Insights from the Cinematic World: Movie Production Insights

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. It stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. It is scheduled to be released on March 23, 2012.

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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a comedy film. It is produced by Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, and Nick Swardson wrote the script and directed by Tom Brady. The movie stars Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, Stephen Dorff.

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Dream House

Daniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens, upcoming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Naomi Watts (The Ring, Fair Game) and Oscar® winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Lovely Bones) star in Dream House, a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where grisly murders were committed… only to uncover even darker mysteries within its walls.

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Shark Night 3D

Shark Night 3D is a 3D horror-thriller film directed by David R. Ellis. It stars Sara Paxton, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Katharine McPhee and Joel David Moore. The film will be released in Real D 3D and Digital 3D.

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Contagion

Contagion is an American thriller film centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh, and written by Scott Z. The motion picture stars Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet.

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Seven Days in Utopia

From the best-selling novel that inspired people around the globe and starring Academy Award® winner Robert Duvall reunited for a third time with Lucas Black, comes Seven Days in Utopia, the heart-stirring tale of how an unlikely but powerful friendship sparks a young man’s life-altering week of transformation.

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Apollo 18

Apollo 18 centers around a fictional premise of an actual Apollo 18 mission that was launched in December 1974, that supposedly never returned and as a result, signified the real reason why the United States never commissioned another expedition to the Moon.

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Jack and Jill

Jack & Jill, originally titled The Weird Personality, is a comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes and Al Pacino as himself. Ben Zook, Steve Koren wrote the original draft. Comedy writing veteran and frequent Sandler collaborator Robert Smigel came in later and did a complete rewrite of the script.

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The Shining

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name, by Stephen King, about a writer with a wife and young son who accepts the job of an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel.

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Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame

A period epic from genre master Tsui Hark (Seven Swords), DETECTIVE DEE directed by Tsui Hark is an action-packed, visually breathtaking Sherlock Holmes-style mystery starring some of China’s top acting talent: Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau, and Tony Leung Ka-fai.

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Drive

Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can’t help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac).

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Fright Night

Fright Nightis a 3D horror film directed by Craig Gillespie. The film is a remake of the 1985 Tom Holland cult classic of the same name that starred Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell and is about a teenager who is convinced his neighbor is a vampire. The cast includes Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots and Toni Collette.

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