New adaptation of a comic book series, The Losers does not make the weight beside the recent and very diverting Kick-Ass. It will however manage to relieve the many amateurs of the kind who impatiently await the exit of a certain Iron Man 2.

A shock unit given up by its superiors decide to fill the contract with an unknown female intrigante (played by Zoe Saldana) while making everything to get rid of their former Boss Max (Played by Jason Patric). Who knows what the five members of Losers – Clay (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (played by Chris Evans), Roque (played by Idris Elba), Pooch (played by Columbus Short) and Cougar (played by Jaenada Oscar) – are able to make to arrive to their goal.

This cinematographic transposition of a popular comic book by Andy Diggle joins a groundwork similar to Mission: Impossible. The members of the team must count the ones on the others, some treasons await them and the malicious one spends his time changing country to prove how he has the capacity and the oney. While looking there more closely, it is also possible to see that this is a second reading of the imposing The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer. The five comparses are plunged in a story which exceeds them, an almost omniscient diabolic spirit draws the strings, several external pawns appear to scramble the charts, a mini revelation appears in the last straight line and there is even a large muscular scene which is held in a port!

There stops the comparisons with these works definitely more ambitious. The Losers does not make in subtlety and that hardly interests the scenario writers to develop the characters correctly or to even equip them with dialogs at least a little deep. All is a question of action scenes, explosions and confrontations which has to arrive every ten minutes, like a metronome regulated with the quarter of turn. These are a little redundant sequences which make the heart of the tale and as a whole, they prove vibrating. Although the director Sylvain White (creator of the unequal Stomp the Yard) always has tendency to to present in a typical setting in scene which privileges too much the idles and the catches of sight worthy of MTV, the kind is treated with respect and much derision. It is finally the humor more than the innumerable chases which allow us to pass a light pleasant moment.

The Suave Interpretation is also not foreign with the modest success of the company. Jeffrey Dean Morgan practically takes again his character of the actor in Watchmen, not hesitating to alternate the jokes placed well, the brawls which move much air and the punches in the face of female characters. He has especially the imposing presence to defend the first roles effectively and this, even if he always passes for a Robert Downey Jr. Substitute. He eclipses his game partners all the same, except perhaps Chris Evans which has fun like an insane person, and Jason Patric which camps with delight another irresistible villain.

If it taps at least its pin of the play within a calendar already nourished well with large Hollywood productions, a continuation is likely to be born in the near future. Perhaps that with the image of the new Batman or Super-Man franchise, the first volume was only used to put the table, and that the fun will really begin with the second episode. It is to be wished. While waiting, The Losers makes the job, neither more nor less. What is always a good news, especially beside its painful trailer.

High quality Documentary surveying sea-beds, Oceans makes vibrate by its images of a great beauty and its exceptional soundtrack. A diving in apnea which does not make however forget its some errors… at least in the version intended for North America screens.

Thanks to its Nature branch, Disney seeks to work on documentary projects on the ecological stakes of humanity. Last year, Earth allowed us to discover the beauties of the ground, its fauna and its flora. For the 2010 Earth Day, the father of Mickey Mouse distributes Oceans, this environmental movie of Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud which crashed to pieces the French box office last January.

With a considerable budget, both Jacques Cousteau of the 21e century are thrown literally in the various oceans of the world, exploring these poetic places, joining with its many inhabitants, pointing out the big challenges which they are likely to meet. An extraordinary adventure within these cemeteries of water and dust where the silence of the places ironically leaves the place to a variety of species which must cohabit together.

The documentary on the subject are legion, as much those of the BBC which were released in the cinemas (one of best remains The Blue Planet). What does Oceans bring more? It is interested first of all in animals rarely shown on the screen, revealing them in their natural elements. It does it in an especially bright way thanks to a seizing photographic team and the catches of sight to cut the breath. An image is worth 1000 words and this saying never was that true only here, with these fish which whirl and these water bubbles which enter in symbiosis, concerned with the dances as poetic as enchanters.

The two creators fully use the possibilities of their medium, which slices with the competition, of those their talks not often exciting could have been found directly on television. The montage, at the same time flexible and active, assembly slackens or reinvigorates the rhythm, creating a domino effect, drawing the attention of the spectator quickly. The whole is rocked by a very interesting soundtrack of Bruno Coulais who uses the cords of his orchestra to reach the grace, evoking the voyages in space which proceed rather in sea-beds.

