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The film's new poster - about which we're contractually obliged to use words like 'gritty' and 'moody' - is below for your viewing pleasure. A reshaping of acclaimed 2008 Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, Contraband looks a level above other recent Euro-remakes like Russell Crowe flop The Next Three Days. There are similarities, though. Wahlberg , like Crowe, must turn to crime to rescue his wife ( Kate Beckinsale ) - this time from some very bad people, Giovanni Ribisi's crime capo among them, in the New Orleans underground. Contraband Trailer Starring Mark Wahlberg & Kate Beckinsale A one-time smuggler now working as a security guard, Wahlberg's Chris Farraday goes back to the old business, heading to Panama with best mate Sebastian ( Ben Foster ) and coming back with millions in counterfeit bills. As the movie's trailer suggests, things goes awry pretty darn fast. Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and JK Simmons

THE RUM DIARY Movie Review By: Rama Did Rama have one to many shots of Rum when he wrote his review? Make to follow him on Facebook and Twitter . A man could die from alcoholic poisoning just by watching THE RUM DIARY . It’s got so much consumption, it almost tempts people like me who’ve kicked the habit a while ago, to start drinking again. But on to the film, my mistake was that I was half hoping this would be just as uproarious and mindtripping as Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas but THE RUM DIARY is a pretty disjointed adventure Puerto Rico in the ’60s. Keep in mind that I’ve never read the book that this film is based on and I’m sure there’s tons of Hunter S. Thompson’s fans out there who’d be more passionate about this film, but what doesn’t sell me the most about THE RUM DIARY is that in this film, everybody but Johnny Depp is interesting … Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, the film tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul K

In Theaters October 28, 2011  We have your access to THE RUM DIARY . FilmDistrict has provide me with an Exclusive pass for the fans to get access to the screening in Sacramento,Ca. THE RUM DIARY  Stars Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi . The screening will take place on  Oct 26, 2011 at 7:30 pm at Century Stadium 14 . THE RUM DIARY  finds Depp once more playing a Thompson surrogate, though this time one step removed. He’s Paul Kemp, a booze-guzzling journalist who is sent by his editor (Richard Jenkins, boasting one of the funniest wigs to grace the screen in ages) to Puerto Rico on assignment. In between bouts of narcotic- and alcohol-influenced madness, he stumbles on a real story, setting up a collision with a corrupt businessman ( Aaron Eckhart ) whose sexy young fiancée ( Amber Heard ) has taken a real liking to Paul. Please email me here  sandwichjohnfilmsscreenings@yahoo.com and put  THE RUM DIARY

We have the trailer for the Action Thriller Contraband Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Lukas Haas, Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Foster . The Baltasar Kormákur film is a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J.K. Simmons, the Baltasar Kormákur film is a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect. Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling — full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs — where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away. Contraband opens January 13th, 2012 Please Leave A Comment-

Giovanni Ribisi has landed a co-starring role in Warner Bros' The Gangster Squad , the period crime drama Ruben Fleischer is directing that stars Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen, and Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as members of the elite cop squad that are after him in 1949 Los Angeles. Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena also are aboard. Will Beall wrote the script. Langley Park Pictures and Lin Pictures are producing. Ribisi, repped by CAA and Management 360, will play Conway Keeler, a cop in the group who is a master of electronics and wires. He is currently shooting Universal's Ted and next appears in FilmDistrict's The Rum Diary opposite Johnny Depp Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Giovanni Ribisi is attached to co-star in the laffer " Ted " with Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane . MacFarlane directs, and co-wrote the film with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The film follows a grown man dealing with his cherished teddy bear that came to life as the result of a childhood wish. Ribisi will play Donny, a man who's obsessed with Ted, while Wahlberg plays the grown up. Mila Kunis is in final negotiations on the film. MacFarlane, Scott Stuber and John Jacobs are to produce through Stuber Films. Since co-starring in "Avatar," Ribisi has been busy filling his slate. Besides "Ted," he's filming "Contraband," which also stars Wahlberg, is in "Waco" and "The Rum Diaries" with Johnny Depp. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety

Avatar: Special Edition DVD/Blu-Ray Extra 16 Minutes Of Footage Avatar: Special Edition hit theaters yesterday and over 9 minutes of extra footage. Has anybody gone out to see it again or for the first time? I would recommend going to watch it in 3D if you haven't had this experience yet. If you were like me I didn't pick up Avatar when it was released on DVD, knowing that down the road there would be a special edition re-release of the film, and now we have word on Avatar: Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray will have 16 minutes of extra footage. “Well, if you buy the box set in November, you can sit down, and in a continuous screening of the film, watch it with the Earth opening … It works very well. It just takes a long time to get the movie started. You have to be sort of predisposed to like the movie like a fan, you know what I mean? And then you can sit and you can have a great ride — a different telling of Avatar. Not inconsistent — it’s just the stuff that happen

Middle Men Redband Trailer In 1995, a straight-and-narrow businessman ( Luke Wilson ) who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment, finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists, all while trying to hold on to his marriage and family. Watch the trailer (contains both nudity and profanity) after the Jump.. Please Leave A Comment-

Avatar 2 Announcement Coming Soon James Cameron was in South Korea, once again preaching about how 3D will replace 2D as the standard format for films, TV, laptops, online content. Actually, when I pitched this to 20th Century Fox four-and-a-half years ago, I said, ‘You know, we’re going to spend a lot of money and time and energy creating not only a process but the assets, the CG assets, we call them - all the models of every rock and tree and plant and creature and the muscle rigs for all the creatures and the facial rigging for the main characters and all that’… huge, millions and millions of dollars. So it really makes sense to think of it as the potential start of a franchise, if you will, or a saga that plays out over several acts, each movie being an act of that saga. I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll

Avatar 2 Will Go Under Water In Pandora We have some interesting news about Avatar and it's sequel. First up James Cameron says a longer version of the film will be back in theaters in August -- and that the franchise will return with a seagoing sequel. Cameron outlined where he sees the adventures of Jake, Neytiri and the rest heading in future films. “We created a broad canvas for the environment of film. That’s not just on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out across that system and incorporate more into the story – not necessarily in the second film, but more toward a third film. “Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rainforest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.” The sequel, according

Avatar DVD Hits Stores On April 22,2010 I have been waiting to hear this news and I am sure there are a few of you out there are like Oh my gosh. The wait will be over soon. The DVD and Blu-Ray will be in stores on April 22nd, 2010, which is also Earth Day, which is appropriate since Avatar had lot of environmental theme and a nature message. A 3D version of the pic is expected to be released for home-entertainment sometime next year. "Avatar" has rung up $2.6 billion in worldwide boxoffice since its theatrical. Check out the list below for additional release dates around the world FRANCE – April 21 BELGIUM – April 21 NETHERLANDS – April 21 SPAIN – April 21 CHINA – April 22 BRAZIL – April 22 RUSSIA – April 22 NORTH AMERICA – April 22 GERMANY – April 23 JAPAN – April 23 SWITZERLAND – April 23 MEXICO – April 23 UK – April 26 DENMARK – April 27 NORWAY – April 28 SWEDEN – April 28 NEW ZEALAND – April 28 AUSTRALIA – April 29 FINLAND – April 30 ITALY – May 6 AVATAR on Blu-ray pres

Avatar Tops The 1 Billion Dollar Mark Twentieth Century Fox's "Avatar" reached a worldwide cume of $1.02 billion through Sunday, leading the most lucrative Christmas season in history. "Avatar" becomes the fourth highest grosser ever, behind James Cameron's "Titanic" ($1.8 billion), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" ($1.12 billion) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" ($1.07 billion). "Avatar" should soon eclipse the latter two pics. Over New Year's weekend, "Avatar" grossed an estimated $68.3 million from 3,461 runs at the domestic B.O. -- the best number ever for a film in its third weekend -- for a cume of $352.1 million in its 17th day in release. Overseas, the 3D sci-fi fantasy added $133.5 million for a foreign cume of $670.2 million in 21 days in release. Of "Avatar's" global total, $66.4 million has come from Imax theaters, a record for the large-format

