As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the four minute sequence from G.I. Joe: Retaliation that we’ve heard about should be showing before Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Now Break.com has a 90 second preview of that… four… minute preview.
Heh.
Yes, this is a shorter preview advertising a longer preview, but c’mon!!! IT’s FRIGGEN SNAKE EYES vs. STORM SHADOW. Check it out at Break.com or embedded below. Now I want to go watch Jeremy Renner this weekend.
Yes, it’s been a while since we’ve posted an episode of What’s on Joe Mind, but hopefully we’ve made up for it with the length of this one! Clocking in at just over three hours, there’s enough G.I. Joe conversation here to keep any Joe fan satisfied.
We talk to legendary toy expert Mark Bellomo and winner of the What’s on Joe Mind Fantasy Football league (and operator of the awesome GIJoeGraphy site) Dan Uthman.
Check out the episode on our Podbean page, or via the embedded players below. Make sure to click the Read the Rest of the Story link to read the show notes.
Although I use the term “new” a bit lightly. There appears to be 0.0 seconds of new footage, but with a sightly different cut and some rocking theme music. Check out the embedded video below courtesy of YouTube:
What appeared to be an official Twitter account announcing film premieres in the UK a few days ago announced that G.I. Joe: Retaliation would be premiering over there in February (well before the March 29th domestic release date in the US)…and understandably, many of us jumped on it (myself included).
Turns out the gun might have been jumped just a bit.
Good friend of GeneralsJoes Dave Tree from All The Cool Stuff reached out to Paramount publicity in the United Kingdom and was told in no uncertain terms “–Definitely no premiere in Feb…“. In fact the UK Paramount publicity person said that there had been no UK premiere or junket scheduled at all as of yet. Considering Dave got a chance to see nine minutes of the film last year as part of a press event, I am confident in his sources on this topic.
Stay tuned, Joe fans, looks like this should have been filed under rumor… mea culpa. Big thanks to Dave for clearing this up.
We all discovered yesterday thanks to the wonders of the Alberta Film Ratings site that there is a four minute featurette for G.I. Joe: Retaliation that has been approved and processed for release. However, we didn’t know when and where we might see this.
Friend of the site, USA Today writer, and certified Geekologist Brian Truitt linked up an article from USA Today, talking about some big name films and the delays they’ve suffered from 2012 – 2013. G.I. Joe: Retaliation wasn’t the only one in that category. But buried in the story about these films moving was this little nugget of information:
“But Moore has a different marketing strategy this time: A four-minute scene in 3-D that went over well when it was unveiled in Asia (to take advantage of popular South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun) will premiere in theaters showing Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters on Jan. 25.”
Well, how about that? We’ve heard the feedback from the overseas reveal as well as the footage shown at BNAT 14, and it sounds like the rest of us will be able to see this footage on January 25th. From all indications, the footage is pulled from the Ninja mountain battle. Pretty cool. Thanks to Brian Truitt and thanks to Susan Wloszczya from USA Today for revealing that little tidbit.
