New Movie Updates

[udarsha45]

2 movie updates every day. pls comment 🙂
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)​

Coming Soon
In theaters July 15.​

Director: David Yates
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogwarts to find and destroy the final horcruxes. But when Voldemort finds out about their mission, the battle we've all known has been coming -- Harry vs. Voldemort -- looms large on the horizon. And who will triumph?​

THE BUZZ: Yes, it's taken ten years (!) and eight (!!) movies to reach the final climax to the Harry Potter film series, so let's take a moment to reflect upon the unprecendented achievement made by the filmmakers, cast, crew and studio, and the commitment everyone has made for the past decade to get this body of work made. Children have grown into adults, directors have come and gone, and still, the myth and legend remains as potent as ever....

There, are you done reflecting yet? Now onto the real meat of it: director Yates is going to need to pull out the stops on this one to make it the showstopper everyone wants it to be. Most everyone still thinks the series peaked with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so it'll take some doing to get J.K. Rowling's rather, erm, lugubrious ending into fine cinematic form. Bonus points for making it suspenseful when practically the entire world knows how it ends!

P.S. We will indeed miss Harry being a presence in our film lives and part of almost every major feature we've done for the beginning of this young century. And if we're a mite melancholy, imagine how Warner Bros. must feel, their golden boy finally graduating!​

Winnie the Pooh​

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Coming Soon
In theaters July 15.​

Director: Stephen J. Anderson Don Hall
Stars: Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, Peter Cullen (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: While out looking for some honey, Winnie the Pooh is pulled into a quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit.​

THE BUZZ: Five stories from A.A. Milne are given the hand-drawn Disney treatment in the studio's return to Hundred Acre Wood. Keeping the project relatively celebrity-free is commendable, perhaps an acknowledgment that storytelling is the star here. Said differently, bringing Winnie, Eeyore, et al. back into theaters in classical fashion could be construed as an indication that Disney is aware of how poorly their non-Pixar animated movies have performed of late.​

 

[Ozzie]

Surprised that they're making another Pooh movie...it's been quite a while..


HP and the Deathly Hollows looks good, it's the only HP movie I'm considering seeing in the theatre.

 

[udarsha45]

yeah..^^

Rise of the Planet of the Apes​

Coming Soon
In theaters AUGUST 5th.​

Director: Rupert Wyatt
Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: In present day San Francisco, a scientist (Franco) looks for a cure for Alzheimer's disease by experimenting on a chimpanzee named Caesar. The development of animal intelligence brings about a war for supremacy between humans and apes.​

THE BUZZ: Really we're looking forward to James Franco's sleepy-eyed justifications for the origins story, Andy Serkis's motion-capture work as Caesar, and the reunion of director Rupert Wyatt and Brian Cox, who starred in Wyatt's excellent debut, The Escapist. We'll give this one a chance, but the number of writers who have experimented on this script is worth noting, as is the release-date juggling -- first early summer, then winter, now late summer. Could be a case of fans vs. Fox -- a familiar battle. For Franco, who has the longest To Do List in history, this is the kind of serious-minded entertainment that's perfectly fits his actorly qualities. (That could be construed as a polite way of saying he's best suited for thinky drama.) He's also wonderfully malleable in the right director's hands, though with Serkis, Cox, and pretty young things Freida Pinto and Tom Felton in the mix, we're realizing this is the first big-time leading man challenge for Franco, and, yes, we hope he's more engaging than he was as Oscar co-host ...​

Magic Trip ​

Coming Soon
In theaters AUGUST 5th.​

Director: Alison Ellwood Alex Gibney
Stars: (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures​

The Plot: A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America, from La Honda, California to New York City for the 1964 World's Fair.​

THE BUZZ: Alex Gibney's longtime editor/producer Alison Ellwood pulls up a director's chair for herself, and together the duo stitch together present-day testimonials with 16mm footage shot by the Merry Pranskters. Living in San Francisco, I can honestly say the dippy, wonderfully unselfconscious theater and hijinks that Kesey, Cassady, and the other Pranksters introduced to this city is still alive and in the hands of a reverent younger generation.​

 

[Gizmo]

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[udarsha45]

ok and thanks 🙂<br /><br />-- 16 Jul 2011, 14:30 --<br /><br />

Bellflower​

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Director: Evan Glodell
Stars: Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman (Full Cast)
Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures​

The Plot: Woodrow (Glodell) and Aiden (Dawson) devote their time to building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction, part of their preparation for the global apocalypse. Their plans are derailed temporarily when Woodrow falls for Milly (Wiseman), but when their relationship sours, the two guys begin to live out an even darker, more violent fantasy.​

THE BUZZ: Evan Glodell's first film is warped, nostalgic, and unlike anything given a conventional theatrical release; his camera lenses collect dirty and the colors on his screen blur and over-saturate as this doomsday scenario finds a new plan of attack.

30 Minutes or Less​

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures​

The Plot: Two fledgling criminals (McBride and Swardson) kidnap pizza delivery guy Nick (Eisenberg), strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank. As the clock ticks, Nick, with the help of his ex-best friend, Chet (Ansari), deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers, and their own tumultuous relationship.​

THE BUZZ: We're expecting another R-rated, nerd-as-hero adventure from Jesse Eisenberg and director Ruben Fleischer, an outing heavier on the profanity (hello, Danny McBride) and perhaps less sentimental than the surprisingly tender Zombieland. We'll see if Jesse has any rules of survival this time around. Curious to see what writing duo Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan have to say in their first big-screen venture; if this comedy is a hit, they might become as ubiquitous behind the scenes as Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (who, like Fleischer) were virtually unknown before the arrival of Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock.​