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Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug on Dec 9, 2013 7:30 pm in Fresno. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is an upcoming 2013 epic fantasy adventure film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Jackson . It is the second installment of a three-part film series based on J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit , beginning with An Unexpected Journey (2012) and set to conclude with There and Back Again (2014). The three films together act as prequels to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. The storyline continues the events of An Unexpected Journey , in which the hobbit Bilbo Baggins ( Martin Freeman ) travels with the wizard Gandalf ( Ian McKellen ) and a company of thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield ( Richard Armitage ) into the Kingdom of Erebor, taking them through Mirkwood, Esgaroth, and Dale to combat with the dragon Smaug ( Benedict Cumberbatch ). Jackson wrote the screenplay with his longtime collabor

Of all the many promotional partners lined up to market the second Hobbit film, The Desolation Of Smaug , US restaurant chain Denny’s always seemed like a weird one. Still, it promises wide exposure and in addition to Hobbit-themed menus (honest), it has also been handed some exclusive featurette footage. So here’s a piece about Beorn’s home. Beorn, for those who have recently been clubbed by a dwarf and may be unaware, is a “skinchanger”, a shape shifter who interacts with Gandalf and co on their quest in the film. Played by Mikael Persbrandt. Given that he is, as Ian McKellen describes him, "A man who is sometimes a bear, and a bear who is sometimes a man,” he naturally needs an unusually large dwelling. Which means some creative filmmaking as usual from the production team. In the featurette, Peter Jackson and some of his cast and crew talk about the experience of shooting in it, and there’s even a little behind-the-scenes footage, including Martin Freeman giving one of

Escape Plan Review By: MattInRC The brawling and cheesy Escape Plan is pure escapist fun with a twist. Considering the overwhelming status Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone commanded in the 1980's, it's amazing that no one had the foresight to pair these two up in a film prior to 2010's The Expendables. Though extremely limited, their one-scene-stage-sharing gave us tantalizing hints to what a full-on experience could be. Sadly, a lot's happened since 1982 when Conan The Destroyer and First Blood were released, with both actors seeing their popularity and bankability wane in the face of better actors in better vehicles. This week's release of Escape Plan finally brings us our wish, with an enjoyable and brawling effort that never tries to be more than what it is. Prison star Ray Breslin ( Stallone ) has literally written the book on escapes. As the film opens, we see him break out of yet another one in Colorado, but not before performing s

That figure includes the major 266 days of filming with actors, although it doesn't include an additional two months or so of "pick-up" shoots. Making the movie trilogy The Hobbit has cost more than half a billion dollars so far, double the amount spent on the three movies in the The Lord of the Rings series. That figure includes the major 266 days of filming with actors that was completed last year, although it doesn't include an additional two months or so of "pick-up" shoots done this year. There will likely also be additional postproduction costs as the next two movies are completed. The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Trailer & New Images- Through March 31, production had cost 676 million New Zealand dollars, or $561 million at current exchange rates, according to financial documents filed Friday in New Zealand, where the movies are being made. Distributor Warner Bros. and director Peter Jackson may consider it money well spent. To dat

Smaug is here, and he's not best pleased. He's also not in the best possible light, with his particular brand of hot halitosis covering his modesty, but to make up for it, at least you can hear Benedict Cumberbatch's best wyrm tongue in the new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug . Top tip: get your headphones on and crank up the volume. It's a well cut trailer with some great "Leggy moments" as Orlando Bloom calls them, as well as a gas refinery's worth of explosions and tonnes and tonnes of golden coin. Luke Evans' Bard The Bowman also gets his chance to shine - though perhaps not as brightly as the aforementioned gold - and there's even time for a few comic beats in there too, thanks to good ol' Bilbo and Gandalf. Still no Stephen Fry as the grotesque master of Laketown, and no Beorn to boot, but that's all well and good - they can't go about revealing everything so early on (though a smidge more Smaug would be ni

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For ESCAPE PLAN on Tuesday, October 15th @ 7:00PM at Century Downtown Plaza In Sacramento. Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegge r team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN . Ray Breslin ( Stallone ), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter . Official Website - See how to win tickets after the Jump... Go to GOFOBO and enter code below SANDX67M DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE EARLY! SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED, EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. THEATRE

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For ESCAPE PLAN on Tuesday, October 15th @ 7:00PM at Century 9 SF Centre In San Francisco. Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegge r team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN . Ray Breslin ( Stallone ), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter . Official Website - See how to win tickets after the Jump... Go to GOFOBO and enter code below SAND7WHH DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE EARLY! SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED, EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. THEATRE

Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For ESCAPE PLAN on Tuesday, October 15th @ 7:00PM In Fresno. Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegge r team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN . Ray Breslin ( Stallone ), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter . Official Website - See how to win tickets after the Jump... Go to GOFOBO and enter code below SANDW01K DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE EARLY! SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED, EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. THEATRE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERBOO

Epic tidings, web people. The Comic-Con teaser for The Avengers: Age Of Ultron is finally online and, lo, it is LOUD. Adjust your expectations, because there's zero actual footage here - they haven't started filming yet and that would be magic beyond even Marvel's powers - but there is plenty of excitement and portent crammed into these few short seconds. Grim tidings for poor Iron Man, whose helmet is crunched slowly into Ultron's evil robot bonce. There's also a reminder in those snippets of Avengers dialogue that the crew don't get along that well and have scattered to the four winds. "They’ve gone their separate ways,” Maria Hill tells Nick Fury. “They’ll come back,” Fury replies. “Because we’ll need them to.” We will. Age Of Ultron will see Tony Stark and the gang taking on a brand new threat torn from the pages of Marvel comic lore and given a spit-and-polish origin story for the big screen. Ultron (James Spader) is a criminally insane, sentient

Below we have two ESCAPE PLAN TV spots and an infographic, detailing how to perform the perfect escape plan from Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security. Make sure to check back. We will be hosting screening for this film in Northern California. ESCAPE PLAN opens in theaters October 18. One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin ( Sylvester Stallone ) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. ESCAPE PLAN is the first pairing of action legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in leading roles, and co-stars Jim Caviezel, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Amy Ryan . Offici

There's been a big presence at this year's Comic-Con for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 , but the press conference today with director Marc Webb, producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach and stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan was the first real word on what the film has to offer. "The universe that we conceived of began before we started shooting the first movie," said Webb of the over-arching story, "but the primary focus was executing this movie as best we could. This is operatic. There's a hugeness of scale to this movie. The ensemble is extraordinary, but it's cohesive and direct, and there's a simple unifying theme at the heart of the film that I think will be impactful. But it's fun teasing other characters, and if you pay attention to this movie you'll see what we're setting up what might come next." He also discussed the film's take on new bad guy Electro, played by Jamie Foxx. "There are a lot of incarnat

With Comic-Con now mere days away, the various movies set to make an appearance at the event are getting a start on pimping what audiences can expect. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is just one of the projects hitting the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue, with a proper first look at Jamie Foxx as Electro. Looking like a living plasma globe, Foxx certainly comes across as effective, even if the real test will be how the makeup works on film. Chances are we’ll get to judge that with some footage at the Con, and maybe even an early trailer hitting the web. Director Marc Webb, meanwhile, seems happy to have the birth pangs out of the way and relishes the chance to focus on the future. “People aren’t scared. With the first one I felt it was important to retell that origin story,” he says. “But that was kind of brutal because people were so familiar with it. Now that the origin story is done? We’re off to the races. It’s incredibly liberating.” We’re hoping that means a les

Summit Entertainment , a LIONSGATE company, will debut the first lead pairing of action legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film ESCAPE PLAN at Comic-Con 2013 Special Fan Screening Hosted by Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger will host a screening of their upcoming film, ESCAPE PLAN , at the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15 on Thursday July 18th. Passes for the screening will be available through online giveaways, at the Summit Booth on the convention floor and via giveaway outside the screening location, the evening of the event, while supplies last. The fan line will open outside the theater (701 5th Ave.) at 5:00pm. Here fans will have another chance to score a ticket to the special screening and welcome Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger when they arrive on the red carpet. Convention Floor Booth - Summit Entertainment's booth located within the Grand Hall will highlight ESC

MACHINIMA PICKS UP FIRST EPISODE OF CHRISTIAN SESMA WEB SERIES: VIGILANTE DIARIES . Mega-Gaming Site YouTube Channel Features Premiere Episode of Chill’s Groundbreaking Series Machinima, the premier network for gamers across the globe, has begun to showcase the first installment of Vigilante Diaries —feature film director Christian Sesma’s explosive new web series starring Jason Mewes—on its YouTube Channel. Machinima’s showcase of the episode will significantly expand the program’s reach, aiding the director’s crowd-funding campaign on social video website Chill (http://www.chill.com/vd) to earn $50,000 by July 25th. Whether or not Sesma creates new episodes of the series depends on fan support. Featuring an in-your face performance by Jason Mewes (CLERKS, DOGMA, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK), Vigilante Diaries combines high-octane action-comedy, violence, gore and gratuitous sex with a snappy, graphic novel sensibility. Mewes plays documentary filmmaker Michae

