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Madagascar 3: Europe’S Most Wanted – Skipper Needs Your Help & New Mobile App
23 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The Zoosters need Your help! Find the penguins, navigate your way through Europe, and escape the clutches of Capitaine DuBois in Madagascar 3: Furry vs. The Fuzz Video Adventure!
Don’t forget to see Madagascar 3: Europe.S Most Wanted, in theaters June 8 in 3D!
It’s time to “Wig” out!
Download The New Mobile App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mad-wig-out/id525137708?mt=8
In the third installment of the billion-dollar .Madagascar. franchise, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman (David Schwimmer) are determined to make their way back to The Central Park Zoo in New York City. Leaving Africa behind, they.ve taken a detour and surfaced, quite literally, in Europe . on a hunt for the penguins and chimps who have managed to break the bank of a Monte Carlo casino. Soon the animals are discovered by dogged French animal control »
- Michelle McCue
Release: The Christopher Nolan Blu-ray Collection
23 May 2012 6:42 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray Release Date: June 26, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $49.99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Timed to the theatrical release of The Dark Knight Rises, The Christopher Nolan Blu-ray Collection is basically a repackaged version of some of the director’s already available films. But it does have a nice extra, and if these movies aren’t already in your library, this set is a good way to get them for a collectively lower price.
The box includes Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, Insomnia and Memento, as well as a book featuring production stills and notes on the making of each film. Each box also contains Movie Cash good for up to $8 off one admission to see The Dark Knight Rises at participating theaters through Aug. 5, 2012.
Here’s the list of special features that come with each film, all of which were on earlier discs:
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight IMAX Prologue (in high-definition »
- Sam
DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’S Most Wanted New Featurette & Clips
17 May 2012 12:50 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock, left) is safe in the arms of Vitaly the Tiger (Bryan Cranston, right) in DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’S Most Wanted, to be released by Paramount Pictures.
In theaters on June 8, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple and of course, King Julien, Maurice and the Penguins are all along for the comedic adventure. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent . Madagascar style.
The global success of 2005.s .Madagascar. and its lively 2008 sequel .Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,. proved that while the films were broad comedies with plenty of action, they were, above all, well-told stories with universal themes audiences related to. For the filmmakers, it was never enough to just go for the laughs.
As »
- Michelle McCue
Watch: Seven Minutes Of Alan Rickman Making Tea In Super-Slow Motion, Because Why The Hell Not?
16 May 2012 8:59 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Alan Rickman is, as we're sure you're aware at this point, one of our finest actors. From "Die Hard" and "Truly Madly Deeply" to the 'Harry Potter' series, he's consistently stolen the show in the finest tradition of British character actors. Now that the Potter franchise has wrapped up, Rickman's got a bit more time on his hands, and after wrapping "Gambit" with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, has just signed on, according to the Hollywood Reporter, to "Cbgb," a biopic of Hilly Krystal, who founded the seminal New York City punk club, for writer/directors Randall Miller and Jody Savin, with whom Rickman worked previously on "Bottle Shock."
That film will get before cameras next month, but in the meantime, there's another project starring Rickman that's caught our attention: a collaboration with artist David Michalek in the form of a viral video where Rickman makes tea in super-slow motion, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Beyond Fright – Trailer Round-up: The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-man, Expendables 2, GI Joe: Retaliation!
6 May 2012 11:47 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
And now for another round of Beyond Fright!
For me, one of the great loves of mine while growing up besides our beloved horror genre was comic books. So how can the fanboy in me not be excited by the bevy of comic related movies coming out this summer?! Here’s a look at a handful of trailers that dropped in the last week that are bound to keep things hot this summer for sure.
The Dark Knight Rises – What’s being touted as filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s final chapter in the Dark Knight legend, The Dark Knight Rises just unveiled the third and final trailer for the upcoming July 20th theatrical release. I actually initially posted on my Facebook about being slightly underwhelmed by the trailers for this last Batman film; mind you I think it looks terrific, but compared to the promotional campaign for The Dark Knight with all the Joker teases, »
- Rob Galluzzo
Must Watch: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 3
30 April 2012 9:43 PM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
“I’m Gotham’s reckoning.” -Bane
The summer movie season may kick into full gear this weekend with The Avengers, but don’t forget a little Warner Bros. tentpole called The Dark Knight Rises.
