While Beasts of the Southern Wild was the movie everyone was talking about out of Sundance 2012, one of the movies we were really talking about was Josh Radnor‘s Liberal Arts, a joyus, fantastic follow-up to happythankyoumoreplease. The film, co-starring Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney and Zac Efron got picked up by IFC who has just announced a September 14 release date.
Mark it down, it’s a great movie and I cannot wait to see it again. Read my full review here. [Film Stage]
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Sony has set a November 1, 2013 release date for their Roland Emmerich-directed action film, White House Down. Written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac) it’s about a “paramilitary take over of the White House,” basically Die Hard meets Air Force One.
Emmerich had previously reserved that date for his sci-fi film Singularity, but with it being put on hold, White House Down will move first, likely to get ahead of a rival project called White House Taken starring Gerald Butler. Emmerich has just begun casting his film. [THR]
It’s time for another round of Release Date Shuffle! Perhaps the biggest news here is that Warner Bros. has pushed back its YA fantasy The Seventh Son, directed by Sergey Bodrov and starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, and Julianne Moore, much farther into next year. But there are also new dates for the supernatural teen romance Beautiful Creatures and the oddball dramedy Robot & Frank, and bad news for Relativity’s military thriller Hunter Killer. Hit the jump for more.
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Being one of the few people who enjoyed TRON: Legacy, maybe I’m not the best person to say this but Disney XD’s TRON: Uprising looks incredibly promising. The animated show, set between the events of the original film and its recent sequel, has been brewing for years with tiny glimpses dripping out here and there. Now, a brand new trailer blows the doors wide open revealing not only the final look, but the main characters and central conflict.
TRON: Uprising, featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen and Tron himself Bruce Boxleitner will premiere on Disney XD June 7. It’ll be preceeded by a prequel special called Tron: Uprising – Beck’s Beginning on May 18. Learn more about that, and check out the new trailer, after the jump. Read More »
One of the year’s best documentaries has just been awarded a release date, and thankfully it is right around the corner. Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky‘s Indie Game: The Movie will open in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix on May 18, then expand to Seattle, Miami and across Canada in the following weeks.
The film premiered at Sundance 2012 and I gave it a rave review at South by Southwest 2012. It focuses on the development of three relatively well-known independent video games (Braid, Fez, Super Meat Boy) and drips with true emotion at every single turn as it provides a window into the fascinating world of indie game creation.
In addition to that limited theatrical release Indie Game will also appear on demand later this summer. See the trailer and specific theater and date info after the jump. Read More »
Once slated for mid-November this year, the new 3D version of the classic samurai story 47 Ronin will have to wait for February 2013 to play for audiences. Universal has pushed the film back to February 8, 2013, without citing any specific reason. (As is usually the case with date changes.) The new opening date places it against the Nicholas Sparks film Safe Haven, and a week before A Good Day to Die Hard. Read More »
Today at the Walt Disney Studios presentation at CinemaCon, Disney gave some updates on Pixar Animation Studios’ future slate of films. Find out details after the jump.
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Get out that red pen and mark your calendar as several major movies just got release dates. The biggest one is Lego 3D, written and directed by 21 Jump Street helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and co-directed by Chris McKay, which is now scheduled for February 14, 2014. 42, the Jackie Robinson biopic starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, will be released a year earlier on April 12, 2013 and The Weinstein Company revealed release dates for a bunch of upcoming animated films such as Santapprentice, The Trick or Treaters and Leo the Lion. Read more about those films after the jump. Read More »
