New Movies – August 22 2014

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR is the follow up to Rodriguez and Miller’s 2005 groundbreaking film, FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY.

Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Cast: Jessica Alba, Powers Booth, Josh Brolin, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis

Get tickets for ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ on Fandango.com

Other Releases

• If I Stay
• When The Game Stands Tall
• Love Is Strange
• Are You Here
• The Possession Of Michael King
• The Expedition to the End of the World
• The Prince
• The One I Love
• To Be Takei
• 14 Blades
• Abuse of Weakness
• Kink

New Movies – February 21 2014

Pompeii

Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once-magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland

Get tickets for ‘Pompeii’ on Fandango.com

Other Releases

• 3 Days to Kill
• Aaka Kalyanam
• Barefoot
• Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
• Highway
• Holy Ghost People
• In Secret
• Omar
• The Wind Rises

New DVD Releases – December 31

Don Jon

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old-fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to “pull” a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old-fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she’s determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old-fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Don Jon on Amazon | Don Jon on iTunes

Other Releases

• CBGB | CBGB on iTunes
• Hell Baby | Hell Baby on iTunes
• Inappropriate Comedy | InAPPropriate Comedy on iTunes
• Last Love | Last Love on iTunes
• Sanitarium | Sanitarium on iTunes
• Sweetwater

Who is Playing Hank Pym/Ant-Man for Marvel?

Well, we can assume now it’s not going to be Simon Pegg…sadly.

Sources tell Variety the two actors who have emerged as front-runners to land the title role in the superhero feature are Joseph Gordon Levitt and Paul Rudd. Insiders warn there’s still a remote possibility another actor could emerge but as of now, Gordon-Levitt and Rudd are the main contenders the role.

Marvel recently moved up the release date of the comic-book feature to July 31, 2015 and Wright, following his vacation, tweeted a pre-production photo of the Ant-Man character, which has since reignited the anticipation that an actor would be attached shortly. Read more here.

Ant-Man is the name of several fictional characters appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Biophysicist and Security Operations Center expert Dr. Henry ‘Hank’ Pym decided to become a superhero after discovering a chemical substance that would allow the user to alter his size. Armed with a helmet that could control ants, Pym would shrink down to the size of an insect to become the mystery-solving Ant-Man.

He soon shared his discovery with his girlfriend, Janet Van Dyne, who became his crime-fighting partner as the Wasp. The duo would become founding members of the Avengers, fighting recurring enemies such as the mad scientist Egghead, the mutant Whirlwind, and Pym’s own robotic creation Ultron. While Pym is the original Ant-Man, he has adopted other aliases over the years including Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket and the Wasp after Janet’s death in Secret Invasion. Leaving his original persona vacant, his successors have taken up the role of Ant-Man while Pym explored these other identities. More

Box Office Winners September 27-29, 2013

Animation once again reigned supreme as ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2’ came in first place very easily with $35 Million. Last week’s number 1 film ‘Prisoners’ dropped 45% to come in second place with $11 Million. Ron Howard’s latest ‘Rush’ didn’t race away with fan interest as it came in 3rd place with $10 Million. Indie films ‘Baggage Claim’ and ‘Don Jon’, a film written, directed and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt rounded out the top 5 with $9.3 and $9 Million respectively. See the entire list of top 10 films for the weekend of September 27 to 29th below.

Top 10 Films in the Box Office: September 27-29, 2013

#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $35,000,000 (Total Gross $35,000,000)
#2 Prisoners $11,270,000 (Total Gross $38,954,000)
#3 Rush $10,314,000 (Total Gross $10,574,000)
#4 Baggage Claim $9,300,000 (Total Gross $9,300,000)
#5 Don Jon $9,000,000 (Total Gross $9,000,000)
#6 Insidious Chapter 2 $6,747,000 (Total Gross $69,544,000)
#7 The Family $3,674,000 (Total Gross $31,696,000)
#8 Instructions Not Included $3,380,000 (Total Gross $38,567,000)
#9 We’re the Millers $2,865,000 (Total Gross $142,418,000)
#10 Lee Daniels’ The Butler $2,417,000 (Total Gross $110,281,000)

Top 10 Films of 2013 To Date

#1 Iron Man 3 ($409,013,994)
#2 Despicable Me 2 ($361,756,000)
#3 Man of Steel ($291,045,518)
#4 Monsters University ($265,910,125)
#5 Fast & Furious 6 ($238,679,850)
#6 Oz The Great and Powerful ($234,911,825)
#7 Star Trek Into Darkness ($228,778,661)
#8 World War Z ($202,281,000)
#9 The Croods ($187,168,425)
#10 The Heat ($158,765,527)

Top Earning Production Studios (of top 10 films of the year)

#1 Buena Vista (Disney) $909,835,944
#2 Universal $600,435,850
#3 Paramount $431,059,661
#4 Fox $345,933,952
#5 Warner Bros. $291,045,518

New Movies – September 27 2013

Rush

Two-time Academy Award(R) winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon) teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award(R) nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on Rush, a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt, and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives.

Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Stephen Mangan, Christian McKay, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jamie de Courcey, Pierfrancesco Favino, Natalie Dormer

Get tickets for ‘Rush’ on Fandango.com

Other Releaes

• Alone Yet Not Alone
• As I Lay Dying
• Baggage Claim
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
• Don Jon
• Hotel Normandy
• Inequality for All
• Morning
• Muscle Shoals
• The Network
• Therese
• On the Job
• The Secret Lives of Dorks
• We Are What We Are
• Wedding Palace
• Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

Is Marvel Considering Joseph Gordon-Levitt for ‘Doctor Strange’?

Is Marvel Considering Joseph Gordon-Levitt for ‘Doctor Strange’?

From: DarkHorizons: Latino Review, which usually has a great track record on Marvel casting scoops, says they know whom Marvel Studios want to play “Doctor Strange”. According to trusted sources, “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises” star Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wanted to star, although the site warns that no talks have gotten underway. According to them “Marvel execs internally are discussing that Levitt is who they figure would be ideal”. In the current draft of the script by Oppenheimer and Donnelly, the character is said to be in his early thirties, making 32-year-old JGL spot on.

Marvel.com’s description of Doctor Strange: Born in 1930, Stephen Strange was the eldest child of Eugene and Beverly Strange, then vacationing in Philadelphia. Two years later, Stephen’s sister Donna was born at the family’s Nebraska farm. At age eight, Strange was beset by demons controlled by apprentice sorcerer Karl Mordo, but was rescued by Mordo’s mentor, the Ancient One, a millennia-old sorcerer who protected the Earth dimension as its Sorcerer Supreme, a role Strange was destined to inherit. At age eleven, a year or two after his brother Victor’s birth, Strange aided an injured Donna, the experience inspiring him to pursue a medical career.