Devastation of a world capital and a revenge plan against an American president fuel the high-octane London Has Fallen, coming to Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on June 14, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit Olympus Has Fallen raises the stakes with non-stop action and suspenseful plot twists. The Blu-ray™ and Digital HD versions also include exclusive bonus features about the can’t-miss thriller.
In London Has Fallen, the stellar cast of Gerard Butler (300), Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Angela Bassett (American Horror Story), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black), Sean O’Bryan (Vantage Point), and Morgan Freeman (Lucy) reprises their original roles from Olympus Has Fallen, joined by Alon Moni Aboutboul (The Dark Knight Rises), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow), and Waleed F. Zuaiter (Homeland). Babak Najafi directs London Has Fallen.
When the British Prime Minster dies unexpectedly,...
In London Has Fallen, the stellar cast of Gerard Butler (300), Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Angela Bassett (American Horror Story), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black), Sean O’Bryan (Vantage Point), and Morgan Freeman (Lucy) reprises their original roles from Olympus Has Fallen, joined by Alon Moni Aboutboul (The Dark Knight Rises), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow), and Waleed F. Zuaiter (Homeland). Babak Najafi directs London Has Fallen.
When the British Prime Minster dies unexpectedly,...
- 6/5/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Opens: Friday, July 11 (Warner Bros.)
If Scholastic had published the 1864 Jules Verne classic, it might have resembled "Journey to the Center of the Earth," a kid-friendly telling of the oft-filmed sci-fi yarn.
Shot implementing a 3-D process that's easy on the eyeballs and a lighter touch that ensures things don't get too intense for younger adventurers, this first feature by veteran visual effects supervisor Eric Brevig has its transporting, if benign, charms.
Granted the other-worldly excursion has that prefab, carefully calibrated feel of a theme park ride. The New Line & Walden Media presentation, which premiered during the weekend at the Los Angeles Film Festival, should play well with its targeted family demographic, especially in RealD-equipped theaters.
Where Verne's original novel started out in Germany and the 1959 James Mason-Pat Boone version was set in Scotland, the junior edition takes place in America (technically Montreal), where Brendan Fraser's Trevor Anderson is a college professor and expert in the field of plate tectonics.
Anderson and his brother Max also had been on the verge of a major geological breakthrough prior to the latter's disappearance in an expedition in Iceland years earlier.
Now, Anderson and his brother's teenage son, Sean (Josh Hutcherson), attempt to pick up his trail with the help of a pretty Icelandic mountain guide (Anita Briem) and a dog-eared copy of the Verne novel.
Director Brevig -- working from a serviceable if safe on the surface script credited to Michael Weiss and the busy team of Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin -- keeps things moving along at a pleasant clip (with the help of a trio of editors) while coaxing amiably energetic performances out of his three leads.
He also manages to steer clear of most of those hoary, "comin'-at-ya"-type 3-D cliches in his use of the flexible Fusion System process developed by James Cameron and cinematographer Vince Pace, instead relying on the added dimension to heighten the hyper-real imagery, overseen by visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend.
Wonder if he saved enough unused footage for that theme ride?
Production: New Line Cinema & Walden Media. Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem. Director: Eric Brevig. Screenwriters: Michael Weiss, Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin. Producers: Charlotte Huggins, Beau Flynn. Executive producers: Toby Emmerich, Brendan Fraser, Mark McNair, Tripp Vinson. Director of photographer: Chuck Schuman. Production designer: David Sandefur. Music: Andrew Lockington. Editor: Paul Martin Smith, Dirk Westervelt, Steven Rosenblum.
Rated PG, 93 minutes.
If Scholastic had published the 1864 Jules Verne classic, it might have resembled "Journey to the Center of the Earth," a kid-friendly telling of the oft-filmed sci-fi yarn.
Shot implementing a 3-D process that's easy on the eyeballs and a lighter touch that ensures things don't get too intense for younger adventurers, this first feature by veteran visual effects supervisor Eric Brevig has its transporting, if benign, charms.
Granted the other-worldly excursion has that prefab, carefully calibrated feel of a theme park ride. The New Line & Walden Media presentation, which premiered during the weekend at the Los Angeles Film Festival, should play well with its targeted family demographic, especially in RealD-equipped theaters.
Where Verne's original novel started out in Germany and the 1959 James Mason-Pat Boone version was set in Scotland, the junior edition takes place in America (technically Montreal), where Brendan Fraser's Trevor Anderson is a college professor and expert in the field of plate tectonics.
Anderson and his brother Max also had been on the verge of a major geological breakthrough prior to the latter's disappearance in an expedition in Iceland years earlier.
Now, Anderson and his brother's teenage son, Sean (Josh Hutcherson), attempt to pick up his trail with the help of a pretty Icelandic mountain guide (Anita Briem) and a dog-eared copy of the Verne novel.
Director Brevig -- working from a serviceable if safe on the surface script credited to Michael Weiss and the busy team of Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin -- keeps things moving along at a pleasant clip (with the help of a trio of editors) while coaxing amiably energetic performances out of his three leads.
He also manages to steer clear of most of those hoary, "comin'-at-ya"-type 3-D cliches in his use of the flexible Fusion System process developed by James Cameron and cinematographer Vince Pace, instead relying on the added dimension to heighten the hyper-real imagery, overseen by visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend.
Wonder if he saved enough unused footage for that theme ride?
Production: New Line Cinema & Walden Media. Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem. Director: Eric Brevig. Screenwriters: Michael Weiss, Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin. Producers: Charlotte Huggins, Beau Flynn. Executive producers: Toby Emmerich, Brendan Fraser, Mark McNair, Tripp Vinson. Director of photographer: Chuck Schuman. Production designer: David Sandefur. Music: Andrew Lockington. Editor: Paul Martin Smith, Dirk Westervelt, Steven Rosenblum.
