July 1, 2012

If there's one thing you can count on Earth's mightiest heroes to accomplish, it's kicking alien ass. Iron Man, Captain America and the rest of the gang didn't just destroy the extraterrestrial threat in their movie, either — they also sunk the aliens of "Battleship" without even knowing it.

"Battleship" director Peter Berg spoke with MTV News recently about his thoughts on the box-office earnings of his latest big-budget blockbuster. The Hasbro adaptation has earned $235 million overseas, but only $63 million at the domestic box office — an outcome Berg pins on the outstanding success of "Marvel's The Avengers."



Source - mtv.com

June 15, 2012

High costs and a high concept sunk his Battleship.

Peter Berg, who directed one of this year's biggest big-screen flops, surprised the crowd Sunday at the Produced By Conference with a frank talk about what went wrong with his latest movie, "Battleship," TheWrap reported.

"I have a movie in theaters right now which has obviously underperformed in many ways," Berg said at the panel. "When [a movie] doesn't work, it's an … interesting opportunity to look at what went wrong and how it went wrong."

Based on a popular board game that has little in the way of a backstory, Universal used the premise of a naval standoff and turned it into an alien invasion popcorn film.

The film has grossed just $59.8 million to date domestically - though it has notched $235.6 million more in foreign territories - a huge disappointment for a film with a reported budget of more than $200 million. Sailing into theaters just two weeks into "The Avengers" box office phenomenon didn't help.

“Seriously, I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise,” the 48-year-old director told the Daily News in May. “I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense.

“So when the idea of ‘Battleship’ was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?”

The answer, unfortunately in hindsight is no, Berg told the crowd less than a month later.

"It was a movie that I tried as hard as I could to get inside of," Berg said Sunday. "But the concept is so big and powerful, and the money is so big and so powerful, that the movie is going to run away with itself."

Source - nydailynews.com

May 15, 2012

April 25, 2012

Ok, I was wrong. There I admit it :)

When they announced that they will start with premieres around the world like a month before the "official" US premiere on 18th May I thought its a terrible idea. The movie was shaky in the start regarding returning the investment, which was around $200 million.

But despite the critics and their not so good reviews, the movie is solid 6.5 on IMDB which is better the Transformers 2 & 3. At this moment the movie is going really good internationally and in 2 weeks grossed about $130 million so far and US premiere is still 3 weeks ahead which is plenty of time to paid itself and go full profit with US premiere.

I doubt it will go over 1 billion like Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, even if its on pair with the score, but still I think it will pay itself and even make some money and close the mouths of all those that said it will be the biggest flop of the year.

If you ask me, the media is to blame cuz for months during the shooting they were bashing the movie that its gonna be crap and stuff.

I still didnt had a chance or more better to say, didnt find a time to see it but I sent my brother and he said its a good action flick, pretty much like Transformers, nor better nor worse.

I am still waiting for his full review, lazy punk :)

So dont trust everything that movie critics say, they get paid for that....just check the poll up there and go watch the movie :)

April 13, 2012

April 11, 2012.
Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom

April 12, 2012.
Australia, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

April 13, 2012.
Finland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Spain, Vietnam

April 18, 2012.
Hungary

April 19, 2012.
Czech Republic, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia

April 20, 2012.
Bulgaria, Estonia, India, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey

May 10, 2012.
Argentina

May 11, 2012.
Brazil, Columbia

May 18, 2012.
Canada, Paraguay, USA

April 13, 2012

I was little surprised when I realized that the “official” May 18. movie premiere day is just for USA, while pretty much rest of the world will see the movie before that date. Sure, sometimes movies start on different dates around the world, but I don’t remember when it was 1 month time period.

Why did they go with that type of movie promotion I have no clue. I might be wrong, but to me this is the most stupid idea they went it. The $200 million spent on the production and not too good expectation of the audience from the movie and they go with something like this. Basically by the time it starts showing up in the States it will be 1 month old movie with very solid IMDB score and bunch of movie reviews.

