Vertical Entertainment will release the horror, psychological thriller film GHOSTS OF WAR in Virtual Cinema Screenings, On Demand and Digital onJuly 17, 2020after it bows on DirecTV on June 18, 2020. Check out this trailer:
GHOSTS OF WAR stars the ensemble cast of Brenton Thwaites (The Giver, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series), Skylar Astin (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” Pitch Perfect series), Theo Rossi (“Luke Cage,” “Sons of Anarchy”), Kyle Gallner (American Sniper, The Finest Hour), Billy Zane (Titanic, Dead Calm) and Shaun Toub (“Homeland,” Crash). The film is the directorial sophomore film for screenwriter Eric Bress (The Butterfly Effect, The Final Destination).
Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, this unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
Here’s a first look at Eric Bress’s GHOSTS OF WAR, starring Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Skylar Astin, Kyle Gallner, Alan Ritchson, Billy Zane and Shaun Toub.
The film was written and directed by Bress, and produced by Miscellaneous Entertainment’s D. Todd Shepherd, Shelley Madison, Joe Simpson, and Colleen Camp. Highland Film Group is handling international sales during Cannes.
Nicolas Cage and Robin Tunney are featured in this first look at Tim Hunter’s voyeur thriller Looking Glass. The film was written and directed by Hunter, and produced by Braxton Pope and David M. Wulf.
Highland Film Group is handling international sales.
“PITCH PERFECT 2 is a sweet, funny bit of fluff that never hits a sour note!” said Jim Batts in his review for one of the best movies of 2015.
The fabulous Bellas of Barden University are back to compete in the World Championships of A Cappella after a scandal threatens their legacy in PITCH PERFECT 2.
The high-spirited sequel to the movie that sparked a worldwide phenomenon is coming to Digital HD on September 1st and Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand September 22 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
PITCH PERFECT 2 is packed with more original musical arrangements, memorable one-liners and offbeat romance as the original’s most beloved characters fight to regain their former glory on a worldwide stage facing off against the toughest competition on the planet. Hysterical behind-the-scenes bonus features, never-before-seen deleted footage, all-new musical performances and a hilarious gag reel make Pitch Perfect 2 a must own on Blu-ray™ and DVD.
Oscar®-nominee Anna Kendrick (Into the Woods), Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids), Brittany Snow (Hairspray), Anna Camp (The Help), Alexis Knapp (Project X), Hana Mae Lee (“Super Fun Night”) and Ester Dean (Ice Age: Continental Drift) return as the girls who run the a cappella world, with Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Chrissie Fit (Teen Beach Movie, “General Hospital”) and Katy Sagal (“Sons of Anarchy”) joining the team for the first time. Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games series), who also directed the infectiously funny film, and John Michael Higgins reprise their roles as clueless competition commentators Gail and John. Skylar Astin (21 & Over), Adam DeVine (“Workaholics”) and Ben Platt (Ricki and the Flash) rejoin the comedy as the Barden’s favorite Treblemakers with YouTube superstar Flula Borg and Birgitte Hjort Sorensen (Automata) leading the Bellas’ archrivals, German super group Das Sound Machine.
BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO BLU-RAYTM:
Never Before Seen Treblemakers Performance
The Making of the Riff-Off
Das Sound Machine Finale Breakdown
Snoop in the House
Green Bay Rap
Line-Aca-Rama
The World Championships of A Cappella
An Aca-Love Story: Bumper and Fat Amy
Elizabeth Banks’ Directorial Debut
Legacy: Hailee Steinfeld
Aca-Camp
Residual Heat Internship
BLU-RAYTM and DVD BONUS FEATURES
Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes
Gag Reel
Extended Musical Performances
The Bellas Are Back
Beca (Anna Kendrick), Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and the Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world! After a scandal threatens to derail their last year at Barden, the three-time defending champs worry that they’ve lost their harmony for good. With one chance left at redeeming their legacy, they must face off against the toughest competition on the planet: German super group Das Sound Machine, and fight for their right to win at the World Championships of A Cappella. It will take the power of sisterhood to find their voice and see what it takes to be the world’s top pitches!
