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Hotel Transylvania and Won’t Back Down

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Dracula (Adam Sandler) is the owner and operator of Hotel Transylvania, a high-end resort for monsters to get away from all things dangerous, namely pitchfork-wielding humans. And on the eve of his daughter Mavis’ 118th (Selena Gomez) birthday, he has invited some of the world’s most infamous monsters including Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, Eunice (Kevin James and Fran Drescher); Wayne and Wanda Werewolf (Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon); Murray the Mummy (Cee Lo Green); Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade); Bigfoot; the Blob and more to come celebrate. When an oblivious American backpacker, Jonathan (Adam Samberg), stumbles upon the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis, it’s up to Dracula to protect and rescue her from falling in love with him before it’s too late.

Hotel Transylvania, Bravo DesignNick Pinkerton of The Village Voice writes, “In Hotel Transylvania, a comic Dracula still kills. The character design is uniformly delightful, and some of the biggest laughs come from simply hitting the audience unawares with irresistibly hysterical establishing shots.”

Rating: PG // Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family // Runtime: 1 hr. 31 min. // Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez and Steve Buscemi // Directed by: Genndy Tartakovsky // Written by: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel, Todd Durham, Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman // Produced by: Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation // Distributed by: Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Releasing

Won’t Back Down chronicles the journey of two determined women, a struggling working class mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a veteran teacher (Viola Davis), who will stop at nothing to transform their children’s failing inner city school that staffs inadequate teachers who regularly pass students who cannot read or write just to get rid of them. And against all odds and a countless number of obstacles, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and futures of their children.

Won’t Back Down, Bravo DesignRex Reed of The New York Observer describes Won’t Back Down as a “film that deserves to be seen, savored, debated and given serious attention.”

Rating: PG // Genre: Drama // Runtime: N/A // Starring: Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Holly Hunter // Directed by: Daniel Barnz // Written by: Brin Hill, Daniel Barnz // Produced by: Walden Media and Gran Via Productions // Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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Total Recall and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

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In Total Recall, a factory worker, Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), begins to suspect that he’s a spy after visiting Rekall – a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led. When his own procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen.

Total Recall, Bravo DesignJames Berardinelli of Reelviews.net writse, “No one can fault Len Wiseman’s vision. His grim world is vividly represented via some of the most effectively splashy CGI I have recently seen. There’s a George Lucas-like attention to detail.” The HSX predicts that Total Recall will open up at $29M domestically.

Rating: PG-13 // Genre: Action, Advernture, Sci-Fi // Runtime: 1 hr. 38 min. // Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy // Directed by: Len Wiseman // Written by: Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback (Screenplay), Philip K. Dick (Short Story / Inspiration), Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill // Produced by: Total Recall, Original Film, Rekall Productions // Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Our second featured release is Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days. The hero of the phenomenally successful book series, Greg Heffley, hatches a plan to pretend he has a job at a ritzy country club, but even that fails to keep him away from the season’s dog days, including embarrassing mishaps at a public pool and a camping trip that goes horribly wrong.

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Francesca Steele of Skymovies writes, “It’s good to see cinema’s favorite high school underdog out of the classroom and yes, a little bit more grown-up. And, as was the case with this film’s two predecessors, the characters are unusually charming for a simple kid’s film.” The HSX predicts that Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days will open up at $18M domestically.

Rating: PG // Genre: Comedy, Family // Runtime: 1 hr. 34 min. // Starring: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron and Devon Bostick // Directed by: David Bowers// Written by: Jeff Kinney (Book), Gabe Sachs, Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (Screenplay) // Produced and Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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The Amazing Spider-Man

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Spider-Man, Bravo DesignThe Amazing Spider-Man is the story of a misunderstood outsider, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield). Abandoned by his parents as a boy, he’s raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). As Peter grows into a teenager, he begins to ask questions about who his parents were which leads him to his father’s former partner Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans). What happens there sets a collision course that forces Peter to make life-altering choices that shape his destiny to become a hero.

