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Summit Entertainment Planning ‘Push’ TV Series

Rob Frappier — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:58:51 +0000

Yesterday, Summit Entertainment (the folks behind Twilight) announced plans to adapt the 2009 feature film Push into a television series. Summit will be pairing with E1 Entertainment on the production and David Hayter, the screenwriter behind Watchmen, The Scorpion King, X-Men, and X2, is writing the pilot episode of the series.

According to the official press release, “The television series will be an extension of the film, a science fiction thriller, centered on people with paranormal powers who band together to take down a corrupt government agency.” The movie featured Chris Evans, Djimon Honsou, Camilla Belle, and Dakota Fanning.

If you’ll recall, Push didn’t receive very good reviews (Screen Rant head honcho Vic Holtreman gave it two out of five stars) nor was it a very big hit at the box office, earning only ...

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Win ‘Push’ & ‘Knowing’ on Blu-ray – Winners!

Vic Holtreman — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:58:55 +0000

Here are the two winners of our giveaway:

Debbie Egurrola - Coral Gables, FL
Dan Scaglione – Haverhill, MA

Thanks to everyone who entered!

Lucky for you, as Screen Rant gets more popular we get more goodies to give away to you. This time we have copies of Knowing and Push to hand out in awesome Blu-ray format. Both of these movies were OK, and I know a lot of folks actually enjoyed them quite a bit, so here’s your chance to own them both.

Here’s the official description of Knowing:

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of ...

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Push Review

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:00:58 +0000

Short version: Push has an interesting premise, but it just doesn’t manage to translate it into a great movie.

Screen Rant reviews Push

I really thought I was going to enjoy Push more than I did. But much like the God-awful Jumper, Push has an interesting premise that it just can’t translate into a great movie.

Just like Jumper, Push has an extensive backstory… While the former film established it via an in-depth document sent out to movie sites cataloging the history of the good guys and the bad guys, this film did it with a comic book mini-series. Having read four of the issues (which I found pretty intriguing) I had hoped that I would find the film more meaningful through understanding the deep background of “Division.”

Sadly, that didn’t turn out to ...

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Three New Spots For ‘Push’

Rob Keyes — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:14:03 +0000

Summit Entertainment provided Coming Soon with two TV spots and a scene from the upcoming movie, Push. The longer video, a two-and-a-half minute action scene from the film, extends and ties together many of the shots we saw the from the trailers for the movie and it looks great.

While I like what I’m seeing enough to see it, my big worry is that there aren’t many other cool action sequences in the film that they haven’t shown us and that would be highly disappointing (that’s what happened with Iron Man). The plot feels like some weak story arc from Heroes, but the action sequences sell me and I hope there’s enough of that to make the movie a good overall experience.

Check out the videos and see what you think:

Telekinetic Gun Fight HD

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The Powers Of ‘Push’

Rob Keyes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:10:50 +0000

Today we have a sweet little flash webpage courtesy of Superherohype.com which lists and details all of the powers of the upcoming Push action film.

It’s pretty cool as it details plenty of information about new powers that were not shown in the trailer and it gets me a little more excited to see this movie. You can see it by clicking on the link a bit further down the page.

You’ll notice that the very first power listed in the top left is that of pusher which when clicked, shows and describes the power of that lady from the trailer which the plot of the movie seems to revolve around. The site reveals the name of that character to be Kira Hudson.

I’m guessing the title of the film relates directly to that specific power and character. The website describes ...

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New ‘Push’ Poster

Ross Miller — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:20:05 +0000

A new poster has been released for the new sci-fi/action-thriller film Push. The film stars Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou. Check out the poster below (click for larger view):

In case any of you don’t know what the film is about here is the synopsis and the trailer:

“The action packed sci-fi thriller involves a group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities, hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.”

[See post to watch Flash video]

This looks pretty similar to the TV show Heroes. People with special abilities trying to evade an organization which is after them. The first season of ...

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New Push Trailer = Heroes: The Movie

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:01:59 +0000

We haven’t heard anything about the upcoming superhero-type movie Push since Comic-Con. Last July they previewed Push the movie and it looked pretty cool. This week a new trailer was unveiled and I don’t want to influence you, but I think it looks pretty damned cool.

With all he debate raging regarding whether this season’s Heroes is good or not, I’ll be curious to hear what your thoughts are on this trailer. To me it looks like they took a pretty similar concept and turned it into a feature film.

It stars Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans (who played the Human Torch in Fantastic Four), Camilla Belle, and Djimon Hounsou.

Check it out for yourself:

[See post to watch Flash video]

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Comic-Con ‘08: Summit Panel – Push

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:56:48 +0000

Chris Evans, Camille Belle, Djimon Hounsou and director Paul McGuigan are on hand to promote the movie Push. The film is about people with psychic abilities and how governments around the world attempt to train and use them for warfare and spying.

The showed the opening title sequence of the film which takes a very real world approach showing archival footage going back to WWII and the 1950s.

Director McGuigan wanted this to seem like something real as far as the situation, even if the abilities are paranormal. The characters aren’t super-powered but are regular people who happen to have these abilities. Some people can push memories on others (Pushers), others are “Movers” who have telekinetic powers. Then there are “Watchers” who can see the future. Dakota Fanning plays a watcher in the film but was not at the panel due to getting stuck in traffic.

A clip was shown featuring Hounsou ...

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