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28 June 2008 12:15 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Here’s the final theatrical movie trailer for the action film “Wanted” by director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch, Night Watch) and starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie as Fox. Plot: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad’s footsteps. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest Wanted videos [...]

Brian Corder

27 June 2008 6:05 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Wanted is a 2008 action film loosely based on the comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov he’s Kazakh action stylist who made the 2004 international thriller “Night Watch” and the equally mad 2006 follow-up “Day Watch”. Wanted stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie. Synopsis:Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge for the murder of his father, a member of a thousand-year-old group of [...]

Brian Corder

24 June 2008 12:03 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy use their survival skills to make it through a high-speed train derailment, in this new clip from the upcoming action film “Wanted” by writer / director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch) and starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie as Fox. Plot: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man [...]

Brian Corder

23 June 2008 5:24 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Angenlina Jolie demonstrates how not to drive a car in this new clip from the upcoming action film “Wanted” by writer / director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch) and starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie as Fox. Plot: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad’s footsteps. Stay [...]

Brian Corder

23 June 2008 8:09 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.

"Elsa and Fred"

Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.

Opens in limited release.

"Finding Amanda"

Fans of the small

Neil Pedley

21 June 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

We’re less than a week away from the release of Timur Bekmambetov’s anticipated action spectacle “Wanted,” and my expectations couldn’t be higher. After what I’ve seen in all those awesome clips and trailers over the past weeks, this flick quite simply has to rock.

Based on a comic book series, the film focuses on Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who’s a bored nobody until he finds out his father was one of the greatest assassins who ever lived. Before he knows it, Wes is pulled into a dangerous world and trained to become a ruthless killer himself.

SuperHeroHype.com had a little chat with the director, whose credits include the spectacular Russian action flicks “Night Watch” and “Day Watch.” Bekmambetov talks a bit about the comic the film is based on, but he also discusses about the direction, action and cast.

Here’s a little preview from the interview at SuperHeroHype.

Franck Tabouring

19 June 2008 8:03 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Originally announced as Dusk Watch via 20th Century Fox, it has been nearly a year since Timur Bekmambetov's Twilight Watch was conceived. The film was to be the final film in the Russian trilogy that began with the infamous Night Watch, only Bekmambetov went off to shoot Wanted for Universal Pictures instead. B-d reporter BC caught up with the director to find out exactly what is going on with the project, the news isn't good... Its a big mess! I dont know what will happen with this project," he reveals to Bloody-Disgusting. "Wanted took its place. Wanted became the American version of Night Watch. So for the moment I am not doing this.

19 June 2008 11:22 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I saw Wanted last night, and while I'm not allowed to share my thoughts with you just yet, I can share a bunch of new clips from the action movie, which will be out next weekend.

If you're new to the Wanted scene, James McAvoy plays a struggling office worker swept into a world of high-powered assassins by Angelina Jolie, who works for Morgan Freeman. The movie is based on a rather cool graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones and director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) is just the guy to bring those kinds of visuals to the big screen.

If you need more proof, check out these three new clips from Wanted, and please remember, the line to see it in theaters forms to the left.

Colin Boyd

15 June 2008 9:37 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

If you ever got a chance to see Timur Bekmambetov’s “Night Watch” and the sequel “Day Watch,” you probably know what he’s capable of as a director. He’s crazy! On June 27, Bekmambetov celebrates his Hollywood debut with “Wanted,” an action-packed thriller based on the comics by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones.

Trailer Addict recently got a hold of a seven-minute clip from the film, and I have to admit the footage is awesome. I’ve been excited about this flick ever since its first trailer debuted in theaters and online, but this one raises my expectations even more.

The clip below is from the beginning of the movie, when lead character Wesley (James McAvoy) first bumps into Angelina Jolie’s Fox. I let you experience the rest. Enjoy it!

Franck Tabouring

11 June 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Take a look at yet another very cool international movie poster from the upcoming film “Wanted” starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. Synopsis: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to [...]

Brian Corder

28 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Overseas, the box office remained in the doldrums, with Forgetting Sarah Marshall placing first with just $7 million, according to Daily Variety -- $4.1 million from the U.K. alone. It was the best British opening for a Judd Apatow comedy yet and was likely helped by the fact that it costars stand-up comic Russell Brand, host of a popular Saturday night radio show that airs on the BBC. Sony's 21 and Fox's Horton Hears a Who! tied for second place overseas with $6.2 million, just ahead of Fox's Street Kings, which wound up with $6.1 million. Analysts suggested that the overseas box office was in a holding pattern until the launch of the summer season next weekend with the opening of Paramount's Iron Man.

