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Focus Features International Locks Deals On AMY WINEHOUSE Doc, Mike Leigh’s TURNER Pic, Kevin Macdonald’s BLACK SEA, OCULUS Thriller

Alison Thompson, co-president of Focus Features International (FFI), announced multi-territory sales on director Asif Kapadia’s (Senna, The Warrior) untitled documentary on five-time Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse. FFI also saw strong sales on seven-time Academy Award-nominated writer/director Mike Leigh‘s (Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies) J.M.W. Turner film, which stars Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets & Lies).

FFI has secured the following territories and respective distributors on behalf of Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary: France – Mars Films; Germany – Prokino; Benelux – Cineart; Greece – Odeon; Iceland – Sena; Israel – Lev Cinema; Middle East – Italia Film; Portugal – Lusomundo Audiovisuals; Turkey – D Productions; Hong Kong – Edko Films; India – PVR Limited; Singapore – Shaw Renters; Thailand – IPA Pacific; Australia/NZ – eOne; and South Africa – Ster-Kinekor. Focus Features International is currently fielding multiple offers for the UK, CIS, and Italy.

The untitled Amy Winehouse documentary is produced by James Gay-Rees (Senna, Exit Through the Gift Shop) through Playmaker Films, Gay-Rees and Kapadia’s new production entity and co-produced by Universal Music. Gay-Rees and Kapadia collaborated on the acclaimed documentary Senna, which won numerous awards including BAFTA Awards for Best Documentary and Editing in 2012.

For Mike Leigh’s latest, FFI has secured the following territories and respective distributors: Benelux – eOne; Greece – Odeon; Iceland – Sena; Israel – Lev Cinema; Portugal – Lusomundo Audiovisuals; Scandinavia – Svensk Filmindustri; Switzerland – Monopole Pathe; India – PVR Limited; Singapore – Shaw Renters; Thailand – IPA Pacific; Australia/NZ – Transmission Films; and South Africa – Ster-Kinekor. Previously announced partners who will distribute the film in their respective territories include France’s Diaphna; Germany’s Prokino and UK’s Momentum. Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights for North America, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

The J.M.W. Turner project is produced by Georgina Lowe (Another Year) and executive-produced by Gail Egan (Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy, Another Year). Production partners on the film include Film4, British Film Institute, Focus Features International, Lipsync, and Ingenious (Xofa Productions). The project marks the second collaboration between Mike Leigh and FFI, following the critically acclaimed release of Another Year, for which FFI also handled worldwide sales and co-financed.

Further to previously announced sales, Focus Features International has also closed Italy with Notorious for Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s (Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) heist thriller Black Sea, starring two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Anna Karenina), as well as Germany with Square One Entertainment for the psychological thriller Oculus, directed by Mike Flanagan.

The FFI slate also includes the true-life dramatic thriller Kill the Messenger, to be directed by Michael Cuesta and star Jeremy Renner; Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, starring Alec Baldwin and Cate Blanchett; Closed Circuit, the suspense thriller directed by John Crowley and starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall; and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ruairi Robinson’s thriller The Last Days on Mars starring Liev Schreiber, Olivia Williams, and Romola Garai, which world-premiered at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight

Win Passes To The Advance Screening Of MAN OF STEEL In St. Louis

In MAN OF STEEL, a young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Zack Snyder directed MAN OF STEEL from a screenplay by David S. Goyer from a story by Goyer & Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Entertainment. Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder are the producers, with Thomas Tull, Lloyd Phillips and Jon Peters serving as executive producers.

The film stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni and Russell Crowe.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a Zack Snyder Film, MAN OF STEEL. The film will be released in 3D and 2D in select theaters and IMAX®, and is slated for release on June 14, 2013. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Enter for your chance to receive a pair of passes to a special 3D advance screening of MAN OF STEEL on June 11th at 7:00 PM in St. Louis.

Answer the following question:

Name the actors who played Jor-El, Lois Lane and General Zod in SUPERMAN (1978).

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1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. SEND YOUR NAME AND ANSWERS TO: michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com

3. YOU MUST SUBMIT THE CORRECT ANSWER TO OUR TRIVIA QUESTION ABOVE TO WIN.

No purchase necessary. Void where restricted or prohibited by law. At the screening seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Refer to screening pass for further restrictions. Screening pass winners will be drawn at random and notified via email. Limit two (admit-one) passes per person. Must be age 13 or over to enter.

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This film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language.