At this moment the IMDB score is not so good for 200 million dollar movie – 6.2 score and the showing just started few days ago around the world. When it hits USA cinemas and those who check the score of movie and reviews first, might think twice before paying to see it in cinema, but rather wait few more months for Blu-Ray.  I honestly think it’s a good action flick, not worse than Transformers at least.

April 4, 2012


Source - washingtonpost.com

March 30, 2012


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March 26, 2012

There are a lot of interesting talking points surrounding the release of Battleship Peter Berg's alien/military adventure on the high seas. Potential summer blockbuster have made comparisons to that of another successful film with alien and military ties, which Berg playfully dismissed during our recent encounter with him and Decker at WonderCon and joked that the entire movie is just one long game of Battleship.



"Battleship's a unique experience. It certainly doesn't have any direct correlation to the game," the director said at WonderCon. "That being said, it was a lot of fun to try to find way to reference the game. If you look at the ordinance that the enemies use, it looks a bit like pegs. Both of our ships' radar systems have trouble seeing each other, so they gotta try and predict where the enemy is so that they can go after them. And there were some other things that were kind of fun."

So, it's an homage to the game.

Source - moviesblog.mtv.com & huffingtonpost.com

March 22, 2012

Peter Berg has assured board game fans that his Battleship movie does resemble the toy shop classic.

Many fans have questioned the point of producers buying the rights to the classic Battleships game as inspiration for the blockbuster movie which stars pop beauty Rihanna taking on an alien invasion. But Hancock filmmaker Peter says his movie is faithful to the game.

“We never had a mandate that said, ‘You have to say, ‘You sunk my battleship!’” Peter said.

“But, part of the fun was that everybody has played Battleship, which is a simple, stupid little game. It was a case of making reference of the game in a way that smart people can respond to. Kids don’t care, but savvy adult filmgoers who can be especially critical are going to be like, ‘You know what? That’s actually pretty clever.’

“I feel very confident that you will see the film and see lots of references to the game, and none of them will make you storm out of the theater saying, ‘These f***ing ***holes! How dare they!’ That’s not going to happen.”

Source - showbizspy.com

March 14, 2012

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Source - dailymail.co.uk

January 27, 2012

Rihanna could become a huge movie star if she wants, so says the man who directed her in her first ever movie 'Battleship'.

The 'We Found Love' star will appear in the boardgame turned big screen action film alongside the likes of Liam Neeson and Alexandar Skarsgard when it is released later this year and director Peter Berg (Hancock, ) feels that we could be seeing the start of something big.

“I’ve worked with musicians before and I always expected there was a great actress in Rihanna,” he is quouted by RihannaDaily as saying. “That’s just from watching her intensity and how hot she is in her music videos.”

Adding: “For anyone that’s been on a music video set, it’s not so easy to do sexy,” he said. “If it was, there would be a lot more Rihannas."

"Battleship is a small role but she does a great job in it. If she wants to be a huge movie star then in a year you’ll be sitting here with her talking about whatever her next film is.”

Source - popdash.com

January 17, 2012

December 10, 2011

December 9, 2011

December 8, 2011

1. The film has a very strange sense of humor. During the meetcute between the romantic leads, a down on his luck Taylor Kitsch breaks into a convenience store and steals a frozen burrito in an effort to woo Brooklyn Decker. The burglary goes horribly awry and ends with repeated tasing. The scene is bizarre indeed, but it’s also fairly charming, at times even recalling the tone of Raising Arizona.

6. During development of the film, Berg became fascinated by the interactions between Japanese Naval ships and their American counterparts as they sit docked next to each other as allies right next to Pearl Harbor. The ways in which bitter enemies become friends plays out in the film on both a macro and micro level with Japanese characters playing significant roles.

10. The alien ships, which also have cloaking devices, override compasses, radar and other reconnaissance tools, thus leaving the navy to shoot in the dark.


18. Berg already has plans for a sequel. “I never go one and done. I’m always thinking, ‘Lets keep going!’ I love these characters and I love these [aliens] and I love the world they come from and I love the idea of the goldilocks planets.

