Film News & Trailers

• Title: Olympus Has Fallen
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My first thought when viewing the trailer for Olympus Has Fallen is why is director Antoine Fuqua making a dumbed-down Steven Seagal movie without Seagal? Gerard Butler stars as a tormented Special Forces and Secret Service officer who, in the trademark style of Casey “Fucking” Ryback, takes it on himself to save the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) when terrorists take the White House. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Radha Mitchell, Melissa Leo, Robert Forster, Rick Yune, and Dylan McDermott also star. The movie hits theaters on March 22nd.

• Title: RED 2
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We now have our first look at the sequel to RED. Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich return (but Karl Urban, Morgan Freeman, and Rebecca Pidgeon do not). The sequel also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, David Thewlis, Byung-hun Lee, and Neal McDonough. RED 2 opens in theaters on August 2nd.

• Title: Trance
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The latest from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Sunshine) stars James McAvoy as an art thief suffering from amnesia and Vincent Cassel as the art auctioneer so desperate to recover a recently stolen painting he enlists the help of a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson). Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, and Ben Cura also star. Trance opens in the UK on March 27th but as yet still has no U.S. release date.

The list of the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards was released this morning. Lincoln leads all films with 12 nominations (including Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, and Adapted Screenplay). Beasts of the Southern Wild got more love than I was expecting with four nominations (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for Quvenzhané Wallis). The biggest snubs include Kathryn Bigelow failing to earn a nomination for Best Director, Anna Karenina falling to earn any nomination outside of the production and technical categories, and The Master not earning a single nomination outside the acting categories. You can find the full list of nominees inside.

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• Title: The Place Beyond the Pines
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The Place Beyond the Pines reunites Ryan Gosling with Blue Valentine writer/director Derek Cianfrance as Gosling stars as a motorcycle stunt driver turned bank robber. Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Dane DeHaan, and Bruce Greenwood also star. The film opens in limited release in select cities on March 29th.