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It’s time to make weekend family entertainment plans and see if this week’s current crop of films will be part of your schedule. The following report covers motion picture theatrical releases opening nationwide beginning Friday, October 14, 2011 along with current film industry news.
If a film has not been provided with an official rating, additional information may, or may not be provided.
If a film is designated NC-17, very limited information will be furnished.
For your convenience, each film title links directly to the Internet Movie Data Base, which provides the most comprehensive listing about the movie’s storyline, and includes a trailer, cast and crew information, initial audience reaction (if prior screenings have taken place) and parent advisories when available.
As always, you are the single best judge for determining your child’s choice of entertainment.
IMPORTANT UPCOMING RELEASES ON DVD
Creative documentary ‘Imagine it!’ inspires kids to use creativity with science
Apple Inc.’s late Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs encouraged people to think differently. Jobs believed that “out of curiosity comes everything.” On October 25, 2011 a 52 minute documentary IMAGINE IT!, distributed by Cinema Libre Studio, will do the same to inspire curiosity and ask young people to think “outside the box” and to use their imagination to change the world through technology and science using their creativity.
Iliza Shlesinger, winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, stars as the host of this documentary which features the leading men and women in science and technology including: Sally Ride (NASA Astronaut and first woman on the moon), Charles Vest (Former President of MIT, current President of the National Academy of Engineering), the Co-Founders of the Blue Man Group, Chris Wink, Phil Stanton, Matt Goldman, and many more.
IMAGINE IT poses the question: What if you imagined a better world, then engaged in making it happen? The film encourages children to pursue an education in the field of math and science and thus, to create the changes they would like to see and to build a world that they would want to live in.
Educators profess with confidence that the best way to predict the future is to invent it and considering that half of the world’s population is under the age of 25 (that’s 3 billion people) there is considerable potential for a new future of innovators. As one of the greatest creative minds Walt Disney said, “All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Educators profess with confidence that the best way to predict the future is to invent it and considering that half of the world’s population is under the age of 25 (that’s 3 billion people) there is considerable potential for a new future of innovators. As one of the greatest creative minds Walt Disney said, “All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Director Rudy Poe co-founded the Imagine It! Project with Richard Tavener. The non-profit company’s mission is to promote the power of imagination and the importance of living a creative life. His mantra is “Experience for today. Vision for tomorrow.”
SYNOPSIS:
Imagine It! is designed to provide a forum for discussion around the power of big ideas in action and to inspire people to imagine a better world by connecting imagination and creativity with science and engineering in education.
Hear from innovators, scientists and authors, such as Ray Kurtzweil and Sally Ride, who are joining a movement to get creative thinking and the arts back into schools. Imagine It! will help the public to have a better understanding of the importance of science, engineering and technology and hopes to inspire the next generation of innovators.
The 52-minute film reports on the promise of a new youth culture engaging their curiosity to change the world, empowered by science, technology, education and desire. It is about connecting imagination and creativity with science and engineering in education. The film is designed provide a forum for discussion around the power of big ideas in action and to inspire people to imagine a better world, to unleash their creativity and then take action to solve global challenges. http://www.imagineitproject.
Hear from innovators, scientists and authors, such as Ray Kurtzweil and Sally Ride, who are joining a movement to get creative thinking and the arts back into schools. Imagine It! will help the public to have a better understanding of the importance of science, engineering and technology and hopes to inspire the next generation of innovators.
The 52-minute film reports on the promise of a new youth culture engaging their curiosity to change the world, empowered by science, technology, education and desire. It is about connecting imagination and creativity with science and engineering in education. The film is designed provide a forum for discussion around the power of big ideas in action and to inspire people to imagine a better world, to unleash their creativity and then take action to solve global challenges. http://www.imagineitproject.
IMAGINE IT! features the following experts and thought-leaders:
Ray Kurzweil – Futurist and Author, The Singularity is Near
Sally Ride – Physicist, NASA astronaut, first American woman in space
Chris Wink, Phil Stanton, Matt Goldman – Co-Founders, The Blue Man Group
Charles Vest – Former President of MIT, current President of the National Academy of Engineering
Sir Ken Robinson – Author, All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education
Cinema Libre Studio is a leader in the distribution of social-issue documentaries and features by passionate filmmakers. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Cinema Libre team has released over one hundred films including the Sundance Audience Award‐Winning FUEL, THE END OF POVERTY, and Oliver Stone’s SOUTH OF THE BORDER.Suggested retail price for the DVD is $19.95 and it may be pre-ordered through cdUniverse for $11.29.
The video below explains more about the concept for this unique and positive documentary and project.
NEW TRAILERS FOR THE MOST ANTICIPATED UPCOMING FILMS
“MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS” TRAILER DOWNLOADED OVER 10 MILLION TIMES IN FIRST 24 HOURS
Marvel Studios announced today that the trailer for next summer’s most highly anticipated movie, “Marvel’s The Avengers,” has been downloaded over 10 million times in its first 24 hours on iTunes Movie Trailers shattering the most-viewed trailer record in the site's history.
The trailer, which debuted Tuesday, October 11, exclusively on iTunes Movie Trailers, gives fans a sneak peak at “Marvel’s The Avengers”—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime—based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.
The film unites the world’s greatest Super Heroes when Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson) to protect the world from the dangerously powerful villain, Loki (Tom Hiddleston).
An event movie, packed with action and special effects, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is from Marvel Studios in association with Paramount Pictures, produced by Kevin Feige and directed by Joss Whedon from a screenplay by Joss Whedon.
“Marvel’s The Avengers” will be released on May 4, 2012.
Parental guidance ratings are still to be determined.
Parental guidance ratings are still to be determined.
Below, is the recently released official trailer for “Marvel’s The Avengers”
FILMS OPENING THIS WEEK
Opened October 14, 2011 Father of Invention – Comedy, Drama- PG-13- because of “sexual material and language.” NOTE: In limited release.
Opened October 14, 2011 Fireflies in the Garden – Drama - R- because of “language and some sexual content.”
Opened October 14, 2011 Footloose – Comedy, Drama, Music- PG-13- because of “some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language.”
Opened October 14, 2011 The Skin I Live In – R- Drama, Thriller-because of “disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language.” NOTE: Los Angeles and New York City only.
Opened October 14, 2011 Texas Killing Fields – Crime, Drama, Thriller- R-because of “violence and language including some sexual references.” NOTE: In limited release.
Opened October 14, 2011 The Thing – Horror, Mystery, SciFi, Thriller- R-because of “strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language.”
Opened October 14, 2011 Trespass – Crime, Drama, Thriller- R-because of “violence and terror, pervasive language and some brief drug use.” NOTE: In limited release.
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
For information on films that opened August 26, 2011, which included: Chasing Madoff; Circumstance; Colombiana; The Debt; Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark; The Family Tree; Higher Ground; Our Idiot Brother, and Swinging with the Finkels, please click on the link below.
The Popcorn Report: Guide to this week’s movies
For information on films that opened August 19, 2011, which included: Amigo; 5 Days of War; Conan the Barbarian; Flypaper; Fright Night; Griff the Invisiible; One Day, and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D, please click on the link below.
For information on films that opened June 24, 2011 to August 12, 2011.
For information on films that opened May 20 to June 17, 2011, please click on the link below.
For information on films that opened April 1 to May 13, 2011, please click on the link below.
For information on films that opened the weeks of Friday, February 4 to Friday March 25, 2011 please click on the link below, where you will also find previous listings and links for prior weeks in January, as well as films that opened in 2010:
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