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Facebook Games Are Losing Popularity

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 0 comments

Many have reckoned "this is it!" and that Facebook will change the course of video games online. As per new study, this is NOT now the case.

MCV reports that IHS Screen Digest Media Research found that from the end of 2010 through 2011, gaming on social media declined 50 percent.



The Call of Duty Elite "Content Season" begins for PS3 owners today, with the release of the "Piazza" and "Liberation" maps for Modern Warfare 3. You'll be able to download the maps today whenever the PlayStation Store updates.

For more information about the maps, you can consult the trailer above. Or, you know, ask anyone with an Xbox 360.

There have been rumors circulating that Apple will be releasing the next iPad 3 which will debut on March 7. This time around it will be 4G ready, and it will be available through Verizon and AT&T. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. What excites Apple fanatics is that Apple is testing a smaller, 8-inch iPad to compete with Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire. The smaller iPad would also come at a lower price than Apple's standard 10-inch model.

The iPad 3 is rumored to have 2048-by-1536-pixel Retina display, a quad-core A6 processor and 4G LTE networking. The system-on-a-chip A6 would double the power of the iPad 2's A5 dual-core processor.

Man on a Ledge is an upcoming 2012 thriller movie directed by Asger Leth,
starring Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Ed Harris. 
A cop who was framed for criminal activity and feels like there's no more reason to live. Urged by his suicidal tendency, threaten to commit suicide by jumping from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The nearest New York Police officer immediately responds to a screaming women and calls dispatch. More Officers arrive with swat and tactical command along with FDNY. The NYPD then dispatches a female police psychologist personally requested to talk him down from the ledge. Elizabeth Banks plays the negotiator who tries to talk him out of it. However, unknown to the NYPD on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover up for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled. The question is, will he jump from the ledge or calm down? Be ready to journey on a roller coaster ride of many twists and turns and see what happens!


"Why does mankind defy its fate?"
—Tagline

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, a part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series. It takes place three years after the events of Final Fantasy XIII, and depicts the story of Serah's search for her missing sister. Final Fantasy XIII-2 revolves around the search for Lightning, Serah's sister, in a world trying to rebuild after the fall of Cocoon.

It was announced at the "Square Enix 1st Production Department Premiere" event on January 18, 2011 and is set to be released in December 2011 in Japan and in January 2012 for the rest of the world on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Like the first installment, the game will be directed by Motomu Toriyama. The game's battle system will be evolved from Final Fantasy XIII.

Famitsu’s latest issue has a Final Fantasy XIII-2 feature where they reveal a few new details to tide us over. Here’s a summary of all the new information they reveal:

Knowing where to click and what to click is a powerful aspect on the Internet or on any online interfaces/applications. It's called familiarity. Users want to know where things fit on the screen. Improvements -- no matter how helpful -- often provoke some resistance.

Facebook users, again, experienced a major update on Wednesday. The News Feed that displays other users' status updates has been changed to show real-time news or updates from friends. It is now tailored to how often a user visits the site. Updates are now ranked by factors that allow users to mark certain posts as top stories instead of simply displaying the most recent news.

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, as planned, will arrive on both tablets and traditional PCs, yet poses a big problem to developers entailing that they may have a lot of work ahead of them if they want their apps to run on both kinds of systems (old OS and Win 8). Different kinds of processors and different types of user interfaces may make for a complicated learning curve.

Over half a million copies of the developer preview of Windows 8 have been downloaded, according to Microsoft. The tablet versions of Windows 8 apps will be built for the OS's Metro user interface, and the Metro version of the Internet Explorer browser will not include Flash or other plug-ins. Further, they will run on devices powered by ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY) processors, while the desktop version of Windows 8 will run on x86 PCs. That means developers will have to create two versions of Windows 8 apps if they want them to run across the two different platforms which entails that the rise of Windows 8 poses a problem for apps developers.

The lack of Flash support in Metro will not be a problem because "Windows apps today do not use Flash; they're written in native languages on Windows," Hilwa said.

Posted 1:47PM 05/01/11
See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/l6FuUS



Sony executives bowed in apology Sunday for a security breach in the company's PlayStation Network that caused the loss of personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service.

