Thanks for Sharing marks the directorial debut of Stuart Blumberg, who received an Oscar nomination for co-writing The Kids Are All Right with Lisa Cholodenko. The film tells the story of three men who have very little in common with each other except for the fact that they are in different stages of recovery from sex addiction.
Ever since he founded Blumhouse Productions in 2000, Jason Blum has become an increasingly successful producer in Hollywood. Moreover, he has helped to pioneer a new model of studio filmmaking by producing high quality, low budget feature films for wide release, and this has resulted in his company turning out over 30 of them in 13 years. Among those films are Paranormal Activity and its sequels (the next one is due out in 2014), Sinister, Insidious and The Purge. Blum’s latest producing effort is the eagerly awaited sequel Insidious: Chapter 2, which reunites him with filmmaker James Wan and screenwriter/actor Leigh Whannell.
Actor/writer Leigh Whannell teams up again with director James Wan for Insidious: Chapter 2. The two have worked together on Saw, Dead Silence and the original Insidious, but this new sequel may be their most challenging project yet. The first film was clever in how it subverted the haunted house genre and it left you wondering where they could possibly go with a sequel. But as it turns out, the duo have not so much created a sequel as they have a continuation of the events started by its predecessor.
We loved her as Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica, and now we get to see actress Katee Sackhoff kick some more sci-fi ass in Riddick. In the movie she plays Dahl, a deadly sniper who joins up with a group of mercenaries to hunt down Riddick, who is once again played by Vin Diesel.
It took almost ten years, but writer/director David Twohy and actor Vin Diesel have finally made another Riddick movie. While The Chronicles of Riddick was not a commercial success, it still gained a cult following on home video and fans kept clamouring for Twohy and Diesel to make another film to continue the adventure. It’s because of that continued support that the third movie in the franchise (which started with Pitch Black) is now a reality.
Hell Baby may seem like a silly, low brow comedy, but for its writers and directors (Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon), this movie represents a personal triumph for them. Both are known as the creators of television shows Reno 911 and The State, and they also wrote the screenplays for Herbie: Fully Loaded, The Pacifier and the Night at the Museum movies. But when it came to getting their screenplays to the big screen, they had to go through the usual obstacle course that screenwriters go through when making a Hollywood movie: rewrites, focus groups, executives telling them what doesn’t work and what really sucks about their script, and a whole lot of opinions that don’t help them in the slightest.
Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) proved to be quite the couple in Joe Swanberg’s latest film Drinking Buddies. The two work together at a Chicago brewery where they make and sell craft beers, and flirt with one another constantly. They’d make the perfect couple, if it weren’t for the fact that both are involved with other people; Kate is in a relationship with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is practically engaged to his girlfriend Jill (Anna Kendrick). But when their significant others go out of town for the weekend, the two find themselves having plenty of alone time as we watch and see if their romantic feelings for one another come to the surface.
Logan Lerman returns this summer as the young demigod on a journey to fulfill his destiny in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. The film is a sequel to Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and reuniting with Lerman are Brandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase.
