A couple of updates on two upcoming movies I’ll be seeing this Spring.

First, we’ve got the Clash of the Titans‘ new behind-the-scene featurette. I saw the TV spot during Chuck last night and boy, I’m really psyched to see this! Don’t know about you, but every time I see Perseus riding his horse into the sunset with the camp 80s rock music blazing just gets me going! 🙂 It’s the kind of movie I just want to enjoy for the special effects and the story/acting is icing on the cake, you know, it’s not a ‘historical project’ by any means as Sam Worthington points out, and that’s totally fine by me. Like Zeus… er, Liam Neeson says, “it’s going to be incredible entertainment!”
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Directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk), the Greek mythology tale centers on Perseus, a man born of a god and raised as a man who is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth.

You can see the first featurette I posted a while back and the full trailer on my top ten list. The lineup in this flix is impressive as well. Worthington, Neeson and Fiennes are joined by the largely European cast of  Danny Huston, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Flemyng, Alexa Davalos, Izabella Miko, Nicholas Hoult, and Pete Postlethwaite. It’s set to arrive on April 2nd, a week later than its original release date as it’ll be distributed in 3D. Not sure that one week is enough time to do the digital conversion, but perhaps it just doesn’t want to compete with Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon animated feature (also in 3D) out on March 26. In any case, release the Kraken already, I’m ready for some rollicking good time with this fun action adventure flick!

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And thanks to GBGals via Twitter, I found this photographer’s blog who shared his photos of Gerard Butler on the set of The Bounty Hunter. Here’s what he has to say about the actor:

I admire Gerard though. Not only because he’s a confident, talented and respectable young man in the industry. But Gerard gave me perhaps my first pleasant experience shooting a celebrity. He didn’t have loads of guards blocking him and he acted, well, like a normal human being. He was very down to earth and even talked to some of the on-lookers. It seemed that he even tried to pose for the camera at times. You can see those in the compilation shots of him in the opening photo.

He didn’t seem like the diva-types that require you to not even walk on the same side of the curb as them. That was nice to know.

You can read more about his experience as a celebrity photographer on Chris Gampat’s blog. Thanks for letting me post it here, Chris!