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FILMMAKERS: Cast:Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Platt, Chrissie Fit, Flula Borg, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins Directed By:Elizabeth Banks Written By:Kay Cannon Based on Characters Created By:Mickey Rapkin Produced By:Paul Brooks, Max Handelman, Elizabeth Banks Executive Produced By:Scott Niemeyer, Jason Moore Director of Photography:Jim Denault Production Designer:Toby Corbett Edited By:Craig Alpert Costume Designer:Salvador Perez Music By:Mark Mothersbaugh
TECHNICAL INFORMATION BLU-RAY™: Street Date:September 22, 2015 Copyright: 2015 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Selection Number: 61142600 (US)/ 61142601 (CDN) Layers: BD-50 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Rating: PG-13 for innuendo and language Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles Sound: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1/Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish DTS Digital Surround 5.1, French DTS Digital Surround 5.1 Run Time: 1 Hour 55 Minutes
TECHNICAL INFORMATION DVD Street Date:September 22, 2015 Copyright: 2015 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Selection Number: 61142595/61142603 (CDN) Layers: Dual Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Rating: PG-13 for innuendo and language Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles Sound: English Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Run Time: 1 Hour 55 Minutes
The Barden Bellas are back in PITCH PERFECT 2, the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. The comedy is helmed by Elizabeth Banks, co-star and producer of PITCH PERFECT, and produced by Paul Brooks, Max Handelman and Banks. Writer Kay Cannon returns to the team to pen the next chapter.
The movie stars Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Katey Sagal, Anna Camp, Ben Platt, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, John Hodgman, Jason Jones, Joe Lo Truglio, Reggie Watts with John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks.
PITCH PERFECT 2 opens nationwide Friday, May 15th.
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PITCH PERFECT 2 has beenrated PG-13 forinnuendo and language
The Bellas go international and hilarity ensues in the brand new trailer for PITCH PERFECT 2.
Kendrick is on a roll. She presented at the Grammy’s Sunday night, she’s performing at the 87th Oscars, and starred in INTO THE WOODS as well as the upcoming THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Feb. 13, 2015) and GET A JOB.
The Barden Bellas are back in Pitch Perfect 2, the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. The comedy is helmed by Elizabeth Banks, co-star and producer of Pitch Perfect, and produced by Paul Brooks, Max Handelman and Banks. Writer Kay Cannon returns to the team to pen the next chapter.
From Universal Pictures, PITCH PERFECT 2 opens in theaters May 15th.
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for PITCH PERFECT 2.
The sequel stars Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Adam DeVine, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Hana Mae Lee, Hailee Steinfeld with John Michael Higgins, Katey Sagal and Elizabeth Banks.
The Barden Bellas are back in PITCH PERFECT 2, the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. The comedy is helmed by Elizabeth Banks, co-star and producer of Pitch Perfect, and produced by Paul Brooks, Max Handelman and Banks. Writer Kay Cannon returns to the team to pen the next chapter.
The new comedy CAVEMEN follows LA playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.
When Sam Moffitt reviewed the CAVEMEN Blu-ray HERE at We Are Movie Geeks he wrote:
“CAVEMEN does have its fun moments…… Well Go USA’s Blu-ray looks terrific”
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Charlie Kaufman has a lot to answer for. His multi level style of screen writing now has multiple imitators. Witness if you will a little film called Cavemen. In the style of Charlie Kaufman’s screen play for Adaptation and other films, we see a young, urban professional named Dean struggle to write a screen play, bounce ideas off some unnamed friends, present his screen play to a way too convincing Hollywood producer (very well played by Jason Patric) and struggle to live through the incidents that will come to make up the screen play we see him write, and that we also see being performed in front of our eyes.
Not quite as engaging as Kaufman’s style Cavemen does have its fun moments, but, well…
Dean and three of his friends have figured out how to keep the frat boy life style going well after college (if in fact any of these guys went to college.) They live in a converted warehouse (named The Cave, thus they are the “Cavemen”, and, of course, they also have the required Neanderthal attitudes towards women) and run a combination bar, party house, concert venue and thus do not have to pay rent on their own places. They live where they work in other words, but that also means they do a lot of drinking and fornicating, and talking about drinking and fornicating, which gets real old, real fast.
Dean’s best female friend who also tends bar at the Cave is Tess, very well played by Camilla Bell, who was excellent in a little thriller called The Quiet in 2005.
And, as you would expect, the main point of the movie is not only Dean’s struggle to get his screen play written and produced but to find True Love amid all the easy sex in the city of LA. To their credit this crew managed to film LA in a totally different fashion than we are used to, I don’t know where they found these locations but I have never seen LA look this good.
