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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 Celebrates Anniversary Of Suzanne Collins’ Final Book With New Banner

“The game is coming to its end.”

Today marks the five year anniversary since the release of Suzanne Collins’ final Hunger Games book, Mockingjay.

To celebrate, fans were encouraged to click the map of The Capitol on the all-new microsite: Squad451.TheHungerGames.movie. This website empowered them to ‘tap to reveal’ the exclusive new “Fallen Snow” banner for THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2.

Following a cumulative 11,202,015 clicks from fans around the world in just one hour, fans can now view the banner and explore this vision of a toppled regime via your cursor or phone’s accelerometer.

The final installment of the epic HUNGER GAMES series – THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 – stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Natalie Dormer, with Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland.

The blockbuster Hunger Games franchise has taken audiences by storm around the world, grossing more than $2.2 billion at the global box office. 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 (Donald Sutherland) in the final showdown.

Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Finnick (Sam Claflin) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) – 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 HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2
Opens In Theaters November 20

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Emily Blunt Is Kate Macer In New SICARIO Clip

Watch Emily Blunt in this brand new clip from the upcoming cartel-thriller SICARIO. (trailer)

From director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies) comes a searing emotional-thriller that descends into the intrigue, corruption and moral mayhem of the borderland drug wars.

When Arizona FBI agent and kidnap-response-team leader Kate Macer (Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt) uncovers a Mexican cartel’s house of death, her shocking find leads to profound consequences on both a personal and global level.

Kate is recruited to join a covert black-ops mission headed by a mysterious Colombian operative known only as Alejandro (Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, Best Supporting Actor, Traffic, 2000) along with special agent Matt Graver (Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin, Best Supporting Actor, Milk, 2008).

Even as Kate tries to convince herself she’s on a hunt for justice, she is thrust into the dark heart of a secret battleground that has swept up ruthless cartels, kill-crazy assassins, clandestine American spies and thousands of innocents.

The jagged line of the U.S. and Mexican border is now awash in some of the most pressing questions of our times – drugs, terror, illegal immigration, corruption and an escalating swath of dark crime that has left people on both sides frightened and vigilant.

Sicario explores the journey of an intelligence operation that pushes the rules to engage with those who don’t play by any.

Director of Photography is Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (True Grit, 2010; No Country for Old Men, 2007) and the score is from composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything, 2014; Prisoners).

Varèse Sarabande will release the SICARIO – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD September 18, 2015, the same day that the Lionsgate film premieres in limited release, before opening wide on September 25.

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Choose Wisely – INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

“Choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.”

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE screens Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli as part of the Reel Late at The Tivoli Midnight series.

In case INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE somehow passed you by in 1989, the film opens with a scene showing a young Indiana Jones (River Phoenix) demonstrating his tenacity when uncovering grave robbers taking precious artifacts in Utah. The film begins properly when Dr Jones (Harrison Ford of course) is invited by wealthy Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) to help locate and recover the Holy Grail, said to grant eternal life to those who drink from it. But as Dr Jones soon realizes, he must rescue his Grail-expert father (Sean Connery) from the Nazis who also covet the Grail for their own evil purposes.

From the start, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE simply doesn’t let go. Each scene is a riotous, action-packed sequence of stunts, explosions and fisticuffs. Harrison Ford is more comfortable in his third stab at Indy and Sean Connery is more than a match, playing against his usual macho self by becoming a bumbling, almost comic sidekick as Indy’s dad Henry. Special mention must also go to Denholm Elliott as Marcus Brody (this time given much more prominence) as well as Alison Doody as the love interest (remember her? Me neither). And given that this is written and directed by two of the biggest names in the business (Spielberg and Lucas), it is a stone-hearted curmudgeon who would argue that INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE is anything other than simply magnificent entertainment, and one that has not been seen on the big screen much, unlike RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, since it was made. Now you’ll have your chace to see INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE in all its big screen glory when it plays midnights this weekend (August 28^th and 29^th) at Landmark’s The Tivoli Theater as part of the Reel Late at The Tivoli Midnight series.

Admission is $8. Hope to see everyone this weekend at The Tivoli!

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130 = In ‘The Loop’

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Here’s the rest of the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for the next two weeks:

Sept. 4-5 SPIRITED AWAY

Sept. 11-12 HAROLD AND MAUDE

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Midnights This Weekend at The Moolah

“Well guys, we’ve made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers. “

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER screens midnights this weekend (August 28^th and 29^th) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER from 2001, is a comedy about summer camp, a spoof of movies about summer camp, a grab bag of random absurdity and a collection filmmakers and now-familiar actors hamming it up as hard as they can. It didn’t make much of a splash when it premiered 14 years ago (I don’t think it even played theatrically here in St. Louis, but I could be wrong about that), but it’s developed such a cult following over the past 14 years that Netflix has made a sequel series, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER – FIRST DAY OF CAMP.