"We deeply apologize for the inconvenience we have caused," said Kazuo Hirai, chief of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation video game unit, who was among the three executives who bowed for several seconds at the company's Tokyo headquarters in the traditional style of a Japanese apology.





October 15


- Carlos (NY)[Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Olivier Assayas
Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck
Starring: Édgar Ramírez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: IFCFilms.com


Plot Summary: From the acclaimed director of "Irma Vep" and "Summer Hours," Olivier Assayas, comes an explosive new work of astonishing scope; an epic portrayal of the notorious revolutionary and terrorist, Carlos (played by Edgar Ramirez in the breakthrough performance of the year). A sensational hit of the Cannes and Telluride Film Festivals, "Carlos" is a exciting, sexy, globe-spanning ride through the life of one of the most enigmatic, violent and fascinating personas of the 20th century. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet. Between 1974 and 1994, he lived several lives under various pseudonyms, weaving his way through the complexities of international politics of the period. Known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, his resume of violent revolutionary acts led to notoriety of the most extreme kind.



- Conviction (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Screenwriter: Pamela Gray
Starring: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Clea DuVall, Juliette Lewis, Loren Dean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some violent images)
Official Website: FoxSearchlight.com/Conviction

Plot Summary: "Conviction" is the inspirational true story of a sister's unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters' (two-time Academy® Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pours through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.



- Down Terrace (NY) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Magnet Releasing (Magnolia Pictures)
Director: Ben Wheatley
Screenwriter: Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley
Starring: Bob Hill, Robin Hill, Julia Deakin, Sara Dee, Mark Kempner, Kali Peacock, Kerry Peacock, David Schaal, Michael Smiley, Gareth Tunley, Tony Way
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for violence, pervasive language and some drug use)
Official Website: DownTerrace.com

Plot Summary: Father and son Bill and Karl (real life father and son Bob and Robin Hill) have just been released from jail free and clear, but all is not well at Down Terrace. Patriarchs of a small crime family, their business is plagued with infighting. Karl has had more than he can take of his old man's philosophizing and preaching, and Bill thinks Karl's dedication to the family is seriously compromised when he takes up with an estranged girlfriend who claims to be carrying his baby. To make matters worse, there's an unidentified informant in their midst that could send them all to prison for a very long time, and none of their associates can be trusted.



- Gerrymandering (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Not Available
Director: Jeff Reichert
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Howard Dean, Gray Davis, Pete Wilson, John Tanner, Ed Rollins, John Fund
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: GerrymanderingMovie.com/



Plot Summary: Right now, across the country, our two major political parties are gearing up for a once-a-decade war whose winner will control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. There will be battles in every state, and each will be kept carefully hidden from the prying eyes of average voters who only become more disenchanted with their government with each meaningless election. Democrats and Republicans collude to keep these skirmishes private so that they can maintain total control over the ultimate political weapon: the ability to directly determine the outcome of elections. Why bother stuffing ballots when they can just draw districts? With special focus on efforts led by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reform the redistricting process in California, "Gerrymandering" exposes the most effective form of manipulating elections short of outright fraud. After the 2010 Census is finished, will you know where your district went?



- Hereafter (NY, LA, Toronto; wide: Oct. 22) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Peter Morgan
Starring: Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard
Genre: Supernatural Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language)
Official Website: Hereafter-themovie.com


Plot Summary: "Hereafter" tells the story of three people who are touched by death in different ways. George (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cecile De France), a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus, a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might--or must--exist in the hereafter.



- Jackass 3D [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Jackassmovie.com

Plot Summary: The 3D sequel will shoot in Knob Lick, Kentucky, Mianus, Connecticut, Fukang, China, Buttzville, New Jersey and Gayville, South Dakota.





- Red [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenwriter: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Julian McMahon, Richard Dreyfuss
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language)
Official Website: Red-themovie.com


Plot Summary: Based on the cult D.C. Comics graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, "Red" is an explosive action-comedy starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren.

Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents – but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.




- Samson and Delilah (NY, LA) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Indiepix
Director: Warwick Thornton
Screenwriter: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: SamsonandDelilahmovie.com


Plot Summary: Samson and Delilah's world is small – an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.




October 22


 - The Company Men (NY, LA; expands: Oct. 29) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: John Wells
Screenwriter: John Wells
Starring: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosemarie DeWitt, Maria Bello, Craig T. Nelson
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language and brief nudity)
Official Website: CompanyMenmovie.com



Plot Summary: Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers.


Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) which does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells (the creator of "ER") introduces us to the new realities of American life.



- Inhale (NY) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Screenwriter: Walter Doty, John Claflin
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard, Vincent Perez, Rosanna Arquette, Jordi Molla
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary:
Every day, rising Santa Fe District Attorney Paul Chaney (Dermot Mulroney) and his wife, Diane (Diane Kruger), wait for word that there’s a donor for their daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition, Chloe is on a long list to receive a double lung transplant. As her health worsens, Paul becomes desperate to save his young child... so desperate that he'll risk everything to organize an operation.

When Paul learns of a Dr. Novarro who performs illegal transplants in Juarez, Mexico, he heads south in a frantic search for the only man who may be able to save Chloe. But after arriving, he realizes Dr. Novarro's medical ring runs deeper into a criminal underworld than he realized and people are not who they seem to be. With his career, family and his daughter's life on the line, Paul finds himself at a critical crossroads, left to decide what is really "right" in this world.



- Kalamity (NY)Studio: Original 4 Releasing [Watch Movie Trailer]
Director: James M. Hausler
Screenwriter: James M. Hausler
Starring: Nick Stahl, Jonathan Jackson, Christopher M. Clark, Beau Garrett, Robert Forster, Alona Tal
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive language including sexual references, and some violent content)
Official Website: Kalamitymovie.com


Plot Summary: Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice (Beau Garrett), a heartbroken Billy (Nick Stahl) returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting than comforting: his best friend Stanley (Jonathan Jackson) has become unstable, mysterious, and withdrawn from those around him. Billy teams up with another old friend, Stanley’s roommate Christian (Christopher M. Clark), to find out what’s going on, and as they probe Stanley’s recent activities, their friend’s behavior seems more and more bizarre and frightening. The discovery of blood-stained evidence among Stanley’s possessions pulls them deeper into their friend’s nightmare—and eventually leads to a violent confrontation that not everyone will survive.



- Paranormal Activity 2 [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Kip Williams
Screenwriter: Michael R. Perry
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Drama, Supernatural Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Paranormalmovie.com


Plot Summary: Made for about $15,000, "Paranormal Activity" became a box office sensation as it earned $151 million worldwide. Similar to "Paranormal Activity", the second film is presented in the style of found footage from the camera set up to capture what is haunting the residents. However, little has been known about the plot for the upcoming horror since the official synopsis has not been released yet.

"Paranormal Activity 2" is made as the follow-up to "Paranormal Activity" which is nominated for "best first feature" in the Independent Spirit Awards 2009. The first film follows a young couple who is haunted by a supernatural presence in their home. Tod Williams directs "Paranormal Activity 2", replacing Oren Peli who now serves a producer alongside Jason Blum. Following the warm reception of the predecessor, the upcoming film will get wide release in the U.S. on October 22.



- Punching the Clown (NY) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Viens Films, L.L.C.
Director: Gregori Viens
Screenwriter: Henry Phillips, Gregori Viens
Starring: Henry Phillips, Ellen Ratner, Matthew Walker, Wade Kelley, Audrey Siegel, Evan Arnold, Mik Scriba, Mark Cohen, Guilford Adams
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: PunchingtheClownmovie.com



Plot Summary: Winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival, this uproarious and smart new comedy tells the story of Henry Phillips, a hapless modern day troubadour who grinds his way through the heartland, living out of his car and singing his twisted satirical songs to anyone who will listen. After a booking mishap involving a Christian fundraiser, he decides he's hit rock bottom.

Seeking to shake things up, he moves to L.A. where his luck changes overnight. Thanks less to his inept manager than to a wild case of mistaken identity, he falls backwards into a string of packed gigs, a record deal and even the promise of love. But he who lives by the whimsy of show business dies by it, and reality hits him like a fist in the face: an innocent miscommunication over a bagel starts a vicious rumor about him in the tabloids. Luckily, somewhere between rock bottom and the middle of nowhere lies the perfect terrain for his dark and hilarious songs.



