Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the In Time DVD and Blu-ray release date for January 31, 2012. The Andrew Niccol sci-fi flick was released back in October and starred Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried as two young adults on the run from a police force known as ‘time keepers’.

Despite not making its $40 million budget back in the US and earning mixed-negative reviews, In Time made $127 million worldwide which suggests Timberlake may have some box office pull internationally.

Blu-ray features include:

- “THE MINUTES” featurette
- Deleted/Extended Scenes
- Access to IN TIME THE GAME APP

DVD features include:

- Deleted/Extended Scenes

“In Time” presents a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there’s a catch: you’re genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich “earn” decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo’s love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.

You can now pre-order In Time from Amazon on: DVD and Blu-ray

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Summit Entertainment has released the first trailer for Gone, a revenge thriller from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia (Adrift).

Amanda Seyfried, who we recently saw alongside Justin Timerlake in In Time, leads the film and plays Jill Parrish, a troubled young woman who returns home to find her sister is missing. She suspects a man who kidnapped and tried to kill her two years previously is responsible.

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When her sister disappears, Jill (Seyfried) is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor.

The film also stars Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bently, and Sebastian Stan, and opens February 24th, 2012.

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I’ll admit In Time is a pretty stupid movie. There are a ton of plot holes, cliches every five minutes, and multiple time-related puns in the dialogue. But I had a good time with it, and I think it’s perfectly passable entertainment. Sometimes, we go to the movies to see people go on the run, rob banks, shoot people, and look sexy doing it, and that’s exactly what this film delivers.

In a vague future (or alternate timeline scenario), the currency of the world is no longer money, but time. People stop genetically aging when they turn 25, and a one year countdown begins until they “time out.” When a stranger gives Will Salas (Timberlake) an extra hundred years to live, he takes the opportunity to get out of his live-by-the-minute ghetto and ventures to the rich district, where people live for thousands of years in their same 25-year-old bodies. He meets Sylvia (Seyfried), the daughter of the man behind it all (Kartheiser), and the two go on the run from a resilient Timekeeper (Murphy) tasked with stopping their Robin Hood-esque crusade to bring time to the masses.

So we’ve established that this isn’t a great film. But for every eye-rolling one-liner, there is something that’s just plain cool about In Time. First off, writer/director Andrew Niccol (who also wrote The Truman Show) essentially teaches a class on world-building here. Without a ton of exposition or any unnecessary narration, he sets up the rules of the world in less than ten minutes, even if he doesn’t make it feel exactly like a viable place. Aside from the obvious looming question of “how did things transition into time-related currency from the way we know them now?”, the only aspect of the design that didn’t work for me was when the production designers decided to get cute with it, adding in signs for things like “The 99 Second Store” as characters walked by.

Secondly, the movie looks absolutely fantastic. Famed cinematographer Roger Deakins chose to shoot the film completely digitally for the first time in his career, and the results are sleek and spectacular. A nifty foot chase across rooftops and the occasional car chase keep the pace moving quickly, which is a necessity for any movie with a literal ticking clock. There may be stupid moments, but they’re all moving so quickly that I found most of them easy to ignore. The action is more commendable than the smaller dramatic scenes, but I also found the cast to be really likeable: Timberlake can easily carry a film on his shoulders, Amanda Seyfried was solid (and awesomely hot) as usual, and Cillian Murphy managed to bring a bit of humanity to his bounty hunter role.

Niccol also inserts some social commentary into his screenplay. It’s another case of the haves vs. the have nots (as if we haven’t seen that on film a billion times), but at least it’s done with some flair. Exchanges like the following are commonplace in this movie:

“How can you live with yourself watching people die right next to you?”
“You don’t…you close your eyes.”

It’s not subtle filmmaking, but it’s effective storytelling that gets the point across and provides a sliver of topicality for those on the hunt for something beneath the surface. Ultimately, In Time is a standard thriller that doesn’t take any chances or play out any differently than you’d imagine. I’ll resist the urge to end this on a time-related pun, since the movie itself was content to take most of the good ones, so instead, I’ll leave you with this: do you think Justin Timberlake agreed to star in In Time because his name is JustIN TIME-berlake? Until next time…

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A few weeks back we got a Comic-Con trailer for Andrew Niccol‘s upcoming sci-fi flick In Time which stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The trailer was rather long and revealed quite a lot about the film, and now 20th Century Fox have released the first official trailer which is half the length but seems to contain twice as much running.

Watch below:

“In Time” presents a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there’s a catch: you’re genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich “earn” decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo’s love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.

Justin Timberlake plays Will, with Amanda Seyfried playing an heiress who he kidnaps while on the run. Cillian Murphy plays an officer from the Timekeepers organization and Olivia Wilde will play Will’s mother.

In Time hits screens October 28th, 2011.

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Another movie making an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con is Andrew Niccol‘s upcoming sci-fi flick In Time which stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Footage was shown during the 20th Century Fox panel, and IGN have uploaded it online for all to see.

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“In Time” presents a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there’s a catch: you’re genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich “earn” decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo’s love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.

Justin Timberlake plays Will, with Amanda Seyfried playing an heiress who he kidnaps while on the run. Cillian Murphy plays an officer from the Timekeepers organization and Olivia Wilde will play Will’s mother.

In Time hits screens October 28th, 2011.

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When the soundtrack and the set designs are the best things happening in Red Riding Hood, that probably does not bode well for all the other elements encompassed in this 100 minute feature.

This over-stretched fantasy-horror take on the classic tale with the same title, should have signaled to someone watching the final cut, that certain properties are just not suited for the cinematic treatment. This attempt provided key evidence to that notion. Through the lens it looks good, but then characters open their mouths and fall victim to a script that was written in crayon.