It’s the last day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981 and pretty much every stock summer camp storyline is trotted out for derision and mockery in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER. There’s the love triangle between the geek camp counselor, the hot girl who treats him like her pet and the teen rebel she’s really hot for. There’s the desperate virgin counselor trying to make it with the camp slut. There’s the lonely, divorced arts-and-crafts teacher, the weird camp cook, the kids stuck on a raft approaching the raging rapids, the big talent show, the big game against the kids from the “evil camp” and the outcast kids who come together to save the day. There’s also a talking can of vegetables that boasts of his sexual prowess, a gay subplot that seems to have wandered in from another movie, the old space station Skylab, the worst motorcycle chase in film history, some generic 80s allusions and the charm of a bunch of people who clearly had a great time making this thing.

Filmmakers David Wain and Michael Showalter took a scattershot approach in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, throwing joke after joke against the wall to see what sticks. On one hand, they’ll do a running gag about the kid at camp who never takes a shower all summer, which could come from any number of traditional comedies about this subject. On the other hand, they’ll do a lot of parodies of summer camp movies, like having a kid actually drown while two 30-something teenage counselors French kiss with abandon (my personal favorite scene). They’ll just throw out some odd gag about something like Kenyan marathoners. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but the movie moves along quickly enough that when a joke bombs, the smell doesn’t linger.

As far as the acting goes, well, Marguerite Moreau as the camp hotty is the only one in the whole cast doing any real acting (and, ironically, the one whose post-WET HOT career went mostly nowhere) . Everyone else, including David Hyde Pierce as a college professor and Janeane Garofolo as the camp director, mug shamelessly for the camera. Again, that results in some moments that are funny as hell, like Paul Rudd’s portrayal of slothful adolescent defiance. But there are also moments that fail to make any sense, like Garafolo riffing on Jewish surnames, but it’s all so weird and off-the-wall, there’s never a dull moment. Also look for Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper.

Relive Summer Camp 1981 when WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER screens midnights this weekend (August 28^th and 29^th) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5

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The Moolah will also be screening all 8 episodes of the new Netflix prequel series, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, for FREE in the Mini-Moolah starting at 7pm both days. Come out early for the critically-acclaimed Netflix series and stay late for the original cult classic movie!

Local comedians will perform a brief stand-up set and host Wet Hot American Summer trivia before each night’s screening. Comedians Ryan Dalton & Milly Naeger will be performing on Friday night and Emily Hickner & Andrew Mihalevich will be performing on Saturday night.

Here’s The Moolah’s upcoming midnight schedule:

September 4th and 5th: GREASE (sing-along version)

September 24th and 26th: AFTER HOURS

October 9th and 10th: THE EVIL DEAD

October 20th, 23rd, and 24th: BACK TO THE FUTURE Part 2

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Katherine Heigl And Rosario Dawson Begin Filming Denise Di Novi’s UNFORGETTABLE

Principal photography is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures’ dramatic thriller UNFORGETTABLE, which is the first film in the director’s chair for veteran producer Denise Di Novi (“Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Focus”).

Katherine Heigl (KNOCKED UP, 27 DRESSES) and Rosario Dawson (SIN CITY films, Netflix’s DAREDEVIL series) star in the film. UNFORGETTABLE marks a reunion for Heigl and Di Novi, who previously collaborated on “Life as We Know It.”

Heigl stars as Tessa Connover, who is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David (Stults), becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks (Dawson) – not only bringing Julia into the home they once shared but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly (Isabella Rice). Trying to settle into her new role as a wife and a stepmother, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her put her own troubled past behind her. But Tessa’s jealousy soon takes a pathological turn until she will stop at nothing to turn Julia’s dream into her ultimate nightmare.

The main cast also includes Geoff Stults (TV’s “Zoo”), young actress Isabella Rice (“True Blood”), Simon Kassianides (TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Whitney Cummings (“The Wedding Ringer”), Robert Wisdom (TV’s “Chicago PD”) and film and television star Cheryl Ladd.

The film is being produced by Di Novi, Alison Greenspan (“If I Stay”) and Ravi D. Mehta (“Grudge Match”), from a screenplay by Christina Hodson.

The behind the scenes creative team is led by multiple Oscar-nominated director of photography Caleb Deschanel (“The Right Stuff,” “The Natural”), production designer Nelson Coates (“Flight”), editor Frédéric Thoraval (“Taken”), and costume designer Marian Toy (HBO’s “Ballers”).

