The Lorax, also known as Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, is an American computer-animated 3-D film based on Dr. Seuss’ children’s book of the same name. It is being produced by Illumination Entertainment and will be released by Universal Pictures on March 2, 2012, what would have been the 108th birthday of Seuss, who died at the age of 87 in 1991.
Joyful Noise is a musical film, starring Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Courtney B. Vance, Dexter Darden and Kris Kristofferson. It was written and directed by Todd Graff, with gospel-infused music by Mervyn Warren.
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
The movie Contraband, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Giovanni Ribisi, is a remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam. The plot centers on a security guard and former alcohol smuggler on the Iceland-Netherlands route who is tempted back into illicit business by a dubious friend after encountering financial problems.
Beneath the Darkness is a horror-thriller film directed by Martin Guigui, and starring starring Dennis Quaid, Aimee Teegarden, Tony Oller, Devon Werkheiser, Brett Cullen and Stephen Lunsford. After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor and professional wrestler who is signed to the WWE, appearing on the Raw brand. He is often credited as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is an 2013 science fiction-action film directed by Jon Chu, based on Hasbro’s G.I. Joe toy, comic and media franchises. G.I. Joe: Retaliation features an ensemble cast, with Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis along with Channing Tatum, Arnold Vosloo, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce and Lee Byung-hun reprising their roles from the first film.
Tarsem Dhandwar Singh (born 26 May 1961), known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials. Tarsem is a Sikh-American and was born in Jalandhar, India. His father was an aircraft engineer. He attended the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, Hans Raj College, Delhi, and is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Based on 50 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of critics gave Die Hard a positive review, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The film’s title and its story of a lone hero battling a multitude of single-minded opponents in an isolated setting also became a common descriptor for later action movies: “Die Hard on a _____” became a simple and easy way to define the plot of many action films that came in its wake. For example, 1994’s Speed was called “Die Hard on a bus”, 1996’s The Rock was dubbed “Die Hard on an island”.
In the Land of Blood and Honey marks the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie who also wrote the drama herself. The movie follows a struggling romance between a Muslin woman and a Serbian man as the Bosnian war threatens to tear apart their relationship.
In shock and denial over his Marine father’s death in Iraq, high school lacrosse star, Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz), starts acting out in self-destructive ways until he’s kicked off the team and sent to a wilderness lacrosse camp run by his Dad’s Native American combat buddy, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne (Adam Beach).