Monday, October 18, 2010

Blue Valentine Movie 2010

Release Date: December 31, 2010
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Screenwriter: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett
Genre: Drama, Romance

Plot Summary: "Blue Valentine" is the story of love found and love lost told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks.
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Megamind Movie 2010

Release Date: November 5, 2010 (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Tom McGrath
Screenwriter: Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons
Starring: Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG

Plot Summary:
"Megamind" is the most brilliant super–villain the world has ever known... and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way – Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as "Metro Man," until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world's biggest "mind" actually be the one to save the day?
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"Red" Movie 2010

Release Date: October 15, 2010
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenwriter: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Julian McMahon, Richard Dreyfuss
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13

Plot Summary: Based on the cult D.C. Comics graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, "Red" is an explosive action-comedy starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren.

Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents – but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.
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Faster Movie 2010

Release Date: November 24, 2010
Studio: CBS Films
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Screenwriter: Joe Gayton, Tony Gayton
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Moon Bloodgood
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R



Plot Summary:
After 10 years in prison, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has a singular focus - to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission...but with two men on his trail - a veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson- Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It's a do or die race to the list's finish as the mystery surrounding his brother's murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver's list may be incomplete.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My Soul to Take Movie

Release Date: October 8, 2010 (3D/2D theaters)
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Wes Craven
Screenwriter: Wes Craven
Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, Raul Esparza
Genre: Suspense Thriller


Plot Summary: Wes Craven ("A Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Hills Have Eyes," "Scream" series) brings audiences his latest suspense thriller with "My Soul to Take." In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer.

Adam "Bug" Heller (Max Thieriot) was supposed to die on the bloody night his father went insane. Unaware of his dad's terrifying crimes, he has been plagued by nightmares since he was a baby. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the monster that's returned, he must face an evil that won't rest... until it finishes the job it began the day he was born.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Wall Street Money Never Sleeps

Release Date: September 24, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, Allan Loeb
Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito, Charlie Sheen
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Official Website: WallStreetMoneyNeverSleeps.com
Plot Summary: Shia LaBeouf stars with Michael Douglas, who'll reprise his Gordon Gekko role. Langella will play Lewis Zabel, an old-time broker who mentors LaBeouf's character, a young Wall Street broker.

When Gekko comes out of prison, he essentially has to redefine himself, redefine his character, he's looking for that second chance.

LaBeouf portrays Jake Moore, who is the fiancé of Gekko's daughter, played by Carey Mulligan; Josh Brolin as the head of an investment bank; and Susan Sarandon as Jake's mother. Charlie Sheen, who played the central role of Bud Fox, a young trader, in the original, will make a cameo in the sequel.
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Due Date Movie 2010

Release Date: November 5, 2010
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Todd Phillips
Screenwriter: Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Adam Sztykiel, Todd Phillips
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx, Alan Arkin, Juliet Lewis, Danny McBride
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Official Website: DueDatemovie.com


Plot Summary: Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife's due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan--on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter's last nerve.
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The Town Movie 2010 Starring: Ben Affleck

Release Date: September 17, 2010
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Ben Affleck
Screenwriter: Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, Aaron Stockard
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Official Website: TheTownmovie.com

Plot Summary: Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang's latest job, when they briefly took a hostage--bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name...and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug...not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.
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Priest Movie 2010

Release Date: May 13, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Scott Stewart
Screenwriter: Cory Goodman, Scott Stewart
Starring: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, Christopher Plummer
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Official Website: Priest.SPE.com

Plot Summary: A warrior priest (Paul Bettany) disobeys Church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a beautiful priestess (Maggie Q). The three band together to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped the priest's niece before they turn her into one of them.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Chain Letter Movie

Release Date: October 1, 2010
Studio: New Films International
Director: Deon Taylor
Screenwriter: Deon Taylor, Michael J. Pagan
Starring: Nikki Reed, Noah Segan, Keith David, Betsy Russell, Michael Bailey Smith, Clifton Powell, Matthew Cohen, Cody Kasch, Michael J. Pagan, Cherilyn WilsonChain Letter Movie
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Official Website: ChainLetterthemovie.com

Plot Summary: When high school senior Jessie Campbell (Nikki Reed) and her tight-knit group of friends begin to receive a series of foreboding email chain letters, they have no idea the terror that awaits them. With a warning that if they break the chain, they will lose a life, the seemingly harmless email turns deadly when one-by-one the friends that do not forward the chain letter are hunted down and gruesomely killed by horror's newest villain, the Chain Man.

A terrifying horror film that will leave audiences wondering if modern technology is really as safe as we think it is, "Chain Letter" was directed by Deon Taylor and written by Taylor and Michael J. Pagan.
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