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TV Review: Better Call Saul "Nacho"

Trouble calls Saul from all directions. Review by Brandon Wolfe One of the neater tricks that Better Call Saul is pulling thus far is tinkering with its chronology. The series opened with a glimpse of Saul’s future before flashing back to explore his past, but “Nacho” sets the Wayback even further, opening with a scene from Saul’s more distant past, when he was in hot water for a laundry list of unspecified crimes serious enough to possibly label young Jimmy McGill a sex offender (!). In this scene, we see Saul as the sort of sketchy lowlife we frequently saw loitering in his waiting room on Breaking Bad , begging his own slick lawyer, a much more cogent version of brother Chuck, to save his bacon. Better Call Saul ’s status as a prequel initially seemed limiting (and, in some respects, still does), but the spin-off’s eagerness to not only offer us Saul’s pre-Walt past, but to present a cross-section of the lawyer’s entire life, makes it a more exciting and elastic prospect tha

See #INTERSTELLAR One Day Only On FEBRUARY 21st

LAST CHANCE BEFORE THE OSCARS TO SEE “ INTERSTELLAR ” IN IMAX® THE ONE-DAY-ONLY “ AN ENCORE OF INTERSTELLAR: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE® ” WILL PLAY IN AMC THEATRES® ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 2015 Paramount Pictures, IMAX® Corporation and AMC Theatres are giving fans one last opportunity to see Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award®-nominated film “INTERSTELLAR.” The critically acclaimed film will play in the IMAX® format in select AMC Theatres in the U.S. on Saturday, February 21st, 2015. The one-day-only “An Encore of Interstellar: The IMAX Experience®” showings will take place at 3:00 p.m. local times at participating AMC Theatres and will feature more than 12 minutes of never-before-seen exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Moviegoers who purchase a ticket at a participating AMC Theatres box office to see “ An Encore of Interstellar: The IMAX Experience® ” can receive an additional ticket free. This special offer is only available at participating AMC Theatres box offices; onlin

Win Tickets To See The Winter’s Tale In Sacramento

Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For The Winter’s Tale on February 17th at 7:00 PM in Sacramento. Fathom Events invites you to experience the powerful tale of a family’s destruction when The Winter’s Tale is screened in select cinemas nationwide on Tuesday, February 17. Following his delightful full-length ballet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Christopher Wheeldon continues his highly successful collaboration with designer Bob Crowley and composer Joby Talbot to create his first ballet based on a Shakespeare play, The Winter’s Tale . The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child, and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet through remorse and regret – and after a statue comes miraculously to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. It is powerful material for ballet, with a story that allows for the portrayal of intense emotions between and within the characters, and the opportunity for the Company to crea

New #FURIOUS7 TV Spot

Here is a new TV Spot for FURIOUS 7 . Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Furious 7. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series that also welcomes back favorites Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black. They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey, Nathalie Emmanuel and Kurt Russell. Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell return to produce the film written by Chris Morgan. www.furious7.com Please Leave A Comment-

Diane Kruger To Star Oppisite Bryan Cranston In The Infiltrator

Diane Kruger has been set for the female lead opposite Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator , a thriller that will be directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Pic’s produced by Good Films’ Miriam Segal and production begins shortly. Based on the Robert Mazur autobiography with a script by Ellen Brown Furman, The Infiltrator revolves around a customs and excise agent (Cranston) and his undercover alias. Kruger, best known for Inglourious Basterds, just wrapped the Gabriele Muccino-directed Fathers And Daughters, opposite Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul and Russell Crowe. She also wrapped Maryland and is shooting Sky and she will star with Penelope Cruz in the Isabel Coixet-directed This Man, This Woman. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Marion Cotillard Joins Assassin’s Creed Film

