^&*&^ THe BEst Collectible : Fear Monger: This Babadook Collectible

In smaller news, the Mo Brothers’ insanely violent thriller Killers is getting a U.S. release on January 23, 2015 on VOD and in limited theaters. The acclaimed 2011 Japanese horror Birthright is getting an American remake. And Todd Lincoln’s segment for V/H/S Viral, which was left out of the released version for some yet-to-be-explained reason, is going to debut for the film’s DVD release on February 17, 2015.

And now, the greatest Hallo-mas present ever.

You Can Own the Babadook Book!

At the black heart of Jennifer Kent’s nightmarish The Babadook is a woman’s inability to commit herself 100% to a motherhood haunted by tragedy. But the flick gets its more visceral scares from a children’s pop-up book, where the shadowy Babadook makes his presence known. Mega-fans of the acclaimed thriller who have $80 to plunk down will be jazzed to find out that physical copies of Mister Babadook can be pre-ordered through this website, as a way of crowdfunding the project. And don’t worry about this being a pricy cash-grab by some big studio. Jennifer Kent and illustrator Alex Juhasz, who created the handmade book used in the film, are behind the project, which has easily exceeded the initial goal of 2,000 buyers.



$80 seems like a lot of money for a book – it’s $60 for the book itself with a flat $20 shipping fee – but this will probably be the only publishing that the book gets. And the company Insight Editions, who are known for their quality pop-up books, will be creating each book to the highest standard. Once people are hand-gluing things into books, you know where part of that money is going. Plus, Juhasz will be expanding the story within Mister Babadook, adding pages that weren’t seen in the film. Beyond getting an actual copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy used in the novels, this sounds like the best pop culture tie-in book I can think of. If only I hadn’t been haunted by a freaky ass two-dimensional creature last week.

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Watch Chris Hemsworth Get His Hacker On Blackhat

The POpularity of "Hack" has been a keyword in many Hollywood headlines these days due to the recent attack on Sony Pictures, but for right now we're going to take a look at another angle on cyber terrorism. The latest trailer for Michael Mann's Blackhat has arrived online, and you can watch it below.

The first film that Michael Mann has made since 2009's Public Enemies, and based on a script the filmmaker co-wrote with newcomer Morgan Davis Foehl, Blackhat centers around the search for a mysterious but incredibly powerful cyber criminal who has been incredibly destructive and able to evade both the American and Chinese authorities. The sound logic is applied that in order to catch a hacker you need a hacker, so to help them out they make a deal with Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), an incarcerated genius who helps trace the antagonist from Chicago to Hong Kong.

While its January release date isn't exactly auspicious, I have some high hopes for this movie. Not only is it coming out at a pretty key time, with hacking very much in the national conversation, but Michael Mann is also overdue for a really great film. From Heat to The Insider to Collateral, the guy has proven time and time again that he is one of Hollywood's most gifted filmmakers. Public Enemies and Miami Vice didn't live up to our expectations from him, but there is high potential here.

Blackhat will be making its way to theaters in the first few weeks of 2015 - and setting up what very well may end being a very big year for Chris Hemsworth. Beyond Blackhat, he has the starring role in Ron Howard's adaptation of In The Heart of the Sea, and he will be following that up with Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios' insanely anticipated The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Even after that the Australian A-lister won't be done, as he is also said to have a role in John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein's Vacation reboot, and will also be getting into production on The Huntsman - the 2016 spin-off from Snow White and the Huntsman. After that there's another Marvel Studios film around the corner, as Thor: Ragnarok is scheduled to be released in 2017, but if 2015 really proves to be the Year of Hemsworth, then we may soon start seeing him sign on for a lot more new projects.

Supported by an international cast, Chris Hemsworth is joined in Blackhat by Academy Award nominee Viola Davis as well as Tang Wei and Wang Leehom, both of whom previously starred in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution in 2007. The cyber terrorism thriller will be released by Universal and Legendary Pictures on January 16, 2015 - are you planning on buying a ticket? 

