From Marlon Wayans, and the director of A HAUNTED HOUSE, comes next year’s most outrageous comedy, 50 SHADES OF BLACK.
Wayans takes on the role of Mr. Black in the first trailer for the movie.
Join Marlon Wayans for a live chat on FACEBOOK at 10AM PST/1PM EST on Friday.
The film is directed by Michael Tiddes and written by Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans.
Starring Marlon Wayans, Kali Hawk, Mike Epps, Andrew Bachelor, Affion Crockett, Jane Seymour, Fred Willard and Florence Henderson, 50 SHADES OF BLACK hits theaters nationwide January 29th, 2016.
Mark Ruffalo gives an Oscar-calibre performance in one of the best films of 2015, SPOTLIGHT.
Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Liev Schrieber, Brian D’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup and directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced last week that Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams will be honored with the 2016 American Riviera Award at the 31st edition of the Fest, which runs from February 3 to February 13, 2016. This is the first time the award will be given to three honorees, who will be fêted with a Tribute celebrating their careers, culminating with their powerhouse collaboration in Tom McCarthy’s blisteringly true drama SPOTLIGHT. The film recently opened to critical acclaim. The Tribute will take place during the festival’s run at the historic Arlington Theatre.
“Michael, Mark and Rachel are three of the finest actors in the business.” stated Festival Director Roger Durling, “They are artists in the truest sense of the word who continue to surprise and inspire audiences with their talent,” adding, “their recent turn in Spotlight demonstrates their skills both harmoniously as an ensemble and individually, it is an honor to celebrate their work with the American Riviera Award.”
(Left to right) Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes and Brian d’Arcy James as Matt Carroll in SPOTLIGHT. Photo credit: Kerry Hayes/Open Road Films
When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
SPOTLIGHT is now playing in select theaters and will be in theaters everywhere this Friday.
From Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Italy’s Oscar foreign language winner THE GREAT BEAUTY comes YOUTH, about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps.
Oscar winning actor Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker.
While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
Fox Searchlight has released an emotional new clip from the upcoming movie.
The film features an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, who first met Sorrentino when his composition “I Lie” was used in THE GREAT BEAUTY.
Fred’s most popular composition, “Simple Song #3,” is also written by Lang. Referred to throughout the film, it is the piece that the Queen has asked him to conduct – a piece he has vowed never to perform again. “Fred Ballinger wrote this beautiful music for his wife,” Lang explains. “It’s clearly a love song, but only Fred is aware of its history. The Queen of England wants to hear it is because of what it means to her personally, but Fred can only hear what it means to him.”
Not all of the music that Lang contributed to the movie was written for a traditional orchestra. Some of the most original and unconventional compositions came about as a way to reveal a bit of Fred’s essence. “For a composer, every sound is available to be sculpted,” explains Lang. “When he eats a candy and he crumples the wrapper, that’s music. There is a powerful moment where he goes out into the forest and conducts what we call the ‘wood symphony.’ He hears sounds of the birds, the trees and the cowbells and that’s an opportunity for him to imagine that he is at the center of the sonic universe. He has told everyone that he does not make music anymore, but in that scene he allows himself to play only for himself.”
The filmmaking team includes director of photography Luca Bigazzi, editor Cristiano Travaglioli, production designer Ludovica Ferrario, set decorator Giulia Busnengo, composer David Lang, and costume designer Carlo Poggioli.
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in the latest clip from director Paul McGuigan’s VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN.
Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But Victor’s experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN is a “Frankenstein” movie unlike any other. While inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic novel and the countless interpretations of that story, screenwriter Max Landis’ “regeneration” focuses on the relationship between Victor and his best friend and assistant Igor.
Did you know Igor was not a character in Mary Shelley’s book and that he didn’t appear in most of the subsequent film interpretations? Actor Dwight Frye’s hunchbacked lab assistant in James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN (1931) is the main source for the “Igor” of public imagination, though the character he played was actually named Fritz. Most moviegoers know the character through Marty Feldman’s performance in Mel Brooks’ beloved comedy YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, though Feldman’s character insists on being called “Eye-gore.”
The film also features Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, and Freddie Fox.