Rated PG, 93 minutes.
- 6/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Plucked from those famous Miramax/Dimension deep shelves at the eleventh hour, Mindhunters arrives in North American theaters a couple of years after its initial planned release date.
Having already played in a number of overseas territories, the British/Dutch/Finnish-American co-production can't help but carry a certain DVD-ready stigma, and that's probably where it will be doing its greatest business in this neck of the woods.
While the premise is intriguing -- a group of young FBI profilers is being systematically and gruesomely eliminated during what is supposed to be an elaborate training exercise -- director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile Ten Little Indians is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory.
Taken for what it is, along with the clunky dialogue, cardboard-cutout characterizations and eardrum-pounding orchestral blasts, the picture is not without its occasional cheap thrills, which should prove to be more cost-effective in the form of a video store rental.
After an audience-tease of a prologue, Mindhunters gets down to the business of plopping its group of FBI Investigative Support Unit would-be profilers in the middle of a remote island that looks like a Main Street USA studio backlot that has seriously gone to seed (it actually was filmed in the Netherlands).
It is there that leader Rafe Perry (Val Kilmer) has orchestrated a murder scene simulation of a final exam designed to weed out the weaker links, but it quickly becomes apparent that the theoretical serial killer they're attempting to profile is the real thing, and, with each subsequent murder, it's looking more and more like the perpetrator is among them.
Although the script, credited to Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin, works overtime attempting to evoke early John Carpenter, some of the nasty demises, no matter how illogical, have their seriously twisted allure, and while Harlin amps everything up to the extreme, the results are at least livelier than his version of Exorcist: The Beginning, which he took on after Mindhunters.
The cast -- also including Christian Slater (sharing the name J.D. with his Heathers character), LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, Eion Bailey and Clifton Collins Jr. -- do what they can with the hokey dialogue until visual effects supervisor Brian M. Jennings gets around to creatively putting them out of their misery.
Mindhunters
Dimension Films
Dimension Films and Intermedia present an Outlaw production An Avenue Pictures production in association with Weed Road Pictures
Credits:
Director: Renny Harlin
Screenwriters: Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin
Story by: Wayne Kramer
Producers: Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer, Cary Brokaw, Rebecca Spikings
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Renny Harlin
Director of photography: Robert Gantz
Production designer: Charles Wood
Editors: Paul Martin Smith, Neil Farrell
Costume designer: Louise Frogley
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen
Cast:
Gabe Jensen: James Todd Smith a k a LL Cool J
Lucas Harper: Jonny Lee Miller
Sara Moore: Kathryn Morris
Nicole Willis: Patricia Velasquez
Vince Sherman: Clifton Collins Jr
Bobby Whitman: Eion Bailey
Rafe Perry: Will Kemp
Jake Harris: Val Kilmer
J.D. Reston: Christian Slater
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 106 minutes...
Having already played in a number of overseas territories, the British/Dutch/Finnish-American co-production can't help but carry a certain DVD-ready stigma, and that's probably where it will be doing its greatest business in this neck of the woods.
While the premise is intriguing -- a group of young FBI profilers is being systematically and gruesomely eliminated during what is supposed to be an elaborate training exercise -- director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile Ten Little Indians is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory.
Taken for what it is, along with the clunky dialogue, cardboard-cutout characterizations and eardrum-pounding orchestral blasts, the picture is not without its occasional cheap thrills, which should prove to be more cost-effective in the form of a video store rental.
After an audience-tease of a prologue, Mindhunters gets down to the business of plopping its group of FBI Investigative Support Unit would-be profilers in the middle of a remote island that looks like a Main Street USA studio backlot that has seriously gone to seed (it actually was filmed in the Netherlands).
It is there that leader Rafe Perry (Val Kilmer) has orchestrated a murder scene simulation of a final exam designed to weed out the weaker links, but it quickly becomes apparent that the theoretical serial killer they're attempting to profile is the real thing, and, with each subsequent murder, it's looking more and more like the perpetrator is among them.
Although the script, credited to Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin, works overtime attempting to evoke early John Carpenter, some of the nasty demises, no matter how illogical, have their seriously twisted allure, and while Harlin amps everything up to the extreme, the results are at least livelier than his version of Exorcist: The Beginning, which he took on after Mindhunters.
The cast -- also including Christian Slater (sharing the name J.D. with his Heathers character), LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, Eion Bailey and Clifton Collins Jr. -- do what they can with the hokey dialogue until visual effects supervisor Brian M. Jennings gets around to creatively putting them out of their misery.
Mindhunters
Dimension Films
Dimension Films and Intermedia present an Outlaw production An Avenue Pictures production in association with Weed Road Pictures
Credits:
Director: Renny Harlin
Screenwriters: Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin
Story by: Wayne Kramer
Producers: Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer, Cary Brokaw, Rebecca Spikings
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Renny Harlin
Director of photography: Robert Gantz
Production designer: Charles Wood
Editors: Paul Martin Smith, Neil Farrell
Costume designer: Louise Frogley
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen
Cast:
Gabe Jensen: James Todd Smith a k a LL Cool J
Lucas Harper: Jonny Lee Miller
Sara Moore: Kathryn Morris
Nicole Willis: Patricia Velasquez
Vince Sherman: Clifton Collins Jr
Bobby Whitman: Eion Bailey
Rafe Perry: Will Kemp
Jake Harris: Val Kilmer
J.D. Reston: Christian Slater
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 106 minutes...
- 5/31/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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