Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly is an American crime thriller film directed, written and screenplay by Andrew Dominik and produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardener, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Anthony Katagas. This film is starring from Brad Pitt, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelson, Richard Jenkis, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Sam Shepard based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins. On May 22, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, receiving positive early reviews.

Adapted from George V. Higgins' novel and set in New Orleans, Killing Them Softly follows professional enforcer Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, who investigates a heist that occurs during a high stakes, mob-protected poker game. The film also features Scoot McNairy (Monsters) as Frankie, Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom) as Russell, Ray Liotta (GoodFellas) as Markie Trattman, Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) as Driver, with James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) as Mickey, Vincent Curatola as Johny Amato, Max Casella, Garret Dillahunt as Eddie Mattie, Linara Washington  and Sam Shepard as Dillon, among others.
The film cinematography is done by Grieg Faser and edited by Brian A.Kates. Its is distrubuted by Weinstein Company.The Weinstein Company will distribute the film in the United States and Canada.The movie is going to release on November 30, 2012. The running time of movie is about 97 minutes.

Bhoot Returns

Bhoot Returns (English: Ghost Returns) is an upcoming Bollywood 3D horror film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Ravi Shankar. Produced by Jitendra Jain of Alumbra Entertainment, the film is presented by Eros International group. The music is given by Salim Sulaiman. Its cinematography is done by Harshraj Shroff and M.Ravichandra Thevar. The film is editted by Sunil M. Wadhwani.
The film stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Manisha Koirala, Madhu Shalini and Alayana Sharma in the lead roles. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film Bhoot Returns directed by Varma himself. It is scheduled for the theatrical release on 12th October, 2012.

With the film Bhoot, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) introduced a new age horror genre to Indian cinema. The film was a huge hit. And, now, RGV is all set with the sequel Bhoot Returns and presents the first look of the film. The filmmaker is also touted to be countering Raaz 3 with his film since Vikram Bhatt's film too falls under the same genre.
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Earlier, a title Bhoot 2 was registered by producer Nitin Manmohan’s company because at that time Nitin and RGV were together. Owing to their parting, producer Nitin Manmohan, a year back announced Bhoot 2 with Vikram Bhatt as the director.
But when Vikram got to know that it was not done with RGV’s consent he backed out. As the title Bhoot 2 was registered with Nitin Manmohan the new producers of the sequel Alumbra Entertainment and Eros International repeatedly requested Nitin Manmohan to part with the title citing the original creator was RGV.
“The producers repeatedly requested Nitin Manmohan to give the copyright of the title. But he in a petty minded nature due to his previous tussle with RGV, delayed the process,” says a source close to the producers. RGV decided to end this chase for the title and changed the title of his film from Bhoot 2 to Bhoot Returns.

The film stars actress Madhu Shalini, Manisha Koirala, Alayana Sharma and JD Chakravarthy and Eros International will release the film worldwide on October 12. Bhoot Returns is RGV’s first 3D film. The film will also release in Tamil and Telugu.

The first-look poster was released in September 2012. It depicted a girl with four eyes and two noses in an optical illusion styled photograph. The poster, however, was termed as a "blatant copy" and a rip-off of an ad campaign poster made by a Mumbai based Ad-agency to spread awareness against drunken driving.
The first trailer of Bhoot returns premiered in theatres with the release of Raaz 3. It features a little girl playing with a partly visible spirit in the living room in the wee hours and the scene is being captured on a webcam. The trailer was certified an "A" rating from the Censor board of India.

Aiyyaa

Aiyyaa is an upcoming romantic comedy Hindi film written and directed by Sachin Kundalkar. The film is jointly produced by Anurag Kashyap and Viacom 18. The film stars Rani Mukerji and Prithviraj in the lead roles. This film is the debut Bollywood film of Malayalam actor Prithviraj. The trailer for the film was released on 6 September 2012. The shooting ended in April 2012, and the film is confirmed to release 12 October 2012.
The story is about a Marathi girl Meenakshi Deshpande (Rani Mukerji) falling in love with a Tamil artist Surya (Prithviraj). It is a quirky and funny love story with the backdrop of a Marathi-Tamil cultural clash. The lead female lead role woos the stranger she desires as he smells good.
The casting of this film makes it as Rani Mukerji as Meenakshi Deshpande, Prithviraj as Surya, Subodh Bhave as Madhav Rajadhyaksha, Nirmiti Sawant as Meenakshi's mother, Satish Alekar as Meenakshi's father, Jyoti Subhash as Meenakshi's grandmother, Amey Wagh as Meenakshi's brother, Anita Date as Meenakshi's friend, Pakada Pandi.

