You sank my battleship. Four words immortalized by the great Hasbro game we’ve all played as kids. So when Hollywood set out to adapt this game into a film, the word skeptical came to mind. It’s not like there’s that much of a background story within the game. Setup your pieces and try and sink your opponent’s ships. So what does Hollywood do? Add an alien invasion timed perfectly with the U.S. Naval fleet involved in a war games exercise with Japan in the exact place where the alien’s are going to land. If it seems a little preposterous, then get ready for Battleship.

Dearly beloved,
We are gathered here today to bid farewell to two things that we, as an audience, have been collectively losing over years: our dignity and intelligence. All too often, are we bombarded with terrible writing, lousy characterization, confusing editing and just a general lack of care and time put into cinematic works. This usually happens right around the summer, when we exchange our heavier winter coverings with light, barely-there clothing, which could be viewed as a metaphor for the film industry’s offerings: instead of the meaty, thick films which challenge our minds and engage us as viewers, we are hammered repeatedly over the head with constant reminders of our banality and stupidity. And so far, in 2012, none hammers that more than Peter Berg’s Battleship, based on the popular Milton Bradley board game.
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The Summer Music Festival with Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Patti Labelle, Babyface and more – July 29 at Verizon Center
On July 29th, live at the Verizon Center, The Summer Music Festival is coming to town with Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Patti Labelle, The O’Jays, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and more. Want to know more about it and how you can get your tickets?
Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures announced today that the release date for “Gangster Squad” is September 7, 2012. The announcement was made by Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President, Domestic Distribution.
The classic tale of Cinderella has had many versions in film and television but the essence of the story is finding ones place in the world around them. We all want to be accepted for who we are, recognized for what we can do, and loved for the person we are. And with a contemporary twist to the story, Nickelodeon brings us Rags.
Outsourcing is something that we’ve come to expect in many aspects of our lives. Pick up the phone at night with a telemarketer on the line and ask yourself where that person is calling from. Is it from the United States? Probably not. So the idea of taking something like retirement and outsourcing it to a cheaper country like India is something that’s completely plausible and probably already being done. And why not do it.
Bernie is a quirky, oddly charming film. Yes, it’s a story about a murder – a true one at that – but it reminds me of a Christopher Guest film if spun from a Coen Brother’s script, like the Best in Show of justifiable homicides. It stars Jack Black in an unexpected career turn as a closeted funeral director who ends up committing murder and is subsequently chased down by a comically straight-laced Texas District Attorney played by Matthew McConaughey. The film also includes more spirited singing from Black than one of his Tenacious D concerts. Who could possibly resist that amalgam? (more…)
When we’re children we often look at the adults around us and wish that we were older, on our own, and able to have the freedom to do and say whatever it is that we wanted. All too often the ignorance of adolescence has one believe that being an adult offers one the ability to do and say whatever you want. But as adults we recognize that with age comes responsibility and with responsibility comes limitations. Contrary to what most teenagers and youths would believe, being a kid is much simpler than being an adult.
ADMISSION, Starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd for Director Paul Weitz, Begins Production
Production begins this week in New York and New Jersey on Focus Features’ Admission, directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.
This week, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), joined the FBI and six major American movie studios to launch an updated anti-piracy warning to be displayed on new releases. The anti-piracy warning will begin appearing in selected DVDs and Blu-rays released this week. The six movie studios, all members of the Motion Picture Association of America, have agreed to utilize the anti-piracy warning.
HISTORY announced today that the new season of the U.S. version of Top Gear is beginning production. The second season of the critically-acclaimed and popular series broke into the millionaire’s club with 1.1 million Adults 25-54 and 18-49 (+30 and +22 vs. S1, respectively) and is the youngest skewing series on HISTORY. Season Two was seen by nearly 60 million viewers.
Robert De Niro is set to star alongside Michael Douglas in a new comedy called Last Vegas. Want to know more?
Fans of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are eagerly anticipating the newest film, The Dark Knight Rises to hit theaters this summer. And fans know that two of the stars of the film will be both the Tumbler and the Bat-Pod. And now you have the opportunity to get a firsthand look at both!
THE TUMBLER AND THE BAT-POD
ARE ROLLING FROM COAST-TO-COAST
BURBANK, CA, May 10, 2012 – Fans who have been eagerly awaiting the July 20 release of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “The Dark Knight Rises” will have an opportunity to get a firsthand look at the Tumbler and the Bat-Pod, which are rolling out on a coast-to-coast tour, sponsored by Mountain Dew®. and IMAX®.
Both the Tumbler and the Bat-Pod have served as high-powered modes of transportation for Batman in Christopher Nolan’s earlier blockbusters—with the Tumbler first appearing in “Batman Begins,” and the Bat-Pod being introduced in “The Dark Knight.” They will both be featured in different ways in the hugely anticipated finale to the director’s Batman trilogy, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Leading up to the opening of the film, the Tumbler and the Bat-Pod will be making their way across North America, appearing in the following cities and towns*:
Bentonville, Arkansas May 12
Tulsa, Oklahoma May 15
Overland Park, Kansas May 19
Kansas City, Missouri May 21
Chicago, Illinois May 25
Washington, DC May 27
Baltimore, Maryland May 28
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 30
Buffalo, New York June 1
Toronto, Canada June 7
Montreal, Canada June 10
Purchase, New York June 12
Columbus, Ohio June 13
Lansing, Michigan June 15
Detroit, Michigan June 16
Brooklyn, Michigan June 17
Indianapolis, Indiana June 19
Nashville, Tennessee June 21
Knoxville, Tennessee June 22
Atlanta, Georgia June 23
Dallas, Texas June 25
San Antonio, Texas June 27
El Paso, Texas June 29
Albuquerque, New Mexico July 1
Phoenix, Arizona July 2
Los Angeles, California July 7
*Please note that dates and locations are subject to change, and more may be added.
More information on the tour can be found at:
@tumblertour
About “The Dark Knight Rises”:
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a Film by Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight Rises.” The film stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Morgan Freeman.
Christopher Nolan directed the film from a screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Charles Roven are the producers, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers, and Jordan Goldberg co-producing. “The Dark Knight Rises” is based upon Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics.
Opening in theatres and IMAX on July 20, 2012, “The Dark Knight Rises” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language.
Politically incorrect. Those are just two words to describe nearly every film Sacha Baron Cohen has ever written and those who are easily offended should stay away completely. Cohen is best known for his mockumentary style films where he takes on a character he’s created and puts them into the real world. Here however, he ventures into the scripted domain. Is it a success? Can the same humor translate into the scripted world?

