{"id":1742,"date":"2013-04-18T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/18\/brad-pitt-riles-up-cinemacon\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:57:09","slug":"brad-pitt-riles-up-cinemacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/brad-pitt-riles-up-cinemacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt riles up CinemaCon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Movie theatre owners aren\u2019t known for being the most raucous crowd. But plop Brad Pitt in front of them and anything can happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI love you!\u201d one woman shrieked from a balcony in the cavernous 4,100-seat Caesars Palace Colosseum, where hundreds of exhibitors from around the world had gathered Monday night for CinemaCon. At the annual convention, studios show off footage from their most hotly anticipated releases and fly in movie stars to help promote their films to those who book them in cinemas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paramount Pictures kicked off the four-day conference by touting Pitt\u2019s zombie flick \u201cWorld War Z,\u201d as well as \u201cStar Trek Into Darkness\u201d and Michael Bay\u2019s \u201cPain & Gain.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With director J.J Abrams stuck in the mixing stage, finishing up the new \u201cStar Trek\u201d for its mid-May release, writer Damon Lindelof was tasked with introducing the movie to the audience. He quickly brought out a number of the film\u2019s cast members, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, John Cho and Alice Eve, and proceeded to ask each of them one quasi-awkward question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pine, who was at CinemaCon last year to help market \u201cRise of the Guardians,\u201d seemed most comfortable on stage addressing the evolution of his character, Captain James T. Kirk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI think in the first film … Kirk got the chair a bit too prematurely,\u201d the actor explained. \u201cHe was still a kid \u2014 brash, headstrong, at times arrogant kid-punk. And in this installment I think we see Kirk earn the chair.\u201d Unlike the first film, the sequel has been converted to 3D, and the 18 minutes of material Paramount played Monday night showed off the technology. In one scene, for instance, Kirk and the film\u2019s villain (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) must fly through space dodging dangerous debris \u2014 all of which juts out jarringly at moviegoers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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But it was the footage from Pitt\u2019s film \u2014 which will also be in 3D when it\u2019s released in June, but was not yet finished \u2014 that really caused the audience to jump from their seats. Playing a United Nations employee trying to save his family and the world from a zombie pandemic, Pitt encounters fast-moving zombies on planes, on the crowded streets of Jerusalem and in traffic jams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The clips shown Monday night revealed more images of the actual zombies, which have thus far largely been hidden in the film\u2019s trailers. Let\u2019s just say that if you get bitten by one, it causes an unpleasant chain reaction. \u201cFive years ago, I knew absolutely nothing about a zombie; today, I consider myself an expert,\u201d Pitt said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis whole thing started because I just wanted to do a film that my boys could see before they turned 18 \u2014 one that they liked, anyways. And they love a zombie.\u201d As for \u201cPain & Gain,\u201d exhibitors were shown the entire action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, which arrives in theaters April 26. But only its director Michael Bay turned up in Vegas. Paramount also announced that Bay\u2019s next film, the fourth installment in the \u201cTransformers\u201d franchise, will be shot with 3D IMAX cameras, as will Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cInterstellar.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve helped you theatre owners out here fill your theatres for many, many summers,\u201d said the ever-modest Bay. \u201cTonight, I\u2019m screening for you \u2018Pain & Gain.\u2019 It\u2019s a little project I had for about 12 years. I was tired of press always taking digs at me, saying that I can only do multi-hundred-million-dollar pictures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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