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Kickstarter Spotlight: ‘Out of Print’

on May 17th, 2012

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New Stills for ‘Taken 2′

Liam Neeson is back in full ass-kicking mode in Taken 2. The first Taken, with Neeson as a former-CIA agent on a take-no-prisoners mission to rescue his kidnapped daughter, made a whopping $226 million dollars at the box office. Now, three new stills have hit the web, finally giving us a look at the new installment.

 

Looking to repeat its predecessor’s success, Taken 2 is sticking to the proven formula. Neeson will deal with kidnap and bad guys looking for revenge again, and we pity anyone who tries to get in his way.

 

Taken 2 will be out October 5th.

 

 

 

(via EW)

 

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New Trailers: ‘The Words’, ‘Magic Mike’, + More

Several new trailers are out today, take a look and us know which movie you’re most interested to see!

 

First we have a trailer for the new Bradley Cooper/Zoe Saldana movie The Words. Set to come out on September 21st, the plot revolves around a writer (Cooper) who plagiarizes a story from a former soldier (played by Jeremy Irons), and has to deal with the complications when the book he writes becomes a bestseller. The movie also features Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde.

 

 

 

 

Next, Magic Mike has released its second trailer. In case you’ve forgotten, Magic Mike is the Steven Soderbergh-male stripper movie starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. They’ve changed tactics with this trailer a bit – less emo-talking, more stripping. You can see all the action in theaters June 29th.

 

And finally: The Possession, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Sedgwick and Morgan play a couple who’s daughter is fixated on a box they purchased at a yard sale. The fixation turns sinister however, when they discover that is contains a spirit looking for a human host. The Possession comes out August 31st.

 

 

 

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Kickstarter Spotlight: ‘Out of Print’

Kickstarter, the website for crowd-funding creative projects, has a very large number of independent films, in every genre, looking for support (1,074 total as of this writing). While there are a lot of very interesting ideas out there, the sheer volume can be daunting – which is why starting now, we’ll showcase particularly interesting films on Kickstarter from time to time.

 

Out of Print is a documentary about the famous New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. The New Beverly has been open since 1978, and plays classic, cult, indie, and foreign films, all exclusively on 35mm film. The movie will chronicle the history of the cinema, the wacky personalities involved, and discuss with famous filmmakers why establishments like the New Beverly are important.

 

The documentary is a labor of love by a longtime New Beverly employee and film enthusiast Julia Marchese. If you would like to learn more, you can visit Out of Print‘s Kickstarter page.

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Elijah Wood Goes on Killing Spree

Elijah Wood goes on a disturbing killing spree in his newest movie Maniac, which released a teaser today. While Wood is still most famous for his role pint-sized optimistic hero Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings, he has played against type as a deranged (and cannabalistic!) serial killer before, in Sin City.

 

The film is a remake of a 1980 slasher about Frank (Wood), a man severely damaged by childhood abuse. His work with mannequins for an artist’s exhibition triggers the demons within and he begins using real people as projects.

 

The teaser is pretty gritty and bloody. Do you buy Elijah in such a scary role?

 

 

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Marion Cotillard Loses Legs in SeaWorld Accident

Academy Award-winner Marion Cotillard’s new french-language film, Rust and Bone, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival today, and the movie is already creating awards buzz. The reviews to come out so far have been very positive, and based on the strength of the filmmaking and performances from the leading actors, it is already considered one of the front-runners for the Cannes grand prize. Cotillard also seems to be on her way to another Oscar nomination, and possibly another win.

 

The story centers on Cotillard’s character, who works at a SeaWorld-style waterpark as a killer whale trainer. She loses her legs after a work accident, and is saved from self-destruction by her relationship with a poor boxer who is also a single father (played by Matthias Schoenaert of Bullhead).

 

American audiences will likely have to wait a while until they have the chance to see the movie for themselves. If Rust and Bone is as good as its buzz, however, it should be worth the wait.

 

What do you think? Will Cotillard take the Oscar again in 2013 like she did for La Vie en Rose?

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