Valerie/Little Red Riding Hood (Amanda Seyfried) has the typical fairy tale issue of dealing with forbidden love. She is infatuated with the orphaned village ax-men Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) but her parents (Billy Burke and Virginia Madsen) have chosen the wealthy, yet timid Henry (Max Irons). Meanwhile, the poor small village that resembles a township pulled out of any Frankenstein product – picture 1988’s Willow – lives in fear of the big bad wolf. The werewolf has been haunting their village for nearly twenty years. The village has made a pact with the beast, by offering animal sacrifices every full moon. However, every few years when the moon is blood red, the wolf snacks on human life.

And that’s where this story picks up, the wolf has struck again, killing a villager. Which usually means it will go away. Except the creature is not satisfied this time and seems to have an agenda. Knowing this, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) is summoned, at the behest of a young local priest (Luke Haas), and brings along a medieval posse . While Father Solomon begins to institute a Marshall law approach in the snow-covered town, Valerie encounters the wolf and begins to form a connection of sorts. A connection that has her grandmother (Julie Christie) very intrigued.

Without giving anything away, the story tries to shake things up at the end, as foreshadowed by the mysterious plot revolving around who is the big bad werewolf. Staying with this, the script and the performances never really sold any mystery angle. It’s not that one can guess who the wolf is, but after a certain point (halfway through) the audience will not be into the guessing game anymore. The ending drags and provides seldom emotion for any viewer to latch on to. It appears – and is executed – as if the studio ran out of money to finish the film.

This flick plays it straight and every angle is taken seriously. Which is nice to see, but the characters are drastically uneven and ruins the intended mood far too often. Perhaps having some fun with the material could have enhanced the tedious pace of this story. And then there’s continuity annoyances.

First off, this is a period piece, depicted during the time of knights, and when society and/or the church still persecuted witches. So how Shiloh and Max Irons manage to have boy-band styled hair is beyond ridiculous. Secondly, the dialogue written is delivered as if the only audiences that will see this sucker are grade-schoolers. Which then begs the question, why is this rated PG-13? Reason being, the CGI’d wolf shows up and sinks its teeth into a few people. And the occasional limb may fall off. Other than that, the script provides a balance of childish moments found in animations with faint dark images, which are then delivered in beautiful vibrant colors. Am I watching a horror flick or Saturday morning cartoons?

Is there anything to enjoy in Red Riding Hood? Yeah, Gary Oldman tries to inject some much needed life as his character portrays the anti-hero (more like hero-anti). Too bad the accent he enacts is tough to understand though. Amanda Seyfried (who I believe is a solid talent), is given nothing substantial to do here. It’s fine to keep the characters light, but the musical score – which played so often you may think you’re at Cirque show – tried to convince the audience that monumental moments were always happening. I’m afraid not folks.

Still, the way the cinematography was handled and the exploration of every nook and cranny of the well-designed village provided a bit of entertainment. The story can keep it together every now and then, but it definitely wears out its welcome. Especially when it turns into an “eye-examination.”

Overall, Red Riding Hood is its own worst enemy. The more it tried to add layers to an already simplistic tale, the faster it begins to lose its luster as movie. It went for the Sleepy Hollow approach. Ironically though, that said title is all Little Red amounted to. Sleepy and hollow.

RATING: 1.5 out of 5

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Warner Bros. has released a second trailer for their update on Red Riding Hood which stars Amanda Seyfried as the title character. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) is directing, and the new trailer shows off a bunch of new footage including a lot more of Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight). The actor, who just seems to blend into each role, plays a werewolf hunter who is called upon after the beast takes a human life.

Watch the trailer below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWV85rwy-3M

Here’s the official synopsis:

In “Red Riding Hood,” Seyfried plays Valerie, a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

Red Riding Hood will be released March 2011 and also stars Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, and Julie Christie.

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Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for their update on Red Riding Hood, which stars Amanda Seyfried as the title character. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) is directing, and from the trailer you can tell (there are lots of wood shots and a forbidden love storyline).

Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight) is also in the film, and plays a werewolf hunter who is called upon after the beast takes a human life.

Watch the trailer below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

In “Red Riding Hood,” Seyfried plays Valerie, a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

Red Riding Hood will be released March 2011 and also stars Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, and Julie Christie.

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Despite being 3 years younger than Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde will be playing his mother in a sci-fi drama directed by Andrew Niccol (previously titled I’m.mortal). The news comes from The Wrap, who points out that this will reunite Wilde with her Alpha Dog co-stars Timerlake and Amanda Seyfried.

In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying, ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as ‘time keepers’.

It looks like Wilde’s role will be a small yet important one. Justin Timberlake will play Will, the poor man, with Amanda Seyfried playing an heiress who he kidnaps while on the run. Cillian Murphy will be the villain who is an officer from the Timekeepers organization who is described as “precise as the time he keeps.”

Most people know Olivia Wilde from her role in House, but she will become a lot more popular after Tron Legacy in December and Cowboys and Aliens next July with Daniel Craig.

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According to THR Inception and Sunshine actor Cillian Murphy is in final negotiations to join Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake in I’m.mortal, a sci-fi drama directed by Andrew Niccol (Lord of War).

In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying, ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as ‘time keepers’.

Justin Timberlake will play Will, the poor man, with Amanda Seyfried playing an heiress who he kidnaps while on the run. Cillian Murphy will play an officer from the Timekeepers organization who is described as “precise as the time he keeps.” Murphy is great at playing the villain, as seen in Batman Begins.

I’m.mortal will begin filming in late September and will be released by 20th Century Fox sometime next year.

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