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN comes to theaters November 25, 2015.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE screens Saturday morning, November 21st, at 10:30am at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis). This is a fundraiser for The Cottey College Scholarship Fund and admission is $10.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is a 1953 romantic comedy based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins and Loco by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert. The film stars Marilyn Monroe, St. Louis’ own Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall as three gold diggers along with William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Alex D’Arcy, and Fred Clark.It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson.
In order to meet wealthy husbands, three beautiful women take an apartment in one of Manhattan’s most affluent areas, on the corner of East 55th St. and Sutton Place. Naive moocher Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey), visually impaired Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), and sensible model Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) date both eligible and ineligible men, including suave senior William Powell (as J.D. Hanley). This all-too familiar plot works well in CinemaScope and Technicolor. Key to the success is the teaming of the World War II pin-up girl, sultry Bogart co-star, and platinum blonde bombshell. These three fill the new wide-screen format perfectly, without clashing. Their “advice” about being in the right place is certainly correct. Monroe, Grable and Bacall had other assets, too.
Along with THE ROBE, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was the premiere event for CinemaScope, and it also provided a breathless introduction to stereophonic sound. It won’t exactly be in CinemaScoop when it screens at The Hi-Pointe this Saturday morning, but this will be a real treat to see on the big screen.
The $10 admission includes a donation to the Cottey College Scholarship Fund, a small soda and popcorn, and of course, a classic movie on The Hi-Pointe’s wonderful massive screen.
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Natalie Dormer and Jeffrey Wright, along with director Francis Lawrence, production designer Philip Messina, makeup designer Ve Neill and producer Nina Jacobson, discuss the phenomenon that is THE HUNGER GAMES in this in-depth featurette.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 now brings the franchise to its powerful final chapter in which Katniss Everdeen Jennifer Lawrence realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival – they are for the future.
With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.
The action unfolds November 20, 2015. Buy ticketsnow.
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MADMAN screens this weekend (November 20th and 21st) in 35mm at the newly-refurbished The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse
After the initial FRIDAY THE 13TH, during the early 80’s, the summer camp horror sub-genre of slasher flicks took a firm grip of the American imagination. The 1982 entry MADMAN seems to shares a kinship with another of its kind, THE BURNING, filmed in upstate New York around the same time and also inspired by the real-life around-the-campfire story of The Kropsy Maniac. MADMAN stars Gaylen Ross, the lead in Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD, acting under alias Alex Dubin
I’ve seen THE BURNING, but don’t believe I ever saw MADMAN. I could be wrong since since much of the ‘80s was a blur. MADMAN looks to be the type of archetypal shocker that would have played St. Louis Drive-ins during the years that I frequenting them at least a couple of times a week, so maybe it will come back to me when I see it this weekend.
The villain in MADMAN is “Madman” Marz, a brutal psychopath who’d butchered his family with an axe and gotten lynched for it soon after. However, his body disappeared from its noose…Years later, Marz’s story is spun by the director of a nearby camp, and the warning is made: do not utter the name of “Madman” Marz above a whisper in his woods or he’ll come to get you! A disbelieving jerk teenager then proceeds to YELL out the name, and Marz makes good his return.
Don’t miss MADMAN when it screens this weekend (November 20th and 21st) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave) as part ofDestroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse midnight series.
Admission is $7 – Beer & Wine is served until 12:45am
A Facebook invite for Friday night’s show can be found HERE
In celebration of Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated film, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, Disney Consumer Products and Bloomingdale’s are joining forces with an illustrious group of designers in a new fashion-meets-fundraising initiative, “Force 4 Fashion.”
Taking inspiration from the film’s costume designer, Michael Kaplan, fashion favorites Cynthia Rowley, Diane von Furstenberg, Giles Deacon, Halston, Opening Ceremony, Ovadia & Sons, Parker, Rag & Bone, Timo Weiland and Todd Snyder are each creating an outfit to be auctioned for charity that pays homage to characters from the new movie.
“This collaboration celebrates the distinctive synergy between film and fashion in the run up to an exceptional moment in the history of pop culture. We’re excited to see how this incredible lineup of designers interpret Star Wars characters in unique ways, as well as to raise money for a great cause.” Said Leslie Ferraro, Co-Chair, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media and President, Disney Consumer Products.