Read all 18 at collider.com

November 26, 2011

Just Go With It actress, Brooklyn Decker, has revealed how working with Rihanna on the movie Battleship was kind of comforting, as they are both new to the acting world and it was good to have somebody around, who was in the same boat. Brooklyn also admitted that director Peter Berg made things easier for the new comers, as he has an acting background and could easily communicate with them on a level.

Decker explained, “Peter’s a completely unconventional director. You’ll be fighting an alien and he’ll throw things at you like, ‘order a cheeseburger and French fries!’ and you’ll be like ‘what!?’. He does it just to throw you off so you’re mind gets fresh again. Things like that make it fun and really exciting. You never know what he’s going to come out with.”

She added, “He comes from an acting background so he knows how to talk to all of us, which I think helps us especially with Rhianna and I who are new to sets. He just really knows how to get to us.”

Read rest at fansshare.com

October 2, 2011

Moviefone was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion with director Peter Berg and stars Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker and Rihanna on the deck of the USS Missouri stationed in Pearl Harbor. Ahead everything you'll need to know for next summer's blockbuster earth-versus-aliens battle on the high seas.

1. How do they make a movie out of the board game?

It's pretty simple! During the RIMPAC Games, an international naval event, an alien ship crashes into a satellite and explodes. U.S. and Japanese ships hit the water to investigate... and that's when the battle begins. The humans engage in combat with a fleet of five alien ships: four regents and the mothership, a destroyer. Each ship is stacked to the gills with a squadron of ugly aliens (designed by Industrial Light and Magic) and they get a lot of use out of their weapon of choice: a massive, spherical chainsaw-like device known as "the shredder." Then to top it off, the aliens blow out the sonar/radar forcing the humans to rely on sight and instinct. So yes: it plays out like an intergalactic life-or-death version of the famed board game.

2. Peter Berg takes the idea of "Battleships vs. Aliens" very seriously.

"Growing up on the seas, my father was a naval historian, I grew up on boats," Berg said. "I was always a huge fan of the Navy and flirted with doing some different naval films. And then I thought one day, 'What about 'Battleship'?

Read rest at blog.moviefone.com

September 24, 2011

Calling all elderly gentlemen. The production of a major motion picture is returning to the islands and looking for a few good men.

Universal Studio's movie "Battleship" is looking for men who appear to be 70-80 years old to portray war veterans as they return to Hawaii. The action-adventure movie directed by Peter Berg initially held a casting call in July 2010.

Men who auditioned and submitted info during that casting call do not need to re-submit their information. Interested actors are asked to submit photo and resumes to their email: battleshipcasting@gmail.com

Source - kitv.com

September 2, 2011

I hate embeded videos that Autoplay, and this is one of those. I just couldnt make it not autoplay which is annoying. So when you click on the pic down, it will take you to original video and you can look the interviews with cast. Wierd thing is that the ET video from previous post works fine. Meh.

September 2, 2011

"I got to shoot some really serious, powerful weapons, which is really, really fun," says the singer, decked out head-to-toe in camouflage and fake tattoos. "We wanted a bunch of tattoos just to dirty me up a little bit -- and, of course, no makeup."


"She's this badass weapons officer; she knows everything about weapons, not only hers, but all the weapons on board," explains Rihanna, who went through some basic training exercises like a new recruit to prepare for the film. "It really got me into the emotion of the character. … She's a fighter. She's a killer. She's not afraid of anything. She likes a challenge because she can handle it."

The role requires a lot of ocean swimming and "really physical" acting amid chaos and explosions. In between skirmishes on land, sea and in the air, is there any romance on deck for Lt. Raikes?

"Not at all -- she could care less about boys," replies Rihanna. "I'm one of the boys."

Source - etonline.com

August 12, 2011

I’m pretty out of it when it comes to pop stars, but even I know who Rihanna is. (For a while I thought she was related to Fleetwood Mac’s Rihannon, but I was wrong.)

