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THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD April 25th

Starring Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine, the post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS, arrives on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and Digital HD April 25 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film is currently available On Demand.

Step into a future dystopia when the post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, The Girl with All the Gifts, arrives on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and Digital HD April 25from Lionsgate. The film is currently available On Demand. Six-time Academy Award^® nominee* Glenn Close stars alongside Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine in this story of society’s breakdown after the outbreak of an unprecedented plague. Hailed as “an effective, scary, and emotional zombie movie” by ComingSoon.net, it was shown during Midnight Madness at the2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Based on the critically acclaimed, Edgar Award-winning short story, “Iphigenia in Aulis“ by M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh eating “hungries.” Only a small group of children seems immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately deciding both her own future and that of the human race.

BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES

“Unwrap the Secret World of The Girl with All the Gifts” Featurette

CAST

Gemma Arterton Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Quantum of Solace

Paddy Considine The Bourne Ultimatum, Cinderella Man, Child 44

and Glenn Close Fatal Attraction, TV’s “Damages”

Jude Law Set To Star As Albus Dumbledore in FANTASTIC BEASTS sequel

As fans across the globe eagerly await the next adventure in the “Fantastic Beasts” feature film series, Warner Bros. Pictures has announced the actor who will take on the role of one of J.K. Rowling’s most beloved characters. Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law has been set to star as Albus Dumbledore in the “Fantastic Beasts” sequel, it was announced today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Content Officer, Warner Bros. Pictures.

In the much-anticipated new Wizarding World film, Law will portray Dumbledore long before the iconic wizard became the Headmaster at Hogwarts, as he has been known in the Harry Potter books and movies. We meet him decades earlier, when Dumbledore is still serving as the wizarding school’s Transfiguration professor. He is also a contemporary of Gellert Grindelwald, the charismatic dark wizard who believes wizards are superior to Muggles and No-Majs.

J.K. Rowling, who made her screenwriting debut on the global hit “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” has also written the screenplay for the second movie. The story moves deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world, where Newt Scamander and our other heroes have to decide on their allegiances.

In making the announcement, Emmerich stated, “As fans ourselves, we are thrilled to have Jude Law joining the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ cast, playing a character so universally adored. Jude has been a member of the Warner Bros. family for years and we’re excited to embark on this new adventure with him.”

Director David Yates added, “Jude Law is a phenomenally talented actor whose work I have long admired, and I’m looking forward to finally having the opportunity to work with him. I know he will brilliantly capture all the unexpected facets of Albus Dumbledore as J.K. Rowling reveals this very different time in his life.”

Jude Law earned Oscar nominations for his work in “Cold Mountain” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” winning a BAFTA Award for the latter. He will next be seen in “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” and currently stars in the HBO series “The Young Pope.” His many other film credits include the “Sherlock Holmes” movies, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Hugo,” “Contagion,” “The Aviator,” “Alfie,” “Road to Perdition” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” to name only a portion.

The first film in the “Fantastic Beasts” series, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” began a new era in the wizarding world, decades before the Harry Potter movies, which still reign as the top-grossing film franchise of all time. Acclaimed by both critics and audiences, the 2016 release became a global blockbuster, earning more than $813 million at the box office. (review)

Principal photography begins this summer on the new “Fantastic Beasts” adventure, which will be directed by David Yates, who previously helmed the final four “Harry Potter” features, as well as “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” The film also reunites producers David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen are serving as executive producers.

Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film, which is the second of five planned “Fantastic Beasts” movies, will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures

WAMG Giveaway – Win the PUNCHING HENRY Blu-ray

In the hyper-intelligent comedy PUNCHING HENRY, a journeyman comedian is lured to Los Angeles by a TV producer who wants to make him a reality star. As reality sets in, he must decide whether his legacy will be to tell jokes for a living or become the butt of them. With an all-star cast, including Henry Phillips (Punching the Clown), stand-up comics Tig Notaro, Jim Jefferies and Doug Stanhope; Clifton Collins Jr. (Pacific Rim), with Sarah Silverman (I Smile Back) and Academy Award^® winner J.K. Simmons (Best Supporting Actor, Whiplash, 2014),
PUNCHING HENRY is a hilarious and heartwarming glimpse behind the curtain of the weird world of comedy. The film debuts on Blu-ray^™ April 18 from Well Go USA Entertainment.

Now you can own PUNCHING HENRY. We Are Movie Geeks has two copies of the PUNCHING HENRY Blu-ray to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie starring J.K. Simmons? (mine is WHIPLASH!). It’s so easy!

Good Luck!

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE A US RESIDENT. PRIZE WILL ONLY BE SHIPPED TO US ADDRESSES. NO P.O. BOXES. NO DUPLICATE ADDRESSES.

2. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN FROM ALL QUALIFYING ENTRIES.

