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Movie Review: Broken City

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Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) shows that he can do the gritty city thriller here in the 21st Century with Broken City.  Meanwhile, Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones have a grand old time getting into their characters and playing the ol’ double/triple cross.  It’s a fun film that isn’t tough to follow — a nice bit of work that, considering all the maneuvering these characters get into — but delivers a fast-paced look at corruption and the lengths people will go to cover their tracks.

Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is an ex-cop that quit the NYPD under less-than-perfect circumstances.  Seven years later he’s a PI that’s trying to make ends meet, when he gets a call from NYC Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe).  Who happens to be the former police chief, don’cha know.  Seems the Mayor wants Taggart to see who the Mayor’s wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is sleeping with, other than the Mayor.  Taggart obliges, but is it about adultery, or is the Mayor after something else?

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TONIGHT! – NCM Fathom’s A Night with Nicholas Sparks!

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Okay all you romance fans, and you know who you are.  If you have plans tonight?  Break ’em.  Because tonight you’ll get to take a peek behind the rose-colored curtain and get the inside scoop on the making of Safe Haven, the newest Nicholas Sparks book to make the trip to the big screen.  (Safe Haven will be opening on February 14, 2013.)

The event, A Night with Nicholas Sparks SAFE HAVEN: Filmmakers, Author and Stars Bring the Book to Life, comes to theaters courtesy of NCM Fathom, the folks that bring all sorts of one-night-only goodies to multiplexes.  I caught Rise when Fathom had it’s one-night-only theater showing, and I loved the post-film Q&A. 

Read on for more info, and on how to grab tickets to get in on tonight’s live-stream event!

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Star Trek Into Darkness wants to play with you. You game?

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The new Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness, opens this Summer.  For some folks it’s hard not to pore over various minutiae of the film, even though many of the key points are still shrouded in mystery.  Now you can do something besides try to figure out if Sherlock‘s Benedict Cumberbatch is Khan.  There’s a game headed your way, with all sorts of social networky-type things to link, scan and generally ogle.

Though I have to admit I’m not the gaming type, I am a sucker for an app.  Plus, it looks like there may be some geocaching to be had, and who doesn’t love a treasure hunt?  So you may just see me gettin’ my Star Trek on!

Oh, and Star Trek Into Darkness is slated for a May 17. 2013 release.  Even the poster says so.

The full press release after the jump!

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McG gears up for a new comedy-thriller

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Time to gear up for new films, y’all. McG (Supernatural, Terminator: Salvation) is gearing up as well, and casting for his newest film is wrapped up, with filming already going on in Paris.  Ahh, Paris.

Looks like this will be a fun thrill ride kinda film, with Kevin Costner playing a retired Secret Service agent that goes out for the ever-popular “one last mission”.  The twist?  The agent will get a drug that can save his life.  Naturally, the drug has side-effects…and I’m sure hilarity ensues.  Let’s hope Costner can play the funny fall guy.  Hey, he was great in Tin Cup, so fingers crossed.

IMDb has this film listed as being titled Three Days to Kill, but that’s always subject to tweaking.  The film is slated for release in 2013, but exactly when is still up in the air (which isn’t surprising, given the usual sturm und drang of production).

More info — including the full press release — after the jump!


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Beautiful Creatures to open Valentines Day

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Fans of the Caster Chronicles series will be in love this Valentine’s Day, as the film version of the first book, Beautiful Creatures, is moved to a Valentine’s Day opening.  The series (written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl) — about a young girl who must choose between good and evil, and the boy who has a haunting connection to her  — has been called “The Next Twilight”, but I’d rather just call it a great new series for fans of gothic/paranormal YA fiction.

There are high hopes for the film franchise, but with the final book of the series, Beautiful Redemption, recently published, I’ll bet there will be a stampede of fans to the theaters.  But with Beautiful Creatures and Safe Haven both coming out on the 14th of February, what’s a romance fan to do?  Maybe it’s double-feature time?  Because as pretty as Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough, I’m looking forward to seeing Emily Rossum, Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons unleash some witchy whup-ass.

