The big one this week may be The Vow wherein Channing Tatum-tot gets his heart-throb on with the always adorable Rachel McAdams. Or, it could be Underworld: Awakening with Kate Beckinsale, depending on your perspective.

 The Vow,  is a romantic drama “inspired by true events”,  Tatum plays Leo, who is faced with unthinkable heartache when his wife, Paige (Rachel McAdams), recovers from a tragic accident without any memory of their relationship. The Vow follows Leo as he keeps his promise to win Paige's heart all over again.

To go along with the the DVD and Blu-ray release, Screen Gems has released a new trailer with some of the more memorable scenes from the film. Tatum is up for the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance. The onscreen chemistry between Tatum and McAdams earned them a nomination for Best Kiss.

Special Features:

-Deleted Scenes
-Gag Reel
-Director's Commentary

Underworld: Awakening sees leather-clad Kate Beckinsale return to the dark blue world of Vampires and Lycans in the latest installment of the franchise (with the gratitude of fan boys everywhere) as the vampire Selene and the ad campaign has focused on her character so much that the actual title might as well be "Underworld: The Return of Selene", with the directors admitting that this new film’s ending "is totally leaving the door open for a future".  The film was directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (The director of the first two, Len Wiseman returns as a producer. He’s also one of four credited writers) and also stars Michael Ealy, Theo James, Stephen Rae, Charles Dance and Sandrine Holt.

Special Features: Commentary

Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is an all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job")! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs-a billion of them. Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today! Also stars John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, Ray Wise, William Atherton, Robert Loggia, Will Ferrell

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is the follow up feature to the cult hit Gremlins, but it is NOT a sequel. Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer move to New York City and meet up with their Mogwai friend, Gizmo, when a series of accidents creates a new generation of diverse gremlins. Billy, Kate, and Gizmo must once again use all their experience to prevent another catastrophe.

Just when they thought they were safe, young sweethearts Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates) from Joe Dante's GREMLINS have moved on to the Big Apple, landed jobs in a high-tech office park, and have met up with Gizmo once again. When a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins, the three pals must use everything they know to prevent another comic catastrophe. The monsters wreck havoc at Clamp Industries, the "smart building" where Billy and Kathy work, creating madness and mayhem for the Donald Trump-like owner, Daniel Clamp (John Glover), who sees the invasion as yet another opportunity for media attention. But, when the monsters invade "Splice of Life," the top-secret genetics laboratory housed at Clamp Industries, the Gremlins develop new genetically altered powers that make them even harder to destroy. This highly inventive sequel to GREMLINS, successfully combines wicked horror and dark humor in an outrageous and eerily realistic post modern setting.

Cameo appearances by screenwriter, Charlie Haas, as Casper; composer Jerry Goldsmith as a customer at the frozen yogurt counter; and real-life movie critic Leonard Maltin, as himself (on the cable access show "Movie Police", he is giving the original GREMLINS a bad review). Cameo appearance by SNL's Julia Sweeney as the receptionist at "Splice of Life." Two different versions of the film were made, one for theatrical release and one for video. In the theatrical version the film appears to begin to burn, in the video release the segment simulates a broken VCR.

Special Blu-Ray Features:

-Over 20 Minutes of Footage Not Seen In Theaters
-Behind-The-Scenes Documentary
-Commentary By Director Joe Dante, Actor Zach Galligan, Writer Charlie Haas and Producer Michael Finnell
-Gag Reel
-Alternate Home Video Sequence
-Theatrical Trailer

Playback is a horror thriller that looks like a muddled mash of a bunch of other horror movies, with shades of Amityville Horror, Halloween, and The Ring.

While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir

In PLAYBACK, a group of teenagers look into a dark chapter of their town's past and unwittingly unleash a lethal force that could destroy them.

Playback stars Christian Slater, Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Toby Hemingway

La Haine - 1995 (Criterion Collection)

Mathieu Kassovitz (The Crimson Rivers) took the film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Irreversible's Vincent Cassel), Hubert (The Constant Gardener's Hubert Kound‚), and Sa‹d (Three Kings' Sa‹d Taghmaoui) – white, black, and Arab – give human faces to France's immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis

-Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

-English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz

-Introduction by actor Jodie Foster

-Ten Years of “La haine,” an eighty-minute documentary that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release

-Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum

-Production footage

-Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring an afterword by Kassovitz

-Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos

-Trailers

-PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras

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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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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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Here’s a new poster as well as some impossibly cute stills from Michael Sucsy’s (HBO’s “Grey Gardens”) The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.  (Again, still can’t say I’m a Tatum-tot fan, but like the eyes on a potato, he’s growing on me. To mash a metaphor, much like a potato, he does have his uses. *coughMagicMikecough*. I do like McAdams.)

