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MEMENTO Returns to Select Theaters for One Night Only on February 17th

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 10th, 2011 at 8:09 am

Tattoo it on your body if you have to, but make a note that Christopher Nolan’s Memento is coming back to theaters for one night only on February 17th.  The new high-definition digital print is being released to 11 select theaters in the U.S. and Canada to mark the film’s 10th Anniversary and upcoming special edition Blu-ray.  The screenings will also feature a taped Q&A between Nolan and Guillermo del Toro (you can check out our coverage of that event here).

Hit the jump to check out a list of theaters that will be hosting screenings.  The special edition Blu-ray of Memento arrives February 22nd.

Warner Bros Announces THE GOONIES 25th Anniversary Edition; Trailer and List of Extras Here

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: July 26th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

Warner Home Video has officially announced The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition on DVD and Blu-ray.  Scheduled for release on November 2, the new edition will feature:

• Cast commentary with Director and all seven actors
• The Making of the Goonies documentary
• Cyndi Lauper music video “The Goonies ‘R Good Enough”
• Outtakes
• Includes new board game, original movie storyboard reproductions, 1985 souvenir magazine reprint, and reprint of 2009 Empire Magazine article with cast photos and updates

The Goonies is one of my favorite films, and I’ll admit the new edition sounds cool.  Check out the cover art and a new trailer for the Blu-ray after the jump:

Tribeca Film Festival: 10 years later, MEMENTO Still Confounds – A Report from the 10th Anniversary Screening

by Ron Messer    Posted: April 25th, 2010 at 10:32 am

Audiences are still baffled by Memento, a decade after the film premiered to hundreds of rave reviews & thousands of debates between filmgoers over what they’d just seen.  You can count some of its stars among those still scratching their heads.

The Tribeca Film Festival celebrated Memento’s 10th anniversary with a sold-out screening & panel on the film & all of its neurological complications on Saturday at the School of Visual Arts Theater.   National Public Radio’s Robert Krulwich moderated the Q&A between: the film’s stars Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano; Jonathan Nolan (whose short story Memento Mori was the basis for the film & led to a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for him & his brother/director/screenwriter Chris), New School professor of psychology Dr. William Hirst & MIT professor of psychology Dr. Suzanne Corkin.  Jonathan Nolan said Iceland’s volcanic ash kept the film’s director Christopher overseas.

Afterwards, Collider pressed Jonathan for details after the event about his involvement with the upcoming Dark Knight sequel, The Man Of Steel, & Justice League, but he politely declined on all fronts.  Nolan clearly wants to keep us guessing about his work that we haven’t seen, as much as the one we did on Saturday.  He would only re-confirm his work with Steven Spielberg on the sci-fi film Interstellar.  Hit the jump for all the panel’s highlights, including: why Pearce thinks he was hired, why viewers of the DVD don’t have the whole story, whether Nolan thinks Memento had an impact on Lost, & why Pantoliano suffers his own memory loss over his sex life.

Watch 8 Movie Clips From PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am

20th Century Fox has just released 8 movie clips from director Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  The film stars Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman and Melina Kanakaredes.  Here’s the synopsis:

Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

While I saw a screening the other day, I’m under embargo, so I can’t say what I thought of the film.  But the clips do a good job of letting you know what you’re in for.  Make sure to watch the Uma Thurman as Medusa clip…

New High Resolution Images from PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

20th Century Fox has just released a number of new images from director Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  The film stars Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman and Melina Kanakaredes.  Here’s the synopsis:

Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

Hi the jump to check out the new images and look for new movie clips tomorrow:

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