And again, as you would expect, we know that Tess is the right woman for Dean, long before he does. We see him do all the fun things that speed dating can bring about when you have nothing but time on your hands and no moral compass to speak of. Dean and his friends go through the roundelays you might see in a French art house movie, just not as well presented.
It takes Dean so long to figure out that he really does love Tess, and so very, very long for him to say it we get tired of this movie way before it’s over. I lost count of the number of times we see Dean run on foot after a cab that Tess is in so he can pull her out of the cab, and then not say the right thing!
She gets tired of it and so do we. I hate to slam any movie, especially an independent effort like this, but we have seen this material too many times before and done better. There’s really not much new here.
Well Go USA’s bluray looks terrific. The only extras are some trailers for other releases in their catalog, all of which look more interesting than Cavemen.
CAVEMEN is a romantic comedy about how – with a little help from our friends – true love isn’t as evasive as it seems. During a recent press day for the film, I spoke with stars Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray and director Herschel Faber about filming a love story in LA… and just who has the sweetest dance moves out of the bunch. Check it out below.
Cavemen follows LA playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.
CAVEMEN is written and directed by Herschel Faber, and stars Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect), Camilla Belle (10,000 B.C.), Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), and Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill). Produced by Herschel Faber, Joe Fogel, and Cole Payne with co-production by Jeremy Loethen and Jamieson Stern. Executive produced by Kurt David Anderson, John Michaels, Reza Mirroknian, Mary Weldon, and John Wynn. With cinematography by Nic Sadler, music by Ronen Landa, and film editing by Robert Schafer.
21 & OVER, by first-time Directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (THE HANGOVER, THE CHANGE-UP),is an aggressively vulgar, sporadically funny frat party of a comedy with just one thing, maybe two things, on its mind. It actually might help to be under 21 & OVER to fully imbibe the spirit of devoted drunkenness and desired debauchery unleashed by this tale of an unplanned birthday all-niter that gets a wee bit out of hand. A lot better than the similarly scabrous PROJECT X (not to mention THE HANGOVER PART II), this ode to youthful irresponsibility applies the right crude and rude attitude to its bulging sack of gags to have the desired effect on its target audience.
Rascally chatterbox Miller (Miles Teller, PROJECT X) and somewhat more together Casey (Skylar Astin, PITCH PERFECT) surprise their old friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon, TWILIGHT) on his birthday with the prospect of a night of drunken wildness, more for them than him since he has a very important med school interview early the next morning. Drinks are drunk, Chang vomits (in slo-mo) while riding a mechanical bull, Miller and Casey are branded in a hazing prank gone awry, and they can’t find their way back to Chang’s apartment.
The film has a strange obsession with race, the patter peppered with references to who is a what, be it white, Asian or Hispanic, though really no blacks because that would be awkward. A large pair of fellows are even pinned as being “ethnic Serbs.” The film’s ostensible villains, apart from a world that doesn’t always want to party, are angry Latinas and an overbearing Asian father. Add to that a single character, Randy (Jonathan Keltz, BREACH) who is meant to combine a romantic obstacle, fastidious male cheerleader and lunkhead jock all in one.
In its own way, 21 & OVER is the missing link between SUPERBAD and THE HANGOVER. Much like those films, it’s very much your typical binge comedy, but at the same time, it’s the collegiate backdrop that sets itself apart. The movie is very keen on exploring that time in your life when you’re not exactly sure what you’re supposed to do, and yet there’s this fast approaching deadline to get your s#!t together. That combined with the vulgar, juvenile humor creates a kind of juxtaposed dynamic, and for the most part, the main characters completely sell it.
The romantic arc between Casey and Jeff Chang’s friend Nicole (Sarah Wright, THE HOUSE BUNNY) is a subplot that’s noticeably disjointed from the rest of the movie, and it almost feels like it was crammed in near the end of the writing process to appease a broader audience. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite mesh with the comedy’s established tone and ultimately cheapens the Casey character a little bit. This may also be due to the fact that Lucas and Moore aren’t exactly wordsmiths when it comes to female dialogue. To be fair, Sarah Wright’s wooden performance doesn’t really help.
If the entire movie was one big drunk-fest though, it would be a little monotonous and redundant. There are only so many drinking games in the world. Lucas and Moore try to balance the raunchiness with reality, as the friends struggle to figure out what to do with their lives once the buzz and college are over. These segments don’t feel nearly as well thought-out and the tonal shifts can be a little jarring, but the actors always have a nice camaraderie with each other.
