Oscar winner Ben Affleck and singer/actor Justin Timberlake team up for the dramatic film Runner Runner from director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Coming to theaters on September 27, 2013, the cast also includes Anthony Mackie and Gemma Arterton.
The Plot:
Princeton grad student Richie (Timberlake), believing he’s been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Affleck). Richie is seduced by Block’s promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.
If you couldn’t catch Madonna on the road during her MDNA tour, you’ll soon be able to check out the experience on DVD and Blu-ray beginning August 27, 2013. Interscope Records is releasing the DVD directed by Danny B. Tull and Stephane Sennour and shot throughout the sold-out 29-country tour.
“Madonna spent six months personally editing the video footage from 30 cameras and many different shows to put together the MDNA DVD. Her attention to every frame, every detail and nuance and total commitment to show her creative vision has been done to perfection. Each song is like a short movie. One minute you are in an action movie and the next you’re at a golden era musical before shooting across to India and back for a house party to finish. It’s better than any 3-D Imax movie out there and at a break neck pace that would make any Olympian struggle for breath,” said the show’s co-director and supervising editor, Danny B. Tull.
“My show is a journey.. the journey of a soul from darkness to light. It is part cinematic musical theatre, part spectacle and sometimes intimate performance art. I know people can relate to it. It’s very important to me as an artist that my show not be taken out of context. It must be watched with an open heart from beginning to end.. I am sure if it is viewed this way, the viewer will walk away feeling inspired, invigorated and will want to make the world a better place.. And this of course is my intention,” stated Madonna.
HBO’s critically acclaimed dramatic series, Boardwalk Empire, will return for a 12-episode season four on Sunday, September 8, 2013. Created by Terence Winter, Boardwalk Empire is executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Van Patten, and Howard Korder. The cast is led by Steve Buscemi as ‘Nucky’ Thompson and Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Thompson.
In addition, HBO’s just announced the new comedy series Hello Ladies will premiere on Sunday, September 29th at 10:30pm following the return of Eastbound & Down. Per the network, Stephen Merchant stars as “a gawky, 6’ 7” Englishman searching for the woman of his dreams in Los Angeles. Half as charming – and twice as desperate – as he thinks he is, he’s obsessed with infiltrating the glamorous world of beautiful people, who won’t let him in.”
And Clear History from HBO Films will arrive on August 10th at 9:00pm. Clear History finds Larry David starring “as a marketing executive at a start-up electric car company who gives up his ten percent of the business after a petty argument with his boss. The company subsequently makes billions of dollars, destroying his life and leaving him publicly humiliated. Ten years later, after changing his name and moving to a small island off the Massachusetts coast, all is well – until something from the past threatens his new life.”
The cast includes Jon Hamm, Bill Hader, Philip Baker Hall, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan and J.B. Smoove, with Greg Mottola directing.
Jake Johnson as William Travis and Chris Parnell as Jim Bowie from the “Wild West” episode of ‘Drunk History’ (Photo credit: Comedy Central)
Comedy Central’s set to premiere Drunk History on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 10pm and they’ve revealed a list of the performers who’ll be helping to tell the drunken versions of historical events. Based on the popular web series, Drunk History offers inebriated takes on people and events from our past as narrated by Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman, Natasha Leggero, and Jenny Slate.
Celebrities reenacting history include Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Connie Britton, Michael Cera, Terry Crews, Andy Daly, Nathan Fielder, Will Forte, Dave Grohl, Bill Hader, Tony Hale, Ben Hoffman, Jake Johnson, Jack McBrayer, Stephen Merchant, Kevin Nealon, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Parnell, Aubrey Plaza, Rob Riggle, Jason Ritter, Winona Ryder, Horatio Sanz, Will Sasso, Jason Schwartzman, Adam Scott, Bradley Whitford, Kristen Wiig, Fred Willard, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson.
Among the historical figures who’ll get the Drunk History treatment are Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, Patty Hearst, Lewis and Clark, Billy the Kid, and Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. Even The Alamo, Watergate, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the Haymarket Riot, and mobster Al Capone will not escape the attention of the show’s first season episodes.
The Plot:
Drunk History presents historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. Based on the award-winning and wildly popular web series, Drunk History follows the drunken and often incoherent narration of historical moments. Host Derek Waters, along with an ever-changing cast of great actors, will lead viewers from town to town across the country, including stops in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and the Wild West.
Danny McBride and Cullen Moss in ‘Eastbound & Down’ (Photo: Fred Norris/HBO)
Sad news for Eastbound & Down fans…HBO’s confirmed this upcoming fourth season will be the final season of the comedy series. Danny McBride and Jody Hill created the show, which has just begun filming its eight-episode final season.
The show will kick off season four on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 10pm ET/PT with McBride back as former major league pitcher Kenny Powers. McBride, Hill, Will Ferrell, Chris Henchy, and Adam McKay serve as executive producers.
The Plot: In the third season of Eastbound & Down, which concluded in April 2012, Kenny Powers finally made it back to the majors and recaptured his former glory, only to fake his own death and run back home to his beloved April, the mother of his child. The upcoming fourth season picks up the action several years later and finds Kenny living the American Dream with his family in North Carolina.
