— by CHERRY BELL — Lionsgate is continuing its “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” promotional campaign with not just one Capitol Couture portrait, but THREE (yes, that’s right, three!) new portraits. Previously, we saw Elizabeth Banks in Effie Trinket garb and Stanley Tu[...]
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Catching Fire: Caesar Flickerman Portrait
— by CHERRY BELL — Lionsgate is continuing the promotional campaign online for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” by hitting up all the social media sites as well as the more popular entertainment sites. When releasing Effie Trinket’s couture portrait on their Tumblr site (on In[...]
Catching Fire: Effie Trinket Portrait
— by CHERRY BELL — As a follow up to the teaser posters of recent Academy Award winner for Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark last week, Lionsgate is flooding social media outlets and the “Catching Fire” online community with [...]
Star Trek Into Darkness: First Featurette
— by ADAM POYNTER — The talk around J.J. Abrams has been aflutter ever since it was revealed that Disney, with the newly-acquired rights to the “Star Wars” franchise, had hired the director to helm the new film and kick off an entirely new series of movies. While this is exciting new[...]
Man of Steel: Empire Images
— by JOSUE SANCHEZ — I still remember the first official photo that was released for “Man of Steel.” It showed so much, yet so little. Speculation ran wild about Superman’s suit, about his hair, even about his muscles. Now, months later, we have seen the suit in its ent[...]
Own Hotel Transylvania Today
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — “Hotel Transylvania” — a fun animated film about a hotel for monsters run by the king of classic creatures, Count Dracula himself — is available to own on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and UltraViolet. The clever tale, brought to life by Adam Sandler,[...]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: First Look
— by CHERRY BELL — With 11 months left until “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is released nationwide in theaters and IMAX, Entertainment Weekly has decided to whet the fanbase’s appetite with a few exclusive stills. On the cover of the issue released today are Jennifer[...]
Warm Bodies: The First Four Minutes
— by CHERRY BELL — If you are still on the fence about whether to head to a movie theater Feb. 1 to see “Warm Bodies,” Summit Entertainment has released the first four minutes of the film to help you decide. There are many scenes and voice-overs that we’ve seen already from the ini[...]
Q&A: Joss Whedon
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Tuesday night, Jeff Goldsmith of Backstory Magazine hosted a special screening of “The Avengers” with Joss Whedon at the DGA theater. During the Q&A session that followed the film, Whedon responded to questions about not only the hit superhero flick, but[...]
Jack Reacher: Two TV Spots
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — With the release date nearing for “Jack Reacher,” Paramount Pictures has released two new TV spots for the movie. There isn’t much the the way of new footage in each of the spots, but we do get to see Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) telling Helen Rod[...]
A Music Video from Damsels in Distress
— by SEAN GERSKI — When Whit Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress” played in theaters a few months back, the flick played primarily to people who already were fans of the writer-director. But now “Damsels in Distress” is out on DVD and blu-ray and this is giving a whole new group of[...]
A Music Video from Wreck-It Ralph
— by KATHLEEN COLLINS — “Wreck-It Ralph” is one of those movies that had me hooked once I heard the concept. It’s about a video game villain who is tired of playing the bad guy, so he goes out looking for another game where he can be the hero. Of course, his absence puts his [&hell[...]
Short Film: Superman Classic
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Perhaps Zack Snyder’s Untitled Superman movie should be animated. I don’t mean in 3D, but in traditional 2D animation. Honestly, I’m kinda over the three-dimensional craze. As someone who grew up watching Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty a[...]
Filmmaker Losing His Sight, Not His Vision
Chicago-area screenwriter and director Jack Marchetti is in a race against time to make his full-length feature film before losing his sight to degenerative eye disease, cone rod dystrophy. His screenplay for the gritty crime drama “4 of a Kind” was previously chosen as a top contender for Proje[...]