Movies

The Hunger Games is released March 23rd 2012.

In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.

Haywire releases January 18th 2012 from Momentum Pictures.

Stephen Soderbergh directs an all star cast in action thriller HAYWIRE, including mixed martial arts supremo Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a highly-trained black ops specialist, contracted for hazardous covert missions by the US Government. When her paymaster's point-man ( Ewan McGregor ) teams her with fellow agent ( Channing Tatum ) to extract a Chinese journalist held hostage in a Barcelona safe house, the mission swiftly unravels and she barely escapes with her life.  During her next assignment in Dublin, with Irish assassin Paul ( Michael Fassbender ) Mallory is violently betrayed and pursued across the city by the local police and assorted ruthless hitmen.

Now the target of an international manhunt, spearheaded by the CIA official who hired her ( Michael Douglas ), Mallory realises she can trust no one and is forced to flee across the US from upstate New York to the New Mexico desert.  There, she seeks refuge in the home of her ex-soldier father ( Bill Paxton ), but danger is not far behind her. As she confronts her heavily-armed pursuers, she begins to understand the cause of her betrayal, and the part played by a shadowy Spanish official ( Antonio Banderas ). Battling with her superiors to uncover the truth behind their deception, she sets out to exact revenge on those that want her dead.  

Haywire releases January 18th 2012 from Momentum Pictures.

Interview with Sean Penn

The December issue of the Red Bulletin features an interview with actor Sean Penn. It focusses on the inner anger and turmoil that drives him and how that affects his role as an actor and public figure, his desire to push himself to the limits, and the energy that he has channelled into humanitarian efforts - including his most recent intervention after the earthquake in Haiti, where he set up a charitable organisation that ran camps for the 55,000 survivors.

Penn refers to the inner struggle balancing his professional life and his role as a public figure: "Part of me feels that one of the biggest fights I have to fight has nothing to do with the excessive hype of the illusion of celebrity. I mean, even if we paid teachers the same wage as actors, ie, we lived in a fair world, you'd still have to wrestle with your performance as an actor. I mean, you're trapped in your own nature, your body, your own rhythms and weaknesses."

The Red Bulletin is a fantastic lifestyle, sport and culture magazine from Red Bull, go to www.redbulletin.com to read the rest of this fascinating feature.

Happy Feet Two

Happy Feet TWO is in cinemas December 2nd

The sequel to "Happy Feet," the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, "Happy Feet Two" returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D.
Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic.  Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven-a penguin who can fly!  Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model.
But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces.
Erik learns of his father's "guts and grit" as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures-from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals-to put things right.
"Happy Feet Two" is directed by George Miller, who won an Oscar® as the creator of the original "Happy Feet."  The film features the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski, Anthony LaPaglia, Richard Carter and Benjamin "Lil P-Nut" Flores, Jr.
George Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Gary Eck, Warren Coleman and Paul Livingston.  Miller is also producing the film, along with Doug Mitchell and Bill Miller.  Chris deFaria, Graham Burke and Bruce Berman serve as executive producers. Tap phenom Savion Glover rejoins the production to create the dances that will be performed onscreen by the penguin characters.  The director of photography is David Peers and the animation director is Rob Coleman.  The film features vocals by P!nk, with music by John Powell.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Kennedy Miller Mitchell production, with Dr. D. Studios, a George Miller film, "Happy Feet Two."

James Cameron's re-mastered Titanic

UK Release:  6th April 2012

James Cameron's Titanic is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the "ship of dreams" -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.

Director:   James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is released in cinemas on February 10th 2012

In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth," the new 3D family adventure "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" begins when young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, reprising his role from the first film) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist.  It's a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret.  

Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest.  Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.

"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," is directed by Brad Peyton ("Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore").  It also stars Michael Caine as Sean's grandfather, Alexander Anderson, and Kristin Davis as Sean's mom, Liz Anderson.

The film is produced by Beau Flynn & Tripp Vinson, and Charlotte Huggins from a screenplay by Brian Gunn & Mark Gunn, screen story by Richard Outten.  Serving as executive producers are Michael Bostick, Evan Turner, Marcus Viscidi, Richard Brener, Samuel J. Brown and Michael Disco.  David Tattersall ("Gulliver's Travels") is the director of photography; Bill Boes ("Fantastic Four"), the  production designer; Denise Wingate ("Wedding Crashers"), the costume designer; and Academy Award© nominee Boyd Shermis ("Poseidon"), the visual effects supervisor

"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" is a New Line Cinema presentation, a Walden Media and Contrafilm production and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.