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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: March 8, 2011

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:15:52 +0000

This week features some worthy DVD and Blu-ray releases, but no re-releases of note. One of the biggest television events of the year hits home video alongside a pair of Oscar-nominated documentaries.

One of this week’s most intriguing items is Jackass 3, which will not be released as a 3D home video. Considering its power as a 3D release in theaters, it’s surprising to see it only hit shelves as a 2D release, so fans with an expensive 3D television will be disappointed, to say the least.

Morning Glory and The Next Three Days rest on opposite sides of the genre pool, but might share weak sales as home video releases amidst the more well-known competition. Those that saw both films in theaters might head to stores right away, but both disappointed at the box office ...

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Toy Story 3, The King’s Speech & More Ineligible For WGA Screenplay Awards

Ross Miller — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:39:08 +0000

When awards season rolls around every year there always seems to be a group of films that are tapped to pick up their share of the major awards. 2010 is no exception and this year the likes of Toy Story 3, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, Black Swan and The Fighter are among those which have won awards already and look likely to pick up some Oscars as well.

However, when it comes to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), there are rules which often prohibit certain awards favorites from winning in some of the big categories offered by awards ceremonies.

Following the Oscars deeming the scores for Black Swan, True Grit and The Fighter ineligible for ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 28, 2010

Niall Browne — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:40:58 +0000

This week:

Disney gets Tangled with Harry Potter; Twilight producers have a Game Theory; the truth is out there with Mulder and Scully; Gael Garcia Bernal and Al Pacino say “no more” with Hands of Stone; the Empire doesn’t strike back but there is indeed love from Russia and Michael J. Bassett hears the bells of Saint Mary’s.

Box Office

Harry Potter remained box office champion over the Thanksgiving weekend.

The boy wizard and the Deathly Hallows: Part One should bank in the region of $80 million over the five-day weekend ($50 million for the three days). That gives the film a huge $220 million cumulative gross.

Disney’s Tangled in 3D had to settle for the runner-up position. The mouse house shouldn’t feel too bad, as the film banked an impressive $69 million over the five days.

Megamind was ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 21, 2010

Niall Browne — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:37:24 +0000

This week:

Harry Potter debuts at Number One; Gambit is on the way; beware The Swarm; DiCaprio sets his sights on JFK; Gore Verbinski has a Magical Law; Apollo 18 blasts off with a new director; there’s a new Boston-based crime drama on the way; Disney gets ready to Hover; Kermit and company acquires some new friends and get ready for the Martyrs.

Box Office

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (read our review) gave the long-running franchise its best ever debut. The seventh Potter pic should grab an estimated $125 million over the weekend, beating out Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire’s $102 million opening. It’s pretty amazing that a franchise like this has seen so much audience love and loyalty over the years – considering that they release one every year or two. The darkening tone of the series has helped the target audience grow ...

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Poster Roundup: Tron Legacy, Let Me In, And More

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:57 +0000

Several new movie one-sheets from around the globe have emerged online, including a Japanese poster for Tron Legacy; the French poster for Let Me In; a Russian banner for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; and the U.S. poster for the thriller The Next Three Days.

The first item now available for viewing is a “Chirashi poster,” or essentially a Japanese flyer for this winter’s tenpole pic, Tron Legacy. Disney is hoping for a nice box office turnout around the world when it unleashes the 3D behemoth in theaters during the 2010 holiday season so don’t expect this to be the last international poster to pop up over the next few months.

Here is the official Tron Legacy synopsis:

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, ...

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Screen Rant’s 2010 Fall Movie Preview

Kofi Outlaw — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:17:36 +0000

Summertime and all that easy living is now done, and unless you’re one of those people who lives where the sun is always shining then the onset of Fall means four things: colder weather, earlier sunsets, heavier clothing and movies galore.

Yes, the summer has all those big blockbusters we’ve been waiting all year to see, but Fall is the time when we actually want to be in the movie theater: when being outdoors is no longer an attractive alternative and the cinema offers many, many, award-worthy films. A few of them even stand the chance of being pretty good.

Of course the Fall movie landscape has been changing pretty radically in the last few years: September is now a “showcase for unique genre films” instead of just a studio dumping ground ...

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SR Pick [Video]: 2010 Fall/Winter Movie Trailer Mashup

Ben Kendrick — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:11:13 +0000

It’s been a somewhat lackluster summer movie season – with only a few highly anticipated films living up to their hype. While box office numbers are still strong there were plenty of high-profile films that failed to impress audiences.

The somewhat disappointing summer has left an empty void in a lot of moviegoers – a void that the Fall 2010 film season is prepped to fill.

We locked Screen Rant’s Mike Eisenberg in his production office, with only week old saltine crackers and water, until he successfully produced a Fall preview trailer worthy of the bar he set with his Ultimate 2010 Summer Movie Trailer. Once again he’s taken the most popular upcoming films and mashed them together into one epic Fall Preview – set to “The Final Arrow” by Marc ...

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Explosive ‘The Next Three Days’ Trailer from Paul Haggis

Mike Eisenberg — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:26:03 +0000

Paul Haggis is back in the director’s chair with his upcoming thriller The Next Three Days.

The first trailer shows a balanced attack of action and drama with a star-studded cast of Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, and Olivia Wilde.

Anything with Elizabeth Banks has my attention, but I’m especially intrigued considering the Russell Crowe vehicle lies somewhere between The Fugitive and Taken. This remake of French film Pour Elles explores a man’s attempt to break his wife out of prison – because the wife claims she’s been falsely detained for a murder she did not commit. Needless to say, the man will do anything to get her out.

Conviction, starring Hilary Swank and arriving later this year, explores a similar premise. Swank becomes a lawyer with the ...

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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – July 30, 2009

Niall Browne — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:01:51 +0000

In the Wrap Up this week:

Warner Bros get jiggy with their release dates; Paul W.S. Anderson is The Warded Man; Schwentke sees Red with Willis and Freeman; [UPDATED] Will Spielberg helm Helm? Russell Crowe and Paul Haggis are busy for The Next Three Days and Matthew McConaughey and Eva Mendes are Southbound.

1. Warner Bros seem to be conducting a merry dance of release date shuffles. The water tower studio has changed the release dates of three high profile films.

A Nightmare on Elm Street has been pushed back two weeks from April 16, 2010 to April 30th.

Meanwhile the Josh Broli n/ Megan Fox comic book western Jonah Hex has been moved forward from August 30 to June 18 2010. This switch to a prime mid-summer slot gives the indication that Warner Bros have a lot of confidence in the film, as late ...

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