Pre-production started in August 2011 and the film went into shooting by the first week of October 2011.

Sound Track

The lyrics of the songs are written by Amitabh Bhattacharya and the music is done by Amit Trivedi, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sowmya Raoh, Sneha Khanwalkar, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Shreya Ghoshal. The soundtrack has been receiving positive reviews. Music Aloud's review rated it 8/10.

E.T

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (often referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, written by Melissa Mathison, edited by Carol Littleton, music by John Williams and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
The concept for E.T. was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce in 1960. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the stalled science fiction/horror film project Night Skies. The film was shot from September to December 1981 in California on a budget of US$10.5 million. Unlike most motion pictures, the film was shot in roughly chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast. Its running time is 115 minutes.
Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for ten years. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the greatest science fiction film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey. The film was rereleased in 1985, and then again in 2002 to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary, with altered shots and additional scenes.

Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in African war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies across the world.

Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1996–2001, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections.
The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, is in reference to an actual meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa in 2000 and led to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which seeks to certify the origin of rough diamonds in order to curb the trade in conflict diamonds. The film received mixed but generally favorable reviews.

In 1999, Mende fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is captured by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels during a raid and subsequent massacre of his village in Shenge, Sierra Leone. The REBELS put him to work as a diamond miner under the eye of warlord Captain Poison (David Harewood). Captain Poison uses the diamonds to fund their war effort. One day, Solomon recovers an enormous pink diamond while working. Hoping to keep it for himself, he buries it in a nearby riverbank; Poison discovers the truth, but before he can act, the Sierra Leonean Army assaults the mines. Vandy, the captain, and most of Poison's fighters are captured and subsequently imprisoned in Freetown.
Meanwhile, Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a white Rhodesian gunrunner, is arrested smuggling diamonds into Liberia. Archer had been transporting the diamonds to an Afrikaner mercenary, Colonel Coetzee (Arnold Vosloo), his former commander in the 32nd Battalion, the most decorated unit of the South African Border War. Coetzee is in turn employed by Tiara Diamond Company executive Rudolph Van de Kaap (Marius Weyers) and his deputy, Rupert Simmons (Michael Sheen). While being held in the same Freetown prison as Solomon Vandy, Archer learns of the pink diamond's existence.
Archer manages to arrange his own release from prison. He also has Solomon freed, hoping that he will lead him to this valuable diamond. Solomon begins working at a hotel. Meanwhile, Captain Poison conscripts Solomon's son Dia (Kagiso Kuypers) into the RUF as a child soldier, brainwashing him to make him a killer.
Archer visits his contacts in South Africa, including Colonel Coetzee. The Afrikaner is angry and demands that he receive some of the profits from this pink diamond. Danny remarks that he plans to use his share of the money to leave the dark continent. However, Coetzee disagrees, referencing a Shona legend that the soil of Africa is red because of all the blood that has been spilled by people fighting over the land. He implies that both of them will never leave Africa. Returning to Sierra Leone, Archer locates Solomon and offers to help him find his long lost family, especially Dia, if he agrees to lead him to the diamond. While they discuss the issue, RUF rebels launch a massive attack on Freetown. Archer and Solomon survive the initial carnage long enough to steal away from the ruined city by morning.

