After two weeks of opening and it’s not the most wanted film in town anymore. I’m talking about Wanted, the James McAvoy-Angelina Jolie movie about a secret society of assassins.

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Wanted slid down to #4 after the July 4 weekend of Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda and Hancock. It’s decline was faster than feared when it dropped 60 percent down from a week ago. Still it grossed a total of $159.4 million since it opened on June 27.
I did watch Wanted today, choosing it over Hancock.

Wanted – movie In theaters: June 27, 2008Genre: graphic novel/action/thriller (Rated R)
Wanted opens next weekend at the box office and the cast are doing their rounds of interviews. Russian director Timur Bekmambetov talked exclusively with Superhero Hype about the movies – Night Watch and Day Watch- that brought him the attention of Universal executives for directing Wanted.
Although Wanted is a comic book adaptation of the same name, Bekmambetov took the liberty of changing some of the mythology but remained true to the tone of the original comics. “It was important for me to protect and to develop the ironic tone …read more

Angelina Jolie talked at length with Entertainment Weekly about her new role as a foxy assassin in the new action “Wanted“.
When told that the plot of Wanted sounded like “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” Angelina added that it’s really Mrs. Smith after she killed Mr. Smith, “went into depression and got very, very, very moody“. Well, Angelina wanted got the role because she was looking for something physical, where she can play being aggressive and get out of herself a little. This was right after her mom died and she had a baby. But her character Fox is someone who …read more

Wanted – movie In theaters: June 27, 2008Genre: graphic novel/action/thriller (Rated R)
Mark Millar’s comic adaptation Wanted is getting moviegoers buzzing. Some love the extreme action, others hate how it deviates from the original graphic novel. Either way, I think it’s worth watching.
Yahoo actually has twelve trailers of the movie, from the theatrical version to snippets that haven’t been shown in youTube yet. There’s a train sequence,
Superherohype/Coming Soon also wrote leads to sevral more trailers. One of the videos shows how Wesley’s father, known only as Mr. X, was murdered after himself jumping flying off a building and killing …read more

Wanted – movie In theaters: June 27, 2008Genre: graphic novel/action/thriller (Rated R)
The Angelina Jolie/James McAvoy movie “Wanted” is promising to be a summer movie full of jaw-dropping, cool action. “Wanted” is about a fraternity of assassins with almost-superhuman agility. Now this brotherhood of killers are not mercenaries; but rather assassins-with-a-cause. They believe that killing some people will maintain the balance of power and life, as dictated by the Fates. The latest recruit is a geeky nobody named Wesley Gibson, who inherits the genes to kill from his dad.

The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, …read more

Wanted – movie In theaters: June 27, 2008Genre: graphic novel/action/thriller (Rated R)
Talk about multi-tasking! Here’s the latest trailer of the movie Wanted. There are some new, really cool scenes not found in the first trailer, like those of Angelina flipped over on the hood of her car while driving and shooting at someone. It’s too early to review it, but from the previews, this movie has a lot of Matrix flavors, don’t you think?

The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie.

Wanted – movie In theaters: June 27, 2008Genre: graphic novel/action/thriller
Wanted is loosely based on the graphic novel series by Mark Millar. It tells the transformation of a geeky nobody – Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) – into a mythical assassin, who kill at the bidding of a secret society called Fates.
When Wesley’s estranged father was murdered, his partner Sloan (Morgan Freeman) recruits the young man to follow in his father’s footsteps and become one of a rare breed of assassins – men and women with lightning quick reflexes and phenomenal agility. Wesley is trained by the femme fatale Fox (Angelina …read more