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Win A Family 4-Pack Of Passes To See THE WIZARD OF OZ in 3D In St. Louis

Adapted from L. Frank Baum’s timeless children’s tale about a Kansas girl’s journey over the rainbow, The Wizard of Oz™ opened at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on August 15, 1939. The film was directed by Victor Fleming (who that same year directed Gone With the Wind), produced by Mervyn LeRoy, and scored by Herbert Stothart, with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. DOROTHY™ was portrayed by a 4’11” sixteen-year-old girl who quickly earned her reputation as “the world’s greatest entertainer”—the incomparable Judy Garland. Ray Bolger appeared as the SCARECROW™; Bert Lahr as the COWARDLY LION™, Jack Haley as the TIN MAN™. Frank Morgan was seen in six different roles, including that of the wonderful “Wizard of Oz™” himself.

The film was an overwhelmingly popular and critical success upon its initial release and repeated its ability to captivate audiences when M-G-M reissued the film in 1949 and 1955. The film made a new kind of history with its network television premiere in 1956 on CBS. Nearly 45 million people tuned in for this initial telecast, marking the beginning of an annual tradition. Ever since, The Wizard of Oz™ has been shown virtually annually on network (and then cable) television; its magical story and heartfelt performances have enabled it to grow from a perennial classic to its current status as a treasured icon of popular culture.

Marking the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz™, Warner Bros. has produced a 3D remastered version of the film which will launch a comprehensive, cross-divisional campaign encompassing theatrical, home entertainment, consumer products and a number of promotional partnerships.

The IMAX® release The Wizard of Oz™ will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX 3D Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images, coupled with IMAX®‘s customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio, create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.

The Wizard of Oz™ will return to the big screen for an exclusive one-week engagement in IMAX theatres across North America beginning September 20, 2013.

WAMG is giving families a chance to see it early on Sunday, September 15 at 10 AM in IMAX 3D. Enter below to win a family 4-pack of passes.

Instead of our usual cool contest, we want you to register to win using this link:

http://l.gofobo.us/jzvNbDFG

Drawing date is 9/12.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

The film is rated PG.

Check out the Wizard of Oz site and celebrate 75 years with all your favorite characters!

http://thewizardofoz.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheWizardOfOzMovie

NEIGHBORS Frat Party, Red-Band Trailer Stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron And Rose Byrne

Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of NEIGHBORS, a comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby. NEIGHBORS is directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek).

This frat party is definitely not one for the kiddies.

Produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, who had a huge hit this summer with THIS IS THE END, NEIGHBORS will be released by Universal Pictures in theaters May 9, 2014.

http://www.neighbors-movie.com/

https://www.facebook.com/NeighborsMovie

https://twitter.com/neighborsmovie #NeighborsMovie

http://neighborsmovie.tumblr.com/

First Poster And Title Revealed For Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION

By the looks of it, someone is going on a fossil dig. The title and teaser poster have been revealed for Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS 4.

Meet TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION.

Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, TJ Miller, Han Geng and Li Bingbing star in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. The film is written by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro’s Transformers™ Action Figures.

TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION will hit theaters June 27th, 2014.

OFFICIAL SITE: WWW.TRANSFORMERSMOVIE.COM

https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie

https://twitter.com/transformers #transformers4

Michael Bay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/S4TE

Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Jared Harris, Hugh Grant To Begin Filming Guy Ritchie’s THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. Sept. 9

Principal photography will begin on September 9 on Warner Bros. Pictures’ THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The film is the first to be made under filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s and producer Lionel Wigram’s new production shingle, Ritchie/Wigram Productions, which has a first-look deal with Warner Bros.

Having successfully re-imagined the classic detective Sherlock Holmes in two hit films, the pair now bring their fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series by bringing super spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin to the big screen. The original TV show starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum.

Henry Cavill (“Man of Steel”) stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”) as Illya Kuryakin, alongside stars Alicia Vikander (“Anna Karenina”), Elizabeth Debicki (“The Great Gatsby”), Jared Harris (“Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows”), and Hugh Grant (“Cloud Atlas”) as Waverly.

“Guy and I have long loved these characters, and wanted to start from scratch with our own take and create a film steeped in the 1960s for today’s audiences,” said Wigram. “We are particularly happy about our cast, who all bring something special to the film. Henry, Armie, Alicia and Elizabeth are among the best and most exciting actors of the next generation. In addition, we are thrilled to be working with Hugh Grant, who we have known and been fans of for many years, and Jared Harris, who did such a great job for us as Moriarty.”

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

The screenplay is written by Ritchie and Wigram, who also serve as producers. John Davis (“Chronicle”) and Steve Clark-Hall (“RocknRolla,” the “Sherlock Holmes” films) are also producing. David Dobkin is executive producer.

Ritchie’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes two-time Oscar-nominated director of photography John Mathieson (“Gladiator”), production designer Oliver Scholl (“Jumper”), editor James Herbert (the “Sherlock Holmes” films), Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston (“Lincoln”) and Oscar-winning key makeup and hair designer Sarah Monzani (“Quest for Fire,” upcoming “Edge of Tomorrow”).

Filming will take place in England, with location filming also in Italy, in Rome and Naples.

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 Screens at The Hi-Pointe Midnights this Weekend!

“Lick my plate, you dog dick!”

I remember being so excited about TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 in 1986 that I actually cut the ad out of the newspaper from the weekend before and taped it onto the dashboard of my car (if facebook had been around in those days, the ad would have been my profile pic). My father had taken me and three friends to see the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in 1974 for my 13th birthday and I had waited 12 years for the sequel. I recall being thrilled with Tom Savini’s gore effects but somewhat disappointed in how far less frightening it was than the original. I made the mistake of going into it expecting the first film. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 was more of an 80s cheese-fest, deliberately campy and entirely insane (the fact that the poster was a spoof of THE BREAKFAST CLUB should have tipped me off but even that went over my head at the time). TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 is a loud, gory, manic, satirical, over-the-top black comedy that is everything that people have claimed the original was, but wasn’t. If you look at this film as a satire of family values and Reganomics, it is wickedly funny and perversely ironic in its no-holds-barred attitude.

The same family of murderers and cannibals from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE returns for the sequel. They now live in an abandoned amusement park and are occasionally slaughtering victims for decoration/meat purposes. One of their murders (of two ’80s-style douchebags) is captured live on the radio by a late-night DJ (Caroline Williams). A police lieutenant who has been on the chainsaw massacre case (Dennis Hopper) hooks up with her in order to fish for the murderers. Despite the film’s general lack of acclaim, director Tobe Hooper has a lot to be proud of with this movie. It’s so gonzo nutzoid it’s hard not to love. I mean, come on: don’t tell me you couldn’t watch Dennis Hopper go nuts with a chainsaw. And you’ll have the chance this Friday and Saturday night (September 6th and 7th) when TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 is screens in all its gory glory in a 35mm print midnights at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Avenue) as part of Destroy the Brain’s Late Night Grindhouse midnight series. The pre-show begins at 11:30.

The Friday night Facebook Invite can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/158210887709680/

The Saturday night Facebook Invite can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/585091334870686/

The Destroy The Brain.com site can be found HERE

http://www.destroythebrain.com/

The Hi-Pointe Theater’s site can be found HERE

http://hi-pointetheatre.com/

Macaulay Culkin is HOME ALONE Midnights at the Tivoli This Weekend

“Keep the change you filthy animal”

HOME ALONE plays on the big screen at the Tivoli midnights this weekend as part of their ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ series. The 1990 comedy smash was John Hughes’s last significant contribution to pop culture. Hughes’s script was his usual dose of upper/middle-class discomfort combined with a Rube Goldberg meets Ferris Bueller selection of traps and low-brow cunning that held together better than a movie set at Christmas had any right to. And its young hero — the courageous home commando Kevin McAllister, played with gusto by the subsequently doomed Macaulay Culkin, is hilarious in his mission to protect his home from the “wet bandits” after being forgotten by his vacationing family.