Bonus materials include deleted scenes and two behind-the-scenes featurettes: “Brendon Walsh Suffers” and “Stupid Joe.”

Synopsis:

In this hyper-intelligent comedy, a journeyman comedian is lured to L.A. by a TV producer
(J.K. Simmons, Whiplash) who wants to make him a reality star. As reality sets in, he must decide whether his legacy will be to tell jokes for a living or become the butt of them.

Bonus Materials Include:

Deleted Scenes
“Brendon Walsh Suffers” featurette
“Stupid Joe” featurette

Watch The Second Trailer For TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

Paramount Pictures has released a brand new trailer for TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT.

Directed by Michael Bay, the movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Jerrod Carmichael, Isabela Moner and Santiago Cabrera.

The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT opens in theaters June 23, 2017.

Filmed with IMAX 3D cameras

Check out the official site: http://www.transformersmovie.com/

Get A First Look At Kathryn Bigelow’s DETROIT Poster And Trailer

Annapurna Pictures has released the first trailer for the upcoming film DETROIT.

From the Academy Award winning director of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of ’67.

The huge cast features John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack Reynor, Ben O’Toole, Joseph David Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Leon Thomas III, Nathan Davis Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley, Gbenga Akinnabve, Chris Chalk, Jeremy Strong, Laz Alonzo, Austin Hebert, Miguel Pimentel, Kris Davis, with John Krasinski and Anthony Mackie.

Annapurna Pictures, founded by Megan Ellison, has garnered a total of 32 Academy Award nominations for their projects, including ZERO DARK THIRTY, JOY, THE MASTER, FOXCATCHER, and THE GRANDMASTER. Ellison is also one of only four honorees ever to receive two Best Picture nominations in the same year, with HER and AMERICAN HUSTLE both earning nods in 2014.

The company is also in production on Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled new period film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and is developing the film adaptation of Maria Semple’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, to be directed by Richard Linklater.

Annapurna’s most recent projects include Mike Mills’ 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, which was nominated for two Golden Globes and earned Mills a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination, as well as SAUSAGE PARTY, WIENER-DOG, and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME, with THE BAD BATCH set for release by Neon in 2017.

DETROIT hits theaters everywhere August 4, 2017.

Visit the site: http://www.detroit.movie/

BABY DRIVER New Thrilling International Trailer Is Here

Buckle up. A brand new international trailer has been released for BABY DRIVER.

The film from director Edgar Wright was chosen as 2017’s SXSW’s Audience Award winner. The overwhelming enthusiastic response out of the Austin film festival prompted Sony Pictures to move the movie’s release date from August up to June.

Stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, with Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.

A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.

In Theaters June 28, 2017.

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Miyazaki Coming out of Retirement! – Here’s a Brief Studio Ghibli History

With Hayao Miyazaki recently announcing that he was coming out of retirement to work on his new feature film BORO THE CATERPILLAR, We Are Movie Geeks felt it was the perfect time to take a look back at the history of the legendary Studio Ghibli from its early days to its top grossing films in Japan and its Academy Awards. This video is produced by Distractotron, your destination for geek oriented entertainment.Enjoy!

It’s The Hulk vs Thor In First Teaser For Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK

Marvel Studios’ has released an awesome first trailer for director Taika Waititi’s THOR: RAGNAROK. It’s about to go down between Thor and The Hulk! Watch now.

In Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger—the Incredible Hulk!

THOR: RAGNAROK is directed by Taika Waititi and returns Chris Hemsworth starring as Thor and Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Loki. They are joined by Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban, with Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins.

Kevin Feige is producing with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Thomas M. Hammel and Stan Lee serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost and Stephany Folsom and Eric Pearson.

Marvel Studios’ THOR: RAGNAROK thunders into U.S. theaters on November 3, 2017.

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Thor: Ragnarok - (L-R) Director Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth. Photo by: Jasin Boland. ©2016 Marvel Studios. — Thor: Ragnarok – (L-R) Director Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth. Photo by: Jasin Boland. ©2016 Marvel Studios.

Mike Judge’s IDIOCRACY Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli!

“The #1 movie in America was called ASS. And that’s all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.”

