THE OSIRIS CHILD: SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME ONE will be available on Blu-ray/DVD Combo and DVD December 5th
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When a dangerous outbreak threatens to destroy everyone living on a newly colonized planet, Lt. Kane Sommerville (Daniel MacPherson) goes against orders and leaves his station to rescue his young daughter (Teagan Croft). Desperate to get to her before it’s too late, Kane enlists the help of an escaped prisoner (Kellan Lutz) as they battle their way through the chaos of a planet on the verge of annihilation. With the odds stacked against them, saving his little girl may be humanity’s last chance at survival.
Starring Kellan Lutz (Expendables 3, The Twilight Saga, HBO’s “The Comeback”), Daniel MacPherson(Infini, Shannara Chronicles, The Cup), Isabel Lucas(Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Knight of Cups) and Rachel Griffiths(Hacksaw Ridge, “Six Feet Under”) , the film is directed by Shane Abbess (Infini, Gabriel) who co-wrote the script with Brian Cachia (Infini).
THE OSIRIS CHILD: SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME ONE will be available on Blu-ray December 5th
When a dangerous outbreak threatens to destroy everyone living on a newly colonized planet, Lt. Kane Sommerville (Daniel MacPherson) goes against orders and leaves his station to rescue his young daughter (Teagan Croft). Desperate to get to her before it’s too late, Kane enlists the help of an escaped prisoner (Kellan Lutz) as they battle their way through the chaos of a planet on the verge of annihilation. With the odds stacked against them, saving his little girl may be humanity’s last chance at survival.
Starring Kellan Lutz (Expendables 3, The Twilight Saga, HBO’s “The Comeback”), Daniel MacPherson(Infini, Shannara Chronicles, The Cup), Isabel Lucas(Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Knight of Cups) and Rachel Griffiths(Hacksaw Ridge, “Six Feet Under”) , the film is directed by Shane Abbess (Infini, Gabriel) who co-wrote the script with Brian Cachia (Infini).
Watch the new trailer for Lionsgate Premiere’s upcoming thriller EXTRACTION. Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz & Gina Carano star in director Steven C. Miller’s high-stakes adventure about a family who takes on a nationwide threat.
When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), his son Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz), a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation.
While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test in a high stakes mission to find his father and to stop a terrorist plot.
EXTRACTION hits theaters & On-Demand December 18th.
If you were asked to participate in a behavioral science study, and got paid for it, and the study involved torturing and possibly killing another human being, would you see the study through to its end? Would you continue to administer electric shocks to a complete stranger, a person who has already said they have a heart condition?
Now, you cannot see the other person, as you administer the electric shocks from another room, but you can hear them beg for mercy, hear them ask to stop the experiment, and then finally grow silent, possibly unconscious or maybe even dead.
Would you continue the experiment? Especially if there were an ”authority figure” wearing a gray lab coat who insisted that you had to continue the experiment, no matter what. Especially that you had to continue even if you thought you were killing the other test subject, another human being.
Most people would say no, most people if asked straight up if they would do such a thing would claim they could not consider it. Yet, a series of tests administered by Stanley Milgram in 1961 proved that most people will go ahead and give what they think are ever increasing electric shocks to a perfect stranger, if someone in authority tells them they have to.
EXPERIMENTER tells the fascinating story of how Milgram came to run these tests and the fire storm of controversy they created, shock waves from which are still being felt to this day.
I can recall taking a class in psychiatry at Jefferson Junior College in Hillsboro, Missouri in the early 80s and reading about Milgram’s experiments. Many in the fields of psychiatry, psychology and sociology were quick to denounce Milgram’s tests and what they seemed to prove. That people can be ordered to do anything, as long as someone in authority gives them the go ahead.
Milgram’s experiments were not created in a political vacuum. World War II was still recent news in 1961. Milgram was Jewish, his parents were both lucky enough to leave Europe before the Nazi’s came to power and started the Holocaust which cost the lives of 9 million people, most of them Jewish.
Milgram’s primary focus was “why would otherwise sane, rational, moral people participate in mass murder ?” Milgram and his team of researchers were shocked and saddened to see that most people, against their own moral code and conscience, if told to do so would go ahead and keep administering the electric shocks to an unseen but heard victim. The cries for help were tape recorded by the way, no one was ever really shocked in these experiments.
EXPERIMENTER is quite simply an astonishing movie with a message that really needs to be seen by every man, woman and child on this planet. The Nazi Holocaust was just one incident of mass murder that continues to happen all over our world. People in every nation on Earth have proven over and over that they will pull the trigger on innocent people, if someone in “Authority” tells them they are obligated to do so. Milgram’s research was denounced because the truth hurts.
