Two of the world’s deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends – until they discover that they’ve fallen in love with the same woman. Deciding to keep their friendship a secret from her, they pull out their full arsenal of fighting skills and high-tech gadgetry to defeat their greatest enemy – each other…
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love…
Paramount Pictures has released a new poster for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. There is tiny human lead actors (Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) in the foreground, gigantic Optimus Prime in the background. The film also stars Josh Duhamel, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Ken Jeong, John Turturro, Frances McDormand, Peter Cullen, and Tyrese Gibson. Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens in 3D on July 1st.
Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. When a mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.
A 3D revenge action movie that centers on a man (Nicolas Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta / rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, David Morse, Billy Burke, Katy Mixon
Screenplay by: Todd Farmer, Patrick Lussier
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: February 11th, 2011
The 3D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea.
Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team–including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)–are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?
Shot on location off the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, Sanctum employs 3D photography techniques Cameron developed to lens Avatar. Designed to operate in extreme environments, the technology used to shoot the action-thriller will bring audiences on a breathless journey across plunging cliffs and into the furthest reaches of our subterranean world.
Directed by: Alister Grierson
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson, Rhys Wakefield, Asim Ahmad
Screenplay by: John Garvin, Andrew Wight
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Release Date: February 1st, 2011
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a ‘mechanic’ – an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It’s a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed – he wants those responsible dead.
Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Christa Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase
Screenplay by: Karl Gajdusek
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: CBS Films
Release Date: January 28th, 2011
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles’ largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou).
They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid’s shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon and gadget imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains.
With the help of Britt’s new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen, Edward Furlong, Edward James Olmos
Screenplay by: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, Fran Striker, George W. Trendle
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Release Date: January 14th, 2011
Columbia’s supernatural thriller, Season of the Witch, stars Nicolas Cage as medieval knight Behmen who undertakes a mission pitting him against an devious witch and making him the last hope for the world against an ancient and dark force. His faith broken by years of battle as a crusader, Behmen returns to central Europe to find his homeland decimated by the Black Plague.
While searching for food and supplies at the Palace at Marburg, Behmen and his trusted companion, Felson (Ron Perlman) are apprehended and ordered by the dying Cardinal to deliver a young peasant girl believed to be the witch responsible for the Plague to a remote abbey where her powers can be destroyed. Behmen agrees to the assignment but only if the peasant girl is granted a fair trial.
As he and five others set off on this dangerous journey, they realize with mounting dread that the cunning girl is no ordinary human, and that their mission will pit them against an evil that even in these dark times they never could have imagined.
Directed by: Dominic Sena
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy
Screenplay by: Bragi F. Schut
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content.
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Release Date: January 7th, 2011
Directed by six-time Academy Award nominee Peter Weir, The Way Back is an epic story of survival, solidarity and indomitable human will. Shot in Bulgaria, Morocco and India, the film stars Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl), Ed Harris (Appaloosa) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) as prisoners of a Soviet Union labor camp, who, along with four others, flee their Siberian Gulag and begin a treacherous journey across thousands of miles of hostile terrain. Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones) and Mark Strong (Body of Lies, RocknRolla) co-star.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Starring: Colin Farrell, Mark Strong, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris
Screenplay by: Slavomir Rawicz, Peter Weir
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent content, depiction of physical hardships, a nude image and brief strong language.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: December 29th, 2010
In this last installment, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders.
With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.
Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Ericksson
Screenplay by: Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson, Ulf Ryberg
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, some sexual material and brief violence.
Studio: Nordisk Film, Music Box Films
Release Date: October 29th, 2010
A bigscreen adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels, with Jack Black taking on the title role of Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Liliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people.
Directed by: Rob Letterman
Starring: Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly
Screenplay by: Joe Stillman, Nick Stoller, Jonathan Swift
MPAA Rating: None.
Release Date: December 22nd, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
“Tron: Legacy” is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Oscar -and Golden Globe-winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world’s leading video-game developer.
When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn’s Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Garrett Hedlund, Serinda Swan
Screenplay by: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Steven Lisberger
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and brief mild language.
Release Date: December 17th, 2010
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
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