My dear, dear Snow White

Hey!

Very exciting reminder for all you fairy tale lovers out there! the new Snow White and the Huntsman movie is arriving this Friday! Starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Thor Chris Hemsworth, and hottie newcomer Ian Shane. I'm super pumped for this movie because of so many reasons. When I saw the trailer a few months back, I was so stoked at the artsy visual effects and stunning location filming (I love it when filming locations are at ACTUAL locations and not in studios where forests need to be CGI-ed) It had the beautiful, magical creatures similar to some of Guillermo Del Toro's work (one of my favourite directors/writers) and the whole cast and crew is so talented. Did I mention that the script was helmed by John Lee Hancock (the Blind Side), Evan Daugherty (the Killing Season) and Hossein Amini (Drive)?

I think the producers of this SWATH movie really knew what they were doing, compared to the other Snow White movie, Mirror Mirror, starring Lily Collins, Armie Hammer and Julia Roberts (who had this ridiculous accent, I couldn't tell if she was British or American). The movie bombed at the box office, and it's still not doing well, having earned to date $62 million (approx) and a starting production budget of $85 million. The movie was directed by Tarsem Singh, the director of 2011's Immortals, so you can expect very soft and gold visuals and settings. When I watched the trailer for Mirror, Mirror it had a large dance number, very "Bollywood" inspired I would say but the overall feel of the movie was totally kid-ish. It probably drew in the younger-teen demographic but not many went to see it.

Now with this upcoming Snow White movie, I would say that it's a recipe for success! It has Kristen Stewart (so you can bet your teens and twi-hard fans are going) Thor (who is still kicking butt at the box office in the Avengers! drawing in the boys/men) and Charlize Theron, she's an Oscar-winner and she just adopted a baby so enough said. The feel of this movie is much more darker but it got the gold rating of PG-13 (so basically anyone can go, over 13 years of age). Let's hope that Universal Studios will do well with this picture, considering Battleship totally sunk.

Here are both trailers, you can compare the two:

JLT