Read on for the full Beautiful Creatures press release!

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Abracadabra — it’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone!

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Who didn’t want to be a magician when they were a kid?  Oh come on; you know you wished you’d gotten a letter from Hogwarts, or at least received a magic tricks box for your birthday.  The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a film about two kids that got that birthday present…and cranked it to 11.

What really makes me want to see this is the fact that they’ve cast Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as the grown-up kids that find their Sigfried & Roy-like Vegas life in jeopardy when young upstart Steve Gray (played by Jim Carrey) comes to town.  So basically you know you’ll get to see all three of these guys off their leash.  Which should be awesome.

Take a peek at the trailer and tell me what you think.  The Incredible Burt Wonderstone opens March 15th, 2013.

 

Luc Besson begins Malavita

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Robert DeNiro.  Luc Besson.  Dark comedy.  Wine.  Sounds pretty tasty, and soon we’ll be able to see for ourselves when Malavita comes to theaters next year.  But for now things are just starting up.  But by the still from the set it looks like everyone’s already deep in it.

From IMDb:

A retired American gangster relocates his family to Normandy and lives under the witness protection program.

Read on for more info from the press release….

(Beverly Hills, Calif.) August 8, 2012 –Principal photography begins today on EuropaCorp and
Relativity’s comedic actioner Malavita directed by Luc Besson (Taken, Transporter) and starring
Oscar®-Winner Robert De Niro (Limitless, Heat), Oscar®-Nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (Dark
Shadows, People Like Us), Oscar®-Winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country For Old Men, Men
in Black), Dianna Agron (Glee, I Am Number Four) and John D’Leo (The Wrestler, Wanderlust).

Collaborating with Besson behind the scenes is a creative below-the-line team including:
director of photography Thierry Arbogast (The Fifth Element), production designer Hugues
Tissandier (Taken), sound editor Ken Yasumoto (The Transporter), costume designer Olivier
Bériot (Taken) and editor Julien Rey (The Lady).

The darkly comedic action film Malavita is the story of the Manzonis, a notorious mafia family
who gets relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program. While they do
their best to fit in, old habits die hard and they soon find themselves handling things the “family”
way.

Filming commenced in Normandy and will continue in France at La Cité du Cinéma, where the
brand new Studios de Paris are located. Additional shooting will take place in New York….

The script is adapted by Besson from the book Badfellas by author Tonino Benacquista.
Virginie Besson-Silla (From Paris with Love) from EuropaCorp is producing. Relativity’s Ryan
Kavanaugh (The Fighter) is producing, while the studio’s Tucker Tooley (Immortals) will
executive produce.

 

Carly Rae Jepsen: Call me, Fun Size

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It’s almost Halloween y’all.  Remember when we had to drag our little siblings around from door to door, when all we really wanted to do was hang out with our friends and eat candy?  Moooooom!  Fun Size, a film about just that, hits theaters this Friday (that’s the 26th, y’all).  What sets this film apart from the usual happy-happy-joy-joy of Nickelodeon is Josh Schwartz, a guy who’s known for his work on Gossip Girl, Chuck and one of my all-time favorite not-so-guilty pleasures, The OC.  And after I got a peek at the trailer I was very interested in seeing how this movie plays out.

Fun Size actors Victoria Justice and Thomas Mann hit the Mall of America (rather apropo, considering this is a film made for kids & tweens) with Carly Rae Jepsen in attendance.  Needless to say, there were throngs of eager fans.


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Focus Featurs’ Africa First program announces this year’s winners

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I’m ashamed to admit that I’d never heard of the Africa First program. But it does good work by awarding “5 emerging African filmmakers” ten thousand dollars.  Not a bad way to help them get their career kicked into high gear.

This year’s winners are: Mr. Vincent Moloi (from South Africa); Mr. Jeremiah Mosese (from Lesotho); Ms. Ekwa Msangi-Omari (from Tanzania); Ms. Samantha Nell (from South Africa); and Mr. William Nicholson (from South Africa).  Congratulations to the winners!

Read more about the films they’ll be making, and about Africa First after the jump!

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