The designers’ looks will be revealed at a “Force 4 Fashion” launch event, presented by Kay Jewelers, in New York City on December 2nd before going on display in Bloomingdale’s NYC flagship windows the following day. Outfits will then be auctioned off December 2-18 by Bloomingdale’s on CharityBuzz.com, with the proceeds benefiting their holiday charity partner, Child Mind Institute, on behalf of Star Wars: Force For Change – a charitable initiative that empowers people to make a positive impact on the world around them.
Additionally, Michael Kaplan has designed three, limited edition “little brown bag” reusable totes, only available for purchase at Bloomingdale’s during the holiday season starting just before Thanksgiving. The Star Wars-themed totes will be merchandised in pop-up shops featuring various Star Wars inspired merchandise.
“Bloomingdale’s is thrilled to join forces with such a historic yet continually ground breaking film,” said Anne Keating, Bloomingdale’s Senior Vice President of Public Relations, Special Events and Philanthropy. “We are excited to fuse fashion with pop culture to raise awareness and funds for our long standing partner, Child Mind Institute.”
In addition to these bespoke fashion collaborations Star Wars fans can find ready-to-wear apparel and accessories at a broad range of retailers.
For more information about “Force 4 Fashion” please visit StarWars.com and follow the social conversation using the hashtag #Force4Fashion.
The movieopens in U.S. theaters on December 18, 2015.
Star Wars’ association with British fashion and design will also be celebrated by London-based designers Agi & Sam, Bobby Abley, Christopher Raeburn, J.W. Anderson, Nasir Mazhar, Peter Pilotto, Phoebe English, Preen and Thomas Tait. These 10 designers have also created catwalk looks inspired by STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS.
Their designs will be showcased at an extraordinary “Star Wars: Fashion Finds The Force” presentation on November 26 in London, following which they will be available to fans worldwide by online auction at www.starwarsfashion.london with all proceeds donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, on behalf of Star Wars: Force for Change initiative.
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Check out the STAR WARS “Art Awakens” Exhibit here.
20th Century Fox has announced Ridley Scott’s return to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS – and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction.
According to the press release synopsis:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
2012’s PROMETHEUS brought in $403.4 million globally and received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 85th Academy Awards.
ALIEN: COVENANT will be released in cinemas on October 6th, 2017.
In celebration of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, Lucasfilm, along with Gallery 1988 and HP Inc., proudly presents “Art Awakens.”
From November 13-15, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles hosted a Star Wars art exhibit featuring top professional and emerging contemporary artists. New and original pieces from the exhibit are now being auctioned off in the name of Star Wars: Force for Change to support UNICEF Kid Power. All original pieces featured in the gallery are now up for auction through eBay for Charity, along with select prints for sale.
Artists showcased include new and original works from: Joshua Keyes, Alex Pardee, Scott C., Lorraine Loots, Eric Tan, Brandi Milne, Rich Kelly, Kris Lewis, Travis Louie, Naoto Hattori and Dan Mumford, among many others.
Original pieces by the professional artists will be up for auction on eBay from 11/13 – 11/23.
Prints of select originals by the professional artists will be available for purchase on eBay from 11/13 – 12/12.
Additionally, the five amateur winners of the 2-month long Art Awakens Fan Art Competition, which kicked off on August 11, had their art showcased in the professional gallery exhibit. The winners were chosen by a judging committee that included members from Disney, Lucasfilm and the legendary visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic, and others.
The five fan-art winners were flown to Los Angeles to attend the VIP opening night gallery reception at Gallery 1988 on November 13th. One winner was awarded with the HP Technology Award for their innovative use of technology to create their artwork and received a Star WarsSpecial Edition Notebook.
Sales will support UNICEF Kid Power, the world’s first Wearable-for-Good, which gives kids the power to save lives. By getting active with the UNICEF Kid Power Band, kids go on missions to learn about new cultures and earn points.
Points unlock funding from partners, parents and fans; and funds are used by UNICEF to deliver lifesaving packets of therapeutic food to severely malnourished children around the world. Two exclusive Star Wars: Force For Change UNICEF Kid Power bands will go on sale November 29, 2015.