Win Passes To The Advance Screening Of THIS IS THE END In St. Louis

The comedy THIS IS THE END follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

THIS IS THE END stars James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, with Michael Cera and Emma Watson nude. Directed by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, THIS IS THE END will be in theaters June 12.

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Columbia Pictures and WAMG invite you to enter to win a pass (good for 2) to the advance screening of THIS IS THE END on June 10th at 7:00 PM in St. Louis.

Answer the following question:

In THIS IS THE END, six friends – who just happen to be James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson – are trapped in Franco’s house as the end of the world begins outside. And we’re not talking about any old California-slides-into-the-ocean earthquake… we’re talking the fire-and-brimstone Apocalypse – the real Biblical deal.

What famous person would you want to be stuck in a house with at the end of the world?

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1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. SEND YOUR NAME AND ANSWERS TO: michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com

3. YOU MUST SUBMIT THE CORRECT ANSWER TO OUR TRIVIA QUESTION ABOVE TO WIN.

4. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED. DUPLICATE TICKETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

THIS IS THE END has been rated R by the MPAA for CRUDE AND SEXUAL CONTENT THROUGHOUT, BRIEF GRAPHIC NUDITY, PERVASIVE LANGUAGE, DRUG USE AND SOME VIOLENCE.

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ROMAN HOLIDAY – This Saturday at the Hi-Pointe – Classic Film Series

“Joe, we can’t go running around town with a hot princess!”

ROMAN HOLIDAY and BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS are the quintessential Audrey Hepburn movies. If you think Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, and Kate Winslet are the essence of Hollywood beauty but have never seen Audrey Hepurn, you are missing out on one of the greatest of screen icons. You’ll have your chance to bask in the glory that is Ms Hepburn this weekend when ROMAN HOLIDAY plays at the best place to see it -St. Louis’ classic movie theater: The Hi-Pointe (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117) It’s part of their Classic Film Series and screens Saturday, June 8th at 10:30am. Admission is only FIVE BUCKS!

The premise of ROMAN HOLIDAY is a bit of a Hollywood contrivance, but the dialog and the acting save it from becoming corny. It is Cinderella in reverse. The essential plot concerns Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess from a “nameless” European country. (Even one supporting character reaffirms that the country will remain nameless.) She is bored with her overly protected life which is so highly structured and ceremonial that even when she inadvertently loses her shoe during a high-class engagement, retrieving it becomes an act of refined etiquette. She is in Rome, one stop on a European tour with her entourage of dignitaries, and residing at her country’s embassy. Anxious to leave, if only for a moment, the gilded cage of her life of royal life, she sneaks out of the embassy and enters the heart of Rome via a food truck. Later she ends up drunk and unconscious on a Roman sidewalk. And guess who should happen by but Gregory Peck as Joe Bradley, second-rate American reporter who would like nothing more than to get the scoop of the century and hop back to the New York press scene. But of course he doesn’t know who she is. Being a good Samaritan (and the fact that a drunk Audrey Hepburn is laying there), he rescues her from the streets and brings her into his studio apartment. There is no question that this movie is rather schmaltzy by 21st-century standards. The story is a fantasy-comedy, but the writing and the acting which never lapses into too much sentimentality save the film, which could have been much sillier and much more syrupy. The sobering ending makes the film much better than it could have been. And of course Audrey Hepburn who essentially made her major screen debut steals the show and would go on to win the Oscar the year.

The Hi-Pointe’s website is HERE

http://hi-pointetheatre.com/

Q-FEST ST. LOUIS – The Gay Film Festival Starts Thursday

I’m super-excited about this year’s Q-Fest….and I’m not even gay!

There are a pair of must-see gay-themed films making their St. Louis debuts; I AM DIVINE, a documentary about the late crossdresser and John Waters frequent star, and James Franco’s INTERIOR LEATHER BAR, a high-concept recreation of scenes that were cut from William Friedkin’s notorious 1980 gay serial killer movie CRUISING. Divine was one of the biggest, most outrageous, and proudly different gay cultural icons the world has known and the new documentary about the performer I AM DIVINE plays at Q-FEST this Friday night at 7pm. A high (or low) point in Divine’s career was John Waters 1972’s masterpiece PINK FLAMINGOS where he/she competes for the title of “filthiest person alive” by eating fresh dog poop. With antics like that, it’s no surprise that the emerging punk scene adopted his visage on t-shirts. I AM DIVINE will be preceded by the short LAST KISS by Chuck Lum, a brief elegy honoring the memory and tomb of Oscar Wilde. Chuck is an old buddy of mine and helped out with Vincentennial two years ago by going to Elizabeth Shepard’s apartment (she starred with Vincent Price in TOMB OF LIGEIA) and filming a wonderful testimonial by her about working with Vincent Price. This is the first of Chuck’s films to be shown at Q-Fest and I’m glad they’re showing it with the Divine documentary because that will draw a big crowd.

INTERIOR LEATHER BAR plays afterwards at 9pm but requires a separate admission.

And those two aren’t even the films opening the sixth annual edition Q-Fest!

The Cinema St. Louis event will be held Thursday, June 6 – Sunday, June 9, 2013, in the Winifred Moore Auditorium at Webster University. QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the diversity and inherent complexities of living an alternative lifestyle in today’s society. This year’s event will feature an eclectic slate of contemporary LGBTQ-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Contact artistic director Chris Clark for additional details, questions, and the mega cool perks of sponsoring the event or a QFest film: chris@cinemastlouis.org or 314.289.4152.
Tickets
All screenings will be held at the Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, 470 E. Lockwood Ave. in Webster Groves. Individual tickets are $12 general admission, $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs, and free for Webster U. students. Advance tickets will be available through Brown Paper Tickets (search for QFest St. Louis). For more information, call 314.289.4152.

a printable .pdf of the entire event can be downloaded HERE

http://www.cinemastlouis.org/sites/default/files/downloads/2013/2013_QFEST_PROGRAM.pdf

The Cinema St. Louis page can be found HERE

http://www.cinemastlouis.org/qfest

Opening Night: Thursday June 6th:

Married & Counting
Allan Piper
United States
2012, 93 min.
Show Times
Thu, Jun 6th at 7:00pm
Webster U./Moore
A same-sex couple celebrates their 25th anniversary by traveling the country to marry in every state that will legally let them. Along the way they find acceptance from strangers, rejection from loved ones, and discover that no distance is too far to go to declare that their marriage counts. Narrated by George Takei, Time Magazine calls the film “Equal parts love story and political protest”
Director Allan Piper, plus subjects Pat Dwyer and Stephen Mosher will attend. Immediately following the screening will be a wedding reception at Cravings.

Carla
Eli Hershko
United States
2012, 80 min.
Show Times
Thu, Jun 6th at 9:00pm
Webster U./Moore
While Carla, a male-to-female pre-op transsexual, contemplates on how to come up with the cash needed to complete her transition and is faced with the hardship of being dejected from her family she meets Sam, a regular great guy who likes her the way she is. But when Carla suddenly gets the cash needed for her various surgeries, Sam has second thoughts about their relationship. Now Carla is faced with the tough dilemma, if she transitions she loses Sam and if she doesn’t she may just lose herself.
Actress Joslyn Defreece, who plays Carla, will attend.
Sponsored by:
Tim Brennan and Cravings

Friday night June 7th:

I Am Divine
Jeffrey Schwarz
United States
2013, 85 min.
Show Times
Fri, Jun 7th at 7:00pm
Webster U./Moore

I AM DIVINE is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker John Waters. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine was the ultimate outsider turned underground royalty. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture. This definitive biographical portrait charts the legendary icon’s rise to infamy and emotional complexities.

Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco & Travis Mathews
2013, 60 min.
Show Times
Fri, Jun 7th at 9:00pm
Webster U./Moore
The controversial 1980 film “Cruising,” which explored (or exploited) the S&M gay subculture, was forced by the MPAA to cut 40 minutes of sexually explicit material. Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine what might have transpired in those lost scenes in this intriguing film. The result is a provocative film about the importance of the radical and transgressive in society and the value of engaging with things that scare us. The films grapples with the need to challenge normalcy, the interplay of celebrity and experimentation, and the dilemma faced by actors struggling to reconcile who they are in life with who they portray on screen.

Parking may be a challenge Friday night due to the annual Webster Groves Art & Air Festival taking place all weekend across the street on the campus of Eden Seminary. Please allow extra time for parking and walking a little further to Webster U. and Moore Auditorium, which is in Webster Hall right across the street from Eden and the festival. Look for the castle-like structure in the middle of the circular drive in the northernmost face of the campus on Lockwood. The main doors lead directly to the theater. This will be an awesome St. Louis summer weekend, so please come early to enjoy this wonderful outdoor event before coming to QFest.

Check back here at We Are Movie Geeks for more coverage of the 6th annual Q-Fest St. Louis!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie At WORLD WAR Z London Premiere – Photos And Videos

Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International

One of this summer’s biggest movies, WORLD WAR Z, had it’s world premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Sunday. The film’s star Brad Pitt, along with his radiant fiancee, actress Angelina Jolie, were there and looked fabulous all dressed in black.

