Need for Speed Movie 2014

Synopsis

Need for Speed is an upcoming 2014 action film directed by Scott Waugh and written by John Gatins and George Nolfi. It is an adaption of the popular series of video games by Electronic Arts. It stars Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul in the lead role and is scheduled for release on March 14, 2014.

EA had decided to work with DreamWorks Studios to create a film version of Need for Speed with a release date originally set for February 7, 2014 but has been switched to March 14, 2014.Brothers George (Real Steel) and John Gatins (Coach Carter) have written an original story for the film not based on any individual game. Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) is attached to direct the movie, with a target production start date of early 2013.Several other independent film studios were also after the rights. The movie is described as "a fast-paced, high-octane film rooted in the tradition of the awesome car culture films released in the 1970's while being extremely faithful to the spirit of the best selling video game franchise it's being based on".DreamWorks will release the film via Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand in North America, Latin America, Russia, Australia and Asia, while Mister Smith Entertainment will handle sales in the remaining territories.

Originally, reports mentioned that actor Taylor Kitsch was in the running to be cast in the film.The studio has declared that Aaron Paul is the chosen one to portray the main protagonist.Imogen Poots is cast as a savvy exotic car dealer who connects the wealthy with high-end supercars.Dominic Cooper is in talks to play Dino, an entrepreneur in the world of car upgrades. Kid Cudi, Ramón Rodríguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson are cast in the film.Michael Keaton is cast as the reclusive and eccentric host of an underground supercar race where he invites the best drivers from around the world.Dakota Johnson has also joined the cast. Filming began in Macon, Georgia in mid-April.Other filming locations include Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia on May 12, 2013,the 13th Street Bridge in Columbus, Georgia and Campus Martius in Detroit, Michigan beginning on June 1, 2013

Paul will portray Toby Marshall who is an extremely conceited, corrupt, arrogant, violent, anti-heroic driver who enjoys revenge fantasies. Marshall owns a garage which upgrades racecars. Framed for a federal crime he never committed, he escapes from prison exacting retaliation.

Cast & Production

Need for Speed

Directed            = Scott Waugh

Produced           = John Gatins

                             Patrick O'Brien

                            Mark Sourian

                             Shane Black

Written             = John Gatins

                             George Nolfi

Starring            = Aaron Paul

                             Imogen Poots

                             Dominic Cooper

                             Kid Cudi

                             Rami Malek

                             Michael Keaton

Music                 =  Nathan Furst

Cinematography = Shane Hurlbut

Studio                = Touchstone Pictures

                              DreamWorks Studios

                              Electronic Arts

Distributed        = Walt Disney Studios

                             Motion Pictures

Release date(s) = March 14, 2014

Country             = United States

Language           = English

Budget              = $75 million

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Despicable me 2 Review

Despicable Me 2 

Story :

Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film and the sequel to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me. Produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, both films are directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, and Miranda Cosgrove reprise their roles. Kristen Wiig, who played Miss Hattie in the first film, voices agent Lucy Wilde. Ken Jeong, who played Talk Show Host, voices Floyd Eagle-san. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo and Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, head of the Anti-Villain League. The film is scheduled to be released on July 3, 2013.

A spin-off film Minions, focusing mainly on Gru's yellow henchmen before they have met, is set to be released on December 19, 2014.

Plot :

Gru, formerly a super-villain, is having a birthday party for Agnes, in which he impersonates a Fairy Princess when the performer cannot attend. Much to Gru's chagrin, his annoying, overly-happy neighbor, Jillian, begins pushing Gru to take some of her single acquaintances on a date. While he is outside, he and two of his minions are approached and kidnapped by Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent, and taken to the agency's underwater headquarters, where they ask Gru to become a "spy" in order to track down a new super-villain who has stolen a research laboratory and a chemical compound that can transform lifeforms into invincible mutant killing machines. Gru refuses, saying that he has other responsibilities now. Before he leaves, Lucy admits she was impressed by his work as a villain, stating that stealing the Moon was "amazing", before giving him her phone number and urging him to contact her if his mind changes.

Upon his return, Dr. Nefario confesses to Gru that he misses being "evil" and has been offered employment elsewhere. He leaves Gru and his minions. This prompts Gru to contact Lucy and take the job. He works undercover in a mall as a runner of a cupcake shop. Lucy has been assigned as Gru's partner. He suspects one of the owners of a restaurant, named Eduardo, in the mall to be an old super-villain called El Macho, who supposedly died after an accident involving an active volcano. Lucy and Gru then decide to break into his restaurant and narrowly escape being caught, but find nothing to attach Eduardo to the crime. Meanwhile, Margo begins to develop a crush on Eduardo's son, Antonio, to Gru's frustration. The whole family is invited to Eduardo's Cinco de Mayo party at his mansion.

Later that day, Jillian sets a reluctant Gru up on a date with her rude and superficial friend Shannon. During the date, Shannon discovers Gru's wig and threatens to humiliate him, but Lucy saves him by shooting her with a tranquilizing dart. They take Shannon home, and Gru tells Agnes that he thinks he is in love with Lucy. When he arrives at the mall the next day, he sees the Anti-Villain League arrest the owner of a different store and tell Gru that the case is now closed and that Lucy will be getting posted in Australia for different work. Gru is not able to muster the courage to ask Lucy out and incinerates his telephone out of frustration.

The family then goes to Eduardo's party. Gru follows Eduardo and discovers that he was correct about Eduardo. Gru also discovers that Dr. Nefario has been working for Eduardo and that the duo has been capturing and mutating some of Gru's minions into the same purple-furred monsters as the serum creates. Eduardo offers Gru a chance to work together and rule the world, but Gru makes his excuses and hastily leaves with the girls. Margo has also broken up with Antonio as he became interested in another girl. Lucy, having realized that she wants to be with Gru, jumps out of the plane to Australia and arrives at the party on a hang-glider, but Eduardo discovers who she is and captures her. Dr. Nefario calls Gru to tell him what has happened, and Gru takes two of his minions to get Lucy back. Gru manages to restore the minions who were under El Macho's control using an antidote-containing jam which Dr. Nefario made and defeat El Macho. Lucy is seen tied to a rocket that is about to fly into the volcano where El Macho faked his death. Gru arrives on time to rescue her. One hundred and forty-seven dates later, the two are married and the girls finally have a mother.

Author :

Directed by Pierre Coffin

Chris Renaud

Produced by Chris Meledandri

Janet Healy

Screenplay by Cinco Paul

Ken Daurio

Music by Pharrell Williams

Heitor Pereira

Editing by Gregory Perler

Studio illumination Entertainment

Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release date(s)

June 5, 2013 (Australian Premiere)

July 3, 2013 (United States)

Cast :

Steve Carell as Gru, former villain turned father.

Kristen Wiig as Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent and Gru's love interest

Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo Perez/El Macho, owner of a Mexican restaurant.Al Pacino was originally cast in the role, but left the film due to creative differences.

Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, the oldest of the three girls and the overprotective of the trio.

Dana Gaier as Edith, the middle and tomboy of the three girls.

Elsie Fisher as Agnes, the youngest child of the three girls, who is obsessed with unicorns.

Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, Gru's elderly, hearing impaired gadget man.

Ken Jeong as Floyd Eagle-san, an owner of a wig store.

Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, the head of the Anti-Villain League

Moisés Arias as Antonio Perez, Margo's love interest and Eduardo's son.

Nasim Pedrad as Jillian.

Kristen Schaal as Shannon.

Pierre Coffin as Kevin the Minion, Bob the Minion, Stuart the Minion, Additional Minions, and Evil Minions.

Chris Renaud as Additional Minions, Evil Minions, and Italian waiter

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WHITE HOUSE DOWN MOVIE

                WHITE HOUSE DOWN

OVERVIEW :

White House Down is a 2013 American action-thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich about an assault on the White House by a paramilitary group. The film's screenplay is by James Vanderbilt and stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx. The film was released on June 28, 2013. White House Down was released on June 28, 2013. It was originally scheduled for November 2, 2013

VIEW LITTLE SYNOPSIS :

Roland Emmerich may never win an Oscar (I'm going out on a limb here), but he gets my vote as the greatest practitioner of good bad movies working in Hollywood today.

I don't mean that as a backhanded compliment. Seriously. It takes a certain kind of genius to crank out blockbusters as spectacularly silly as "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012." And the main difference between Emmerich and fellow maestros of mayhem like Michael Bay is that he actually seems to be in on the joke. He knows his movies are preposterous nonsense, and he embraces it.I’m glad, though, that the NSA hasn’t yet spirited Emmerich off to a remote location, because I rather enjoy his movies (the more self-serious Anonymous being a rare exception). Emmerich’s vision of civilization’s collapse is so loony, the scale of the damage he imagines so vast, that his best movies (that is to say his worst) achieve a strange tone of devil-may-care merriment. In White House Down, the spectacularly disturbing image of the Capitol rotunda exploding into flame—which dominates the film’s marketing campaign—isn’t some sort of action-climax dessert; it’s an amuse-bouche of excitement that occurs about 15 minutes in. Things only escalate from there, as the battleground quickly moves from Capitol Hill to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (as impressively replicated in the production design of Kirk M. Petruccelli).

