X-Files Essentials: It’s time to believe…

Sci-fi phenomenon the X-Files is back to captivate and enthrall fans old and new, with the release of X-Files Essentials on DVD on the 14th July 2008. Released by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the DVD offers an exclusive insider’s pass to the multi-award-winning show just in time for its second trip to the big screen. Hand-picked by X-Files creator Chris Carter, the eight episodes on the DVD include special introductions by Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz, revealing why they were chosen and how they relate to the eagerly-anticipated feature film.

Offering a thrilling insight into the paranormal exploits of FBI agents Mulder and Scully the DVD provides a brilliant introduction for those new to the cult series, as well as a nostalgic reminder for dedicated fans. Covering a variety of unexplained cases that centre on alien abductions, psychic phenomenon and inhuman life forms, the episodes set the stage for the forthcoming sequel.

Billed as the greatest cult television show of all time, the X-Files dominated the small screen throughout the 1990’s quickly becoming a worldwide hit. The show focused on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigated the existence of alien races, uncovering government conspiracies and unexplained phenomena along the way. With Mulder in the role of ‘believer’ and Scully as ‘skeptic’ the duo developed an ambiguous friendship and an onscreen chemistry that kept viewers guessing throughout the nine series.

With a new X-Files movie due for release this summer this DVD is the perfect opportunity for fans to get reacquainted with the show before the film hits the silver screen.

Episodes

Disc 1: Pilot, Beyond the Sea, The Host, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

Disc 2: Memento Mori, Post-Modern Prometheus, Bad Blood, Milagro

Bonus features: 2008 theatrical trailer; Wondercon talent panel session

Forbidden Kingdom

A 21st Century American teenager takes a spellbinding, dangerous journey into martial arts legend in the new action/adventure epic FORBIDDEN KINGDOM. Shot on location in China, THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM marks the historic first-ever onscreen pairing of martial arts superstars Jackie Chan (RUSH HOUR, DRUNKEN MASTER) and Jet Li (FEARLESS, ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA), and features the awe-inspiring action choreography of Wo Ping (THE MATRIX, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON). While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason (played by Michael Angarano - “24”, “Will and Grace,” LORDS OF DOGTOWN, SEABISCUIT) makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, Jason is charged with a monumental task: he must free the fabled warrior the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the evil Jade Warlord. Jason is joined in his quest by wise kung fu master Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and a band of misfit warriors including Silent Monk (Jet Li). But only by learning the true precepts of kung fu can Jason hope to succeed - and find a way to get back home.

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Think you can Kung Fu better than the greats? Fancy creating some of your own monkey magic? We want to see it - the funnier or more spectacular the better.

Remember, we want funny and silly videos - no hurting anyone. Do your best Jackie Chan inspired poses, or your loudest Jet Li style sound effects.

The video with the most views wins!

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Simply upload your video onto Youtube (title it FORBIDDEN KINGDOM KUNG FU COMP) and send us a message with your video attached.

We will then place the video on the channel - then get all your mates to look at it and you could win!

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Forbidden Kingdom is released in Cinemas 9th July 2008

The Cottage On DVD 14 July

Jennifer Ellison, Andy Serkis and Reece Shearsmith serve up the grossest of gore in the hell-for-leather, spectacularly gruesome, British horror-comedy The Cottage. A bloody blend of Shaun of the Dead and Severance, The Cottage is released to buy and rent on DVD on 14 July 2008 from Pathé Distribution Ltd.
Written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton), The Cottage tells the story of a bungled kidnapping turned backwoods massacre. In the dead of night, a car arrives at a secluded country cottage. Bickering brothers David (Serkis; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; King Kong) and Peter (Shearsmith; The League of Gentlemen) kidnap Tracey (Jennifer Ellison) in a desperate moneymaking scheme with the help of her black sheep step-brother Andrew (Steven O’Donnell), while hiding out in a remote cottage from her ganglord father.
However, all does not go to plan as Tracey turns the tables on her captors and escapes with Peter as a hostage. David and Andrew follow them into the woods but they soon discover something far more terrifying is lurking in the darkness. All hell breaks loose in a grotesquely comic battle for survival when all four stumble across a psychopathic farmer who is hell-bent on reaping a harvest of human heads. As maximum carnage ensues who will survive and what will be left of them?

Painful, gory and very, very funny, The Cottage on DVD is packed with blood-thirsty special features including an audio commentary, deleted scenes, outtakes and a ‘making of’ featurette. Guaranteed to leave you in stitches and its cast chopped into tiny pieces, don’t miss The Cottage on DVD, a fabulously deranged and relentlessly hilarious treat for horror fans everywhere this summer!