The exercise is however not perfect, and its some gaps could titillate the amateurs of the kind. Alarmed and interesting, the narration Pierce Brosnan (in the English version released in North America) seems sometimes superfluous, breaking celestial balance somewhat, bringing back the two feet on the ground (or in the sea) with its information which must be conveyed. The ecological messages want to be also supported, especially at the time of the conclusion which wastes a little the movie. With this chapter, the song which opens the credits appears indigestible, drowning the message in syrup more sticking and more sweetened. Why do as much addition when the whole thing arrives on this side of the Atlantic? Because the original version was much longer and there was only approximately five minutes of blah…

Difficult to create new thing with such a tested theme. Oceans is making his way surprisingly well, resorting to exquisite images and memorable melodies. The tandem of scenario writers made us dream on their precedent The Travelling Birdsand and here it is to repeat in a brilliant manner. Let’s hope that the next one will not be adapted at all, reducing the words at least, trusting its raw material without always pointing out how this paradise is likely to become the hell if the world population does not do anything to change it.

The comedy distributed by DreamWorks takes back the head of the North-American box office with receipts of 15 $US million.

The animation film in 3D How to Train Your Dragon made its entry in the box office at the end of March. This feature film had collected 43.3 million dollars $US for its first week on the screens.

The comedy is held in a world where a young Viking must capture and overcome a wild dragon. The story is inspired by the book written by Cressida Cowell and published in 2003. The vocal distribution is in particular made up of Gerald Butler, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and America Ferrera.

In second place, we find Jennifer Lopez in the new movie The Back-up Plan which obtained 12,3 $US million. The story is about an unmarried woman who does not find the ideal man and turns to artificial insemination. The day when she will receive a positive respond to her test pregnancy, she will meet the man of her life.

Crazy night is always in third place with 10,6 $US million.

The Losers takes the fourth place with 9,6 $US million. This film adaptation of a comic book series follows members of the American Special Forces in top secret operations.

Kick-Ass, produced by Brad Pitt, is in 5th place with 9,5 $US million of receipts for its second week in cinema rooms. The film was in first position last week.

The documentary Oceans arrives at the eighth place with 6 $US million. In the title, the directors Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin show images never recorded by underwater technology.

Here is the Weekend Box Office Results for April 23-25, 2010:

1. How to Train Your Dragon (15 million US$)

2. The Back-up Plan (12.3 million $US$)

3. Date Night (10.6 million $US$)

4. The Losers (9.6 million $US$)

5. Kick-Ass (9.5 million $US$)

6. Clash of the Titans (9 million $US$)

7. Death at a Funeral (8 million $US$)

8. Oceans (6 million $US$)

9. The Last Song (3.7 million $US$)

10. Alice in Wonderland (2.2 million $US$)

James Cameron’s epic motion picture Avatar reached another record by selling 6.7 million copies in DVD and Blu-ray in the United States and Canada, announced Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

It is a all times record for as many sales of the Blu-ray format in that little time.

The DVD version was sold to 4 million specimens while the Blu-ray version took taking 2.7 million times. The combined sales of these two formats reached 130 M$ only from its exit in store last Thursday.

The old record of the sales was held by the film The Dark Knight released in 2008. The film by Christopher Nolan had been sold to 2.5 million Blu-ray copies over an eighteen months period.

Only at its first day on the shelves of the stores, the Avatar film succeeded in selling for 3,2 million DVD and Blu-ray, compared to 2,7 million up to now for the two versions of film of Batman.

Let’s recall that Avatar will be released again on the screens next August, in a somewhat lengthened version. Of course, a 4 discs lengthened version will be released in store a little later. While waiting, the records do not cease accumulating

The director Shekhar Kapur (known for his motion pictures Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age) has just signed an agreement to carry out a biographical film on the life of the British explorer George Mallory, Julia Roberts will produce the project via her company Red Om Films in collaboration with Kevin Townsend of the Science + Fiction company.

The film will relate on the attempts of Mallory to conquer the Everest and the consequences which his obsession had on his marriage.

Mallory and Andrew Irvine, his climbing partner, are disappeared in 1924 whereas they tried to reach the top of the Everest. The bodies were found in 1999 by an American team at 8290 meters of altitude. We never succeeded to determine if Mallory really reached the top and if he died at the time of the descent. Two missing cameras could have cleared up this mystery. Experts from Kodak had estimated that in the event the discovery of one of the device with his film, they would be in measurement to develop it so as to produce images of printable quality. If Mallory really reached the top, he preceded Edmund Hillary of twenty-nine years.

Mallory is famous for his answer to the question: Why do you want to conquer the Mount Everest? He had quite simply answered: Because he is there.

The scenario was written by Townsend, Mark Skeet and Matthew Faulk.

After the 1995 neo-noir film The Usual Suspects and 2008 historical thriller film Valkyrie, the scenario writer, winner of an Oscar at the Academy Awards, Christopher McQuarrie and the director Bryan Singer will remake team for Jack the Giant Killer, a film which will be produced for New Line and Legendary Pictures.

Christopher McQuarrie currently works on the scenario of this whimsical adventure which will tell the story of a princess who is kidnapped, a gesture which will threaten the long peace between the men and the giants. A young farmer will have the opportunity the lead a dangerous expedition to the kingdom of the giants in order to save it.