Scott A. Mantz of Access Hollywood writes, “Superhero movies have been going strong for 12 years now, putting more pressure on the Amazing Spider-Man to start fresh, deliver the goods, stand on its own merits and honor the web head’s legacy on his landmark 50th anniversary. The Amazing Spider-Man does all of those things is as good as its name.” Boxoffice.com estimates that the film should open to the tune of $64M opening weekend.

Rating: PG-13, Genre: Comedy, Drama, Runtime: 2 hr. 16 min., Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans, Directed by: Marc Webb, Written by: James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves, James Vanderbilt, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Produced by: Columbia Pictures, Laura Ziskin Productions, Marvel Enterprises and Marvel Studios, Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

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MIB 3 and Chernobyl Diaries

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Men In Black Bravo DesignAgents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back in MIB 3. When K’s archnemesis, Boris The Terrible (Jemaine Clement), breaks out of prison, Borris immediately travels back in time to take his revenge on the MIB agent who captured him. Back in the present, J is the only person who remembers K’s existence, and in an effort to save his partner as well as the whole planet, he also travels back to 1969, where he partners with a younger K (Josh Brolin), to stop Boris’ plan.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes, “Even as the movie carefully fulfills its blockbuster imperatives — with chases and explosions and elaborately contrived plot twists — it swerves into some marvelously silly, unexpectedly witty and genuinely fresh territory.”

Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 hr. 46 min.
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham, David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson and Michael Soccio
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures

Chernobyl Diaries Bravo DesignChernobyl Diaries is an original story from Oren Peli, the creator of Paranormal Activity. The movie follows a group of young tourists who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an “extreme tour” guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, deserted since the disaster more than 25 years ago. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group soon find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

Evan Dickson of BloodyDisgusting.com writes, “Chernobyl Diaries is a nightmarish journey, suspenseful and surprisingly fun.”

Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min.
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski and Olivia Dudley
Directed by: Bradley Parker
Written by: Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke
Produced By: FilmNation Entertainment
Distributed By: Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon Entertainment

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits

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The Pirates! (Bravo Design, Inc.)Hugh Grant stars as the ambitious, but equally inexpert, Pirate Captain. With a rag-tag crew of amateur pirates at his side, and seemingly blind to the odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to defeat his rivals, Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Selma Hayek), and win the Pirate of the Year Award.

It’s a quest that takes its audience from far-flung tropical islands to the streets of 19th century London. Along the way, they team up with a young Charles Darwin (David Tennant), and battle the diabolical Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), but never lose sight of what pirates love most, adventure.

John DeFore, of The Hollywood Reporter, writes, “The Pirates Band of Misfits is a delightful romp whose varied pleasures should please kids all along the age spectrum. An easy sell at the box office.”

The Pirates! Band of Misfits will be released on April 27.

Rating: PG
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Runtime: 1 hr. 28 min.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven
Directed by: Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
Written by: Gideon Defoe
Produced By: Sony Pictures Animation
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures

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21 Jump Street

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In the action-comedy, 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), a pair of underachieving cops under the command of Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), are sent back to a local high school to infiltrate and bring down a drug ring. Older and wiser, the mismatched partners’ plans to apply the lessons learned from the first time around are derailed when the two find that high school has dramatically changed since their days. Jenko, the jock, is now an outsider. While Schmidt, once the geek, is now cool. Confronted by the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again, further compounded by issues that have long gone unresolved, hilarity ensues.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter writes, “Not since Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg teamed up in The Other Guys has an onscreen pairing proved as comically rewarding as the inspired partnership of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as baby-faced cops who go undercover at a high school to bust a drug ring.”

21 Jump Street will be released on March 16, 2012.

21 Jump Street
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson and Ice Cube
Directed By: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Written By: Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill, Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures
Produced By: Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios