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DEADPOOL Says His Upcoming Film Is A Must-See In IMAX

“IMAX. Size matters. #sorrynotsorry”

Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero DEADPOOL wants fans to catch his new movie next year in nothing but IMAX theaters. Take a look below.

In case you missed it, watch the red-band trailer for director Tim Miller’s DEADPOOL.

DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool.

Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano and Brianna Hildebrand.

From 20th Century Fox, DEADPOOL opens in theaters on February 12, 2016.

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Watch The First Trailer For Richard Linklater’s EVERYBODY WANTS SOME

Here’s your first look at the new trailer and posters for Richard Linklater’s college-theme movie EVERYBODY WANTS SOME. This follow-up film arrives more than 20 years after the original and is the “spiritual sequel” to DAZED AND CONFUSED.

The movie will make its World Premiere on Friday, March 11, 2016 during the 23rd edition of the SXSW Film Festival.

Linklater says of his new film, “If you look at Mitch, Wiley Wiggins’s character in Dazed who pitches in that pony league game, this is him, four years later, going off to college. Say he got better at baseball and he’s off to college. It would be right then — 1980.” He adds, “I’m reclaiming songs like ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and ‘My Sharona’ – you know, songs from ’79 and’80 that people have been making fun of for a while. I’m back to the original intent of those songs, like what they felt like then. What a revelation ‘Rapper’s Delight’ was back in the day. We weren’t making fun of it. It was new.”

The film stars Will Brittain, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Blake Jenner, J. Quinton Johnson, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Austin Amelio, Temple Baker, Tanner Kalina, Juston Street and Forrest Vickery.

Produced by Megan Ellison, Ginger Sledge, and Richard Linklater, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME is in-theaters April 15, 2016.

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Watch Jennifer Lawrence And Robert De Niro In An Extended Look At JOY

20th Century Fox has released an extended look at David O. Russell’s latest film JOY.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, and Virginia Madsen, the film opens in theaters Christmas Day.

JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.

Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces.

JOY opens in theaters on December 25, 2015.

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Enter The 360 Immersive Experience Of THE FOREST

Gramercy Pictures invites you to enter the Suicide Forest from their upcoming film THE FOREST.

It is an immersive 360 degree sight and sound experience that takes fans right into the heart of Aokigahara, the terrifying real life suicide forest located at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. The experience uses real images taken at Aokigahara.

Enter here: thesuicideforest.com

The experience is best viewed in either mobile or virtual reality using Google Cardboard and your phone. 360 degree video and audio transports fans right into the The Suicide Forest.

Find your friend, trace her path…but leave the forest before it takes you.

Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

In the company of expatriate Aiden (Taylor Kinney of “Chicago Fire”), Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.” Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who dares come near them. These malevolent spirits lying in wait for Sara at every turn will plunge her into a frightening darkness from which she must fight to save herself.

Directed by Jason Zada, the movie is written by Ben Ketai, Sarah Cornwell and Nick Antosca.

THE FOREST hits theaters nationwide from Gramercy Pictures on January 8th.

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Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig And Leslie Jones Featured In First Posters For Paul Feig’s GHOSTBUSTERS

The Ghostbusters Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), Erin (Kristen Wiig) and Patty (Leslie Jones) are featured inside the Mercado Hotel Lobby in a new photo from Columbia Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS.

Sony Pictures has also released four new character posters for the upcoming film.

Thirty years after the original film took the world by storm, GHOSTBUSTERS is back and fully rebooted for a new generation.

Director Paul Feig combines all the paranormal fighting elements that made the original franchise so beloved with a cast of new characters, played by the funniest actors working today. Get ready to watch them save the world this summer.

The new film also stars Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams and Chris Hemsworth.

GHOSTBUSTERS is written by Paul Feig & Katie Dippold based on the film “Ghostbusters” written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and Directed by Ivan Reitman. The new movie is produced by Ivan Reitman and Amy Pascal.

GHOSTBUSTERS opens in theaters July 15, 2016.

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112 Original Scores Advance In The 88th Oscar Race

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 112 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2015 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 88th Academy Awards.