When it rains it pours. Or does it? Water is something we take for granted every day. We drink it, we flush it, and we use it without a care in the world. But water has become one of the most valuable commodities in the world as we know it. Look at the price of a single gallon of water versus the price of a gallon of gasoline and ask yourself which is more. Water. Water is not something that is unlimited and something must be done to fix the shortages that we are facing.
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The life of a professional dancer, or that of a hopeful professional dancer is a tough and rigorous one. Every year more than 5,000 aspiring dancers, ages 9 thru 19 enter the Youth America Grand Prix where they hope to win recognition, a scholarship, and for the older dancers a job contract. Only 300 ever make it into the New York City finals where this is possible.
Now that Marvel’s The Avengers has officially kicked off the summer season to a roaring start, it is now time to start looking forward to the other films that the summer season has to offer. One such film is The Expendables 2, sequel to the 2010 80s action icons-infused film of the same name. Returning most of the characters from the first outing, Stallone has up-ed the ante this time around (more…)
For well over a year now, fanboys of the Marvel comic book characters have been eagerly awaiting Joss Whedon’s Marvel’s The Avengers film to hit theaters. The film brings together some of the most popular characters in the Marvel universe but the biggest question that has been on everyone’s mind is can expectations be lived up to with this huge tentpole release? The answer is a resounding yes!

Jon Favreau’s Iron Man and Iron Man 2.
Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk.
Kenneth Branagh’s Thor.
Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger.
To cull a quote from another Jon Favreau-scripted movie, “Everything that is past is prologue to this.”*
Well, “this” just happens to be the Joss Whedon-directed, gargantuan mother of all crossover movies involving all of the aforementioned Marvel superheroes - Marvel’s The Avengers.
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On Saturday, July 28th, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, and Wisin & Yandel are coming to the Verizon Center. If you want to know how you can get your tickets before everyone else thru an exclusive presale offer then we’ve got the details you’re looking for!
Beginning this Thursday, May 3rd from 10am until 10pm by clicking here and entering the exclusive presale password “SUMMER” you can have access to the presale!
Regular tickets go onsale to the public beginning Friday, May 4th at 10am.
The Weight of the Nation for Kids: The Great Cafeteria Takeover debuts May 16
With obesity in our nation being a nationwide epidemic, HBO Films is bringing us The Weight of the Nation for Kids: The Great Cafeteria Takeover on May 16th.
HBO has announced that George Lopez is returning for a third live stand-up special on July 14th!
WaterTower Music has announced the release of the soundtrack album for the highly anticipated movie musical Rock of Ages.
Reel Film News had the opportunity to interview Captain Fraser Hall of the Brigitte Bardot. Captain Hall is a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is featured on the new series Whale Wars: Viking Shores.
Below, please find our interview with Captain Hall.
Whale Wars: Viking Shores airs on Animal Planet Friday nights
Sometimes the best fictionalized stories begin and end with the roots of fact. On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious and, “in great distress, and…in need of immediate assistance”, according to the man who found him. Little is known about how he came to be in his poor condition and the meaning behind the words that he was speaking at the time. And so the mystery behind the condition before his death is both the beginning and the end of James McTeigue’s The Raven.






