- Rising Stars (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Screen Media Ventures
Director: Daniel Millican
Screenwriter: Daniel Millican
Starring: Fisher Stevens, Barry Corbin, Catherine Mary Stewart, Graham Patrick Martin, Kyle Riabk, Leon Thomas III, Jessie Payo
Genre: Drama, Family
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: RisingStarsthemovie.com

Plot Summary: "Rising Stars" features performances by veteran actors, Fisher Stevens ("The Flamingo Kid," "Short Circuit," "Hackers," "Awake"), Barry Corbin ("War Games," "Urban Cowboy," "No Country for Old Men") and Catherine Mary Stewart ("Weekend at Bernie's," "The Girl Next Door"). They are joined by a talented group of up-and-coming young actor/musicians, which include Graham Patrick Martin ("The Girl Next Door," "The Bill Engvall Show," "iCarly," "Jonas"), Kyle Riabko ("Limelight," The National Tour of 'Spring Awakening', The Broadway Production of 'Hair'), Leon Thomas III ("August Rush," "Victorious," "iCarly") and Jessie Payo, a former member of pop duo Jupiter Rising whose music has been featured on MTV's "The Hills" and "The City." "Rising Stars" also features a dramatic performance by Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum-selling Contemporary Christian recording artist, Rebecca St. James.



- The Taqwacores (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Strand Releasing
Director: Eyad Zahar
Screenwriter: Eyad Zahar, Michael Muhammad Knight
Starring: Bobby Naderi, Noureen DeWulf
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: Yusef is a first-generation Pakistani-American engineering student who moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new "un-orthodox" housemates soon introduce him to Taqwacore – a hardcore, Muslim punk rock scene. As the seasons change, Taqwacore influences the house more and more. The living room becomes a mosque during the day, while it continues to host punk shows at night. Ultimately, Yusef begins to challenge his own faith and ideologies. A powerful and original story of punk Islam in the USA and the discovery of oneself within the confines of religion.





October 8


- As Good as Dead (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: First Look Studios
Director: Jonathan Mossek
Screenwriter: Jonathan Mossek, Erez Mossek, Eve Pomerance
Starring: Andie Macdowell, Cary Elwes, Brian Cox, Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas, Jess Wexler, Laura Harring
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available



Plot Summary: "As Good as Dead" stars Elwes as Ethan, a left-wing extremist who goes on the run after killing the reverend (Cox) behind a white supremacist group. MacDowell plays the widow who hunts him down with two redneck accomplices (Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas). Jess Wexler plays Ethan's estranged wife, and Laura Harring plays his neighbor.




- Cherry (limited; expands: Oct. 15) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Abramorama
Director: Jeffrey Fine
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Fine
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Britt Robertson, Esai Morales, Matt Walsh, DC Pierson, Zosia Mamet
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available


Plot Summary: "Cherry" tells the story of Aaron (Kyle Gallner), a bright but sheltered freshman embarking on a new Ivy League education and all that it entails. But life turns out to be more complicated than dorm parties, freshman co-eds and the college’' elite engineering program when Aaron meets Linda (Laura Allen), a former wild-child, and her punky, sarcastic teenage daughter, Beth (Britt Robertson). Aaron, caught between his feelings for Linda and Beth's feelings for him, begins to learn that life can be more complicated than any engineering equation.



- I Spit On Your Grave: Unrated (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Andrew Howard
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive strong sadistic brutal violence, rape and torture, nudity and language)
Official Website: ISpitonYourGravemovie.com



Plot Summary: A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, "I Spit on Your Grave" retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away.

As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn't about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her... only much, much worse.



- Inside Job (NY; LA release: Oct. 15) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Charles Ferguson
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some drug and sex-related material)
Official Website: InsideJobfilm.com


Plot Summary: From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End in Sight"), comes "Inside Job," the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, "Inside Job" was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.




- It's a Wonderful Afterlife (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: UTV Communications
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenwriter: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
Starring: Zoë Wanamaker, Goldy Notay, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Sally Hawkins, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Shaheen Khan, Jimi Mistry, Zoe Wanamaker, Mark Addy
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for drug content and comic violent images)
Official Website: Not Available



Plot Summary: "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Shaun of the Dead" meet in this charming and fun comedy romp about an Indian mother taking her obsession with marriage into frighteningly funny territory. Mrs Sethi, a widow, can't bear the thought of her daughter being alone and unhappy. Okay, she's a little plump and opinionated... but she would make a great wife for some lucky man, if only she were given a chance. When Mrs Sethi can no longer stomach the rudeness of families who refuse her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands with the only way she knows...

Suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killer curry. Mrs Sethi doesn't feel too guilty until the spirits of her victims come back to haunt her as they are unable to be reincarnated until their murderer dies. Mrs Sethi has no problem killing herself – she'll get to see her dead husband again – but how can she go before her daughter is married? The spirits realize that helping Mrs Sethi’s daughter find a suitable husband before the police catch her is their only chance for a wonderful afterlife. It's a big bloody wedding and a comic feast which takes the phrase 'I could murder a curry' to hysterical new heights.




- It's Kind of a Funny Story (NY, LA) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Screenwriter: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz, Aasif Mandvi, Lauren Graham, Jim Gaffigan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic issues, sexual content, drug material and language)
Official Website: ItsKindofaFunnyStorymovie.com



Plot Summary: What's a 16-year-old boy doing playing music and table tennis with adult psychiatric patients – on a school day? It's kind of a funny story... "It's Kind of a Funny Story," adapted from Ned Vizzini's 2006 novel of the same name, is the new comedy-drama from acclaimed writer/directors Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden. It's @5:00 AM on a Sunday in Brooklyn. Craig Gilner (played by Keir Gilchrist of "United States of Tara") is bicycling up to the entrance of a mental health clinic; this bright 16-year-old is stressed out from the demands of being a teenager. Before his parents (Lauren Graham [of "Parenthood"] and Jim Gaffigan [of "Away We Go"]) and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed – so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby (Zach Galifianakis of "The Hangover"), soon becomes both Craig's mentor and protégé. Craig is also quickly drawn to another 16-year-old displaced to the adult ward, the sensitive Noelle (Emma Roberts of the upcoming "Scream 4"), who just might make him forget his longtime unrequited crush Nia (Zoë Kravitz of the upcoming "Mad Max"). With a minimum five days' stay imposed on him by the adult ward's staff psychiatrist Dr. Eden Minerva (Academy Award nominee Viola Davis), Craig is sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside as he learns more about life, love, and the pressures of growing up.



- Letters to Father Jacob (NY; LA release: Oct. 15) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Olive Films
Director: Klaus Haro
Screenwriter: Klaus Haro
Starring: Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available



Plot Summary: "Letters to Father Jacob" is a warm-hearted and touching story of Leila, a prisoner who was sentenced to life, but who has just been pardoned. When she is released from prison, she is given a job at a secluded parsonage; she moves there against her will. Leila is used to taking care only of herself, so trouble is to be expected when she starts working as the personal assistant for Jacob, the blind priest living in the parsonage.

Every day the mail man brings letters from people asking for help from Father Jacob. Answering the letters is Jacob's life mission, while Leila thinks it's useless. Leila has already decided to leave the parsonage, but when the letters suddenly stop coming Jacob's life is shaken to its foundation. Two completely different lives are intertwined unexpectedly, and the roles of the helper and the one being helped are turned upside down.




- Life As We Know It [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Greg Berlanti
Screenwriter: Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Hayes MacArthur
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual material, language and some drug content)
Official Website: LifeAsWeKnowItmovie.com



Plot Summary: Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Messer are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof.



- Marwencol (NY; LA release: Nov. 12) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: The Cinema Guild
Director: Jeff Malmberg
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Marwencol.com


Plot Summary: On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was brutally attacked by five men in his hometown of Kingston, New York. The assault left the ex-navyman, carpenter, and showroom designer in a coma for nine days; he emerged with brain damage that initially made it impossible for him to walk, eat, or speak. Physical and occupational therapy helped him regain basic motor skills, but after less than a year he discovered that without insurance, he could no longer afford it. Determined "not to let those five guys win," Hogancamp turned to art as a therapeutic tool. He revisited his childhood hobbies of collecting toy soldiers and building and painting models. Commandeering a pile of scrap wood left behind by a contractor, he constructed "Marwencol," a fictional Belgian town built to one-sixth scale in his backyard. He populated it with military figurines and Barbie dolls representing World War II personages like Patton and Hitler as well as stand-ins for himself, his friends, and his family. Finally, he dusted off an old camera and used it to capture staged events ranging from pitched battles between occupying German and American forces to catfights in the town bar.



