Friday, October 01, 2010
Tom Hanks writes “Electric City”
Electric City, which is created and written by Tom Hanks, will show the future of civilization, presented through the lens of provocative themes such as energy consumption, freedom of information, crime and punishment.
Hanks and his producing partner Gary Goetzman will produce through their company Playtone and have partnered with India’s Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on this venture. Electric City is a multi-platform digital experience covering a multi-episode animated internet series, online social game and mobile application.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
“Let Me In” interactive games
Check out these interactive games for the upcoming film Let Me In. The games use actual footage from the film to immerse players in the dark world of Abby, a 12-year old vampire responsible for a series of grisly murders in a wintry New Mexico town.
Facebook users can feed a little girl and help her live for another hundred years with the “Feed a Friend” game for Facebook. But when they sign into Facebook Connect and select one of their friends, their seemingly good deed quickly turns deadly and they are shown a series of newspaper stories featuring their friend’s face and chronicling their demise.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Movie Review: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Helena (Gemma Jones) tries to end her life after her husband Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) leaves her to pursue his youth, and ends up falling for Charmaine (Lucy Punch), a free-spirited call girl, who spends all his money. Since medication and therapy aren’t working for Helena, her daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) sets her up with a fake fortune teller who gives Helena hope by telling her exactly what she wants to hear. Yearning for a child that her husband Roy (Josh Brolin) is not ready for, Sally fantasizes about having a relationship with her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas). Meanwhile, Roy, a novelist who had mild success with one book, has his own fantasies about Dia (Freida Pinto), a young woman who lives in the building across from him.
According to Woody Allen, this film deals with all the same subjects as his 1978 hit Interiors but the characters play them with humor. “This film is the inability of people to relate to one another, people needing some kind of certainty in life, people deluding themselves into some sense that there’s some purpose to life or some extra meaning to life when in fact it’s a meaningless experience and yet in the end even faith in anything at all is better than no faith at all.”
Alfie may be going through a midlife crisis and trying to regain his youth, but Hopkins is perfectly content with his age and is in fact enjoying his ’70s. He said, “I find that I’m glad that I’m not young anymore. I like working with young actors. The last year or so, I feel very much at peace with myself.”
Monday, September 20, 2010
Casino Jack
With the help of his business partner Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper), Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) parlays his clout over some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. When the two enlist a mob-connected buddy (Jon Lovitz) to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a world of mafia assassins, murder and a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines.
Casino Jack is inspired by actual events and is directed by George Hickenlooper. The film opens nationwide on December 29, 2010.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tangled
Rapunzel (Mandy Moore), a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair takes the kingdom’s most wanted and most charming bandit, Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi), hostage when he hides out in the mysterious tower.
After being locked up in the tower for years, Rapunzel makes a deal with Flynn to help her escape, resulting in an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tamara Drewe
Tamara Drewe is based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmons, which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd. When Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over teakettle. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book—sex appeal.
Tamara Drewe is a Sony Pictures Classics film and also stars Roger Allem, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, and Tamsin Greig. The film is Rated R and opens in select theaters on October 8, 2010 in New York and Los Angeles.