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The Art of LAIKA Offered For First Time By Heritage Auctions Production Puppets, Models, Props and Original Handmade Art from Oscar®-Nominated Animation Studio to Be Auctioned on February 12, 2015; Portion of Proceeds to Benefit The Art of Elysium Non-Profit Arts Group LAIKA , the visionary animation studio behind the Golden Globe and Annie Award-nominated The Boxtrolls and the BAFTA and Academy Award-nominated Coraline and ParaNorman , will open its archives for the first time for a limited auction of over 250 puppets, models, props and art in The Art of LAIKA, to be held by Heritage Auctions on Thursday, February 12, 2015 , in Beverly Hills. A portion of the proceeds of the auction will be donated to The Art of Elysium, a non-profit arts organization that works to make art a catalyst for social change by bringing creativity and inspiration to children, artists, and various populations in need. “LAIKA is known for its artistry and revolutionary stop-motion animation te

LAIKA AND FOCUS FEATURES IN PRODUCTION ON FOURTH ANIMATED MOVIE, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS . TRAVIS KNIGHT DIRECTS; ALL-STAR VOICE CAST INCLUDES MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, CHARLIZE THERON, ROONEY MARA, RALPH FIENNES LAIKA and Focus Features, the two companies behind the Academy Award-nominated Coraline and ParaNorman and the current Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Award-nominated release The Boxtrolls, today announced production on their fourth collaboration, Kubo and the Two Strings. LAIKA President & CEO Travis Knight and Focus CEO Peter Schlessel made the announcement today. Mr. Knight, an Annie Award-winning animator, is making his directorial debut on Kubo and the Two Strings. The new movie, from an original screenplay by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler (ParaNorman) is a sweeping, swashbuckling adventure set in a mythical ancient Japan. It is being brought to life at LAIKA’s Oregon studios via the company’s innovative 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid technique. In addition to directi

Head over to Apple NOW to watch the brand new OFFICIAL TRAILER for Focus Features' upcoming romantic drama, A LITTLE CHAOS . Academy Award winner Kate Winslet stars as a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV’s new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court’s renowned landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). A LITTLE CHAOS opens in select cities on MARCH 27, 2015! Please Leave A Comment-

“ LONDON HAS FALLEN ” BEGINS FILMING GERARD BUTLER, AARON ECKHART, MORGAN FREEMAN, ANGELA BASSETT, MELISSA LEO REPRISE STARRING ROLES Principal photography has begun on Millennium Films’ and Focus Features’ London Has Fallen, the sequel to the worldwide smash hit " Olympus Has Fallen ." Gerard Butler again stars as Secret Service agent Mike Banning, alongside Aaron Eckhart as the President of the United States. Also returning are Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman, as Vice President Trumbull, Academy Award® nominee Angela Bassett, as Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs, and Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo as Defense Secretary Ruth McMillan. Babak Najafi ("Snabba Cash II") directs the thriller from a screenplay by Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt ("Olympus Has Fallen"), Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John. The story begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funera

Happy Halloween from INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 FOCUS FEATURES WILL RELEASE INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 IN THEATERS MAY 29, 2015 The newest chapter in the terrifying horror series is written and directed by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell. This chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity. Please Leave A Comment-

FOCUS FEATURES AND LAIKA PACT FOR DISTRIBUTION DEAL ON THREE NEW MOVIES LAIKA and Focus Features, the two companies behind the hit animated feature The Boxtrolls , will continue their partnership on LAIKA’s next three projects. Focus CEO Peter Schlessel and LAIKA President and CEO Travis Knight made the announcement today. As with the three movies that the companies have partnered on previously, Focus will distribute the next three movies domestically, and Universal Pictures International will release them overseas. Focus opened The Boxtrolls nationwide last weekend to a $17.3 million gross, marking the biggest debut yet for a LAIKA movie. The Boxtrolls follows the successful and acclaimed Focus and LAIKA animated films Coraline (2009) and ParaNorman (2012), each of which grossed over $100 million worldwide. Coraline earned Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, and Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Feature Film; and was named one of the year’s 10 Best Films by the