But here’s something you may NOT know – she’s really nice and approachable and down-to-Earth. I’ve yapped with a lot of superstars and she was one of the cooler ones.

When you came to work today, did you know that you were going to “cluck” like a chicken?

Rihanna: No, neither did I know that when I got to set.

Is that a Peter Berg thing?

Rihanna: Peter Berg? He’s crazy. He really is, and so spontaneous, so nothing is memorized, it’s a real reaction every time, and I couldn’t ask for a better director to work with on my first film.

Did he warn you it was going to be crazy?

Rihanna: Warn? Who does that? Who warns you that you have to jump into the middle of the ocean and pretend that you’re drowning? Who does that? Him? Never.

What made you choose this film as your first?

Rihanna: It’s weird how it happened, I walked into a meeting, I know I had a meeting, but usually my manager would be there to prep me and say, “Okay, this is what we’re doing, this is who we’re meeting, this is why we’re doing this meeting.” What it’s about?

She wasn’t there, and I walked in. And [Peter Berg] just walked out and said, “Hi, come in” and I’m like, “Where is Christa, my manager? Where is my manager?” She wasn’t there, and I walked in and all I saw were these little alien mock-ups, these little dolls. And he just started saying, “Yeah, these are the thugs, he’s a thug.” “Uhh, okay,” I laughed and then I realized that he wasn’t laughing, and I was like, “this is weird. Why are there pictures of aliens all over this room?” And it was just crazy because he was just really super enthusiastic about it, and he was so sure that I could pull it off and I didn’t even know that he was the director of the film, I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know what I was doing, where I was going, why.

And after I read the script I was really, really impressed and I wanted to be a part of it. Plus it was a role I felt like I could handle for the first time I’m acting.

You play a badass chick in this film, did you watch anything to do research?

Read full interview- ugo.com

August 12, 2011

Brooklyn Decker plays “Sam,” a hiking enthusiast/girlfriend/daughter and if you saw her in the Battleship trailer, you probably thought to yourself something along the lines of “hubba hubba hubba.”  Below are highlights from a roundtable conversation on the set of the film.

What’s the difference between shooting this film and your first one, Just Go With It?

This one is incredibly challenging. Physically, emotionally, I mean we’re talking about the end of the world. Obviously it’s a huge, daunting task ahead, but, I think that’s why I’m having such a blast on it; it’s such a challenge. I’m a new actor so I’m around these guys and feel so inadequate, but if you’re going to learn, learn from the best. I’m really happy to be here.

You mentioned you’re a new actor and watching Peter direct... he has a very unorthodox style. Can you talk about coming into this new world and having Peter as your guide so to speak?

Peter’s a completely unconventional director. You’ll be fighting an alien and he’ll throw things at you like, “order a cheeseburger and French fries!” and you’ll be like “what!?” He does it just to throw you off so you’re mind gets fresh again. Things like that make it fun and really exciting. You never know what he’s going to come out with. He comes from an acting background so he knows how to talk to all of us, which I think helps us especially with Rhianna and I who are new to sets. He just really knows how to get to us.

Are a lot of your scenes filmed on the ship or are you land?

Read full interview- ugo.com

August 2, 2011

What was it like to get the reaction from the Battleship trailer? How is it to finally have people get glimpses of what the film is about?

BERG: It’s great. We broke some record for views on YouTube, which was very unexpected to me. I think there’s been so much inherent curiosity, confusion, anger and excitement towards the film, like “How dare these people make a movie about Battleship?” It just inherently feels like something people want to talk about. They want to cheer it and they want to attack it, but they want to talk about it, and that feels good.

How much will the game actually play into things, and how much control does Hasbro have over things?

BERG: It’s an interesting experience. If you talk to Michael Bay, his experience with Transformers is probably very similar. Hasbro just says, “We want to do something big and global.” Big is a word they use a lot. They say, “We want to do something fun and big.” That’s about it. And then, it’s up to the filmmaker to figure out how much or little you want to reference or pay homage to the game. If you’ve seen the teaser, there’s a couple of shots which people have picked up on and some weapons that look a little bit like pegs, being launched by the enemies. There’s a shot overhead that looks somewhat like the board game. It was fun to come up with fun, clever ways of referencing the game in the film that felt as organic as you could be, when you’re making a movie about the board game.

