“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Available on Blu-ray Combo Pack & DVD March 20

February14th

AN ALL-STAR CAST LED BY OSCAR® NOMINEE GARY OLDMAN AND OSCAR® WINNER COLIN FIRTH CAPTIVATES IN THE BRILLIANT ESPIONAGE THRILLER TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

NOMINATED FOR THREE ACADEMY AWARDS® – BEST ACTOR,
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY, AND BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

AVAILABLE MARCH 20, 2012 ON BLU-RAY™ COMBO PACK WITH UltraViolet™, ON DVD AND ON-DEM AND FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT

“PERHAPS THE GREATEST SPY TALE OF OUR TIME”- KENNETH TURAN, LOS ANGELES TIMES

hings aren’t always as they seem in the Oscar®-nominated, suspenseful, and stylish thriller from director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), based on the classic novel by John le Carré. Focus Features’ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy will be available on Blu-ray™Combo Pack with UltraViolet™,on DVD,on Digital Download and On-Demand March 20, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. At the height of the Cold War, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, has been compromised. An ever-watchful former top lieutenant and career spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ), is called out of retirement by the government to help identify and track a suspected mole at the top of the agency. The list of suspects is narrowed to five men. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is Academy Award®-nominated for Best Actor (Gary Oldman), Best Adapted Screenplay (Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan), and Best Original Score (Alberto Iglesias); and is nominated for 11 BAFTA Awards including Best Film and Best Actor.

Also starring Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) with Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”), David Dencik (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Tom Hardy (Inception), Ciarán Hinds (The Debt), Oscar® nominee John Hurt (Midnight Express), Toby Jones (The Hunger Games), and Mark Strong (Robin Hood), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is “a pleasurably sly and involving puzzler” (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times) and showcases “easily one of the year’s best pictures – Gary Oldman gives a performance that is flawless in every detail.” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Included with the Blu-ray™ Combo Pack is an all-new UltraViolet™ copy of the film. UltraViolet™ is the revolutionary new way for consumers to collect movies and TV shows, put them in the cloud and download and stream instantly to computers, tablets and smartphones and soon, consumers can download to devices of their choice too. The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Blu-ray™ Combo Pack also includes a Digital Copy of the film which is compatible with iTunes®, iPad®, iPhone®, iPod™ touch, Android or other retail partners. So now, consumers can truly enjoy their movies and TV shows anytime, anywhere, on the platform of their choice!

 

BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO Blu-rayTM :  Unleash the power of your HDTV with perfect hi-def picture and perfect hi-def sound.

  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY: FIRST LOOK
  • DELETED SCENES
  • INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR JOHN LE CARRÉ
  • BD-LIVETM : Access the BD-Live™ Center through your Internet-connected player to watch the latest trailers and more!
  • pocket BLUTM app:   The groundbreaking pocket BLU™ app uses iPad®,iPhone®, iPod®  touch,  Android™, PC and Mac®  to work seamlessly with a network-connected Blu-ray™ player.  Plus iPad® and Android™ tablet  owners can enjoy a new, enhanced edition of pocket BLU™ made especially to take advantage of the tablets’ larger screen and high resolution display.  Consumers will be able to browse through a library of Blu-ray™ content and watch entertaining extras on-the-go in a way that’s bigger and better than ever before.  pocket BLU™ offers advanced features such as:
    • Advanced Remote Control:  A sleek, elegant new way to operate your Blu-ray™ player. Users can navigate through menus, playback and BD-Live™ functions with ease.
    • Video Timeline:  Users can easily bring up the video timeline, allowing them to instantly access any point in the film.
    • Mobile-To-Go:  Users can unlock a selection of bonus content with their Blu-ray™ discs to save to their device or to stream from anywhere there is a Wi-Fi network, enabling them to enjoy content on the go, anytime, anywhere.
    • Browse Titles:  Users will have access to a complete list of pocket BLU™-enabled titles available and coming to
      Blu-ray™ Hi-Def.  They can view free previews and see what additional content is available to unlock on their device.
    • Keyboard:  Entering data is fast and easy with your device’s intuitive keyboard.
  • uHEAR™:  Never miss another line of dialogue with this innovative feature that instantly skips back a few seconds on your
    Blu-ray™ disc and turns on the subtitles to highlight what you missed.

 

BONUS FEATURES (BLU-RAY™ and DVD):

  • INTERVIEWS  WITH ACTORS GARY OLDMAN, COLIN FIRTH, TOM HARDY; DIRECTOR TOMAS ALFREDSON; AND SCREENWRITER PETER STRAUGHAN
  • FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR TOMAS ALFREDSON AND ACTOR GARY OLDMAN

 

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New Dramas Coming to Network Television

January25th

FOX has ordered four pilots so far.

ASSET, THE:
A drama set in the new york office of the CIA, which centers on a female agent.

GUILTY:
A drama about a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and to ultimately exact revenge on the men who set him up.

UNTITLED KARYN USHER PROJECT:
A drama about the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself.

UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT:
A drama about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and the FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of it.

ABC has ordered six so far.

ANTICHRIST:
A drama about a young astrophysics student who learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell.