Channing Tatum plays John Cale, who (having presumably time-traveled from his days as a founding member of the Velvet Underground) is an Iraq vet serving on the security detail of the speaker of the House, Congressman Eli Raphelson (Richard Jenkins). Cale’s dream is to move up to the Secret Service—in part because his 11-year-old daughter Emily (Joey King) is a politics nerd with a crush on the sitting president. You can see why given that, as played by Jamie Foxx, President James Sawyer is basically Barack Obama (complete with a secret addiction to cigarettes and a not-so-secret obsession with Abraham Lincoln) after an extra spin through the sexifying machine. In addition to being handsome and charmingly self-effacing, Sawyer is honest, idealistic, and righteous. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” he announces in a speech on the eve of a major Middle East peace accord. It’s an adage that will come in handy later, when weapons around the Oval Office are in short supply.Cale’s interview for the Secret Service job doesn’t go so well. His interviewer, Special Agent Carol Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal) turns out to be an old college flame, which is not only socially awkward but professionally disadvantageous—she remembers her ex’s bad study habits and poor impulse control, and suggests he content himself with a less prestigious post. But as Cale and his daughter are about to leave the White House (in an attempt to win her reluctant tween affection, he’s wangled a day pass for them both), some heavy shit starts to go down. First there’s the aforementioned explosion at the Capitol, then a full-scale armed invasion of the White House by domestic terrorists. Cale and his little girl—not to mention the president, his staff, and a roomful of nervous tourists—become the hostages of a nasty crew of heavily armed malcontents, including a resentful war vet (Jason Clarke), a sadistic white supremacist (Kevin Rankin), and a traitorous presidential staffer whose identity I won’t disclose, but whose treachery is revealed early on.

Just what this ruthless bunch is after—and why it’s so important to them, in all the surrounding mayhem, to capture the president alive—won’t make sense until the last few minutes (and, unless you’re on mescaline, probably not even then). All Cale knows is that he must find and protect his daughter, who’s gotten separated from him in the chaos. But in his search for Emily, Cale happens upon President Sawyer being held at gunpoint—and suddenly, that Secret Service position he wanted is all his, along with the unenviable responsibility of saving the world from all-out war. You see, the bad guys have also brought along a computer hacker (Jimmi Simpson)—one of the evil kind who, in an apparent nod to Die Hard, enjoys blasting Beethoven symphonies as he cracks the NORAD missile launch codes, one by one.

Even as the story accrues preposterousness, the action moves along crisply, and Tatum and Foxx hit a nice buddy-movie vibe, especially in the scenes where the bookish, retiring president (again, shades of Obama) learns to enjoy the pleasures of putting on a pair of Jordans and firing a rocket launcher out the window of a limousine. In this season of solemnly manly blockbusters, I appreciated the boyish energy of White House Down, a movie that, for all its flamboyant destructiveness, has a playful innocence at its core. In essence, it’s 137 minutes of action figures being bashed together, and even if that’s about 20 minutes too long, there are plenty of laughs and thrills all through—many of them at the expense of plausibility, which, as the film’s last act makes clear, might be the one thing Emmerich enjoys destroying more than Air Force One.

Cast:

Channing Tatum as John Cale, a U.S. Capitol Police officer

Jamie Foxx as James Sawyer, the President of United States

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Carol Finnerty, a Secret Service agent

Jason Clarke as Emil Stenz, the leader of the mercenaries that invade the White House

Richard Jenkins as Eli Raphelson, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Joey King as Emily Cale, the daughter of John Cale

James Woods as Martin Walker, the Head of the Presidential Detail

Nicolas Wright as Donnie, the White House Tour Guide

Jimmi Simpson as Skip Tyler, a computer hacker

Michael Murphy as Alvin Hammond, the Vice President of the United States

Rachelle Lefevre as Melanie, the ex-wife of John Cale

Lance Reddick as General Caulfield

Matt Craven as Kellerman, a Secret Service agent

Jake Weber as Ted Hope, a Secret Service agent

Peter Jacobs on as Wallace

Barbara Williams as Muriel Walker, Martin Walker's wife who, with him, is still grieving over the loss of their son

Kevin Rankin as Killick

Anthony Lemke as Hutton

Vincent Leclerc as Todd

Garcelle Beauvais as Alison Sawyer, the First Lady of the United States

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