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22 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

A major-studio feature starring two Chinese actors -- something that in itself would have been unthinkable even a few years ago -- wound up at the top of the U.S. box office over the weekend. Not only did The Forbidden Kingdom bring together Jackie Chan and Jet Li, but it was also produced entirely in China mostly with Chinese crews, again something that would have been unheard of until recently. Finally the martial arts film was aimed at a family audience -- without the bloody violence of virtually all previous films of the genre. Nevertheless, it wound up with $21.4 million, at the high end of analysts' expectations, handily beating Universal's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which many analysts had suggested was the film most likely to come out on top. Instead, the R-rated comedy settled for second place with $17.7 million. Together the top 12 films grossed $82.88 million, up 13.46 percent from last year's $73.05 million. This was only the second week out of the past ten that the box office has seen a rise. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. The Forbidden Kingdom, Lionsgate, $21,401,121, (New); 2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Universal, $17,725,330, (New); 3. Prom Night, Sony, $8,670,364, 2 Wks. ($32,133,926); 4. 88 Minutes, Sony, $6,957,216, (New); 5. Nim's Island, 20th Century Fox, $5,687,072, 3 Wks. ($32,894,115); 6. 21, Sony, $5,520,362, 4 Wks. ($70,004,505); 7. Street Kings, Fox Searchlight, $4,179,505, 2 Wks. ($20,058,143); 8. Horton Hears a Who!, 20th Century Fox, $3,511,834, 5 Wks. ($144,418,495); 9. Leatherheads, Universal, $3,049,465, 3 Wks. ($26,605,235); 10. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, $2,970,848, (New).

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21 April 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Overseas, Horton Hears a Who! continued to hold onto the lead for the fourth straight week, earning $9.7 million and bringing its overseas total to $117.7 million. The results continued to dumbfound analysts, especially since the Dr. Seuss books are not nearly as popular overseas as they are in the U.S. In second place was Fox's Street Kings, which took in $8.5 million. In France, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis added another $7 million to its gross, putting it over the $200-million mark.

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21 April 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Forbidden Kingdom, the martial-arts family film that brought together Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time, wound up at the top of the domestic box office over the weekend with an estimated $20.9 million in ticket sales. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers, said, "The film is a good, solid action movie and audience, especially young audience, is looking for that shot of adrenaline. ... This was kind of warming up to summer." Coming in second was the Judd Apatow R-rated comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, written by and starring Jason Segel, which brought in $17.3 million. Several analysts had predicted that it would emerge as the weekend winner, citing its much-talked-about billboard campaign that had heightened awareness of the movie. Two other newcomers flopped. Sony's 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino, which had been mercilessly drubbed by critics, opened in fourth place with just $6.8 million, while the Ben Stein documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which argued on behalf of "intelligent design" -- that is, the biblical view of creation -- failed to bring out church groups in big numbers and settled for just $3.1 million to wind up in ninth place. Overall, the box office was up for the first time in five weeks, with the top 12 films earning $82.1 million, up 12 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago. "There is a collective sigh of relief in Hollywood," Dergarabedian told the Associated Press. So far this year, revenue is down 3.4 percent from last year while attendance is down 6.5 percent. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. The Forbidden Kingdom, $20.9 million; 2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $17.3 million; 3. Prom Night, $9.1 million; 4. 88 Minutes, $6.8 million; 5. Nim's Island, $5.7 million; 6. 21, $5.5 million; 7. Street Kings, $4 million; 8. Horton Hears a Who!, $3.5 million; 9. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, $3.1 million; 10. Leatherheads, $3 million.

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15 April 2008 10:35 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

After a series of horrible performances at the box office by horror flicks, Sony's Prom Night graduated with honors over the weekend as it took in $20.8 million, far more than the studio said that it expected -- and about what it cost to produce. It beat the Keanu Reeves cop drama Street Kings, which opened with $12.5 million, by a wide margin. Overall, the box office grossed $95 million down from $118 million for the comparable weekend a year ago -- a drop of 19.6 percent. Through the first 15 weeks of the year, ticket sales are off 3.5 percent and attendance, 6.6 percent from last year. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. Prom Night, Sony, $20,804,941, (New); 2. Street Kings, Fox Searchlight, $12,469,631, (New); 3. 21, Sony/Col, $10,470,173, 3 Wks. ($61,738,420); 4. Nim's Island, 20th Century Fox, $9,111,667, 2 Wks. ($25,391,566); 5. Leatherheads, Universal, $6,276,665, 2 Wks. ($21,976,580); 6. Horton Hears a Who!, 20th Century Fox, $5,920,566, 4 Wks. ($139,548,920); 7. Smart People, Miramax, $4,092,465, (New); 8. The Ruins, Paramount, $3,385,395, 2 Wks. ($13,548,871); 9. Superhero Movie, Mgm, $3,216,247, 3 Wks. ($21,304,164); 10. Drillbit Taylor, Paramount, $2,044,988, 4 Wks. ($28,436,029).

