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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

DVD & Blu-Ray: LIFE OF PI, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS, HITCHCOCK and More

The DVD and Blu-Ray releases for March 12, 2013 are:

LIFE OF PI (Fox Home Entertainment / PG)
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY (Paramount / PG)
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (Paramount Home Entertainment / PG)
HITCHCOCK (Fox Home Entertainment / Not Rated)
SMASHED (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / R)
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (Anchor Bay / R)

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Monday, February 25, 2013

OSCARS 2013: ARGO Wins Best Picture; LIFE OF PI Takes 4 Oscars

The Oscar winners have been announced in what is probably considered one of the weakest shows in the Academy's history. But who really cares that Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane was more miss than hit as the show's host and that his attempts at humor were somewhat tasteless when not downright dull ? The important thing is that the participating movies were some of the most interesting and relevant of not only 2012, but also recent years.

The Academy must have had a very hard time choosing winners, so the awards were pretty much evenly split among each of the major films. "Argo" took home 3 awards for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Editing, but it was "Life of Pi" who scored the most wins with 4 trophies for Best Director (Ang Lee), Cinematography, Original Score and Visual Effects.

"Les Miserables" won 3 Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Sound Mixing and Makeup. "Django Unchained" earned 2 trophies for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino) and Spielberg's "Lincoln" also took home 2 awards for Best Leading Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Production Design. Among the movies rewarded with just one award: "Silver Linings Playbook" - Best Leading Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), "Amour" - Best Foreign Film, "Zero Dark Thirty" - Best Sound Editing and "Anna Karenina" - Best Costume Design. "Skyfall" won the expected award for Best Original Song (wonderfully performed live by Adele) and one for Sound Editing through a very rare case of a voting tie with "Zero Dark Thirty". Pixar's Brave also won Best Animated Feature, despite having some stiff competition for the first time in years.

As you can see, most of the major films of the year received due honors from the Academy, minus "Beasts of the Southern Wild", "The Master", "Flight" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", all of which received none, despite having several nominations, which in itself is still great honor.

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Monday, January 14, 2013

OSCARS 2013: 85th Annual Academy Awards Nominations

Last thursday, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" earned an astonishing 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Director and Leading Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis). Not far behind are Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" with 11 nods and "Les Miserables", directed by Tom Hooper and "Silver Linings Playbook", directed by David O. Russell, each with eight nominations.

One of the bigger surprises this year is the attention that the Academy focused on Michael Haneke's "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild". The french film earned not only the expected Foreign Film nomination but also 4 other nominations : Best Picture, Director, Writing (Original Screenplay) and Leading Actress (Emmanuelle Riva, 85 years old, the oldest nominee ever). "Beasts of the Southern Wild", an independent film which was extremely popular among critics in 2012 managed to earn 4 nominations : Best Picture, Director, Writing (Adapted Screenplay) and Best Leading Actress (Quvenzhané Wallis, 9 years old, the youngest nominee ever).

The awards show will take place on February 14 and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy", "Ted").

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

2013 Golden Globe Awards Nominations Announced

The nominations for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The films nominated for top honors include "Lincoln", "Argo", "Life of Pi", "Zero Dark Thirty", "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Les Miserables". The awards ceremony will take place on January 13, 2013 and will be hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Read the full list of nominations after the jump.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

New Soundtracks: LIFE OF PI (2012) - Music by Mychael Danna

Composer
Mychael Danna

Total Time:
65:11

Label
Sony Classical

Format:
CD, MP3

Release Date
November 16, 2012

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Track List:

1. Pi's Lullaby
2. Piscine Molitor Patel
3. Pondicherry
4. Meeting Krishna
5. Christ in the Mountains
6. Thank you Vishnu for Introducing me to Christ
7. Richard Parker
8. Appa's Lesson
9. Anandi
10. Leaving India
11. The Deepest Spot on Earth
12. Tsimtsum
13. Death of the Zebra
14. First Night, First Day

15. Set Your House in Order
16. Skinny Vegetarian Boy
17. Pi and Richard Parker
18. The Whale
19. Flying Fish
20. Tiger Training
21. Orphans
22. Tiger Vision
23. God Storm
24. I'm Ready now
25. The Island
26. Back to the World
27. The Second Story
28. Which Story do you Prefer?