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^&^& NEWS : The X-Men Will Team Up With The Fantastic Four, Get the Details

Nearly 2015, An X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover movie seems inevitable, right? After all, crossover comic book movies are by far the biggest thing in Hollywood right now, and even producer Simon Kinberg has said in the past that there is a motivation to "be like Marvel." While this may seem like an obvious future, however, the folks at 20th Century Fox have remained coy about the idea, never actually confirming that a meeting of their two biggest superhero franchises is in the works. So leave it to the Sony Pictures hack to shed some light on what's really going on behind the scenes.

In their most recent report about information disseminating from the studio leak, The Daily Beast has revealed very strong evidence that an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover is in the works - courtesy of an email written by Michael De Luca, co-president of production for Columbia Pictures, to Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal this past October. In the conversation, De Luca writes that he has learned directly from Simon Kinberg that Fox is working on an X-Men and Fantastic Four team-up movie, and suggests that Sony plan something similar with their Spider-Man property - namely linking together a new Spider-Man movie, the female-led Spider-Man movie, Venom, and Sinister Six for a "eventual mega movie." (my only question is, was this not the plan that was drawn up around this time last year?)

This past May, Simon Kinberg went on the record saying that the X-Men and the characters in Josh Trank's upcoming Fantastic Four reboot "live in discrete universes," and while that was initially seen as being a real barrier between the franchises, the truth is that it's a wall that's pretty easily to get past. The Fantastic Four synopsis that was revealed earlier this month said the members of the titular team get their powers in the same way as the Ultimate Fantastic Four did in the comics: by teleporting through an alternate dimension. With this technology put into play, it's not incredibly hard to see how the two superhero teams might wind up in the same world together - even if they are apart right now.

The most logical explanation for why Fox hasn't announced a full future slate of comic book movies a la Marvel Studios is because they're not 100% sure that they are going to greenlight the idea just yet. After all, the X-Men franchise is more popular than ever right now, but the public is wary of what to expect from Josh Trank's Fantastic Four. Other than the pressures of a potentially saturated comic book movie market, there really is no reason right now for the studio to jump the gun. Unless there is an overwhelmingly positive response to the first Fantastic Four trailer (whenever that comes), it's possible that we won't get any kind of official announcement of a future X-Men/Fantastic Four film until next August.

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#$## Great...! ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1’ takes box office Now

 In its third weekend in release, "Mockingjay - Part 1" earned an estimated $21.6 million. Lionsgate's penultimate chapter in the massively successful franchise has now earned $257.7 million domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday.

And yet, even though "Mockingjay - Part 1" is on track to become the second-highest grossing movie of the year by mid-week, it's still about $78 million shy of where the previous installment, "Catching Fire," was in its third weekend just last year.

For Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box office tracker Rentrak, this deficit is only concerning for the overall box office, which is down 4.6 percent for the year. "We are nearing the finish line for 2014 and that is a lot of ground to make up, but luckily we have some big movies on the way," he says of "Into the Woods," "Exodus: Gods and Kings," "Annie," "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" and "Unbroken."

While audiences wait for that fresh fare, some still turned out to catch up with the leftovers. DreamWorks Animation's "Penguins of Madagascar" took second place with $11.1 million in its second weekend, while the raunchy Warner Bros. comedy "Horrible Bosses 2" claimed third place with $8.6 million. The fourth and fifth place spots went to Disney's animated "Big Hero 6" and Paramount's space odyssey "Interstellar," which earned $8.13 million and $8.0 million respectively.

"The Pyramid," Fox's R-rated horror pic, just barely cracked the top 10 in its debut weekend with a less-than-stellar $1.35 million from 589 locations.

"It's one of those status quo, boring weekends. But it's not boring in the specialized or indie world," Dergarabedian said. "For me that's where the excitement is."

"Wild," a Fox Searchlight release starring Reese Witherspoon, opened in 21 theaters Wednesday, earning an estimated $630,000 over three days for a strong $30,000 per-theater average. The Oscar-winning actress has been getting lots of buzz for her soul-searching turn in the adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best seller.

