Wednesday, April 21, 2010

THE BACK-UP PLAN

The Back-Up Plan (earlier known as "Plan B") directed by Alan Poul is an forthcoming romantic comedy movie, starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. It is scheduled to be released in theaters in the US on April 23, 2010. As a producer his first movie was Black Rain (1989)

Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) is well aware that her biological clock is ticking, so now she desparately needs to be a mother, but she just can't find the type of guy she'd want to settle down and start a family with. Finally, she makes the decision to become a single mother so she gets artificially inseminated through a sperm bank. The very same day that Zoe follows through her plan, however, she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin), a single enchanter whom she thinks would make a great father. While at first Zoe struggles to hide the truth from Stan, before it is too long she decides to disclose the truth. Much to her wonder, Stan responds excitedly, saying that he's in it for the long haul. Over the course of the next nine months, Zoe and Stan enter into a whirlwind romance, begin drawing up wedding plans, and mapping out the rest of their lives together. But will their growing love collapse under the stress of all this weight, or was it simply meant to be that Zoe and Stan would both find each other at such a crucial turning point in each other's lives?

It was rated PG13 for sexual matter including references, some crude material and language. Kirk Honeycutt from The Hollywood Reporter gave the picture a positive review saying that 'A successful performance by Jennifer Lopez overcomes a formulaic and predictable rom-com that involves a planned pregnancy.'

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

OCEANS

Oceans is a 2010 French-American nature documentary movie by Jacques Perrin, distributed in the United States by Disney nature. It will be released on April 22, 2010, coinciding with Earth Day. In accordance the official website, the picture explores the oceans of the Earth's surface and the mysteries that lie beneath. It is Disney nature’s second release following Earth in 2009.

Budgeted at 50 million euros, it was filmed in over 50 different places and took four years to film. The picture is a high-quality filming documentary that includes ocean animals. It displays the need to respect nature and displays the unconstructive impact of human synergy on animals, to the point of favoring the disappearance of species . Nearly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered by water and OCEANS brashly chronicles the thrills that lie beneath. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and featuring striking never-before-seen imagery capsized by the most modern underwater technology, OCEANS offers an exceptional look beneath the sea in a powerful motion picture that unfolds on April 22, 2010

Oceans is directed and produced by Jacques Perrin, director Jacques Cluzaud with producer Nicolas Mauvernay, editors Catherine Mauchain and Vincent Schmitt, art director Arnaud Le Roch.

Visual effects were produced by visual effect supervisor Nicolas Chevallier, VFX producers Alain Lalanne and Edouard Valton, digital artists Mickael Goussard, Jean-Louis Kalifa, Julien Buisseret, Olivier Sicot, Nicolas Evrard. It was rated G. Jacques Perrin also acted in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002) .

Monday, April 19, 2010

THE LOSERS

The Losers is an upcoming action picture , and an adoption of Vertigo and DC Comics comic book series of the same name. Directed by Sylvain White, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans. The Losers is due for release in North America on April 23, 2010.

An charged story of backbite and vengeance, "The Losers" centers upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and wipe out assignment. Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque ( Idris Elba ), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) were on a black-ops assignment in the Bolivian jungle when rogue CIA agent Max (Jason Patric) hung them out to dry. After beating the odds and surviving their tribulation, the band decides to strike back against Max even if it means giving up their own lives to do so. Helping them on their risky suicide assignment is sexy operative Aisha (Zoe Saldana), who has her own reasons for wanting to see Max get his just deserts. But getting to Max won't be easy, because in addition to having the CIA on his side, he's about to flicker a warfare that could pitch the entire earth into chaos. Their time quickly running out as Max's intend kicks into overdrive, the Special Forces unit that everyone thought dead arms themselves to the teeth and prepares to strike back with a revenge.

In June 2009, Warner Bros. set a tentative release date of April 9, 2010 for the picture. The release date was subsequently pushed back to June 4, 2010. The preview for the picture was released online January 29, 2010, and was shown in theaters with Edge of Darkness. The release date was subsequently moved up to April 23, 2010. The movie is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "sequences of extreme action and violence, a scene of sensuality and language." This makes it the first movie released by Dark Castle Entertainment (as well as the first Vertigo film adoption) not to receive an R rating.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

DEATH AT A FUNERAL

Death at a Funeral is a 2010 American black comedy, and a remake of the 2007 British movie of the same name. The less than three-year gap between the original and this film make this one of the fastest remakes of an English language film in current Hollywood history . Death at a Funeral, directed by Neil LaBute casts Chris Rock , Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Keith David, Ron Glass, Kevin Hart.

