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Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back For TERMINATOR GENISYS With Instagram Photo

He said he’d be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the new title for the latest installment of the TERMINATOR franchise today – TERMINATOR GENISYS – along with this photo via his Instagram account.

Hasta la vista, baby. I want to thank the cast and crew of @TerminatorGenisys for a fantastic shoot. It was challenging, it was fun, and it was rewarding. From our director to the producers, from the camera team to catering, from visual effects to hair and makeup – we couldn’t have done it without you. I can’t wait to see our finished project and I know we’ll remind the fans why they fell in love with the Terminator. On July 1, 2015, I’ll be back.

Directed by Alan Taylor (THOR: THE DARK WORLD,) the reboot began shooting earlier this year in April.

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TERMINATOR GENISYS stars Schwarzenegger (THE EXPENDABLES 1 & 2, TERMINATOR 1, 2 & 3), Jason Clarke (DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, ZERO DARK THIRTY), Emilia Clarke (TV’s “Game of Thrones”), Jai Courtney (DIVERGENT), J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi and Byung Hun Lee.

The new film is written by Laeta Kalogridis (AVATAR, SHUTTER ISLAND”) and Patrick Lussier (DRIVE ANGRY). David Ellison and Dana Goldberg (WORLD WAR Z, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) of Skydance Productions are producing. Executive producers are Skydance’s Paul Schwake (WORLD WAR Z, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS), Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison (AMERICAN HUSTLE, HER), Kalogridis and Lussier.

The TERMINATOR, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, spanned three subsequent films.

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Check Out The New Trailer for THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR

20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Animation have just released a new trailer for THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR, featuring everyone’s favorite, mysterious birds.

Super spy teams aren’t born…they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind.

Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from destroying the world as we know it.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR hits theaters everywhere on November 26, 2014.

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Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking In First Trailer For THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

“He made Einstein beautiful.” – HAWKING (2004)

Focus Features has released the brand new trailer for THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.

Audiences and critics will get a first look at the film when it premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7th.

Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2”), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.

Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.

The film is based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, by Jane Hawking, and is directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (“Man on Wire”).

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING opens in select cities on November 7.

“We are all different – but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it’s human nature that we adapt – and survive.” – Stephen Hawking

For more on the scientist, watch the 2013 autobiographical film HAWKING here.

Narrated by Hawking, now 72, the movie features interviews with Jane (now divorced,) his colleagues and family, as well as Jim Carrey, Buzz Aldrin and Benedict Cumberbatch who played the cosmologist in the superb 2004 TV film “Hawking”.

Visit Hawking’s official site HERE.

Marilyn Burns, Star of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Dead at 65

Fay Wray may get the prize as the best screamer in moviedom, but nobody’s screams seemed as intense and as real and as horrified as Marilyn Burns as Sally Hardesty, the ‘last girl’ from the original 1974 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.

If ever there was an actress in horror who will be immortalized for a single role, it’s gotta be Ms Burns. I just saw TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in its new souped-up incarnation this past weekend when it was screened at The Hi-Pointe as part of Late Night Grindhouse and was still impressed at what an unnerving performance director Tobe Hooper coaxed from her for the film. Her post-CHAINSAW career was almost non-existent (Hooper’s follow-up EATEN ALIVE, the TV movie of HELTER SKELTER and a couple of cameos here and there were about it). I met her a few times on the horror con circuit and she was a very pleasant woman who seemed more than comfortable with her one-hit fame. Marilyn Burns died yesterday at age 65.

From Variety:

Marilyn Burns, one of the original “scream queens” who starred in Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” died Tuesday in Texas. She was 65 and was found dead in her home near Houston.

“Texas Chainsaw” was her first lead role; in it she played teenager Sally Hardesty, who goes with her brother and friends to the cemetery where her grandfather is buried and ends up as the only survivor of an encounter with the insane family led by chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.

Burns was born in Erie, Penn., raised in Texas and had small parts in films including Robert Altman’s “Brewster McCloud” while she was still in high school, and George Roy Hill’s “The Great Waldo Pepper.”……..