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.

The first trailer, which I saw in theaters this summer, gave a lot away, but I don’t suppose it matters. 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.  One of the four credited writers, Abby Kohn, is a veteran of contemporary rom-coms so she should know her way around the material. The supporting cast is good too, including Scott Speedman, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange and Wendy Crewson.  

Hoping to be your date for Valentine’s Day, The Vow pledges its undying affection starting on February 10th, 2012.

Stars Robert Downey, Jr., Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams and Jared Harris as well as director Guy Ritchie and producers Joel Silver and Susan Downey made their way down the black carpet in front of the Fox Westwood Village Theater last night, Tuesday December 6 in Los Angeles for the premiere of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. 

Noomi (whose dress had pockets! Love!) and Rachel looked stunning. (Where was the adorable Michael Sheen? He was probably there just not into stealing his woman’s spotlight. Speaking of which, sorry Guy but I think you’re going to have some trouble on your hands. You might be more famous than your baby mama,  Jacqui Ainsley, NOW, but I think she’d like to rectify that, just judging from these pics and the body language. But maybe I just hate her because she looks like THAT just three months after having a baby.) While it’s always lovely to see new pics of RDJ and his beautiful and very pregnant wife Susan, I’m surprised Jude Law and Stephen Fry didn’t make the hop across the big pond for the soiree.  The flick did bring out notorious spotlight-avoider Jodie Foster, as well as Max Von Sydow, Pharrell Williams (not together, that would just be odd) and those that would attend the opening of an envelope, like perpetual ingénue Amber Heard.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens December 16 everywhere.

We have two new foreign posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The first shows Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, looking rather sinister. I have to wonder if the fact that she’s been given her own poster indicates a bigger role than I had previously thought, but then again, it’s only been released to the Asian market. Also for that market we have a whimsical poster for Gladstone, Watson’s dog, the one that Holmes “killed” repeatedly in the first film.  

Official Warner Bros. synopsis: “Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.

Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen’s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince’s murder makes her the killer’s next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.

The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

Since we’re now past the thirty day mark in terms of the run up to the release date, I’d say we’ll be getting more clips and images very soon. We’ll keep you posted. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens everywhere December 16.

The Vow is a four hanky weepie directed by Michael Sucsy (HBO’s “Grey Gardens”) and starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.  What the producers want most of all is for you to connect the two stars to a film based on one of the novels  by best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks.  McAdams, of course, starred in The Notebook while Tatum was the titular Dear John.  They want you to make the Sparks connection so that you’ll know what you can expect from  The Vow and they’re hoping you’ll be ready to eat it up with a spoon and ask for seconds. (Still not a Tatum-tot fan, but I do like McAdams.)

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.

The first trailer, which I saw in theaters this summer, gave a lot more away than this one does, but I don’t suppose it matters. 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. It’s the getting there that counts.  One of the four credited writers, Abby Kohn, is a veteran of contemporary romcoms so she should know her way around the material. The supporting cast is good too, including Scott Speedman, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange and Wendy Crewson.  

The Vow pledges its undying affection starting on February 10th, 2012 in the US, Canada and the UK.

Three new TV spots for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows have made their debut! I don’t know about you, but I am extremely excited about this movie. It seems to have a lot of the things that I loved about the first one packed inside its steampunk shell, like Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law to name but two, along with even more frenetic energy and of course, Professor Moriarty. It seems there will definitely be more explosions in this one as well, while Ritchie seems to have found a groove that he likes, in terms of style and pace for this saga, including the stop motion photography and everything being lit in shades of Victorian morgue blue.

The synopsis is simple: Holmes and Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty, of course.

These clips are short and sweet and encompass pretty much everything we’ve seen in the trailers so far, including glimpses of Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris and Noomi Rapace (although they seem to be keeping Stephen Fry under wraps), but at a much faster pace so they seem to pack more of a wallop.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens on December 16th everywhere!