Not like the 2007 movie, this features a largely American black group cast, with Peter Dinklage reprising his role from the first.

Frank Oz's 2007 black comedy Death at a Funeral is given the remake treatment with an urban spin in this Chris Rock-produced production. When a dysfunctional family reunites to mourn the passing of the family patriarch, a courteous funeral quickly turns into an all-out debacle marked by bitter resentment, blackmail attempts, and shameful revelations.

It is scheduled to release on April 16, 2010 .It is an edition of Death at a Funeral (2007, Frank Oz).It was given a certificate of MPAA rating R for language, drug content and some sexual comedy .

Monday, April 12, 2010

KICK-ASS

Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero picture based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn, produced by Vaughn and actor Brad Pitt, the script written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman. The picture premiered March 26, 2010 in the United Kingdom and is due to premiere April 16, 2010 in the United States.

The film tells the tale of teenage Dave Lizewski who sets out to become a real life superhero only to get caught up in a larger fight. He meets Big Daddy, a previous cop who, in his journey to bring down an evil drug lord Frank D'Amico, has skilled his eleven-year-old daughter to be the pitiless vigilante hit-Girl.

Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a typical teenage boy, thinks why nobody has ever decided to grow to be a real-life superhero like the heroes in the comic books. His friends at a comic book store told him that if anyone did grow to be a superhero, they would get their ass kicked, and perhaps get killed. In spite of this, Dave decides to create a superhero costume for himself and grow to be a masked crimefighter. Dave fails at his first go to combat crime - he is crushed, stabbed, and knock by a car. He assures paramedics to say nothing of his outfit and pretends he was brought in naked. In hospital for some weeks he is left with metal holding his bones together which he says makes him look like Wolverine. He also suffered with nerve injury which leaves him very weak. When he goes back to school, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma ( Lyndsy Fonseca), seems more attracted in him. His friends explain she thinks he is gay and wants to take care of him. Lizewski goes along with this in an effort to spend time with her.

Dave remains undeterred by his earlier delay, and ends up meddling with a gang combat outside a diner. Dressed in outfit and using two customized night-sticks, he fights off three men. As the fight ends, a man who has been recording the act on his cell phone, asks Dave who he is, and he replies: "I'm Kick-Ass". The tape is posted on the internet and soon becomes an internet phenomenon, making Kick-Ass an overnight sensation.

As Kick-Ass, Dave creates a MySpace account, so people can call him for aid and is overwhelmed with responses. While with Katie, she admits that she was being harassed by a medicine seller, and Lizewski convinces her to ask Kick-Ass for aid. He examines and ends up in a building full of violent lowlifes who attempt to kill him. He is rescued by a costumed, sword-wielding young girl named hit-Girl ( Chloë Grace Moretz), who kills all the attackers and then leaves to join her father, Damon Macready (Nicolas Cage), whose alias as Big Daddy. knock-Girl (Mindy Macready) jumps across the rooftops and tells Kick-Ass to follow her, but he is scared to jump, so they leave him behind. Later Kick-Ass is visited at home by knock-Girl and Big Daddy who have tracked him from his MySpace account. hit-Girl and Big Daddy inform Kick-Ass that they can work together.

Meanwhile, local crime organization leader Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) hears of the deaths of many of his men because of the new legend, Kick-Ass. In search of Kick-Ass, D'Amico kills an imitator whom he thinks to be Kick-Ass. His son, Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) suggests that he develop a new superhero persona ('Red Mist'), enticing Kick-Ass into meeting him. At first, Red Mist attempts to guide Kick-Ass to a warehouse. They arrive to find it on fire, and the men are dead; Red Mist retrieves secret surveillance video recording which shows that Big Daddy is responsible for the assault. Red Mist asks Kick-Ass to call knock-Girl and Big Daddy for aid, and they set up to meet at a safe house. As soon as they arrive, knock-Girl is sitting on a window ridge and Red Mist shoots her, throwing her out of the window. Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are captured by D'Amico's men and taken to a warehouse where the gangsters present an internet transmission, to unmask and execute the heroes and there starts a fierceful battle in which Big Daddy is killed.

After killing their enemies, both hit-Girl and Kick-Ass retire from crime fighting, with Mindy living a normal life and attending the same school as Dave. Another wave of superheroes have been influenced by his exploits. Red Mist is shown donning a new mask and swearing vengeance.

Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 80% built on 49 reviews, with an average score of 7.3/10. The picture received a 15-certificate rating in the United Kingdom, for "strong language, once very strong, & strong bloody comic violence". It is alike Watchmen (2009, Zack Snyder), Defendor (2009, Peter Stebbings)

Friday, April 9, 2010

THE LAST SONG

The Last Song is a 2010 American coming-of-age drama movie developed alongside the Nicholas Sparks novel by the same name. The movie was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie. The Last Song casts Miley Cyrus , Greg Kinnear, Kelly Preston and Liam Hemsworth and follows a difficult teenager's story as she reconnects with her separated father and falls in love during a summer in a solitary Southern beach town.

At seventeen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus ) remains as disobedient as she was the day after her parents' nasty divorce and father's following relocation to Georgia three years ago. Once a classical piano sensation under the sponsorship of her father, Steve Miller ( Greg Kinnear), Ronnie now discards the instrument and has not spoken to her father since he left. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie is reluctant to attend.

Now, Steve is given the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter when her mother, Kim (Kelly Preston) sends the rebellious teen and her younger sibling, Jonah (Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer with him. Steve, a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist, now lives a quiet life in Tybee Island, the small Georgia beach town where he grew up, working on a stained glass window for the local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire.

After coming, Ronnie is miserable, hostile and defensive toward everybody, including handsome, popular Will Blakelee ( Liam Hemsworth) - until, after both she and Will become occupied in caring a Loggerhead Sea Turtle nest, she finds he is deeper than she believed. She then finds out that her father has cancer, and it is very serious. As Ronnie falls in love with Will, she also makes an effort to connect with her father Steve through the one thing they have in common- music. Her relationships is not less than a roller-coaster ride, and Will goes to college and leaves her. In the end, her father passes away, and she plays the last song he ever composed at his funeral. Later, she finds Will, who transferred to Columbia to be closer to her, and they get back together.

The Last Song had originally been scheduled for a January 8, 2010 release, but on September 22, 2009 it was announced the release had been delayed until April 2, 2010. Reviews for The Last Song have been generally negative. It currently holds a 13% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 78 reviews. The Last Song is alike Dear John (2010, Lasse Hallström) The Notebook (2004, Nick Cassavetes)

Thursday, April 8, 2010

AFTER.LIFE

After.Life is a psychological horror movie starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long, directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo from her original screenplay .

After a disasterous car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral manager Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her dead body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and still feeling alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s deceased, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is just in transition to the life after death. Eliot assures her he has the skill to speak with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral house, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and admit her own death.

But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. Paul desperately tries to convince the local Police Chief (Josh Charles) that Anna’s alive. But the more he investigates her demise, the more they question his sanity. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to uncover the disturbing fact, but Anna may have already begun to cross over the other part.

After.Life completed filming in New York at the end of December 2008 with Bill Perkins and Celine Rattray as producers. Galt Niederhoffer and Pam Hirsch are executive producing for Plum Pictures with Edwin Marshall and James Swisher executive producing for Harbor Light. Scenes were filmed in Lynbrook, New York in early December 2008. Kate Bosworth and Alfred Molina were attached to this movie.

After. Life premiered at the AFI picture Festival in Los Angeles on 7 November 2009. Anchor Bay Entertainment, a division of Overture Films, has acquired theatrical rights for the U.S. and the U.K. The picture received an R-rating and will be coming out on 9 April 2010 in a limited theatrical release. Other films done by Christina Ricci are The Addams Family (1991) and Casper (1995).

Monday, April 5, 2010

DATE NIGHT

Date Night is an upcomingaction-comedy filmdirected by Shawn Levy and starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Common, Ray Liotta, Taraji P. Henson and Leighton Meester. It is produced by Shawn Levy and Tom McNulty It is fixedto be released on April 9, 2010 in the US.

Claire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a suburban couple slog in the course of their daily lives and marital life. Even their "date nights" of dinner and a movie have become habit. To rekindle the marital spark, they go toa fashionable Manhattan eatery, where a case of false identity hurtles them all through the city at immediate speeds, into non-stop adventure. Turns out the reservation was for a pair of thieves, and now a number of sleazy characters want Phil and Claire murdered. If they can outlives crazy life-threatening night, they may just rediscover the passion lost from their marital life. Remembering what made them so special together, Phil and Claire take on a couple of corrupt policemen, a top-level mobster-and a crazy cabbie-as their date turns into a night they'll never stop thinking about.

Filming began in mid-April 2009. The trailer features the song "Burn It to the Ground" by Nickelback. It is rated PG13 for sexual and crude content all through, language, some violence and a drug reference. His other movies are Just Married, The Pink Panther and Night at the Museum. Rotten Tomatoes has reported 75% fresh.