The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:

“Adult Beginners,” Marcelo Zarvos, composer
“The Age of Adaline,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“Altered Minds,” Edmund Choi, composer
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” Mark Mothersbaugh, composer
“Anomalisa,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Ant-Man,” Christophe Beck, composer
“Beasts of No Nation,” Dan Romer, composer
“The Big Short,” Nicholas Britell, composer
“Black Mass,” Tom Holkenborg, composer
“Bridge of Spies,” Thomas Newman, composer
“Brooklyn,” Michael Brook, composer
“Burnt,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“By the Sea,” Gabriel Yared, composer
“Carol,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Cartel Land,” H. Scott Salinas and Jackson Greenberg, composers
“Chi-Raq,” Terence Blanchard, composer
“Cinderella,” Patrick Doyle, composer
“Coming Home,” Qigang Chen, composer
“Concussion,” James Newton Howard, composer
“Creed,” Ludwig Goransson, composer
“The Danish Girl,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” Joseph Trapanese, composer
“Dukhtar,” Peter Nashel, composer
“The End of the Tour,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Everest,” Dario Marianelli, composer
“Ex Machina,” Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, composers
“Far from the Madding Crowd,” Craig Armstrong, composer
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” Danny Elfman, composer
“5 Flights Up,” David Newman, composer
“Frame by Frame,” Patrick Jonsson, composer
“Freedom,” James Lavino, composer
“Furious Seven,” Brian Tyler, composer
“The Good Dinosaur,” Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna, composers
“Goosebumps,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Grandma,” Joel P. West, composer
“The Hateful Eight,” Ennio Morricone, composer
“He Named Me Malala,” Thomas Newman, composer
“Hot Pursuit,” Christophe Beck, composer
“Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” Christophe Beck, composer
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,” James Newton Howard, composer
“The Hunting Ground,” Miriam Cutler, composer
“I Smile Back,” Zack Ryan, composer
“I’ll See You in My Dreams,” Keegan DeWitt, composer
“In the Heart of the Sea,” Roque Baños, composer
“Inside Out,” Michael Giacchino, composer
“The Intern,” Theodore Shapiro, composer
“It Follows,” Disasterpeace, composer
“Jalam,” Ouesppachan, composer
“Jurassic World,” Michael Giacchino, composer
“Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” Gabriel Yared, composer
“Kingsman: The Secret Service,” Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson, composers
“Krampus,” Douglas Pipes, composer
“La Jaula de Oro,” Jacobo Lieberman and Leonardo Heiblum, composers
“The Lady in the Van,” George Fenton, composer
“The Last Witch Hunter,” Steve Jablonsky, composer
“Learning to Drive,” Dhani Harrison and Paul Hicks, composers
“Legend,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Little Accidents,” Marcelo Zarvos, composer
“The Longest Ride,” Mark Isham, composer
“Mad Max: Fury Road,” Tom Holkenborg, composer
“The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” Daniel Pemberton, composer
“The Martian,” Harry Gregson-Williams, composer
“Max,” Trevor Rabin, composer
“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” John Paesano, composer
“Meru,” J. Ralph, composer
“Minions,” Heitor Pereira, composer
“Mr. Holmes,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Mistress America,” Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, composers
“My All American,” John Paesano, composer
“Nachom-ia Kumpasar,” Ronnie Monsorate, composer
“99 Homes,” Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales, composers
“Our Brand Is Crisis,” David Wingo, composer
“Pan,” John Powell, composer
“Paper Towns,” Son Lux, composer
“Paranoid Girls,” Javier del Santo, composer
“Pawn Sacrifice,” James Newton Howard, composer
“The Peanuts Movie,” Christophe Beck, composer
“Pixels,” Henry Jackman, composer
“Poached,” Mark Orton, composer
“Pod,” Giona Ostinelli, composer
“Poltergeist,” Marc Streitenfeld, composer
“Racing Extinction,” J. Ralph, composer
“Room,” Stephen Rennicks, composer
“Salt Bridge,” Marciano Telese, composer
“San Andreas,” Andrew Lockington, composer
“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” Thomas Newman, composer
“Set Fire to the Stars,” Gruff Rhys, composer
“Shaun the Sheep Movie,” Ilan Eshkeri, composer
“Sicario,” Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer
“Southpaw,” James Horner, composer
“Spectre,” Thomas Newman, composer
“The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water,” John Debney, composer
“Spotlight,” Howard Shore, composer
“Spy,” Theodore Shapiro, composer
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” John Williams, composer
“Steve Jobs,” Daniel Pemberton, composer
“Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans,” Jim Copperthwaite, composer
“Stonewall,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“Suffragette,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“Taken 3,” Nathaniel Mechaly, composer
“Ted 2,” Walter Murphy, composer
“Testament of Youth,” Max Richter, composer
“The 33,” James Horner, composer
“Tomorrowland,” Michael Giacchino, composer
“True Story,” Marco Beltrami, composer
“Trumbo,” Theodore Shapiro, composer
“Truth,” Brian Tyler, composer
“Victor Frankenstein,” Craig Armstrong, composer
“The Walk,” Alan Silvestri, composer
“The Water Diviner,” David Hirschfelder, composer
“Wolf Totem,” James Horner, composer
“Z for Zachariah,” Heather McIntosh, composer

A Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.

