Visual Hollywood

The Descendants (2011) Upgrading Father

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000

Release Date: November 16, 2011 (NY, LA; wider: November 18)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Alexander Payne
Screenwriter: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel, Patricia Hastie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R for language including some sexual references
Official Website: FoxSearchlight.com | King-Family-Tree.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning "Sideways," set in Hawaii, "The Descendants" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Immortals (2011) Pride Comes Before The Fall

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:43:00 +0000

Release Date: November 11, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: Relativity Media
Director: Tarsem Singh
Screenwriter: Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides
Starring: Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Isabel Lucas, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz, John Hurt, Mickey Rourke
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R (for sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality)
Official Website: Immortalsmovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king's mission.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Hugo (2011) Celebration of the Cinema

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:32:00 +0000

Release Date: November 23, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: John Logan
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Emily Mortimer, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking)
Official Website: Hugomovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: "Hugo" tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. Based on Brian Selznick's award winning and imaginative New York Times bestseller, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," this magical tale is Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese's first film shot in 3D.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Arthur Christmas (2011) No Child Left Behind

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Release Date: November 23, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: Sony Pictures Animation
Director: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook
Screenwriter: Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith
Starring: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild rude humor)
Official Website: ArthurChristmas.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Set on Christmas night, the story of Arthur Christmas at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic – a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Muppets (2011) You Will Love It!

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:24:00 +0000

Release Date: November 23, 2011
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: James Bobin
Screenwriter: Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis, Kathy Griffin, Ricky Gervais, Emily Blunt, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Walter
Genre: Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild rude humor)
Official Website: Disney.com/Muppets

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Happy Feet Two (2011) All Life Connected

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:19:00 +0000

Release Date: November 18, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: George Miller
Screenwriter: George Miller, Gary Eck, Warren Coleman, Paul Livingston
Starring: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski, Anthony LaPaglia, Richard Carter, Benjamin "Lil P-Nut" Flores, Jr.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for some rude humor and mild peril)
Official Website: HappyFeetTwo.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: The sequel to the Academy Award winning animated smash hit, "Happy Feet Two" returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son Erik is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly!! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's 'guts and grit' as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures - from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals - to put things right.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Pt 1 (2011) What Bun is in the Oven?

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:15:00 +0000

Release Date: November 18, 2011
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Bill Condon
Screenwriter: Melissa Rosenberg
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Billy Burke, Rami Malek, Maggie Grace, Mackenzie Foy, Tracey Heggins, Judi Shekoni, Omar Metwally, Andrea Gabriel, Rami Malek, Angela Sarafyan, Marlane Barnes, Lisa Howard, Patrick Brennan, Noel Fisher, Guri Weinberg, Lee Pace, Toni Trucks, Bill Tangradi, Erik Odom, Valorie Curry, Joe Anderson, Olga Fonda, Janelle Froehlich, Masami Kosaka, Sebastiao Lemos, Amadou Ly, Ty Olsson, Wendell Pierce, Carolina Virguez
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements)
Official Website: BreakingDawn-themovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by their ornate nuptials, a romantic honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of their child... which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

J. Edgar (2011) The Problem With Power

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Release Date: November 9, 2011 (limited; wide: Nov. 11)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Dustin Lance Black
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Ken Howard
Genre: Biography, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for brief strong language)
Official Website: JEdgarMovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: "J. Edgar" explores the public and private life of one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th century. As the face of law enforcement in America for almost fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover (DiCaprio) was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Jack and Jill (2011) Double Sandler

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:38:00 +0000

Release Date: November 11, 2011

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel
Starring: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence)
Official Website: JackandJill-movie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: "Jack and Jill" is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack's wife.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

My Week with Marilyn (2011) The Legend Lives

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:41:00 +0000

Release Date: November 23, 2011 (limited)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Simon Curtis
Screenwriter: Adrian Hodges
Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Emma Watson, Toby Jones, Philip Jackson, Geraldine Somerville, Derek Jacobi, Simon Russell Beale, Dominic Cooper
Genre: Biography, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for some language)
Official Website: MyWeekwithMarilynmovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl." The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me" was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as "My Week with Marilyn" – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Tower Heist (2011) Power To The People

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:27:00 +0000

Release Date: November 4, 2011
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Brett Ratner
Screenwriter: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Russell Gewirtz, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Ted Griffin, Leslie Dixon, Noah Baumbach, Jeff Nathanson
Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Michael Pena, Alan Alda
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language and sexual content)
Official Website: TowerHeist.net

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in "Tower Heist," a comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.

Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.

