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Learn why you shouldn't care about the 2013 Oscar nominations. In a year that produced the best stock of films in recent memory, one would think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) would have recognized this and rewarded us with a similarly diverse group of candidates. Sadly, this 'professional honorary organization' that shrugged off Elizabeth in 1998 and Star Wars in 1977 have done it again, and in doing so damaging their credibility and alienating audiences. Filling the nominations with unrecognizable films - Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild - and the overrated Silver Linings Playbook , Hollywood has proven once again its complete lack of connection with its customers. Here's our main beefs: Silver Linings Playbook and The Life of Pi: While we gave SLP a passable review, it certainly didn't garner our attention in any category. Viewed as more of a date film, the dramedy starring Bradley Cooper stole quality spots

Win your tickets to see an advance screening for THE LAST STAND ! The screening is on Tuesday, January 15 @ The Crest Theater @ 7:30 PM in Sacramento. THE LAST STAND  is an upcoming action drama film written by Andrew Knauer and directed by Kim Ji-woon. The film will be Arnold Schwarzenegger's first leading role since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003. This will be the first American production for Kim Ji-woon and cinematographer Kim Ji-yong as well as composer Mowg. Blue Star Moms will be at our screening to collect non-perishable items (examples: beef jerky, packaged noodles, and canned food with pull-top lids) for our troops. Donate an item for FRONT OF LINE seating! Sheriff Ray Owens is a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spe

Universal Pictures has set a release date for Jurassic Park 4 , which will be shot in 3D and come out June 13, 2014. Steven Spielberg is returning to produce the next installment of the franchise, the last of which came out in July 2001. This comes after the studio has made plans to rerelease the original Jurassic Park in a remastered 3D version in April. Spielberg, whose latest film Lincoln was just nominated for 12 Oscars, this week put his sci-fi pic Robopocalypse on hold; he was scheduled to direct that this spring, but had a new take on the project and decided to retool. There had been speculation that Spielberg would tackle the widely rumored Moses epic Gods And Kings, but this project appears to be officially on his front burner. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Get ready for another installment of Step Up , the under the radar franchise that continues to do strong business, particularly overseas. Summit Entertainment has just set John Swetnam to write the script for a film that has Scott Speer returning to direct and Offspring partners Jennifer Gibgot and Adam Shankman producing. Step Up 5 will build to a big dance-off and the intention is to get the leads of the previous films to return in cameo roles. There’s no telling whether the biggest star to emerge from the series, Channing Tatum , will be among those. But he must have good memories. The 2006 original film helped launch Tatum’s career, and he married his lead actress and dance partner in the film, Jenna Dewan . Step Up 5 is intended to be a 3D effort. Swetnam wrote the scripts for Evidence and the upcoming Black Sky (previously known as Category 6), and he’s also scripting a hush hush project at New Line. Swetnam is repped by Paradigm and Benderspink. Please Leave A Comment-

MTV got their hands on this exclusive poster for DEAD MAN DOWN . Since they worked together on the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , star Noomi Rapace has seen her career spark in Hollywood, while director Niels Arden Oplev has mostly worked on TV projects and developing other movies. Now they’ve reunited – and pulled in Colin Farrell and Terrence Howard – for revenge thriller  DEAD MAN DOWN , which has just put its first trailer online . Farrell plays Victor, the right hand man to an underground New York crime lord ( Howard ). When he’s spotted killing on the job by Rapace’s damaged Beatrice, she reaches out to him. See, she’s been the victim of one of Howard’s actions and she’s burning with vengeance. So she blackmails Victor (who has his own reasons to be angry with Howard) and has him start to take down his boss’s operations. Which naturally leads to more trouble than either of them expect… Please Leave A Comment-

Take a glimpse into the twisted and colorful mind of Charles Swan III ( Charlie Sheen ) in a brand new R ed-Band trailer that was too risqué for even Playboy! Jason Schwartzman co-stars as Kirby Star in a new teaser for the latest film from Roman Coppola and A24 Films. The film also stars Bill Murray, Aubrey Plaza and Patricia Arquette , A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III is available to watch starting today on iTunes and Cable VOD before it hits theaters in February! Set in a stylized Los Angeles, ‘ A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III ’ is a playful comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies, and Brandy Alexanders. Charles ( Charlie Sheen ) is a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, a perplexing beauty named Ivana, suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles’ life falls apart and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the

GANGSTER SQUAD Review By: MattInRC Does GANGSTER SQUAD cut the mustard as a 1940's crime thriller, or does it get lost in martinis and swing music? I really enjoy well-done gangster flicks. From The Untouchables to LA Confidential , modern tales of classic mob bosses who 'clip and fence' their way to top - and the cops who take them down - provide a fascinating commentary on one of the most violent periods in American history. Luckily,  GANGSTER SQUAD  can join that list of able-bodied films. It's smart, a little funny, well-written and directed, and features some of the best performances of the year. Granted it's only January, but Gangster Squad is that good. Set in 1949 Los Angeles, Squad follows mob boss Mickey Cohen ( Sean Penn , At Close Range) as he attempts to gain control of the city. A former championship boxer, Cohen uses brutal tactics to expand his territory while fending off bosses from Chicago. To him, it's just another bou

