Thursday, January 5, 2012

January 3rd 2012 Blu ray and DVD releases


'Contagion' opened theatrically on September 9th and is now available for retail purchase January 3rd 2012
Academy Award® winner Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”) directs the global thriller 'CONTAGION'
The film brings together a stellar international ensemble cast, including Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Inception); Academy Award® winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting, the 'Bourne' films); Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do With It, The Matrix); Oscar® nominee Jude Law (Cold Mountain, Sherlock Holmes); Academy Award® winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, Iron Man); and Academy Award® winner Kate Winslet (The Reader, Titanic).

'CONTAGION' follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving pandemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh from an original screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!), the film also stars Bryan Cranston (AMC’s 'Breaking Bad') and Sanaa Lathan (Alien Versus Predator). It is produced by Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher (World Trade Center), and Gregory Jacobs (The Informant!), with Jeff Skoll, Michael Polaire and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.

Soderbergh’s creative team includes production designer Howard Cummings (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Oscar®-winning editor Stephen Mirrione (Traffic) and costume designer Louise Frogley (Quantum of Solace, Ocean’s Thirteen). Cliff Martinez (Traffic) composed the score.

'CONTAGION' was filmed on locations around the world, including sites in Hong Kong, Macao, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, London and Geneva.

It is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi, a Double Feature Films/Gregory Jacobs Production.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
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Guillermo del Toro presents 'DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK'
In theaters nationwide August 26th, 2011, now on Blu-ray and DVD January 3rd, 2012

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK stars Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison
Rating: R for Violence and Terror
Official website: DontBeAfraidOfTheDark.com
Facebook: facebook.com/DontBeAfraidoftheDark
Synopsis
Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst (GuyPearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their Gothicmansion's period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (BaileeMadison)—neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by thecareerist father—can investigate the macabre history and dark cornersof the estate. Spurring Sally's investigation are the voices—raspingwhispers who call out to her from the basement, who promise herunderstanding and friendship, who are so very hungry and would like tobe set free. When Sally gives in to her curiosity, she opens a gatewayinto a hellish underworld from which an army of beady-eyed,sharp-clawed monsters emerge, small in size but endless in number: thehomunculi. Confronted with the horror that now threatens to taker herlife and destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the wholehouse, but there's just one problem: no one believes her. Will she makethem understand in time, or will they become another chapter in thecenturies-long horror story of Blackwood Manor?
Based on the 1973 telefilm that Guillermo del Toro believes to be thescariest TV production ever made, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK wasco-written and co-produced by del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. Akinto PAN’S LABYRINTH, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK focuses on a young girl’s struggle against menacing and terrifying forces.
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'SHARK NIGHT 3D' In Theaters September 2, 2011; now on Blu ray and DVD January 3, 2012

Un sexy fin de semana de verano se convierte en un una pesadilla sangrienta para un grupo de estudiantes universitarios atrapados en una isla rodeados de voraces predadores subacuaticos en Shark Night 3D, una aterradora y emocionante experiencia del director David Ellis (The Final Destination, Snakes On a Plane), protagonizada por un elenco candente de jóvenes actores que incluye a Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan (“90210,” Slither), Chris Carmack (“The O.C.”), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider Man) y Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).
Llegando por barca a la cabaña de su familia en un lago de Louisiana, Sara (Sara Paxton) y sus amigos velozmente se visten con sus trajes de baños para comenzar un fin de semana divertido y a pleno sol. Pero cuando Malik (Sinqua Walls), la estrella de futbol americano, sale tropezando del lago salado con un brazo desgarrado, el ambiente de fiesta rápidamente se evapora. Asumiendo de que la herida fue causada por un insólito accidente con una tabla de esquí acuático, el grupo entiende de que deben de llevar a Malik lo más pronto posible al hospital que se encuentra ubicado al otro lado del lago.
¡Pero cuando se dirigen hacia este a bordo de una pequeña lancha de alta velocidad, los amigos descubren de que el lago esta surtido de cientos de tiburones carnívoros! Mientras afrontan una muerte espeluznante tras otra, Sara y los demás luchan desesperadamente por esquivar a los tiburones, encontrar ayuda y mantenerse el suficiente tiempo con vida para poder llegar salvos a tierra firme.

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A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis (The Final Destination, Snakes On a Plane), featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan (“90210,” Slither), Chris Carmack (“The O.C.”), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider Man) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).
Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast.
But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.
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