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Friday, November 23, 2012

In Theaters: LIFE OF PI, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS and RED DAWN

Life of Pi

Official Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu, Tabu, Gautam Belur, James Saito

Director: Ang Lee

Genre: Drama, Adventure

Running Time: 127 min.

Rating: PG for emotional thematic content throughout and some scary action sequence and peril.

Critical Response:

Rottentomatoes: 86% (118 fresh, 19 rotten, score: 7.9/10).
Metacritic: 78 out of 100 (32 positive, 7 mixed, 0 negative).

Trailers

International Trailer
Theatrical Trailer and Poster

Movie Clips

2 New Movie Clips and B-Roll Footage
"Message in a Bottle"
"Flying Fish"

Featurettes:

2 Visual Effects Featurettes
Behind-the-Scenes Featurette

Posters

5 Posters and Banner

Rise of the Guardians

Official Synopsis: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is an epic and magical adventure that tells the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost – legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children everywhere.

Starring: Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher, Jude Law

Director: Peter Ramsey

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family

Running Time: 97 min.

Rating: PG for thematic elements and some mildly scary action

Critical Response:

Rottentomatoes: 72% (59 fresh, 23 rotten, score: 6.4/10).
Metacritic: 57 out of 100 (15 positive, 12 mixed, 2 negative).

Trailers

Movie Clips

Featurettes:

Posters

6 Character Posters
Motion Poster

Various Multimedia

Original Score by Alexandre Desplat

Red Dawn

Official Synopsis: In Red Dawn, a city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky – shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerilla group of fighters. Taking inspiration from their high school mascot, they call themselves the Wolverines, banding together to protect one another, liberate their town from its captors, and take back their freedom.

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Director: Dan Bradley

Genre: Action

Running Time: 114 min.

Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense war violence and action, and for language.

Critical Response:

Rottentomatoes: 11% (10 fresh, 81 rotten, score: 3.9/10).
Metacritic: 32 out of 100 (1 positive, 13 mixed, 15 negative).

Trailers

Patriotic Trailer
Theatrical Trailer

Movie Clips

Featurettes:

Wolverines Featurette

Various Multimedia

Original Score by Ramin Djawadi

TV Spots:

Exclusive TV Spot
2 TV Spots

Saturday, November 17, 2012

LIFE OF PI (2012) - 2 Visual Effects Featurettes

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

LIFE OF PI (2012) - 2 New Movie Clips and B-Roll Footage

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

LIFE OF PI (2012) - 5 New Posters and Banner

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

LIFE OF PI (2012) - "Message in a Bottle" Movie Clip

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Monday, October 22, 2012

New Posters: LIFE OF PI, SKYFALL, WARM BODIES, THE WORDS and SILENT HILL 2

Here are the synopses for the above films (starting from the top left poster, left to right)

Life of Pi

"Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship’s only other survivor — a fearsome Bengal tiger."

Skyfall

"In SKYFALL, Bond’s loyalty to M (JUDI DENCH) is tested as her past returns to haunt her. 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. When Bond’s latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory (RALPH FIENNES), the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows – aided only by field agent, Eve (NAOMIE HARRIS) – following a trail to the mysterious Silva (JAVIER BARDEM), whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves. "

Warm Bodies

"A tormented zombie (Nicholas Hoult) experiences a profound transformation after entering into an unusual relationship with the daughter (Teresa Palmer) of a military leader charged with eradicating the walking dead. As the unlikely pair builds a tenuous bridge between the living and the dead, those on both sides of the battle begin to sense that nothing in their world will ever be the same again. Warm Bodies is based on the novel by Isaac Marion. Rob Corddry and John Malkovich round out the starring cast. (Jason Buchanan, Rovi)

The Words

"Starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoë Saldana, the layered romantic drama The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words."

Silent Hill 2: Revelation 3D

"In Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Heather Mason (Clemens) and her father (Bean) have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand. On the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she's not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever."