The following titles have just been announced as part of the Midnight Madness program at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival:
SUPER James Gunn, USA World Premiere
After his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), a frustrated husband (Rainn Wilson) decides he will win her back as Crimson Bolt, a costumed vigilante armed with a monkey wrench. His actions bring him an admirer, an overeager comic store clerk (Ellen Page) who wants to be his sidekick.

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James Gunn has officially released the first image of his superhero character, the Crimson Bolt, from the upcoming Super on his official website, JamesGunn.com. Check out both the costume and an official still from Super here.

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Ashley Judd is preparing to make her movie comeback by stepping in to replace Liv Tyler in new comedy Flypaper. The actress has spent the last year studying for a diploma in public administration at Harvard University, and now she’s heading back to acting with her first film role since graduating in May. Tyler was due to star in the bank heist caper opposite Grey’s Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey, but dropped out and now Judd has signed up as her replacement. The film, written by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, will tell the story of a man caught up in two simultaneous bank robberies who tries to save a teller he is secretly in love with, according to Variety.com.

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Max Rose tells the story of a widower who revisits key moments in his life to unlock the mysteries of his marriage and family. According to Variety, the film will be directed by Daniel Noah from his own script, and is set to go into production in Los Angeles this fall. In Variety, Lewis stated: “We’re going to show an old man who is driven by love and optimism, and by his love for his young daughter.”

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And the next superhero is… Rainn Wilson? The funnyman from The Office has landed a role in an all star comedy called Super. Writer/director James Gunn, who also wrote Scooby-Doo and the Dawn of the Dead remake, has a different sort of take on superheroes. “It’s a story of a man who wants to be something more than human,” Gunn said. “He attempts to do that with varying levels of success. It’s Rainn Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler and Ellen Page. Rainn loses his wife, Liv Tyler, to this drug dealer and he decides to become a super hero (The Crimson Bolt) to fight what he perceives as a supervillain and try to get his wife back. In a lot of ways, it’s sort of a love story. It’s about this guy who wants his wife back, but he also has certain mental peculiarities.” The recent hit Kick-Ass dealt with a similar premise, only it was children trying to become superheroes. Gunn says there’s no competition. “Our movie is what it is. I know [Kick-Ass author] Mark Millar and we’ve been e-mail friends for a while. I actually wrote the script before Mark ever wrote the comic book. So our movie is what it is but it’s very different from Kick-Ass because Kick-Ass is way more action movie. Ours is about human beings. It’s very natural.” You’ll still get to see Rainn Wilson play action hero though. “Yeah, there’s a lot of action but our action is not superhuman. It’s very real. And we’re not dealing with teenagers.” Super is out later this year.

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We’re being told that Relativity is extremely close to moving forward on The Strangers: Part 2, the long-gestured sequel to their home invasion hit of 2008. News hit BD that casting could begin very soon and that Liv Tyler is still a lock for a return as Kristen McKay. Penned by creator Brian Bertino, Laurent Briet will still get behind the camera. We’re not sure what the script has evolved into, but the draft we read took “The Strangers” to an abandoned trailer park.

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“Super is a movie that I just got done filming with Rainn Wilson and Liv Tyler and Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon,” Gunn told us. “It’s an independent movie about a guy who wants to be a superhero and doesn’t really have the ability to do so.”
While Gunn wasn’t quite sure on when this film would hit the theaters, he said that they would be, “done cutting it at the end of the summer.” When asked if the film was inspired by the recent influx of comic book movies, Gunn revealed that this film has been in the works for quite some time now.
“The script is actually about five years old,” Gunn told us. “I wrote the script before anything else was out there like this and it just kind of stuck around. I always wanted to make the movie but it’s very esoteric and a very unique film. It’s sort of a half-serious film about real human beings and it’s half this extremely dark comedy with a lot of violence and a lot of sex. It was hard to find a home for it, because it’s a very unique piece.”
Gunn also told us that the film really started to come together when he got the script in the hands of his star, Rainn Wilson, via his ex-wife Jenna Fischer.
“About a year ago, my ex-wife, Jenna Fischer, gave the script to Rainn Wilson, because she kept trying to get me to make this movie,” Gunn said. “Rainn read it and fell in love with the lead role. I had the money to make the movie before, but I could never agree upon that lead actor. It’s a very specific type of person. He’s got to have the emotional ability to to really good acting, he also has to be funny, big enough that he can be physically threatened at times, yet also, with all respect to Rainn, dorky enough that you can imagine him being picked on all his life and messed with. A lot of actors wanted to play the role for a long time, but it was a hard role to fit and I didn’t want to go in there with the wrong actor. Rainn is perfect for it. He’s amazing.”
After Wilson’s casting, Gunn told us that several other actors attached themselves to the project as well.
“Once he signed on, then all of the sudden we have Ellen Page, who was our top choice for that role, signed up immediately and then Liv Tyler, who we couldn’t believe we got, signed up for that role and then Kevin Bacon. We made the movie for nothing. Everybody did it for scale, so it’s been a really fun project, a very difficult project and emotionally taxing, but I’m really happy with the way the movie is coming out.”

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* Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
* Video Codec: AVC/MPEG-4
* Resolution: 1080p/24
* Audio Codec: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz/24-bit), French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
* Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
* Region: ABC (Region-Free)
* Rating: PG-13
* Discs: 1
* Studio: Touchstone/Disney
* Blu-ray Release Date: April 27th, 2010
* List Price: $29.99
The supplements provided on this release are:
* Trailers:
o Teaser (1.33:1; 480i/60)
o Theatrical Trailer (1.33:1; 480i/60)
* Aerosmith Music Video — “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (1.33:1; 480i/60)
* Sneak Peeks (HD):
o Surrogates
o The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
o Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
o When in Rome
o On Blu-ray Disc

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Michael Bay’s Armageddon is cleared to arrive on Blu-ray Disc April 27 and to coincide with its high-def debut, we are offering three of you the opportunity to score the new disc on us. For a chance to win Armageddon on Blu-ray, please fill out and submit the simple form below. The odds of being selected a winner are increased each day that you return and enter again until the contest closes. Good luck!

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The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy will finally be available for the first time ever on Blu-ray, On Demand and Digital Download on April 6 and you just know we have to celebrate this monumental release. We have a brand new contest lined up and not only are we giving away this nine-disc BD set, but we’re also giving away posters and a brand new Orc sculpture, valued at over $200. You know these prizes will surely go fast, so be sure to enter this contest right away!
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