Focus Features has just debuted two riveting NEW CLIPS from their upcoming film, KILL THE MESSENGER . Based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb, the new dramatic thriller features an all-star cast lead by two-time Academy Award winner Jeremy Renner . 'Biggest Story' 'I'm Writing The Story' Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications

FOCUS FEATURES TAKES NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS TO LIONSGATE UK PRODUCTION A LITTLE CHAOS . Studio Will Release Romantic Drama on March 27, 2015 Focus Features has acquired North American distribution rights to A LITTLE CHAOS , directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock. The company also acquired distribution rights to the film, which is financed by Lionsgate UK and BBC Films, in Scandinavia. The romantic drama stars Academy Award® winner Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mr. Rickman , Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci , and Danny Webb . Focus Features will release the movie in North America on March 27, 2015. A LITTLE CHAOS had its world premiere as the closing-night film of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The project is produced by Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood via their Potboiler Productions banner, and Bertrand Faivre via The Bureau production banner. Executive Producers of the project are Zyg

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 BEGINS PRODUCTION; FAN SWEEPSTAKES LAUNCHED ON SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES Focus Features, Entertainment One (eOne), Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), and Blumhouse Productions announced today that Insidious: Chapter 3 has begun production in Los Angeles. Leigh Whannell, co-creator of the terrifying horror franchise, is writing and directing the new movie. To commemorate the start of production of the series’ newest chapter, Focus is launching a sweepstakes on the official Insidious Facebook ( www.facebook.com/InsidiousMovie ) and Twitter ( www.twitter.com/InsidiousMovie ) pages. Insidious buffs and fans will have the chance to win a trip for two to Los Angeles to visit the set of Insidious: Chapter 3 . The contest begins on Tuesday, July 22nd, and ends on Friday, July 25th. The contest’s complete official rules can be accessed at www.focusfeatures.com/article/insidious_set_visit . Insidious: Chapter 3 stars Dermot Mulroney (of August: Osage County) an

If you're a dyed-in-the-angora-yarn fan of British author E. L. James's 2011 erotic novel, you'll be reaching for a fan to calm your blushing visage in anticipation of the new Fifty Shades Of Grey trailer, out in full on Thursday. In the meantime, here's a teaser for that teaser, which lasts just 16 seconds - insert first-base sex joke here - and will probably leave you hankering for a spankering. Or, alternatively, not. In case you are not in the know about will no doubt be Oxfam's most awkward donation for the next two decades, Fifty Shades Of Grey sees Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey, the handsome 28 year-old billionaire who can think of nothing better to do with his life than to pursue 21 year-old college graduate Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson ). Watch the trailer HERE But the course of true love never did run smooth, and it's particularly choppy when the guy's into S&M and likes his girlfriends to sign contracts promising submissive beha

FOCUS FEATURES ACQUIRES U.S. DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS TO JESSE OWENS BIOPIC RACE Focus Features has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the drama Race. Jason Sudeikis is joining fellow cast member, Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons , in the spectacular true story of Olympic legend Jesse Owens , who will be portrayed by rising star Stephan James . Mister Smith Entertainment is handling worldwide sales on Race. Race , to be directed by Emmy® Award winner Stephen Hopkins , begins principal photography on July 24th in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, where the real-life hero won a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals in 1936. The new film has the support of the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group. Race is based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 O

You have been chosen. I’m sure by now you can appreciate where we are coming from. Encounter  The Signal  on June 13th 2014. Win Tickets To An Advance Screening For The Signal In San Francisco - Nic, Haley and Jonah are not isolated occurrences. More individuals are now closer to discovering the truth about The Signal. I’ve traced more origin points: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and 23 other cities. Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. The trio find themselves drawn to an isolated area. Suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students, Nic (Brenton Thwaites of The Giver and Maleficent), regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare… Please Leave A Comment-