In Forécariah, Guinea, American journalist and humanitarian Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), allows Archer and Vandy to infiltrate the Kono with her press convoy in exchange for information on her current story exposing the flow of "blood diamonds" out of Africa. Archer offers proof to Maddy that Van de Kaap and his Tiara Diamond Company control the market by illegally stockpiling vast amounts of diamonds to simulate scarcity. The convoy comes under attack by murderous insurgents. The three narrowly escape and eventually find their way to an encampment where Colonel Coetzee and his private army are preparing for battle; the mercenaries now intend to get their hands on the diamond no matter who or what gets in their way.
Archer and Vandy eventually leave the camp while Maddy boards a plane evacuating foreigners out of the conflict zone. The duo reach Captain Poison's diamond fields, which has been recaptured by the rebels. Solomon approaches Dia, who refuses to acknowledge his father. Archer calls the mine's coordinates in to Coetzee's forces, who subsequently launch an air strike on Poison's men via an Mi-24 Helicopter Gunship. Amidst the chaos, Solomon finds and kills Poison with a shovel. As the outgunned and now leaderless RUF force tries to flee into the jungle, they are finished off by a mercenary strike team on the ground. With the battle won, Colonel Coetzee has Dia rounded up and holds him at gunpoint. He threatens to murder the boy unless Solomon retrieves the pink diamond immediately. Archer knows that the colonel is planning to execute Vandy and his son once he is in possession of the valuable stone. He preemptively kills Coetzee and three of his soldiers, only to be mortally wounded in the process. Dia then takes advantage of the situation to hold a pistol on his father and the injured Archer. After an emotional discussion, however, Solomon manages to convince his son of his own retained innocence and Dia agrees to return home with him, having overcome his mental conditioning.

The three of them flee from the remaining mercenaries and make their way from the valley towards an airstrip atop a nearby ridge where Archer has prearranged to rendezvous with a local pilot, Nabil (Jimi Mistry), in his GA8 Airvan. Before they reach the ridge, Danny collapses from his wounds and hands over the diamond to Solomon, instructing him to take it and use its profits for himself and the benefit of his family. Archer uses an assault rifle to hold off their pursuers as the two others escape in the plane.
Bleeding to death from his injuries, Archer uses his satellite phone to make a final call to Maddy Bowen and ask her to assist Solomon. Realizing that he is dying, Maddy expresses her sorrow that she is not able to be there with him in person. The Rhodesian smuggler replies calmly that he is already where he needs to be. He grasps a handful of red soil, stained with his own blood, and dies looking out on the African landscape.
Shortly afterwards, Solomon meets with Rupert Simmons, who promises that the Tiara Diamond Company will arrange for his family to be brought to England in exchange for the diamond. Maddy secretly photographs the deal and later publishes a magazine article in which she exposes the trade in conflict diamonds, detailing Rudolph Van de Kaap's criminal actions and ruining him. Later, Solomon is seen preparing to tell of his experiences at a conference on blood diamonds in Kimberley, South Africa. His entrance to the conference meeting hall is met with a standing ovation as the film ends.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer: Born in 1968 to a white farming family from war-torn Rhodesia, Archer fled the country after his parents were savagely murdered during the bush war. He joined the South African Defence Force in 1986, serving with some distinction across the southern subcontinent. Unwilling or unable to pursue a legitimate military career after the fall of apartheid, the unemployed soldier turned smuggler and began running arms for profit. Understandably cynical by nature, Archer continues to harbour nostalgic feelings for 'Rhodesia', refusing to acknowledge the regime change which rechristened his homeland as black-ruled Zimbabwe.
Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy: A dedicated but humble family man, Vandy's greatest wish is to see his son, Dia, through a difficult education in poverty-stricken Sierra Leone. Balking at the notion that the child should become a poor, illiterate, fisherman like himself, Solomon hopes that Dia will one day enter the medical field.
Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen: An American journalist who has traveled the globe extensively. She arrives in Africa hoping to document Sierra Leone's ongoing violence and raise international awareness regarding the illicit diamond trade flourishing there.
Kagiso Kuypers as Dia Vandy: Solomon Vandy's only son. The pride and joy of his loving father, Dia is eventually kidnapped by rebel fighters, who brainwash him into becoming a merciless child soldier.
Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Coetzee: A veteran military stategist, Coetzee fought in Angola during the 1980s alongside South Africa's notorious 32 Battalion. With the close of the South African Border War, he began traveling abroad in search of fresh blood to spill. Coetzee presently heads a mercenary unit in Sierra Leone with numerous ties to the diamond industry.

