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New At The Movies

This week, Guillermo del Toro‘s new movie looks aimed at scaring the crap out of you is coming out, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.  Also a Zoe Saldana starring action flick, Colombiana is coming to movie theaters this Friday.  And we get to see an unique new look for Paul Rudd, who’s apparently an idiot of a brother.

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Other stars coming out this week in new movies in your local movie theater screenings include Vera Farmiga, True Blood‘s Stephen Moyer, Malcolm McDowell, Christina Hendricks, Burn Notice‘s Gabrielle Anwar, Mandy Moore, Jackson Rathbone, Michael Clarke Duncan, Brian J. White, & Charisma Carpenter.

If I Were To Recommend One…

IF I was brave enough, I’d hit up Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark this weekend.  And since movie theaters are still scheduling almost all their screenings of Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian in 3D and not 2D, again, I will be spending my money elsewhere.  I think the consumer spoke last week when these two movies bailed at the box office and that studios should have learned to not force 3D on us.

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark cast includes Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and more in a movie about “A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.”

Written by Guillermo del Toro, I’m thinking this should be a pretty decent movie full of frights.  He brings a unique new vision to some things he does and he’s made  fan out of me from some of his work.  It’s directed by a first-timer director, Troy Nixey.

Between the cast and writer, I think this movie will direct itself and Nixey got lucky.  I don’t know, I could be wrong.

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Colombiana

Colombiana stars Zoe Saldena, Amanda Stenberg, Micheal Vartan, & Smallville’s Callum Blue in a movie about “A young woman, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.”

Hmm…

Directed by Olivier Megaton, who was the director behind Transporter 3 and 2nd unit director for Hitman, at least the action should be pretty decent.  Don’t you think?

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Sesame Street

Usher appearance on Sesame StreetThe Sesame Street gang will be having a ton of fun in the month of December and this wonderful children’s show has a slew of special guests lined up for everyone who watches the show!

Jennifer Garner on Sesame StreetEach guest, like Usher, Zoe Saldana and others will bring a new “Word on the Street” to the young Sesame Street viewers, from Galoshes to Transportation!

Check out the guest list for Sesame Street:

·         Monday, December 6: Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jennifer Garner presents the Word on the Street: “Galoshes.”

·         Friday, December 10: The View’s Sherri Shepherd presents the Word on the Street: “Identical.”

·         Tuesday, December 14: Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo stops by to present the Word on the Street: “Healthy.”

·         Thursday, December 16: The Insider’s Samantha Harris presents the Word on the Street: “Reporter.”

·         Monday, December 27: Actress Anna Faris presents the Word on the Street: “Gem”; and Michael McKean starts a rock band at Sesame Street

·         Tuesday, December 28: New York Jets running back, LaDainian Tomlinson presents the Word on the Street: “Celebration.”

·         Wednesday, December 29: Grammy Award-winning artist Usher presents the Word on the Street: “Volunteer.”

·         Thursday, December 30: Actress Rachel Griffiths presents the Word on the Street: “Dozen.”

·         Friday, December 31: Actress Zoe Saldana presents the Word on the Street: “Transportation.”

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Wow, check out the cool stuff, just in time for the holidays:   The Sesame Street Store on Amazon

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New DVD and Blu-ray Releases in movies, TV, kids & family

This week we have over 250 new DVD & Blu-ray releases hitting the shelves on November 16th, 2010.  As Christmas approaches, distributors have been saving some of their better titles for now.  The titles range from highly anticipated, holiday movies, elemental bending kids to new packaging of highly marketed movies… for the umpteenth time!

Titles include Avatar (again) in a new extended format, A Christmas Carol from Disney, The Last Airbender, Christmas season Celtic Thunder & Michael Jackson.  TV titles include Glee, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone & Wycliffe.  Other new DVD & Blu-ray releases are IMAX releases, Cats & Dogs, The Polar Express & many more titles that if you’re of the mind, you can peruse the larger list at the bottom of this article.

The big release that seems to be a best-seller on Amazon is the newest version/release of the three-disc Collector’s Edition of Avatar. (Below this press release description is my usual list of titles, broken into their usual categories here on Brusimm.