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$@$!1 The Awesome : The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Full Review

Do you just write half of a review? Maybe that’s the right thing to do. Maybe it’s the only intelligent thing to do. But just maybe, nobody should blame The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, the latest victim of Hollywood’s desire to bleed dry literary adaptations by dragging them out hours longer than necessary. If anything, the film need only be held accountable for being staunchly mediocre. It’s a prologue without an epilogue, an introduction without a conclusion, 120 minutes of setup without a proper climax. In other words, it’s a drag.
In the third installment of Suzanne Collins’ Young Adult sci-fi dystopia, PTSD-afflicted heroine Katniss Everdeen (a tired, haggard-looking Jennifer Lawrence) wanders the industrial halls of the heretofore hidden District 13, thought destroyed by everyone whose opinion matters; the finale of last year’s Catching Fire saw her whisked away to this dimly lit and grimy place following the annihilation of her home by the Capitol. Now, she’s been plucked from one system of control and plopped right into another, her destiny still imposed on her by adults. It turns out that the leader of District 13, President Coin (Julianne Moore), has designs on using Katniss’ notoriety to rally the oppressed denizens of Panem against their one-percenter overlords.
Instead of a fight in a physical arena, the rebels and the Capitol have taken their conflict to your television sets through slanted interviews and promo spots. The flamboyant TV personality Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci, always great) grills one third of The Hunger Games’ central love triangle, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson, ditto), before an eager viewing audience. Katniss stands on a soundstage, waving a CGI flag while delivering terribly written, pot-stirring proclamations, terribly. This kind of media-fueled tit for tat can only go on for so long and, yes, eventually all becomes explosions and action to dazzle us into submission. But when arrows do start flying, it’s sort of disappointing. Watching the combatants engage each other through subterfuge and misdirection is infinitely more interesting than watching them blow each other up.
In between the leaden strides The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 takes to get from Point A to Point B (without actually getting to Point B), one can see where this could have been a good movie. That doesn’t make the experience forgivable, but it does make it more tolerable. A scene in a hospital filled with wounded revolutionaries surges with pride, unrest and purpose; a climactic crosscutting sequence where the picture flits from a dangerous rescue mission to the filming of a propaganda video builds slow tension by comparing wartime tactics. These beats and others give the first chapter of Mockingjay a pulse. They don’t, however, give the production a soul.
The real problem with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 is intention. There is absolutely no reason to stretch this part of the story out into a four-hour extravaganza other from greed. Director Francis Lawrence places his curtain call at the right time, in a manner of speaking—it’s just when things start to get really good, as characters who have spent the film apart from one another are finally reunited (and not necessarily for the better)—but the moment would have more effect in a complete cut of Mockingjay than in this frustrating excuse for a median. There is nothing gained by the split; on the contrary, drawing out the narrative introduces bloat, and the bloat isn’t compelling. It’s thunderously dull.
The things that work about The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 underscore how much about the film that doesn’t. Even a weak one-movie version of Collins’ book would have been more satisfying than this kind of cash-grabbing tease; it’d have been leaner and more deliberate, a proper yarn with a proper conclusion. Like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Peter Jackson’s grossly negligent treatment of The Hobbit, we’re told to wait patiently to see how a story ends when we already know what happens. There’s a good movie lurking in Mockingjay, Part 1. It’s just buried under a surplus of filler.
Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Danny Strong, Peter Craig
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland
Release Date: Nov. 21, 2014


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^%^% WATCH FOR NEW YEAR : The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) Awesome MOvie

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When Katniss destroys the games, she goes to District 13 after District 12 is destroyed. She meets President Coin who convinces her to be the symbol of rebellion, while trying to save Peeta from the Capitol.

Let's be honest. There was no good reason to turn Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay into two films. The book is my favorite of the Hunger Games trilogy, but even I will admit its first half largely sits around, waiting for the grim, gloomy fireworks that mark the book's second half to begin.

