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ALEX CROSS Trailer Stars Tyler Perry

Watch the new trailer for ALEX CROSS starring Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox. ALEX CROSS follows the young homicide detective/psychologist (Tyler Perry), from the worldwide best-selling novels by James Patterson, as he meets his match in a serial killer (Matthew Fox). The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.

Crusading Detective/Psychologist ALEX CROSS (Tyler Perry) meets his match against the psychotic, mob hit man, MICHAEL SULLIVAN aka THE BUTCHER. As Cross investigates the hit man’s gruesome murders, Sullivan decides to send him a deadly message by murdering his wife in cold blood. Now enraged, Cross vows to hunt down the killer if it’s the last thing he does. However, Sullivan is a serial killing mastermind and continues to evade Cross while pushing him to an ethical breaking point as a cop and father. As Cross closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable–a revelation that could change everything. With unstoppable action, and unforeseeable twists, this suspenseful action thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.

From director Rob Cohen, ALEX CROSS will be in theaters October 19, 2012.

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Andrew Garfield And Emma Stone Introduce IMAX 12:01 Mondo Poster Program For THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

All who attend the IMAX 3D midnight show of The Amazing Spider-Man on July 3rd (the evening of July 2nd) will receive a limited edition IMAX print from Mondo exclusive to the 12:01 show! Find a list of participating theatres and get your tickets here. How can you get your hands on an exclusive limited edition 12:01 IMAX poster for The Amazing Spider-Man? Find out from Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.

Check out this message from director Marc Webb where he talks aspect ratio, 3D effects, and more.

One of the world’s most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the film in association with Marvel Entertainment for Columbia Pictures, which will open in theaters everywhere in 3D on July 3, 2012.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance–leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, the Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

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IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD To Screen At The Academy On July 9 As Part Of “Last 70mm Film Festival”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the 1963 ensemble comedy “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World“ as the inaugural film in its series “The Last 70mm Film Festival” on Monday, July 9, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Directed by nine-time Oscar® nominee Stanley Kramer, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Cinematography (Ernest Laszlo), Film Editing (Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.), Music – Music Score, substantially original (Ernest Gold), Music – Song (Gold, Mack David), Sound (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director), and took home the Oscar for Sound Effects (Walter G. Elliott).

Prior to the screening, there will be a panel discussion with actors Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, Marvin Kaplan, Stan Freberg and Barrie Chase, as well as script supervisor Marshall Schlom, casting director Lynn Stalmaster, and Stanley Kramer’s widow, Karen Kramer.

The 70mm short “The Miracle of Todd-AO” (1954) will be screened before the film. This live action short highlights the innovation of the Todd-AO wide-angle lens with an optical journey from the Grand Teton National Park to the streets of San Francisco.

“The Last 70mm Film Festival,” a six-film series, will run Mondays through August 13, showcasing 70mm classics from different genres as well as rarely screened 70mm short subjects. http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2012/07/70mm.html

The remaining screenings in the series are:

July 16 “Sleeping Beauty” (1959)
July 23 “Grand Prix” (1966)
July 30 “The Sound of Music” (1965)
August 6 “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)
August 13 “Spartacus” (1960)

Series passes for “The Last 70mm Film Festival” are on sale now.  Passes are $20 for the general public and $15 for Academy members and students with valid ID.  Tickets to individual evenings, if still available, will go on sale Friday, June 29.  Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with valid ID.  Passes and tickets may be purchased online at www.oscars.org, by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the screening when the doors open at 6:30 p.m.  The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.  For the latest pre-show details call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.

Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore And Judy Greer Go To Camera With Kimberly Peirce’s Adaptation of CARRIE

Principal photography has commenced in Toronto, Ontario on the highly anticipated horror film CARRIE, it was announced today by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Screen Gems. Director Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry; Stop-Loss) reimagines Stephen King’s best-selling novel for MGM and Screen Gems’ take on the enduring genre classic. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz (Hugo), four time Oscar-nominee Julianne Moore (Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Kids are Alright) and Judy Greer (The Descendants), CARRIE tells the supernatural tale of a telekinetic teenage girl tormented by her peers. CARRIE is slated for a 2013 theatrical release.

The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday, Youth in Revolt), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde, The Three Musketeers), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (newcomer Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc. Brian De Palma’s 1976 film version of CARRIE earned Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie.

MGM and Screen Gems’ CARRIE is directed by Kimberly Peirce and produced by Kevin Misher (Public Enemies). J. Miles Dale (The Vow) serves as executive producer and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Big Love) wrote the script from King’s original story. CARRIE’s creative team includes Director of Photography Steve Yedlin (Looper), Production Designer Carol Spier (Eastern Promises),Costume Designer Luis Sequeira (The Thing) and Editor Lee Percy (Boys Don’t Cry).

Tom Cruise Is JACK REACHER In First Photo

In theaters on December 21, here’s a first look at Tom Cruise as JACK REACHER. (via EW). Previously titled ONE SHOT, the film is an adaptation of a 2005 Lee Child novel and is directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS, VALKYRIE).

Synopsis:

Cruise plays an ex-Army cop who gets sucked into the mystery surrounding the arrest of a sniper accused of killing five people. The project, which began filming last fall in Pittsburgh, also features Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo and filmmaker Werner Herzog, who will play a villain.

The EW article also addresses Paramount-Skydance Productions’ casting of Cruise.

Cruise doesn’t physically match the hulking Reacher described in Child’s books, which has irked some fans, but the actor addressed the issue head-on when footage of the film previewed at CinemaCon in April. It helped to have the author’s blessing.

“For those of you who know the books, I’m obviously not 6-foot-5, like Jack Reacher,” the 5-foot-7 actor said in a videotaped intro. “But Lee felt that I was the right guy to drive fast cars and kick the s–t out of people onscreen.”