Read full interview- collider.com

July 28, 2011


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June 15, 2011



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April 21, 2011


Source - moviesblog.mtv.com

March 16, 2011

At just 23 years old, Rihanna is an international superstar with five studio albums already under her young belt. Now, the Barbardian-born beauty is set to light up the big screen in the upcoming action flick, “Battleship” – a feat that helped her become comfortable in her own skin.

“…During filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book,” Rihanna told Vogue in an interview for their April 2011 shape issue. “I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up.”

The “Only Girl (In The World)” singer plays a “badass” weapons specialist in the upcoming movie and put in 14-hour days while filming — including six-hour stints sitting behind a machine gun in an inflatable raft in seven-foot ocean swells.

In order to prepare for the demanding role, Rihanna worked with a trainer, but stayed away from typical gym routines, as she “hates” working out “the old-fashioned way.”

Source - accesshollywood.com

February 2, 2011


Source - moviesblog.mtv.com

January 14, 2011

Just discovered that the reshoots for the film were built into the schedule. They were planned all along (for the Spring) so as I suggested below, no need to worry — this movie is gonna blow the competition out of the water! Everything they’re doing on the film – reshoots, tweaks to the finale – all built into the schedule. So it’s all good!!

“Battleship”, the feature film spin-off of the board game we all played growing up (before moving onto the nifty ‘Computer Battleship’), may be in the can, but it’s is still a good year away from release. According to actress Brooklyn Decker, who plays ‘Sam’ in the uber-expensive tentpole, there’s still quite a bit of work to be done on the sea-set actioner.

Says Decker, “We will do reshoots. We have shot a bunch of alternate endings. There’s a lot of CGI to be done – a lot of stuff in post.”

Reshoots?

“Yes, depending on the storyline and where they want to take it we might be doing some reshoots”, explains the cordial actress.

The picture, which pits the crew of a fleet of ships against a supernatural entity, was directed by actor cum filmmaker Peter Berg.

Source - moviehole.net

January 12, 2011

While cheering on husband Andy Roddick at the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament, model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker spoke with Clint Morris at Moviehole about her role in the forthcoming adaptation of the popular Hasbro game 'Battleship'.

Decker had high praise for the film's director Peter Berg.

“He was amazing," Decker, who plays 'Sam' in the big budget film, said. "We agreed on nearly everything. It’s great when you’re on the same page. He is great—and he’s especially great with new actors. He loves it that there’s no ego to protect and we’re all just in there having fun and working together.”

Liam Neeson, who plays Decker’s father in the movie, agreed with the actress' sentiments about Berg, expressing to Decker: "Pete’s one of the better directors I’ve worked with because he gives you direction but he also allows you to be comfortable and free in what you do. And you’ll likely notice that the movie doesn’t feel like it’s this polished super-styled movie, it’s characters in conversation, it feels gritty and real"

Source - cinemaspy.com

January 9, 2011

Perhaps the most prominent individual to advocate for a change in the way Hollywood is making movies is James Cameron. The Avatar filmmaker talked about Tinseltown's 'story crisis' in a new interview with the German website Spiegel Online (translated by Reelz Channel), and took aim at Peter Berg's forthcoming Hasbro 'Battleship' game-based movie of the same name, in which modern seafaring navies battle alien invaders from outer space.

Cameron's remarks may be self-evident, but they bear repeating when they come from someone of his Hollywood stature. As you might expect, in typical Cameron fashion, he doesn't pull any punches:

“We have a story crisis. Now they want to make the Battleship game into a film. This is pure desperation. Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a brand before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem. Because unfortunately these franchises are becoming more ridiculous. Battleship. This degrades the cinema.”

Source - cinemaspy.com

August 20, 2010