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GIVEAWAY – Win Universal Pictures’ Prizepack For ABOUT TIME

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For more than three decades, filmmaker Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral) has crafted his signature voice in the world of movies and television, giving audiences unforgettable characters who have alternately allowed us to laugh at our ever-so-human foibles and to share a tear at the extraordinary journeys that accompany our ordinary lives.

Now, with ABOUT TIME, Curtis gives us his most personal film to date.

At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time…

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim’s father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can’t change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life—so he decides to make his world a better place…by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

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Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he’s never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again—and again—but finally, after a lot of cunning time traveling, he wins her heart.

Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches and to save his best friend from professional disaster. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his unique gift can’t save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. There are great limits to what time travel can achieve, and it can be dangerous, too.

ABOUT TIME is a comedy about love and time travel, which discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.

From Universal Pictures, ABOUT TIME opens in select theaters November 1.

Universal Pictures and WAMG invite you to enter to win a prizepack for ABOUT TIME

Two (2) winners receive:

Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition
(Blu-ray Combo Pack available 10/15)
 About Time Soundtrack featuring music from Ellie Goulding, Ben Folds & more (Available 10/29)

Prize pack valued at $35 each

Prizing courtesy of Universal Pictures

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Soundtrack details
Available for purchase on October 29

TRACKLISTING

1.    The Luckiest (Ben Folds)
2.    How Long Will I Love You (Jon Boden, Sam Sweeney, Ben Coleman)
3.    Mid Air (Paul Bucchanan)
4.    At The River (Groove Armada)
5.    Friday I’m In Love (The Cure)
6.    Back To Black (Amy Winehouse)
7.    Gold In Them Hills (Ron Sexsmith)
8.    The About Time Theme (Nick Laird-Clowes)
9.    Into My Arms (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
10.  Il Mondo (Jimmy Fontana)
11.  Golborne Road (Nick Laird-Clowes)
12.  Push The Button (Sugababes)
13.  All The Things She Said (t.A.T.u)
14.  When I Fall In Love (Barbar Gough, Sagat Guirey, Andy Hamill, Tim Herniman)
15.  Spiegel im Spiegel (Arvo Part, Sebastien Klinger, Jurgen Kruse)
16.  How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)

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Answer the following:

If you could travel in time to any historical event, what would it be?

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE A US RESIDENT.  PRIZE WILL ONLY BE SHIPPED TO US ADDRESSES.  NO P.O. BOXES.

2.  ENTER YOUR NAME AND ANSWER IN OUR COMMENTS SECTION BELOW. WE WILL CONTACT YOU IF YOU ARE A WINNER.

3. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN FROM ALL QUALIFYING ENTRIES. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PRIZES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED.

The giveaway ends 11:59 p.m. est on November 4.

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LOVE ACTUALLY 10th Anniversary Edition Coming To Blu-ray October 15

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Relive the love this holiday season and take part in the decade-long phenomenon with Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition.

Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones’s films), Liam Neeson (Taken 2), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Laura Linney (Hyde Park on Hudson), Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina), Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee) and Bill Nighy (About Time) are part of an illustrious all-star cast that charm and delight in this heartwarming romantic comedy about eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before the holidays. Brimming with early career appearances by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), January Jones (Mad Men) and Thomas Sangster (“Game of Thrones”) Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition has been newly restored to provide longtime fans and first-time viewers alike with a heartwarming holiday treat.

Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition will be available on October 15, 2013 on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack including Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment with an exclusive collectible holiday ornament included with purchase. Also available on DVD with Digital.

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Richard Curtis (About Time, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill), comes Love Actually, the unforgettable holiday classic that has had audiences laughing, crying and hugging since it first premiered to U.S. audiences in 2003. Love, the fire that makes the world go round, is causing chaos for all. The lives and loves of these eight couples collide, mingle and climax again and again with romantic, hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love’s spell. The film’s hilariously unpredictable plot examines how love inspires experiences that are alternately exciting, unexpected and unequalled. This “star-studded, multi-plotlined movie” has become “one of the great Christmas movies” of all time (Entertainment Weekly).

The Blu-ray™ Combo Pack includes a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD with UltraViolet.

  • Blu-ray™ unleashes the power of your HDTV and is the best way to watch movies at home, featuring 6X the picture resolution of DVD, exclusive extras and theater-quality surround sound.
  • DVD offers the flexibility and convenience of playing movies in more places, both at home and away.
  • DIGITAL HD with Ultraviolet lets fans watch movies anywhere, on any device. Users can instantly stream or download movies to watch on iPad®, iPhone®, Android™, smart TVs, connected Blu-ray players, game consoles, and more.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • OVER 30 MINUTES OF DELETED SCENES with Introductions by Writer/Director Richard Curtis
  • THE STORYTELLERS (exclusive to Blu-ray)
  • THE MUSIC OF LOVE ACTUALLY with Introductions by Writer/Director Richard Curtis
  • BILLY MACK “CHRISTMAS IS ALL AROUND” MUSIC VIDEO (exclusive to Blu-ray)
  • KELLY CLARKSON “THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE IS” MUSIC VIDEO
  • FEATURE COMMENTARY with Writer/Director Richard Curtis and Actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster

