Mission: Impossible 4 first movie to be released in IMAX before theaters, with added 30 minutes of action

IMAX and Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which was partially shot with IMAX cameras, will begin previews in IMAX beginning Friday, December 16th, 2011, and play through the film’s run at the box office, which begins worldwide on December 21st. This marks the first time a U.S. feature film has ….

Poster for I Melt With You

Magnolia Pictures recently revealed the poster for I Melt With You, about four 40-something college friends that meet up for their annual reunion, which turns into a drug-addled, out of control week in Big Sur. Mark Pellington directs I Melt With You, which will be available on Magnolia On-Demand November 4th, followed by its theatrical ….

Gritty crime thriller Elite Squad: The Enemy Within coming to U.S. plus preview images

New Video’s Flatiron Film Company and Variance Films recently announced that they’ve partnered for the theatrical release of José Padilha’s record-breaking Brazilian crime thriller, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa De Elite 2). The film will open in New York City on November 11th, 2011 at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square, and at ….

Tromaville’s latest to screen at Sitges fantasy and horror fest

Troma Entertainment’s latest film, Travis Campbell’s Mr. Bricks, will screen at the 44th annual Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain on October 10th, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. at the Brigadoon. (Edifici Miramar, Carrer Davallada, 12-08870 Sitges, BCN.) Mr. Bricks is described as a heavy metal murder musical. Sitges is the world’s most prestigious film ….

Gaming on the big screen and screening of action thriller Act of Valor

Relativity Media has revealed the official poster for their upcoming film Act of Valor, a feature film starring active duty Navy SEALs. The studio also announced a first ever promotion with Electronic Arts and Eventful. EA and Eventful are giving gamers/film fans a chance to play Battlefield 3 on the big screen before it’s released ….

Walking Dead prequel series launching next week

Leading up to the highly anticipated season two premiere of AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead, the network is launching a six-episode Walking Dead webisode series at amctv.com. The webisodes will give fans the opportunity to explore the back story of Hannah (Lilli Birdsell), better known as “Bicycle Girl,” the infamous zombie from season one, ….

Poster released for Joe Carnahan-directed Ridley Scott-produced survival thriller The Grey

Open Road Films has revealed the first teaser one-sheet for Joe Carnahan’s survival thriller, The Grey, which stars Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale, Frank Grillo, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, Dallas Roberts and Ben Bray. Open Road will release the action-packed survival thriller The Grey, in theaters on January 27, 2012. In the film, ….

Fantasy show Locke & Key makes its way from San Diego to New York Comic-Con 2011

The most talked-about pilot not on the Fall schedule was the Fox production of Locke & Key. After a smash-hit screening at San Diego Comic-Con that left fans wanting more, Locke & Key is making its way to the east coast for a one-time only screening at New York Comic-Con 2011. Come watch the special ….

More photos plus winners of the 15th Urbanworld Film Festival

The 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival closed its 15th film festival with the New York City premiere of Sundance World Cinema Audience Award film Kinyarwanda, directed by Alrick Brown and starring Cassandra Freeman. The packed theater gave the film a standing ovation, followed by a Q&A with Brown, Freeman and producer Darren Dean, which was ….

Animated poster for sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour revealed

Summit Entertainment has released a motion poster for the upcoming U.S./Russian sci-fi thriller The Dark­est Hour, starring Emile Hirsch, Rachael Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, Max Minghella, Dato Bakhtadze, Yuriy Kutsenko, Artur Smolyaninov, Pyotr Fyodorov and Nikolay Efremov. Chris Gorak directs The Dark­est Hour, a sci-fi film produced by Wanted wunderkind Timur Bekmambetov. The thriller ….