AVATAR Extended Collection’s Edition: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray

Avatar Three-Disc Extended Collectors Edition

Disc One

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-Release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut
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Family Audio Track (All Objectionable Language Removed)

·   Original Theatrical Release
·   Special Edition Re-release

Disc Two

·   “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau   and cast and crew
·   Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
·   Production Materials

Disc Three

·   Open “Pandora’s Box” and go deeper into the filmmaker process
·   Interactive Scene Deconstruction: Explore the various stages of production through 3 different viewing modes
·   Production Shorts: 17 featurettes covering performance capture, scoring the film, 3D fusion camera, stunts and much more
·   Avatar Archives including original scriptment, 300 page screenplay and the extensive Pandorapedia
·   BD-live Portal with additional bonus materials

AVATAR Collector’s Edition: 3-Disc Special Edition DVD

Disc One

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut
o  16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening

Disc Two

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut

Disc Three

·   “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew
·   Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes

Amazon Link:  Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray]

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Aside from that, below are the usual title lists where I’ve pulled out the more popular sellers in the different categories and below that, a more comprehensive listing of many more titles…

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New Movies on DVD / BD
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  • Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition + BD-Live) Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
  • Cats & Dogs The Revenge of Kitty GaloreCats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
  • Clash of the Titans (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
  • Disney’s A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Steve Valentine
  • The Complete Metropolis Starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich
  • The Kids Are All Right Starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening
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  • The Last AirbenderThe Last Airbender Starring Dev Patel and Noah Ringer
    • Special Features
      – Origins of the Avatar
      – Deleted Scenes
      1. “Talk to the Dead”
      2. “Water Teaches Us Emotion”
      3. “Water Tribe Battle”
      4. “Field Ablaze”
      – Gag Reel
  • The Night of the Hunter (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish
  • The Shawshank Redemption [Blu-ray] Starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, and Clancy Brown

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Will.i.am and Sesame Street

For the Sesame Street & Will.i.am Fans Out There, yes, at first glance, mixing Sesame Street with Black Eyed Peas front man, Will.I.Am does seem confusing, but you get over it pretty quickly as you watch Will.i.am show his softer side with the puffy Sesame Street gang.

Sesame Street is having its 41st season premiere on Monday, Sept. 27th on PBS KIDS.  (Wow, 41 wonderfully educating seasons.  That’s totally awesome!) On Sept. 27th, you’ll see Will.i.am on the show, along with comedian, Wanda Sykes.  And through out the season, the show will have some pretty big guests that include Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, NFL superstars Reggie Bush and LaDainian Tomlinson; Grammy Award-winning artist Michael McKean; pop star Katy Perry; American Idol’s Kara DioGuardi; Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell; Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo; Amy Poehler; Kyra Sedgwick, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Romijn, Zoe Saldana, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Chris O’Donnell, Jim Parsons, Rachel Griffiths, Anna Faris, Terrence Howard, Sherri Shepherd; Today Show’s Natalie Morales; The Insider’s Samantha Harris; and Food Network star Alton Brown.

Check out the sneak peek video below, and below that, the Sesame Street press release!

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Opening Movies from Cinema Static Logo

This week is a quiet week indeed.  The only opening movies this week are Resident Evil: Afterlife & The Romantics.

Unless of course, you live in Chicago where they’re having the Chicago Flashback Weekend Horror Convention! If you’re one of the lucky ones then you’ll be getting the chance to see some fun Bruce Campbell movies on Saturday: The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2 & My Name is Bruce!  Have fun gang!

Weekend Box Office

Box Office Numbers from Cinema StaticDespite reviews declaring The American a slow build of a film, George Clooney pulled in the viewers with a $13M weekend.  Machete with Danny Trejo brought in $11.3M and Going the Distance nabbed itself $6.9M.

Takers, starring Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Chris Brown, Zoe Saldana & Idris Elba showed some staying power with the public and squeaked into the weekend’s 2nd spot with an $11.4M weekend.

If you do the math of how many theaters each movie was in, Takers averaged just under $5200 per theater & The American just under $4600 per theater.