KATY PERRY: PART OF ME – Check Out The Hollywood Premiere & Be the First To See The Movie On July 2nd

Check out the video and photos from the Los Angeles Premiere of KATY PERRY: PART OF ME at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA last night (June 26th, 2012). The premiere also included a special live performance for the first-ever Pepsi/Billboard Summer Beats series. Katy shut down Hollywood Blvd. to perform songs from her film.

Tickets for sneak previews of Paramount’s Insurge Pictures’ 3D event concert film “KATY PERRY: PART OF ME” are on sale now at www.KatyPerryPartofMe.com/Sneak and participating box offices across the U.S. and Canada. Get your tickets to see it first on July 2!

At each participating sneak preview location, “KATY PERRY: PART OF ME” moviegoers will receive pink collectible Katy Perry RealD® 3D glasses and an exclusive pin-up poster.  The sneak previews, presented exclusively in RealD® 3D, will play in 100 locations in 64 markets in the U.S. and Canada.  Each location will offer two show times daily: 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

“KATY PERRY: PART OF ME” opens everywhere July 5, 2012. Check your local listings for theater locations and showtimes.

A 3D motion picture event movie, “KATY PERRY: PART OF ME” is a backstage pass, front row seat and intimate look at the fun, glamorous, heartbreaking, inspiring, crazy, magical, passionate and honest mad diary of Katy.  Directed by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, produced by Brian Grazer, Katy Perry, Martin Kirkup, Bradford Cobb and Steve Jensen, and executive produced by Craig Brewer, Randy Phillips, Michael Rosenberg, Erica Huggins, Edward Lovelace and James Hall.

For more information on the sneak previews, go to www.KatyPerryPartofMe.com/Sneak.

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HERE COMES THE BOOM Trailer

Watch the first trailer for HERE COMES THE BOOM starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler.

In the comedy HERE COMES THE BOOM, former collegiate wrestler Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler,) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy – most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek) – but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school.

From director Frank Coraci (THE WEDDING SINGER, ZOOKEEPER,) HERE COMES THE BOOM will be in theaters October 12.

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Oscar-Nominee Nora Ephron Dies At 71

“Nora Ephron has quietly been one of the most significant women in film history,” said movie scholar and historian Jeanine D. Basinger. Today the 3-time Oscar Nominee sadly passed away at the age of 71. The writer of HEARTBURN, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, and director of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, MICHAEL, YOU’VE GOT MAIL, and JULIE & JULIA, Ephron’s death was “confirmed by her friend Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist. She died of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago.”

In Variety‘s thorough story,

At the time of her death Ephron had two film projects in development, a biopic on singer Peggy Lee that she had penned and was to direct, with Reese Witherspoon and Marc Platt to produce at Fox 2000, and “Lost in Austen,” which she had adapted and signed on to direct in April for Mammoth Screen and Sony.

Read the rest HERE and watch these great scenes from her work. This very smart woman will be missed.

Freestyle Digital Media Scares Up Rights For Thriller MUNGER ROAD – DVD, Digital Download, Video On-Demand Sept. 11

Freestyle Digital Media LLC (FDM) has acquired the rights to MUNGER ROAD, a tension filled suspense-thriller from Insomnia Productions that will debut on DVD, Digital Download and Video On-Demand. The film was written and directed by Nicholas Smith, produced by Kyle Heller and stars Bruce Davison (“X-Men,” “Luck”). Last year, MUNGER ROAD was released theatrically by Freestyle Releasing in the Chicago area to a remarkable $30,000 plus per screen average. The film is slated for release on September 11th.

MUNGER ROAD takes place in a sleepy Midwestern town on a night when a group of teens explore the famed ‘Munger Road’ – a spot where a horrific tragedy occurred years earlier. Something terrible happens to the group, forcing the local police to acknowledge there is a returning killer lurking in the area as thousands of people converge on the town for the annual Scarecrow Festival.

The deal was negotiated by FDM’s CEO Susan Jackson and Executive Producer Jeffery Smith, from Insomnia Productions.  “’Munger Road’ has a loyal following of fans and appeals to all ages,” said Jackson. “It really delivers on the scares in the tradition of ‘The Amityville Horror’ and ‘An American Haunting.’ It’s based on a real place and folklore, which gives it an extra edge.”

Freestyle Digital Media’s recent slate of releases includes the critically-acclaimed Filipino horror-thriller THE ROAD from director Yam Laranas. In addition, DEADHEADS, the acclaimed horror-comedy from directors Brett and Drew Pierce, SWINGING WITH THE FINKELS starring Mandy Moore and directed by Jonathan Newman, and TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN directed by Stuart Beattie, which also marked the first feature film to debut on Facebook.

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Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Star In Open Road Films’ New Poster And R-Rated Trailer For HIT & RUN – In Theaters August 24

Starring Dax Shepard (NBC’s Parenthood), Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Showtime’s House Of Lies), Bradley Cooper (The Hangover), Kristin Chenoweth (Glee) and Tom Arnold (True Lies), check out the new poster and red-band trailer for Open Road Films’ action-comedy HIT & RUN.


(via Yahoo Movies)

From the producer of Wedding Crashers – written and co-directed by and starring comic talent Dax Shepard (NBC’s “Parenthood”) HIT AND RUN is the story of Charlie Bronson (Shepard), a nice guy with a questionable past who risks everything when he busts out of the witness protection program to deliver his fiancé (Kristen Bell) to Los Angeles to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, when they are chased by the feds (led by Tom Arnold) … and increasingly dangerous, when Charlie’s former pals, a band of gangsters (led by Bradley Cooper), enter the fray.

HIT & RUN speeds into theaters on August 24.

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