Win your tickets to see an advance screening for HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS ! The screening is on Thursday, January 24 @ AMC Van Ness @ 8:00PM In San Francisco. HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS  is an upcoming 2013 American action-adventure horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola and filmed in 3-D. It is a continuation to the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the titular roles, with Famke Janssen as the leader of a coven of evil witches that they seek out to destroy. The film is set to be released in 3-D and IMAX 3D on January 25, 2013. It will be the first film from MTV Films to be released in IMAX 3D format. Catching up with Hansel ( Jeremy  Renner ) and Gretel ( Gemma Arterton ), fifteen years after the traumatic incident involving a gingerbread house, the siblings have grown into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Over the years, the siblings became expert hunters, famous fo

Win your tickets to see an advance screening for PARKER ! The screening is on Thursday, January 24th @ 7:30PM @ Century Centre 9 In San Francisco. PARKER  is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez , the film is adapted from Flashfire , the 19th Parker novel, written by Donald Westlake under the name Richard Stark. Parker ( Jason Statham ) is a professional thief, who doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. At the beginning of the film, his trusted crew ends up betraying him, and leaving him for dead. However, he survives and follows them to Palm Beach, Florida to get revenge on them. Disguising himself, he enlists the help of real estate agent Leslie Rogers ( Jennifer Lopez ), one of their targeted victims, to find out about the plan his former crew has made. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and why not come and follow me on Twitter also. 

Today we have some of the reactions from DISNEY & DREAMWORKS OSCAR NOMINATED Directors and Actors. Tim Burton – Frankenweenie  " Frankenweenie is a very personal film for me. The idea of telling a feature length version was in the back of my mind for many years. Stop Motion was the perfect medium for this project, and one I've always loved for its expressiveness and dimensionality. I've worked with so many incredible artists: animators, cast members, set builders, and puppet makers, all who have helped bring this film to life one frame at a time. I'm so honored that the Academy has recognized this film as one of its nominees."11 Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy – Lincoln  “We are absolutely thrilled and astonished with the 12 nominations. It is such a tribute to the work of those who joined us in this 12-year journey to bring LINCOLN to the screen. We humbly thank the Academy members who honored so many of us.” Sally Field – Lincoln  “

Win your tickets to see an advance screening for PARKER ! The screening is on Thursday, January 24th @ 7:30PM @ Regal Natomas Stadium 16 in Sacramento. PARKER  is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez , the film is adapted from Flashfire , the 19th Parker novel, written by Donald Westlake under the name Richard Stark. Parker ( Jason Statham ) is a professional thief, who doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. At the beginning of the film, his trusted crew ends up betraying him, and leaving him for dead. However, he survives and follows them to Palm Beach, Florida to get revenge on them. Disguising himself, he enlists the help of real estate agent Leslie Rogers ( Jennifer Lopez ), one of their targeted victims, to find out about the plan his former crew has made. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and why not come and follow me on Twitter a

Universal Home Entertainment has provide us with 5 copies of their hit series SMASH Season 1 to giveaway to some lucky fans. SMASH season 2 premieres February 5th. The series is a production of Universal Television in association with DreamWorks. Theresa Rebeck is the creator of the series and she also wrote the pilot episode and five episodes of the first season, including the season finale. The series has a large number of executive producers including Steven Spielberg, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Rebeck, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey . Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman serve as the composers and executive producers. In March 2012, Rebeck stepped down as showrunner. ' SMASH ' is a musical drama that celebrates the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater as it follows a cross section of dreamers and schemers who all have one common desire - to be a ' SMASH .' The series centers on a desire to create a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Mon

Days before she co-hosts the Golden Globes, Tina Fey is in late-stage negotiations to star as the female lead in Disney’s sequel to The Muppets , sources tell The Hollywood Reporter . Fey would join Ricky Gervais as the human stars of the movie, which sees the felt-and-fur-lined puppets engaged in a European-set adventure. Modern Family star Ty Burrell also has a leading role. The script is being kept secret, but the character descriptions point to a caper. Burrell, as first revealed by THR, is playing a lazy Interpol inspector. If a deal is finalized, sources say Fey would play a Russian gulag prison guard. James Bobin, who directed 2011's The Muppets, is back as helmer and co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Stoller. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who produced Muppets, also are back to produce the sequel, which will shoot in London this month. Fey’s most recent feature role was 2010’s Date Night. She next will co-star opposite Paul Rudd in Admission, a come

Hunter Valentine will be playing in San Francisco at Regency Ballroom on January 12th with Sum 41 . The talented group of ladies have been featured everywhere from Time Out New York to Revolver Magazine since releasing their latest effort, Collide & Conquer , in October on Sony/Megaforce. Although they've played together for eight years and released 2 full-length studio albums previously, Hunter Valentine is probably best known for featuring prominently in the most recent season of Showtime's The Real L Word , which followed the band as they wrote Collide & Conquer. Since then the band has been busy touring, with a 2-month tour of North America and even a tour of Japan this fall. Please Leave A Comment-

EW got their hands on these first look from Lionsgate’s upcoming sequel, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE . THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE  is an upcoming 2013 American science-fiction dystopian thriller/action-adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' novel Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy and is the sequel to the 2012 film The Hunger Games. The film is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013 and is directed by Francis Lawrence , with a screenplay from Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt. Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen, with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, and Willow Shields also reprising their roles. After returning home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence ) and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson ) try to forget their time in the arena. But all is no