Peter Sarsgaard gives an incredible performance, somewhat similar to Oscar Issac in A Most Violent Year. Milgram speaks in well modulated, precise sentences. He appears to be what he is, a well educated, thoughtful academic committed to his research and insistent on telling his results to the world.
Winona Ryder (and how nice to see her in a lead performance again) is very good as Milgram’s wife but the script really doesn’t give her much to do except be a dutiful wife defending her husband’s work.
We see how even in the 60s the media would pounce on any new “scandal” and distort the original intent of a new piece of work. Milgram appeared on Dick Cavett, among other talk shows. His research was dramatized on television. He was both denounced and praised. He and his team conducted other tests, most notably a test involving letters left on car windshields that needed to be mailed, to a fictitious person, to test how honest people might be.
His own students did not believe him the day he announced that President John Kennedy had been shot; they assumed it was another test.
EXPERIMENTER was filmed in a highly stylized manner. Most of the sets are not only obviously sets but some appear to be painted flats only, much like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, only minus the expressionist styles. In the driving scenes old fashioned rear projection is used, highlighting the unreality of the film itself. In a couple of scenes we even, literally, see “the elephant in the room.” Of course none of the characters take note.
I have written of this before, Experimenter is the kind of movie that deserves a wide audience; it needs to be exhibited in theaters. But I doubt that it will, it is not a blockbuster type of film, EXPERIMENTER is wise, thoughtful, intelligent and has something serious to say about the human condition, in all of us. Pretty much the kiss of death at the multiplex. Please don’t pass this one up.
Watch the new trailer for director Michael Almereyda’s EXPERIMENTER starring Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room.
Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so.
With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all.
EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continues to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
This fascinating film also stars Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, John Leguizamo, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis Hyasbert, Danny Abeckaser, and Anton Yelchin.
Magnolia Pictures will release EXPERIMENTER in Theaters, On Demand, and on iTunes October 16, 2015.
I really wanted to like THE EXPENDABLES 3 but for them… 3 is not a magic number.
In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney Ross(Sylvester Stallone) is back, along with his good pal Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lungren), Yin Yang (Jet Li), and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), along with some new pals to take on former Expendable Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who has traded in his title and became an arms dealer. After almost being killed by his pal Barney before, Stonebanks has made it his mission put to end The Expendables, and Barney is prepared. He beefs up his gang of misfits with new members, and gives their old-school style a reboot. Together, the team must find Stonebanks before he finds them! Despite uniting some of the biggest stars of the past few decades, the first warning sign should have been the PG-13 rating. This film feels extremely tame and boring compared to the prior two films. Sure, there is a ton of action but we’ve seen that already. The first film was a refreshing action piece that I had been craving since new flicks seem to shy away from mortal, non-superhero or monster action lately. THE EXPENDABLES 2 had me clapping and jumping out of my chair. It was funny, full of action, and in my opinion, trumped the first film. Maybe I was expecting too much… or maybe this film tried to ride coattails of it’s incredible all-star cast rather than developing the story more. Let me rephrase that. It’s the latter.
I have no problem with the cheesy acting in this film. In fact, it is one of the reasons that I love the first two movies. Action films in the 80’s and 90’s had an incredible balance of awesome, butt-kicking scenes and bad one-liners that made us laugh, and stuck in our heads. They were nice throwbacks to the past. They got away with that in two films, but in this installment director Patrick Hughes didn’t quite nail the throwback meets funny approach. I get that parts of the film are parodies of the older stars and their old films, but it feels played out now. Give me something new.
Because of the throwback to the older action film styles, I’m perfectly fine with the acting in this film. Some of it goes cheesy and campy… which is everything I want and expect from an action film. Having said that, I was not ready for a young Expendables team. Part of The Expendables appeal is that ‘old guys still kicking butt’ attitude. They’re jaded. They’ve been doing this a long time. The new breed of actors and professional fighters that they brought in haven’t earned their stripes yet, so the whole thing felt forced and awkward. Kellan Lutz was the only one that seemed to fit in a bit with the other guys. He hasn’t earned the Expendables status yet, but he felt the most natural to me. Either way, this cast is too big to give everyone the adequate screen time that they deserve. I’d rather have a smaller cast that I can focus on.
Fans of the film will still enjoy seeing their favorite stars on-screen together. There are still some kick-ass action sequences, but with less blood. For me, that sucks. If you are going to go for a combo of the last two films, you can’t say “Yeah, but with less blood.” In what world does that make sense? Patrick Hughes also made the choice to shoot some close-ups in this film that were less than flattering to the aging stars. The guys still look great but maybe they should have backed up a skosh. Sadly, THE EXPENDABLES 3 is nothing new. There are some laughs, and some good action but not enough to make the film stand out.
This Summer… Get ready for one last ride! THE EXPENDABLES 3 is opening in theaters on August 15th and WAMG has your tickets to see the film early! Are we cool or what??!!
THE EXPENDABLES 3 team includes your favorite action heroes – Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews …and a new generation of badasses – Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, Kelsey Grammar, Harrison Ford, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Victor Ortiz, and Glen Powell.
In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
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The film has been rated PG-13 for violence including intense sustained gun battles and fight scenes, and for language.
Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) directs from a screenplay by Stallone and Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt (Olympus Has Fallen). Producers are Avi Lerner (The Legend of Hercules, Olympus Has Fallen), Kevin King-Templeton (Grudge Match, The Expendables), Danny Lerner (The Expendables 2, The Mechanic), Les Weldon (The Expendables, The Expendables 2), and John Thompson (The Expendables, The Expendables 2).
Executive Producers are Trevor Short (The Expendables, The Legend of Hercules), Boaz Davidson (The Legend of Hercules, Olympus Has Fallen), Jon Feltheimer (Brothers, Rambo), Jason Constantine (Saw, All is Lost), Eda Kowan (Conan the Barbarian, The Expendables), Basil Iwanyk (The Town, Clash of the Titans), and Guymon Casady (“Game of Thrones,” The Expendables). Co-producers are Robert Earl, Samuel Hadida, Victor Hadida, Guy Avshalom, and Zygi Kamasa.
Director of Photography is Peter Menzies Jr., ACS (Clash of the Titans, The Incredible Hulk). Editors are Sean Albertson, A.C.E. (Warrior, Grudge Match) and Paul Harb (The Legend of Hercules, The Expendables). Production Designer is Daniel T. Dorrance (A Good Day to Die Hard, Collateral). Costume Designer is Lizz Wolf (Escape Plan, Rambo). Composer is Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World).
THE EXPENDABLES 3 explodes into theaters on August 15th!
In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney.
Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.
Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
The world premiere of THE EXPENDABLES 3 will take place in London on August 4 ahead of its theatrical release on August 15.
The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, MMA star Ronda Rousey, welterweight boxing champion Victor Ortiz and Glen Powell.
Patrick Hughes (RED HILL) directs the film, with veteran Dan Bradley (The BOURNE franchise; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL, QUANTUM OF SOLACE) directing the second unit. THE EXPENDABLES 3 is written by Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, who previously teamed on OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, and Sylvester Stallone. The film is produced by Avi Lerner, Kevin King-Templeton, Danny Lerner and Les Weldon. Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and John Thompson are executive producers and the production was overseen by Lionsgate’s Jason Constantine and Eda Kowan.
The first two installments of THE EXPENDABLES have grossed nearly $600 million in combined global box office.
Check out these two new TV spots for THE EXPENDABLES 3:
Ronda Rousey, one of the stars of Lionsgate’s upcoming action film THE EXPENDABLES 3, has successfully defended her title and remained undefeated as UFC Women’s Bantamweight CHAMPION.
Following her title defense against Alexis Davis, Rousey joined her Expendables 3 co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Kellan Lutz and Victor Ortiz to celebrate her win. Check out the ultimate fighter and her supportive cast having a blast in the picture above in honor of this amazing feat.
“Great fight. Most skilled fighter of the night.” – Dolph Lundgren
“She came, She saw, she conquered! One of the most disciplined athletes I’ve ever seen! 16 seconds… Beast mode for my girl Rousey!” – Kellan Lutz
“You can’t stop Ronda, even if you tried.” – Victor Ortiz
In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney.
Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.
Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
THE EXPENDABLES 3, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Robert Davi, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger, hits theaters onAugust 15.
In true Hollywood style, the crew of THE EXPENDABLES 3 invaded Cannes as only they can – shutting down the streets with big monster tanks.
When storming the beaches of the Croisette, this is how you make an entrance!
Check out the footage and photos ofSylvester Stallone (Barney Ross), Jason Statham (Lee Christmas), Antonio Banderas (Galgo), Wesley Snipes (Doc), Dolph Lundgren (Gunnar Jensen), Kelsey Grammer (Bonaparte), Randy Couture (Toll Road), Kellan Lutz (John Smilee), Ronda Rousey (Luna), Glen Powell (Thorn), Victor Ortiz (Mars), with Mel Gibson (Conrad Stonebanks), with Harrison Ford (Drummer), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Trench) and Director Patrick Hughes as theyattended Millennium’s Photo Call and Press Conference at The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France, Sunday (May 18).
Photos by David M. Benett/Getty Images for Millennium Films and Footage Courtesy of Lionsgate.
In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.
Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Lionsgate and Millennium Films present a Nu Image production.
THE EXPENDABLES 3 opens in the US on August 15, 2014