To be eligible, the original score must be a substantial body of music that serves as original dramatic underscoring, and must be written specifically for the motion picture by the submitting composer. Scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible.

The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PT at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Photos From Monday’s Stellar World Premiere

On Monday fans across the galaxy joined the Force for the world premiere of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, the highly anticipated next film in the iconic Star Wars saga, picking up 30 years after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

The stars came out for the premiere at the Dolby, El Capitan and TCL Theatres in Hollywood, CA.

The red carpet was live streamed on StarWars.com

Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns to the big screen with STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS.

(L-R) Actors Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher

The cast and crew speak onstage during the World Premiere

Director J.J. Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn and president, The Walt Disney Studios, Alan Bergman speak onstage during the World Premiere

John Boyega and Lupita Nyong'o — John Boyega and Lupita Nyong’o

Sphero BB8 attends the after party for the World Premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Hollywood Blvd (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is written by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt.

Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS opens in U.S. theaters on December 18, 2015, and is rated PG-13. For more information on the film, visit: www.theforceawakens.com

The Force Awakens: Millennials’ Hopeful Star Wars Redemption

Article by Zachary Evans

I can’t remember a time in my life that Star Wars was not a part of. As a child, I would endlessly watch my family’s VHS copies of the original trilogy that my parents recorded off TV and would frequently have lightsaber fights with my brother using sticks outside. Seeing the theatrical rerelease of the original trilogy for the Special Edition in 1997 are some of my earliest memories of going to a movie theater.

When the prequel trilogy came, I was immensely excited. This was going to be the Star Wars that I could call my own—one that I would get to experience just like my parents did with the original trilogy. However, this did not really end up being the case, and the prequel trilogy was not just a disappointment for me and other Star Wars fans in my generation, it was a painful loss of innocence around something that was very important to us.

The imminent release of The Force Awakens is a huge deal culturally across the board, and is set to break every conceivable box office record. Considering how dominant Star Wars is in terms of popularity, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. For my generation, however, it carries an even bigger weight. My generation is old enough to remember the excitement leading up to The Phantom Menace, and the subsequent disappointment over the prequel trilogy in general. While older generations had the magical experience of seeing the original films on the big screen, the closest we came to that was the 1997 theatrical release of the special edition, which had its own share of disappointments for fans.

This is why The Force Awakens is not only exciting because, well, it’s Star Wars, it is also because it has the potential to serve as redemption for fans who haven’t gotten to partake in a good Star Wars movie release. We haven’t had the same opportunity to have our minds blown the way audiences were when the first movie opened in 1977. Just like the heavily CGI sets and effects of the prequel trilogy, our Star Wars experience felt artificial, like an imitation.

We were promised exciting new things, but all of these were at the expense of what continues to draw people to Star Wars. In the end, it is not lightsabers or explosions that made the original films so engaging. If it was, then the prequel films would have been incredibly well-loved, seeing as they upped the ante on these aspects in huge ways. In Episode II, we get to see more lightsabers in action than the rest of the films combined, but it is absolutely the worst movie in the entire franchise.

Finding redemption for Star Wars is especially important to my generation because the major issues with the prequels are all things that are frequently used to go after younger audiences, which we fell into when Episode I came out. At nine-years-old, I loved Episode I, and so did all of my friends. However, even then, the things I was most drawn to were those that most closely resembled the original trilogy and I thought Jar Jar Binks was really lame.

The crescendo of Episode I was especially something that I was drawn to, which makes sense considering it is not only reminiscent of familiar Star Wars territory, it is actually structured in the same way as that of Return of the Jedi (a four-pronged fight with a space battle, lightsaber fight, ground war between the antagonist forces and the native people of the planet, and the infiltration of an opposing stronghold).

Unfortunately, as the other two prequel films came out, it was clear that this kind of homage was not something we would see continue. Instead, Episodes II and III seemed to be entirely made up of new ways to disregard the best parts of the original trilogy while making obvious winks as fan service. Even recurring elements from the original trilogy, like epic space battles, felt strange and manufactured. Everything was shiny and CGI, but this was a poor replacement for the realism of the practical effects in the original trilogy. This is why I get excited to see things like air battles in trailers that resemble ones of our world more than purely science fiction.

