Could you imagine that Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is loosely based in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was planned to be filmed by Disney since 1937? The rights for this movie was sold and resold for many times before, finally, Walt Disney Production acquired them and signed a contract with Sam Raimi to direct the film. Disney's series of decisions to reduce the filming costs had lead to unsuccessful negotiations with Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for the leading role of Oscar Diggs/Oz, till, finally, James Franco was chosen for the role. You may remember him as Will Rodman form Rise of the Planet of the Apes. As the movie is the prequel for the core story The Wizard of Oz, there are no lovely Dorothy Gale, instead we have three witches. The Wicked Witch of the West, Theodora is portrayed by Mila Kunis which recently has had leading roles in Hell & Back and Friends with Benefits). Evanora The Wicked Witch of the East and the Ruler of the Munchkin Country is played by Rachel Weisz (The Bourne Legacy, To the Wonder); she inferiors in power of magic with Glinda the Good Witch of the South which is most powerful sorceress of Oz and is the ruler of the Quadling Country. In Disney's version of Oz: The Great and Powerful, Glinda is portrayed by Michelle Williams, which was quite smart decision, taking in consideration the amazing performance of Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe.

Star Trek into Darkness is the twelfth film in the Star Trek franchise, and the second one in the contemporary saga of Star Trek directed by J.J. Abrams. The movie plot follows the story that has begun in 2009's Star Trek. Crew of the Enterprise makes its journey back home after the series of epic events that has been taken place in the first movie. When Captain Kirk and his team approach the Earth they see unspeakable destruction made by the invaders of internal origin. The Starfleet is under a violent attack and the real purpose of the attackers' interests is unknown. Star Trek into Darkness is shot as a 2D movie, and then converted to 3D format. The film also features 9 minutes of the high-end action scenes that were shot by IMAX cameras. As for ensemble cast – in 2013's Star Trek into Darkness we enjoy the play of all the actors of previous Star Trek, excluding the villain roles, of course. The leading antagonistic role of Khan, was taken by Benedict Cumberbatch who may be known to you by his roles in The Hobbit saga of 2012-2014 as Necromancer and, what is more remarkably as Sherlock Holmes in the extremely popular British television series of the same name. As for Enterprise crew we see familiar faces: Chris Pine (Rise of the Guardians, People Like Us, This Means War) as James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto (The Invitation, What's Your Number?, Margin Call) as Spock and Zoe Saldana (Avater, Out of the Furnace, Nina) as Nyota Uhura.

There seemed to be way too much material to fit into a single 90 minute movie so the plan was to split it up into two separate films, each with the quality cast, story writing, and production values that made the first one a huge success! Now we join them after the birth of Renesmee. The clan of vampires gathers around to protect this new addition against many false allegations and so the story continues with almost everyone completely against having vampires living amongst them.xpect to see plenty of fake snow in Part 2 as it was filmed in Vancouver. The expected (written into the scenes) snowfall never quite met expectations so use of a green screen as well as plenty of fake snow had to be used. Stars returning for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 include Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, What Just Happened) is Bella Cullen, Robert Pattinson (Water For Elephants, Bel Ami) is Edward Cullen, Billy Burke (Red Riding Hood, Untraceable) portrays Bella's father and Renesmee's grandfather Charlie Swan, and Peter Facinelli (Finding Amanda, Damages) is Carlisle Cullen everyone's adoptive father (he's a vampire afterall!).

Hughes brothers exploit a very specific niche of "commercial cinema for nerds" filmed The Book of Eli, a western about the Second Coming. You haven't even know that Eli is the God in Aramaic, and generally have at least a minimal understanding of sacred texts. Simplicity and clarity of massage of the movie makes us expecting some more complex content. Especially because the atmosphere and style of the film is beyond any praises. They succeeded to create really juicy and truthful post-apocalyptic world, which filled with the atmosphere of despair, echoing, resonating basses and shot with the cold spectrum filters. A character of Washington is so cool in his calm relaxed state that somehow you really begin to believe that good actually has fists.

Unstoppable is a disaster movie with Denzel Washington played the main character. The scenario was written by Mark Bombeka and the film was directed by Tony Scott. Unstoppable movie also stars Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson in the lead roles. The film tells a story of two railroad workers, who are trying to stop a runaway train with toxic cargo. The plot of Unstoppable movie is loosely based on real stories took place with the "out-of-control" train, in events which occurred May 15, 2001. The action takes place in Pennsylvania on the fictional Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR). Story starts at the station Brewster where engineer Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) and the assistant driver Will Coleson (Chris Pine) work. Although they used to work together, they are significantly different from each other: Frank Barnes - an elderly driver with 28 years experience, while Will Colson - a 27-year-old boy, who had previously held only a 4-month training course. Their task for this day is to lead the locomotive from Melbourne to the north. At first time they are experiencing the difficulties to work together because the age difference but quickly realize that they have similar problems in their personal lives: the complex issues of relationships within the family. "Meanwhile, at the upstate station Fuller freight train delays, and as a result, the result of the hurries it didn't not connected properly to the brake line hose. The situation dramatically runs out of control, as it carries 110,000 liters of highly toxic chemical (phenol), which leakage will surely lead to large-scale environmental disaster. "In this case, a half-mile long train continues to accelerate and already has a rate of about 70 miles per hour. Assistant station Fuller Connie Hooper (Rosario Dawson) directs a group of railway employees in order to intercept the fugitive. The group is a former police officer and Ned Oldham, but at the appointed place the train does not appear, because the duty had been misled about the speed of the train. Meanwhile, Runaway Train miraculously avoids collisions with transporting children excursion train and is now hot on the densely populated territory, simultaneously knocking down all barriers in its path. Police-station towns and management of the road in the face of Oscar Galvin (Kevin Dunn), are making desperate attempts to stop this potential chemical bomb, but all in vain. Emergency ejector scatter in the dust beneath this edifice, but an attempt to stop the train by walking in front of the locomotive suffers a complete failure, as the latter crashes, which killed an experienced machinist. "By chance, to meet the runaway train in one direction the train should be running Barnes and Colson. They barely have time to move onto a side track when the train flies past them Runaway. Head of roads has ordered the Barnes and Coulson drive the train to the nearest station, where the finish work on that day, but the driver and the assistant refused to obey orders and decide uncoupled the locomotive from the cars, catch a dangerous train. Common trouble uniting master and his assistant, after a train carrying toxic waste to be right in Stanton - a city that is home to more than seven hundred thousand people, including the family of Frank and Will. And now it threatens to destroy the city, as the Runaway Train may simply not fit to curves of small radius and crashing into the storage tanks located near waterways. Begins a race against time."

This "based on a true story" film has those under utilized yet over trained Tuskegee flyboys chomping at the bit (or pilot's stick) to go on a mission and prove themselves air worthy. They have nothing better to do than practice their flying skills with their airplanes identified by their painted Red Tails while white pilots are sent out into the field of battle after a mere three months of training and it shows! Finally the powers that be in the Pentagon decide to direct the elite black group of pilots to do World War II battles with Germany.ot only have the Tuskegee Airmen been left to languor on the sidelines, they have to face racial discrimination at every turn while in the military and at home, so they are more than ready to prove themselves worthy. And they most definitely do!ritten by John Ridley and George Lucas, Red Tails stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire, American Gangster) as Major Emmanuelle Stance, Nate Parker (Pride, Tunnel Rats) is ace pilot Martin "Easy" Julian, and Terrence Howard (Pride, Iron Man) is Col. AJ Bullard. Top acting and plenty of aerial action!