Superhero Profiles

July 10th, 2008

"Wanted" at the box office

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.

Image details: Premiere Of Universal’s "Wanted" - Arrivals served by picapp.com

Wanted slid down to #4 after the July 4 weekend of Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda […]

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June 20th, 2008

Timur Bekmambetov interview on "Wanted"!

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 […]

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June 20th, 2008

Angelina Jolie interview: "Wanted"

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“. […]

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June 20th, 2008

Wanted - trailers galore!

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 […]

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June 6th, 2008

Wanted - movie trailer 2

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 […]

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May 29th, 2008

Wanted: new movie trailer

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 […]

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May 27th, 2008

Wanted: new comics-inspired movie

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 […]

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