Archive for April, 2009
Chris Noth signs on for Sex and the City sequel
by emily on Apr.29, 2009, under Production Notes
Chris Noth has reached an agreement with producers and will return to his role as Mr Big in the upcoming Sex and the City sequel.
Wrestler writer set to make directing debut with “Big Fan”
by emily on Apr.29, 2009, under Production Notes
Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel is set to make his directorial debut with Big Fan. Patton Oswalt stars as an obsessive New York Giants fan whose chance encounter his baseball hero ends in violence. First Independent is set to release the film in late summer, early fall.
Movies Opening 5/1
by emily on Apr.28, 2009, under Movie News
X-Men Origins; Wolverine PG-13
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past PG-13
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women…in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor’s mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his younger brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul’s wedding. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love…or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.
Battle For Terra PG
When the peace-loving inhabitants of the beautiful planet Terra come under attack from the last surviving members of humanity adrift in an aging spaceship, the stage is set for an all-out war between the two races for control of the planet. But will an unlikely friendship between a rebellious young Terrian and an injured human pilot somehow convince their leaders that war is not the answer?
Limited
The Limits of Control R
The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankole), a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.
The Last Lullaby NR
Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander star in this contemporary film noir, co-written by the creator of The Road To Perdition. The Last Lullaby is a story about Price, a former hitman, struggling to cope with the slow pace of retirement. The easy life isn’t what Price expected his enemies are loneliness, boredom, and a killer case of insominia. Soon, he’s lured out of retirement to kill Sarah. But Price’s violent ways begin to fail him. The suspense finally boils over as Price must decide whether to kill Sarah or let himself go in new directions.
Revanche NR
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes Krisch) works as an assistant in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara (Irina Potapenko). Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop (Andreas Lust) and his seemingly content wife (Ursula Strauss). With meticulous, elegant direction, Spielmann creates a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption, and a journey into the darkest forest of human nature, in which violence and beauty exist side by side.
Box-office 4/24/09
by emily on Apr.27, 2009, under Movie News
1. Obsessed $28,500,000
2. 17 Again $11,665,000
3. Fighting $11,441,000
4. The Soloist $9,715,000
5. Earth $8,524,000
6. Monsters vs Aliens $8,524,000
7. State of Play $6,891,000
8. Hannah Montana: The Movie $6,372,000
9. Fast & Furious $6,062,000
10. Crank High Voltage $2,400,000
Date Changes
by emily on Apr.27, 2009, under Movie News
Fantastic Mr. Fox previous date 11/9/2009 now 11/13/09
Tooth Fairy previous date 11/13/2009 now 1/22/2010
Alpha and Omega previous date 4/16/2010 now 10/1/2010
The Crazies previous date 9/25/2009 now 2/26/2010
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore previous date 11/20/2009 now 7/30/2010
Guardians of Ga’Hoole 3D previous date 7/30/2010 now fourth quarter 2010 (date unset)
Post Grad previous date 8/14/2009 now 8/21/2009
Kal Kissme Dekha previous date 5/8/2009 now date unset
Girl from Monaco previous date 6/26/2009 now 7/3/2009
Robert Pattinson set to star in Remember Me
by emily on Apr.24, 2009, under Production Notes
Robert Pattinson is set to star in Summit’s upcoming romantic drama Remember Me. Remember Me is being described as this generation’s Love Story.
David Slade set to direct Twilight’s Eclipse
by emily on Apr.23, 2009, under Production Notes
David Slade who is known as the director of 30 Days of Night and Hard Candy has been hired to direct Eclipse the third movie in the Twilight series. Eclipse is scheduled to release in the summer of 2010.
Movies Opening 4/24
by emily on Apr.22, 2009, under Movie News
Earth G **Opens Wednesday 4/22**
The first film in the Disneynature series, Earth, narrated by JAMES EARL JONES, tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journey across the planet we call home. Earth combines rare action, unimaginable scale and and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet’s wildest and most elusive creatures. Director Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, the claimed creative team behind the Emmy Award-Winning ‘Planet Earth,’ combine forces again to bring this epic adventure to the big screen, beginning Earth Day 2009.
Obsessed PG-13
Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyonce’ Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he’s worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
Fighting PG-13
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting.
The Soloist PG-13
In ‘The Soloist,’ an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A.
limited runs
The Informers R
A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980’s Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs — and one another –with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.
Emmerdeur, L’ NR
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Un Tigre En La Cama NR
Mariana (Karina Mora) is a shy, small town girl who, on-line poses as a completely different woman from her real self. Ambrosio (Magana) has done exactly the same thing, and when these two finally meet face to face, the results are hysterical, but at the end they both find what they’re looking for.
Jena Malone and Jamie Chung sign on to star in Sucker Punch!
by emily on Apr.21, 2009, under Movie News
Jena Malone and Jamie Chung have joined the cast of Sucker Punch! Sucker Punch set in the 1950’s and follows an institutionalized girl who faces a lobotomy a the hands of her stepdad unless she can find away to escape. Sucker Punch! has also cast Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, and Abbie Cornish.
Christian Bale signed to star in The Fighter
by emily on Apr.21, 2009, under Movie News
Christian Bale has signed to star in The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg. The Fighter is a film following Boston’s world lightweight champ “Irish” Mickey Ward.