of biographies to discuss on this week’s episode of GeekScholars Movie News! To begin, the crew discusses the news that Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, Into the Wild) will play legendary comedic actor, John Belushi (Animal House, The Blues Brothers). Plus, updates on the biopic of musician James Brown called Get On Up, and an interesting project […]
Tag: Ender’s Game
Ender’s Game Is a Spectacular Near Miss!
Ender’s Game looks great, has some very good performances and absolutely spectacular CG visuals. As a blockbuster, it has heart, emotion and action. What it doesn’t have is any anything more than a cursory examination of the themes that made the novel so powerful.
Rotten Tomatoes and Opening Box Office Predictions: Ender’s Game
GeekScholars Movie News has released their Rotten Tomatoes and Opening Box Office Predictions for Ender’s Game! Hit the jump to find out their estimates!
Behind-the-Scenes Video: Ender’s Game: Building Ender’s World!
Ender’s Game is a film about ethics on a grand scale, in a spectacular environment. Summit Entertainment has a released a behind-the-scenes video that gives us a glimpse into the building of the universe in which the story is set. It’s pretty mind-boggling. Check it out after the jump. Ender’s Game is in theaters on […]
2013 SDCC Film Highlights Part 1: Divergent, Ender’s Game, and More!
Greetings from the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International! The GeekScholars Movie News podcast is here, covering all of Thursday’s best movie-related panels, and checking out all the best cosplayers from the first two days! (Note: Only about 1/6 of our photos are up, more coming soon!) On this first special 2013 SDCC episode, the GeekScholars report on: Walking the […]
Ender’s Game: Battle School Recruitment Video Asks ‘Do You Have What It Takes?
In advance of its Ender’s Game panel at comic-Con 2013, Summit Entertainment has released a Battle School recruitment video that features Harrison Ford’s Col. Hyrum Graff, as well as scenes of young soldiers in training and in action. It reminded me a bit of the propaganda videos from the original Starship Troopers – only minus […]
Long Awaited Trailer: Ender’s Game!
One of the longer journeys from novel to film is that of Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. Now there’s a trailer for the November 1 release. Check it out after the jump.