Universal Pictures is launching The Purge, a thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, in theaters on June 7, 2013 and in support of the film’s theatrical release the studio’s also launching The Purge Blog App. The special app lets you test your survival skills with the “Would You Survive the Night” quiz as well as view images from the film.
And in addition to The Purge Blog App, Universal Pictures is offering a special The Purge prize pack that includes a The Purge T-shirt and creepy mask. So, what do you have to do to enter The Purge giveaway? It’s super easy. Simply send an email to [email protected] with “The Purge Contest” in the subject line. The contest is open to anyone 18 years or older and you must reside in the continental United States. Only one entry per email address will be accepted. The contest ends on June 16, 2013 at 9pm PST. The winner must supply a mailing address that isn’t a PO Box.
The Purge Plot:
If, on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do?
In an America wracked with crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity–including murder–becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s twelve hours when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this particular night in 2022, plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking.
When an intruder breaks into James Sandin’s (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear his family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.
“Trapped between two kings…even a pawn can change the game”
Liam Hemsworth introduces this action-packed trailer for Paranoia based on the Joseph Finder book and directed by Robert Luketic. The cast also includes Amber Heard, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Julian McMahon, Josh Holloway and Richard Dreyfuss. Relativity Media is planning an August 16, 2013 theatrical release.
The Plot:
In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a charming, blue collar guy trying to get ahead in his entry-level job at Wyatt Telecom. But after one costly and illegal mistake, Adam is confronted by ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt. He won’t turn Adam in under one condition: Adam must agree to infiltrate the competition as a corporate spy. Adam soon finds himself packaged for success, surrounded by glamorous boardrooms, expensive cars, and a life he only dreamed of. But behind the scenes, Wyatt is pulling the strings – stopping at nothing, even murder, to win a multi-billion dollar advantage. Realizing he’s nothing more than a pawn in his boss’s ruthless game, Adam’s only way out – is to go in deeper.
I’m seeing a pattern forming… This weekend Ethan Hawke will be seen playing a father who has to go to extreme measures to keep his family safe in The Purge. And then in his next film, Getaway, Hawke plays a husband who has to go to extreme measures to keep his wife from being murdered. The new trailer for Getaway‘s just been released and it appears Hawke will turn action hero as he tries to make a kidnapper free his wife. The film also features Selena Gomez, Jon Voight, Rebecca Budig, and Bruce Payne.
Getaway hits theaters on August 30, 2013.
The Plot:
Getaway is an action thriller in which former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Shelby Cobra Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner (Selena Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.
WB is also hosting the advance screenings “in recognition of First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative (www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces)” and a message from Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden will play right before the film screens.
Screenings for servicemen and women plus their families will take place on either Saturday or Sunday at the following locations:
Army: Ft. Meade, Baltimore, Maryland; Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Ft. Lewis, Tacoma, Washington; Ft. Warren, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Ft. Campbell, Clarksville, Tennessee; Ft. Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina; Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Georgia; Ft. Hood, Killeen, Texas; Ft. Polk, Leesville, Louisiana; and Ft. Leonardwood, Waynesville, Missouri.
Air Force: Hanscom AFB, Bedford, Massachusetts; Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi; Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware; Travis AFB, Fairfield, California; Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas; Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas; Schofield AFB, Wahiawa, Hawaii; Hickam AFB, Watertown, New York; Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas; and McGuire AFB, Wrightstown, New Jersey.
Navy: SUBASE Bangor, Bangor, Washington; NSWC Dahlgren, Dahlgren, Virginia; NAS El Centro, El Centro, California; NAS Fallon, Fallon, Nevada; NAS JRB Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; SUBASE New London, Groton, Connecticut; NAB Little Creek, Little Creek, Virginia; NAS North Island, North Island, California; NAS Patuxent River, Patuxent River, Maryland; MCAS Miramar, San Diego, California; and NAS Whidbey Island, Whidbey Island, Washington.
Marine Corps: MCAG 29 Palms, 29 Palms, California; MCAS Cherry Point, Cherry Point, North Carolina; MCB Kaneohe Bay, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; MCAS New River, New River, North Carolina; and MCB Yuma, Yuma, Arizona.
Coast Guard: USCG in Petaluma, California; and USCG in Astoria, Oregon.
The Plot:
From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, under the direction of Zack Snyder. A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
The cast also includes Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni and Russell Crowe. WB is releasing Man of Steel in theaters on June 14th.
Paramount Pictures is going all out promoting World War Z, hosting red carpet premieres around the globe with star Brad Pitt showing up to sign autographs and pose for photos with fans – and do a few interviews as well. And at the London premiere held on June 2, 2013, fans who showed up were treated to a live performance by British rock band Muse.
The premiere was held at Empire Leicester Square with Muse taking the stage at the Horse Guards Parade Grounds and entertaining an audience that included Pitt, his co-star Mireille Enos, and director Marc Forster.
World War Z invades theaters on June 21, 2013.
The Plot: The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the Global Premiere of ‘World War Z’ (Photo Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)Dominic Howard, Matthew Bellamy and Chris Wolstenholme of Muse at the Global Premiere of ‘World War Z’ (Photo Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
I’m seeing a pattern forming… This weekend Ethan Hawke will be seen playing a father who has to go to extreme measures to keep his family safe in 