Win Tickets To An Advance For The Signal on Thursday, June 12, 2014 in San Francisco. The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank and co-written with Carlyle Eubank, David Frigerio and Sebastian Gutierrez. The film stars Laurence Fishburne, Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke and Lin Shaye . The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and will be released theatrically in the United States on June 13, 2014 Nick and Jonah are MIT freshmen with a passion for hacking. While driving cross-country through Nevada with Nick’s girlfriend, Haley, they follow rival hacker Nomad’s clues to a location 180 miles away. After a terrifying confrontation with Nomad in the middle of the desert, the trio regain consciousness in captivity. Struggling to comprehend the true nature of their confinement, they discover they are part of a plot much larger than themselves. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitt

Following the success of his Kickstarter campaign to fund his second writing/directing/staring effort, Wish I Was Here , Zach Braff scored again at Sundance when Focus features picked up the film. He’s launched a new trailer for the project, and you can see his trademark blend of whimsy, life issues and indie music is fully on display again. Wish I Was Here is the story of Aidan Bloom ( Braff ), a struggling actor, father and husband, who at 35 is still trying to find his identity; a purpose for his life. He and his wife ( Kate Hudson ) are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he’d always dreamed he’d be when he was young. Watch the trailer after the Jump... When his ailing father ( Mandy Patinkin ) can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids, Grace ( Joey King ) and Tucker ( Pierce Gagnon ), and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to

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Win Tickets To An Advance For BAD WORDS on Tuesday, March 18th at 7:30PM in Sacramento at Roseville Century 14 . BAD WORDS  is a 2013 American black comedy film directed by Jason Bateman and written by Andrew Dodge. Marking Bateman's directorial debut, the film stars Bateman as a middle-aged middle school dropout who enters the National Quill Spelling Bee. It also stars Allison Janney, Rachael Harris, Phillip Baker Hall , and Kathryn Hahn . Guy Trilby ( Bateman ), a 40-year-old high school dropout gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win a spelling bee as an adult. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young Indian contestant who he exposes to the wilder side of life. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Also make sure to subscribe and download our podcast . Official Website - See how to get tickets after the Jump.. Go to gofobo and enter

Win Tickets To An Advance For BAD WORDS on Tuesday, March 18th at 7:30PM in Daly City. BAD WORDS  is a 2013 American black comedy film directed by Jason Bateman and written by Andrew Dodge. Marking Bateman's directorial debut, the film stars Bateman as a middle-aged middle school dropout who enters the National Quill Spelling Bee. It also stars Allison Janney, Rachael Harris, Phillip Baker Hall , and Kathryn Hahn . Guy Trilby ( Bateman ), a 40-year-old high school dropout gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win a spelling bee as an adult. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young Indian contestant who he exposes to the wilder side of life. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Also make sure to subscribe and download our podcast . Official Website - See how to get tickets after the Jump.. Go to gofobo and enter SAND3N18 DISCLAIMER: ARRI

Win Tickets To An Advance For BAD WORDS on Wednesday, March 26th at 7:30 in Fresno. BAD WORDS  is a 2013 American black comedy film directed by Jason Bateman and written by Andrew Dodge. Marking Bateman's directorial debut, the film stars Bateman as a middle-aged middle school dropout who enters the National Quill Spelling Bee. It also stars Allison Janney, Rachael Harris, Phillip Baker Hall , and Kathryn Hahn . Guy Trilby ( Bateman ), a 40-year-old high school dropout gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win a spelling bee as an adult. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young Indian contestant who he exposes to the wilder side of life. Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all your entertainment news and screenings. Also make sure to subscribe and download our podcast . Official Website - See how to get tickets after the Jump.. Go to gofobo and enter SANDQDPY DISCLAIMER: ARRIVE