The X-Files: I Want To Believe - In Cinemas 1st August

In grand X-Files manner, the as yet untitled film's storyline is being kept under wraps. This much can be revealed: It is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits.

The title for the new X-Files movie is out there and has been officially announced as The X-Files: I Want To Believe.

The film sees David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles of Mulder and Scully and they are joined on screen by Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet along with hip hop artist Xzibit.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe is directed by the series creator Chris Carter from a script written by him and long term collaborator Frank Spotnitz.

Whilst details of the story are being kept under wraps in order to prevent plot spoilers, Chris Carter has said that he wanted to make a film that would appeal to everyone "There's a whole new audience I want to introduce to THE X-FILES, this is a stand-alone movie and it is not a mythology, conspiracy movie."

The film will be released in the UK on 1st August 2008.

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Hancock - NEW CLIPS!!!

There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock. With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock’s (Will Smith) well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet – and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), insists that he’s a lost cause.

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Chrysalis

A lieutenant returns to the line of duty to hunt down a dangerous smuggler behind a series of murders, including his wife’s own. The investigation leads him to a state-of-the-art clinic where memories are a precious and highly coveted commodity.

One of the most stylish and accomplished debut sci-fi movies in recent years, Chrysalis is a slick, neo-noir, sci-fi action thriller in the tradition of Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall and A Clockwork Orange.

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Paris Lockdown

Set in the criminal Parisian underworld, PARIS LOCKDOWN centres on the unsavoury activities of gangland leader Claude Corti. Although a ruthless tyrant, Corti rewards his most loyal followers with fast cars, high-class drugs, and expensive women. But those who cross him will live to regret it in the most painful ways imaginable. When Conti is arrested for possession of counterfeit documents, his goons are left to their own devices and end up waging a brutal crime-spree upon the city. Stylish and gritty, PARIS LOCKDOWN is about as far away from the gangster movie cliche as you can get, though it does bear a passing resemblance to American classics SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS in its terrifying realism.

Get ready to be blown away by this intensely powerful thriller! From the driller-killer torture sequences to the scenes of eardrum bursting gunplay that make the shootout from Heat look tame in comparison, Paris Lockdown is a truly visceral cinematic experience guaranteed to leave viewers gaping in shocked awe.

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Meet Dave: Trailer And Poster

20th Century Fox is proud to announce the theatrical release of MEET DAVE, in cinemas from July 11th 2008.

Starring Eddie Murphy (Trading Places, Coming To America, Beverley Hills Cop) and Elizabeth Banks (Definitely Maybe, Fred Claus) MEET DAVE is a hilarious comedy in the vain of Inner Space meets Crocodile Dundee.

Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy), newly arrived in New York City, may be the ultimate fish out of water. There's something about him that's not quite right ˆ for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: "Dave" is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain. It's Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in "Meet Dave" and while his crew of miniature aliens are trying to save their planet, they encounter a new problem, as their ship (Eddie Murphy) becomes smitten with an Earth woman (Elizabeth Banks).

www.meetdavemovie.com

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The Happening: Trailer And Poster

From director M. Night Shyamalan comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind . . . but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by water . . . how?

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (MARK WAHLBERG) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Though he and his wife Alma (ZOOEY DESCHANEL) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot’s math teacher friend Julian (JOHN LEGUIZAMO) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess (ASHLYN SANCHEZ), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they’ll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one – and nowhere – is safe. This terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there – and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity -- that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.

www.thehappeningmovie.co.uk

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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - Trailer And Poster Art

With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world‚s toughest, kitten-loving hero from Hell continues to unfold in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - released in cinemas on August 22nd.

Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Oscar-nominated director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy).

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures.

Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy (Ron Perlman).

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development - pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann - the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal.

And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.

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Franks Look At 2008's Movies!!!

Now we are firmly into 2008, we decided to put together a list of some of the movies we can all expect to be appearing in cinemas nationwide this coming year, take a look and see if anything whets your appetite! CLICK HERE to read the full feature!!!

The Martian Family Project
To celebrate the forthcoming release of Martian Child (featuring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Joan Cusack) , New Line Cinema launch The Martian Family Project:

www.martianchildproject.com

Here you can launch your very own Time Pod into space (well, cyberspace!).

It’s basically a time capsule and family tree combined – you can upload photos and images, add videos and link to other members of your family.

In Martian Child, a recently widowed science fiction writer (John Cusack) forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young adopted boy that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true.

www.martianchild.com