International Trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is More of the Same

The first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire did a great job playing up the atmosphere and the social and political fallout of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) one-upping the system like they did. It also didn't touch the real issue fans knew it was coming. The fact that, by all accounts, Catching Fire is a glorified retread of The Hunger Games.

Once again, it's all about a tournament to the death. The international trailer doesn't quiver away from that. In fact, it follows the same pattern as the trailer(s) for the first film. Even the big buildup to the game starting just as the trailer ends.

Not an insult, just an observation. Though those angry comments/emails will still come.

Now You See Me... Now How About a Sequel?

One of the unsung success stories of this summer was Now You See Me, the magician-caper from director Louis Leterrier and featuring the likes of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Marc Ruffalo among others. Opening to a surprisingly strong near-$30 million, it did the unthinkable among Event-Status films during this time of year. It sustained strong legs stateside and its over-performance against low expectations are benefiting overseas where it's making a killing.

And because the mantra of showbiz is "Give me one of those," even Lionsgate, the studio behind the popular hit, aren't above sequelizing what was intended to be a one-and-done.

CEO Jon Feltheimer announced plans for a sequel are underway with a "penciled in" start-date sometime next year. No word on if a screenwriter has been commissioned or the return status of its star-cast (Guessing they didn't sign multi-picture deals) and director Leterrier.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

First Photo From "Labor Day" With Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin

“LABOR DAY” centers on 13-year-old Henry Wheeler, who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele while confronting all the pangs of adolescence.  On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict.  The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.

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"A.C.O.D" Poster - He's About To Ruin A Perfectly Good Divorce

Carter is a well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce. So he thinks.  When he discovers he was part of a divorce study as a child, it wreaks havoc on his family and forces him to face his chaotic past. Cast: Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clark Duke.

Behind-the-Scenes Videos Taken on the Transformers 4 Set

"HEY MARK!"

Knowing the stories I've heard at some point after that (admittedly not well shot) video was taken, Mark Wahlberg probably went over to those folks wanting to catch a glimpse at the Transformers 4 action, signed autographs and struck up some conversations. That's the kind of guy he is.

Below are a couple of different videos taken on the Detroit set, courtesy of Coming Soon.

Russian Poster For "Haunter"

Lisa Johnson is one day shy of her sixteenth birthday. And she will be forever. She and her family are dead and doomed to repeat that fateful last day before they were all killed in 1985. Only Lisa has “woken up” and realizes what is going on. She starts to feel as if she is being haunted, but the “ghost” turns out to be Olivia, a very much alive girl who lives in the house in the present day with her own family. With her help, Lisa discovers that the house once belonged to a serial killer who kidnapped teenage girls and burned their remains in a hidden furnace room. When he died, he became a Haunter - a powerful, evil spirit able to possess the living.

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"Lovelace" UK Poster With Hot Amanda Seyfried

In 1972—before the internet, before the porn explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation—less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world—and herself as the survivor of a far darker story.

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New The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Image

Via Entertainment Weekly is this good look at Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shooting the shit over a mountain.

I bet my mad-libbing what they're saying is more interesting than the actual dialogue. Probably talking about how not-awesome Smaug looked in the last trailer.

No, Really They're Making a Chicken Soup for the Soul Film

Alcon Entertainment is making a feature-length theatrical production of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Yes, based on those books they keep pilling up at your local book-store. The studio has assigned Brandon Camp (Love Happens) to write the screenplay, said to be based on several of the books.

Not much to add here. Well, it will probably be done in a style similar to What to Expect When You're Expecting (not coincidentally also produced by Alcon), your mom can't wait to see it and it still makes more business sense for Alcon than doing a sequel to Blade Runner.

Paramount Pressing Their Luck - Releasing Two Paranormal Activity Films in 2014

It is supposed to be a joke. But it happens to be true. If you put any Black or Latino family in a Haunted House movie, it would be the shortest horror film ever made. Ten minutes tops. Family moves in, spooky shit starts happening, family leaves. The End.

Why do you think it's always us white families in these movies? We're too stupid to see the obvious; something the filmmakers behind The Conjuring happened to get around, to their credit. Paramount figures its time to show that all races can be as stupid as white people in horror movies.

The studio will release the Latino-themed spinoff Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for January 3, 2014. In laments terms, they're throwing out something cheap that will break big bank (mostly on opening day) because we'll be sick of seeing Anchorman 2 and Saving Mr. Banks for the fourth time and want something new. That's what January has turned into in recent years. It will be followed by Paranormal Activity 5 October 24, 2014.

Really pressing your luck there, Paramount, and we all remember how that last film wasn't well received.