One of those movies that really surprised me, was Banliue 13 with David Belle. If you’d like Yamakasi or Riders, you will love this one too. Well, David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli are back in February 2009 with the sequel Banliue 13 – Ultimatum which has been shot recently. Since wednesday there are two featurettes about the new movie on the David Belle related website Mr Parkour.

To view all featurettes and see exclusive pictures from the making of Banlieue 13 – Ultimatum you can visit the film’s website at b13ultimatum-lefilm.com.

Featurette #1

Featurette #2

Chasing scene from Banliue 13 (just for your memory)

Currently I’m reading Barry Eislers “John Rain”-Series, in Germany also known as the Tokio Killer. I liked Rain Fall, and Hard Rain seems to be good book too (bought the books 1-4, and surpisingly noticed today that there’s a fifth one and that this is already translated into german and available as paperback).

John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who’s now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA’s station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had–a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan’s ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura’s daughter.

Well, today I checked out Barry Eislers website and found three things — one I’ve been looking for, and two that suprised me. Actually I’ve been just looking for his blog (somehow I expected that he has one), but besides that I also know about the fifth book now and that ‘Rain Fall’ has been made into a movie starring Gary Oldman that will be released by Sony Pictures in April 2009. I had some varying ideas about John Rains look, so it’s a bit hard for me to believe that Gary Oldman fits into that role — but nevertheless, I’m really looking forward to see this movie.

I really hope that the movie keeps what the trailer promises. The Max Payne trailer (Max Payne is played by Mark Wahlberg) is totally awesome and hopefully they caught the feeling of the game.

If you’re not familiar with the Max Payne feel, I must say it reminds a lot Sin City comics… something noir, and still got all that bullet time kicking ass sweetness, pretty much as a Matrix movie. I must insist, if you’ve never played any of Max Payne’s games before, YOU MUST PLAY THEM. It’s totally awesome!

Estimated to arrive in August 2008, you can order Big Lebowski Action figures on Entertainment Earth at a price of 25 Dollar.

The whole Big Lebowski range by Entertainment Earth can be found here.

The team that already shot ‘Hogfather‘, started work on the next Pratchett book – this time ‘The Colours Of Magic‘. ‘Hogfather’ was a good movie, and it’s without any doubt the only movie adoption that is not superficially limited to comedy. Instead it tried to get the right feeling for the extraordinary intelligent and witty society comments that make Prachett so special. The trailer is a real appetizer:

And here the trailer for ‘Hogfather’

It’s not really brand-new that there should be a Fraggles movie someday, but today the Weinsteins officially announced it.

Announced today, The Weinstein Company is officially turning the Jim Henson series into a live-action musical feature film. Hoodwinked! director Cory Edwards has been hired to direct and write the script, with The Jim Henson Company itself producing. (FirstShowing)

Let us nostalgically sing …