IGN got their hands on the first trailer for ESCAPE PLAN which can be seen below. Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN . Ray Breslin ( Stallone ), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. ESCAPE PLAN Event To Be Held At Comic-Con 2013? Let's Hope So - ESCAPE PLAN, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new release date for the film – OCTOBER 18, 2013… Watch the trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

Summit Entertainment might be delivering something HUGE at Comic-Con this year. This poster was sent to me by an anonymous source. So take it with a grain of salt. But how sweet would it be if this news is on the up and up. I have tried try to get a confirmation from Summit Entertainment but have heard nothing back. Either way this is a pretty amazing poster. Let's hope they do deliver at Comic-Con this year. Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN . Ray Breslin ( Stallone ), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “ The Tomb .” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. ESCAPE PLAN , starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzeneg

GAUMONT INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION TO ATTEND COMIC CON IN SAN DIEGO WITH “ HANNIBAL ” PANEL SET FOR THURSDAY, JULY 18TH. Focus of panel, which includes Bryan Fuller, David Slade, Martha De Laurentiis and Hugh Dancy , is recently announced 2nd season of Hannibal on NBC. June 25, 2013 – With the 2nd season of Hannibal having just been picked-up by NBC, Katie O’Connell, CEO of Gaumont International Television, announced today that the company will be attending the upcoming Comic Con Convention in San Diego, CA and will be hosting a Hannibal-themed panel on Thursday, July 18th from 6:45pm – 7:45pm in Room 6A . The panel, entitled Hannibal: Feed Your Fear , will feature Emmy-Award-winning executive producer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies), director David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Martha De Laurentiis (Red Dragon), and star Hugh Dancy (playing Agent Will Graham) as they discuss key behind the scenes moments from the first season of the ground-breaking NBC drama. The panel

ABC TAKES ON COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2013 Hit Series “ Once Upon a Time ” Returns for Its Third Consecutive Year Two of the Fall’s Most Anticipated New ABC Series, “ Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ” And “ Once Upon a Time in Wonderland ,” Will Make Their Comic-Con Debuts ABC will be bringing star power to Comic-Con 2013, with its returning fan favorite “ Once Upon a Time ,” as well as two new highly anticipated series debuting this fall, “ Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D “ and “ Once Upon a Time in Wonderland .” On Friday, July 19 , Marvel Television will introduce fans to their first live action television epic with their new ABC series, “ Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D .,” featuring a panel with executive producer Joss Whedon and Marvel’s Head of Television and series executive producer Jeph Loeb. The show will also be spotlighted at the Marvel Entertainment Booth on the Convention Center floor throughout the entire weekend, with special surprises to be announced! Satu

We hope Andrew Garfield didn’t have too many movie roles planned for the next five years or so, because Sony wants to keep him in the Spidey suit for a while yet. Displaying the typical confidence of big studios in keeping their franchises swinging, the company has just announced that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 will arrive on June 10, 2016 and the fourth on May 4, 2018. Yes, even though the second film – due to touch down here next year – isn’t finished and the reaction to the first wasn’t quite as positive as all involved likely hoped, nothing is stopping the superhero momentum. “ Spider-Man is our most important, most successful, and most beloved franchise, so we’re thrilled that we are in a position to lock in these prime release dates over the next five years,” said Sony marketing boss Jeff Blake in a statement. It’s also a sign of the studio wanting to wrangle those dates before anyone else can lock them down. So while we don’t yet know who will appear in the new movies, or

Today is the day and now is the time. The trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is here. Following on from where we left Bilbo ( Martin Freeman ), the dwarves and Ian McKellen’s Gandalf continue their journey to the Lonely Mountain, where Thorin ( Richard Armitage ) and the rest seek to reclaim their homeland from a troublesome squatting occupant: Smaug the dragon. The focus here is more on the new faces we can expect in the second film, including Lee Pace’s Elvenking Thranduil, Evangeline Lily as elf warrior Tauriel, Mikael Persbrandt as shape-changer Beorn, Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman and, just because he can do it without needing big makeup changes, Orlando Bloom’s athletic Legolas. With plenty of action on show, some nice looks at the new folk and a solid, dramatic reveal (well, after the glimpses in the first film) of Smaug’s reptilian mug (no Cumberchat- yet), this definitely has us ready to see more. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Empire