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14 April 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

After months of frightful box-office performances by horror flicks, Sony/Screen Gems's Prom Night debuted with $22.7 million over the weekend at the high end of analysts' predictions. It was the best debut for a horror film this year. In second place was Fox Searchlight's R-rated Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, which brought in an estimated $12 million. In its third week, 21 was still showing a strong hand as it took in $11 million. Everything else on the theater marquees looked weak, however, as the box office wound up with less revenue than it did a year ago for the fourth straight weekend. The top 12 films earned $82.6 million, more than 19 percent below what it took in during the comparable weekend last year. The fourth-ranked film, Fox's Nim's Island, brought in $9 million, while the George Clooney drama Leatherheads rounded out the top five with $6.2 million. The only other film to open wide this weekend, Miramax's Smart People, wound up with $4.2 million, to place seventh. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. Prom Night, $22.7 million; 2. Street Kings, $12 million; 3. 21, $11 million; 4. Nim's Island, $9 million; 5. Leatherheads, $6.2 million; 6. Horton Hears a Who!, $6 million; 7. Smart People, $4.2 million; 8. The Ruins, $3.3 million; 9. Superhero Movie, $3.1 million; 10. Drillbit Taylor, $2.1 million.

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11 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Street Kings, based on a novel by James Ellroy -- Ellroy also receives credit for contributing to the screenplay -- is not the kind of film that will win much applause from the law-and-order crowd. It's the story of an ultraviolent gang of Lapd officers operating outside the law. Keanu Reeves plays one of them. Stephen Cole in the Toronto Globe and Mail calls it "a bad-cop, worse cop movie." Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune calls it "a shrill, brutal bash." But the film has numerous fans. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle calls Ellroy's story "a thing of beauty. It's satisfying and consistently surprising, and yet those surprises are always appropriate and right, and the directions Ellroy chooses are invariably better and wiser than anything anybody might have guessed." Chris Vognar in the Dallas Morning News says it's "the cinematic equivalent of solid crime-genre fiction. It keeps the visual pages turning for a couple hours and navigates the dark corners of corruption and dishonor among men." And writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times: "It's easy to laugh at Street Kings for its bigger than big emotions, its preposterously kinky narrative turns and overwrought jawing and yowling, but there's no doubt that it also keeps you watching, really watching, all the way to the end."

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11 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

You won't be reading any reviews for it, but Sony Screen Gems's horror flick Prom Night is the favorite among box-office analysts to win this weekend's movie competition. Today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times reported that tracking surveys indicate that the film will take in $18-22 million, about the same as it cost to produce. The likely No. 2 film, according to the analysts, is the Keanu Reeves-Forest Whitaker drama Street Kings, which analysts figure will bring in $10-12 million. But Daily Variety pointed out that, with the exception of Cloverfield, horror films have performed weekly this year. It suggests that Street Kings could best it. Also opening this weekend, but in only about 1,100 theaters, is Miramax's Smart People, with Ellen Page of Juno, Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker. In limited release, France's controversial award winner Persepolis, an animated film -- it now has an English soundtrack -- about a girl's experiences growing up in Iran at the time of the Islamic revolution, is due to open in 136 theaters.

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7 April 2008 6:10 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

Prom queens and street kings hold court this week at the multiplexes while the college professors of "Smart People" and "The Visitor" preside at the art houses.

"Body of War"

Talk show legend Phil Donahue hands over the mic to Iraqi war veteran Tomas Young in this hard-hitting documentary that contrasts Young's struggle to re-enter civilian life as a paraplegic and anti-war activist with archival footage of an overeager U.S. Congress and what the filmmakers view as their hasty decision to greenlight the invasion. Although the film, co-directed by Donahue and Ellen Spiro, was named best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review, "Body of War" has earned equal attention for its soundtrack led by two tracks from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, with all proceeds going to the non-profit organization Iraq Veterans Against The War. (Check out our interview with Spiro and Donahue.)

Opens in New York.

Neil Pedley

24 March 2008 6:20 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

My Big Fat Greek Wedding star John Corbett has urged male drivers to take kids with them on all trips - after learning that cops let speeding fathers off lightly.

The actor, who once trained to become a Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, picked up tips from real-life cops while researching his new role in action film Street Kings.

And the hunk reveals one piece of advice he received will always stick with him.

He explains, "What I did find out from a street cop doing this movie is that whenever he pulls over a car, if it's got kids in it he never gives a ticket.

"He said that he felt that if he gives that dad a ticket the dad drives away p**sed off at the cops and the kids pick that up. Now he drives away and says, 'Hey, cops are pretty cool.'

"Those kids grow up with a whole different idea of cops. I like that philosophy."

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