- My Soul to Take (3D/2D theaters) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Wes Craven
Screenwriter: Wes Craven
Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, Raul Esparza
Genre: Suspense Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: IAmRogue.com/MySoultoTake



Plot Summary: Wes Craven ("A Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Hills Have Eyes," "Scream" series) brings audiences his latest suspense thriller with "My Soul to Take." In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer.

Adam "Bug" Heller (Max Thieriot) was supposed to die on the bloody night his father went insane. Unaware of his dad's terrifying crimes, he has been plagued by nightmares since he was a baby. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the monster that's returned, he must face an evil that won't rest... until it finishes the job it began the day he was born.



- Nowhere Boy [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Screenwriter: Matt Greenhalgh
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Sangster, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
MPAA Rating: R (for language and a scene of sexuality)



Plot Summary: Imagine... John Lennon's childhood. Liverpool 1955: a smart and troubled fifteen year-old is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi, the buttoned-up Aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock n' roll where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But a resilient young man finds his voice - and an icon explodes into the world.



- Rachel (NY) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Women Make Movies
Director: Simone Bitton
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available


Plot Summary: "Rachel" is a startlingly rigorous, fascinating and deeply moving investigatory documentary that examines the death of peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. A few weeks after her little-reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Corrie died in an accident. Simone Bitton (WALL), an award-winning documentary filmmaker who is a citizen of both France and Israel, has crafted a dispassionate but devastating essay investigating the circumstances of Rachel Corrie’s death. The region, already torn apart by decades of conflict, is divided on who is responsible for Rachel’s death.

The film begins like a classic documentary, but soon develops, transcending its subject and establishing a candid new visual approach for bearing witness. With understated cinematic techniques, Bitton captures the spirit of Rachel's youth, idealism, and political commitment amidst sweeping landscapes of Gaza and a portrait of daily life in an atmosphere of military aggression.



- Secretariat [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Randall Wallace
Screenwriter: Mike Rich
Starring: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Scott Glenn, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Otto Thorwarth, Fred Thompson, AJ Michalka, Kevin Connolly, Eric Lange, James Cromwell
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG (for brief mild language)
Official Website: Disney.com/Secretariat


Plot Summary: Based on the remarkable true story, "Secretariat" chronicles the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery--with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich)--manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and what may be the greatest racehorse of all time.



- Stone (limited) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Overture Films
Director: John Curran
Screenwriter: Angus MacLachlan
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich, Frances Conroy
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexuality and violence, and pervasive language)
Official Website: Stonemovie.com

Plot Summary: Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and Oscar® nominee Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections official and a scheming inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined in Stone, a thought-provoking drama directed by John Curran ("The Painted Veil," "We Don't Live Here Anymore") and written by Angus McLachlan ("Junebug"). As parole officer Jack Mabry (De Niro) counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the case of Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Norton), in prison for covering up the murder of his grandparents with a fire. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision have profound and unexpected effects on them both. Stone skillfully weaves together the parallel journeys of two men grappling with dark impulses, as the line between lawman and lawbreaker becomes precariously thin. The film's superb ensemble features Milla Jovovich ("The Fifth Element") as Lucetta, Stone's sexy, casually amoral wife, and Golden Globe® winner Frances Conroy ("Six Feet Under") as Madylyn, Jack's devout, long-suffering spouse. Set against the quiet desperation of an economically ravaged community and the stifling brutality of a maximum security prison, this tale of passion, betrayal and corruption examines the fractured lives of two volatile men breaking from their troubled pasts to face uncertain futures.




- Tamara Drewe (NY, LA) [Watch Movie Trailer]
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenwriter: Moira Buffini
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp, Tamsin Greig
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexuality)
Official Website: TamaraDrewemovie.com

Plot Summary: A live-action feature adaptation of Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel "Tamara Drewe."

Gemma Arterton ("Quantum of Solace," upcoming "Clash of the Titans" and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time") will play Drewe, a sexy flirt who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals. Simmonds' novel, itself a collection of comic strips she first published in U.K. newspaper the Guardian, is a modern reimagining of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Far From the Madding Crowd."

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