| release date | March 11 2011 |
| studio | Columbia Pictures |
| director | Jonathan Liebesman |
| writer | Chris Bertolini, Scott Silver |
| starring | Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Bridget Moynahan, Adetokumboh M'Cormack, Ne-Yo, Ramon Rodriguez, Taylor Handley, Cory Hardrict, Jadin Gould, Bryce Cass, Joey King |
| rating | PG13 |
| site | reportthreats.org |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight, Battle: Los Angeles) will play “Adam Frankenstein” in the Lakeshore Entertainment, Hopscotch Features and Lionsgate production of I, Frankenstein, shooting this January in Australia. READ MORE
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It was announced yesterday that TIFF’s Midnight Madness will play host to the world premiere of Doug Aarniokoski’s The Day, a new indie action thriller described as an “apocalyptic siege warfare film.” READ MORE
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($28.95), Blu-ray ($34.95), and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($38.96) releases of Battle: Los Angeles for June 14th. READ MORE
Bloody Disgusting has learned that Laid to Rest/ChromeSkull director Robert Hall is out on the town with Fear Clinic, a feature-length version of his web series that aired on Fearnet last year. READ MORE
Two quasi genre films arrive in theaters today, one that’s big budget popcorn fun, while the other is a self-indulgent drag. Can you guess which is which? READ MORE
In anticipation of the March 11th release of Columbia Pictures’ Battle: Los Angeles, a film about the efforts of a team of military personnel to thwart an alien invasion in the City of Angels, the studio recently staged a press conference with a group of “UFO experts” to talk about both the real Battle of Los Angeles – an intriguing, little-known event that took place in the skies above Santa Monica on February 24th and 25th, 1942 (can you say “anniversary“?) – as well as their own anecdotal experiences with UFO phenomena. See inside for the full story, as related by B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen. READ MORE
A viral video has appeared online for Columbia Pictures’ Battle: Los Angeles that depicts a giant UFO above the 110 freeway in Los Angeles. If this were actually flying in the Los Angeles skyline, I would be driving 100mph just to see it live. Man, this is so only 50% of the greatest viral stunt ever. Can you imagine the panic if this were actually viewable? READ MORE
Unlike most studios, Columbia Pictures isn’t afraid to share some graphic imagery to get your arse into a theater seat. The studio released the first batch of hi-res imagery from Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles that feature some pretty insane carnage like seen below. You can click for the full gallery. READ MORE
Alien invasion movies are the new cool. This became apparent when four of the major Super Bowl TV spots featured an alien attack of sorts. READ MORE
Alien invasion movies are the new cool. This became apparent when four of the major Super Bowl TV spots featured an alien attack of sorts. READ MORE
Now that Skyline is in theaters, Sony Pictures quickly started the hype for their own alien invasions flick, Battle: Los Angeles, which stars Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo and Michael Peña. From Texas Chainsaw: The Beginning director Jonathan Liebesman, war is declared on March 11, 2011. For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered before. (more…) READ MORE
Deadline is reporting that a real battle is brewing between rival aliens-invade-Los Angeles films Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles. Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio behind the big budget Battle: Los Angeles, is exploring its legal options. At issue: Greg and Colin Strause, the owners of visual effects house Hydraulx, were paid millions of dollars to generate visual effects work for Battle: Los Angeles. But Hydraulx never informed SPE the siblings were directing a VFX-driven rival alien invasion feature that will hit theaters four months before SPE’s March 12, 2011 release. SPE higher-ups only discovered it was in a competition after Universal Pictures released a trailer that showed Los Angeles denizens being vacuumed into the sky by hovering space ships. Click the link for more on this developing story. Skyline hits theaters November 12 (for now). (more…) READ MORE
After premiering at the San Diego Comic-Con, C0lumbia Pictures provided us with the first hi-res imagery from Jonathan Liebesman’s (Texas Chainsaw: The Beginning, Darkness Falls) Battle: Los Angeles. In theaters March 11, the thriller revolves around a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon’s battle against an alien invasion on the streets of Los Angeles. Rodriguez will play Crpl. Adriana Santos, a member of a radio battalion. Pena plays the father of a boy the Marines find along the way, and Moynahan plays a veterinarian. (more…) READ MORE
Update: Dan Mazeau, who worked for Warners on “The Flash”, is being paired with David Leslie Johnson, writer of “The Girl with the Red Riding Hood,” the studio’s horror thriller starring Amanda Seyfried that is in pre-production, to write “Clash of the Titans 2.”” With the fake 3-D remake of Clash of the Titans nearing $500 million worldwide at the box office, Warner Bros. Pictures is fast-tracking a sequel with plans on shooting as early at January, reports the LA Times. It was already revealed that Louis Leterrier would not be returning to the director’s chair (thank the Gods (pun intended)), not the LA Times is writing that the frontrunner replacement is none other than Jonathan Liebesman, the man behind Darkness Falls, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and the forthcoming Battle: Los Angeles. Shooting in early 2011 is also a priority because the studio needs to make sure star Sam Worthington, who is committed to shoot Avatar 2 (likely later in the year), is free and clear. Hopefully they actually shoot it in 3-D this time (or not at all). (more…) READ MORE
Update: Genius Products will release the film on DVD October 13, check out the art inside. Still looking for a distributor after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this past January is Jonathan Liebesman’s (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Darkness Falls) thriller The Killing Room (review), a pretty solid mystery that follows four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. Beyond the break you can check out the first trailer for the film that is said to be based on true events. Liebesman is set to direct the major alien war film Battle: Los Angeles for Sony. (more…) READ MORE
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