Read the rest HERE

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/marilyn-burns-who-starred-in-texas-chainsaw-massacre-dies-at-65-1201276500/

Board of Governors Re-elects Cheryl Boone Isaacs As AMPAS President

Cheryl Boone Isaacs was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (August 5) by the organization’s Board of Governors.

Boone Isaacs is beginning her second term as president and her 22nd year as a governor representing the Public Relations Branch.

Boone Isaacs currently heads CBI Enterprises, Inc., where she has consulted on marketing efforts on such films as “The Call,” “The Artist,” “The King’s Speech,” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” “Spider-Man 2” and “Tupac: Resurrection.” Boone Isaacs previously served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema, where she oversaw numerous box office successes, including “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” and “Rush Hour.”

Prior to joining New Line in 1997, she was executive vice president of worldwide publicity for Paramount Pictures, where she orchestrated publicity campaigns for the Best Picture winners “Forrest Gump” and “Braveheart.”

This year, she was inducted into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Hall of Fame, and received the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Horizon Award and the 2014 Trailblazer award from Essence magazine.

In addition, Jeffrey Kurland was elected first vice president, Leonard Engelman and John Bailey were elected to vice president posts, Dick Cook was elected treasurer, and Bill Kroyer was elected secretary. Last year Kurland served as vice president. Both Engelman and Cook were re-elected to their posts. These will be the first officer stints for Bailey and Kroyer.

Academy board members may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.

KINGSMAN : THE SECRET SERVICE Press Conference – COMIC-CON 2014

Press members at the KINGSMAN : THE SECRET SERVICE press conference during San Diego Comic-Con 2014 learned a valuable lesson – Turn your phone off or Samuel L. Jackson will answer it!

That’s right. During the 15 minute press conference Samuel L. Jackson answered someones ringing telephone, and toyed with the person on the other end. Jackson was there, along with Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella and Co-Creators Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons to talk about the upcoming film, slated to release October 24, 2014. Check it out below.

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

KINGSMAN : THE SECRET SERVICE hits theaters OCTOBER 24, 2014

Chris Pratt Tours ‘The Milano’ From Marvel’s GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

The actual numbers are in and Marvel’s GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY totaled $94.3 million in box office receipts. Among the most dazzling aspects of James Gunn’s space epic are the ships.

One of the spacecraft production designer Charles Wood and his team designed for Marvel’s latest film was the Milano, Peter Quill’s Ravager ship.

On Twitter, the director fessed up to how the ship got it’s name.

For those of you who asked, yes, Quill’s ship The Milano is named after his awesome childhood crush @Alyssa_Milano. #GuardiansoftheGalaxy

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 29, 2014

Less high-tech technology was used in the design to give the idea that Quill wants to have more hands-on control and experience the ride—much like a driver who prefers stick over automatic.

Watch as actor Chris Pratt gives you a walking tour of the ship.

Constructed as a double-level composite set, with an upper flight deck and lower living quarters, it was a 14-week build involving several trades. “Our biggest inspiration for the Milano was Chuck Yeager and the early test flights and missions that took place in the late ’50s, early ’60s,” says Wood. “So we looked at a lot of that footage. James wanted to come up with an environment for Quill that was reminiscent of Earth and had a tangible quality—mechanical with chrome and leather and a muscle-car look. A little boy’s dream.”

In order to have the sense that Quill thought of his ship as home, Wood and set decorator Richard Roberts worked to collect and build items that would evoke 1980s nostalgia. “Rich and his team got together all of the ephemera and other bits and pieces to remind him of home,” says Wood.

“The Milano itself was probably the biggest construction thing that we did and unusually for a prop master, I’m also involved in the manufacturing of the set decoration parts. So we did an immense amount of work going from the beds to all of the flight seats. Everything in the Milano was created from scratch.”

Richard Roberts echoes, “We made everything. We bought ejector seats from jet fighters and completely remodeled them and we worked from a lot of concept work that Charles Wood created. So we were creating a ship that looks like it’s got some ’80s notes, but we built it so it was really just the personal items that we bought that are from the ’80s.”

