A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

The makers have changed the name for some markets, preferring MS One: Maximum Security. Whatever it’s called, it’ looks a lot like Escape From New York but in space. They’ve got Guy Pearce space-base-jumping into a massive robot goatse while Mr. Deep Voice Guy rumbles out Clichés. It’s going to be great!

Genre: Action

Directors: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger

Stars: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace and Peter Stormare

Writers: Luc Besson, James Mather

A pair of lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.

As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents.

The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.

Genre: Drama

Director: Wes Anderson

Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward and Bruce Willis

Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola

In the heart of Jakarta lies a rundown apartment infested with druggies and drifters. It’s ruled by a ruthless drug lord who uses the tenement to shelter his junkie customers, pushers, enforcers and brutal killers.

The apartment block is considered untouchable by even the bravest of police—until one early morning when, cloaked under dawn’s darkness, an elite SWAT team, led by officer Rama (Uwais), raids the peril-filled structure.

As Rama’s squad races between the maze of rooms and floors, encountering a barrage of gunfire, machetes, and ruthless hand-to-hand combat around every corner, the stakes get higher and higher building to an explosive crescendo and an ultimate battle.

Genre: Action

Director: Gareth Evans

Cast: Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Ananda George, Pierre Gruno, Yayan Ruhian, Ray Sahetapy, Tegar Satrya, Verdi Solaiman, Joe Taslim

Writer: Gareth Evans

If you have not already seen this, you have to check it out for yourself. “Apple of My Eye” is a movie short shot and edited entirely on an iPhone 4.

That’s right, full production on the iPhone. Watching the behind the scenes clips that follow the short, you will see that the folks over at Majek Pictures do have skills.

They did have some sophisticated rigging that was used to maneuver and hold the iPhone steady, but still. In an exhausted testimonial, the editor Anna Elizabeth James admitted that it only took her fourteen hours of tedious pinching and tapping to get the whole thing done.

The video was captured with iPhone high-definition 1280×720 video and edited with iMovie app.

The film was made by Michael Koerbel and Anna Elizabeth James, USC students at the School of Cinematic Arts, all in less than 48 hours.

Directed by Michael Koerbel
Written by Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel
Executive Produced by Anna Elizabeth James
Produced by Eric Edmonds and Rebekah Koerbel
Photographed by Michael Koerbel
Edited by Anna Elizabeth James
Production Design by Leigh Koerbel
Original Score Composed and Conducted by Corey Wallace

Starring Greta Charness and Timothy Guest

Special thanks to
Allied Model Trains, Culver City, CA
Birns & Sawyer, Burbank, CA
Michael Rogers
Greta’s Parents

Click here for more information on iPhone. – www.o2.co.uk/iphone

Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he’ll do anything to protect.

Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling–full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs–where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.

Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best– running contraband–to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), for one final run to Panama and back, hoping to return with millions in counterfeit bills.

Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

Genre: Thriller

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Caleb Landry Jones, Diego Luna, J.K. Simmons

Writers: Aaron Guzikowski

Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense.

What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it’s the real reason we’ve never gone back to the moon.

The real Apollo 18 space mission was never flown by the United States. It was cancelled because of budget concerns and there was no Apollo 18.

However, the Weinstein Company is reportedly shooting a film for March release about a covert Apollo 18 space mission.

The screenplay, which was written by Brian Miller, has the covert mission finding and filming proof of alien life on the moon. The movie is supposedly being shot in a documentary style, similar to that of The Blair Witch Project.

Apart from the interesting premise of the film, it is also interesting to note that Warner Brothers is allegedly producing a similar film project called Dark Moon.

It happens with fair frequency that two movies are made around the same time with comparable subject matter, but rarely is the premise identical, as it was with Deep Impact and Armageddon.

It should be noted that those two films worked by pulling off very different approaches to an identical topic.

For space enthusiasts there is an even deeper challenge between these two films than how they will simultaneously address the same topic. That is how they will each portray a clandestine Apollo launch.

As any good NASA buff knows, it took a Saturn 5 rocket to launch an Apollo spacecraft. Those rockets cannot be launched without the entire world noticing, as they trigger seismic sensors all around the globe.

So, the really interesting question becomes, “How will they depict a covert Apollo launch to the satisfaction of space buffs everywhere?”

Some people spend their adulthood living out their childhood dream. Only what happens when the dream ends?

After 20 years as a roadie for Blue Öyster Cult, Jimmy Testagross (Ron Eldard) has nowhere to go but home. Reluctantly he returns to his mother’s (Lois Smith) home in Queens, New York, where he pretends he’s only there for a quick visit, and soon realizes that his mother is teetering toward dementia.

At the local bar, he runs into his high school crush (Jill Hennessy), now married to his old nemesis (Bobby Cannavale). Building a future for himself means confronting these relationships from the past.

Using a minimalist approach, director Michael Cuesta and co-writer Gerald Cuesta set Roadie over the course of one day and night with three main characters, taking the time to fully explore the dynamics between them. Eldard easily evokes Jimmy’s inner frustrations while Hennessy and Cannavale give realistic performances as a pair who never left town but moved on in life.

Roadie is about a generation coming to a crossroads in life where you can’t escape the past but you can’t relive it either.

Genre: Drama

Official Site: http://www.roadiemovie.com

Director: Michael Cuesta

Cast: Ron Eldard, Jill Hennessy, Bobby Cannavale, Lois Smith, David Marguiles, Catherine Wolf, Suzette Gunn

Run Time: 96 minutes

“Underworld Awakening” brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D.

Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all out war to eradicate both immortal species.

Selene leads the battle against humankind.

Genre: Action and Adventure, Fantasy

Official Site: www.entertheunderworld.com

Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James , India Eisley , Charles Dance

This is a story of a youth culture that changed a generation and influenced songwriters, producers, DJs and designers for decades to come.

This is the story of Northern Soul.

Award-winning director Elaine Constantine will begin shooting her first feature-length film Northern Soul in January 2012 under Stubborn Heart Productions and in association with Baby Cow Films.

The film will tell the tale of two Northern boys whose worlds are changed forever when they discover black American soul music.

Northern Soul was phenomenally popular with British youths in the 1970s, taking the North of the country by storm. Northern Soul the film intends to appeal to those generations of fans while attracting a modern audience who can relate to youth culture from another era.

If you were there, you’ll know. If you weren’t there, you’ll wish you had been.

Genre: Drama

Official Site: www.northernsoulthefilm.com

Director: Elaine Constantine

Richard (Thomas Jane), Ron (Jeremy Piven), Jonathan (Rob Lowe) and Tim (Christian McKay) are old college friends that gather annually for a week in Big Sur to celebrate their friendship and catch-up on each other’s lives.

They seem like typical men in their forties – all with careers, families, and enormous responsibilities – but like most people there is a lot more beneath the surface.

As the week progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess as mountains of drugs are consumed to a blaring rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack.

Parties with much younger women spin out of control. Exhausted and run ragged, they bare their souls to one another revealing the disillusionment with their lives. As the truth emerges, the reunion takes a much darker turn when a promise from their past is brought to light.

From director Mark Pellington, I MELT WITH YOU is a visually dazzling, wild and wooly trip deep into the male psyche, driven by four amazingly committed and profound performances.

Genre: Drama

Official Site: http://imeltwithyoumovie.com

Director: Mark Pellington
Cast: Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino, Sasha Grey