The couple were all smiles posing for the photographers while chatting and signing autographs for the fans.

Photo by Dave M. Benett/WireImage for Paramount

Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International

Photo by Dave M. Benett/WireImage for Paramount.

Actor Idris Elba also attended the premiere.

Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International / (L-R) Dominic Howard, Matthew Bellamy and Chris Wolstenholme of Muse.

Following the Global Premiere of WORLD WAR Z, the British Rock band Muse performed live from Horse Guards Parade Grounds, St. James’ Park.

Muse ended the night with an epic encore performance of ‘Time is Running Out’.

Huge crowds gathered for the special live performance.

Brad Pitt at Horse Guards Parade Grounds, St. James’ Park in London.

Brad Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt / Photo by Lucian Capellaro/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International

(L to R) Brad Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie / Photo by Dave M. Benett/WireImage for Paramount.

The Sun

Co-star Mireille Enos and castmate Daniella Kertesz looked stunning in their white gowns and were joined by director Marc Forster on the “black” carpet for the premiere.

WORLD WAR Z opens in US theaters June 21st.

Photo by Dave M. Benett/WireImage for Paramount

Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International

“Five years ago, I knew nothing about zombies. Now, I consider myself an expert,” recalls Pitt. “Max Brooks’ book treats the zombie genre as a global pandemic, spreading much like we’ve witnessed viruses such as SARS travel. What happens when this jumps the fire break…what happens when everything we concern our days with is rendered useless? What happens when power structures and societal norms are obliterated? How will we survive?”

Director Marc Forster / Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International.

“There are certain classic zombie elements that we brought along, but their movements and motivations will be different,” Forster says. Specifically, filmmakers based their behavior on the “swarm theory,” a pattern of movement seen in nature that he underscored even before these quite unnatural creatures appeared on screen.

“It’s the way flocks of birds or fish or ants move together. There is almost a ‘swarm intelligence’ to it. I thought it would be interesting to see these zombies, who have no intellect since they are walking dead, react in this swarm mentality. There is not a real direction because the zombies are the undead. But as a whole, there is an unconscious consciousness.” The filmmakers drew on many influences, from insects to police attack dogs to Javier Bardem’s performance in ‘No Country for Old Men.’

On an ordinary day, Gerry Lane and his family find their quiet drive interrupted by urban gridlock. An ex-UN investigator, Lane senses that this is no ordinary traffic jam. As police helicopters buzz the sky and motorcycle cops careen wildly below, the city erupts into chaos.

Something is causing hordes of people to viciously attack each other – a lethal virus that is spread through a single bite, turning healthy humans into something unrecognizable, unthinking and feral. Neighbor turns on neighbor; a helpful stranger suddenly becomes a dangerous enemy. The origins of the virus are unknown, and the number of infected grows exponentially larger each day, quickly becoming a global pandemic. As the infected overwhelm the world’s armies and rapidly topple its governments, Lane is forced to return to his dangerous former life to insure the safety of his family, leading a desperate worldwide search for the source of the epidemic and a means to stop its relentless spread.

WORLD WAR Z is based on the novel by Max Brooks with the screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof, and screen story by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski.

The film stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Daniella Kertesz, Matthew Fox, Fana Mokoena, Ludi Boeken and David Morse.

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PG-13 for intense frightening zombie sequences, violence and disturbing images

Director/Executive Producer Marc Forster (center) discusses a scene with Brad Pitt (who Produces and plays Gerry Lane, left) and Mireille Enos (who plays Karin, right) on the set of WORLD WAR Z, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films.

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Introducing Hound From TRANSFORMERS 4

Photo Credit: Andrew Cooper

How about one more vehicle from TRANSFORMERS 4 to end the week with? Ever since production began on the film on Tuesday, Michael Bay has been showing off the latest fleet of Autobots. Meet Hound.

The always rugged and reliable Hound, one of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles from Oshkosh Defense.

Get a load of the rest.

Bumblebee as a highly modified, vintage 1967 Camaro SS.

Check out the completely upgraded, custom-built Optimus Prime from Western Star (a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America) plus two completely new characters: a special race-inspired C7 Corvette Stingray, based on Chevrolet’s upcoming 2014 production car and a classy 1,200-horsepower Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse worth more than $2.4 million! That’s just a taste of what’s in store for Transformers fans.

As guests of the Navajo Nation, we took a convoy of brand new, re-envisioned and remodeled Autobots out for a spin down Highway 163 in Monument Valley near the border of Arizona and Utah.

