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AMC Theaters presents a single-day showing all five Best Picture nominees

AMC Theaters is offering movie fans the rare opportunity to experience all five motion pictures nominated for “Best Picture” on one single day, for one discounted price. This Saturday, February 21, 2009, the AMC Best Picture Showcase will take place at 99 AMC theaters. Guests can purchase an exclusive AMC Best Picture Showcase All-Day Pass ….

Ang Lee close to Life of Pi

Ang Lee is negotiating to direct an adaptation of Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel’s coming-of-age survival tale, according to Variety. Gil Netter is producing the project for Fox 2000 Films. The story revolves around a child who is the sole survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a ….

Scriptapalooza kicks off 11th annual screenwriting contest with $10,000 prize

Scriptapalooza is currently accepting submissions for its eleventh annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Script submissions for the competition are read by over 80 top production companies and literary agencies. The first place winner, chosen by Scriptapalooza, receives a $10,000 grand prize. In addition, the Scriptapalooza staff will promote the semi-finalists and finalists for a full year ….

BlizzCon 2009 dates announced

Blizzard Entertainment announced plans for its fourth BlizzCon gaming convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22, 2009. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo universes. In response to the festival’s increasing popularity, this ….

Award-winning festival films to stream on net and mobile platforms

Jaman, an online destination for high-def entertainment, has partnered with Cinetic Rights Management, a leading provider of strategic advisory services to the entertainment and media industries. The collaboration expands Jaman’s catalogue to more than 7000 films, including Oscar-winning documentaries and contenders from the world’s premiere film festivals. Now Jaman members can watch such independent hits ….

Downey, Witherspoon and Wanted director going back in time

Robert Downey Jr., Reese Witherspoon and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov are currently in negotiations to topline (and helm) Warner Bros.’ sci-fi thriller The Days Before, according to an article on Dark Horizons. Chad St. John’s script follows a race of aliens who invade Earth by traveling backward through time and wiping out humanity one day ….

Third Wolverine origins trailer now live (Legends)

The third of three new 60-second ads for X-Men Origins: Wolverine has gone live. The spot is titled Legends, and focuses on Stryker (played by Danny Huston) assembling a team of mutants, including Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and glimpses of other mutants, including Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and ….

Chocolate DVD review

Ong Bak and and Tom yum goong director Prachya Pinkaew, successfully adds another notch to his action genre belt to the with the kinetic film Chocolate, this time with a female protagonist played by the director’s new protégé, Jija Yanin Vismistananda, a charming newcomer who spent five years training for the role. Fans will not ….

Holly DVD review

Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, Holly succeeds in its efforts to stir sufficient emotion to make the viewer ask questions about the inhuman, and sometime brutal world of sex-trafficking. The issue has become a hot topic in the past few ….

The Boondock Saints Blu-ray review

The Boondock Saints follows religious Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus – played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus – who grab Boston by the balls as vigilantes out to eliminate evildoers. It all starts after they kill a Russian mobster in self-defense, and decide that they have found their calling from God – ….

Pretty Woman Blu-ray review

Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the romance comedy classic Pretty Woman on Blu-ray disc for the first time on February 10, 2009. The feel-good modern spin on the Cinderella tale stars Academy Award winner Julia Roberts as Vivian – a spirited, streetwise prostitute, who has a chance meeting with a a dapper, no-nonsense socialite billionaire ….