What is best about HOME ALONE is its sense of fun. The plot really makes little sense. How does a family not notice they have an extra plane ticket or that a sibling is missing? Why would burglars break into a house where they can be identified? How can Joe Pesci get beat up relentlessly and not scream “Motherfucker!” once?

HOME ALONE is a great Christmas film, but since The Tivoli doesn’t run their Midnight series in the winter, this weekend, September 6th, and 7th, will have to do.

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

And here’s the ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ midnight line-up for the next few weeks:

Sept. 13-14   FIGHT CLUB
Sept. 20-21 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
Sept. 27-28 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD With live shadow cast!
Oct. 4-5        PSYCHO
Oct. 11-12     DONNIE DARKO (original version)

Check Out The New Clips & Red Carpet Premiere Photos From Ron Howard’s RUSH

The race was on in London, England on Monday as drivers and stars arrived at the world premiere for director Ron Howard’s RUSH. Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde and Ron Howard walked the red carpet at Odeon Leicester Square prior to the film’s debut in the UK on Friday, September 13.

Jenson Button and Sergio Perez went head-to-head as they arrived in two championship winning McLaren F1 cars.

Chris Hemsworth.

Olivia Wilde.

World premiere red carpet.

Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.

Ron Howard (L) and wife Cheryl Howard attend the World Premiere of ‘Rush’ at Odeon Leicester Square on September 2, 2013 in London, England.

Here’s the latest scenes from the film.

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost Nixon) directs the big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s Formula One rivalry between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl).

Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Lauda.

Taking us into their personal lives on and off the track, Rush follows the two drivers as they push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error. If you make one mistake, you die.

RUSH opens to exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, September 20, 2013, and the film will go wide in the US on Friday, September 27.

Visit the film’s website http://www.rushmovie.com/

Like it on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rushmovie

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rushthemovie

SALINGER Documentary Met With Positive Reactions At Telluride Film Festival

J.D. Salinger, left, after the Normandy invasion with his fellow counterintelligence officers. The group called itself ‘The Four Musketeers.’ Photo Courtesy of the Weinstein Company

The SALINGER documentary made it’s world premiere today at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and was met with positive responses by the critics in attendance. Filmmaker Ken Burns called the film “extraordinary” during the q&a following the screening.

For more than fifty years, J.D. Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by lack of access and the recycling of inaccurate information. Thus, Salinger has largely remained an enigma to the public and media alike.

During the nine years in which SALINGER was in production – including the six years while the project was being shot under wraps – filmmaker Shane Salerno interviewed hundreds of people the world over, many of whom had previously declined to go on the record about their relationship with the iconic author.

Reactions via Twitter after the Telluride showing.

Anne Thompson (Thompson on Hollywood)

The most exciting reveal in Salinger doc is the list of books to be published between 2015 and 2020. Including Glass & Caulfield chronicles.

— Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) September 2, 2013

Review: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/telluride-review-salinger-surprise-preview-and-q-a

Sasha Stone (Awards Daily)

Salinger is an incredibly beautifully made doc about a man with clear and permanent damage from WWII. Deep. Sad. A must see. — Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) September 2, 2013

Review: http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/telluride-review-salinger/

Tomris Laffly (Popcorn Business)

Salinger: will be open to snark, and will be perceived as exploitative. One thing you can’t argue- it is meticulously made. #TFF40

— Tomris Laffly (@TomiLaffly) September 2, 2013

Salerno’s much speculated-upon documentary, which has made front page news since 2010, offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger’s World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were unknown even to his own family. Providing unparalleled access to never-before-published photographs, diaries, letters, legal records, and documents, the highly anticipated SALINGER paints a definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century.

Particularly illuminating the last fifty-six years of the writer’s life—a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers— Salerno has, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall.

Salinger during the liberation of Paris in 1944. Photo Courtesy of the Weinstein Company.

SALINGER features interviews with 150 subjects including Salinger’s friends and colleagues who have never spoken on the record before as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Additionally, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, John Guare, Martin Sheen, David Milch, Robert Towne, Tom Wolfe, E.L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal and Pulitzer Prize winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank talk about Salinger’s influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.

