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Synopsis of Current Films (Click on poster for a larger view) |
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Jack
and Jill Release Date: November 11, 2011 Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: Dennis Dugan Starring: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG (for crude material including suggestive references, language, comic violence and brief smoking) Official Website: JackandJill-movie.com Plot Summary: "Jack and Jill" is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack's wife. |
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The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Plot Summary: "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011. Midnight Screening Thursday, November 17th. Tickets Now on Sale!
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Immortals
The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king�s mission. |
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Hugo
Plot Summary: "Hugo" tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. Based on Brian Selznick's award winning and imaginative New York Times bestseller, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," this magical tale is Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese's first film shot in 3D.
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Happy Feet 2
3D
Plot Summary: The sequel to
the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, "Happy Feet 2" returns
audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica, reuniting us with the
world's most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble (Elijah Wood), the love of
his life, Gloria (Alecia Moore {Pink}) and their old friends Ramon and
Lovelace (Robin Williams). Mumble and Gloria now have a son of their own,
Erik (EG Daily), who is struggling to find his own particular talents in the
Emperor Penguin world. But new dangers are threatening the penguin nation,
and it's going to take everyone working--and dancing--together to save them.
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The Muppets Plot Summary: On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
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Arthur
Christmas 3D
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New Year's Eve
Plot Summary: "New Year's
Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in
the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City
on the most dazzling night of the year. |
The Sitter Plot Summary: The irreverent comedy will harken back to 1987's "Adventures in Babysitting." It follows a college student, suspended for the semester and living back at home with his single mom, who has a night to remember when he gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door -- two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl. |
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The Descendants
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Upcoming Films (Click on poster for a larger view) |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks -
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
Shadows
Plot Summary: Sherlock
Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...
until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty
(Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his
capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually
give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of
Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade
(Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the
prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a
larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The
cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of
death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will
change the course of history. |
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost
Protocol The new film in the series, which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide, will feature a new team: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Simon Pegg.
This is not just another mission.
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing
plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must
go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off
the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this. |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Plot Summary: "The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo" is the first film in Columbia Pictures'
three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster "The
Millennium Trilogy." Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and
Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which
altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a
worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian. |
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The Adventures of Tintin
Plot Summary: Paramount
Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present a 3D Motion Capture Film "The
Adventures of Tintin" directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by
Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell ("Billy
Elliot," "Defiance") as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless
pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and
Daniel Craig ("Quantum of Solace," "Defiance") as the nefarious Red Rackham. |
We Bought a
Zoo
Plot Summary: This holiday
season, acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe ("Jerry Maguire," "Almost Famous")
directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family
needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of
places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many
misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo
to its former wonder and glory. |
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The Darkest
Hour
Plot Summary: "The Darkest
Hour" is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in
Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The
3D feature film combines mind-blowing special effects from filmmaker Timur
Bekmambetov, with the vision of director Chris Gorak.
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War Horse
 Release Date: December 25, 2011 Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of war violence) Official Website: WarHorsemovie.com Plot Summary: From director Steven Spielberg comes "War Horse," an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war— a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history. |
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Underworld Awakening Plot Summary: "Underworld Awakening" brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D.
Kate Beckinsale, star of the first
two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who
escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered
the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out
war to eradicate both immortal species. |
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One for
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Wanderlust George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George's awful brother in Atlanta. On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can't buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them. Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?
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Safe Plot Summary: Sometimes a chance meeting can save your life. Mei (Catherine Chan) is a 10 year-old Chinese math prodigy who is abducted from her home in Nanjing by the Triads; she is sent to America by the Triad Leader Han Jiao (James Hong), where she will serve as a "counter" for their extortion racquets. No computers, no paper trails - she keeps all the numbers in her head. One year later Mei's new adopted "father" Chang (Reggie Lee) brings her along to count the numbers as he shakes-down his business operations. Luke Wright (Jason Statham) is a second rate cage fighter in the mixed martial arts circuit in New Jersey. When he blows a rigged fight, the Russian mafia make an example of him - murdering his wife and threatening to kill anyone he forms any kind of friendship or relationship with. Now homeless, destitute and completely isolated from society, Luke wanders the streets of New York like a ghost, hovering on the edge of suicide. Big things begin to stir in the city, when Triad boss Han Jiao appears in New York, and gives Mei a secret number to memorize; on her way to use this number for an unknown purpose, Mei is violently kidnapped from the Triads by the Russian Mafia, who want the information she now has in her head— as does the corrupt Captain Wolf (Robert John Burke) of the NYPD. Mei manages to escape, but she won't be able to survive on her own for long.
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