But Lionsgate evidently noticed how much money was made by splitting the final book in the Harry Potter series into two films, and how much money was made by splitting the final book in the Twilight series into two films, and cast its lot.

Creatively, that's made Mockingjay, Part 1 a bit of a lumpy, misshapen thing, even if it has its charms. Director Francis Lawrence's final shot — of hero Katniss's (Jennifer Lawrence) reflection superimposed over the face of her long-missing, now-found love Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) — is superbly ominous, and the movie uses its terrific ensemble cast (positively stuffed with some of the world's finest character actors) to its advantage.

But what's most interesting about Mockingjay, Part 1 and what saves it from being a completely leaden bore is the fact that it seems, at all times, sort of angry that it even exists. Yes, Mockingjay, Part 1, is a movie that seems actively aware it has no good reason to be here. And that means it's not just a broadside against the villainous Capitol. It's also a broadside against franchise filmmaking itself.

Here are a few reasons why.
1) Katniss's "propos" are basically just movie trailers

Throughout the film, Katniss's primary role within the rebellion is as a sort of celebrity proponent of its cause, a public face that will help cover up some of the less savory aspects of any war. As such, she stars in a series of propaganda films called "propos." These ads look a lot like generic campaign ads, but if you watch them more closely, they also seem like they could be trailers for new Hunger Games movies.

In particular, pay attention to how the first full propo Katniss stars in takes what's an emotional moment for her (as she breaks down after the Capitol bombs a hospital) and surrounds it with bombast, including taglines for the war and a glistening Mockingjay logo. That logo's the symbol for the war effort, sure — but it's also the symbol of the movie franchise. It's a delightfully subversive moment.
2) In essence, the entire movie is about making a movie

Katniss, an untrained actor if ever there was one, is carefully directed, both by an actual movie director (Cressida, played by Natalie Dormer) and by an elaborate war room of advisors that may as well be a Hollywood boardroom, filled with executives offering notes. It's all about finding the best way to make Katniss "likable" and appealing to as many Districts as possible. Not so far from how show business executives talk about movie characters.
3) The utterly extraneous nature of the action sequences is mocked

By far the most common complaint against Mockingjay, Part 1 is that it's a boring slog, filled with very little of the action and adventure that marked the first two films in the franchise. But, then, wouldn't that be the case in a film when the dystopian world of Panem, where the film takes place, has descended into open warfare?

This means that most of the film's action sequences are simply there because they're demanded by the "rules" of blockbuster filmmaking. But at every turn, they're undercut by Danny Strong and Peter Craig's screenplay, which goes out of its way to create scenarios where everything is carefully stage-managed, whether by Katniss's side or by a Capitol that believes it's found the perfect way to launch a sneak attack. Thus even the characters seem aware of how unlikely it is to have an action sequence in this particular story.
4) Effie Trinket switches sides pretty much because it will make for the best story

The film's few bursts of humor come from captured Capitol lackey Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), who finds herself conscripted into helping Katniss progress along her arc toward stardom. But rather than protest too much, Effie also behaves as if she's completely aware she's part of some larger story. She's even invited into the rebellion's inner sanctum. This could feel like lazy character writing, but Banks somehow makes it work, as if Effie has decided her dedication is to style and fashion above all else, and she's going to make that work for her in these drastically new circumstances.
5) President Coin is played as an outright hero

Okay, this one is cheating, because you pretty much need to have read the book to see how the film is playing you. But in presenting rebellion leader President Coin (Julianne Moore) as an inspiring figure who wins the devotion of her followers, the film does an even better job of setting up how brutally the narrative undercuts those notions than the book did.

And that's mostly because Mockingjay, Part 1 plays by the rules of the blockbuster (which require just such an inspiring leader), even as it introduces an unease at those very rules. The Hunger Games series has won such devotion because it asks its young readers to question the narratives they're presented with on reality TV, in politics, and in celebrity culture. Mockingjay, Part 1 might be the least of the films so far, but in dissecting the typical blockbuster film, it's staying true to that spirit.


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