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• Journal Articles
• Top Box Office Movies
• New Releases
• Movies Coming Soon

Journal Articles

Digital Cinema Destinations Corp. (Digiplex) announced today that it will acquire seven movie theaters from UltraStar Cinemas. Six are in southern California and the seventh is near Phoenix, Arizona. The deal should be finalized on December 14,... (more)

NPR featured an interview with famed composer John Williams, who was done more memorable movie scores (the music that plays during a movie) than most others combined. You may not know his name, but you know his work the moment you hear a few notes... (more)

During last night's Green Bay Packer game (sorry Lions fans, it was not to be), a teaser for next year's Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion, was shown. At the end, was an invitation to view the full trailer online. I'm happy to report that we now have... (more)

Carmike Cinemas announced that the new Carmike Bradley Square 12 in Cleveland, Tennessee will celebrate its Grand Opening on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 7pm. The new 12-screen theater is located in the Bradley Square Mall at 200 Paul Huff... (more)

Top Box Office Movies for the Weekend of December 7, 2012

1. Skyfall
2. Rise of the Guardians
3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
4. Lincoln
5. Life of Pi
6. Playing for Keeps
7. Wreck-It Ralph
8. Red Dawn
9. Flight
10. Killing Them Softly

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That's it for this week, so take a look at what's new in theaters and what's coming up in the next couple of weeks. Have a good weekend!

Scott Jentsch
Publisher, The BigScreen Cinema Guide

New Releases

The following are new releases opening in theaters in the next week.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. Starring Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, Luke Evans, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace, Ian Holm Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Guilt Trip Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, and who better to accompany him than his overbearing mother Joyce. After deciding to start his adventure with a quick visit at mom's, Andy is guilted into bringing her along for the ride. Across 3,000 miles of ever-changing landscape, he is constantly aggravated by her antics, but over time he comes to realize that their lives have more in common than he originally thought. His mother's advice might end up being exactly what he needs. Starring Seth Rogen, Barbra Streisand, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Scott, Colin Hanks, Michael Cassidy Genre - Comedy View trailers and video clips

language and some risqué material

Monsters, Inc. 3D Lovable Sulley (John Goodman) and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) are the top scare team at MONSTERS, INC., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home. Starring John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn Genre - Comedy View trailers and video clips

Zero Dark Thirty For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar® winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man. Starring Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton, Harold Perrineau, Taylor Kinney, Scott Adkins, Frank Grillo, Mark Duplass, Mark Strong Genre - Suspense/Thriller View trailers and video clips

strong violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language

Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he wouldn't live to see his 25th birthday. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes. "Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet" is a feature-length documentary film that tells the incredible story of a guitar legend who refuses to give up on his dream of being a musician despite the most incredible odds. It is a story of dreams, love, and the strength of the human spirit. Starring Jason Becker, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker, Pat Becker, Ron Becker Genre - Documentary View trailers and video clips

American Empire Starring Tariq Ali, G. Edward Griffin, John Robbins, John Perkins, Gerald Celente Genre - Documentary View trailers and video clips

Any Day Now Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s and touching on legal and social issues that are as relevant today as they were 35 years ago, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own. Starring Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips

sexual content, language, and some drug use

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. Starring Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, Luke Evans, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace, Ian Holm Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in IMAX 3D The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. Starring Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, Luke Evans, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace, Ian Holm Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey An IMAX 3D Experience in HFR The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. Starring Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey IMAX The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. Starring Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in HFR 3D The story that started the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A small hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to reclaim their treasure from a dragon. On the way, they face many adventures, including a chance encounter with a creature named Gollum and the discovery of a magical ring. This is the "High Frame Rate" 3D version of the movie, which means that the theater is showing it at the 48 frames per second rate that it was created in. See the Journal Entries page for more information. Starring Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips

extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

In the Hive Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys lives by a few simple rules, all rooted in a world of brazen, retaliatory violence. His very survival depends on his ability to be brick-hard, emotionless and impenetrable with everyone. Only his infant son is excluded from the hard-shell persona. Xtra hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him and his younger siblings. Xtra just might get his wish when he's thrust into the world of the HIVE, an unorthodox alternative school full of other discarded boys who, because of their disciplinary issues and substandard grade levels, have been kicked out or abandoned by every school in this Southern rural county. For these black boys, the HIVE may very well be their last chance before jail but first they have to persevere under the HIVE's director, the indomitably audacious Ms. Inez and her friendly giant of an assistant, Mr. Hollis, both of whom rule the HIVE with love, discipline, soul food and the expectation of excellence, none of which Xtra is in any way prepared for. Based on an actual school in North Carolina's Bertie County, IN THE HIVE is a movie about the power of love and a gripping reminder that we can all make a difference in a child's life, even the ones who've been relegated to the discarded heap for far too long. Starring Michael Clarke Duncan, Loretta Devine, Vivica A. Fox, Ali Liebert, Roger Guenveur Smith, Jonathan McDaniel Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips

language, some sexual references and brief drug material

Let Fury Have the Hour Writer/director Antonino D'Ambrosio unites 50 powerful, of-the-moment voices – from street artist Shepard Fairey to rapper Chuck D to playwright Eve Ensler to musicians Tom Morello and Billy Bragg to novelist Edwidge Danticat to filmmaker John Sayles to comic Lewis Black – who share personal tales of how they transformed anger and angst into provocative art and ideas. Mix-mastered with historical footage, animation and performances, D'Ambrosio presents a visceral portrait of a generation looking to re-jigger a system that has failed to address the most pressing problems of our times . . . or human potential. Starring Lewis Black, Billy Bragg, Staceyann Chin, Chuck D, Edwidge Danticat Genre - Documentary View trailers and video clips

Save the Date After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Arend). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Brie) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Starr). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Webber), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, all five struggle with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide - is it better to stay safely single or to risk it all on love? Starring Alison Brie, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber Genre - Comedy View trailers and video clips

sexual content, language and brief drug use

Yelling to the Sky Seventeen-year-old Sweetness O'Hara has arrived at the first of several life-changing forks in the road. Being the daughter of mixed-race parents in a less than tolerant community, she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness. Her protective older sister, Ola, is pregnant, with no support from the child's father. Yet, with all this chaos enveloping her, Sweetness takes her life into her own hands in a neighborhood where to become an adult, you first must survive as a teenager. Starring Zoë Kravitz, Jason Clarke, Gabourey Sidibe, Tim Blake Nelson, Marc John Jefferies Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips

Amour (Love) Octogenarians Georges and Anne are retired music teachers whose daughter lives abroad with her family. When Anne suffers a stroke and is left paralyzed on one side of her body, the couple's abiding love for each other is put to the test. Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips

mature thematic material including a disturbing act, and for brief language

For a complete list of recent movies playing in theaters, please see our "New Movies" page.

Coming Soon

Watch for these movies coming to a theater near you!

Friday, Dec 21st

• Jack Reacher
• On the Road
• This Is 40

Tuesday, Dec 25th

• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Parental Guidance

Friday, Dec 28th

• Promised Land

Friday, Jan 11th

• Gangster Squad

Friday, Jan 18th

• Broken City

Friday, Jan 25th

• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

For a complete list of movies coming soon to theaters, please see our "Coming Soon" page.

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