Marion Cotillard has signed on to star with Michael Fassbender in the Justin Kurzel-directed Assassin’s Creed, the live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game. They starred together in Macbeth, and Kurzel directed the film, which The Weinstein Company will release later this year. They’re keeping under wraps the role that Cotillard plays, but she’s a versatile actress who won the Oscar for La Vie En Rose, and also played an action role in The Dark Knight Rises. Like Fassbender, her role is meant to span multiple films if this one scores and becomes a franchise. New Regency and Ubisoft has married pedigree elements to a big-selling video game, a formula that has served Marvel well in building its franchises. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game has sold over 91 million units. Production will begin in early fall for a December 21, 2016 release through Fox, and the film is being co-financed by RatPac and Alpha Pictures. Frank Marshall, Arnon Milchan, Jean-Julien Baronnet,

Gina Carano & T.J. Miller Join Deadpool

Gina Carano has closed a deal to join Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool , Fox's action movie based on the wisecracking mercenary Marvel character. Tim Miller is directing the action adventure project, which is eyeing a March start in Vancouver. Lauren Shuler Donner is producing. Reynolds is an assassin who is dying of cancer who undergoes a procedure that is supposed to cure him but ends up twisted and scarred while also imbued with super-powers. T.J. Miller is set to bring comedic relief to the movie in an undisclosed role. And, fanboy alert: The Russian X-Men character known as Colossus is slated to appear in the movie. Carano will play a character known as Angel Dust. It is unclear how she fits into the proceedings, but in the Marvel comics, the character was part of an underground mutant group known as The Morlocks. Before she tackles Deadpool, however, Carano will star opposite Bruce Willis in Extraction, an action movie from Emmett-Furla and Aperture Entertainment. Stev

2015 Box Office Already Destroying 2014

The numbers are impressive, but what lessons can be learned from them? Story by Matt Cummings As if we didn't know already, the 2015 box office is certainly gearing up to be one of the biggest ever. We pontificated about this in our Big Movie Questions article back in January, but already the numbers are proving we were right to be excited. According to our friends at BoxOfficeMojo, the first 46 days of the 2015 box office have generated $1.45 billion, which represents the biggest start for the industry since 2010's $1.48 billion. That's 11% higher than 2014 and 26% higher than 2013. Moreover, the top 10 releases in 2015 combined to take in over $925m as compared to a paltry $775m for the year prior. Comparing 2015 and 2014 also yielded the following information: Both year's top performers ( Lone Survivor and American Sniper ) were released in their previous years. 2014 had four $100m movies by February 15 ( Lone Survivor , Ride Along , The LEG

New Friday the 13th To Explore Jason's Immortality

Why won't he DIE? By Brandon Wolfe Another Friday the 13th just came and went, yet there’s been no sign of the date’s symbolic representative, Jason Voorhees, onscreen in six years, leading audiences to wonder whether if the hockey-masked galoot will ever again emerge from the depths of Development Hell. But in an interview with Esquire , Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller reveals that not only are there currently plans to get Jason back into theaters, but there might be an actual creative angle in the works for this notoriously autopiloted franchise. "There's always been this supernatural aspect to these movies,” Fuller says. “It defies logic that, you see Jason get killed in every movie, including ours, the 2009 one. And then he comes back and no one's ever really investigated what that is. So that's something that I think about a little bit. Like it is supernatural, but what is he? Those are the things that we're toying with. Nothing has been deci

Inside the Bucket Podcast #49

This week's episode of Inside the Bucket is online! Revel in the digital mastery! This week's edition of Inside the Bucket takes a decidedly kinky turn as Matt, John, Brandon, and Sue discuss all the sexiest movie and entertainment news from our website SANDWICHJOHNFILMS.COM , including reports about Mission: Impossible V's release in IMAX on July 31st. Please check out all the links to the items we covered in today's podcast. Later, they move into a sexually-aggressive Rants and Raves (not really, but it sounds good when we say it), where they discuss entertainment-related items that they've followed since our last podcast. Finally, they review two movies: Kingsman: The Secret Service starring Colin Firth, Michael Caine, and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as 50 Shades of Grey , starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. We encourage you to participate in our Open Forum Friday, which is your chance to get in our business about running a passion project li