CAST AND FILMMAKERS:
Director: Richard Curtis
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Duncan Kenworthy, Liza Chasin, Debra Hayward
Executive Producers: Mohamed Al-Fayed, Richard Curtis 
Production Designer: Jim Clay
Cinematographer: Michael Coulter
Editor: Nick Moore
Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy,Martine McCutcheon, Martin Freeman, Andrew Lincoln, January Jones and Thomas Sangster.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION – BLU-RAY™
Street Date: October 15, 2013
Copyright: 2013 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Selection Numbers: 61129328 (U.S.), 61129329 (CDN)
Running Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Layers: BD-50
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 2.35:1
Rating: R for Sexuality, Nudity and Language
Technical Info: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English); DTS Digital Surround 5.1 (Spanish); DTS Digital Surround 5.1 (French Canadian)
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish

TECHNICAL INFORMATION – DVD
Street Date: October 15, 2013
Copyright: 2013 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Selection Numbers: 61127581 (U.S.), 61127582 (CDN)
Running Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Layers: Dual Layer
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 2.35:1
Rating: R for Sexuality, Nudity and Language
Technical Info: Dolby Digital 5.1(English); Dolby Digital 5.1 (Spanish); Dolby Digital 5.1 (French)
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish

Feel the love this holiday season with the Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition! Funny, charming and heartwarming, this delightful romantic comedy follows eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before Christmas. Headlined by an incredible roster of stars, this beloved film also features early movie appearances by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), January Jones (Mad Men) and Thomas Sangster (Game of Thrones). From the makers of Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill, it’s the perfect companion for every Christmas.

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WAR HORSE – The Review

Few living things on this planet are more majestic than a horse. Creatures of graceful beauty and tremendous strength, almost as closely bonded with mankind as the dog, yet as a civilized species we’ve put the horse through so much over our centuries old relationship with the gentle giants.

WAR HORSE, directed by Steven Spielberg, offers a glimpse into the life of just one of these fine creatures. The story is told from the perspective of one horse named Joey, raised from a freshly born colt by an Irish farm boy named Albert (played by Jeremy Irvine) who immediately forms a strong friendship, only to be devastated when World War I hits home and the horse is sold into the cavalry by Albert’s father Ted (played by Peter Mullan).

What follows is the emotional journey of Joey through the trials and tribulations of war. Joey trades hands multiple times, his possession transferred from the British cavalry to German soldiers and to a frail young country girl and her pacifist grandfather. The film’s journey has no central human character, but several roles filling a segmented timeline. This creates a sort of anthology effect, allowing the viewer to more easily experience how this one horse could bring people together as it does.

WAR HORSE has two specific strong points; the performance – if you will allow me the liberty to call it such – of the horse playing Joey, and the gorgeous cinematography from Janusz Kaminski, a regular collaborator of Spielberg’s. The soft, glowing warmth of the scenes away from war and the colder, gray tinged scenes during and surrounding the war, compliment each other, but also often coincide and crossover to meld the two realities into one inseparable truth of the time and place of the film.

No one performance truly stands out amongst the human actors, except maybe that of Neils Arestrup’s as the frail girl Emilie’s Grandfather, the most endearing and convincingly unique performance. Otherwise, the entire cast performed wonderfully in their respective roles, never reaching beyond the scope of their purpose. The cast of many youthful and a few veteran names include Emily Watson as Albert’s mother, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis and Eddie Marsan.

The original score for WAR HORSE is composed by the legendary John Williams – you know… the guy who helped immortalize Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and Superman in our collective aural memory. Surprisingly, the music in this film does not display that characteristically dominating presence of Williams’ most recognizable work, instead slipping into the background to near subliminal effect. I personally didn’t even realize I was listening to John Williams until reaching the end credits, when for the first time, his music became vividly apparent.

WAR HORSE is just as much about the tough times as it is about the horse’s journey. One thing I relished in observing during this film was the attention given to details and lesser known facts about World War I. There is one very powerful scene in the third act that takes place in no man’s land between the British and German trenches. The grounds are obliterated, bodies mangled and tossed about the tangled chaos of the barbed wire. This is not a violent scene, but rather an incredibly poignant and uplifting scene depicting an example of occurrences that actually took place during the war. While WWI and WWII may share very similar names and scopes of conflict, they were in fact two very different wars with two very different pairs of warring sides.

In the end, WAR HORSE delivers on the type of ending most audiences will expect and want, which is fine because it’s warranted in this film. Expect a journey that lasts just barely more than two hours, but doesn’t feel exceedingly long, a journey that will touch the animal lover within and remind us that wars are waged by governments, but fought be regular Joes, and Joeys.

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Watch The Trailer For Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE!

Here’s a first look at the teaser trailer for DreamWorks Pictures’ WAR HORSE, a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. No one does a massive historical film like Oscar-winning director, Steven Spielberg.

Synopsis:

DreamWorks Pictures’ “War Horse,” director Steven Spielberg’s epic adventure, is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land.

The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war— a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.

The film stars Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Toby Kebbell, is produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, executive produced by Frank Marshall, Revel Guest, with a Screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis.

Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo and the recent stage play by Nick Stafford, produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain and directed by Tom Morris and Marianne Elliot, WAR HORSE hits theatres on December 28, 2011!

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