IDIOCRACY plays this weekend (April 14th and 15th) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

In Mike Judge’s utterly rude, crude, and politically incorrect 2006 yarn IDIOCRACY the U.S. Army selects a thoroughly average Army private, Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) for their top-secret Human Hibernation Project, because he is thoroughly average. Since the U.S. Army couldn’t find anybody in their ranks to fill the female slot, they have selected a hooker, Rita (Maya Randolph), from an African-American pimp named Upgrayedd (the extra ‘d’ stands for “double dose”). Joe and Rita are put into suspended animation for only one year as a part of the experiment, but an accident occurs and they wind up being suspended for 500 years! Our hero and heroine end up at the bottom of a gigantic garbage heap. As civilization grows even more idiotic, mankind lets the garbage pile up into mountains for centuries. They are released from their capsules as a result of the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505 and discover a society where the dumbest have procreated in such huge numbers that human evolution has degenerated to the point that everybody is an imbecile. Indeed, numbskulls proliferate, and a wrestler, President Camacho (Terry Crews) is the President of the United States. (oh, and there is a restaurant chain named Buttf@#kers. Mindless television programming and rampant consumerism rule the airwaves. The favorite TV reality show is called ‘Ouch, My Balls!’ where guys get kicked in the gonads. There is also the Masturbation Network and the Best Picture of 2505 is a film entitled ASS, and all it shows is a giant close-up of a naked, flatulent, male butt for 90 minutes. In a brilliant sight gag, a carnival ride time machine display takes citizens on a journey through the 20 Century and they learn that Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis tried to rule the world. There a Museum of Fart where people tour a number of displays depicting various eras of time and they get to press a huge red button that sounds various kinds of farts.

Nobody drinks water in the year 2505, and a Gatorade knock-off sports energy drink called “Brawndo” has become the number one employer in America and the number one beverage because it contains electrolytes. “Brawndo” looks like green radiator fluid. Nobody knows what purpose electrolytes serve, but they’ve been told it is good for them. Following this lack of logic, farmers rely exclusively on “Brawndo: to irrigate crops. Consequently, nothing grows anymore, and America has turned into a dust-bowl of devastation

IDIOCRACY, which was Mike Judge’s follow-up to his cult hit OFFICE SPACE, yet never played theatrically in St. Louis upon its initial release (Webster U ran it for three nights about 4 years ago). It may be a terrifying and over-exaggerated caricature of the world today, but just look around you at almost any time and you will see where many of the crazy ideas in this film came from. What’s even more frightening, is that in a future not quite as distant as 2505, the things you see in IDIOCRACY may well not seem as over-exaggerated as they do now. IDIOCRACY portrays one big nightmare of a future, yet manages to stay entertaining and, indeed, hilarious at many places. See for yourself when IDIOCRACY screens this weekend at midnight at The Tivoli.

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

A Facebook invite for the screenings can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/256024564824158/

And here’s the Tivoli’s midnight line-up for the next several weeks:

APRIL 21^ST AND 22^ND – SHAUN OF THE DEAD

APRIL 28^TH AND 29^TH – 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

MAY 5^TH AND 6^TH – GREMLINS

MAY 12^TH AND 13^TH – MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

MAY 19^TH AND 20^TH – THE DARK KNIGHT

Fathom Events Bringing THE FIFTH ELEMENT Back To Cinemas May 14 and 17

Twenty years ago, audiences were dazzled by the visionary images and epic adventure of “The Fifth Element.” To celebrate the 20th anniversary of director Luc Besson’s groundbreaking film, Fathom Events and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will present a 4K restoration of the film in movie theaters nationwide for two days only, on Sunday, May 14 and Wednesday, May 17 at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. (local time) both days. Following its two-day-only theatrical presentation, “The Fifth Element” will debut on 4K Ultra HD July 11.

As an added bonus, the theatrical presentation will also offer audiences a brand-new, exclusive look at Besson’s upcoming film, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” which opens in theaters nationwide July 21, 2017. This new film stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne as special operatives who must protect the astonishing city of Alpha from a marauding menace that threatens not just the city but the future of the universe.

Besson both directed and wrote “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” as he did the enormously influential “The Fifth Element.”

Tickets to “The Fifth Element 20th Anniversary” can be purchased online at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 400 select movie theaters.

For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).

From its opening scenes in 1914 Egypt to its towering views of 23rd Century New York City, and its mind-expanding journey to the faraway world of Fhloston Paradise, “The Fifth Element” follows cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) as he discovers that the fate of the world is contained within the mysterious Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), who literally drops from the sky and into his life.

To save humanity, he must protect her from the evil industrialist Zorg (Gary Oldman), who is embroiled in an intergalactic war between the Mondoshawans and the Mangalores.

The spectacular odyssey across space and time also stars Ian Holm as the mysterious Vito Cornelius, Chris Tucker as hyperactive radio host Ruby Rhod, and Luke Perry as Billy Masterson.

Conceived and written by Besson when he was just 16, “The Fifth Element” became a passion project and took more than 20 years to bring to the screen. “The Fifth Element” was nominated for eight César Awards, France’s top cinematic honor, and received three awards, including Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. The cool score is from Eric Serra.

“Few films have presented a sensory experience quite like ‘The Fifth Element,’” said Tom Lucas, Fathom Events Vice President of Studio Relations. “After opening at No. 1 at the U.S. box office, it attracted both critical raves and a cult following that has deepened during the past two decades. We are thrilled to bring it back to its well-deserved home on cinema screens for its 20th anniversary.”

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