GILDED LILLYS, THE:
A drama set in 1895 and revolves around the family who owns new york’s first true luxury hotel, the staff who work there and the people who pass through.

LAST RESORT:
A thriller set in the near future when the country is very fractured and revolves around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after ignoring an order to shoot nuclear missiles.

EX-COMM:
A drama about a newly-elected president and his top secret “executive committee,” the government’s covert team of america’s most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and conspiracy theory truths out there.

666 PARK:
A drama about an innocent couple from the midwest that moves to New York and gets hired to be resident managers of a building on the Upper East Side where unbeknownst to the couple, the residents have all unwittingly made deals with the Devil to have their deepest needs, ambitions and desires fulfilled.

BEAUTY &THE BEAST:
A fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.

CBS has ordered four so far.

BABY BIG SHOT:
A drama about a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a Manhattan law firm.

ELEMENTARY:
A modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye created by Arthur conan doyle.

UNTITLED ARON ELI COLEITE PROJECT:
A drama about a common-sense mother who becomes a new york state trooper.

Golden Boy:
Tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner.

The CW has ordered five so far.

ARROW:
A new take on the dc comics hero, an archer who dresses like robin hood and invents trick arrows with various special functions.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST:
A revival of the cult 1987-1990 series that aims to not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twist.

CARRIE DIARIES, THE:
“sex and the city” prequel series based on Candice Bushnell’s recent book about the high school years of Carrie Bradshaw.

CULT:
“silence of the lambs”/”seven”-esque drama that tracks the investigation of a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances surrounding the show-within-a-show entitled “cult”.


FIRST CUT :
Centers on a brand new doctor who, glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.

NBC has ordered seven so far.

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE:
An imaginative and thematically rich ensemble “what if” drama set 10 minutes in the future where families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population — that is until some of the mechanicals begin to “awaken.”

DO NO HARM:
A medical drama about a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.

FRONTIER, THE:
1840s-set drama about a diverse group of people who set out from missouri on an incredible adventure across an american landscape that is still largely uncharted, following dreams of riches and reinvention in the west.

MIDNIGHT SUN:
A drama which revolves around a police investigation into disappearance of a remote cult that slowly uncovers the darkest secrets of the region and its inhabitants, as well as a grander political conspiracy and environmental disaster from which the cult members are attempting to escape.

MUNSTERS, THE:
An imaginative reinvention of “The Munsters” as a visually spectacular one-hour drama from Universal Television.

Chicago Fire:
An action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department.

County:
Takes us into the lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators, in a frenetic underfunded and morally compromising LA County Hospital.

Source: FutonCritic

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Be Your Own Minuteman – In Time DVD #Giveaway

January11th

This giveaway is now closed.

Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy
Star in The Pulse-Pounding Sci-Fi Thriller

Arriving on Blu-ray and DVD January 31

In the year 2161, time has become the ultimate currency and genetic alteration has allowed people to stop aging at 25 years old. Upon reaching 25, the countdown begins and in order to stay alive everyone must work to buy themselves more time or die within a year. When a struggling young man, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake), comes in contact with a “millionaire,” he is gifted more time than he can imagine. Falsely accused of murder, Will is a fugitive on the run and becomes determined to bring down the entire system by any means possible.

In the film, Philippe Weis was in the business of loaning time to lengthen the lives of society’s elite; however, you don’t have to have a thousand years under your belt in order to live a long and full life – or to look as good as Justin Timberlake looks in the film. In this feature, we will discuss quick and easy ways to ‘invest’ in your life, so to speak.

Start Your Day With a Glass of Water

One of the best things you can do for yourself is drinking tons of water, especially in the morning. While we sleep, we lose a lot of oxygen. So, to rejuvenate our cells, we need to supply them with oxygen and water. Drinking a nice glass of water in the morning is a great way to do this, and it will help you feel less tired in the mornings.

 

Replace Coffee With Herbal Tea

Many people love drinking a cup (or many cups) of coffee or caffeinated tea during the day. For a healthier alternative, you can try a nice cup of herbal tea. There is a massive selection of flavors of herbal tea and many of them aren’t just soothing, but actually offer health benefits! For instance, chamomile and peppermint teas have both been found to antimicrobial and antiviral properties, and peppermint tea actually acts as an antioxidant as well!

 

Squeeze in Some Exercise

Not everyone has time to go to the gym on a regular basis, and that’s completely understandable in today’s busy world. Though a mix of cardio and weight training exercises are best for your body, if you don’t have the time to dedicate to this kind of workout routine, there are still things you can do to stay in shape! If you work in an office, you can do simple things like talking a short walk every hour or so. Or, if your building has stairs, run or walk up and down them a few extra times a day, just to get your blood flowing and your muscles working. You can also stretch at your desk, or even jog in place while you’re waiting for the printer!

 

Be Conscious of What You Consume

The absolute best way to invest in yourself is to know and moderate what goes into your body. Knowing simple things like what foods have good fats in them (like avocados and olive oil) and which meats are best for you (fish, chicken and lean cuts of beef are good choices) is essential if you want to treat your body well. Basic rules like staying away from heavily processed foods (fast food, sugars, etc.) and loading up on things like fruits, vegetables and whole grains are simple dietary adjustments you can make that will greatly benefit your health.

