Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
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Theatrical Trailer for The World’s End
A new theatrical trailer for the sci-fi comedy from Edgar Wright The World’s End has arrived. The film re-teams Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and includes Martin Freeman and Rosamund Pike. The World’s End is slated to release on August 23. Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for a third film following the successes “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and “Hot Fuzz” (2007). In “The World’s End,” 20 years after attempt...
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Universal Plans Reboot of Timecop
A reboot of Timecop is now in development at Universal. The original from 1994 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme went on to make over $100 million worldwide and led to a television spin-off and straight-to-DVD sequel. Timecop was based on a comic set in the future with law enforcement regulating time travel and one officer who attempts to bring down a politician using it for his own gain. The reboot will not involve Van Damme. Universal is now seeking writers for the project....
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 21
Side Effects From Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) comes this suspenseful and provocative tale of intrigue starring Channing Tatum, Academy Award nominees Rooney Mara and Jude Law, and Academy Awardr winner Catherine Zeta-Jones. After her husband (Tatum) is released from prison, Emily (Mara) begins suffering from terrifying anxiety and turns to psychiatrist Dr. Banks (Law) for help. But when Banks prescribes an experimental drug for her, the side effects have chill...
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Theatrical Trailer for Pacific Rim
A brand new trailer that will be seen in theaters has arrived for Pacific Rim. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Idris Elba the film centers on the use of giant robots by humans to fight off an attack by aliens/monsters. Pacific Rim is slated to release on July 12. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end.  To combat the ...
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Trailer for Riddick
The first trailer has arrived for the third movie in the Riddick saga. Beginning with 2000's Pitch Black and then 2004's The Chronicles' of Riddick, the latest film Riddick follows the character played by Vin Diesel as he is left for dead on a sun-scorched planet finding himself up against an alien race of predators. Riddick is slated to release on September 6. ...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 14
Cloud Atlas Future. Present. Past. Everything is connected. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future. Based on the New York Times...
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Teaser Trailer for Gravity
The first look at Alfonso Cuaron's (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) sci-fi thriller Gravity has arrived by way of a teaser trailer. The film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock with the story taking place in space as astronauts attempt to get back to Earth after debris wrecks the space shuttle. Gravity is slated to release on October 4. ...
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Tom Cruise Back for Mission: Impossible 5
Paramount has announced that Tom Cruise is officially signed on for the next entry in the Mission: Impossible series. A director has yet to be chosen but Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Cruise in Jack Reacher, is considered to be the odds-on favorite. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol grossed nearly $700 million worldwide making it easily the most successful yet. Combined with the first three films the franchise has raked in over $2 billion in worldwide gross. Early in Ghost ...
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