Among the items the filmmakers built was a cassette player built into the spaceship that looks like a car stereo. They also installed shag-type carpet of various colors and a black light in the living quarters. With the idea that Quill had a backpack with him when he was abducted from Earth, Roberts peppered the interior of the Milano with iconic items that would have been in a 9-year-old’s possession in the 1980s: Alf stickers, baseball cards and Troll dolls, among other items.

Wood’s efforts were not lost on Chris Pratt, whose character Peter Quill commands the Milano. “I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it and I have been in awe ever since,” enthuses Pratt. “Inside it, I felt like I was on a ride at a theme park, something people would wait in line all day just to get a glimpse of and I got to pretend it was mine. It was pretty amazing and helped inform my performance.”

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is now in theaters. James Gunn will return to write and direct the sequel, scheduled to open on July 28, 2017.

For more on GOTG from WAMG:

Review
Interview with actor Michael Rooker
Interview with composer Tyler Bates
Press Conference with James Gunn and actors

©Marvel 2014

New Posters For ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY

Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner are run through the mill in two “before and after” posters from the upcoming movie ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY.

The 1972 children’s classic was written by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz and inspired by Viorst’s sons Alexander, Anthony and Nicholas. With more than 2 million copies in print, it became an ALA Notable Children’s Book and won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children’s Book Award, and distinction as a Reading Rainbow book.

Viorst penned the sequels: “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday” (1978) and “Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move” (1995).

The film follows follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life – a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another.

But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.

He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one.

Directed by Independent Spirit Award-winner Miguel Arteta (“The Good Girl,” “Cedar Rapids,” “Youth in Revolt”), ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY hits theaters nationwide Oct. 10, 2014.

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Anime Classic AKIRA Screening Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

“You got a bad attitude, pops. Lighten up before your arteries harden!”

AKIRA (1988) is considered one the classics of not just anime, but animation in general.

AKIRA tells the tale of a secret military project that endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop. Got that? I confess I’ve never seen AKIRA. I’ve had plenty of opportunities, so I have no good excuse. Perhaps this weekend I’ll finally take it in.

I asked Brian Lan over at the St. Louis-based Anime fan group Fant-Asia St. Louis why AKIRA is such a classic and he said “AKIRA is certainly one of the anime that is most cited for bringing in new fans to anime. AKIRA is visually exquisite and best appreciated on the big screen.”

Now lucky St. Louisans can experience the lightning pace and smooth animation that is AKIRA when it plays on the big screen this weekend (August 8^th and 9^th) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series. The Saturday night screening is sponsored by Star Clipper Comics and they will have trivia questions with prizes Saturday night. I’ll be there Friday night with my own trivia and prizes.

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for the next few weeks:

Aug. 15-16 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES – The Original!

Aug. 22-23 ARMY OF DARKNESS

Aug. 29-30 BLAZING SADDLES

Sept. 5-6 PURPLE RAIN – 30^th anniversary

Sept. 12-13 GHOST IN THE SHELL

Check Out The Official Poster For ABCs OF DEATH 2

Just in time for Halloween, here’s your first look at the poster for ABCs OF DEATH 2.

ABC’s OF DEATH 2 is the follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre film.

The film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet.

Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Alejandro Brugues, Bill Plympton, Chris Nash, Dennison Ramalho, Erik Matti, Evan Katz, Hajime Ohata, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Jerome Sable, Jim Hosking, Juan Martinez Moreno, Julian Barratt, Julian Gilbey, Julian Maury, Alexandre Bustillo, Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper, Lancelot Imasuen, Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Robert Boocheck, Robert Morgan, Rodney Ascher, Soichi Umezawa, Steven Kostanski, Todd Rohal, Vincenzo Natali.

The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. Provocative, shocking, funny and at times confrontational, ABC’s OF DEATH 2 is another global celebration of next generation genre filmmaking.

THE ABC’S OF DEATH 2 will open on iTunes / On Demand October 2, 2014 and in theaters October 31, 2014.

For more info:

Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theabcsofdeath

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/ABCsofDeath

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KINGSMAN : THE SECRET SERVICE hits theaters OCTOBER 24, 2014

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