Avatar Getting Encouraging Feedback About The Film Avatar screened last night in London for members of the press and US screenings started this morning. I saw the film first thing today, and embargo keeps me from saying anything about it. Twitter has been fairly quiet, with those who’ve seen it abiding by the embargo so far. But some UK outlets don’t care as much about the embargo, and there is already a full-fledged review in The Sun and some useful comments in The Guardian. The Sun’s ‘review’ is typical for the paper — thin and shallow. But it is quite exuberant. “The final battle scene is 20 minutes long and absolutely mind-blowing,” the paper says. “It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story.” The Guardian is more interested in preserving the embargo, but does pass along a couple of rumor-busting notes that are very much worth paying attention to: “And there have been a lot of rumours…Rumours that the 3D effects were making

James Cameron Promises Avatar Sequel You've heard some of the buzz surrounding filmmaker James Cameron's upcoming 3-D sci-fi epic movie Avatar? Well, Cameron has a message for the haters: You ain't seen nothing yet. Coming up for air after "four and a half years of intense work," Cameron insists in an exclusive interview that he "consciously made a decision not to read any article or news breaks about Oscar buzz" while he labored to finish the film and also admits that he's been "well aware" of some of the negative fan buzz surrounding the project, based on screenings of early footage and trailers. "I know there's been a lot of talk and speculation about it, but it's kind of like the generic Oscar buzz out there—it's pretty ridiculous when people haven't even see the movie," he says, addressing the issue. "All anyone has seen is the 25 minutes of various scenes we showed at Comic-Con—and that's not the mo

Avatar: Flying With Banshees Behind the Magic Fox Movie Channel has released their Making a Scene segment on James Cameron’s Avatar on Hulu. The ten minute segment takes a look at a scene in the film when Jake Sully and Neytiri fly together on Banshees for the first time. The segment gives us a glimpse at the work that went on behind the scenes to create this scene. It’s fine if you’re not impressed by how Avatar looks, but after watching this featurette, you should at least be impressed by some of the the technical innovations and processes that were created to make this film. Related News- Avatar-Through The Eyes Col.Miles Quaritch Please Leave A Comment- Source-Fox Movie Channel/ Slashfilms

Avatar-Through The Eyes Col.Miles Quaritch Another day, another tiny taste of what we can expect from James Cameron's Avatar, with a featurette focusing on Stephen Lang and his character Colonel Miles Quaritch, the sinister head of the Marines based on Pandora to protect the human base there. Please Leave A Comment-

Avatar Footage-13 Minutes of Behind The Scene From 60 Minutes You will have to deal with the ads but is well worth it. Watch CBS News Videos Online James Cameron appeared on 60 Minutes last night, where he gave Morley Safer—and us—a behind-the-scenes look at how he went from being the director of "the very best flying piranha movie ever made" to the creator of the $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar. "This is the film I think I always wanted to make when I set down the path of being a filmmaker," said Cameron. He also revealed the reason he gave his blue aliens tails—because: "Tails are cool!" Please Leave A Comment- Source- SyFy

Avatar Will Cost 500 Million After All Is Said And Done When James Cameron makes a movie he goes big. "Titanic" is a great example. But he definitely makes his money back in the end and then some. Mr. Cameron’s “Titanic,” which took in more than $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office after its release in 1997, was a major corporate event for the News Corporation, then about a third the size of the current conglomerate, which has roughly $30 billion in annual sales. Less than a year after the release, the News Corporation raised nearly $3 billion in a public offering of shares in its filmed entertainment group, partly on the strength of “Titanic.” (It bought those shares back four years ago.) Will Avatar do the same? Movies looks great and I am looking forward to seeing the film when it comes out this year. Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar story, with no Hollywood superstars, a vanishing DVD market and a price tag approaching $500

New James Cameron Avatar Trailer Is Online The new trailer has arrived and it looks amazing. We got our first look at the Avatar footage during Comic Con and it looked amazing. This new trailer looks like it does this film justice. The trailer shows more of the human side to the movie and the visual effects are just incredible. The colors are just so vibrant and the Na’vi characters look so alive. Just everything about this film looks great. The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall (approximately 10 ft)