Sound Track

Blood Diamond: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on December 19, 2006 by Varèse Sarabande. It was composed by James Newton Howard, and won the "Soundtrack of the Year" at the 2008 Classical BRIT Awards.

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room is a 2012 documentary film and social media project directed and written by Peter Nicks that follows the life and times of patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland,California. The movie is set to release on September 26, 2012.

The project includes a blog which features stories and conversations from the waiting room, as well as, behind-the-scenes information about the project. Frequent video updates from the project are posted on the blog. These videos examine what life is like in an American public hospital caring for a community of largely uninsured patients.

The project involves placing interactive storytelling booths in hospital waiting rooms. These kiosks will include the live-blogged reports from people living without health insurance, and a unique online portal that will distribute these stories and become an archive for the testimonials that will highlight the urgency of the national dialogue around health care. A waiting room is a place where people sit or stand until the event they are waiting for occurs.

The Waiting Room is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Independent Television Service, The Fledgling Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, California Council for the Humanities, the Pacific Pioneer Find, and the San Francisco Film Society. Its key partners include the Bay Area Video Coalition, Active Voice, Pentagram, and The Takeaway. The Waiting Room has also been featured on the New York Times Lens Blog as Videos Worth Watching.

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania is an upcoming American 3-D computer-animated comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Columbia Pictures and set to release on September 28, 2012. It is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Michelle Murdocca. The story is written by Todd Durham, Daniel Hageman, Kelvin Hageman. The music is given by Mark Mothersbaugh. The film will feature the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Jon Lovitz, Cee Lo Green, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and David Spade. The running time of film is 91 minutes. The budget of the film is $100.
The role played by different artist as Andy Samberg as Jonathan, a 21 year-old regular guy who falls in love with Mavis, Kevin James as Frank/Frankenstein, Cee Lo Green as Murray, an obese mummy, Steve Buscemi as Wayne, a werewolf, Molly Shannon as Wanda, a werewolf and Wayne's pregnant wife,
David Spade as Griffin the Invisible Man, Fran Drescher as Eunice, Frankenstein's wife
Jon Lovitz as Quasimodo, the former Hunchback of Notre-Dame who now works as a gourmet chef. He is always accompanied by his pet rat Esmeralda, Luenell as Shrunken Head, Chris Parnell as Fly, Jackie Sandler as Martha, Sadie Sandler as Young Mavis, Rob Riggle as Skeleton Husband, Paul Brittain as Zombies, Robert Smigel as Fake Dracula, Jonny Solomon as Gremlin Man, Jim Wise as Shrunken Head
Craig Kellman as Guy in Crowd, Brian McCann as Hairy Monster, Davey Walsh as the Werewolves puppies, Sunny Sandler as the Werewolves puppies, Mindy Kaling as Skeleton Wife, Hydra Heads voiced by Paul Brittain, Craig Kellman, Brian McCann, Jonny Solomon, and Jim Wise.

Summary

Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is the owner of Hotel Transylvania, a five-star resort for the world's monsters to get away from it all. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez). When Hotel Transylvania is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary young traveler named Jonathan (voiced by Andy Samberg), Dracula must protect and rescue Mavis from falling in love with him before it's too late.
Adam Sandler as Dracula, the Hotel Transylvania owner, and Mavis' over-protective father.
Selena Gomez as Mavis, Dracula's 118 year old "teenage" daughter and the film's heroine. She falls in love with Jonathan.

Release Date

Hotel Transylvania premiered on September 8, 2012, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film is set for a September 28, 2012 release in theaters. The film's first international trailer was released on March 27, 2012.

SoundTrack

"Where Did the Time Go Girl (Party Version)" Written by Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, and Dennis White. Produced by Static Revenger
"Call Me Mavy" Performed by Traci L.
"Zing" Written by Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, and Dennis White. Produced by Static Revenger
"Problem (The Monster Remix)" Written by Henry Walter, Lukasz Gottwald, Becky Gomez (as Rebbeca Marie Gomez) & Will i Am (as William Adams). Performed by Becky Gomez (as Becky G) featuring Will i Am (as will.i.am)