UNFORGETTABLE will be lensed in and around the Los Angeles area and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber And Director Edward Zwick Talk PAWN SACRIFICE

Sit down with Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber and director Edward Zwick as they explore the genius behind the madness of American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer in a new featurette from Bleecker Street’s PAWN SACRIFICE.

In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.

“The political moment of confrontation between East and West is such an interesting and rich moment dramatically,” says Zwick. “The idea of this kid from Brooklyn going up against the great Soviet Bear was irresistible on so many levels. Then, it also deals with the odd and sometimes inevitable correspondence between genius and madness.”

The year 1972 was packed with watershed events across the globe, including the winding down of the war in Vietnam, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, the Watergate break-in and Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China. But it was an international event of a very different kind that dominated headlines that summer.

In Iceland, Bobby Fischer, America’s foremost chess player, faced the reigning champion, Boris Spassky of Russia, in a series of matches that held the world spellbound.

Around the world, people were captivated by a mano-a-mano fight between two masters of the so-called “game of kings.” Eastern European players dominated the chess scene, and Fischer unknowingly became an avatar for the United States and its Cold War battle for dominance with the Soviet Union.

PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Bobby Fischer’s pursuit of the chess world’s ultimate prize and the price he paid for his victory.

With a screenplay by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) and the score from James Newton Howard, PAWN SACRIFICE opens in select theaters on Wednesday, September 16th.

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Go On A Rescue Mission To HELL AND BACK In New Posters And Trailer

New posters and a NSFW trailer are here for HELL AND BACK.

In the outrageous R rated animated comedy from the Animation studio that brought you “Robot Chicken,” “Triptank” and “Bojack Horseman,” three friends embark on a wayward journey into the deepest, darkest depths of hell to rescue one of their own.

While navigating their escape, they provoke a slew of misfit demons, a super sexy angel, infamous Greek legends, and the Devil himself; Hell has never been hotter!

In the film, T.J. Miller plays a not-so-svelte guy named Augie who gets pulled into Hades along with his best friend Remy (stand-up comedian Nick Swardson). The thing is, this Hell is pretty hilarious, raunchy, and boasts an all-star cast that includes Mila Kunis as a devious demon who leads the two mortals on an odyssey through Satan’s inferno. Bob Odenkirk voices the devil, and Susan Sarandon plays his angel of desire.

With performances by Danny McBride, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Peña, and more, HELL AND BACK’s underworld serves up a virtual who’s who of the foul-mouthed.

When speaking with Yahoo! Movies, Miller equated the animated feature to his upcoming Marvel comic book movie. “Deadpool is another opportunity like this. This is a movie, it’s R-rated, and it’s in a space that isn’t usually R-rated… R-rated stop motion comedy: It just doesn’t happen.”

HELL AND BACK will open in theaters in October 2, 2015.

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Ed Skrein Gets Some Training In THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED Featurette

Watch the new featurette on the fight scenes for EuropaCorp’s upcoming movie, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED.

Hitting theaters on September 4, the film stars Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Radivoje Bukvic, Gabriella Wright, Anatole Taubman and Tatiana Pajkovic.

Frank Martin (played by newcomer Ed Skrein), a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life – or so he thinks – transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank’s father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend takes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century.

Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge.

From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy (Luc Besson) and directed by Camille Delamarre, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers.

THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED opens nationwide on September 4, 2015.

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Catch The Creepy Trailer For HELLIONS – Stars Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick

Just in time for the Halloween season, check out the trailer for HELLIONS.

Screening earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, the movie will show in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A teenager’s Halloween night turns into a terrifying fight to survive when trick-or-treaters from Hell show up at her doorstep.

After getting the unwelcome news that she’s pregnant, seventeen-year-old Dora (Chloe Rose) just wants to stay in on Halloween. But then a knock at the door delivers a gaggle of pint-sized demons after one thing: Dora’s baby.

Director Bruce McDonald (Zombie thriller Pontypool) unleashes a hallucinatory visual and auditory assault that propels Hellions to increasingly disturbing realms of terror. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) co-stars.

HELLIONS is Opening in Theaters, Digital and VOD Friday, September 18^th

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Watch The Spooky Trailer For THE WITCH

A24 Films has released the new, and disturbing, trailer for THE WITCH.

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the film screened in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

Variety’s Justin Chang wrote, “Writer-director Robert Eggers makes an impressive feature debut with this gripping historical horror-thriller.”

A colonial family leaves plantation life and attempts to reap their harvest on a fledgling farm at the edge of an imposing ancient New England forest.

Superstition and dread set in as food grows scarce, a family member goes missing, and the children’s play takes on a frenzied and menacing undercurrent. As they begin to turn on one another, the malevolent machinations of an ethereal presence from within the woods exacerbate the growing corruption of their own nature.

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson, THE WITCH opens in 2016.

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