Pacific Rim 2 Confirmed for 2017 Release

Finally, kaiju and Guillermo del Toro fans can breathe easy: Pacific Rim 2 has officially been greenlit. While the film underperformed domestically, its amazing international numbers helped push it over the $400m threshold, paving an easier path towards a sequel. Last October, it was confirmed that del Toro and screenwriter Tom Beachman were working on a […]

[RH Review] Pacific Rim

Kaiju films are kind of a niche genre. While everybody has a passing acknowledgment of Godzilla films and the like, they’re not as immediately accepted in mainstream culture. Sure, there are cult followings and small subcultures that embrace and adore the inherent geekiness of watching a man dressed in a latex monster suit trample across a model […]

[Trailer 3] Pacific Rim + Gallery

  This latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s mecha epic, Pacific Rim, downplays the action found in the last trailer. Instead, Idris Elba’s (Thor) character, the commanding officer Stacker Pentecost, delivers a speech to his team that serves as a framing device for the trailer. We’ve all seen it in a multitude of trailers: an optimistic, […]

[Trailer 2] Pacific Rim

Following the WonderCon trailer for Pacific Rim is this first official trailer for the film. Featuring so much new footage, the new trailer includes some back story to how the kaiju appeared and why the Jaegers were built to combat them. Fortunately, not too much of the story is spoiled in this trailer; balanced into the […]