Bryan Singer is about to start to gather the distribution. The filming must start this summer in England.

Neal Moritz produces the project via his company Original Films in partnership with David Dobkin (Fred Claus, Wedding Crashers).

Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis) and Darren Lemke (Gemini Man) wrote the preceding outlines of the scenario.

Note that Bryan Singer increased his popularly among superhero fans in the last years with his work on the first two X-Men movies and Superman Returns.

The famous American screenwriter, film director and actor Woody Allen revealed new details on his film which will be filmed in Paris this summer. He in particular confirmed the participation of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France’s First Lady, in the feature film which title will be Midnight in Paris.

Owen Wilson (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Marley and Me), Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes, The Time Traveler’s Wife), Marion Cotillard (Nine, Public Enemies), Kathy Bates (The Blind Side, The Day the Earth Stood Still), Tom Hiddleston (who is also working for the superhero movies The Avengers and Thor and the moment), Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Frost/Nixon), Corey Stoll, Nina Arianda, Kurt Fuller and Mimi Kennedy supplement the distribution of the film.

This sentimental comedy will follow a family which travels to Paris for business reasons. A young couple will see its existence transformed by this stay. The film celebrates the great love of a young man for Paris and explores simultaneously the illusion which people have that a life different from their is better. This is what we know so far.

Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures and Steve Tenenbaum produce the feature film within the framework of an agreement for the production of three films between Gravier Productions, the company of Allen, and Mediapro. This last company is the same one which financed Vicky Cristina Barcelona and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, his more recent realization which will be presented except competition to Cannes.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment affirms to have sold 1.5 million Blu-ray copies of the epic science fiction  film Avatar at the time of its first day in the stores Thursday. It is a new record for this format beating that of the 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight which had sold 600 000 copies in Blu-Ray at the time of its first day after the release.

The combined sales of the Blu-ray and DVD formats would have exceeded the four million copies according to the studio.

Note that the release was not on Tuesday as usual, but on Thursday to match with Earth Day. The movie is to be released in the United Kingdom on April 26th

The retailers would have sold 60% of their inventory in Blu-ray and approximately 50% of the one in DVD.

Let us recall that the film collected receipts of 2,7 billion $US to the world box office from its release last December. It is a historical record without precedent.

James Camron, the director for the motion picture, announced that the movie will be released a second time on the screens in August with six minutes of additional sequences. Moreover four discs, version in DVD and Blu-Ray is waited next November. So, we will not forget this movie in 2010.

Daniel Dae Kim, one of the popular actors of the Lost TV series, has just been recruited to play in the action thriller Deathgames which will be produced for Motion Picture Corporation of America. Kellan and Lutz Samuel L. Jackson already form part of the distribution.

In the new motion picture, the character played by Lutz is takken by a sadistic promoter (Jackson) who forces him to be a modern gladiators in games where the fighters brawl until one of them die for the enjoyment of a public on the Internet.

Kim will play the part of another kidnapped man, an artist who is also Master in kendo, a martial art. This ability will be invaluable for him when he fights for him life and that of his wife.

Jonah Loop, a former special effects specialist in the (who was on A Perfect Getaway and Collateral) will work for the very first time as a film director on this project. On the next month, the filming should start in Louisiana.

Tony Giglio, Michael Hultquist and Robert Martinez are the scenario writer for the motion picture. It was also re-touched by the new director.

Daniel Dae Kim has just finished the filming of the sixth and last season of the Lost series. He will make in particularly a short appearance at the sides of Matt Damon in the film The Adjustment Bureau this autumn. He also plays a part in the pilot of the remake TV series Hawaii Five-O for CBS.

The actors Benicio Del Toro and Cameron Diaz are attached to a sentimental comedy which will be produced for 20th Century Fox. The studio has just acquired the rights of a film adaptation from the novel An Ex To Grind by the author Jane Heller.

Del Toro will incarnate a very popular athlete who supported the dreams of his wife who works as a waitress during years. When his career is curtailed by a wound, the athlete will transform himself into a bum and beer drinker whereas his wife becomes a prosperous businesswoman. She will plan to divorce but will be horrified to learn that she will have to pay alimony to support the neglected lifestyle which led her to separate from him. She will conspire to find a new woman for her husband in order to draw from businesses but when her replacement will transform her husband into the man with whom she formerly fell in love, she tries to recover him.

The novel of Jane Heller was published into 2005 by the William Morrow edition, a subsidiary company of Harper Collins.

The project will be produced by Laura Bickford in partnership with Julie Yorn. Del Toro and Bickford already worked together on the crime drama Traffic and on the two-part 2008 biopic Che.

Note that Cameron Diaz’s voice will be heard in Shrek Forever After very soon.