The Vow got a red carpet premiere last night in LA at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. On hand were stars Channing Tatum (who brought along the missus, Jenna Dewan) and Rachel Adams (who was, sadly, without beau Michael Sheen-at least on the red carpet) as well as the film’s director Michael Sucsy.

The Vow, rolls into theaters this Friday February 10 just in time for your Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure. As far as romance goes, it may be the only cinematic game in town. Despite the noise they made about moving the film TO Valentine’s Day, Fox has now punked out and pushed This Means War BACK to Friday February 17.  Apparently Fox is nervous because the film isn’t “tracking” as well as it they think it should.  There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the decision but it signals a lack of faith in their product, in my opinion.  Tom Hardy, Chris Pine and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon can’t stand up to Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum??This  means This Means War must really be bad.  Regardless, they’d already spent the money and marketed the film for February 14 what difference will three days make?  (I’m in the event planning business. I tell clients all the time, the more changes you make, the greater the probability that something will get screwed up. I believe this applies here as well.)

Oh well, last night was about The Vow.  We have some pretty pics of McAdams and Tatum for your viewing pleasure. (And I didn’t even call him Tatum-tot.)

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We have the first image from Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch starring James McAvoy and Mark Strong. The story follows an ex-criminal (Strong) who is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives a dogged detective (McAvoy) one last chance to catch the man he’s always been after. It opens in September in the UK. No US date yet. You'd better believe I'll be keeping an eye on this one! (Thanks to ScreenDaily for the pic.)

We’ve got two new images from The Hunger Games! One of them shows Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman  with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and if I didn’t know that was Stanley Tucci, I would never guess. That is some wig.  The ‘interviewer’ or emcee of The Games, apparently Caesar is famous for changing the color of his lips, hair, and eyelids for each of the Hunger Games.  The other images shows Katniss in the crowd in District 12 at “the reaping” which is when participants in The Games are chosen.

Here’s a new look at Channing Tatum-tot and Academy*cough*Award*choke*nominee*pounds head on keyboard* Jonah Hill from 21 Jump Street. Dressed in their prom tuxes amid debris and hiding behind bullet-riddled furniture, I’m guessing they won’t be getting the deposit on the hotel room back.

Still not sure how I feel about The Five Year Engagement but the leads are pretty damn likeable. Emily Blunt and Jason Segel might be nearly as charming as Jason Segel and Amy Adams were in The Muppets. Hmm…I’m sensing a pattern here.

…But then again, Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor were charming together in the trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Here’s a new look at the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) from The Pirates! Band of Misfits coming in March. The trailers for this are hilarious. Hopefully it will be available in 2D as well as the dreaded 3.

And finally, last (and certainly least) here’s another look at the master thespians of The Three Stooges, Will Sasso as Curley, Chris Diamantopolous as Moe and Sean Hayes as Larry. The movie’s out in April, though inexplicably not on the 1^st.

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Here’s a new clip of two of the most impossibly cute people on the planet having an impossibly cute date in Michael Sucsy’s (HBO’s “Grey Gardens”) The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.

The synopsis: A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again.

As I've said before, the trailers for this one give a lot away, but if you’re going to see this movie you know what the outcome will be, just like you know the ending of any romance novel you might pick up. In fact, that’s what producers are counting on, that the audience for this movie not only reads romance novels and sees “chick-flicks”, but those of Nicholas Sparks in particular. (They certainly want you to connect McAdams to The Notebook and Tatum to Dear John.) So familiar as the territory may be, it’s the getting there that counts.

The supporting cast is good, including Scott Speedman, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange (where's she been and why is she suddenly everywhere?) and Wendy Crewson. Hoping to be your date for Valentine’s Day, The Vow pledges its undying affection starting on February 10.

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Your daily Fassbender, doesn’t unfortunately include and ‘golf’ *cough* shots, but it does include a new image from Haywire plus  footage of that fight that we’ve been seeing in all of the clips and trailers for the film. You know the one, where former MMA fighter Gina Carano, who plays Mallory Kane, beats the living crap out of Michael Fassbender’s Paul. At least we can see how it was done so we know no Fassys were hurt in the process.

Haywire, an action thriller about a black ops soldier seeking revenge after being compromised during a mission, stars Carano, Fassbender, Ewan “My Heart is in the Highlands” McGregor *, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Bill Paxton. Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") directed. It finally opens for all the world to see this Friday January 20. See it or Gina Carano will find you and kick your ass.

*another Golden Globes reference. I’ll forever hear McGregor’s name that way after hearing Christopher Plummer say it.

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Didn’t I just say that there has been so much material released for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire that if you strung it all together, you’d have the whole thing? Well, apparently this is the goal since Relativity has just released (via Hulu) the first five minutes of the movie. Take a look, then we’ll discuss.

Somehow I'm less broken up about the idea of Gina Carano (or any women) beating the stuffins out of Channing Tatum-tot than I was about her doing damage to Michael Fassbender. (In fact I suspect that Tatum's wife, Jenna Dewan, could take him in a fight.) While I think the first part of the fight shown in this clip, coming as it does in the first few minutes of the movie, is designed specifically to elicit gasps and shock viewers at the sight of Tatum tossing Carano around the diner like a rag-doll, it's important that she turn the tables on him pretty quickly to get the audience back on track and not focused on the apparent abuse of a woman.

The other thing that struck me as I watched that clip: the section with the dialogue was like watching a high school play starring Bad and Worse. I had heard that Carano, for all of her impressive physicality, was the weak link in terms of dramatics. This leads me to believe there is truth to that. I'll save my final verdict until I've seen the whole thing, but it looks to me like her timing stinks and her line readings are amateurish.

Oh well, I still want to see the movie. I have to give props Mssrs Tatum and Fassbender for signing on for a film in which they are both beaten to a pulp (and worse) by a girl. Apparently a lot of other actors said no. 

Haywire, starring Carano, Tatum, Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and Michael Angarano, opens January 20th everywhere. That’s still over a week away. Lord knows what else we’ll have in the meantime. Here's a few pics of the LA Premiere. Sorry, Fassy was a no-show. I must say Carano can "wear the dress" and I have to applaud Ewan McGregor's fashion choices. He's never afraid to take a risk. Oh look, there's Ryan Kavanaugh with Gene Simmons. Yeah that makes sense. 

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Channing Tatum and all his stripper hotness appears on the cover of February's Details Magazine that will be available on newsstands January 17.

Channing and the author of the article Howie Kahn spent their first couple of hours getting to know each other the way we all do: booze and guns. That's right they were shooting under the influence. But don't worry Channing's publicist had the smarts to have a driver so they weren't drinking and driving. 

As Howie says:

He's darker, deeper, more creative than his easygoing manner—and most of his roles—might suggest. These days, when he's not attempting mock suicide, he spends a lot of time sculpting torsos from clay and drawing severe oil-stick sketches on butcher paper.
 

Channing has had LOTS of practice shooting guns and rifles:

“When I was a kid, we lived on the bayou in Mississippi. My dad would throw a beer can into the water and have me shoot at it.  Once, when I was really little, we had this huge double-barrel shot-gun, and when I tried it, it literally blew me off the dock.”

After they were finished shooting (Channing and the author) they were being driven when Channing noticed a woman at the side of the road with a smoking vehicle. He immediately had the vehicle stopped and sprung into action ensure that the woman's toddler grandson was removed from the backseat. He arranged for a tow truck and it wasn't until after a bit when the woman realized just WHO stopped for her! That's the kind of dude Channing is.

For more of the interview with Channing check out Details.

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Photo credit: Norman Jean Roy for  DETAILS