The film will be in select theaters September 6th.

Visit www.salingerfilm.com to discover WHAT HAPPENED TO J.D. SALINGER.

https://twitter.com/SecretSalinger

Charlie Hunnam And Dakota Johnson To Star In Universal Pictures’ and Focus Features’ FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

Charlie Hunnam will star as Christian Grey, the lead male character in Universal Pictures and Focus Features’ highly anticipated film adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” it was announced today. He joins Dakota Johnson, who will star opposite him as Anastasia Steele.

The film, which will be released by Focus Features on August 1, 2014 in North America, is being directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and produced by Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti alongside E L James, the author of the #1 bestselling book on which the film is based. The screenplay is by Kelly Marcel.

The announcement about Mr. Hunnam’s and Ms. Johnson’s casting in Fifty Shades of Grey was made today by Ms. James (https://twitter.com/E_L_James).

Mr. Hunnam currently stars as a regular on the critically acclaimed FX series Sons of Anarchy. His feature film credits include Pacific Rim, Children of Men, Cold Mountain, and Nicholas Nickleby.

Ms. Johnson’s first notable screen role was in the multi-Academy Award-winning 2010 feature The Social Network, on which Mr. De Luca and Mr. Brunetti were producers. Her subsequent movies include the upcoming feature Need for Speed, 21 Jump Street, and Universal Pictures’ The Five-Year Engagement. She also starred as Kate in the Fox Network comedy series Ben and Kate,which aired during the 2012-2013 season. Ms. Johnson is currently shooting the feature film Cymbeline.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” has become a global phenomenon and the trilogy has been translated in 50 languages worldwide since itsrelease. To date, the “Fifty Shades” trilogy has sold over 70 millioncopies worldwide in e-book and print, making it one of the fastest-selling bookseries ever.

Universal and Focus acquired the rights to the threebooks in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy in March 2012. Focus Features will market and distribute the first film in partnership with Universal.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” follows the relationship of 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey and college student Anastasia Steele. Subsequent novels in the series, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “FiftyShades Freed,” explore the couple’s deepening relationship.

For more information visit the official Fifty Shades of Grey Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/fiftyshadesofgreymovie.

Go BACK TO SCHOOL Thursday Night at Schlafly Bottleworks with Rodney Dangerfield

“Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes.”

BACK TO SCHOOL is screening at 7pm this Thursday, September 5th at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser for Helping Kids Together

BACK TO SCHOOL (1986) features Rodney Dangerfield in lovably crass form as Thornton Melon, a motormouth millionaire who enrolls in college to watch over his downtrodden son. He has the money, he has the confidence, but mostly he has the best lines:

“What lovely girls. How would you like a life of luxury and deceit?”

“We were doomed from the start. I’m an Earth sign. She’s a Water sign. Together, we made mud.”

“With the shape I’m in you could donate my body to science fiction.”

“Poetry is your favorite subject? Maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow.”

In the age before cell phones, texting, internet, and a bunch of fat kids staying inside all day and night playing on the computer, we had one of the great American comedies: BACK TO SCHOOL. In what was perhaps Rodney Dangerfield’s last great moment, this film was a big hit that featured several notable stars including Ned Beatty, Robert Downey, Jr. the late Sam Kinison, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Terry Farrell, and Paxton Whitehead, who steals the film and is great playing the uptight professor. Of course, the premise of a guy who never finished high school and goes to college with his son is preposterous and silly, but that doesn’t detract from a comedy which has gotten funnier with age. If you’re interested in 80’s time capsules, skip the John Hughes fluff, and go straight to Rodney’s class and have a party with him.

And if you never attended a party where Oingo Bongo was playing, you have your chance this Thursday at 7pm Thursday, September 5th. The location is Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm.

$6 suggested for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. Jimmie the bartender will be on hand to take care of you.

“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.

The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.

We hope to see everyone this Thursday night!

THE FACEBOOK Invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/650782261608229/

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