 

Practice Deep Breathing

Practicing a bit of deep breathing is both calming and has healing effects for your body. Any time that you’re able (in the office, while driving, cooking, etc.), you can try deep breathing where you inhale for five seconds, hold it for a few seconds, and then slowly release. Do this for a few minutes a day. This exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide is great for rejuvenating your blood cells, and giving you a calm, relaxed feeling throughout the day.

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The Vow Movie Posters #TheVow

January11th

What happens when a newlywed couple is involved in a car accident, the wife wakes from a coma, and suffers severe memory loss? If the husband is the very charming Channing Tatum, he endeavors to win her heart again, and it looks something like this…

More on The Vow and to watch the trailer click here!

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My Top 11 TV Shows of 2011. What’s Yours?

December27th

As much as I love movies, I have a serious TV addiction. Thank heavens for my DVR and it’s ability to work over time. Below is my top 11 TV shows from 2011.

The Good Wife

11. The Office
10. Greys Anatomy
09. Suits
08. Burn Notice
07. Blue Bloods
06. Mike & Molly
05. Parenthood
04. Nurse Jackie
03. Southland
02. True Blood
01. The Good Wife

How about you? Did your favorite make my list? If not, what am I missing? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

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REAL STEEL on Blu-ray and DVD on 1/24/12

December2nd

DreamWorks Studios’ Action-Adventure With Heart, “REAL STEEL,” Starring Hugh Jackman, Enters the Home Entertainment Ring on
Blu-ray™, DVD, Digital and On-Demand January 24, 2012

DreamWorks Studios’ REAL STEEL, starring Hugh Jackman, muscles its way into the Home Entertainment arena on Blu-ray™, DVD, Digital and On-Demand on January 24, 2012. This visually stunning action-adventure filled with heart and soul is a “must-add” to every home movie collection, delivering a premium in-home experience complete with knockout bonus materials that dive deeper into the action.

The Blu-ray Combo Pack, with its perfect picture and sound, delivers the ultimate punch, offering viewers a variety of supplemental bonus features that take them ringside with Director Shawn Levy on the making of the film. Exclusive features include a bare-knuckled exposé of the life story of Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), deleted and extended scenes that go deeper into the film and storylines, and a riveting profile with legendary boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Plus, the revolutionary Real Steel Second Screen app lets viewers sync their iPad™* or computer with the Blu-ray movie to peel back layers of effects with progression reels, check out 360-degree turnarounds of the robots, explore seamless branching pods that delve into the cutting-edge technology used to create the fights, and much more.

The #1 movie in the country for two consecutive weeks during its theatrical run, REAL STEEL is directed by Shawn Levy (Night At the Museum franchise, Date Night and What Happens in Vegas), produced by Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List), with a screenplay by John Gatins (Coach Carter, Summer Catch). Set in the not-so-distant future where boxing has gone high-tech and 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots have taken over the ring, the film stars Hugh Jackman (X-Men franchise, Australia) as Charlie Kenton, Evangeline Lilly (TV’s Lost, The Hurt Locker) as Bailey Tallet, Dakota Goyo (Thor) as Max Kenton, Kevin Durand (I Am Number Four, (Michael Bay Producer) X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as Ricky, and Anthony Mackie (The Adjustment Bureau, The Hurt Locker) as Finn.

BONUS FEATURES:

3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (1 Blu-ray Disc + 1 DVD + 1 Digital Copy)
All 2-Disc Blu-ray Bonus Features
All DVD Bonus Features

2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (1 Blu-ray Disc + 1 DVD)
REAL STEEL SECOND SCREEN
Countdown to the Fight—The Charlie Kenton Story
Sugar Ray Leonard: Cornerman’s Champ
Deleted and Extended Scenes with introductions by Shawn Levy
—Extended “Meet Ambush”
—Deleted “Butterfly” Storyline
PLUS All DVD Bonus Features

1-Disc DVD (1 DVD)
Making of Metal Valley
Building the Bots
Bloopers

HIGH-DEFINITION & STANDARD DEFINITION DIGITAL
Sugar Ray Leonard: Cornerman’s Champ
PLUS All DVD Bonus Features

 

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Those who would like to stay connected with the exciting REAL STEEL release are encouraged to:

·      “Like” the Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/RealSteelMovie
·      Follow us on Twitter at @realsteelmovie
·      Visit the website at www.steelgetsreal.com
·      View videos at www.YouTube.com/RealSteelMovie
·      Connect with Facebook and Twitter via Real Steel Second Screen

Information provided by DreamWorks Studios.

About DreamWorks Studios:
DreamWorks Studios is a motion picture company formed in 2009 and led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.  The company recently released The Help, which has resonated with audiences around the country and earned over $100 million at the U.S. box office. Upcoming releases include Steven Spielberg’s War Horse. DreamWorks Studios can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DreamWorksStudios <http://www.facebook.com/DreamWorksStudios>  and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dw_studios <http://twitter.com/dw_studios> .

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