New Movies in Theaters January 29, 2010

Edge of Darkness

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Martin Campbell

Screenwriter: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell

Trailer

Movie Website: Edge-of-Darkness.com

Actors/Actresses: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe Read more

New Images From Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

“In my father’s world, making a million was a ton,” Oliver Stone explains to USA Today in a new article on the film. “I come back to Wall Street now, and it’s not a million dollars. It’s a billion dollars. And a billion is nothing. They don’t even consider that the beginning of a hedge fund. That is what is amazing about the ’90s and 2000s — how rich people got.” Stone, who originally passed on the script for Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, did eventually return for the sequel. “I guess the crash, which happened in the meantime, made it more interesting,” Stone says about its relevance to today. Read more

Avatar star Sam Worthington might play Dracula

Universal is in negotiations with Avatar star Sam Worthington to be in its upcoming tentpole film, Dracula: Year Zero. News of the big-ticket, blood-sucker movie was confirmed and it was also confirmed that it is in talks with the Avatar star. Read more

First Look: Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet

Here’s our first look at Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet.

The Green Hornet is Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who by night goes out in his masked “Green Hornet” identity to fight crime as a vigilante, accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato and driving a car, equipped with advanced technology, called “Black Beauty”. Read more

Movie Trailer: Shutter Island

Shutter Island

Release Date: February 19, 2010

Genre: Psychological Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Director: Martin Scorsese

Screenwriter: Laeta Kalogridis

Movie Website: ShutterIsland.com

Actors/Actresses: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow Read more

New Blu-Ray and DVD Releases for January 26, 2010

This Is It

Genre: Documentary, Music

MPAA Rating: PG

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Director: Kenny Ortega

Screenwriter: None

Movie Website: ThisIsIt-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne, Michael Bearden, Dorian Holley, Judith Hill, Orianthi, Tommy Organ, Bashiri Johnson Read more

Teaser Poster for The Runaways with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning

Here is the new teaser poster for The “Runaways” starring Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Danielle Riley Keough, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stella Maeve, and Tatum O’Neal. Read more

Movie Review: Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures,” a movie about a medical breakthrough, is not especially eager to break new ground of its own. Directed with care and competence by Tom Vaughan (“What Happens in Vegas”), the film hews closely to familiar themes and patterns. One strand is a drama about a family in crisis, with parents facing the illness and possible death of two of their children, who suffer from a fatal genetic disorder. Read more

Movie Review: Legion

Remember that passage in the Book of Revelation when the archangel Michael kills a bunch of possessed, tiny-dentured zombie types with a machine gun at a rundown desert diner owned by Dennis Quaid? We didn’t either. Still, that’s pretty much the entire plot of this dull horror movie. Read more

Avatar No. 1 for sixth-straight week

James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink his very own “Titanic” at the box office.

No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That’s $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron’s last movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic “Titanic,” at $1.843 billion. Read more

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