Behold, the third (and possibly final?) trailer for the upcoming final installment of director Christopher Nolan’s take on the Batman franchise.
What’s great about this trailer is the gradual crescendo it reaches, going from essentially no music with muted action to the full-on Hans Zimmer score with titillating action sequences. However, for a Batman movie trailer, it doesn’t focus as much on the film’ titular character, instead giving us more of a glimpse into the terror that supervillain Bane is going to cause and showing Selina Kyle as more of an ally to the caped crusader than a foe. We also get a generous number of looks at Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s John Blake character. »
- Sean B.
The Sci-Fi Portfolio - Awesome Sci-Fi Film Supercut
30 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Check out this entertaining sci-fi movie video compilation created by YouTube user HatinHand called The Sci-Fi Portfolio. The video quickly takes us through a ton of our favorite sci-fi films, and a few we could really care less about, but it's still a solidly fun edit that I'm sure most of you will enjoy watching. I'm a big fan of sci-fi films, and I'm incredibly excited for a few new ones coming out this year such as Prometheus, Total Recall and Looper, which are all included in the video. Enjoy the video, and let us know which one is your favorite sci-fi film of all time!
Music:
1. "K.I.L.L." by Nick Murray
(2. A bit of "528491" by Hans Zimmer from "Inception")
3. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by Marilyn Manson
4. "Intro" by The Xx
Chapter One: Into The Grid
Dark City
Gattaca
I, Robot
Looper »
- Venkman
New 'The Dark Knight Rises' viral marketing campaign: What is 'Harvey Dent Day'?
30 April 2012 8:36 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
There are some intriguing new materials over at the Dark Knight Rises website. Designed to resemble a police file, the website features a warrant for the arrest of “John Doe, Aka, ‘The Batman’” and an internally circulated document from “Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley,” noting that the mayor is insisting that the Gotham City Pd redouble their efforts to capture the masked vigilante due to the upcoming arrival of Harvey Dent Day. There’s also a list of addresses in cities around the world, along with a call to action to “submit photographic evidence of graffiti.” Translation: If you live in a major city, »
- Darren Franich
Armando Iannucci On Alan Partridge Movie
30 April 2012 4:34 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
It's been parked in the development equivalent of a Norfolk motel car park for several years now, dogged with will-it/won't-it rumours, but Empire can confirm that not only is the Alan Partridge movie finally happening, it's happening this year and Father Ted alum Declan Lowney will be directing. With any luck, Alan's own Hans Zimmer, Glenn Ponder, will be penning a suitably epic jazz synth soundtrack right now. Co-writer Armando Iannucci is, of course, currently busy with his Veep duties on HBO, but we used our journalistical wiles to extract some Partridge intel, kicking off with the project's status."It’s just about all come together now, so that’ll be shot later in the year," Iannucci told us, confirming that he's taking an executive producer credit. And what of the title? "At the moment it’s 'The Alan Partridge Movie' but that’s just a working title. [The script] is written [but] we’re always rewriting, »
Jack White Adding Film Scoring to His Resume for ‘The Lone Ranger’
25 April 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
After years with The White Stripes (R.I.P.), collaborative projects like The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, an ex-wife/bandmate that everyone thinks is his sister, and now a new solo album, Jack White‘s been a busy man. While he’s no stranger to film, he’s never composed a film score until now. According to Disney, they’ve hired the slightly mad musician to score The Lone Ranger, the forthcoming movie from Gore Verbinski. The director has worked most often with Hans Zimmer, but there’s no denying that White has incredible musical talent. As for movies, White worked with Alicia Keys on the Quantum of Solace song “Another Way to Die,” he was featured in It Might Get Loud, and he also appeared on “Rome” – the album from Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi which was inspired by Spaghetti Westerns. It’ll be an interesting experiment to see how his vision and talent transpose »
- Cole Abaius
Jack White Saddles Up To Score 'The Lone Ranger'
24 April 2012 5:40 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The filmmakers behind "The Lone Ranger" haven't been wasting any time in getting the word out that this won't just be a standard reboot of the show your Dad falls asleep watching reruns of on the couch at 2 a.m. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted out the first look at Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer over a month ago, and the cast hasn't been camera shy with people dropping by the set either. But this is perhaps the biggest indication that it will be a departure from the television staple.
Disney has announced that former White Stripes frontman and non-stop rock 'n' roller Jack White will be writing the score for the film. And in a nice bit of contrived coincidence, White also has a new album, Blunderbuss, in stores today. Ahhh, synergy. But cynicism aside, this is a pretty adventurous and smart hire. The idea to have him score the »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Deadly Comparisons: Ringu Vs. The Ring
21 April 2012 11:05 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com
The Original Ringu (1998)
Have you heard this urban legend about a videotape that kills you seven days after you watch it? No? Then may I introduce you to the world of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and let you two get acquainted?
Keep in mind, there are a few crucial points to the films I want to cover so you might be in for a lengthy read.
This 1998 Japanese horror film (or as it is affectionately dubbed, J-Horror) is based on the thrilling ’91 novel by Koji Suzuki and follows reporter Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushimi) as she is investigating the startling urban legend and the terrifying truth behind it.
Along the way she enlists the help of her ex-husband Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada) and the two embark on a quest to get to the very bottom of the supposedly deadly legend, uncovering a few horrifying revelations as they go. »
- admin
'The Three Musketeers' Blu-ray Review
14 March 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Three Musketeers was clearly conceived as a franchise-starter and a predecessor of sorts to the fading Pirates of the Caribbean series. Hell, they even went as far as casting the now-unhirable Orlando Bloom as one of the lead villains. But as tired as the Pirates franchise may be after four films, even its most mediocre entries fare better than cheap imitators like The Three Musketeers. But why is the film even called The Three Musketeers in the first place? Our hero is D'Artagnan, a teenage swordsman played by Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief). He brings the three veteran Musketeers out of retirement and fights alongside them in hopes of stopping Bloom, Christoph Waltz and Milla Jovovich from starting a war between France and England, though everyone appears British since no one uses a French accent. Only the first ten minutes of the film, complete with The Good, »
- Kevin Blumeyer
Rock star scores
9 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Does the success of Trent Reznor, Clint Mansell and Mark Mothersbaugh suggest that the days of the orchestral soundtrack are numbered?
Two words said it all. Moments after winning a Golden Globe for his score for The Social Network last year, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor tweeted "Holy shit!" Industrial rock singers aren't in the habit of winning Golden Globes for film scores, and certainly not their first one. But the landscape has changed in recent years – and is still doing so, fast. Two cinema releases this week alone have had their scores composed by singers: Sigur Rós' Jónsi has done the honours on Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo, while Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh is responsible for 21 Jump Street.
This is not an entirely new phenomenon: notably, Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler hit big with 1983's Local Hero, and Tim Burton changed Danny Elfman's life »
- Alex Godfrey
Comic Book Bites: Hans Zimmer on protecting the surprise of The Dark Knight Rises, Chronicle's Josh Trank denies Fantastic Four talk
2 March 2012 2:31 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Fan excitement for this year's superhero releases has spiked with the release of a new trailer for The Avengers - which you can watch here - but despite the clamour for information, today's filmmakers are doing their best to keep plot details on lockdown.
There are many pieces still missing in our knowledge of The Avengers and even more of a mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
Composer Hans Zimmer defended Nolan's choice to keep the story under wraps, telling the La Times: "I think, to be able to do really good work, you have to have the chance to fail in privacy. And if everybody's watching you on the internet, I think it stifles creativity."
He added: "I think Dark Knight is the perfect example of this idea. Everybody knew we were making a Batman movie. But until it came out they didn't know it was »
- Michael Pellegrini
February Fan Art: Memento, The Dark Knight Rises, and More
29 February 2012 10:15 AM, PST | Nolan Fans | See recent Nolan Fans news »
Welcome to the February Fan Art roundup, the fifth entry in our series of monthly write-ups showcasing fan art relating to the work of Christopher Nolan. Each month we comb through the fan art submissions on our Forums and our Tumblr page, then we collect the half-dozen or so pieces that are getting the most feedback to share them here in these roundups. So what does this month’s roundup include? We have an awesome Memento timeline graphic, beautiful new Batman Begins inspired digital art, some stylish posters for Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and some very creative The Dark Knight Rises pieces of art.
We’re going to start it off they way we have for the last several write-ups; with a new piece of art from Nolan Fans user Constantine (Konstantinos Vagelis) inspired by Batman Begins:
Up next, Greg Burney created this crazy amazing timeline graphic for Memento »
- TeddyBlass
What Are The Oscar Chances For The Dark Knight Rises? MTV Breaks It Down
29 February 2012 5:32 AM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
For the longest, people have been stressing how they believe that Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” series should be nominated for the Academy Awards and, in some arguments, should win noms like Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (such as the late Heath Ledger, who portrayed the Joker). MTV has decided that they would take some of the arguments to heart and have devised an article that breaks down which nominations “The Dark Knight Rises” could be eligible for. Some of the nominations are actually really plausible, such as Hans Zimmer getting a nomination for his work on the film (personally, I think he’s been Oscar-snubbed for long time). One nom that »
- monique
The Week in Spandex – The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, Spawn, Kick-Ass 2, Before Watchmen, Daredevil, Arrow and more…
29 February 2012 4:39 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes…
As we await the expected arrival of a brand new trailer for The Avengers next week, a couple of new images from Joss Whedon's superhero ensemble have made their way online - one of which depicts Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) together and the other featuring Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) - and Tom Hiddleston spoke to Total Film (via ComicBookMovie) about Loki's battles with Cap and The Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). Meanwhile Quint over at AICN reported on the early buzz for the epic team-up: "Word 'round the campfire is Marvel considers The Avengers to be their best outing yet. I've talked to some cynics in the group who weren't sure it was going to come together and they're all doing their mea culpas now. »
- flickeringmyth
Hans Zimmer’s All-Star Academy Awards® Band Releases “The 84th Academy Awards . Celebrate the Music” Collection on the iTunes Store
28 February 2012 7:07 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
A new compilation of music centered around Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer’s theme for this year’s Oscar® telecast is now available on the iTunes Store. Titled “The 84th Academy Awards . Celebrate the Music,” the collection includes the show’s musical theme plus six unique, inventive interpretations of the theme by other artists, and the “In Memoriam” choral rendition of “What a Wonderful World.”
In addition to both of the 84th Academy Awards music directors . Zimmer and musician/producer/composer Pharrell Williams (of The Neptunes) . the extraordinary group of international artists who contributed their talents includes: percussionist/drummer/composer Sheila E.; Grammy®-winning double bass player/singer Esperanza Spalding; guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel (“Midnight in Paris”); three-time Oscar-winning composer Giorgio Moroder; two-time Oscar winning composer/musician A.R. Rahman; violin/cello virtuosi Ann Marie Calhoun and Martin Tillman; Dutch hit remixer/composer/electronic musician Junkie Xl; and multiple Grammy-winning British musician/producer Peter Asher. »
- Michelle McCue
Are Disney Trying To Bail On Distributing Alex Kurtzman's 'Welcome To People'?
27 February 2012 6:22 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Producing and writing giants Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci were starting to look like one trick ponies with a steady slate of tentpole fare including the 'Transformers' and 'Star Trek' series as well as "Cowboys & Aliens." But last year saw the duo delve into adult drama with "Welcome To People," a film co-written by Kurtzman, Orci and Jody Lambert, that also marks Kurtzmann's directorial debut. Shot early last year, we had even named it as a potential awards season dark horse contender, however, that never came to pass.
Now, it seems there may be cause for concern. In a detailed story by Vulture about Kurtzman and Orci's production shingle K/O Paper Products and their kiboshed partnership with Skydance Productions (which is backed by David Ellison who is, of course, the brother of Annapurna Pictures' Megan), the site adds that Disney -- who distribute DreamWorks movies -- is »
- Simon Dang
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