– Michael Bay

Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Li Bingbing and Sophia Myles star in the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline.

Shooting this summer in multiple locations in the U.S. and China, the film is directed by Bay and re-unites the filmmaking team from the hit franchise, including producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy & Tom DeSanto and Ian Bryce; and executive producers Steven Spielberg, Bay, Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian. TRANSFORMERS 4 is written by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro’s Transformers™ Action Figures.

Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 27th, 2014.

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Win Passes To The Advance Screening Of THE KINGS OF SUMMER In St. Louis

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends – Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias) – who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family – whether it is the one you’re born into or the one you create – is something you can’t run away from. This is director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ feature debut.

THE KINGS OF SUMMER stars Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Erin Moriarty, Marc Evan Jackson, Thomas Middleditch and Tony Hale.

The film is in select cities now and opens in St. Louis Friday, June 7th.

CBS Films and WAMG invite you to enter to win a pass (good for 2) to the advance screening of THE KINGS OF SUMMER on Monday, June 3rd at 7:00 PM in St. Louis.

Answer the following question:

Tell us your favorite Teen film.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. SEND YOUR NAME AND ANSWERS TO: michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com

3. YOU MUST SUBMIT THE CORRECT ANSWER TO OUR TRIVIA QUESTION ABOVE TO WIN.

4. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED. DUPLICATE TICKETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

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THE KINGS OF SUMMER has been rated R for language and some teen drinking.

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Seen The Latest MAN OF STEEL TV Spots? Listen To Hans Zimmer’s Score

If you haven’t seen the new spots for MAN OF STEEL, search no further. In one of WAMG’s most anticipated movies of 2013, General Zod, Lois Lane, Jonathan Kent and Jor-El are featured in these emotional, action fueled TV ads. First listen to a clip from Hans Zimmer’s score.

Check out the 75th Superman logo HERE.

Be on the lookout next week for our special advance screening contest to see MAN OF STEEL early!

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes MAN OF STEEL, starring Henry Cavill in the role of Clark Kent/Kal-El under the direction of Zack Snyder.

The film also stars four-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Master”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”).

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue (upcoming “The Seventh Son”). Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer (“Angels and Demons”), and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”).

Zack Snyder directed MAN OF STEEL from a screenplay by David S. Goyer from a story by Goyer & Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Entertainment. Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder are the producers, with Thomas Tull, Lloyd Phillips and Jon Peters serving as executive producers.

MAN OF STEEL will be presented in 3D in select theaters, as well as in 2D and IMAX® on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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This film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language.

Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. Launching HARBINGER DOWN Kickstarter Campaign

Academy Award-winning Visual Effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., co-founders of Studio ADI (Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.) have launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring their science fiction/horror film celebrating animatronics and makeup FX, “Harbinger Down,” to the silver screen. Gillis and Woodruff hope fans are excited to help not only make a new horror classic, but also to uplift an art form. The filmmakers’ goal is to raise $350,000 from fan support via the Kickstarter campaign by June 7, 2013 to get the project off the ground.

HARBINGER DOWN, set to star notable sci-fi and horror film actor Lance Henriksen, depicts a group of grad students who have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship’s crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things quickly become deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. After being locked in ice for three decades, the creatures aren’t about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

“Animatronics and Makeup FX have been utilized less frequently in recent films, but this is not because of audience disinterest,” announced Gillis, who will write and direct the film. “In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronics and Makeup Effects. Fans of the art of Animatronics and Makeup FX know this technique is currently overlooked by the big studios; I’m hoping the fans will help us remedy that by supporting this labor of love.”

“Our company, Amalgamated Dynamics, will create the kind of Oscar caliber Creature Effects for which we are known,” commented Woodruff, who will produce, along with Studio ADI’s Jennifer Tung. “Traditional techniques still have a place in modern genre films. We didn’t give up painting, when cameras were invented.”

Gillis and Woodruff have over 60 years of experience between them and have worked with many top filmmakers, including James Cameron, David Fincher, Paul Verhoeven, Ridley Scott, Neill Blomkamp, Robert Zemeckis, Joe Johnston, Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols just to name a few. The filmmakers are utilizing Kickstarter to ask supporters of “old-school” visual effects to give them the opportunity to show it.

Contributors to the Harbinger Down Kickstarter Campaign will receive unique, amazing, thrilling, one-of-a-kind incentives for supporting the project.

More details about the project can be found on the Harbinger Down Kickstarter website: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1117671683/harbinger-down-a-practical-creature-fx-film

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