This kind of pandering is a huge part of why The Force Awakens has this extra weight added to it for my generation of fan. It’s not just that George Lucas made some terrible decisions when making the prequels, it’s that these mistakes were widely considered to be things that people my age would grab onto. At times, I have felt a strange level of guilt over this.

Am I somehow responsible for practical effects and a simple, but compelling story arc being replaced by terrible CGI and lengthy plot devices that are only thrown in to add action scenes (looking at you, podracing)?

Was my childhood innocence to blame for Jar Jar Binks?

I know that this weird guilt is completely misplaced, and that George Lucas is the one who made these decisions. However, these feelings only serve as yet another reason that I, and so many other people my age, are counting down the days until December 17th with terrified excitement. For us, who are old enough to have felt the anticipation once before, only to have our fandom’s innocence dissolve as our own did, but not old enough to have experienced better days, Star Wars needs redemption.

Our fandom had its hand cut off by our father, George Lucas, and now we can only hope that The Force Awakens is the bionic replacement we need.

Don’t Miss WHITE CHRISTMAS Saturday Morning at The Hi-Pointe

“I wanna wash my hands, my face, my hair with snow!”

The spirit of Christmas is alive and well at The Hi-pointe Theater here in St. Louis. IT”S A WONDERFUL LIFE played last weekend to a nearly-sold out crowd – and that’s a big theater!

This Saturday, December 19th at 10:30am, head over to the Hi-Pointe for a WHITE CHRISTMAS

WHITE CHRISTMAS was made in 1954 (exactly 20 years before BLACK CHRISTMAS!) and was directed by Michael Curtiz. Bing Crosby teamed up with madcap funny man Danny Kaye and partnering with those two show biz pros as sisters were Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. One of the most popular films of 1954, WHITE CHRISTMAS opens and closes with the title song, while in between it’s filled with one great musical number after another. Crosby and Kaye play entertainers who went through W.W.II together and decide to host a fundraising event at the Vermont Lodge of their old commanding officer Dean Jagger. Apparently, Jagger’s lodge isn’t doing great business and is about to close. A high profile fund raising event is just the ticket to draw national attention to Jagger’s Vermont lodge and thereby, save the day! Not real complex plotting but watch it instead for the fifties fluff, lots of Technicolor being splashed about, each of the performers getting to do their schtick, and course, the required holiday finale at the end of the movie. And who can forget that dead girl in the attic with that plastic bag over her head (oh wait – I’m getting it confused with BLACK CHRISTMAS!)

WHITE CHRISTMAS is the third and final film of Hi-Pointe’s Classic Christmas Film Series (after CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT and IT”S A WONDERFUL LIFE) This Saturday morning (December 19th), you and your family will have the opportunity to see WHITE CHRISTMAS on the big screen when it plays at 10:30am at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe.

Admission is just $5.

Hi-Pointe Theatre is located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117

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Watch Director Ron Howard And Daughter/Actress Bryce Dallas Howard In New Academy Originals Episode

For the past few years, The Academy has been releasing online new episodes of their series, Academy Originals. The documentary-style series examines everything from the creative process, to the moments that changed the course of filmmaking, to the artists who are charting its future.

Their latest Monday episode features Bryce Dallas Howard (JURASSIC WORLD) and her father Ron Howard (APOLLO 13, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA). Just last week, the Oscar-winning director received his second star on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame.

In “Family Film School: The Howards,” watch as the father/daughter duo discuss their careers in Hollywood, what they’ve learned from each other and some of their favorite film moments.

In addition to IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, Howard’s recent films include the critically acclaimed drama RUSH, staring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, written by Peter Morgan; and “Made In America,” a music documentary he directed for Showtime, starring Jay Z. He recently completed filming on the upcoming INFERNO, his third film based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, with Tom Hanks reprising the role of Robert Langdon.

Bryce Dallas Howard has previously starred in THE HELP, THE LADY IN THE WATER, THE VILLAGE, SPIDER-MAN 3 and this summer’s JURASSIC WORLD. She can next be seen in Stephen Gaghan’s GOLD alongside Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez and Disney’s PETE’S DRAGON with Wes Bentley, Karl Urban and Robert Redford (Aug. 12, 2016).

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