With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh's crew turns to petty crook Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible...to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur's guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they've been casing the place for years, they just didn't know it.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Son of No One (2011) Secrets Destroy

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Release Date: November 4, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Director: Dito Montiel
Screenwriter: Dito Montiel
Starring: Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche, Al Pacino
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Rated R (for violence, pervasive language and brief disturbing sexual content)
Official Website: TheSonofNoOnemovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Jonathan is a second-generation cop who gets in over his head when he’s assigned to re-open a double homicide cold case in his Queens neighborhood. An anonymous source feeding new information on the long-unsolved murders to a local reporter leads to evidence suggesting a possible cover-up by the former lead detective, who was on the investigation. As Jonathan digs deeper into the assignment, a dark secret about the case emerges, which threatens to destroy his life and his family.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) Funny Friendship

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Release Date: November 4, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)
Studio: New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés, Danneel Harris, Tom Lennon, Danny Trejo, Elias Koteas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Patton Oswalt, Neil Patrick Harris
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence)
Official Website: HaroldandKumar.com
STUDIO SYNOPSIS: The new "Harold & Kumar" comedy picks up six years after the duo's last adventure. After years of growing apart, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar's door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold's house ends with the "high grade" contents—and Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree— going up in smoke. With his in-laws out of the house for the day, Harold decides to cover his tracks, rather than come clean. Reluctantly embarking on another ill-advised journey with Kumar through New York City, their search for the perfect replacement tree almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Sleeping Beauty (2011) What Happens Behind Closed Eyes

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Release Date: December 2, 2011 (limited)
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Julia Leigh
Screenwriter: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, Rachael Blake
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R for adult content
Official Website: SleepingBeautyFilm.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy's absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy's daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Anonymous (2011) To Write or Not to Write

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:22:00 +0000

Release Date: October 28, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: John Orloff
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Jamie Campbell Bower, Derek Jacobi
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some violence and sexual content)
Official Website: Anonymous-movie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, "Anonymous" speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, namely: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. "Anonymous" poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne were exposed in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Rum Diary (2011) Finding Your Voice

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:20:00 +0000

Release Date: October 28, 2011
Studio: FilmDistrict
Director: Bruce Robinson
Screenwriter: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Marshall Bell
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language, brief drug use and sexuality)
Official Website: RumDiarythemovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, "The Rum Diary" tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen's financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

In Time (2011) Connects To Occupy Wall Street

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:18:00 +0000

Release Date: October 28, 2011
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Andrew Niccol
Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, some sexuality and partial nudity, and brief strong language)
Official Website: InTimemovie.com | TheRichCanLiveForever.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: In a future where time is literally money, and aging stops at 25, the only way to stay alive is to earn, steal, or inherit more time. Will Salas lives life a minute at a time, until a windfall of time gives him access to the world of the wealthy, where he teams up with a beautiful young heiress to destroy the corrupt system.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Puss in Boots (2011) Small Cat Big Boots

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:16:00 +0000

Release Date: October 28, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Chris Miller
Screenwriter: Tom Wheeler
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for some adventure action and mild rude humor)
Official Website: PussInBootsthemovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss In Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Three Musketeers (2011) Power of Small Numbers

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Release Date: October 21, 2011 (3D/2D)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenwriter: Andrew Davies, Alex Litvalk
Starring: Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of adventure action violence)
Official Website: ThreeMusketeers-movie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas' story. They must stop the evil Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3D.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Johnny English Reborn (2011) Laughter is Good

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Release Date: October 21, 2011
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Oliver Parker
Screenwriters: Hamish McColl and William Davies
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild action violence, rude humor, some language and brief sensuality)
Official Website: Johnny-English.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the improbable secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) The Back Story

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:40:00 +0000

Release Date: October 21, 2011
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Screenwriter: Christopher B. Landon
Starring: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner
Genre: Drama, Supernatural Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for some violence, language, brief sexuality and drug use)
Official Website: Paranormalmovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: The third film in the series is an origin story that follows a new family. In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Big Year (2011) Three Men in Crisis

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:38:00 +0000

Release Date: October 14, 2011
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: David Frankel
Screenwriter: Howard Franklin
Starring: Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Rashida Jones, Rosamund Pike, Dianne Wiest
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language and some sensuality)
Official Website: TheBigYearmovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson are at a crossroads -- one is experiencing a mid-life crisis, another a late-life crisis, and the third, a far from ordinary no-life crisis. From David Frankel, the director of "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Marley & Me," comes a sophisticated comedy about three friendly rivals who, tired of being ruled by obligations and responsibilities, dedicate a year of their lives to following their dreams. Their big year takes them on a cross-country journey of wild and life-changing adventures.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

The Thing (2011) Prelude to a Classic

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:35:00 +0000

Release Date: October 14, 2011
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
Screenwriter: Eric Heisserer
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Selm, Jorgen Langhelle
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and violence)
Official Website: TheThingmovie.net

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller "The Thing," paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.

"The Thing" serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Footloose (2011) New Take. Old Favorite.

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:32:00 +0000

Release Date: October 14, 2011
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Craig Brewer
Screenwriter: Dean Pitchford, Craig Brewer
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language)
Official Website: Footloosemovie.com

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: Writer/director Craig Brewer ("Hustle & Flow," "Black Snake Moan") delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film, "Footloose." Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..

Real Steel (2011) Father and Son Hi Tech Reunion

noreply@blogger.com (David Bruce) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:30:00 +0000

Release Date: October 7, 2011
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Director: Shawn Levy
Screenwriter: John Gatins
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand
Genre: Action, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some violence, intense action and brief language)
Official Websites: SteelGetsReal.com | WRB.com | Facebook

STUDIO SYNOPSIS: A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, "Real Steel" stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

GO TO WEBPAGE For Production Notes, Clips, Photos, Trailers, Posters, etc..