Title Weekend Gross
The American $13M $16.1M
Takers $11.4M $37.9M
Machete $11.3M $11.3M
The Last Exorcism $7.55M $32.3M
Going the Distance $6.88M $6.88M
The Expendables $6.75M $92.3M
The Other Guys $5.4M $107M
Eat Pray Love $4.85M $69M
Inception $4.53M $277M
Nanny McPhee Returns $3.57M $22.4M

-PS:  For the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World fans, holding out in a brave but meager 807 theaters still, it brought in just under $1.6M.

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Opening Movies for September 10th, 2010

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Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil 4 Promo Poster

Written, directed & produced by Paul W.S. Anderson (Pandorum, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil franchise movies), it stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts & Wentworth Miller amongst the ensemble.

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Opening Movies from Cinema Static Logo

The upcoming set of opening movies for Friday, August 27th sees a few movies coming at us… one with a limited re-opening.  The opening movies include a limited opening for Centurion, a limited re-release of a special edition of Avatar, and then Takers, Flipped and Eli Roth’s produced horror flicked, The Last Exorcism.

Box Office Numbers

The people have spoken and done so loudly.  The Expendables hung on to the top spot this last weekend at the Box Office and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is slipping into obscurity, bringing in only $5M.  The parody, Vampires Suck took 2nd at the box office.  Piranha 3D stuck it in at 6th for it’s gory, 3D, boob filled opening weekend at $10M!

Title Weekend Gross
The Expendables $16.5M $64.9M
Vampires Suck $12.2M $18.6M
Eat Pray Love $12M $47.1M
Lottery Ticket $11.1M $11.1M
The Other Guys $10.1M $88.2M
Piranha 3D $10M $10M

See more Box Office numbers at IMDb.

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Opening Movies

Avatar, which has already grossed $2.7 billion Worldwide, is going to make just an itty bitty bit more with a limited re-release with 8 extra minutes of footage.

It stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and others.

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The Last Exorcism stars Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Caleb Landry Jones and more in a movie about a troubled evangelical minister who agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.

Brought to us by producer Eli Roth, and directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death).

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THE LOSERS at WonderCon 2010

THE LOSERS Panel at WonderCon 2010

This week, we have a few anticipated movies opening up.  Comic fans are looking forward to The Losers, while Alex O’Loughlin fans are looking forward to The Back-Up Plan.

The Losers:

After being betrayed and left for dead, members of a CIA black ops team root out those who targeted them for assassination  The Losers stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba & Columbus Short.

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Opening Movies for Friday

This upcoming Friday see’s a few anticipated movies opening up on the silver screen! Kick Ass, Death at a Funeral, The Joneses & The Perfect Game.

Let’s check them out:

Kick Ass

Starring Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Chris Mintz-Plasse & Mark Strong

KICK ASS tells tells the story of teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who decides to become a real-life superhero. He assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime, but he has no superpowers. In doing so, he inspires a sub-culture of copy cats.

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In Cinema Static’s Personality Focus series, we’re checking out films coming to the screen in 2010 that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is taking part in.  Let’s take a look!

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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The Resident is about a young lady who suspects that she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft.  She also learns her landlord develops an obsession with her.

Starring Hilary Swank and Christoper Lee.  Morgan’s character is named Max.

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Avatar movie review:  A Cinema Static 2D review!

Cast: Sam Worthington,  Zoe Saldana,  Sigourney Weaver,  Stephen Lang,  Goivanni Ribsi,  Michelle Rodriques  And  Cch Pounder

Avatar (2009) is created and directed By:  James Cameron, rated PG-13 and clocks in at 2 Hrs 41 min.

Slight plot spoilers included after the break.

I went into AVATAR knowing only that I hate Cameron as much as I love him, and there’s some Smurfy alien, Matrix-like action going on.

I quickly found myself blown away by the amazing display of visual images and emotions. Forget about 3D.  When the 2D visuals are this good, 3D becomes the gimmick.

I realize 3D is mentioned as one of the major theatrical breakthroughs on AVATAR, but it really takes a back seat to the overall 2D cinematography and technological advances in CGI.  In Terminator 2, James Cameron set the standard for CGI with the creation of the T-1000.  It seems he’s done it again with AVATAR.  The film clearly pushes the VFX to the next level destroying the uncanny valley between human and digital photo reality. This technological breakthrough is assisted and enhanced by some incredible acting performances by Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington.

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